Hybrid/Remote GCP Job Trends

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 57 75
Rank change year-on-year -14 +18 -41
Permanent jobs citing GCP 777 897 1,101
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.62% 5.46% 3.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.27% 14.74% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 412 468 910
10th Percentile £52,050 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,905 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% -2.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £93,750 £117,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

GCP falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,386 6,086 12,740
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.02% 37.04% 41.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,964 4,492 10,449
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,510 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GCP and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

GCP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

GCP
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GCP over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

GCP salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (1.93%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.64%) Apache
4 4 (0.51%) Confluence
5 3 (0.39%) CMS
5 3 (0.39%) SAS
6 2 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.26%) Camunda
6 2 (0.26%) WordPress
7 1 (0.13%) Appian
7 1 (0.13%) Drupal
7 1 (0.13%) IIS
7 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.13%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (3.09%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.26%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 624 (80.31%) AWS
2 462 (59.46%) Azure
3 87 (11.20%) SaaS
4 69 (8.88%) Amazon EKS
5 31 (3.99%) Cloud Run
6 28 (3.60%) GitHub
6 28 (3.60%) Serverless
7 27 (3.47%) Power Platform
8 22 (2.83%) dbt
8 22 (2.83%) Snowflake
9 20 (2.57%) Cloud Functions
10 19 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (2.45%) PaaS
10 19 (2.45%) Vertex AI
11 18 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (2.32%) Entra ID
11 18 (2.32%) Google Analytics
12 17 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
12 17 (2.19%) Anthropic Claude
13 14 (1.80%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 100 (12.87%) Broadband
2 29 (3.73%) Network Security
3 17 (2.19%) Firewall
4 16 (2.06%) WAN
5 12 (1.54%) DNS
5 12 (1.54%) LAN
6 11 (1.42%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.16%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.16%) VPN
8 8 (1.03%) LTE
9 7 (0.90%) Internet
10 6 (0.77%) DHCP
10 6 (0.77%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (0.77%) iSCSI
11 5 (0.64%) MQTT
12 4 (0.51%) SSH
13 3 (0.39%) BGP
13 3 (0.39%) MPLS
13 3 (0.39%) SSL
13 3 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (10.04%) BigQuery
2 63 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (4.12%) NoSQL
4 27 (3.47%) MongoDB
5 26 (3.35%) Semantic Layer
6 24 (3.09%) Power BI
7 23 (2.96%) Data Lake
8 22 (2.83%) Looker
8 22 (2.83%) Metadata
9 20 (2.57%) Relational Database
10 17 (2.19%) Pinecone
11 13 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (1.67%) SQL Server
12 10 (1.29%) Tableau
13 9 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (1.03%) Redis
15 7 (0.90%) MySQL
16 6 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.77%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 58 (7.46%) TeamCity
2 46 (5.92%) Git
3 39 (5.02%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.93%) JIRA
5 13 (1.67%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.54%) CircleCI
7 9 (1.16%) GitLab
8 3 (0.39%) MLflow
8 3 (0.39%) Postman
8 3 (0.39%) Selenium
8 3 (0.39%) TestRail
8 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.26%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.26%) JUnit
9 2 (0.26%) Subversion
10 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.13%) ERwin
10 1 (0.13%) Gatling
10 1 (0.13%) JMeter
10 1 (0.13%) Maven
General
1 208 (26.77%) Social Skills
2 204 (26.25%) Finance
3 179 (23.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 151 (19.43%) Law
5 121 (15.57%) Banking
6 95 (12.23%) Retail
7 78 (10.04%) Public Sector
8 53 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
9 47 (6.05%) Back Office
9 47 (6.05%) Financial Institution
10 28 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (3.22%) Legal
12 16 (2.06%) Front Office
13 15 (1.93%) Marketing
14 7 (0.90%) Legal Technology
14 7 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.64%) Advertising
15 5 (0.64%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.64%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.51%) French Language
Job Titles
1 216 (27.80%) Senior
2 175 (22.52%) Software Engineer
3 122 (15.70%) Architect
4 76 (9.78%) Lead
5 66 (8.49%) Developer
6 62 (7.98%) Cloud Engineer
7 52 (6.69%) Data Engineer
8 49 (6.31%) Analyst
9 40 (5.15%) GCP Engineer
9 40 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
10 37 (4.76%) Consultant
11 36 (4.63%) Lead Software Engineer
12 35 (4.50%) Senior Software Engineer
13 32 (4.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 31 (3.99%) Senior Analyst
15 30 (3.86%) Scala Engineer
16 29 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 28 (3.60%) Python Engineer
17 28 (3.60%) Senior Architect
18 27 (3.47%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (11.07%) React
2 63 (8.11%) Node.js
3 49 (6.31%) gRPC
4 47 (6.05%) Kafka
5 37 (4.76%) REST
6 36 (4.63%) LangChain
7 28 (3.60%) Django
8 24 (3.09%) .NET
8 24 (3.09%) FastAPI
8 24 (3.09%) LangGraph
9 22 (2.83%) PyTorch
9 22 (2.83%) TensorFlow
10 21 (2.70%) RESTful
10 21 (2.70%) Spring
11 20 (2.57%) OAuth
12 18 (2.32%) Spring Boot
12 18 (2.32%) Vue
13 16 (2.06%) AngularJS
13 16 (2.06%) OpenID
13 16 (2.06%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 214 (27.54%) Cloud Native
2 86 (11.07%) Distributed Systems
3 84 (10.81%) Product Ownership
4 47 (6.05%) Video\Live Streaming
5 46 (5.92%) Over-the-Top Content
6 36 (4.63%) AI Agents
7 25 (3.22%) Blog
7 25 (3.22%) Security Posture
8 22 (2.83%) Data Structures
8 22 (2.83%) Distributed Architecture
9 19 (2.45%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.45%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.45%) Public Cloud
9 19 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (2.19%) Social Media
11 16 (2.06%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.54%) Mobile App
13 11 (1.42%) Data Centre
14 10 (1.29%) Cyberattack
15 9 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.66%) Linux
2 17 (2.19%) Windows
3 10 (1.29%) Unix
4 9 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.03%) Android
5 8 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) CentOS
6 1 (0.13%) Debian
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (41.96%) CI/CD
2 290 (37.32%) Software Engineering
3 224 (28.83%) Agile
4 220 (28.31%) Mentoring
5 212 (27.28%) AI
6 174 (22.39%) DevOps
7 168 (21.62%) Microservices
8 156 (20.08%) Containerisation
9 144 (18.53%) Machine Learning
10 142 (18.28%) Roadmaps
10 142 (18.28%) Test Automation
11 133 (17.12%) Technical Leadership
12 132 (16.99%) Clean Code
13 127 (16.34%) Coaching
13 127 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
14 118 (15.19%) Infrastructure as Code
15 115 (14.80%) Continuous Improvement
16 92 (11.84%) Data Science
17 89 (11.45%) Analytics
18 84 (10.81%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 294 (37.84%) Python
2 179 (23.04%) Java
3 114 (14.67%) SQL
4 99 (12.74%) JavaScript
5 95 (12.23%) Go
6 63 (8.11%) Scala
7 60 (7.72%) TypeScript
8 24 (3.09%) C#
9 20 (2.57%) Bash
10 16 (2.06%) C++
10 16 (2.06%) Rust
11 11 (1.42%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.77%) C
13 5 (0.64%) Ruby
14 4 (0.51%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.51%) PHP
15 3 (0.39%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.39%) Perl
15 3 (0.39%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.26%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 112 (14.41%) Security Cleared
2 104 (13.38%) Degree
3 93 (11.97%) SC Cleared
4 43 (5.53%) AWS Certification
5 39 (5.02%) CISSP
6 29 (3.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (3.09%) CISM
8 23 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (2.32%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.54%) CREST Certified
10 12 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (1.54%) OSCP
11 11 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (1.16%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.90%) GIAC
14 6 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.77%) CCSP
14 6 (0.77%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.77%) Dell Certification
15 5 (0.64%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.79%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.89%) NIST
3 32 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (3.60%) Accessibility
5 25 (3.22%) QA
6 21 (2.70%) GDPR
7 17 (2.19%) NCSC
8 14 (1.80%) GRC
9 13 (1.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.90%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.77%) PMO
13 5 (0.64%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.51%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.51%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.39%) SLA
16 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 2 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 176 (22.65%) Docker
2 14 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.03%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.90%) Active Directory
6 6 (0.77%) vSphere
7 2 (0.26%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) Firmware
8 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 181 (23.29%) Kubernetes
2 172 (22.14%) Terraform
3 78 (10.04%) Grafana
4 35 (4.50%) Ansible
5 16 (2.06%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.80%) Istio
7 13 (1.67%) Podman
7 13 (1.67%) Puppet
8 6 (0.77%) Avamar
8 6 (0.77%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.77%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.77%) VxRail
9 5 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.51%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.26%) Argo
11 2 (0.26%) CASB
11 2 (0.26%) linkerd
11 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 142 (18.28%) Google
2 98 (12.61%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.79%) Typelevel
4 28 (3.60%) Adobe
5 25 (3.22%) ServiceNow
6 24 (3.09%) Apple
7 21 (2.70%) Databricks
8 16 (2.06%) SAP
8 16 (2.06%) VMware
9 14 (1.80%) Okta
9 14 (1.80%) Oracle
10 9 (1.16%) ForgeRock
10 9 (1.16%) Informatica
10 9 (1.16%) Ping Identity
10 9 (1.16%) Splunk
11 8 (1.03%) Confluent
11 8 (1.03%) Dell
11 8 (1.03%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.03%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.90%) Cisco