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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 56 55
Rank change year-on-year -19 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing GCP 540 836 1,430
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.37% 5.26% 5.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.13% 11.25% 11.25%
Number of salaries quoted 369 592 1,214
10th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £73,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +16.04% -2.33%
75th Percentile £118,750 £110,000 £96,467
90th Percentile £142,750 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.06% +10.00% -5.82%

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 5,915 7,433 12,716
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.94% 46.80% 45.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,094 4,773 11,111
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 8 February 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 55 (10.19%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (5.74%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.41%) Apache
3 13 (2.41%) Confluence
4 7 (1.30%) IIS
5 5 (0.93%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.56%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.37%) Luigi
8 2 (0.37%) WordPress
9 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.19%) CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Strapi
Applications
1 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.56%) Trello
3 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.19%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 461 (85.37%) AWS
2 370 (68.52%) Azure
3 121 (22.41%) SaaS
4 51 (9.44%) GitHub
5 45 (8.33%) dbt
6 40 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (5.56%) Snowflake
8 29 (5.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
9 28 (5.19%) Serverless
10 27 (5.00%) Power Platform
11 21 (3.89%) Vertex AI
12 14 (2.59%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (2.41%) Amazon S3
13 13 (2.41%) Azure Service Bus
14 12 (2.22%) Azure Machine Learning
14 12 (2.22%) Entra ID
15 10 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (1.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.26%) Firewall
2 17 (3.15%) Broadband
3 16 (2.96%) Network Security
4 13 (2.41%) VPN
5 11 (2.04%) DNS
6 10 (1.85%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.67%) WAN
8 7 (1.30%) LAN
9 6 (1.11%) DHCP
9 6 (1.11%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.74%) SSL
11 3 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
11 3 (0.56%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.56%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.56%) SCCP
12 2 (0.37%) AMQP
12 2 (0.37%) Wireless
13 1 (0.19%) IP Telephony
13 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (13.15%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (11.30%) BigQuery
3 44 (8.15%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (7.22%) NoSQL
5 30 (5.56%) Metadata
6 28 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
6 28 (5.19%) Tableau
7 24 (4.44%) Apache Iceberg
8 20 (3.70%) Power BI
9 18 (3.33%) Looker
10 17 (3.15%) Amazon Athena
10 17 (3.15%) Data Lake
10 17 (3.15%) MySQL
10 17 (3.15%) SQL Server
11 14 (2.59%) Apache Arrow
11 14 (2.59%) Dremio
12 13 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (2.41%) MongoDB
13 12 (2.22%) Pinecone
14 11 (2.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (7.22%) TeamCity
2 28 (5.19%) Git
2 28 (5.19%) GitLab
3 22 (4.07%) JIRA
4 14 (2.59%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.22%) MLflow
6 9 (1.67%) Subversion
7 8 (1.48%) Bitbucket
7 8 (1.48%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.30%) Storybook
9 5 (0.93%) git-flow
10 4 (0.74%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.74%) ERwin
10 4 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
11 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.56%) webpack
12 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.37%) Mocha
12 2 (0.37%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.37%) SonarQube
General
1 180 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 173 (32.04%) Finance
3 85 (15.74%) Law
4 78 (14.44%) Retail
5 69 (12.78%) Banking
6 68 (12.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 53 (9.81%) Public Sector
8 43 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
8 43 (7.96%) Financial Institution
9 37 (6.85%) Telecoms
10 36 (6.67%) Back Office
11 24 (4.44%) Legal
12 19 (3.52%) Front Office
13 15 (2.78%) Manufacturing
13 15 (2.78%) Marketing
14 12 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 157 (29.07%) Senior
2 110 (20.37%) Software Engineer
3 90 (16.67%) Developer
4 76 (14.07%) Architect
5 59 (10.93%) Lead
6 41 (7.59%) Data Engineer
7 35 (6.48%) Engineering Manager
7 35 (6.48%) Software Developer
8 30 (5.56%) .NET Developer
8 30 (5.56%) .NET Software Developer
8 30 (5.56%) Consultant
9 27 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
10 26 (4.81%) Data Architect
10 26 (4.81%) Full-Stack Developer
10 26 (4.81%) Python Engineer
11 24 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
12 23 (4.26%) Senior Developer
13 22 (4.07%) Senior Consultant
14 21 (3.89%) Python Software Engineer
14 21 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (18.52%) React
2 67 (12.41%) .NET
3 64 (11.85%) Node.js
4 62 (11.48%) Kafka
5 42 (7.78%) RESTful
6 25 (4.63%) AngularJS
6 25 (4.63%) gRPC
6 25 (4.63%) Vue
7 21 (3.89%) Django
8 19 (3.52%) REST
8 19 (3.52%) Spring
9 18 (3.33%) CSS
10 17 (3.15%) HTML
10 17 (3.15%) OAuth
10 17 (3.15%) RabbitMQ
11 16 (2.96%) Pandas
11 16 (2.96%) PyTorch
11 16 (2.96%) Spring Boot
11 16 (2.96%) TensorFlow
12 14 (2.59%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 127 (23.52%) Cloud Native
2 74 (13.70%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (8.89%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.26%) Blog
5 18 (3.33%) Fixed Income
6 17 (3.15%) Distributed Architecture
6 17 (3.15%) Public Cloud
7 16 (2.96%) Equities
8 14 (2.59%) Data Structures
8 14 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (2.22%) AI Agents
10 11 (2.04%) Mobile App
10 11 (2.04%) Onboarding
10 11 (2.04%) Security Posture
10 11 (2.04%) Video\Live Streaming
11 10 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.67%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.67%) Over-the-Top Content
13 8 (1.48%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 39 (7.22%) Linux
2 25 (4.63%) Windows
3 21 (3.89%) Android
4 18 (3.33%) Unix
5 12 (2.22%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.11%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.19%) CentOS
8 1 (0.19%) Debian
8 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (41.30%) CI/CD
2 198 (36.67%) Software Engineering
3 167 (30.93%) Agile
4 158 (29.26%) AI
4 158 (29.26%) DevOps
5 125 (23.15%) Microservices
6 114 (21.11%) Roadmaps
7 112 (20.74%) Mentoring
8 98 (18.15%) Containerisation
9 91 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
10 89 (16.48%) Infrastructure as Code
11 84 (15.56%) Computer Science
12 76 (14.07%) Clean Code
13 75 (13.89%) Machine Learning
14 72 (13.33%) Test Automation
15 68 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 67 (12.41%) Analytics
17 63 (11.67%) Data Modelling
18 61 (11.30%) Data Pipeline
19 56 (10.37%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 174 (32.22%) Python
2 127 (23.52%) Java
3 118 (21.85%) TypeScript
4 94 (17.41%) JavaScript
5 93 (17.22%) SQL
6 63 (11.67%) Go
7 39 (7.22%) C#
8 30 (5.56%) Scala
9 25 (4.63%) Bash
10 13 (2.41%) PowerShell
11 11 (2.04%) C++
12 7 (1.30%) PHP
13 5 (0.93%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.93%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.74%) R
14 4 (0.74%) Rust
15 2 (0.37%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.37%) Ruby
15 2 (0.37%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 99 (18.33%) Degree
2 60 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 55 (10.19%) Security Cleared
4 52 (9.63%) SC Cleared
5 15 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.41%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.04%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.85%) CISSP
8 10 (1.85%) CREST Certified
8 10 (1.85%) OSCP
9 5 (0.93%) CISM
9 5 (0.93%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.93%) OSCE
10 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.74%) CEH
10 4 (0.74%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.56%) CISA
11 3 (0.56%) PhD
11 3 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.37%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (5.00%) GDPR
3 25 (4.63%) Data Quality
3 25 (4.63%) QA
4 19 (3.52%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.96%) NIST
5 16 (2.96%) SOC 2
6 14 (2.59%) GRC
7 11 (2.04%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.11%) EU AI Act
9 5 (0.93%) SLA
10 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.37%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.37%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.37%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.37%) SOC 1
System Software
1 114 (21.11%) Docker
2 18 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (0.56%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.37%) Firmware
4 2 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 151 (27.96%) Kubernetes
2 133 (24.63%) Terraform
3 60 (11.11%) Grafana
4 44 (8.15%) Ansible
5 26 (4.81%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.85%) Argo
7 8 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.30%) Puppet
9 4 (0.74%) Cilium
9 4 (0.74%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.56%) cPanel
10 3 (0.56%) Plesk
11 1 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.19%) Icinga
11 1 (0.19%) Nagios
11 1 (0.19%) Nessus
11 1 (0.19%) Nmap
11 1 (0.19%) Rancher
Vendors
1 120 (22.22%) Google
2 41 (7.59%) Microsoft
3 32 (5.93%) Databricks
4 14 (2.59%) Palantir
5 13 (2.41%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.67%) Adobe
6 9 (1.67%) Informatica
6 9 (1.67%) SAP
6 9 (1.67%) Typelevel
7 8 (1.48%) OpenAI
7 8 (1.48%) Oracle
7 8 (1.48%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.30%) Sage
9 6 (1.11%) Talend
9 6 (1.11%) VMware
10 5 (0.93%) IBM
10 5 (0.93%) Mavenir
10 5 (0.93%) Splunk
10 5 (0.93%) Xamarin
10 5 (0.93%) Zoho