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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 63 62
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 -21
Permanent jobs citing GCP 821 822 959
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.43% 5.06% 4.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.42% 14.15% 10.03%
Number of salaries quoted 464 409 704
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,938 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% -4.74% +18.75%
75th Percentile £93,750 £132,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £137,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +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 8,718 5,811 9,559
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.46% 35.80% 40.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6,388 4,198 6,746
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 12 September 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 10 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (1.22%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.10%) Apache
3 8 (0.97%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.61%) Confluence
5 3 (0.37%) Camunda
5 3 (0.37%) WordPress
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Appian
6 1 (0.12%) CMS
6 1 (0.12%) Drupal
6 1 (0.12%) IIS
6 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.12%) nginx
6 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (1.83%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.24%) Weka
4 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (2.92%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 665 (81.00%) AWS
2 530 (64.56%) Azure
3 103 (12.55%) SaaS
4 68 (8.28%) Amazon EKS
5 36 (4.38%) Power Platform
6 35 (4.26%) GitHub
7 31 (3.78%) Cloud Run
8 25 (3.05%) dbt
8 25 (3.05%) Serverless
9 24 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (2.68%) Google Analytics
11 22 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (2.56%) Cloud Functions
13 20 (2.44%) Snowflake
14 19 (2.31%) Anthropic Claude
15 18 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (2.07%) Datadog
16 17 (2.07%) Firebase
17 15 (1.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 54 (6.58%) Broadband
2 37 (4.51%) Network Security
3 20 (2.44%) Firewall
3 20 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 17 (2.07%) WAN
5 11 (1.34%) SD-WAN
5 11 (1.34%) VPN
6 9 (1.10%) LAN
7 6 (0.73%) DNS
7 6 (0.73%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (0.73%) HTTP
7 6 (0.73%) iSCSI
8 5 (0.61%) BGP
9 4 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.49%) LTE
9 4 (0.49%) SSH
9 4 (0.49%) Wireless
10 3 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (7.31%) BigQuery
2 48 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (4.99%) NoSQL
4 34 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (4.14%) Power BI
5 27 (3.29%) MongoDB
6 23 (2.80%) Looker
6 23 (2.80%) SQL Server
7 19 (2.31%) Data Lake
7 19 (2.31%) Semantic Layer
8 17 (2.07%) Pinecone
8 17 (2.07%) Relational Database
8 17 (2.07%) Tableau
9 16 (1.95%) Chroma
9 16 (1.95%) Metadata
10 10 (1.22%) MySQL
11 9 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.85%) Metadata Repository
13 5 (0.61%) Redis
13 5 (0.61%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 63 (7.67%) TeamCity
2 53 (6.46%) Git
3 43 (5.24%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.83%) JIRA
5 12 (1.46%) Cypress.io
6 11 (1.34%) CircleCI
7 8 (0.97%) GitLab
8 5 (0.61%) JUnit
9 4 (0.49%) Maven
10 3 (0.37%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.37%) Mockito
10 3 (0.37%) Postman
10 3 (0.37%) Selenium
10 3 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.24%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.24%) Subversion
11 2 (0.24%) TestRail
11 2 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 249 (30.33%) Social Skills
2 231 (28.14%) Finance
3 195 (23.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 147 (17.90%) Law
5 142 (17.30%) Banking
6 107 (13.03%) Retail
7 93 (11.33%) Public Sector
8 77 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
9 59 (7.19%) Back Office
9 59 (7.19%) Financial Institution
10 38 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (3.29%) Marketing
12 23 (2.80%) Legal
13 8 (0.97%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.85%) Advertising
15 6 (0.73%) French Language
16 5 (0.61%) Games
16 5 (0.61%) Legal Technology
17 4 (0.49%) Front Office
17 4 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 232 (28.26%) Senior
2 188 (22.90%) Software Engineer
3 139 (16.93%) Architect
4 73 (8.89%) Lead
5 68 (8.28%) Cloud Engineer
6 57 (6.94%) Analyst
7 51 (6.21%) Python Engineer
8 45 (5.48%) GCP Engineer
9 44 (5.36%) Developer
10 38 (4.63%) Data Engineer
11 35 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
12 34 (4.14%) Senior Software Engineer
13 33 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 33 (4.02%) Senior Analyst
14 30 (3.65%) Senior Architect
15 29 (3.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 28 (3.41%) Site Engineer
17 27 (3.29%) Security Architect
18 26 (3.17%) Data Architect
18 26 (3.17%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (25.46%) Terraform
2 76 (9.26%) React
3 55 (6.70%) Node.js
4 45 (5.48%) REST
5 41 (4.99%) LangChain
6 35 (4.26%) .NET
7 29 (3.53%) Spring
8 27 (3.29%) Kafka
9 26 (3.17%) LangGraph
9 26 (3.17%) PyTorch
10 23 (2.80%) OAuth
11 22 (2.68%) RESTful
11 22 (2.68%) Spring Boot
12 21 (2.56%) FastAPI
12 21 (2.56%) Middleware
12 21 (2.56%) TensorFlow
13 18 (2.19%) Django
13 18 (2.19%) OpenID
13 18 (2.19%) scikit-learn
14 17 (2.07%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 222 (27.04%) Cloud Native
2 91 (11.08%) Product Ownership
3 77 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
4 52 (6.33%) AI Agents
5 27 (3.29%) Distributed Architecture
6 24 (2.92%) Blog
7 20 (2.44%) Public Cloud
7 20 (2.44%) Security Posture
8 17 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.95%) Video\Live Streaming
10 15 (1.83%) Data Centre
10 15 (1.83%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.71%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (1.58%) Social Media
13 12 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (1.46%) Over-the-Top Content
14 11 (1.34%) Mobile App
15 10 (1.22%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.97%) Linux
2 18 (2.19%) Unix
3 16 (1.95%) Windows
4 9 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.73%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Debian
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (41.05%) CI/CD
2 299 (36.42%) Software Engineering
3 266 (32.40%) Mentoring
4 264 (32.16%) AI
5 220 (26.80%) Agile
6 196 (23.87%) DevOps
7 153 (18.64%) Technical Leadership
8 151 (18.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 142 (17.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 139 (16.93%) Test Automation
11 138 (16.81%) Microservices
11 138 (16.81%) Roadmaps
12 124 (15.10%) Machine Learning
13 121 (14.74%) Containerisation
13 121 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
14 118 (14.37%) Observability
15 109 (13.28%) Clean Code
16 107 (13.03%) Coaching
17 101 (12.30%) Analytics
18 98 (11.94%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 285 (34.71%) Python
2 181 (22.05%) Java
3 131 (15.96%) SQL
4 88 (10.72%) JavaScript
5 60 (7.31%) Go
6 57 (6.94%) TypeScript
7 39 (4.75%) C#
8 23 (2.80%) Bash
9 22 (2.68%) Scala
10 20 (2.44%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.34%) Rust
12 9 (1.10%) C++
12 9 (1.10%) R
13 7 (0.85%) Ruby
14 5 (0.61%) C
14 5 (0.61%) PHP
15 4 (0.49%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.37%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.37%) Perl
16 3 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 129 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 111 (13.52%) SC Cleared
3 105 (12.79%) Degree
4 54 (6.58%) AWS Certification
5 32 (3.90%) CISSP
6 29 (3.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (3.17%) CISM
8 23 (2.80%) Azure Certification
9 22 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.46%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.10%) CREST Certified
12 9 (1.10%) OSCP
13 7 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.85%) CCSP
14 6 (0.73%) Dell Certification
15 5 (0.61%) CRISC
15 5 (0.61%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.31%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.75%) NIST
3 37 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 29 (3.53%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.92%) NCSC
6 19 (2.31%) GDPR
7 16 (1.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 13 (1.58%) QA
9 10 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (1.10%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.97%) GRC
12 7 (0.85%) SLA
13 6 (0.73%) PMO
14 5 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.49%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.49%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
18 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 156 (19.00%) Docker
2 12 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.73%) vSphere
6 3 (0.37%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.37%) Firmware
7 2 (0.24%) KVM
Systems Management
1 212 (25.82%) Kubernetes
2 89 (10.84%) Grafana
3 35 (4.26%) Ansible
4 18 (2.19%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.58%) Istio
6 12 (1.46%) Podman
7 11 (1.34%) Puppet
8 6 (0.73%) Avamar
8 6 (0.73%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.73%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.73%) VxRail
9 5 (0.61%) CASB
9 5 (0.61%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.37%) Argo
11 3 (0.37%) linkerd
12 2 (0.24%) Packer
13 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.12%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 169 (20.58%) Google
2 107 (13.03%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.02%) Adobe
4 27 (3.29%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.92%) Apple
6 21 (2.56%) Databricks
7 17 (2.07%) Dynatrace
8 16 (1.95%) Okta
9 15 (1.83%) Informatica
9 15 (1.83%) OpenAI
9 15 (1.83%) Ping Identity
10 13 (1.58%) Splunk
10 13 (1.58%) VMware
11 12 (1.46%) SAP
12 11 (1.34%) Typelevel
13 10 (1.22%) Cisco
13 10 (1.22%) Oracle
14 9 (1.10%) New Relic
14 9 (1.10%) Palo Alto
15 7 (0.85%) Dell