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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 71 62
Rank change year-on-year -1 -9 -21
Permanent jobs citing GCP 840 782 973
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.37% 4.64% 4.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.62% 13.53% 10.33%
Number of salaries quoted 485 373 681
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +2.70% +16.16%
75th Percentile £95,000 £136,250 £142,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £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 8,736 5,780 9,422
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.04% 34.26% 41.91%
Number of salaries quoted 6,413 4,093 6,246
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,875
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 £86,250
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 2 October 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 15 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (1.43%) Apache
3 11 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.95%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.36%) Camunda
5 3 (0.36%) Confluence
6 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.24%) WordPress
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.12%) Appian
7 1 (0.12%) CMS
7 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (1.79%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.60%) 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 (2.86%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 668 (79.52%) AWS
2 524 (62.38%) Azure
3 124 (14.76%) SaaS
4 81 (9.64%) Amazon EKS
5 45 (5.36%) GitHub
6 38 (4.52%) Power Platform
7 33 (3.93%) dbt
8 30 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (3.21%) Cloud Run
10 26 (3.10%) Snowflake
11 24 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
13 22 (2.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 21 (2.50%) Google Analytics
14 21 (2.50%) Serverless
15 19 (2.26%) Anthropic Claude
15 19 (2.26%) Datadog
16 18 (2.14%) Firebase
17 17 (2.02%) Cloud Functions
18 14 (1.67%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.52%) Network Security
2 33 (3.93%) Broadband
3 25 (2.98%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.26%) Firewall
5 15 (1.79%) VPN
6 12 (1.43%) BGP
6 12 (1.43%) WAN
7 8 (0.95%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.71%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (0.71%) HTTP
8 6 (0.71%) iSCSI
9 4 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.48%) LAN
9 4 (0.48%) SSH
9 4 (0.48%) VLAN
10 3 (0.36%) DNS
10 3 (0.36%) Internet
10 3 (0.36%) LTE
10 3 (0.36%) MPLS
10 3 (0.36%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (8.21%) BigQuery
2 63 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (4.29%) Power BI
4 35 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (3.93%) NoSQL
6 30 (3.57%) Looker
7 26 (3.10%) SQL Server
8 22 (2.62%) MongoDB
8 22 (2.62%) Semantic Layer
9 21 (2.50%) Data Lake
9 21 (2.50%) Metadata
10 17 (2.02%) Pinecone
10 17 (2.02%) Tableau
11 16 (1.90%) Chroma
12 15 (1.79%) Relational Database
13 12 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (1.19%) MySQL
15 9 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
16 7 (0.83%) Metadata Repository
16 7 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 87 (10.36%) TeamCity
2 52 (6.19%) Git
3 45 (5.36%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.55%) GitLab
5 9 (1.07%) JIRA
6 8 (0.95%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.71%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.60%) JUnit
9 4 (0.48%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.48%) Maven
10 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.36%) Mockito
10 3 (0.36%) Postman
10 3 (0.36%) Selenium
10 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.24%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.24%) ERwin
11 2 (0.24%) MLflow
11 2 (0.24%) Subversion
General
1 257 (30.60%) Social Skills
2 240 (28.57%) Finance
3 220 (26.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 172 (20.48%) Law
5 160 (19.05%) Banking
6 137 (16.31%) Retail
7 97 (11.55%) Public Sector
8 81 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
9 76 (9.05%) Back Office
10 75 (8.93%) Financial Institution
11 38 (4.52%) Presentation Skills
12 37 (4.40%) Marketing
13 23 (2.74%) Legal
14 11 (1.31%) Front Office
15 8 (0.95%) Advertising
15 8 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.83%) French Language
16 7 (0.83%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.60%) Games
18 3 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 241 (28.69%) Senior
2 193 (22.98%) Software Engineer
3 140 (16.67%) Architect
4 81 (9.64%) Lead
5 70 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 64 (7.62%) Analyst
7 56 (6.67%) Python Engineer
8 55 (6.55%) GCP Engineer
9 48 (5.71%) Developer
10 44 (5.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 41 (4.88%) Data Engineer
12 33 (3.93%) Lead Software Engineer
12 33 (3.93%) Senior Analyst
12 33 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
13 32 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
14 29 (3.45%) Senior Architect
14 29 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 28 (3.33%) Data Architect
15 28 (3.33%) Security Architect
15 28 (3.33%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (27.14%) Terraform
2 64 (7.62%) React
3 50 (5.95%) LangChain
4 47 (5.60%) Node.js
5 39 (4.64%) REST
6 36 (4.29%) .NET
7 33 (3.93%) LangGraph
8 28 (3.33%) Spring
9 27 (3.21%) RESTful
10 26 (3.10%) PyTorch
11 23 (2.74%) Middleware
12 21 (2.50%) FastAPI
12 21 (2.50%) Kafka
12 21 (2.50%) Spring Boot
12 21 (2.50%) TensorFlow
13 18 (2.14%) OAuth
13 18 (2.14%) scikit-learn
14 17 (2.02%) LlamaIndex
14 17 (2.02%) OAuth2
14 17 (2.02%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 241 (28.69%) Cloud Native
2 91 (10.83%) Product Ownership
3 76 (9.05%) Distributed Systems
4 62 (7.38%) AI Agents
5 37 (4.40%) Blog
6 23 (2.74%) Distributed Architecture
7 21 (2.50%) Security Posture
8 18 (2.14%) Public Cloud
9 15 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.67%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.67%) Social Media
11 13 (1.55%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.55%) Hedge funds
12 12 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (1.31%) Mobile App
13 11 (1.31%) Replication
14 10 (1.19%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.24%) Linux
2 18 (2.14%) Unix
3 13 (1.55%) Apple iOS
3 13 (1.55%) Windows
4 7 (0.83%) Android
5 5 (0.60%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.12%) CentOS
6 1 (0.12%) Debian
6 1 (0.12%) Solaris
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (40.95%) CI/CD
2 293 (34.88%) Software Engineering
3 285 (33.93%) AI
4 276 (32.86%) Mentoring
5 206 (24.52%) Agile
6 192 (22.86%) DevOps
7 154 (18.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 147 (17.50%) Technical Leadership
9 146 (17.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 138 (16.43%) Test Automation
11 135 (16.07%) Microservices
12 127 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
13 126 (15.00%) Observability
14 124 (14.76%) Roadmaps
15 118 (14.05%) Machine Learning
16 112 (13.33%) Analytics
17 106 (12.62%) Clean Code
18 101 (12.02%) Deployment Automation
19 100 (11.90%) Coaching
20 98 (11.67%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 294 (35.00%) Python
2 200 (23.81%) Java
3 149 (17.74%) SQL
4 76 (9.05%) JavaScript
5 59 (7.02%) TypeScript
6 52 (6.19%) Go
7 38 (4.52%) C#
8 29 (3.45%) Bash
9 20 (2.38%) R
10 17 (2.02%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.67%) Scala
12 11 (1.31%) Rust
13 9 (1.07%) C++
14 6 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.60%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.48%) C
16 4 (0.48%) PHP
16 4 (0.48%) Ruby
17 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
18 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 129 (15.36%) Security Cleared
2 114 (13.57%) SC Cleared
3 102 (12.14%) Degree
4 55 (6.55%) AWS Certification
5 34 (4.05%) CISSP
6 29 (3.45%) CISM
7 28 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (2.74%) Azure Certification
9 18 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.31%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 10 (1.19%) CCSP
11 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.95%) CREST Certified
13 7 (0.83%) OSCP
14 6 (0.71%) Dell Certification
14 6 (0.71%) GIAC
14 6 (0.71%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.60%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (8.10%) Data Quality
2 44 (5.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (5.12%) NIST
4 24 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 24 (2.86%) GDPR
4 24 (2.86%) NCSC
5 17 (2.02%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 9 (1.07%) QA
8 8 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.83%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.71%) PMO
11 5 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.48%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.48%) GRC
12 4 (0.48%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.48%) SLA
13 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 141 (16.79%) Docker
2 9 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.95%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.71%) vSphere
5 2 (0.24%) Firmware
5 2 (0.24%) KVM
6 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 238 (28.33%) Kubernetes
2 114 (13.57%) Grafana
3 32 (3.81%) Ansible
4 24 (2.86%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.95%) Puppet
6 7 (0.83%) Istio
6 7 (0.83%) Podman
7 6 (0.71%) Avamar
7 6 (0.71%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.71%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.71%) VxRail
8 5 (0.60%) Argo
8 5 (0.60%) CASB
9 4 (0.48%) Cilium
9 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.36%) linkerd
11 1 (0.12%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 189 (22.50%) Google
2 99 (11.79%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.05%) Adobe
4 28 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 26 (3.10%) Apple
6 21 (2.50%) Databricks
7 17 (2.02%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.02%) OpenAI
8 16 (1.90%) Splunk
9 15 (1.79%) Informatica
9 15 (1.79%) Okta
9 15 (1.79%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.43%) New Relic
10 12 (1.43%) VMware
11 11 (1.31%) Oracle
11 11 (1.31%) SAP
12 8 (0.95%) Cisco
13 7 (0.83%) Palo Alto
13 7 (0.83%) Veeam
14 6 (0.71%) Nimble Storage