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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 57 62
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -25
Permanent jobs citing GCP 844 869 977
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.72% 5.26% 3.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.69% 14.46% 9.58%
Number of salaries quoted 470 444 776
10th Percentile £52,000 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% -10.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £93,750 £125,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 8,710 6,011 10,200
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.37% 36.39% 41.05%
Number of salaries quoted 6,287 4,439 8,040
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,353 £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 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%

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 10 August 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 20 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (1.66%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.07%) Apache
4 5 (0.59%) Confluence
5 4 (0.47%) Camunda
6 3 (0.36%) CMS
6 3 (0.36%) SAS
6 3 (0.36%) WordPress
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.12%) Appian
7 1 (0.12%) Drupal
7 1 (0.12%) IIS
7 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.12%) nginx
7 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (2.84%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Shopify
3 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 668 (79.15%) AWS
2 522 (61.85%) Azure
3 85 (10.07%) SaaS
4 62 (7.35%) Amazon EKS
5 40 (4.74%) Power Platform
6 37 (4.38%) dbt
7 33 (3.91%) Cloud Run
7 33 (3.91%) GitHub
8 29 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (3.44%) Serverless
9 27 (3.20%) Google Analytics
10 25 (2.96%) Snowflake
11 23 (2.73%) Cloud Functions
12 21 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (2.25%) Anthropic Claude
14 19 (2.25%) PaaS
15 17 (2.01%) Entra ID
15 17 (2.01%) Firebase
16 15 (1.78%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 89 (10.55%) Broadband
2 32 (3.79%) Network Security
3 26 (3.08%) TCP/IP
4 21 (2.49%) Firewall
5 18 (2.13%) WAN
6 11 (1.30%) DNS
6 11 (1.30%) LAN
6 11 (1.30%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.07%) VPN
8 8 (0.95%) LTE
9 7 (0.83%) Internet
10 6 (0.71%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (0.71%) HTTP
10 6 (0.71%) iSCSI
11 5 (0.59%) DHCP
12 4 (0.47%) SSH
13 3 (0.36%) BGP
13 3 (0.36%) MPLS
13 3 (0.36%) SSL
13 3 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (9.60%) BigQuery
2 56 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
3 38 (4.50%) Power BI
4 37 (4.38%) NoSQL
5 35 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (3.55%) Looker
6 30 (3.55%) MongoDB
7 27 (3.20%) Data Lake
8 23 (2.73%) SQL Server
9 21 (2.49%) Semantic Layer
10 20 (2.37%) Metadata
11 18 (2.13%) Relational Database
11 18 (2.13%) Tableau
12 17 (2.01%) Pinecone
13 13 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.18%) Redis
15 9 (1.07%) MySQL
16 6 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.71%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 59 (6.99%) Git
2 52 (6.16%) TeamCity
3 41 (4.86%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.90%) JIRA
5 13 (1.54%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.42%) CircleCI
7 8 (0.95%) GitLab
8 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.36%) JUnit
8 3 (0.36%) Postman
8 3 (0.36%) Selenium
8 3 (0.36%) TestRail
8 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.36%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.24%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.24%) ERwin
9 2 (0.24%) Maven
9 2 (0.24%) Subversion
10 1 (0.12%) Gatling
General
1 253 (29.98%) Social Skills
2 217 (25.71%) Finance
3 185 (21.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 143 (16.94%) Law
5 116 (13.74%) Banking
6 91 (10.78%) Retail
7 87 (10.31%) Public Sector
8 73 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
9 46 (5.45%) Financial Institution
10 45 (5.33%) Back Office
11 36 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (3.20%) Legal
13 21 (2.49%) Marketing
14 12 (1.42%) Front Office
15 7 (0.83%) Legal Technology
15 7 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.83%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.71%) Advertising
17 5 (0.59%) Games
18 4 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 239 (28.32%) Senior
2 185 (21.92%) Software Engineer
3 133 (15.76%) Architect
4 78 (9.24%) Lead
5 65 (7.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 59 (6.99%) Analyst
6 59 (6.99%) Developer
7 54 (6.40%) Data Engineer
8 49 (5.81%) Python Engineer
9 44 (5.21%) GCP Engineer
10 41 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
11 34 (4.03%) Senior Software Engineer
12 33 (3.91%) Senior Analyst
13 32 (3.79%) Lead Software Engineer
14 31 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 31 (3.67%) Consultant
14 31 (3.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 26 (3.08%) Senior Architect
15 26 (3.08%) Senior Manager
16 25 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (11.02%) React
2 63 (7.46%) Node.js
3 49 (5.81%) REST
4 43 (5.09%) Kafka
5 40 (4.74%) gRPC
6 38 (4.50%) LangChain
7 36 (4.27%) .NET
8 29 (3.44%) Spring
9 28 (3.32%) Django
10 26 (3.08%) OAuth
11 25 (2.96%) FastAPI
12 23 (2.73%) LangGraph
13 21 (2.49%) OpenID
13 21 (2.49%) RESTful
13 21 (2.49%) Spring Boot
14 20 (2.37%) PyTorch
15 19 (2.25%) AngularJS
15 19 (2.25%) SAML
15 19 (2.25%) Vue
16 18 (2.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 215 (25.47%) Cloud Native
2 93 (11.02%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (9.83%) Product Ownership
4 47 (5.57%) AI Agents
5 41 (4.86%) Video\Live Streaming
6 37 (4.38%) Over-the-Top Content
7 25 (2.96%) Public Cloud
8 24 (2.84%) Distributed Architecture
8 24 (2.84%) Security Posture
8 24 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (2.37%) Management Information System
10 19 (2.25%) Blog
10 19 (2.25%) Data Structures
11 18 (2.13%) Onboarding
11 18 (2.13%) Social Media
12 16 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.78%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.54%) Data Centre
15 12 (1.42%) Fixed Income
15 12 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.52%) Linux
2 23 (2.73%) Unix
3 17 (2.01%) Windows
4 9 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.83%) Android
5 7 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) CentOS
6 1 (0.12%) Debian
6 1 (0.12%) Solaris
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (41.71%) CI/CD
2 311 (36.85%) Software Engineering
3 256 (30.33%) Mentoring
4 239 (28.32%) AI
5 235 (27.84%) Agile
6 194 (22.99%) DevOps
7 163 (19.31%) Microservices
8 155 (18.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 153 (18.13%) Containerisation
10 146 (17.30%) Roadmaps
11 143 (16.94%) Machine Learning
12 139 (16.47%) Technical Leadership
12 139 (16.47%) Test Automation
13 138 (16.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 138 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
14 134 (15.88%) Clean Code
15 129 (15.28%) Coaching
16 113 (13.39%) Observability
17 110 (13.03%) Analytics
18 87 (10.31%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 316 (37.44%) Python
2 178 (21.09%) Java
3 136 (16.11%) SQL
4 104 (12.32%) JavaScript
5 87 (10.31%) Go
6 67 (7.94%) TypeScript
7 51 (6.04%) Scala
8 39 (4.62%) C#
9 19 (2.25%) Bash
10 16 (1.90%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.66%) C++
12 13 (1.54%) Rust
13 7 (0.83%) Ruby
14 5 (0.59%) C
14 5 (0.59%) PHP
14 5 (0.59%) R
15 4 (0.47%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.36%) Perl
16 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 138 (16.35%) Security Cleared
2 119 (14.10%) SC Cleared
3 112 (13.27%) Degree
4 51 (6.04%) AWS Certification
5 35 (4.15%) CISSP
6 29 (3.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.73%) CISM
9 20 (2.37%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.66%) DV Cleared
11 12 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (1.18%) CREST Certified
13 10 (1.18%) OSCP
14 6 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.71%) CCSP
14 6 (0.71%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.71%) Dell Certification
15 5 (0.59%) CCIE
15 5 (0.59%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.64%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.62%) NIST
3 33 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (3.55%) Accessibility
5 23 (2.73%) GDPR
6 20 (2.37%) QA
7 19 (2.25%) NCSC
8 13 (1.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 12 (1.42%) GRC
10 10 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (1.18%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.71%) PMO
12 5 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.59%) SLA
13 4 (0.47%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.47%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.47%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.36%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 2 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 189 (22.39%) Docker
2 15 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.71%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.71%) vSphere
6 2 (0.24%) KVM
7 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 196 (23.22%) Terraform
2 194 (22.99%) Kubernetes
3 74 (8.77%) Grafana
4 35 (4.15%) Ansible
5 15 (1.78%) Istio
6 14 (1.66%) Prometheus
7 13 (1.54%) Podman
7 13 (1.54%) Puppet
8 6 (0.71%) Avamar
8 6 (0.71%) CASB
8 6 (0.71%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.71%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.71%) VxRail
9 5 (0.59%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.59%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.36%) linkerd
12 2 (0.24%) Argo
12 2 (0.24%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 176 (20.85%) Google
2 106 (12.56%) Microsoft
3 36 (4.27%) Typelevel
4 26 (3.08%) Adobe
5 25 (2.96%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.84%) Apple
7 21 (2.49%) Databricks
8 19 (2.25%) Okta
9 15 (1.78%) Ping Identity
9 15 (1.78%) SAP
9 15 (1.78%) VMware
10 13 (1.54%) Dynatrace
10 13 (1.54%) Informatica
11 12 (1.42%) Oracle
12 11 (1.30%) Splunk
13 9 (1.07%) Cisco
13 9 (1.07%) ForgeRock
14 8 (0.95%) Confluent
14 8 (0.95%) New Relic
14 8 (0.95%) Palo Alto