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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 62 62
Rank change year-on-year -13 0 -21
Permanent jobs citing GCP 821 802 952
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.35% 4.97% 4.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.41% 13.98% 10.18%
Number of salaries quoted 472 394 683
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £94,250 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.42% -0.79% +19.30%
75th Percentile £93,750 £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 8,722 5,736 9,350
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.62% 35.54% 41.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6,410 4,118 6,406
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,569 £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 £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 22 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 13 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.22%) Apache
2 10 (1.22%) Apache Spark
3 8 (0.97%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.49%) Confluence
5 3 (0.37%) Camunda
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 (1.83%) 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
Cloud Services
1 661 (80.51%) AWS
2 520 (63.34%) Azure
3 112 (13.64%) SaaS
4 70 (8.53%) Amazon EKS
5 37 (4.51%) GitHub
5 37 (4.51%) Power Platform
6 28 (3.41%) dbt
7 26 (3.17%) Cloud Run
8 24 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (2.92%) Snowflake
9 23 (2.80%) Google Analytics
9 23 (2.80%) Serverless
10 22 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (2.31%) Anthropic Claude
12 18 (2.19%) Firebase
13 17 (2.07%) Cloud Functions
13 17 (2.07%) Datadog
14 15 (1.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 14 (1.71%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.12%) Broadband
2 37 (4.51%) Network Security
3 19 (2.31%) TCP/IP
4 18 (2.19%) Firewall
5 14 (1.71%) WAN
6 10 (1.22%) VPN
7 9 (1.10%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.73%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (0.73%) HTTP
8 6 (0.73%) iSCSI
8 6 (0.73%) LAN
9 5 (0.61%) BGP
10 4 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.49%) DNS
10 4 (0.49%) LTE
10 4 (0.49%) SSH
11 3 (0.37%) Internet
11 3 (0.37%) MPLS
11 3 (0.37%) OSPF
11 3 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (7.92%) BigQuery
2 53 (6.46%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (4.26%) NoSQL
3 35 (4.26%) Power BI
4 26 (3.17%) Looker
5 24 (2.92%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.68%) MongoDB
7 20 (2.44%) Semantic Layer
8 19 (2.31%) Data Lake
9 18 (2.19%) Metadata
10 17 (2.07%) Pinecone
10 17 (2.07%) Relational Database
10 17 (2.07%) Tableau
11 16 (1.95%) Chroma
12 10 (1.22%) MySQL
13 9 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (0.85%) Metadata Repository
15 5 (0.61%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.61%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 72 (8.77%) TeamCity
2 50 (6.09%) Git
3 41 (4.99%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.34%) JIRA
5 10 (1.22%) GitLab
6 7 (0.85%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.73%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.61%) JUnit
9 4 (0.49%) Maven
10 3 (0.37%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.37%) Claude Code
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%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.24%) ERwin
11 2 (0.24%) MLflow
11 2 (0.24%) Subversion
General
1 247 (30.09%) Social Skills
2 231 (28.14%) Finance
3 205 (24.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 159 (19.37%) Law
5 149 (18.15%) Banking
6 121 (14.74%) Retail
7 94 (11.45%) Public Sector
8 75 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
9 67 (8.16%) Back Office
10 66 (8.04%) Financial Institution
11 38 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (4.02%) Marketing
13 22 (2.68%) Legal
14 8 (0.97%) Front Office
15 7 (0.85%) Advertising
15 7 (0.85%) French Language
15 7 (0.85%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.61%) Games
18 3 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 231 (28.14%) Senior
2 192 (23.39%) Software Engineer
3 139 (16.93%) Architect
4 76 (9.26%) Lead
5 67 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
6 61 (7.43%) Analyst
7 57 (6.94%) Python Engineer
8 47 (5.72%) GCP Engineer
9 45 (5.48%) Developer
10 40 (4.87%) Data Engineer
11 39 (4.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 33 (4.02%) Senior Analyst
12 33 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
13 32 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
14 30 (3.65%) Lead Software Engineer
14 30 (3.65%) Senior Architect
15 29 (3.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 28 (3.41%) Security Architect
16 28 (3.41%) Site Engineer
17 27 (3.29%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (25.70%) Terraform
2 64 (7.80%) React
3 48 (5.85%) Node.js
4 45 (5.48%) LangChain
5 39 (4.75%) REST
6 34 (4.14%) .NET
7 29 (3.53%) LangGraph
8 28 (3.41%) Spring
9 26 (3.17%) PyTorch
10 23 (2.80%) RESTful
11 22 (2.68%) Kafka
11 22 (2.68%) Middleware
12 21 (2.56%) FastAPI
12 21 (2.56%) Spring Boot
12 21 (2.56%) TensorFlow
13 20 (2.44%) OAuth
14 18 (2.19%) scikit-learn
15 17 (2.07%) LlamaIndex
15 17 (2.07%) OAuth2
15 17 (2.07%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 226 (27.53%) Cloud Native
2 92 (11.21%) Product Ownership
3 75 (9.14%) Distributed Systems
4 58 (7.06%) AI Agents
5 27 (3.29%) Blog
6 26 (3.17%) Distributed Architecture
7 20 (2.44%) Public Cloud
8 19 (2.31%) Security Posture
9 16 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.83%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.71%) Data Centre
11 14 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.71%) Video\Live Streaming
12 13 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.58%) Social Media
13 12 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
14 11 (1.34%) Mobile App
15 10 (1.22%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.22%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.60%) Linux
2 18 (2.19%) Unix
3 15 (1.83%) Windows
4 12 (1.46%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.85%) Android
6 6 (0.73%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Debian
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (40.93%) CI/CD
2 296 (36.05%) Software Engineering
3 270 (32.89%) AI
3 270 (32.89%) Mentoring
4 207 (25.21%) Agile
5 187 (22.78%) DevOps
6 149 (18.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 145 (17.66%) Technical Leadership
8 142 (17.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 139 (16.93%) Microservices
10 135 (16.44%) Test Automation
11 132 (16.08%) Roadmaps
12 125 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
13 122 (14.86%) Machine Learning
14 117 (14.25%) Observability
15 110 (13.40%) Clean Code
16 106 (12.91%) Analytics
17 105 (12.79%) Coaching
17 105 (12.79%) Containerisation
18 98 (11.94%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 282 (34.35%) Python
2 185 (22.53%) Java
3 135 (16.44%) SQL
4 76 (9.26%) JavaScript
5 56 (6.82%) TypeScript
6 54 (6.58%) Go
7 39 (4.75%) C#
8 24 (2.92%) Bash
9 21 (2.56%) Scala
10 19 (2.31%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.83%) R
12 13 (1.58%) Rust
13 11 (1.34%) C++
14 6 (0.73%) Ruby
15 4 (0.49%) C
15 4 (0.49%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.49%) PHP
15 4 (0.49%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.37%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.24%) Perl
Qualifications
1 130 (15.83%) Security Cleared
2 114 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 106 (12.91%) Degree
4 55 (6.70%) AWS Certification
5 31 (3.78%) CISSP
6 28 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (3.17%) CISM
8 24 (2.92%) Azure Certification
9 20 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.34%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.10%) CREST Certified
11 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (1.10%) OSCP
12 7 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (0.85%) CCSP
13 6 (0.73%) Dell Certification
14 5 (0.61%) CRISC
14 5 (0.61%) GIAC
14 5 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (7.80%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.63%) NIST
3 37 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (3.17%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.92%) NCSC
6 22 (2.68%) GDPR
7 16 (1.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 10 (1.22%) QA
9 9 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (1.10%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.73%) PMO
11 5 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.61%) GRC
11 5 (0.61%) SLA
12 4 (0.49%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.49%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 143 (17.42%) Docker
2 9 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.97%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.73%) vSphere
5 4 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.37%) Firmware
7 2 (0.24%) KVM
8 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 217 (26.43%) Kubernetes
2 99 (12.06%) Grafana
3 31 (3.78%) Ansible
4 19 (2.31%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.10%) Puppet
6 7 (0.85%) Istio
6 7 (0.85%) Podman
7 6 (0.73%) Avamar
7 6 (0.73%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.73%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.73%) VxRail
8 5 (0.61%) CASB
9 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.49%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.37%) Argo
10 3 (0.37%) linkerd
11 1 (0.12%) Packer
11 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.12%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 171 (20.83%) Google
2 101 (12.30%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.02%) Adobe
4 28 (3.41%) ServiceNow
5 25 (3.05%) Apple
6 21 (2.56%) Databricks
7 17 (2.07%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.83%) Informatica
8 15 (1.83%) Okta
8 15 (1.83%) OpenAI
8 15 (1.83%) Ping Identity
8 15 (1.83%) Splunk
9 13 (1.58%) VMware
10 12 (1.46%) SAP
11 10 (1.22%) New Relic
11 10 (1.22%) Oracle
12 9 (1.10%) Cisco
12 9 (1.10%) Typelevel
13 8 (0.97%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.85%) Dell