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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 47 67
Rank change year-on-year -10 +20 -24
Permanent jobs citing GCP 647 740 1,326
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.83% 5.75% 4.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.01% 12.17% 9.60%
Number of salaries quoted 348 613 1,124
10th Percentile £52,125 £53,753 £49,125
25th Percentile £64,439 £65,000 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +9.68% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £101,250
90th Percentile £135,500 £138,500 £138,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £77,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +3.90% -3.31%

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 6,462 6,080 13,809
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.29% 47.27% 44.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4,374 4,699 11,972
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 28 March 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 44 (6.80%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (4.48%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.16%) Confluence
4 7 (1.08%) Apache
5 5 (0.77%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.62%) IIS
7 3 (0.46%) CMS
7 3 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.46%) SAS
7 3 (0.46%) WordPress
8 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.15%) Camunda
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.15%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.46%) Trello
3 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.31%) Shopify
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 548 (84.70%) AWS
2 406 (62.75%) Azure
3 102 (15.77%) SaaS
4 63 (9.74%) Amazon EKS
5 50 (7.73%) GitHub
6 42 (6.49%) dbt
7 35 (5.41%) Snowflake
8 32 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 30 (4.64%) Power Platform
9 30 (4.64%) Serverless
10 26 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (3.55%) Vertex AI
12 21 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
12 21 (3.25%) Entra ID
13 19 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (2.78%) OpenShift
15 17 (2.63%) Google Analytics
16 16 (2.47%) Azure Machine Learning
16 16 (2.47%) Dagster
17 13 (2.01%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 70 (10.82%) Broadband
2 22 (3.40%) Firewall
3 17 (2.63%) Network Security
3 17 (2.63%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.16%) DNS
5 12 (1.85%) WAN
6 11 (1.70%) LAN
7 10 (1.55%) VPN
8 7 (1.08%) SD-WAN
8 7 (1.08%) SSL
9 6 (0.93%) Internet
10 5 (0.77%) DHCP
10 5 (0.77%) LTE
11 4 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.62%) MQTT
11 4 (0.62%) Wireless
12 3 (0.46%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.46%) Modbus
12 3 (0.46%) SCCP
12 3 (0.46%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (12.21%) BigQuery
2 70 (10.82%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (7.11%) NoSQL
4 41 (6.34%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (6.03%) Metadata
6 29 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
7 28 (4.33%) Tableau
8 26 (4.02%) Looker
9 24 (3.71%) Power BI
10 20 (3.09%) Data Lake
11 17 (2.63%) Redis
12 16 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (2.47%) MongoDB
13 15 (2.32%) MySQL
13 15 (2.32%) Relational Database
14 14 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (2.01%) Semantic Layer
15 13 (2.01%) SQL Server
16 10 (1.55%) Apache Iceberg
16 10 (1.55%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 55 (8.50%) TeamCity
2 41 (6.34%) Git
3 30 (4.64%) GitLab
4 22 (3.40%) JIRA
5 18 (2.78%) Jenkins
6 13 (2.01%) CircleCI
7 12 (1.85%) MLflow
8 9 (1.39%) Subversion
9 8 (1.24%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.08%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.08%) Storybook
11 5 (0.77%) git-flow
12 4 (0.62%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.62%) ERwin
12 4 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
13 3 (0.46%) Visual Studio
14 2 (0.31%) REST Assured
14 2 (0.31%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.31%) TestRail
14 2 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 214 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 184 (28.44%) Finance
3 130 (20.09%) Law
4 111 (17.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 106 (16.38%) Banking
6 100 (15.46%) Retail
7 73 (11.28%) Public Sector
8 58 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
9 52 (8.04%) Financial Institution
10 48 (7.42%) Back Office
11 39 (6.03%) Telecoms
12 31 (4.79%) Legal
13 18 (2.78%) Marketing
14 17 (2.63%) Front Office
14 17 (2.63%) Manufacturing
14 17 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 204 (31.53%) Senior
2 146 (22.57%) Software Engineer
3 98 (15.15%) Architect
4 75 (11.59%) Lead
5 66 (10.20%) Developer
6 50 (7.73%) Data Engineer
7 40 (6.18%) Consultant
8 37 (5.72%) Senior Software Engineer
9 33 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
10 30 (4.64%) Data Architect
10 30 (4.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 30 (4.64%) Scala Engineer
11 28 (4.33%) Lead Software Engineer
12 27 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
12 27 (4.17%) Senior Consultant
13 25 (3.86%) Analyst
14 24 (3.71%) Cloud Engineer
15 22 (3.40%) GCP Architect
15 22 (3.40%) Senior Architect
16 21 (3.25%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (16.38%) React
2 72 (11.13%) Kafka
3 65 (10.05%) Node.js
4 64 (9.89%) gRPC
5 40 (6.18%) RESTful
6 35 (5.41%) Django
6 35 (5.41%) REST
7 33 (5.10%) .NET
8 24 (3.71%) Redux
9 23 (3.55%) OAuth
10 21 (3.25%) CSS
11 20 (3.09%) HTML
11 20 (3.09%) Spring
12 17 (2.63%) Vue
13 16 (2.47%) PyTorch
13 16 (2.47%) React Native
13 16 (2.47%) TensorFlow
14 15 (2.32%) AngularJS
14 15 (2.32%) FastAPI
14 15 (2.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 165 (25.50%) Cloud Native
2 104 (16.07%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (10.20%) Product Ownership
4 47 (7.26%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (6.96%) Over-the-Top Content
6 28 (4.33%) Blog
7 21 (3.25%) Public Cloud
7 21 (3.25%) Security Posture
8 20 (3.09%) Management Information System
8 20 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
10 18 (2.78%) Data Structures
11 17 (2.63%) Onboarding
12 16 (2.47%) Fixed Income
13 15 (2.32%) Mobile App
14 13 (2.01%) AI Agents
15 11 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (1.55%) Cyberattack
16 10 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 52 (8.04%) Linux
2 28 (4.33%) Windows
3 24 (3.71%) Android
4 22 (3.40%) Unix
5 15 (2.32%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.93%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.93%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (46.21%) CI/CD
2 238 (36.79%) Software Engineering
3 193 (29.83%) DevOps
4 183 (28.28%) Microservices
5 175 (27.05%) Agile
6 163 (25.19%) Containerisation
7 152 (23.49%) AI
8 147 (22.72%) Mentoring
9 137 (21.17%) Clean Code
10 128 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
11 125 (19.32%) Machine Learning
12 120 (18.55%) Coaching
13 116 (17.93%) Roadmaps
14 112 (17.31%) Test Automation
15 106 (16.38%) Infrastructure as Code
16 96 (14.84%) Data Science
17 94 (14.53%) Computer Science
18 93 (14.37%) Continuous Improvement
19 89 (13.76%) Analytics
20 80 (12.36%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 243 (37.56%) Python
2 162 (25.04%) Java
3 118 (18.24%) Go
4 101 (15.61%) SQL
5 84 (12.98%) TypeScript
6 80 (12.36%) JavaScript
7 64 (9.89%) Scala
8 31 (4.79%) C#
9 28 (4.33%) Bash
10 18 (2.78%) C++
11 14 (2.16%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.39%) Rust
13 7 (1.08%) PHP
14 6 (0.93%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.62%) Ruby
16 3 (0.46%) C
16 3 (0.46%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.31%) Objective-C
17 2 (0.31%) Perl
17 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 122 (18.86%) Degree
2 79 (12.21%) Security Cleared
3 70 (10.82%) SC Cleared
4 67 (10.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.63%) CISSP
6 15 (2.32%) CREST Certified
6 15 (2.32%) OSCP
7 12 (1.85%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.08%) DBS Check
9 7 (1.08%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.08%) OSCE
10 6 (0.93%) CISM
10 6 (0.93%) GIAC
11 5 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.77%) ISACA
11 5 (0.77%) SANS
12 4 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.56%) QA
2 31 (4.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (4.48%) GDPR
4 28 (4.33%) Accessibility
5 23 (3.55%) Data Quality
6 20 (3.09%) GRC
6 20 (3.09%) NIST
7 16 (2.47%) SOC 2
8 14 (2.16%) PCI DSS
9 8 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.93%) EU AI Act
10 6 (0.93%) SLA
11 4 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 2 (0.31%) ISO 14001
13 2 (0.31%) ISO 26262
13 2 (0.31%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.31%) SEPA
13 2 (0.31%) SOC 1
System Software
1 184 (28.44%) Docker
2 19 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.15%) Firmware
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 181 (27.98%) Kubernetes
2 167 (25.81%) Terraform
3 79 (12.21%) Grafana
4 47 (7.26%) Ansible
5 27 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.24%) Argo
6 8 (1.24%) Istio
6 8 (1.24%) Puppet
6 8 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.93%) Podman
8 5 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (0.62%) Cilium
10 3 (0.46%) cPanel
10 3 (0.46%) Plesk
11 2 (0.31%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.31%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.15%) CASB
12 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 151 (23.34%) Google
2 60 (9.27%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.96%) Typelevel
4 30 (4.64%) Databricks
5 13 (2.01%) Atlassian
5 13 (2.01%) Palantir
5 13 (2.01%) SAP
6 10 (1.55%) Adobe
6 10 (1.55%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.39%) Informatica
7 9 (1.39%) Oracle
8 8 (1.24%) Confluent
8 8 (1.24%) Foundry
8 8 (1.24%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.24%) Splunk
9 7 (1.08%) VMware
10 6 (0.93%) Dell
10 6 (0.93%) Talend
11 5 (0.77%) Cisco
11 5 (0.77%) Nokia
308 hybrid/remote GCP jobs