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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 50 70
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 -28
Permanent jobs citing GCP 688 727 1,302
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.94% 5.55% 4.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.26% 12.15% 9.37%
Number of salaries quoted 352 597 1,092
10th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,338 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.19% +9.68% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.45% -2.68%

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 6,706 5,984 13,896
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.38% 45.67% 43.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4,509 4,673 12,033
10th Percentile £33,375 £33,199 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £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 15 April 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 49 (7.12%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (4.07%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.33%) Confluence
4 7 (1.02%) Apache
5 5 (0.73%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.44%) CMS
6 3 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.44%) SAS
6 3 (0.44%) WordPress
7 2 (0.29%) IIS
7 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) Camunda
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Strapi
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.44%) Trello
2 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Notion
Business Applications
1 9 (1.31%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.29%) Shopify
3 1 (0.15%) Magento
3 1 (0.15%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 583 (84.74%) AWS
2 421 (61.19%) Azure
3 94 (13.66%) SaaS
4 68 (9.88%) Amazon EKS
5 42 (6.10%) GitHub
6 36 (5.23%) dbt
7 31 (4.51%) Serverless
8 30 (4.36%) Snowflake
9 29 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 28 (4.07%) Power Platform
11 26 (3.78%) Vertex AI
12 25 (3.63%) Entra ID
13 23 (3.34%) Amazon ECS
13 23 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (3.20%) Google Analytics
15 19 (2.76%) Dagster
16 17 (2.47%) Cloud Run
17 16 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
17 16 (2.33%) Figma
17 16 (2.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 77 (11.19%) Broadband
2 21 (3.05%) Firewall
3 20 (2.91%) Network Security
4 16 (2.33%) TCP/IP
5 15 (2.18%) DNS
6 13 (1.89%) WAN
7 12 (1.74%) LAN
8 9 (1.31%) VPN
9 8 (1.16%) Internet
10 7 (1.02%) LTE
10 7 (1.02%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.02%) SSL
11 5 (0.73%) DHCP
12 4 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.58%) MQTT
12 4 (0.58%) Wireless
13 3 (0.44%) Modbus
13 3 (0.44%) SCCP
13 3 (0.44%) WLAN
14 2 (0.29%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (12.35%) BigQuery
2 74 (10.76%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (7.41%) NoSQL
4 37 (5.38%) Metadata
5 35 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
7 27 (3.92%) Looker
7 27 (3.92%) MongoDB
8 25 (3.63%) Tableau
9 22 (3.20%) Power BI
10 19 (2.76%) Data Lake
11 17 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (2.47%) Relational Database
12 16 (2.33%) Redis
13 15 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
14 13 (1.89%) Semantic Layer
15 12 (1.74%) SQL Server
16 11 (1.60%) MySQL
17 10 (1.45%) Apache Iceberg
17 10 (1.45%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 58 (8.43%) TeamCity
2 42 (6.10%) Git
3 28 (4.07%) GitLab
4 27 (3.92%) JIRA
5 18 (2.62%) CircleCI
6 15 (2.18%) Jenkins
7 12 (1.74%) Cypress.io
7 12 (1.74%) MLflow
8 9 (1.31%) Subversion
9 8 (1.16%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.02%) Storybook
11 3 (0.44%) git-flow
12 2 (0.29%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.29%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.29%) TestRail
12 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.29%) Zephyr
13 1 (0.15%) ERwin
13 1 (0.15%) Maven
13 1 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 209 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 196 (28.49%) Finance
3 147 (21.37%) Law
4 133 (19.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 116 (16.86%) Banking
6 104 (15.12%) Retail
7 81 (11.77%) Public Sector
8 56 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
8 56 (8.14%) Financial Institution
9 52 (7.56%) Back Office
10 37 (5.38%) Telecoms
11 31 (4.51%) Legal
12 22 (3.20%) Marketing
13 17 (2.47%) Front Office
13 17 (2.47%) Manufacturing
13 17 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.73%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 214 (31.10%) Senior
2 154 (22.38%) Software Engineer
3 101 (14.68%) Architect
4 76 (11.05%) Lead
5 64 (9.30%) Developer
6 51 (7.41%) Data Engineer
7 40 (5.81%) Analyst
8 39 (5.67%) Consultant
8 39 (5.67%) Senior Software Engineer
9 34 (4.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 31 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
11 30 (4.36%) Scala Engineer
12 28 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
12 28 (4.07%) Lead Software Engineer
13 27 (3.92%) Data Architect
14 26 (3.78%) Senior Consultant
15 24 (3.49%) Python Engineer
16 23 (3.34%) Full-Stack Developer
16 23 (3.34%) Java Engineer
16 23 (3.34%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (15.26%) React
2 72 (10.47%) Kafka
3 66 (9.59%) Node.js
4 64 (9.30%) gRPC
5 41 (5.96%) RESTful
6 38 (5.52%) Django
7 36 (5.23%) REST
8 29 (4.22%) .NET
9 23 (3.34%) Redux
10 21 (3.05%) OAuth
11 20 (2.91%) CSS
11 20 (2.91%) HTML
12 19 (2.76%) Spring
13 18 (2.62%) React Native
13 18 (2.62%) Vue
14 17 (2.47%) FastAPI
14 17 (2.47%) PyTorch
14 17 (2.47%) TensorFlow
15 16 (2.33%) AngularJS
16 15 (2.18%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 181 (26.31%) Cloud Native
2 103 (14.97%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (10.76%) Product Ownership
4 47 (6.83%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (6.54%) Over-the-Top Content
6 30 (4.36%) Blog
7 26 (3.78%) Security Posture
8 25 (3.63%) Public Cloud
9 24 (3.49%) Data Structures
10 22 (3.20%) Distributed Architecture
10 22 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (2.91%) Management Information System
12 19 (2.76%) Onboarding
13 17 (2.47%) Mobile App
14 16 (2.33%) Fixed Income
15 15 (2.18%) AI Agents
16 11 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
17 10 (1.45%) Cyberattack
17 10 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
17 10 (1.45%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.83%) Linux
2 27 (3.92%) Android
3 26 (3.78%) Windows
4 18 (2.62%) Apple iOS
5 16 (2.33%) Unix
6 7 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.87%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.15%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (45.20%) CI/CD
2 251 (36.48%) Software Engineering
3 194 (28.20%) DevOps
4 191 (27.76%) Agile
5 185 (26.89%) Microservices
6 170 (24.71%) Containerisation
7 163 (23.69%) AI
8 156 (22.67%) Mentoring
9 143 (20.78%) Clean Code
10 128 (18.60%) Machine Learning
11 125 (18.17%) Roadmaps
12 124 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
13 121 (17.59%) Coaching
14 118 (17.15%) Test Automation
15 115 (16.72%) Infrastructure as Code
16 112 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
17 94 (13.66%) Analytics
18 93 (13.52%) Data Science
19 85 (12.35%) Computer Science
20 83 (12.06%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 251 (36.48%) Python
2 175 (25.44%) Java
3 123 (17.88%) Go
4 104 (15.12%) SQL
5 89 (12.94%) JavaScript
6 81 (11.77%) TypeScript
7 64 (9.30%) Scala
8 29 (4.22%) C#
9 27 (3.92%) Bash
10 21 (3.05%) C++
11 13 (1.89%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.45%) Rust
13 7 (1.02%) PHP
14 6 (0.87%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.73%) Ruby
16 4 (0.58%) C
17 3 (0.44%) Objective-C
17 3 (0.44%) Perl
18 2 (0.29%) Shell Script
19 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 127 (18.46%) Degree
2 87 (12.65%) Security Cleared
3 78 (11.34%) SC Cleared
4 56 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.34%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.05%) CISSP
7 19 (2.76%) CREST Certified
7 19 (2.76%) OSCP
8 16 (2.33%) Azure Certification
9 14 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.45%) CISM
11 8 (1.16%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.16%) OSCE
12 7 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.02%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.87%) GIAC
14 5 (0.73%) GPEN
14 5 (0.73%) ISACA
14 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.73%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 35 (5.09%) QA
2 34 (4.94%) Accessibility
3 29 (4.22%) GDPR
4 25 (3.63%) NIST
5 23 (3.34%) Data Quality
6 21 (3.05%) GRC
7 16 (2.33%) SOC 2
8 14 (2.03%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.87%) EU AI Act
10 6 (0.87%) SLA
11 4 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.44%) NCSC
13 2 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.29%) ISO 26262
13 2 (0.29%) SEPA
13 2 (0.29%) SOC 1
System Software
1 187 (27.18%) Docker
2 17 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.15%) Firmware
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 186 (27.03%) Kubernetes
2 174 (25.29%) Terraform
3 82 (11.92%) Grafana
4 44 (6.40%) Ansible
5 27 (3.92%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.74%) Podman
7 9 (1.31%) Puppet
8 8 (1.16%) Argo
8 8 (1.16%) Istio
8 8 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.73%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.58%) Cilium
11 3 (0.44%) cPanel
11 3 (0.44%) Plesk
12 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.15%) CASB
13 1 (0.15%) Consul
13 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 155 (22.53%) Google
2 75 (10.90%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.54%) Typelevel
4 25 (3.63%) Databricks
5 19 (2.76%) Adobe
6 13 (1.89%) Atlassian
6 13 (1.89%) Palantir
6 13 (1.89%) SAP
7 11 (1.60%) Apple
7 11 (1.60%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.31%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.31%) Oracle
8 9 (1.31%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.16%) Confluent
9 8 (1.16%) Foundry
9 8 (1.16%) VMware
10 6 (0.87%) Informatica
10 6 (0.87%) Splunk
11 5 (0.73%) Ericsson
11 5 (0.73%) Nokia
311 hybrid/remote GCP jobs