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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 56 57
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 -6
Permanent jobs citing GCP 565 835 1,402
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.47% 5.31% 5.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.35% 11.34% 11.14%
Number of salaries quoted 375 601 1,195
10th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £66,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +14.86% -1.33%
75th Percentile £118,750 £108,750 £96,539
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £77,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +10.00% -4.02%

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 6,042 7,366 12,589
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.10% 46.81% 45.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,151 4,773 11,007
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 12 February 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 55 (9.73%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (5.49%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.30%) Apache
3 13 (2.30%) Confluence
4 7 (1.24%) IIS
5 5 (0.88%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.53%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.35%) Luigi
8 2 (0.35%) WordPress
9 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.18%) CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.18%) SAS
9 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Strapi
Applications
1 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.53%) Trello
3 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.18%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 481 (85.13%) AWS
2 372 (65.84%) Azure
3 125 (22.12%) SaaS
4 50 (8.85%) GitHub
5 47 (8.32%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (7.96%) dbt
7 31 (5.49%) Snowflake
8 30 (5.31%) Power Platform
9 29 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 28 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (4.96%) Serverless
11 20 (3.54%) Vertex AI
12 14 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (2.30%) Amazon S3
13 13 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (2.30%) Google Analytics
14 12 (2.12%) Azure Machine Learning
14 12 (2.12%) Entra ID
15 10 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.42%) Broadband
2 23 (4.07%) Firewall
3 16 (2.83%) Network Security
4 13 (2.30%) VPN
5 11 (1.95%) DNS
6 10 (1.77%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.59%) WAN
8 7 (1.24%) LAN
9 6 (1.06%) DHCP
9 6 (1.06%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.71%) SSL
11 3 (0.53%) Cisco ISE
11 3 (0.53%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.53%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.53%) SCCP
12 2 (0.35%) AMQP
12 2 (0.35%) MQTT
12 2 (0.35%) Wireless
13 1 (0.18%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (12.92%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (11.50%) BigQuery
3 44 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (6.90%) NoSQL
5 31 (5.49%) Metadata
6 28 (4.96%) Tableau
7 27 (4.78%) Elasticsearch
8 24 (4.25%) Apache Iceberg
9 23 (4.07%) Power BI
10 22 (3.89%) Looker
11 19 (3.36%) Data Lake
12 17 (3.01%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (3.01%) MySQL
12 17 (3.01%) SQL Server
13 14 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (2.48%) Apache Arrow
13 14 (2.48%) Dremio
14 13 (2.30%) MongoDB
15 12 (2.12%) Semantic Layer
16 11 (1.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 46 (8.14%) TeamCity
2 29 (5.13%) Git
2 29 (5.13%) GitLab
3 22 (3.89%) JIRA
4 14 (2.48%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.12%) MLflow
6 9 (1.59%) Subversion
7 8 (1.42%) Bitbucket
7 8 (1.42%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.24%) Storybook
9 5 (0.88%) git-flow
10 4 (0.71%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.71%) ERwin
10 4 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
11 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.53%) webpack
12 2 (0.35%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.35%) Mocha
12 2 (0.35%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.35%) SonarQube
General
1 181 (32.04%) Social Skills
2 178 (31.50%) Finance
3 94 (16.64%) Law
4 88 (15.58%) Retail
5 79 (13.98%) Banking
6 78 (13.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (9.91%) Public Sector
8 47 (8.32%) Financial Institution
9 45 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
10 40 (7.08%) Back Office
11 37 (6.55%) Telecoms
12 24 (4.25%) Legal
13 19 (3.36%) Front Office
14 15 (2.65%) Manufacturing
14 15 (2.65%) Marketing
15 12 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
17 10 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
19 5 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 162 (28.67%) Senior
2 119 (21.06%) Software Engineer
3 93 (16.46%) Developer
4 77 (13.63%) Architect
5 62 (10.97%) Lead
6 44 (7.79%) Data Engineer
7 35 (6.19%) Engineering Manager
7 35 (6.19%) Software Developer
8 30 (5.31%) .NET Developer
8 30 (5.31%) .NET Software Developer
8 30 (5.31%) Consultant
9 29 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
10 26 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
10 26 (4.60%) Python Engineer
11 25 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
11 25 (4.42%) Data Architect
12 23 (4.07%) Analyst
12 23 (4.07%) Senior Developer
13 22 (3.89%) Senior Consultant
13 22 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (17.88%) React
2 67 (11.86%) .NET
3 64 (11.33%) Node.js
4 63 (11.15%) Kafka
5 42 (7.43%) RESTful
6 34 (6.02%) gRPC
7 25 (4.42%) AngularJS
7 25 (4.42%) Vue
8 21 (3.72%) Django
9 19 (3.36%) REST
9 19 (3.36%) Spring
10 18 (3.19%) CSS
11 17 (3.01%) HTML
11 17 (3.01%) OAuth
11 17 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
12 16 (2.83%) Pandas
12 16 (2.83%) PyTorch
12 16 (2.83%) Spring Boot
12 16 (2.83%) TensorFlow
13 14 (2.48%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 134 (23.72%) Cloud Native
2 83 (14.69%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (9.20%) Product Ownership
4 26 (4.60%) Blog
5 20 (3.54%) Video\Live Streaming
6 18 (3.19%) Fixed Income
6 18 (3.19%) Over-the-Top Content
7 17 (3.01%) Distributed Architecture
7 17 (3.01%) Public Cloud
8 16 (2.83%) Equities
9 14 (2.48%) Data Structures
9 14 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (2.12%) AI Agents
10 12 (2.12%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.95%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.95%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.59%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (6.90%) Linux
2 25 (4.42%) Windows
3 22 (3.89%) Android
4 18 (3.19%) Unix
5 13 (2.30%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.06%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.35%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.18%) CentOS
8 1 (0.18%) Debian
8 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (42.65%) CI/CD
2 213 (37.70%) Software Engineering
3 170 (30.09%) Agile
4 163 (28.85%) DevOps
5 158 (27.96%) AI
6 140 (24.78%) Microservices
7 118 (20.88%) Mentoring
8 115 (20.35%) Roadmaps
9 108 (19.12%) Containerisation
10 100 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
11 92 (16.28%) Clean Code
12 89 (15.75%) Infrastructure as Code
13 84 (14.87%) Computer Science
13 84 (14.87%) Machine Learning
14 80 (14.16%) Test Automation
15 70 (12.39%) Analytics
15 70 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
16 69 (12.21%) Coaching
17 66 (11.68%) Data Science
18 64 (11.33%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 185 (32.74%) Python
2 135 (23.89%) Java
3 119 (21.06%) TypeScript
4 97 (17.17%) SQL
5 95 (16.81%) JavaScript
6 73 (12.92%) Go
7 39 (6.90%) C#
7 39 (6.90%) Scala
8 26 (4.60%) Bash
9 14 (2.48%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.95%) C++
11 7 (1.24%) PHP
12 5 (0.88%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.88%) Rust
12 5 (0.88%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.71%) R
14 2 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.35%) Ruby
14 2 (0.35%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.18%) Korn
Qualifications
1 100 (17.70%) Degree
2 60 (10.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 56 (9.91%) Security Cleared
4 53 (9.38%) SC Cleared
5 15 (2.65%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.30%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.95%) CREST Certified
7 11 (1.95%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.95%) OSCP
8 10 (1.77%) CISSP
9 5 (0.88%) CISM
9 5 (0.88%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.88%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.88%) OSCE
10 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.71%) CEH
10 4 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.53%) CISA
11 3 (0.53%) PhD
12 2 (0.35%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (4.78%) GDPR
2 27 (4.78%) QA
3 25 (4.42%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.36%) Accessibility
5 17 (3.01%) NIST
5 17 (3.01%) SOC 2
6 15 (2.65%) GRC
7 12 (2.12%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.06%) EU AI Act
9 5 (0.88%) SLA
10 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.35%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.35%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.35%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.35%) SOC 1
System Software
1 124 (21.95%) Docker
2 18 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (0.53%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) Firmware
5 1 (0.18%) HDFS
5 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 159 (28.14%) Kubernetes
2 142 (25.13%) Terraform
3 69 (12.21%) Grafana
4 47 (8.32%) Ansible
5 27 (4.78%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.77%) Argo
7 8 (1.42%) Puppet
7 8 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.71%) Cilium
8 4 (0.71%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.71%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.53%) cPanel
9 3 (0.53%) Plesk
10 1 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.18%) Icinga
10 1 (0.18%) Nagios
10 1 (0.18%) Nessus
10 1 (0.18%) Nmap
10 1 (0.18%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 123 (21.77%) Google
2 41 (7.26%) Microsoft
3 32 (5.66%) Databricks
4 18 (3.19%) Typelevel
5 14 (2.48%) Palantir
6 13 (2.30%) Atlassian
7 9 (1.59%) Adobe
7 9 (1.59%) Informatica
7 9 (1.59%) SAP
8 8 (1.42%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.42%) Oracle
8 8 (1.42%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.24%) Sage
10 6 (1.06%) Talend
10 6 (1.06%) VMware
11 5 (0.88%) IBM
11 5 (0.88%) Mavenir
11 5 (0.88%) Splunk
11 5 (0.88%) Xamarin
11 5 (0.88%) Zoho