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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 46 78
Rank change year-on-year -17 +32 -41
Permanent jobs citing GCP 717 942 1,213
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.69% 6.23% 3.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.72% 16.15% 8.39%
Number of salaries quoted 353 503 1,027
10th Percentile £52,775 £51,698 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £61,215
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +6.57% +3.23%
75th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £137,500 £143,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,250 £78,126
% change year-on-year -8.81% +5.28% -2.34%

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 7,375 5,834 14,465
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.91% 38.59% 42.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,084 4,241 12,117
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% +3.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%

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 June 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 41 (5.72%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (3.35%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.70%) Apache
3 5 (0.70%) Confluence
4 3 (0.42%) CMS
4 3 (0.42%) SAS
5 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.28%) Camunda
5 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.14%) Drupal
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.14%) nginx
6 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (3.35%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.28%) Shopify
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 577 (80.47%) AWS
2 419 (58.44%) Azure
3 82 (11.44%) SaaS
4 67 (9.34%) Amazon EKS
5 29 (4.04%) Snowflake
6 28 (3.91%) Serverless
7 25 (3.49%) dbt
7 25 (3.49%) Vertex AI
8 24 (3.35%) Power Platform
9 22 (3.07%) Cloud Run
10 20 (2.79%) Entra ID
10 20 (2.79%) GitHub
11 19 (2.65%) Dagster
12 18 (2.51%) Google Analytics
13 17 (2.37%) Cloud Functions
13 17 (2.37%) PaaS
14 16 (2.23%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
15 15 (2.09%) Azure Machine Learning
15 15 (2.09%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 96 (13.39%) Broadband
2 23 (3.21%) Network Security
3 19 (2.65%) Firewall
4 17 (2.37%) WAN
5 13 (1.81%) DNS
5 13 (1.81%) LAN
6 10 (1.39%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.26%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.26%) VPN
8 8 (1.12%) Internet
9 7 (0.98%) LTE
10 6 (0.84%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (0.84%) iSCSI
11 5 (0.70%) DHCP
11 5 (0.70%) SSL
11 5 (0.70%) Wireless
12 4 (0.56%) MQTT
13 3 (0.42%) Modbus
13 3 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (0.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (12.83%) BigQuery
2 53 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (4.88%) Metadata
4 31 (4.32%) NoSQL
5 28 (3.91%) Semantic Layer
6 27 (3.77%) Looker
6 27 (3.77%) MongoDB
7 24 (3.35%) Data Lake
8 19 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (2.65%) Power BI
8 19 (2.65%) Tableau
9 17 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (2.37%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.95%) Pinecone
11 11 (1.53%) Delta Lake
12 10 (1.39%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (1.26%) Weaviate
14 8 (1.12%) SQL Server
15 6 (0.84%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 54 (7.53%) TeamCity
2 35 (4.88%) Git
3 25 (3.49%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.09%) GitLab
4 15 (2.09%) JIRA
5 14 (1.95%) CircleCI
6 12 (1.67%) Cypress.io
7 10 (1.39%) MLflow
8 5 (0.70%) Storybook
9 2 (0.28%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.28%) TestRail
9 2 (0.28%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.14%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.14%) Gatling
10 1 (0.14%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.14%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 187 (26.08%) Social Skills
2 178 (24.83%) Finance
3 167 (23.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 147 (20.50%) Law
5 115 (16.04%) Banking
6 90 (12.55%) Retail
7 80 (11.16%) Public Sector
8 49 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
9 41 (5.72%) Back Office
9 41 (5.72%) Financial Institution
10 26 (3.63%) Legal
11 23 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.23%) Front Office
13 10 (1.39%) Marketing
14 9 (1.26%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.70%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.42%) Aviation
19 2 (0.28%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 196 (27.34%) Senior
2 151 (21.06%) Software Engineer
3 119 (16.60%) Architect
4 61 (8.51%) Lead
5 57 (7.95%) Data Engineer
5 57 (7.95%) Developer
6 52 (7.25%) Analyst
7 49 (6.83%) Cloud Engineer
8 40 (5.58%) Consultant
9 33 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
10 30 (4.18%) Lead Software Engineer
10 30 (4.18%) Scala Engineer
11 29 (4.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 29 (4.04%) Senior Analyst
11 29 (4.04%) Senior Architect
11 29 (4.04%) Senior Software Engineer
12 28 (3.91%) Data Architect
13 24 (3.35%) Principal Engineer
13 24 (3.35%) Senior Consultant
13 24 (3.35%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (10.46%) React
2 66 (9.21%) Node.js
3 52 (7.25%) gRPC
4 51 (7.11%) Kafka
5 30 (4.18%) REST
6 29 (4.04%) Django
7 24 (3.35%) .NET
7 24 (3.35%) LangChain
8 21 (2.93%) PyTorch
8 21 (2.93%) TensorFlow
9 20 (2.79%) RESTful
10 18 (2.51%) FastAPI
11 17 (2.37%) Redux
11 17 (2.37%) Spring
12 15 (2.09%) Playwright
12 15 (2.09%) Vue
13 14 (1.95%) Spring Boot
14 13 (1.81%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.81%) LangGraph
14 13 (1.81%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 197 (27.48%) Cloud Native
2 84 (11.72%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (11.30%) Product Ownership
4 46 (6.42%) Over-the-Top Content
4 46 (6.42%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (4.04%) Security Posture
6 27 (3.77%) Blog
7 25 (3.49%) Distributed Architecture
7 25 (3.49%) Public Cloud
8 24 (3.35%) AI Agents
9 22 (3.07%) Data Structures
10 21 (2.93%) Onboarding
10 21 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (2.65%) Management Information System
12 17 (2.37%) Social Media
13 16 (2.23%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.67%) Mobile App
15 11 (1.53%) Data Centre
16 10 (1.39%) Cyberattack
17 9 (1.26%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 36 (5.02%) Linux
2 17 (2.37%) Windows
3 16 (2.23%) Android
4 14 (1.95%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.26%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.70%) Unix
7 1 (0.14%) CentOS
7 1 (0.14%) Debian
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (41.42%) CI/CD
2 257 (35.84%) Software Engineering
3 211 (29.43%) Agile
4 194 (27.06%) Mentoring
5 191 (26.64%) AI
6 165 (23.01%) DevOps
7 155 (21.62%) Microservices
8 151 (21.06%) Containerisation
9 145 (20.22%) Roadmaps
10 139 (19.39%) Machine Learning
11 135 (18.83%) Clean Code
12 130 (18.13%) Test Automation
13 126 (17.57%) Coaching
14 121 (16.88%) Technical Leadership
15 115 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
16 104 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
17 101 (14.09%) Infrastructure as Code
18 88 (12.27%) Data Science
19 84 (11.72%) Analytics
20 76 (10.60%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 268 (37.38%) Python
2 177 (24.69%) Java
3 107 (14.92%) Go
4 103 (14.37%) SQL
5 89 (12.41%) JavaScript
6 65 (9.07%) Scala
7 62 (8.65%) TypeScript
8 21 (2.93%) C#
9 20 (2.79%) Bash
10 17 (2.37%) C++
11 14 (1.95%) Rust
12 9 (1.26%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.70%) C
14 4 (0.56%) Ruby
15 3 (0.42%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.42%) Perl
15 3 (0.42%) PHP
16 2 (0.28%) ABAP
16 2 (0.28%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 102 (14.23%) Degree
1 102 (14.23%) Security Cleared
2 84 (11.72%) SC Cleared
3 38 (5.30%) AWS Certification
4 30 (4.18%) CISSP
5 27 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 24 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.23%) CISM
7 16 (2.23%) CREST Certified
7 16 (2.23%) OSCP
8 15 (2.09%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.39%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.98%) GIAC
13 6 (0.84%) CCSP
13 6 (0.84%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.84%) Dell Certification
14 5 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.72%) Data Quality
2 35 (4.88%) NIST
3 31 (4.32%) Accessibility
3 31 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (3.77%) QA
5 17 (2.37%) GDPR
6 16 (2.23%) GRC
7 11 (1.53%) NCSC
8 9 (1.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 8 (1.12%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.98%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.84%) PMO
12 5 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.56%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.56%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.42%) SLA
15 2 (0.28%) COBIT
15 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.28%) SEPA
15 2 (0.28%) SOC 1
System Software
1 158 (22.04%) Docker
2 13 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.26%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.98%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.84%) vSphere
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 159 (22.18%) Terraform
2 156 (21.76%) Kubernetes
3 71 (9.90%) Grafana
4 37 (5.16%) Ansible
5 15 (2.09%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.67%) Istio
6 12 (1.67%) Podman
6 12 (1.67%) Puppet
7 6 (0.84%) Avamar
7 6 (0.84%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.84%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.84%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.84%) VxRail
8 5 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.42%) Argo
10 3 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.28%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.28%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 142 (19.80%) Google
2 93 (12.97%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.28%) Typelevel
4 32 (4.46%) Adobe
5 24 (3.35%) Apple
5 24 (3.35%) Databricks
5 24 (3.35%) ServiceNow
6 14 (1.95%) VMware
7 13 (1.81%) SAP
8 11 (1.53%) Palantir
9 10 (1.39%) Oracle
10 9 (1.26%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.26%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.12%) Cisco
11 8 (1.12%) Confluent
11 8 (1.12%) Dell
12 7 (0.98%) Veeam
13 6 (0.84%) 3PAR
13 6 (0.84%) Foundry
13 6 (0.84%) Isilon