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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 65 40
Rank change year-on-year +5 -25 +8
Permanent jobs citing GCP 809 940 1,648
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.00% 4.05% 6.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.12% 9.96% 13.60%
Number of salaries quoted 399 685 1,334
10th Percentile £50,500 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £59,644
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% +6.67%
75th Percentile £133,750 £142,500 £111,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £165,000 £135,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +3.23%

All Cloud 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 5,729 9,436 12,118
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.40% 40.70% 48.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,120 6,603 10,485
10th Percentile £31,735 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,522 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,125 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

GCP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GCP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

GCP
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing GCP over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

GCP salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 157 (19.41%) Confluence
2 110 (13.60%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.11%) Apache
5 2 (0.25%) Luigi
6 1 (0.12%) CMS
6 1 (0.12%) IIS
6 1 (0.12%) MetaMask
6 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.25%) Magento
3 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 745 (92.09%) AWS
2 622 (76.89%) Azure
3 105 (12.98%) dbt
4 62 (7.66%) SaaS
5 36 (4.45%) Power Platform
6 22 (2.72%) OCI
7 19 (2.35%) GitHub
7 19 (2.35%) PaaS
8 17 (2.10%) Snowflake
9 15 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
10 14 (1.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 14 (1.73%) IaaS
11 13 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (1.36%) Serverless
13 10 (1.24%) Apigee
14 9 (1.11%) OpenShift
15 8 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.84%) Firewall
2 15 (1.85%) VPN
3 12 (1.48%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.24%) BGP
4 10 (1.24%) Network Security
5 8 (0.99%) LAN
5 8 (0.99%) WAN
6 7 (0.87%) DNS
6 7 (0.87%) OSPF
6 7 (0.87%) VLAN
7 6 (0.74%) Broadband
8 3 (0.37%) DHCP
8 3 (0.37%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.37%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.25%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.25%) Wireless
10 1 (0.12%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.12%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.12%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 1 (0.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (20.40%) SQL Server
2 134 (16.56%) PostgreSQL
3 96 (11.87%) Amazon Athena
4 95 (11.74%) Apache Arrow
4 95 (11.74%) Apache Iceberg
4 95 (11.74%) Dremio
5 47 (5.81%) NoSQL
6 36 (4.45%) Power BI
7 32 (3.96%) BigQuery
8 28 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
9 25 (3.09%) Tableau
10 23 (2.84%) MongoDB
11 20 (2.47%) Data Lake
12 13 (1.61%) Hadoop
13 12 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (1.48%) Metadata
14 10 (1.24%) Big Data
15 9 (1.11%) MySQL
15 9 (1.11%) Redis
16 7 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 173 (21.38%) GitLab
2 168 (20.77%) JIRA
3 167 (20.64%) Maven
3 167 (20.64%) SonarQube
3 167 (20.64%) Sonatype Nexus
4 162 (20.02%) Selenium
5 158 (19.53%) Cucumber
6 157 (19.41%) Bitbucket
7 37 (4.57%) Git
8 34 (4.20%) Jenkins
9 15 (1.85%) JUnit
10 4 (0.49%) Appium
10 4 (0.49%) Mockito
11 3 (0.37%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.37%) MLflow
12 2 (0.25%) JMeter
12 2 (0.25%) Postman
12 2 (0.25%) webpack
13 1 (0.12%) Metasploit
13 1 (0.12%) Mocha
General
1 391 (48.33%) Finance
2 343 (42.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 213 (26.33%) Banking
4 127 (15.70%) Front Office
5 107 (13.23%) Social Skills
6 38 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (2.60%) Public Sector
8 17 (2.10%) Law
9 16 (1.98%) Marketing
9 16 (1.98%) Retail
10 11 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (0.87%) Legal
11 7 (0.87%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.74%) Games
12 6 (0.74%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.62%) Tech for Good
14 4 (0.49%) Cantonese Language
14 4 (0.49%) Mandarin Language
14 4 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.25%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 506 (62.55%) Software Engineer
2 263 (32.51%) Senior
3 197 (24.35%) Senior Software Engineer
4 184 (22.74%) Developer
5 127 (15.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 103 (12.73%) AWS Engineer
7 95 (11.74%) AWS Developer
7 95 (11.74%) AWS Software Engineer
8 85 (10.51%) Python Engineer
9 75 (9.27%) Python Software Engineer
10 72 (8.90%) Python Developer
11 68 (8.41%) Architect
12 44 (5.44%) Lead
13 36 (4.45%) Java Engineer
13 36 (4.45%) Java Software Engineer
14 34 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
15 29 (3.58%) Java Developer
16 28 (3.46%) DevOps Engineer
17 27 (3.34%) Engineering Manager
17 27 (3.34%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 318 (39.31%) React
2 316 (39.06%) Node.js
3 223 (27.56%) .NET
4 201 (24.85%) Kafka
5 192 (23.73%) Redux
6 191 (23.61%) Spring
7 185 (22.87%) Spring Boot
8 170 (21.01%) Hibernate
9 168 (20.77%) CSS
10 166 (20.52%) HTML
11 157 (19.41%) JPA
12 123 (15.20%) Vue
13 119 (14.71%) AngularJS
14 105 (12.98%) Pandas
15 100 (12.36%) NumPy
16 95 (11.74%) SciPy
17 30 (3.71%) RESTful
18 19 (2.35%) REST
19 17 (2.10%) Flask
19 17 (2.10%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 187 (23.11%) Self-Motivation
2 181 (22.37%) Linux Command Line
3 178 (22.00%) Cyberattack
4 170 (21.01%) Product Ownership
5 162 (20.02%) Enterprise Software
6 127 (15.70%) Fixed Income
7 114 (14.09%) Equities
7 114 (14.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 63 (7.79%) Cloud Native
9 36 (4.45%) Management Information System
10 27 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
10 27 (3.34%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.85%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.24%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.24%) Hedge funds
12 10 (1.24%) Private Cloud
13 8 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
15 5 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (0.62%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 211 (26.08%) Linux
2 17 (2.10%) Windows
3 14 (1.73%) Unix
4 6 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.25%) CentOS
7 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (73.92%) Agile
2 555 (68.60%) Software Engineering
3 403 (49.81%) Microservices
4 308 (38.07%) CI/CD
5 306 (37.82%) DevOps
6 233 (28.80%) Mentoring
7 231 (28.55%) Containerisation
8 211 (26.08%) Machine Learning
9 207 (25.59%) User Experience
10 206 (25.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 206 (25.46%) TDD
11 204 (25.22%) Data Engineering
12 202 (24.97%) Full-Stack Development
13 201 (24.85%) Cloud Security
14 197 (24.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 189 (23.36%) Scrum
16 183 (22.62%) Test Automation
17 180 (22.25%) Performance Optimisation
18 173 (21.38%) SDLC
19 171 (21.14%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 532 (65.76%) JavaScript
2 452 (55.87%) Java
3 428 (52.90%) Python
4 264 (32.63%) SQL
5 204 (25.22%) Go
6 178 (22.00%) C++
6 178 (22.00%) Rust
7 177 (21.88%) TypeScript
8 33 (4.08%) C#
9 16 (1.98%) Bash
10 14 (1.73%) Scala
11 12 (1.48%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.11%) R
13 6 (0.74%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.49%) PHP
16 2 (0.25%) Bicep
16 2 (0.25%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.12%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 214 (26.45%) Security Cleared
2 205 (25.34%) AWS Certification
3 192 (23.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 190 (23.49%) DV Cleared
5 178 (22.00%) AWS Certified Developer
6 42 (5.19%) Degree
7 27 (3.34%) SC Cleared
8 23 (2.84%) Azure Certification
9 19 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (2.35%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (0.87%) PhD
12 6 (0.74%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.62%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.62%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.62%) PMP
13 5 (0.62%) SAP Certification
14 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.37%) CISSP
14 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (20.52%) QA
2 29 (3.58%) GDPR
3 20 (2.47%) NIST
4 18 (2.22%) Data Quality
5 15 (1.85%) HIPAA
6 14 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.62%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.49%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.49%) GRC
9 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.37%) SLA
10 2 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 268 (33.13%) Docker
2 10 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.62%) HDFS
4 4 (0.49%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.25%) Firmware
6 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) Varnish
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 291 (35.97%) Kubernetes
2 85 (10.51%) Terraform
3 49 (6.06%) Ansible
4 16 (1.98%) Grafana
5 14 (1.73%) Istio
6 12 (1.48%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.49%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.49%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.49%) Puppet
8 2 (0.25%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.12%) Argo
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.12%) Nmap
9 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 159 (19.65%) Solace
2 104 (12.86%) Google
3 38 (4.70%) Microsoft
4 19 (2.35%) Databricks
5 15 (1.85%) Oracle
6 12 (1.48%) SAP
7 9 (1.11%) Alteryx
7 9 (1.11%) VMware
8 8 (0.99%) Teradata
9 7 (0.87%) Talend
10 6 (0.74%) Cisco
11 4 (0.49%) Confluent
11 4 (0.49%) EMC
11 4 (0.49%) HubSpot
11 4 (0.49%) IBM
11 4 (0.49%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.49%) PayPal
11 4 (0.49%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.49%) TOWER Software
11 4 (0.49%) Zoho