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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 46 77
Rank change year-on-year -14 +31 -38
Permanent jobs citing GCP 701 953 1,249
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.73% 6.52% 3.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.83% 16.45% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 350 504 1,066
10th Percentile £52,775 £52,164 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £65,938 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.45% -3.13%

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 7,134 5,792 14,004
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.95% 39.64% 43.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,893 4,178 11,916
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,175 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,000 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,987
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 22 May 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 43 (6.13%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (3.71%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.00%) Confluence
4 5 (0.71%) Apache
5 3 (0.43%) CMS
5 3 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (0.43%) SAS
6 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.14%) Camunda
7 1 (0.14%) Drupal
7 1 (0.14%) IIS
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Strapi
7 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (3.42%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.29%) Shopify
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
4 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 568 (81.03%) AWS
2 410 (58.49%) Azure
3 85 (12.13%) SaaS
4 68 (9.70%) Amazon EKS
5 31 (4.42%) Snowflake
6 29 (4.14%) Serverless
7 28 (3.99%) dbt
8 24 (3.42%) Power Platform
8 24 (3.42%) Vertex AI
9 21 (3.00%) Cloud Run
9 21 (3.00%) Entra ID
10 20 (2.85%) GitHub
11 19 (2.71%) Dagster
11 19 (2.71%) Google Analytics
12 16 (2.28%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (2.28%) Azure Machine Learning
12 16 (2.28%) Figma
12 16 (2.28%) PaaS
13 15 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (2.14%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 92 (13.12%) Broadband
2 22 (3.14%) Network Security
3 18 (2.57%) Firewall
4 16 (2.28%) WAN
5 15 (2.14%) DNS
6 13 (1.85%) LAN
7 10 (1.43%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.28%) TCP/IP
9 8 (1.14%) Internet
10 7 (1.00%) LTE
10 7 (1.00%) SSL
10 7 (1.00%) VPN
11 5 (0.71%) DHCP
11 5 (0.71%) Wireless
12 4 (0.57%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (0.57%) iSCSI
12 4 (0.57%) MQTT
13 3 (0.43%) Modbus
13 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (0.43%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (13.41%) BigQuery
2 56 (7.99%) PostgreSQL
3 37 (5.28%) Metadata
4 36 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (5.14%) NoSQL
5 27 (3.85%) Looker
6 25 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 24 (3.42%) Semantic Layer
8 23 (3.28%) Data Lake
9 22 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (2.85%) Tableau
11 18 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (2.57%) Power BI
12 15 (2.14%) Relational Database
13 13 (1.85%) Pinecone
14 10 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
14 10 (1.43%) Delta Lake
15 9 (1.28%) SQL Server
15 9 (1.28%) Weaviate
16 7 (1.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 55 (7.85%) TeamCity
2 35 (4.99%) Git
3 18 (2.57%) Jenkins
4 16 (2.28%) CircleCI
4 16 (2.28%) GitLab
4 16 (2.28%) JIRA
5 12 (1.71%) Cypress.io
5 12 (1.71%) MLflow
6 7 (1.00%) Storybook
7 3 (0.43%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.43%) Subversion
8 2 (0.29%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.29%) TestRail
8 2 (0.29%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.14%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Gatling
9 1 (0.14%) Maven
9 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.14%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 179 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 177 (25.25%) Finance
3 162 (23.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 147 (20.97%) Law
5 113 (16.12%) Banking
6 93 (13.27%) Retail
7 77 (10.98%) Public Sector
8 53 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
9 42 (5.99%) Back Office
9 42 (5.99%) Financial Institution
10 26 (3.71%) Legal
11 20 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (2.43%) Front Office
13 13 (1.85%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.57%) Marketing
15 9 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.00%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
19 3 (0.43%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 198 (28.25%) Senior
2 156 (22.25%) Software Engineer
3 113 (16.12%) Architect
4 65 (9.27%) Lead
5 56 (7.99%) Data Engineer
6 55 (7.85%) Developer
7 53 (7.56%) Analyst
8 41 (5.85%) Cloud Engineer
9 40 (5.71%) Consultant
10 35 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
11 32 (4.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 31 (4.42%) Lead Software Engineer
12 31 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
13 30 (4.28%) Scala Engineer
14 29 (4.14%) Data Architect
15 28 (3.99%) Senior Analyst
15 28 (3.99%) Senior Architect
16 24 (3.42%) Senior Consultant
17 22 (3.14%) Principal Engineer
17 22 (3.14%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (11.27%) React
2 66 (9.42%) Node.js
3 54 (7.70%) gRPC
4 52 (7.42%) Kafka
5 31 (4.42%) REST
6 29 (4.14%) Django
7 24 (3.42%) .NET
8 22 (3.14%) RESTful
9 18 (2.57%) Redux
10 17 (2.43%) LangChain
10 17 (2.43%) Spring
11 16 (2.28%) FastAPI
11 16 (2.28%) PyTorch
11 16 (2.28%) TensorFlow
12 15 (2.14%) React Native
12 15 (2.14%) Vue
13 14 (2.00%) Playwright
13 14 (2.00%) Spring Boot
14 13 (1.85%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.85%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 187 (26.68%) Cloud Native
2 83 (11.84%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (10.98%) Product Ownership
4 46 (6.56%) Over-the-Top Content
4 46 (6.56%) Video\Live Streaming
5 27 (3.85%) Blog
6 26 (3.71%) Distributed Architecture
6 26 (3.71%) Security Posture
7 25 (3.57%) Public Cloud
8 24 (3.42%) Data Structures
9 23 (3.28%) Onboarding
10 22 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (2.85%) AI Agents
12 19 (2.71%) Management Information System
13 17 (2.43%) Social Media
14 16 (2.28%) Fixed Income
15 15 (2.14%) Mobile App
16 10 (1.43%) Cyberattack
16 10 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
17 8 (1.14%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.85%) Linux
2 21 (3.00%) Android
3 17 (2.43%) Apple iOS
4 16 (2.28%) Windows
5 7 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.71%) 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
1 286 (40.80%) CI/CD
2 257 (36.66%) Software Engineering
3 202 (28.82%) Agile
4 184 (26.25%) Mentoring
5 179 (25.53%) AI
6 167 (23.82%) DevOps
7 163 (23.25%) Microservices
8 149 (21.26%) Containerisation
9 136 (19.40%) Machine Learning
10 135 (19.26%) Clean Code
11 133 (18.97%) Roadmaps
12 126 (17.97%) Test Automation
13 125 (17.83%) Coaching
14 111 (15.83%) Continuous Improvement
15 109 (15.55%) Technical Leadership
16 104 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
17 95 (13.55%) Infrastructure as Code
18 89 (12.70%) Analytics
18 89 (12.70%) Data Science
19 69 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 256 (36.52%) Python
2 175 (24.96%) Java
3 112 (15.98%) Go
4 101 (14.41%) SQL
5 87 (12.41%) JavaScript
6 66 (9.42%) TypeScript
7 65 (9.27%) Scala
8 20 (2.85%) C#
9 19 (2.71%) C++
10 18 (2.57%) Bash
11 14 (2.00%) Rust
12 8 (1.14%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.71%) C
14 3 (0.43%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.43%) Perl
14 3 (0.43%) PHP
14 3 (0.43%) Ruby
15 2 (0.29%) R
15 2 (0.29%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.14%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 106 (15.12%) Degree
2 98 (13.98%) Security Cleared
3 80 (11.41%) SC Cleared
4 38 (5.42%) AWS Certification
5 30 (4.28%) CISSP
5 30 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (2.28%) CISM
7 16 (2.28%) CREST Certified
7 16 (2.28%) OSCP
8 13 (1.85%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.28%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.00%) GIAC
11 7 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.86%) CCSP
12 6 (0.86%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.71%) CCNP
13 5 (0.71%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.14%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.71%) Accessibility
3 31 (4.42%) NIST
4 29 (4.14%) QA
5 27 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.71%) GDPR
7 16 (2.28%) GRC
8 9 (1.28%) NCSC
8 9 (1.28%) SOC 2
9 7 (1.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 7 (1.00%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.57%) PMO
12 3 (0.43%) SLA
13 2 (0.29%) COBIT
13 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.29%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.29%) SOC 1
13 2 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 162 (23.11%) Docker
2 13 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.57%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.57%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.57%) vSphere
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 161 (22.97%) Kubernetes
2 158 (22.54%) Terraform
3 73 (10.41%) Grafana
4 38 (5.42%) Ansible
5 16 (2.28%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.71%) Podman
7 11 (1.57%) Puppet
8 10 (1.43%) Istio
9 5 (0.71%) Argo
9 5 (0.71%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.57%) Avamar
10 4 (0.57%) Dell DRAC
10 4 (0.57%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (0.57%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.57%) VxRail
11 3 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 143 (20.40%) Google
2 92 (13.12%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.42%) Typelevel
4 34 (4.85%) Adobe
5 26 (3.71%) Databricks
6 25 (3.57%) Apple
7 24 (3.42%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.85%) Palantir
9 12 (1.71%) SAP
10 11 (1.57%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.57%) VMware
11 10 (1.43%) OpenAI
11 10 (1.43%) Oracle
12 8 (1.14%) Atlassian
12 8 (1.14%) Cisco
12 8 (1.14%) Confluent
12 8 (1.14%) Foundry
13 7 (1.00%) Dell
14 5 (0.71%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.71%) Okta