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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 62 65
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 -24
Permanent jobs citing GCP 813 817 959
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.34% 5.01% 4.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.31% 14.01% 10.02%
Number of salaries quoted 463 407 692
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% -4.74% +18.75%
75th Percentile £93,750 £136,250 £142,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £137,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

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 8,734 5,830 9,573
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.88% 35.74% 40.82%
Number of salaries quoted 6,411 4,200 6,586
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 18 September 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 12 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.23%) Apache
2 10 (1.23%) Apache Spark
3 8 (0.98%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.62%) Confluence
5 3 (0.37%) Camunda
5 3 (0.37%) WordPress
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Appian
6 1 (0.12%) CMS
6 1 (0.12%) Drupal
6 1 (0.12%) IIS
6 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.12%) nginx
6 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (1.85%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.25%) Weka
4 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (2.95%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 654 (80.44%) AWS
2 517 (63.59%) Azure
3 110 (13.53%) SaaS
4 69 (8.49%) Amazon EKS
5 38 (4.67%) GitHub
6 37 (4.55%) Power Platform
7 28 (3.44%) dbt
8 26 (3.20%) Cloud Run
9 25 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 24 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (2.95%) Serverless
11 23 (2.83%) Google Analytics
11 23 (2.83%) Snowflake
12 22 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (2.34%) Anthropic Claude
14 18 (2.21%) Firebase
15 17 (2.09%) Datadog
16 16 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
16 16 (1.97%) Cloud Functions
17 15 (1.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.17%) Broadband
2 36 (4.43%) Network Security
3 19 (2.34%) TCP/IP
4 18 (2.21%) Firewall
5 14 (1.72%) WAN
6 10 (1.23%) VPN
7 9 (1.11%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.74%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (0.74%) HTTP
8 6 (0.74%) iSCSI
8 6 (0.74%) LAN
9 5 (0.62%) BGP
9 5 (0.62%) DNS
10 4 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.49%) LTE
10 4 (0.49%) SSH
11 3 (0.37%) Internet
11 3 (0.37%) MPLS
11 3 (0.37%) OSPF
11 3 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (7.87%) BigQuery
2 52 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (4.31%) NoSQL
3 35 (4.31%) Power BI
4 26 (3.20%) Looker
5 24 (2.95%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.71%) MongoDB
7 20 (2.46%) Semantic Layer
8 18 (2.21%) Data Lake
8 18 (2.21%) Metadata
9 17 (2.09%) Pinecone
9 17 (2.09%) Relational Database
9 17 (2.09%) Tableau
10 16 (1.97%) Chroma
11 10 (1.23%) MySQL
12 9 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.86%) Metadata Repository
14 5 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.62%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 70 (8.61%) TeamCity
2 51 (6.27%) Git
3 42 (5.17%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.60%) JIRA
5 9 (1.11%) GitLab
6 7 (0.86%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.74%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.62%) JUnit
9 4 (0.49%) Maven
10 3 (0.37%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.37%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.37%) Mockito
10 3 (0.37%) Postman
10 3 (0.37%) Selenium
10 3 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.25%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.25%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.25%) ERwin
11 2 (0.25%) MLflow
11 2 (0.25%) Subversion
General
1 242 (29.77%) Social Skills
2 227 (27.92%) Finance
3 201 (24.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 156 (19.19%) Law
5 142 (17.47%) Banking
6 117 (14.39%) Retail
7 93 (11.44%) Public Sector
8 74 (9.10%) Analytical Skills
9 65 (8.00%) Back Office
10 64 (7.87%) Financial Institution
11 38 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (3.57%) Marketing
13 23 (2.83%) Legal
14 7 (0.86%) Advertising
14 7 (0.86%) French Language
14 7 (0.86%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.62%) Games
15 5 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.49%) Front Office
17 3 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 230 (28.29%) Senior
2 188 (23.12%) Software Engineer
3 139 (17.10%) Architect
4 73 (8.98%) Lead
5 67 (8.24%) Cloud Engineer
6 60 (7.38%) Analyst
7 51 (6.27%) Python Engineer
8 46 (5.66%) GCP Engineer
9 41 (5.04%) Developer
10 39 (4.80%) Data Engineer
11 35 (4.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 33 (4.06%) Senior Analyst
12 33 (4.06%) Senior Software Engineer
12 33 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
13 30 (3.69%) Senior Architect
14 29 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 28 (3.44%) Site Engineer
16 27 (3.32%) Consultant
16 27 (3.32%) Lead Software Engineer
16 27 (3.32%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 210 (25.83%) Terraform
2 66 (8.12%) React
3 48 (5.90%) Node.js
4 42 (5.17%) LangChain
5 41 (5.04%) REST
6 35 (4.31%) .NET
7 28 (3.44%) Spring
8 26 (3.20%) LangGraph
8 26 (3.20%) PyTorch
9 22 (2.71%) Kafka
9 22 (2.71%) OAuth
9 22 (2.71%) RESTful
10 21 (2.58%) Middleware
10 21 (2.58%) Spring Boot
10 21 (2.58%) TensorFlow
11 20 (2.46%) FastAPI
12 18 (2.21%) OpenID
12 18 (2.21%) scikit-learn
13 17 (2.09%) LlamaIndex
13 17 (2.09%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 227 (27.92%) Cloud Native
2 93 (11.44%) Product Ownership
3 76 (9.35%) Distributed Systems
4 55 (6.77%) AI Agents
5 27 (3.32%) Blog
5 27 (3.32%) Distributed Architecture
6 19 (2.34%) Public Cloud
6 19 (2.34%) Security Posture
7 17 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.72%) Data Centre
9 14 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
10 13 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.60%) Social Media
11 11 (1.35%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.35%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.23%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.23%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.90%) Linux
2 18 (2.21%) Unix
3 15 (1.85%) Windows
4 10 (1.23%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.74%) Android
5 6 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.12%) CentOS
7 1 (0.12%) Debian
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (41.21%) CI/CD
2 294 (36.16%) Software Engineering
3 267 (32.84%) Mentoring
4 265 (32.60%) AI
5 206 (25.34%) Agile
6 190 (23.37%) DevOps
7 149 (18.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 148 (18.20%) Technical Leadership
9 139 (17.10%) Continuous Improvement
10 137 (16.85%) Microservices
11 135 (16.61%) Test Automation
12 134 (16.48%) Roadmaps
13 121 (14.88%) Machine Learning
13 121 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
14 117 (14.39%) Observability
15 110 (13.53%) Clean Code
16 106 (13.04%) Coaching
16 106 (13.04%) Containerisation
17 104 (12.79%) Analytics
18 98 (12.05%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 273 (33.58%) Python
2 183 (22.51%) Java
3 134 (16.48%) SQL
4 78 (9.59%) JavaScript
5 55 (6.77%) TypeScript
6 52 (6.40%) Go
7 39 (4.80%) C#
8 23 (2.83%) Bash
9 21 (2.58%) Scala
10 19 (2.34%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.35%) R
11 11 (1.35%) Rust
12 9 (1.11%) C++
13 6 (0.74%) Ruby
14 5 (0.62%) PHP
15 4 (0.49%) C
15 4 (0.49%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.49%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.37%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 130 (15.99%) Security Cleared
2 112 (13.78%) SC Cleared
3 105 (12.92%) Degree
4 55 (6.77%) AWS Certification
5 32 (3.94%) CISSP
6 29 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (3.20%) CISM
8 24 (2.95%) Azure Certification
9 21 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.35%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.98%) CREST Certified
13 8 (0.98%) OSCP
14 7 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (0.86%) CCSP
15 6 (0.74%) Dell Certification
16 5 (0.62%) CRISC
16 5 (0.62%) GIAC
16 5 (0.62%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (7.75%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.80%) NIST
3 37 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (3.32%) Accessibility
5 25 (3.08%) NCSC
6 21 (2.58%) GDPR
7 16 (1.97%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 11 (1.35%) QA
9 9 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (1.11%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.74%) GRC
10 6 (0.74%) PMO
10 6 (0.74%) SLA
11 5 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.49%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.49%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 144 (17.71%) Docker
2 9 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.98%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.74%) vSphere
5 5 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.37%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.37%) Firmware
7 2 (0.25%) KVM
Systems Management
1 214 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 97 (11.93%) Grafana
3 33 (4.06%) Ansible
4 19 (2.34%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.23%) Puppet
6 7 (0.86%) Istio
6 7 (0.86%) Podman
7 6 (0.74%) Avamar
7 6 (0.74%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.74%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.74%) VxRail
8 5 (0.62%) CASB
8 5 (0.62%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.37%) Argo
10 3 (0.37%) linkerd
11 2 (0.25%) Packer
12 1 (0.12%) QRadar
12 1 (0.12%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 167 (20.54%) Google
2 104 (12.79%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.06%) Adobe
4 28 (3.44%) ServiceNow
5 25 (3.08%) Apple
6 21 (2.58%) Databricks
7 17 (2.09%) Dynatrace
8 16 (1.97%) Okta
9 15 (1.85%) Informatica
9 15 (1.85%) OpenAI
9 15 (1.85%) Ping Identity
9 15 (1.85%) Splunk
10 12 (1.48%) SAP
10 12 (1.48%) VMware
11 10 (1.23%) New Relic
11 10 (1.23%) Oracle
12 9 (1.11%) Cisco
12 9 (1.11%) Typelevel
13 8 (0.98%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.86%) Dell