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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 53 74
Rank change year-on-year -16 +21 -39
Permanent jobs citing GCP 782 898 1,025
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.60% 5.45% 3.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.26% 14.82% 8.79%
Number of salaries quoted 428 468 844
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,593 £67,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £90,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% -6.06% +13.44%
75th Percentile £93,750 £125,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -3.03% +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 8,447 6,060 11,661
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.92% 36.80% 41.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,035 4,472 9,464
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,614 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 24 July 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 24 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.77%) Apache
4 4 (0.51%) Confluence
5 3 (0.38%) CMS
5 3 (0.38%) SAS
6 2 (0.26%) Camunda
6 2 (0.26%) WordPress
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.13%) Appian
7 1 (0.13%) Drupal
7 1 (0.13%) IIS
7 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.13%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (3.07%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.26%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 625 (79.92%) AWS
2 472 (60.36%) Azure
3 79 (10.10%) SaaS
4 60 (7.67%) Amazon EKS
5 32 (4.09%) Cloud Run
6 30 (3.84%) GitHub
7 29 (3.71%) Serverless
8 28 (3.58%) dbt
9 26 (3.32%) Power Platform
10 24 (3.07%) Snowflake
11 22 (2.81%) Cloud Functions
12 20 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (2.43%) Anthropic Claude
13 19 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (2.43%) Google Analytics
13 19 (2.43%) PaaS
14 18 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (2.17%) Entra ID
15 17 (2.17%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 98 (12.53%) Broadband
2 30 (3.84%) Network Security
3 17 (2.17%) Firewall
4 16 (2.05%) WAN
5 15 (1.92%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.41%) DNS
6 11 (1.41%) LAN
7 9 (1.15%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.15%) VPN
8 8 (1.02%) LTE
9 7 (0.90%) Internet
10 6 (0.77%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (0.77%) iSCSI
11 5 (0.64%) DHCP
11 5 (0.64%) MQTT
12 4 (0.51%) HTTP
12 4 (0.51%) SSH
13 3 (0.38%) MPLS
13 3 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (10.10%) BigQuery
2 56 (7.16%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (3.96%) NoSQL
5 28 (3.58%) MongoDB
6 25 (3.20%) Data Lake
6 25 (3.20%) Semantic Layer
7 24 (3.07%) Power BI
8 21 (2.69%) Looker
9 20 (2.56%) Metadata
10 18 (2.30%) Pinecone
10 18 (2.30%) Relational Database
11 17 (2.17%) SQL Server
12 14 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.28%) Tableau
14 9 (1.15%) Redis
15 8 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (0.90%) MySQL
17 6 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
17 6 (0.77%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 49 (6.27%) Git
1 49 (6.27%) TeamCity
2 41 (5.24%) Jenkins
3 15 (1.92%) JIRA
4 13 (1.66%) Cypress.io
5 12 (1.53%) CircleCI
6 10 (1.28%) GitLab
7 3 (0.38%) MLflow
7 3 (0.38%) Postman
7 3 (0.38%) Selenium
7 3 (0.38%) TestRail
7 3 (0.38%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.26%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.26%) JUnit
8 2 (0.26%) Subversion
8 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.13%) Gatling
9 1 (0.13%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
General
1 211 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 203 (25.96%) Finance
3 170 (21.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 138 (17.65%) Law
5 109 (13.94%) Banking
6 84 (10.74%) Retail
7 80 (10.23%) Public Sector
8 57 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
9 41 (5.24%) Back Office
9 41 (5.24%) Financial Institution
10 30 (3.84%) Presentation Skills
11 24 (3.07%) Legal
12 16 (2.05%) Front Office
12 16 (2.05%) Marketing
13 7 (0.90%) Legal Technology
13 7 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.64%) Advertising
15 5 (0.64%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.51%) French Language
Job Titles
1 220 (28.13%) Senior
2 173 (22.12%) Software Engineer
3 120 (15.35%) Architect
4 78 (9.97%) Lead
5 64 (8.18%) Cloud Engineer
6 63 (8.06%) Developer
7 53 (6.78%) Data Engineer
8 50 (6.39%) Analyst
9 43 (5.50%) GCP Engineer
10 38 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
11 34 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
11 34 (4.35%) Python Engineer
12 32 (4.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 32 (4.09%) Consultant
12 32 (4.09%) Senior Analyst
12 32 (4.09%) Senior Software Engineer
13 31 (3.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 30 (3.84%) Scala Engineer
15 27 (3.45%) Senior Architect
16 24 (3.07%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (10.87%) React
2 63 (8.06%) Node.js
3 49 (6.27%) gRPC
4 45 (5.75%) Kafka
5 40 (5.12%) REST
6 37 (4.73%) LangChain
7 27 (3.45%) .NET
7 27 (3.45%) Django
8 23 (2.94%) FastAPI
8 23 (2.94%) LangGraph
8 23 (2.94%) Spring
9 22 (2.81%) OAuth
10 20 (2.56%) PyTorch
10 20 (2.56%) TensorFlow
11 19 (2.43%) Spring Boot
12 18 (2.30%) OpenID
12 18 (2.30%) RESTful
13 17 (2.17%) AngularJS
13 17 (2.17%) Vue
14 16 (2.05%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 209 (26.73%) Cloud Native
2 92 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (10.23%) Product Ownership
4 48 (6.14%) Video\Live Streaming
5 46 (5.88%) Over-the-Top Content
6 40 (5.12%) AI Agents
7 24 (3.07%) Security Posture
8 22 (2.81%) Distributed Architecture
9 21 (2.69%) Data Structures
10 19 (2.43%) Blog
10 19 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (2.30%) Management Information System
11 18 (2.30%) Onboarding
11 18 (2.30%) Public Cloud
12 17 (2.17%) Social Media
13 16 (2.05%) Fixed Income
14 13 (1.66%) Mobile App
15 11 (1.41%) Data Centre
15 11 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
16 9 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.88%) Linux
2 18 (2.30%) Windows
3 14 (1.79%) Unix
4 9 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.90%) Android
5 7 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) CentOS
6 1 (0.13%) Debian
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (42.33%) CI/CD
2 291 (37.21%) Software Engineering
3 226 (28.90%) Mentoring
4 222 (28.39%) Agile
5 220 (28.13%) AI
6 177 (22.63%) DevOps
7 163 (20.84%) Microservices
8 159 (20.33%) Containerisation
9 146 (18.67%) Machine Learning
10 139 (17.77%) Roadmaps
11 134 (17.14%) Test Automation
12 131 (16.75%) Technical Leadership
13 130 (16.62%) Infrastructure as Code
14 127 (16.24%) Clean Code
14 127 (16.24%) Coaching
15 124 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
16 118 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
17 94 (12.02%) Observability
18 93 (11.89%) Data Science
19 91 (11.64%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 302 (38.62%) Python
2 167 (21.36%) Java
3 115 (14.71%) SQL
4 101 (12.92%) JavaScript
5 96 (12.28%) Go
6 61 (7.80%) Scala
7 58 (7.42%) TypeScript
8 28 (3.58%) C#
9 20 (2.56%) Bash
10 16 (2.05%) C++
10 16 (2.05%) Rust
11 12 (1.53%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.77%) C
13 5 (0.64%) Ruby
14 4 (0.51%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.51%) PHP
15 3 (0.38%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.38%) Perl
15 3 (0.38%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.26%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 117 (14.96%) Security Cleared
2 105 (13.43%) Degree
3 99 (12.66%) SC Cleared
4 44 (5.63%) AWS Certification
5 35 (4.48%) CISSP
6 29 (3.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (2.94%) CISM
7 23 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (2.17%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.41%) CREST Certified
10 11 (1.41%) OSCP
11 9 (1.15%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.77%) CCSP
12 6 (0.77%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.77%) Dell Certification
12 6 (0.77%) GIAC
13 5 (0.64%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.60%) NIST
3 31 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 29 (3.71%) Accessibility
5 25 (3.20%) QA
6 20 (2.56%) GDPR
7 18 (2.30%) NCSC
8 14 (1.79%) GRC
9 13 (1.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 7 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.90%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.77%) PMO
12 4 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.51%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.51%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.38%) SLA
14 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 186 (23.79%) Docker
2 14 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.77%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.77%) vSphere
6 2 (0.26%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 181 (23.15%) Kubernetes
2 174 (22.25%) Terraform
3 71 (9.08%) Grafana
4 35 (4.48%) Ansible
5 17 (2.17%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.92%) Istio
7 14 (1.79%) Puppet
8 13 (1.66%) Podman
9 6 (0.77%) Avamar
9 6 (0.77%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.77%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.77%) VxRail
10 5 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.64%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.51%) CASB
11 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.38%) linkerd
13 2 (0.26%) Argo
13 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 144 (18.41%) Google
2 99 (12.66%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.75%) Typelevel
4 27 (3.45%) Adobe
5 25 (3.20%) ServiceNow
6 24 (3.07%) Apple
7 20 (2.56%) Databricks
8 16 (2.05%) Okta
9 15 (1.92%) SAP
9 15 (1.92%) VMware
10 12 (1.53%) Oracle
10 12 (1.53%) Ping Identity
11 10 (1.28%) Informatica
12 9 (1.15%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.15%) ForgeRock
12 9 (1.15%) Splunk
13 8 (1.02%) Confluent
13 8 (1.02%) Dell
14 7 (0.90%) Cisco
14 7 (0.90%) Veeam