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

 6 months to
7 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 40 77
Rank change year-on-year -17 +37 -37
Permanent jobs citing GCP 698 972 1,253
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.80% 6.82% 3.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.06% 15.71% 8.95%
Number of salaries quoted 359 574 1,070
10th Percentile £52,775 £51,939 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £65,250 £60,125
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 £132,500 £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 6,936 6,188 14,006
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.78% 43.43% 43.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,709 4,627 12,010
10th Percentile £34,460 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,717 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,375 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,875 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.67% +5.87% -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 7 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 47 (6.73%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (4.01%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.29%) Confluence
4 6 (0.86%) Apache
5 4 (0.57%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.43%) CMS
6 3 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.43%) SAS
7 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.29%) WordPress
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Camunda
8 1 (0.14%) Drupal
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
8 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Strapi
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Notion
3 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (2.72%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.29%) Shopify
3 1 (0.14%) Magento
3 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 574 (82.23%) AWS
2 426 (61.03%) Azure
3 80 (11.46%) SaaS
4 60 (8.60%) Amazon EKS
5 31 (4.44%) Snowflake
6 30 (4.30%) dbt
6 30 (4.30%) Serverless
7 29 (4.15%) GitHub
8 24 (3.44%) Entra ID
8 24 (3.44%) Power Platform
8 24 (3.44%) Vertex AI
9 20 (2.87%) Google Analytics
10 19 (2.72%) Dagster
11 18 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (2.44%) Cloud Run
13 16 (2.29%) Azure Machine Learning
13 16 (2.29%) Figma
14 15 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (2.15%) Cloud Functions
15 14 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 89 (12.75%) Broadband
2 21 (3.01%) Network Security
3 20 (2.87%) Firewall
4 16 (2.29%) WAN
5 15 (2.15%) DNS
6 13 (1.86%) LAN
7 10 (1.43%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.29%) TCP/IP
9 8 (1.15%) Internet
9 8 (1.15%) VPN
10 7 (1.00%) LTE
10 7 (1.00%) SSL
11 5 (0.72%) DHCP
11 5 (0.72%) Wireless
12 4 (0.57%) MQTT
13 3 (0.43%) Modbus
13 3 (0.43%) MPLS
13 3 (0.43%) SCCP
13 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (0.43%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (12.89%) BigQuery
2 61 (8.74%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (6.16%) NoSQL
4 38 (5.44%) Metadata
5 35 (5.01%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (3.87%) Looker
7 25 (3.58%) MongoDB
8 22 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (3.01%) Tableau
10 20 (2.87%) Data Lake
11 19 (2.72%) Power BI
12 18 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (2.58%) Semantic Layer
13 16 (2.29%) Relational Database
14 10 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
14 10 (1.43%) Delta Lake
14 10 (1.43%) Pinecone
15 9 (1.29%) Weaviate
16 8 (1.15%) Redis
16 8 (1.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 48 (6.88%) TeamCity
2 40 (5.73%) Git
3 22 (3.15%) GitLab
4 19 (2.72%) JIRA
5 18 (2.58%) CircleCI
5 18 (2.58%) Jenkins
6 12 (1.72%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.72%) MLflow
7 7 (1.00%) Storybook
8 6 (0.86%) Subversion
9 5 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.29%) Maven
10 2 (0.29%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.29%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.29%) TestRail
10 2 (0.29%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.14%) git-flow
11 1 (0.14%) JMeter
11 1 (0.14%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 187 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 179 (25.64%) Finance
3 140 (20.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 139 (19.91%) Law
5 102 (14.61%) Banking
6 86 (12.32%) Retail
7 80 (11.46%) Public Sector
8 56 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
9 37 (5.30%) Back Office
9 37 (5.30%) Financial Institution
10 30 (4.30%) Legal
11 29 (4.15%) Telecoms
12 18 (2.58%) Marketing
12 18 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (2.44%) Front Office
14 13 (1.86%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
18 4 (0.57%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 207 (29.66%) Senior
2 148 (21.20%) Software Engineer
3 110 (15.76%) Architect
4 67 (9.60%) Lead
5 59 (8.45%) Developer
6 54 (7.74%) Data Engineer
7 48 (6.88%) Analyst
8 41 (5.87%) Consultant
9 40 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
10 34 (4.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 34 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
11 30 (4.30%) Data Architect
11 30 (4.30%) Scala Engineer
11 30 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
12 28 (4.01%) Lead Software Engineer
13 26 (3.72%) Senior Architect
13 26 (3.72%) Senior Consultant
14 23 (3.30%) Senior Analyst
15 22 (3.15%) Senior Manager
16 21 (3.01%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (13.04%) React
2 68 (9.74%) Node.js
3 65 (9.31%) Kafka
4 62 (8.88%) gRPC
5 35 (5.01%) REST
6 33 (4.73%) RESTful
7 30 (4.30%) Django
8 25 (3.58%) .NET
9 21 (3.01%) Redux
10 18 (2.58%) OAuth
10 18 (2.58%) React Native
10 18 (2.58%) Spring
10 18 (2.58%) Vue
11 17 (2.44%) PyTorch
11 17 (2.44%) TensorFlow
12 16 (2.29%) AngularJS
12 16 (2.29%) CSS
12 16 (2.29%) HTML
13 15 (2.15%) FastAPI
14 14 (2.01%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 178 (25.50%) Cloud Native
2 91 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (10.17%) Product Ownership
4 47 (6.73%) Video\Live Streaming
5 46 (6.59%) Over-the-Top Content
6 27 (3.87%) Distributed Architecture
7 25 (3.58%) Blog
7 25 (3.58%) Data Structures
7 25 (3.58%) Public Cloud
7 25 (3.58%) Security Posture
8 20 (2.87%) Onboarding
8 20 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (2.72%) Management Information System
10 17 (2.44%) Mobile App
10 17 (2.44%) Social Media
11 16 (2.29%) AI Agents
11 16 (2.29%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.29%) Cyberattack
14 8 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.87%) Linux
2 26 (3.72%) Android
3 18 (2.58%) Apple iOS
4 17 (2.44%) Windows
5 7 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.86%) Unix
7 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) Debian
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (40.83%) CI/CD
2 242 (34.67%) Software Engineering
3 201 (28.80%) Agile
4 176 (25.21%) DevOps
5 175 (25.07%) Mentoring
6 173 (24.79%) AI
7 172 (24.64%) Microservices
8 158 (22.64%) Containerisation
9 136 (19.48%) Roadmaps
10 133 (19.05%) Machine Learning
11 128 (18.34%) Clean Code
12 122 (17.48%) Coaching
13 114 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
13 114 (16.33%) Test Automation
14 111 (15.90%) Continuous Improvement
15 100 (14.33%) Infrastructure as Code
15 100 (14.33%) Technical Leadership
16 92 (13.18%) Analytics
17 90 (12.89%) Data Science
18 78 (11.17%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 252 (36.10%) Python
2 170 (24.36%) Java
3 122 (17.48%) Go
4 101 (14.47%) SQL
5 88 (12.61%) JavaScript
6 70 (10.03%) TypeScript
7 65 (9.31%) Scala
8 22 (3.15%) Bash
8 22 (3.15%) C++
9 21 (3.01%) C#
10 13 (1.86%) Rust
11 11 (1.58%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.00%) PHP
13 5 (0.72%) C
13 5 (0.72%) Ruby
14 3 (0.43%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.43%) Perl
15 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.29%) R
15 2 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 119 (17.05%) Degree
2 97 (13.90%) Security Cleared
3 80 (11.46%) SC Cleared
4 45 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (4.73%) AWS Certification
6 26 (3.72%) CISSP
7 23 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (2.15%) CREST Certified
8 15 (2.15%) OSCP
9 14 (2.01%) CISM
10 12 (1.72%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.43%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.86%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.86%) GIAC
14 5 (0.72%) CCIE
14 5 (0.72%) CCNP
14 5 (0.72%) CCSP
14 5 (0.72%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.87%) Accessibility
2 30 (4.30%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.30%) QA
3 26 (3.72%) NIST
4 25 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (3.30%) GDPR
6 18 (2.58%) GRC
7 10 (1.43%) SOC 2
8 8 (1.15%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.86%) NCSC
10 5 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.43%) PMO
11 3 (0.43%) SLA
12 2 (0.29%) COBIT
12 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.29%) SEPA
12 2 (0.29%) SOC 1
12 2 (0.29%) WCAG
13 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 173 (24.79%) Docker
2 13 (1.86%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.43%) vSphere
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 165 (23.64%) Kubernetes
2 155 (22.21%) Terraform
3 70 (10.03%) Grafana
4 44 (6.30%) Ansible
5 22 (3.15%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.72%) Podman
6 12 (1.72%) Puppet
7 9 (1.29%) Argo
7 9 (1.29%) Istio
8 5 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.43%) Avamar
10 3 (0.43%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (0.43%) EMC VPLEX
10 3 (0.43%) VxRail
11 2 (0.29%) cPanel
11 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 146 (20.92%) Google
2 84 (12.03%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.45%) Typelevel
4 29 (4.15%) Adobe
5 27 (3.87%) Databricks
6 21 (3.01%) Apple
7 19 (2.72%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.86%) Palantir
8 13 (1.86%) SAP
9 11 (1.58%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.58%) VMware
10 10 (1.43%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.43%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.15%) Cisco
11 8 (1.15%) Confluent
11 8 (1.15%) Foundry
11 8 (1.15%) Oracle
12 6 (0.86%) Dell
13 5 (0.72%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.72%) Okta
331 hybrid/remote GCP jobs