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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 67 61
Rank change year-on-year -7 -6 -19
Permanent jobs citing GCP 838 784 963
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.36% 4.68% 4.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.56% 13.71% 10.32%
Number of salaries quoted 483 376 671
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% - +19.30%
75th Percentile £95,000 £136,250 £142,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £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 8,767 5,717 9,330
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.15% 34.09% 41.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6,423 4,060 6,164
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,000
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 30 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 15 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (1.43%) Apache
3 11 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.95%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.48%) Confluence
6 3 (0.36%) Camunda
7 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.24%) WordPress
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.12%) Appian
8 1 (0.12%) CMS
8 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (1.79%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.24%) Weka
4 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (2.86%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 670 (79.95%) AWS
2 525 (62.65%) Azure
3 121 (14.44%) SaaS
4 78 (9.31%) Amazon EKS
5 43 (5.13%) GitHub
6 38 (4.53%) Power Platform
7 31 (3.70%) dbt
8 28 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
9 26 (3.10%) Cloud Run
10 25 (2.98%) Snowflake
11 24 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
12 23 (2.74%) Serverless
13 22 (2.63%) Google Analytics
14 20 (2.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 19 (2.27%) Anthropic Claude
16 18 (2.15%) Datadog
16 18 (2.15%) Firebase
17 17 (2.03%) Cloud Functions
18 14 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.53%) Network Security
2 33 (3.94%) Broadband
3 23 (2.74%) TCP/IP
4 18 (2.15%) Firewall
5 13 (1.55%) VPN
6 12 (1.43%) WAN
7 10 (1.19%) BGP
8 8 (0.95%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.72%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (0.72%) HTTP
9 6 (0.72%) iSCSI
10 4 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.48%) LAN
10 4 (0.48%) SSH
11 3 (0.36%) DNS
11 3 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
11 3 (0.36%) Internet
11 3 (0.36%) LTE
11 3 (0.36%) VLAN
11 3 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (8.00%) BigQuery
2 62 (7.40%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (4.30%) Power BI
4 35 (4.18%) NoSQL
5 34 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (3.46%) Looker
7 26 (3.10%) SQL Server
8 23 (2.74%) MongoDB
9 21 (2.51%) Data Lake
9 21 (2.51%) Metadata
9 21 (2.51%) Semantic Layer
10 17 (2.03%) Pinecone
10 17 (2.03%) Tableau
11 16 (1.91%) Chroma
12 15 (1.79%) Relational Database
13 10 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (1.19%) MySQL
14 9 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.84%) Metadata Repository
15 7 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 84 (10.02%) TeamCity
2 52 (6.21%) Git
3 45 (5.37%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.43%) GitLab
5 10 (1.19%) JIRA
6 7 (0.84%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.72%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.60%) JUnit
9 4 (0.48%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.48%) Maven
10 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.36%) Mockito
10 3 (0.36%) Postman
10 3 (0.36%) Selenium
10 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.24%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.24%) ERwin
11 2 (0.24%) MLflow
11 2 (0.24%) Subversion
General
1 257 (30.67%) Social Skills
2 239 (28.52%) Finance
3 218 (26.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 171 (20.41%) Law
5 161 (19.21%) Banking
6 134 (15.99%) Retail
7 96 (11.46%) Public Sector
8 80 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
9 73 (8.71%) Back Office
10 72 (8.59%) Financial Institution
11 39 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
12 38 (4.53%) Marketing
13 23 (2.74%) Legal
14 11 (1.31%) Front Office
15 8 (0.95%) Advertising
15 8 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.84%) French Language
17 6 (0.72%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.60%) Games
19 3 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 238 (28.40%) Senior
2 194 (23.15%) Software Engineer
3 139 (16.59%) Architect
4 81 (9.67%) Lead
5 69 (8.23%) Cloud Engineer
6 64 (7.64%) Analyst
7 58 (6.92%) Python Engineer
8 53 (6.32%) GCP Engineer
9 47 (5.61%) Developer
10 44 (5.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 41 (4.89%) Data Engineer
12 34 (4.06%) Senior Software Engineer
13 33 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
14 32 (3.82%) Lead Software Engineer
14 32 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
15 29 (3.46%) Senior Architect
15 29 (3.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 28 (3.34%) Data Architect
16 28 (3.34%) Security Architect
16 28 (3.34%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (26.85%) Terraform
2 64 (7.64%) React
3 49 (5.85%) LangChain
4 47 (5.61%) Node.js
5 39 (4.65%) REST
6 37 (4.42%) .NET
7 32 (3.82%) LangGraph
8 28 (3.34%) Spring
9 26 (3.10%) PyTorch
9 26 (3.10%) RESTful
10 23 (2.74%) Middleware
11 22 (2.63%) Kafka
12 21 (2.51%) FastAPI
12 21 (2.51%) Spring Boot
12 21 (2.51%) TensorFlow
13 19 (2.27%) OAuth
14 18 (2.15%) scikit-learn
15 17 (2.03%) LlamaIndex
15 17 (2.03%) OAuth2
15 17 (2.03%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 241 (28.76%) Cloud Native
2 91 (10.86%) Product Ownership
3 73 (8.71%) Distributed Systems
4 61 (7.28%) AI Agents
5 35 (4.18%) Blog
6 24 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
7 21 (2.51%) Security Posture
8 19 (2.27%) Public Cloud
9 15 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.67%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.67%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.67%) Social Media
11 13 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.55%) Hedge funds
12 12 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (1.31%) Mobile App
13 11 (1.31%) Replication
14 10 (1.19%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.37%) Linux
2 18 (2.15%) Unix
3 14 (1.67%) Windows
4 13 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.84%) Android
6 5 (0.60%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.60%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) CentOS
7 1 (0.12%) Debian
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (40.81%) CI/CD
2 292 (34.84%) Software Engineering
3 283 (33.77%) AI
4 276 (32.94%) Mentoring
5 208 (24.82%) Agile
6 191 (22.79%) DevOps
7 155 (18.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 148 (17.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 146 (17.42%) Technical Leadership
10 139 (16.59%) Test Automation
11 136 (16.23%) Microservices
12 126 (15.04%) Roadmaps
13 125 (14.92%) Observability
13 125 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
14 118 (14.08%) Machine Learning
15 110 (13.13%) Analytics
16 104 (12.41%) Clean Code
17 100 (11.93%) Deployment Automation
18 98 (11.69%) Coaching
18 98 (11.69%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 293 (34.96%) Python
2 200 (23.87%) Java
3 147 (17.54%) SQL
4 76 (9.07%) JavaScript
5 60 (7.16%) TypeScript
6 51 (6.09%) Go
7 40 (4.77%) C#
8 28 (3.34%) Bash
9 20 (2.39%) R
10 18 (2.15%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.67%) Scala
12 12 (1.43%) Rust
13 10 (1.19%) C++
14 6 (0.72%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.60%) C
15 5 (0.60%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.60%) Ruby
16 4 (0.48%) PHP
17 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
18 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 130 (15.51%) Security Cleared
2 115 (13.72%) SC Cleared
3 103 (12.29%) Degree
4 54 (6.44%) AWS Certification
5 33 (3.94%) CISSP
6 28 (3.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 28 (3.34%) CISM
7 23 (2.74%) Azure Certification
8 18 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.31%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (1.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 9 (1.07%) CCSP
11 9 (1.07%) CREST Certified
12 8 (0.95%) OSCP
13 6 (0.72%) Dell Certification
13 6 (0.72%) GIAC
13 6 (0.72%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.60%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 42 (5.01%) NIST
3 24 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 24 (2.86%) GDPR
3 24 (2.86%) NCSC
4 16 (1.91%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 15 (1.79%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.19%) QA
7 9 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.72%) PMO
9 5 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.60%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.48%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.48%) GRC
10 4 (0.48%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.48%) SLA
11 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
System Software
1 140 (16.71%) Docker
2 9 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.95%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.72%) vSphere
5 2 (0.24%) Firmware
5 2 (0.24%) KVM
6 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 236 (28.16%) Kubernetes
2 110 (13.13%) Grafana
3 32 (3.82%) Ansible
4 23 (2.74%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.95%) Puppet
6 7 (0.84%) Istio
6 7 (0.84%) Podman
7 6 (0.72%) Avamar
7 6 (0.72%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.72%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.72%) VxRail
8 5 (0.60%) Argo
8 5 (0.60%) CASB
9 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.36%) Cilium
10 3 (0.36%) linkerd
10 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.12%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 184 (21.96%) Google
2 99 (11.81%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.06%) Adobe
4 28 (3.34%) ServiceNow
5 25 (2.98%) Apple
6 21 (2.51%) Databricks
7 17 (2.03%) Dynatrace
8 16 (1.91%) OpenAI
8 16 (1.91%) Splunk
9 15 (1.79%) Informatica
9 15 (1.79%) Okta
9 15 (1.79%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.43%) New Relic
10 12 (1.43%) VMware
11 11 (1.31%) Oracle
11 11 (1.31%) SAP
12 8 (0.95%) Cisco
13 7 (0.84%) Palo Alto
13 7 (0.84%) Veeam
14 6 (0.72%) Nimble Storage