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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 47 75
Rank change year-on-year -22 +28 -39
Permanent jobs citing GCP 756 937 1,205
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.65% 5.90% 3.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.53% 15.62% 8.49%
Number of salaries quoted 390 496 1,007
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £49,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +3.34% +6.42%
75th Percentile £93,750 £112,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £137,500 £159,399
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.83% +0.63% -

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 7,930 5,998 14,186
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.27% 37.75% 42.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,674 4,404 11,780
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,644 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

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 1 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 33 (4.37%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.66%) Apache
4 4 (0.53%) Confluence
5 3 (0.40%) CMS
5 3 (0.40%) SAS
6 2 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.26%) Camunda
6 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.26%) WordPress
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%) 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%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (3.17%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.26%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 609 (80.56%) AWS
2 449 (59.39%) Azure
3 89 (11.77%) SaaS
4 70 (9.26%) Amazon EKS
5 30 (3.97%) Serverless
6 29 (3.84%) Cloud Run
7 28 (3.70%) Power Platform
8 25 (3.31%) Snowflake
9 24 (3.17%) dbt
9 24 (3.17%) GitHub
10 23 (3.04%) Vertex AI
11 20 (2.65%) Cloud Functions
12 19 (2.51%) Google Analytics
13 18 (2.38%) Entra ID
13 18 (2.38%) PaaS
14 17 (2.25%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (2.12%) Dagster
16 15 (1.98%) Anthropic Claude
16 15 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 100 (13.23%) Broadband
2 28 (3.70%) Network Security
3 17 (2.25%) Firewall
4 16 (2.12%) WAN
5 12 (1.59%) LAN
6 11 (1.46%) DNS
7 9 (1.19%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.19%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.19%) VPN
8 8 (1.06%) LTE
9 7 (0.93%) Internet
10 6 (0.79%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (0.79%) iSCSI
11 5 (0.66%) DHCP
11 5 (0.66%) MQTT
12 3 (0.40%) BGP
12 3 (0.40%) Modbus
12 3 (0.40%) MPLS
12 3 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (11.51%) BigQuery
2 60 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (4.63%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (4.50%) Metadata
5 32 (4.23%) NoSQL
6 28 (3.70%) Semantic Layer
7 27 (3.57%) MongoDB
8 25 (3.31%) Looker
9 24 (3.17%) Power BI
10 23 (3.04%) Data Lake
11 19 (2.51%) Relational Database
12 18 (2.38%) Pinecone
13 15 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
13 15 (1.98%) Tableau
14 11 (1.46%) SQL Server
15 7 (0.93%) Delta Lake
15 7 (0.93%) Weaviate
16 6 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.79%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 57 (7.54%) TeamCity
2 44 (5.82%) Git
3 35 (4.63%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.85%) CircleCI
4 14 (1.85%) JIRA
5 12 (1.59%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.32%) GitLab
7 7 (0.93%) MLflow
8 3 (0.40%) Postman
8 3 (0.40%) Selenium
9 2 (0.26%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.26%) JUnit
9 2 (0.26%) Subversion
9 2 (0.26%) TestRail
9 2 (0.26%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.13%) Gatling
10 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.13%) webpack
General
1 196 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 192 (25.40%) Finance
3 172 (22.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 151 (19.97%) Law
5 115 (15.21%) Banking
6 95 (12.57%) Retail
7 89 (11.77%) Public Sector
8 49 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
9 45 (5.95%) Back Office
9 45 (5.95%) Financial Institution
10 25 (3.31%) Legal
10 25 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (2.12%) Front Office
12 10 (1.32%) Marketing
13 8 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.93%) Legal Technology
15 5 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.66%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.66%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.53%) French Language
Job Titles
1 211 (27.91%) Senior
2 161 (21.30%) Software Engineer
3 130 (17.20%) Architect
4 64 (8.47%) Developer
4 64 (8.47%) Lead
5 61 (8.07%) Cloud Engineer
6 55 (7.28%) Data Engineer
7 54 (7.14%) Analyst
8 39 (5.16%) Solutions Architect
9 38 (5.03%) Consultant
10 36 (4.76%) GCP Engineer
11 34 (4.50%) Senior Software Engineer
12 33 (4.37%) Lead Software Engineer
13 31 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
14 30 (3.97%) Scala Engineer
14 30 (3.97%) Senior Architect
15 29 (3.84%) Data Architect
16 27 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 27 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 26 (3.44%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (10.32%) React
2 64 (8.47%) Node.js
3 50 (6.61%) gRPC
3 50 (6.61%) Kafka
4 33 (4.37%) LangChain
5 32 (4.23%) REST
6 29 (3.84%) Django
7 25 (3.31%) .NET
8 24 (3.17%) PyTorch
8 24 (3.17%) TensorFlow
9 21 (2.78%) FastAPI
9 21 (2.78%) LangGraph
9 21 (2.78%) RESTful
9 21 (2.78%) Spring
10 18 (2.38%) Spring Boot
11 17 (2.25%) Redux
11 17 (2.25%) Vue
12 15 (1.98%) AngularJS
13 14 (1.85%) OAuth
13 14 (1.85%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 208 (27.51%) Cloud Native
2 82 (10.85%) Product Ownership
3 81 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (6.08%) Over-the-Top Content
4 46 (6.08%) Video\Live Streaming
5 34 (4.50%) AI Agents
6 28 (3.70%) Security Posture
7 27 (3.57%) Public Cloud
8 26 (3.44%) Blog
9 23 (3.04%) Data Structures
9 23 (3.04%) Distributed Architecture
10 20 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (2.51%) Management Information System
11 19 (2.51%) Onboarding
12 17 (2.25%) Social Media
13 16 (2.12%) Fixed Income
14 11 (1.46%) Data Centre
14 11 (1.46%) Mobile App
15 10 (1.32%) Cyberattack
16 9 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.16%) Linux
2 16 (2.12%) Windows
3 11 (1.46%) Android
3 11 (1.46%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.93%) Unix
6 1 (0.13%) CentOS
6 1 (0.13%) Debian
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (41.40%) CI/CD
2 275 (36.38%) Software Engineering
3 226 (29.89%) Agile
4 221 (29.23%) Mentoring
5 206 (27.25%) AI
6 170 (22.49%) DevOps
7 162 (21.43%) Microservices
8 154 (20.37%) Containerisation
9 146 (19.31%) Roadmaps
10 142 (18.78%) Machine Learning
11 140 (18.52%) Test Automation
12 135 (17.86%) Clean Code
12 135 (17.86%) Coaching
13 128 (16.93%) Technical Leadership
14 116 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 116 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
15 101 (13.36%) Infrastructure as Code
16 91 (12.04%) Data Science
17 83 (10.98%) Analytics
18 78 (10.32%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 282 (37.30%) Python
2 183 (24.21%) Java
3 109 (14.42%) SQL
4 96 (12.70%) Go
4 96 (12.70%) JavaScript
5 64 (8.47%) Scala
6 61 (8.07%) TypeScript
7 22 (2.91%) C#
8 19 (2.51%) Bash
9 15 (1.98%) C++
10 14 (1.85%) Rust
11 9 (1.19%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.66%) C
12 5 (0.66%) Ruby
13 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.53%) PHP
14 3 (0.40%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.40%) Perl
15 2 (0.26%) ABAP
15 2 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 108 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 101 (13.36%) Degree
3 88 (11.64%) SC Cleared
4 42 (5.56%) AWS Certification
5 36 (4.76%) CISSP
6 29 (3.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (2.78%) CISM
9 18 (2.38%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.72%) CREST Certified
10 13 (1.72%) OSCP
11 11 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.32%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.93%) GIAC
14 6 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.79%) CCSP
14 6 (0.79%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.79%) Dell Certification
14 6 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 38 (5.03%) NIST
3 32 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (3.70%) Accessibility
5 26 (3.44%) QA
6 20 (2.65%) GDPR
7 15 (1.98%) GRC
8 14 (1.85%) NCSC
9 11 (1.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (1.06%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.79%) PMO
11 6 (0.79%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.53%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.53%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.40%) SLA
14 2 (0.26%) COBIT
14 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 163 (21.56%) Docker
2 13 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.93%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.79%) vSphere
5 1 (0.13%) Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 170 (22.49%) Kubernetes
2 157 (20.77%) Terraform
3 73 (9.66%) Grafana
4 33 (4.37%) Ansible
5 14 (1.85%) Istio
6 13 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.72%) Puppet
7 12 (1.59%) Podman
8 6 (0.79%) Avamar
8 6 (0.79%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.79%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.79%) VxRail
9 5 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.53%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.40%) Argo
12 2 (0.26%) linkerd
12 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.13%) CASB
Vendors
1 144 (19.05%) Google
2 98 (12.96%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.95%) Typelevel
4 30 (3.97%) Adobe
5 24 (3.17%) Apple
5 24 (3.17%) Databricks
5 24 (3.17%) ServiceNow
6 16 (2.12%) SAP
7 14 (1.85%) VMware
8 13 (1.72%) Oracle
9 9 (1.19%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.06%) Confluent
10 8 (1.06%) Dell
10 8 (1.06%) Okta
10 8 (1.06%) Palantir
10 8 (1.06%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.93%) Cisco
11 7 (0.93%) ForgeRock
11 7 (0.93%) Splunk
11 7 (0.93%) Veeam