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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 66 58
Rank change year-on-year -7 -8 -17
Permanent jobs citing GCP 843 792 983
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.40% 4.79% 4.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.62% 13.71% 10.35%
Number of salaries quoted 482 384 686
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% - +18.75%
75th Percentile £94,750 £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 8,763 5,777 9,500
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.36% 34.97% 41.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6,432 4,127 6,358
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 26 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 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (1.42%) Apache
3 10 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.95%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.47%) Confluence
6 3 (0.36%) Camunda
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 (1.78%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.47%) 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 (2.85%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 676 (80.19%) AWS
2 526 (62.40%) Azure
3 122 (14.47%) SaaS
4 75 (8.90%) Amazon EKS
5 40 (4.74%) GitHub
6 38 (4.51%) Power Platform
7 31 (3.68%) dbt
8 26 (3.08%) Cloud Run
8 26 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (3.08%) Snowflake
9 24 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (2.73%) Google Analytics
10 23 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (2.73%) Serverless
11 19 (2.25%) Anthropic Claude
11 19 (2.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 18 (2.14%) Datadog
12 18 (2.14%) Firebase
13 17 (2.02%) Cloud Functions
14 14 (1.66%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (4.98%) Broadband
2 38 (4.51%) Network Security
3 22 (2.61%) TCP/IP
4 17 (2.02%) Firewall
5 12 (1.42%) VPN
5 12 (1.42%) WAN
6 9 (1.07%) BGP
7 8 (0.95%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.71%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (0.71%) HTTP
8 6 (0.71%) iSCSI
9 4 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.47%) LAN
9 4 (0.47%) SSH
10 3 (0.36%) DNS
10 3 (0.36%) Internet
10 3 (0.36%) LTE
10 3 (0.36%) MPLS
10 3 (0.36%) OSPF
10 3 (0.36%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (8.07%) BigQuery
2 60 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (4.27%) Power BI
4 35 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (4.15%) NoSQL
5 28 (3.32%) Looker
6 26 (3.08%) SQL Server
7 23 (2.73%) MongoDB
8 21 (2.49%) Data Lake
9 20 (2.37%) Semantic Layer
10 19 (2.25%) Metadata
11 17 (2.02%) Pinecone
11 17 (2.02%) Relational Database
11 17 (2.02%) Tableau
12 16 (1.90%) Chroma
13 10 (1.19%) MySQL
14 9 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
16 7 (0.83%) Metadata Repository
16 7 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 78 (9.25%) TeamCity
2 52 (6.17%) Git
3 42 (4.98%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.42%) GitLab
5 11 (1.30%) JIRA
6 7 (0.83%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.71%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.59%) JUnit
9 4 (0.47%) Maven
10 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.36%) Claude Code
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
1 256 (30.37%) Social Skills
2 242 (28.71%) Finance
3 213 (25.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 165 (19.57%) Law
5 160 (18.98%) Banking
6 130 (15.42%) Retail
7 95 (11.27%) Public Sector
8 77 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
9 72 (8.54%) Back Office
10 71 (8.42%) Financial Institution
11 39 (4.63%) Marketing
12 38 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (2.61%) Legal
14 11 (1.30%) Front Office
15 8 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.83%) Advertising
16 7 (0.83%) French Language
17 6 (0.71%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.59%) Games
19 3 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 237 (28.11%) Senior
2 198 (23.49%) Software Engineer
3 139 (16.49%) Architect
4 81 (9.61%) Lead
5 68 (8.07%) Cloud Engineer
6 64 (7.59%) Analyst
7 60 (7.12%) Python Engineer
8 50 (5.93%) Developer
8 50 (5.93%) GCP Engineer
9 43 (5.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 41 (4.86%) Data Engineer
11 34 (4.03%) Senior Software Engineer
12 33 (3.91%) Senior Analyst
13 32 (3.80%) Lead Software Engineer
13 32 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
14 29 (3.44%) Senior Architect
14 29 (3.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 28 (3.32%) Data Architect
15 28 (3.32%) Security Architect
15 28 (3.32%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (25.98%) Terraform
2 65 (7.71%) React
3 49 (5.81%) LangChain
4 48 (5.69%) Node.js
5 42 (4.98%) REST
6 37 (4.39%) .NET
7 32 (3.80%) LangGraph
8 28 (3.32%) Spring
9 26 (3.08%) PyTorch
9 26 (3.08%) RESTful
10 23 (2.73%) FastAPI
10 23 (2.73%) Middleware
11 22 (2.61%) Kafka
12 21 (2.49%) Spring Boot
12 21 (2.49%) TensorFlow
13 20 (2.37%) OAuth
14 18 (2.14%) scikit-learn
15 17 (2.02%) LlamaIndex
15 17 (2.02%) OAuth2
15 17 (2.02%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 235 (27.88%) Cloud Native
2 92 (10.91%) Product Ownership
3 80 (9.49%) Distributed Systems
4 61 (7.24%) AI Agents
5 31 (3.68%) Blog
6 25 (2.97%) Distributed Architecture
7 21 (2.49%) Security Posture
8 20 (2.37%) Public Cloud
9 15 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.66%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.66%) Video\Live Streaming
11 13 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.54%) Hedge funds
11 13 (1.54%) Social Media
12 12 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (1.30%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.19%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.46%) Linux
2 18 (2.14%) Unix
3 15 (1.78%) Windows
4 13 (1.54%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.83%) Android
6 5 (0.59%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) CentOS
7 1 (0.12%) Debian
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (40.93%) CI/CD
2 303 (35.94%) Software Engineering
3 284 (33.69%) AI
4 275 (32.62%) Mentoring
5 209 (24.79%) Agile
6 190 (22.54%) DevOps
7 153 (18.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 146 (17.32%) Microservices
9 144 (17.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 144 (17.08%) Technical Leadership
10 137 (16.25%) Test Automation
11 130 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
11 130 (15.42%) Roadmaps
12 127 (15.07%) Machine Learning
13 123 (14.59%) Observability
14 113 (13.40%) Clean Code
15 112 (13.29%) Analytics
16 107 (12.69%) Coaching
16 107 (12.69%) Containerisation
17 97 (11.51%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 299 (35.47%) Python
2 195 (23.13%) Java
3 145 (17.20%) SQL
4 77 (9.13%) JavaScript
5 59 (7.00%) Go
5 59 (7.00%) TypeScript
6 40 (4.74%) C#
7 28 (3.32%) Bash
8 23 (2.73%) Scala
9 19 (2.25%) PowerShell
10 18 (2.14%) R
11 13 (1.54%) Rust
12 11 (1.30%) C++
13 6 (0.71%) Ruby
13 6 (0.71%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.59%) C
14 5 (0.59%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.47%) PHP
16 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.24%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 129 (15.30%) Security Cleared
2 114 (13.52%) SC Cleared
3 105 (12.46%) Degree
4 54 (6.41%) AWS Certification
5 32 (3.80%) CISSP
6 28 (3.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 27 (3.20%) CISM
8 23 (2.73%) Azure Certification
9 20 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.30%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.19%) CREST Certified
11 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (1.07%) OSCP
13 8 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 8 (0.95%) CCSP
14 6 (0.71%) Dell Certification
14 6 (0.71%) GIAC
15 5 (0.59%) GCFA
15 5 (0.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.83%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 40 (4.74%) NIST
4 24 (2.85%) Accessibility
4 24 (2.85%) GDPR
4 24 (2.85%) NCSC
5 16 (1.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 13 (1.54%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (1.19%) QA
8 6 (0.71%) PMO
9 5 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.59%) SLA
10 4 (0.47%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.47%) GRC
10 4 (0.47%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.47%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
System Software
1 148 (17.56%) Docker
2 9 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.95%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.71%) vSphere
5 5 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.24%) Firmware
6 2 (0.24%) KVM
7 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 230 (27.28%) Kubernetes
2 106 (12.57%) Grafana
3 30 (3.56%) Ansible
4 22 (2.61%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.95%) Puppet
6 7 (0.83%) Istio
6 7 (0.83%) Podman
7 6 (0.71%) Avamar
7 6 (0.71%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.71%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.71%) VxRail
8 5 (0.59%) CASB
9 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.36%) Argo
10 3 (0.36%) linkerd
10 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.24%) Cilium
12 1 (0.12%) QRadar
Vendors
1 182 (21.59%) Google
2 101 (11.98%) Microsoft
3 33 (3.91%) Adobe
4 28 (3.32%) ServiceNow
5 25 (2.97%) Apple
6 22 (2.61%) Databricks
7 17 (2.02%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.02%) Splunk
8 16 (1.90%) OpenAI
9 15 (1.78%) Informatica
9 15 (1.78%) Okta
9 15 (1.78%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.42%) New Relic
10 12 (1.42%) SAP
10 12 (1.42%) VMware
11 11 (1.30%) Oracle
12 9 (1.07%) Typelevel
13 8 (0.95%) Cisco
14 7 (0.83%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.83%) Veeam