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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 53 40
Rank change year-on-year -30 -13 +16
Permanent jobs citing GCP 497 959 1,313
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.24% 5.03% 6.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.92% 11.06% 13.51%
Number of salaries quoted 379 674 1,069
10th Percentile £51,000 £57,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £68,125 £70,024 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £87,500 £77,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +13.64% -0.65%
75th Percentile £126,250 £116,250 £96,539
90th Percentile £142,500 £147,125 £120,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £84,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year -7.74% +5.49% -0.46%

All Cloud 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 5,569 8,669 9,721
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.33% 45.44% 47.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,111 5,674 8,334
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,729
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,264 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.16% +1.22% -2.34%

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 5 December 2025.

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 70 (14.08%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.42%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.41%) Apache
3 12 (2.41%) Confluence
4 7 (1.41%) IIS
5 4 (0.80%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.40%) Luigi
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.40%) WordPress
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.60%) Trello
3 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 439 (88.33%) AWS
2 352 (70.82%) Azure
3 110 (22.13%) SaaS
4 75 (15.09%) dbt
5 50 (10.06%) GitHub
6 35 (7.04%) Power Platform
7 31 (6.24%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (4.43%) Snowflake
10 20 (4.02%) Serverless
11 19 (3.82%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (3.82%) PaaS
12 16 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (2.82%) OCI
14 13 (2.62%) IaaS
15 12 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (2.41%) Azure Service Bus
16 11 (2.21%) Fivetran
16 11 (2.21%) OpenShift
17 10 (2.01%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.03%) Firewall
2 15 (3.02%) VPN
3 14 (2.82%) Network Security
4 12 (2.41%) DNS
5 10 (2.01%) WAN
6 9 (1.81%) LAN
6 9 (1.81%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.21%) Broadband
8 5 (1.01%) DHCP
8 5 (1.01%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.80%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.60%) BGP
10 3 (0.60%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (0.60%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.60%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.40%) SSL
12 1 (0.20%) HTTP
12 1 (0.20%) IPv6
12 1 (0.20%) SAN
12 1 (0.20%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (18.91%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (9.86%) NoSQL
3 48 (9.66%) Amazon Athena
4 45 (9.05%) Apache Arrow
4 45 (9.05%) Apache Iceberg
4 45 (9.05%) Dremio
5 39 (7.85%) Data Warehouse
6 38 (7.65%) BigQuery
7 32 (6.44%) Power BI
8 25 (5.03%) Tableau
9 21 (4.23%) MongoDB
9 21 (4.23%) SQL Server
10 16 (3.22%) Data Lake
10 16 (3.22%) MySQL
11 15 (3.02%) Metadata
12 14 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (2.41%) Redis
14 10 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (1.81%) Looker
16 8 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 33 (6.64%) Git
2 28 (5.63%) GitLab
3 22 (4.43%) JIRA
4 21 (4.23%) Jenkins
5 19 (3.82%) TeamCity
6 8 (1.61%) Subversion
7 7 (1.41%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.01%) git-flow
9 4 (0.80%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.80%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.80%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.80%) ERwin
9 4 (0.80%) MLflow
9 4 (0.80%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.60%) JUnit
10 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.40%) Mocha
11 2 (0.40%) Mockito
11 2 (0.40%) webpack
12 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 197 (39.64%) Finance
2 168 (33.80%) Social Skills
3 56 (11.27%) Front Office
4 52 (10.46%) Retail
5 47 (9.46%) Law
6 45 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
7 41 (8.25%) Banking
8 36 (7.24%) Telecoms
9 31 (6.24%) Financial Institution
10 30 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (5.23%) Public Sector
12 24 (4.83%) Back Office
13 21 (4.23%) Marketing
14 20 (4.02%) Legal
15 17 (3.42%) Manufacturing
16 13 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
19 7 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
19 7 (1.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 130 (26.16%) Senior
2 123 (24.75%) Developer
3 113 (22.74%) Software Engineer
4 76 (15.29%) Architect
5 55 (11.07%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 54 (10.87%) Lead
7 53 (10.66%) Python Engineer
8 48 (9.66%) AWS Engineer
9 46 (9.26%) Python Software Engineer
10 45 (9.05%) AWS Developer
10 45 (9.05%) AWS Software Engineer
11 42 (8.45%) Python Developer
12 35 (7.04%) Engineering Manager
13 34 (6.84%) Software Developer
14 30 (6.04%) .NET Developer
14 30 (6.04%) .NET Software Developer
14 30 (6.04%) Data Engineer
14 30 (6.04%) Full-Stack Developer
15 28 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
16 25 (5.03%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (25.35%) React
2 93 (18.71%) Node.js
3 69 (13.88%) .NET
4 65 (13.08%) Vue
5 63 (12.68%) Kafka
6 61 (12.27%) AngularJS
7 55 (11.07%) Pandas
8 50 (10.06%) NumPy
9 45 (9.05%) SciPy
10 37 (7.44%) RESTful
11 25 (5.03%) Django
12 22 (4.43%) REST
13 19 (3.82%) RabbitMQ
14 17 (3.42%) CSS
14 17 (3.42%) Redux
15 16 (3.22%) GraphQL
15 16 (3.22%) gRPC
15 16 (3.22%) HTML
15 16 (3.22%) Spring Boot
16 15 (3.02%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 103 (20.72%) Cloud Native
2 55 (11.07%) Fixed Income
3 54 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
4 49 (9.86%) Equities
4 49 (9.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 31 (6.24%) Product Ownership
6 25 (5.03%) Management Information System
7 23 (4.63%) Public Cloud
8 14 (2.82%) Algorithms
9 12 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (2.21%) Data Structures
10 11 (2.21%) Distributed Architecture
11 10 (2.01%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.81%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.61%) Data Centre
14 7 (1.41%) Blog
14 7 (1.41%) Onboarding
15 6 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
16 5 (1.01%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.65%) Linux
2 29 (5.84%) Windows
3 18 (3.62%) Unix
4 10 (2.01%) Android
5 6 (1.21%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.60%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.40%) CentOS
7 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (40.85%) Agile
2 183 (36.82%) CI/CD
3 181 (36.42%) Software Engineering
4 152 (30.58%) DevOps
5 132 (26.56%) AI
6 98 (19.72%) Microservices
7 94 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
8 92 (18.51%) Roadmaps
9 89 (17.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 80 (16.10%) Mentoring
11 71 (14.29%) Computer Science
11 71 (14.29%) Containerisation
12 69 (13.88%) Fintech
13 66 (13.28%) Analytics
14 60 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
15 59 (11.87%) Machine Learning
16 56 (11.27%) Investment Management
17 54 (10.87%) Risk Management
18 51 (10.26%) Asset Management
18 51 (10.26%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 189 (38.03%) Python
2 138 (27.77%) TypeScript
3 119 (23.94%) JavaScript
4 102 (20.52%) Java
5 101 (20.32%) SQL
6 46 (9.26%) C#
7 31 (6.24%) Go
8 20 (4.02%) Bash
9 13 (2.62%) PowerShell
9 13 (2.62%) Scala
10 9 (1.81%) R
11 8 (1.61%) PHP
12 7 (1.41%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.01%) C++
13 5 (1.01%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.60%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.40%) Bicep
16 2 (0.40%) Ruby
17 1 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 80 (16.10%) Degree
2 53 (10.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 46 (9.26%) Security Cleared
4 39 (7.85%) SC Cleared
5 23 (4.63%) Azure Certification
6 20 (4.02%) AWS Certification
7 15 (3.02%) Master's Degree
8 12 (2.41%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.41%) DBS Check
10 7 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.01%) OSCP
11 5 (1.01%) PhD
12 4 (0.80%) CISSP
12 4 (0.80%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.80%) OSCE
13 3 (0.60%) MCSE
14 2 (0.40%) CCNP
14 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.04%) GDPR
2 27 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (4.23%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.22%) NIST
4 16 (3.22%) QA
5 12 (2.41%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.81%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.61%) GRC
8 7 (1.41%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.41%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.21%) EU AI Act
10 5 (1.01%) SLA
11 4 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.40%) ISO 14001
13 2 (0.40%) ISO 26262
13 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 94 (18.91%) Docker
2 14 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.60%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.40%) Firmware
5 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.20%) HDFS
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 126 (25.35%) Kubernetes
2 96 (19.32%) Terraform
3 45 (9.05%) Ansible
4 36 (7.24%) Grafana
5 22 (4.43%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.21%) Argo
8 5 (1.01%) Puppet
9 4 (0.80%) Cilium
9 4 (0.80%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.60%) cPanel
10 3 (0.60%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.60%) Plesk
11 2 (0.40%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.20%) Icinga
12 1 (0.20%) Nagios
12 1 (0.20%) Nmap
12 1 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 103 (20.72%) Google
2 33 (6.64%) Microsoft
3 21 (4.23%) Databricks
4 12 (2.41%) Talend
5 10 (2.01%) Oracle
6 9 (1.81%) Alteryx
6 9 (1.81%) Informatica
6 9 (1.81%) SAP
6 9 (1.81%) Zoho
7 8 (1.61%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.61%) VMware
8 7 (1.41%) IBM
9 5 (1.01%) Cisco
9 5 (1.01%) Dell
9 5 (1.01%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.01%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.01%) Sage
9 5 (1.01%) Splunk
9 5 (1.01%) Xamarin
302 hybrid/remote GCP jobs