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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 55 64
Rank change year-on-year -14 +9 -28
Permanent jobs citing GCP 832 881 993
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.69% 5.35% 3.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.56% 14.65% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 468 457 792
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,563 £64,509 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% -10.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £95,000 £125,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -3.03% +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 8,705 6,014 10,378
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.63% 36.49% 41.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6,284 4,432 8,195
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,489 £43,750 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £64,488
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.96% -0.79%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 6 August 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 20 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (1.44%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.84%) Apache
4 4 (0.48%) Camunda
4 4 (0.48%) Confluence
5 3 (0.36%) CMS
5 3 (0.36%) SAS
5 3 (0.36%) WordPress
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Appian
6 1 (0.12%) Drupal
6 1 (0.12%) IIS
6 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.12%) nginx
6 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (2.88%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Magento
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 661 (79.45%) AWS
2 512 (61.54%) Azure
3 83 (9.98%) SaaS
4 62 (7.45%) Amazon EKS
5 36 (4.33%) dbt
6 35 (4.21%) Power Platform
7 33 (3.97%) Cloud Run
7 33 (3.97%) GitHub
8 28 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (3.37%) Serverless
9 24 (2.88%) Google Analytics
9 24 (2.88%) Snowflake
10 23 (2.76%) Cloud Functions
11 21 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (2.28%) Anthropic Claude
12 19 (2.28%) PaaS
13 17 (2.04%) Entra ID
13 17 (2.04%) Firebase
14 16 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (10.70%) Broadband
2 32 (3.85%) Network Security
3 26 (3.13%) TCP/IP
4 21 (2.52%) Firewall
5 18 (2.16%) WAN
6 11 (1.32%) DNS
6 11 (1.32%) LAN
6 11 (1.32%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.08%) VPN
8 8 (0.96%) LTE
9 7 (0.84%) Internet
10 6 (0.72%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (0.72%) HTTP
10 6 (0.72%) iSCSI
11 5 (0.60%) DHCP
12 4 (0.48%) MQTT
12 4 (0.48%) SSH
13 3 (0.36%) Modbus
13 3 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (9.50%) BigQuery
2 56 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (4.09%) NoSQL
3 34 (4.09%) Power BI
4 33 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (3.61%) MongoDB
6 26 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 26 (3.13%) Looker
7 21 (2.52%) Semantic Layer
7 21 (2.52%) SQL Server
8 19 (2.28%) Metadata
9 18 (2.16%) Relational Database
10 17 (2.04%) Pinecone
11 15 (1.80%) Tableau
12 13 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.20%) Redis
14 9 (1.08%) MySQL
15 6 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.72%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 56 (6.73%) Git
2 52 (6.25%) TeamCity
3 42 (5.05%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.80%) JIRA
5 13 (1.56%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.44%) CircleCI
7 9 (1.08%) GitLab
8 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.36%) JUnit
8 3 (0.36%) Postman
8 3 (0.36%) Selenium
8 3 (0.36%) TestRail
8 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.36%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.24%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.24%) Maven
9 2 (0.24%) Subversion
10 1 (0.12%) ERwin
10 1 (0.12%) JMeter
10 1 (0.12%) NUnit
General
1 247 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 216 (25.96%) Finance
3 182 (21.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 141 (16.95%) Law
5 115 (13.82%) Banking
6 89 (10.70%) Retail
7 83 (9.98%) Public Sector
8 70 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
9 46 (5.53%) Financial Institution
10 45 (5.41%) Back Office
11 35 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (3.00%) Legal
13 20 (2.40%) Marketing
14 14 (1.68%) Front Office
15 7 (0.84%) Legal Technology
15 7 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.72%) Advertising
16 6 (0.72%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.60%) Games
18 4 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 236 (28.37%) Senior
2 183 (22.00%) Software Engineer
3 129 (15.50%) Architect
4 80 (9.62%) Lead
5 66 (7.93%) Cloud Engineer
6 61 (7.33%) Developer
7 56 (6.73%) Analyst
8 52 (6.25%) Data Engineer
9 48 (5.77%) Python Engineer
10 44 (5.29%) GCP Engineer
11 41 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
12 34 (4.09%) Senior Software Engineer
13 33 (3.97%) Lead Software Engineer
14 32 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 32 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
15 31 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 31 (3.73%) Consultant
16 27 (3.25%) Senior Architect
17 26 (3.13%) Senior Manager
18 25 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (11.18%) React
2 63 (7.57%) Node.js
3 50 (6.01%) REST
4 46 (5.53%) Kafka
5 40 (4.81%) gRPC
6 38 (4.57%) LangChain
7 33 (3.97%) .NET
8 28 (3.37%) Django
8 28 (3.37%) Spring
9 25 (3.00%) FastAPI
9 25 (3.00%) OAuth
10 23 (2.76%) LangGraph
11 22 (2.64%) Spring Boot
12 20 (2.40%) AngularJS
12 20 (2.40%) OpenID
12 20 (2.40%) RESTful
12 20 (2.40%) Vue
13 19 (2.28%) PyTorch
14 18 (2.16%) SAML
14 18 (2.16%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 216 (25.96%) Cloud Native
2 94 (11.30%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (9.86%) Product Ownership
4 47 (5.65%) AI Agents
5 41 (4.93%) Video\Live Streaming
6 37 (4.45%) Over-the-Top Content
7 24 (2.88%) Public Cloud
7 24 (2.88%) Security Posture
7 24 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (2.76%) Distributed Architecture
9 20 (2.40%) Management Information System
10 19 (2.28%) Data Structures
11 18 (2.16%) Blog
11 18 (2.16%) Onboarding
11 18 (2.16%) Social Media
12 15 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.80%) Mobile App
13 14 (1.68%) Fixed Income
14 13 (1.56%) Data Centre
15 12 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.61%) Linux
2 23 (2.76%) Unix
3 17 (2.04%) Windows
4 9 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.84%) Android
5 7 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) CentOS
6 1 (0.12%) Debian
6 1 (0.12%) Solaris
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (42.67%) CI/CD
2 308 (37.02%) Software Engineering
3 255 (30.65%) Mentoring
4 233 (28.00%) Agile
4 233 (28.00%) AI
5 195 (23.44%) DevOps
6 162 (19.47%) Microservices
7 155 (18.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 153 (18.39%) Containerisation
9 143 (17.19%) Roadmaps
10 140 (16.83%) Machine Learning
10 140 (16.83%) Test Automation
11 138 (16.59%) Technical Leadership
12 137 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 134 (16.11%) Clean Code
14 132 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
15 129 (15.50%) Coaching
16 113 (13.58%) Observability
17 103 (12.38%) Analytics
18 85 (10.22%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 316 (37.98%) Python
2 177 (21.27%) Java
3 130 (15.63%) SQL
4 104 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 90 (10.82%) Go
6 66 (7.93%) TypeScript
7 51 (6.13%) Scala
8 37 (4.45%) C#
9 20 (2.40%) Bash
10 17 (2.04%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.68%) C++
11 14 (1.68%) Rust
12 7 (0.84%) Ruby
13 5 (0.60%) C
13 5 (0.60%) PHP
13 5 (0.60%) R
14 4 (0.48%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.36%) Perl
15 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 135 (16.23%) Security Cleared
2 117 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 110 (13.22%) Degree
4 50 (6.01%) AWS Certification
5 35 (4.21%) CISSP
6 29 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.76%) CISM
9 19 (2.28%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.68%) DV Cleared
11 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (1.20%) CREST Certified
13 10 (1.20%) OSCP
14 6 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.72%) CCSP
14 6 (0.72%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.72%) Dell Certification
15 5 (0.60%) CCIE
15 5 (0.60%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (6.37%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.69%) NIST
3 33 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (3.61%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.64%) GDPR
5 22 (2.64%) QA
6 19 (2.28%) NCSC
7 13 (1.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 12 (1.44%) GRC
9 10 (1.20%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.72%) PMO
12 5 (0.60%) SLA
13 4 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.48%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.48%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.48%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 183 (22.00%) Docker
2 15 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.72%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.72%) vSphere
6 2 (0.24%) KVM
7 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 197 (23.68%) Terraform
2 190 (22.84%) Kubernetes
3 75 (9.01%) Grafana
4 37 (4.45%) Ansible
5 15 (1.80%) Istio
5 15 (1.80%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.56%) Podman
6 13 (1.56%) Puppet
7 6 (0.72%) Avamar
7 6 (0.72%) CASB
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%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (0.60%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.36%) linkerd
11 2 (0.24%) Argo
11 2 (0.24%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 168 (20.19%) Google
2 105 (12.62%) Microsoft
3 36 (4.33%) Typelevel
4 26 (3.13%) Adobe
5 25 (3.00%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.88%) Apple
7 20 (2.40%) Databricks
8 18 (2.16%) Okta
9 15 (1.80%) SAP
9 15 (1.80%) VMware
10 14 (1.68%) Ping Identity
11 13 (1.56%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.56%) Informatica
12 12 (1.44%) Oracle
13 11 (1.32%) Splunk
14 9 (1.08%) Cisco
14 9 (1.08%) ForgeRock
15 8 (0.96%) Confluent
15 8 (0.96%) New Relic
15 8 (0.96%) Palo Alto