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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 66 64
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 -22
Permanent jobs citing GCP 834 795 963
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.38% 4.86% 4.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.52% 13.73% 10.19%
Number of salaries quoted 477 387 685
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 £93,750 £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 5,791 9,455
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.57% 35.41% 41.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,442 4,168 6,379
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,599 £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 24 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 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (1.44%) Apache
3 10 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.48%) 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 (1.80%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.48%) 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 (2.88%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 668 (80.10%) AWS
2 519 (62.23%) Azure
3 120 (14.39%) SaaS
4 75 (8.99%) Amazon EKS
5 39 (4.68%) GitHub
6 38 (4.56%) Power Platform
7 30 (3.60%) dbt
8 26 (3.12%) Cloud Run
9 25 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 24 (2.88%) Snowflake
11 23 (2.76%) Google Analytics
11 23 (2.76%) Serverless
12 22 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (2.28%) Anthropic Claude
14 18 (2.16%) Datadog
14 18 (2.16%) Firebase
14 18 (2.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 17 (2.04%) Cloud Functions
16 14 (1.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.04%) Broadband
2 37 (4.44%) Network Security
3 22 (2.64%) TCP/IP
4 17 (2.04%) Firewall
5 12 (1.44%) VPN
5 12 (1.44%) WAN
6 8 (0.96%) BGP
6 8 (0.96%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.72%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (0.72%) HTTP
7 6 (0.72%) iSCSI
8 4 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (0.48%) LAN
8 4 (0.48%) LTE
8 4 (0.48%) SSH
9 3 (0.36%) DNS
9 3 (0.36%) Internet
9 3 (0.36%) MPLS
9 3 (0.36%) OSPF
9 3 (0.36%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (8.15%) BigQuery
2 58 (6.95%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (4.32%) Power BI
4 35 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (4.20%) NoSQL
5 28 (3.36%) Looker
6 26 (3.12%) SQL Server
7 23 (2.76%) MongoDB
8 20 (2.40%) Data Lake
8 20 (2.40%) Semantic Layer
9 18 (2.16%) Metadata
10 17 (2.04%) Pinecone
10 17 (2.04%) Relational Database
10 17 (2.04%) Tableau
11 16 (1.92%) Chroma
12 10 (1.20%) MySQL
13 9 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (0.84%) Metadata Repository
16 5 (0.60%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 78 (9.35%) TeamCity
2 51 (6.12%) Git
3 42 (5.04%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.32%) GitLab
4 11 (1.32%) JIRA
5 7 (0.84%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.72%) CircleCI
7 5 (0.60%) JUnit
8 4 (0.48%) Maven
9 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.36%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.36%) Mockito
9 3 (0.36%) Postman
9 3 (0.36%) Selenium
9 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.24%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.24%) ERwin
10 2 (0.24%) MLflow
10 2 (0.24%) Subversion
General
1 253 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 237 (28.42%) Finance
3 212 (25.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 166 (19.90%) Law
5 156 (18.71%) Banking
6 129 (15.47%) Retail
7 95 (11.39%) Public Sector
8 77 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
9 72 (8.63%) Back Office
10 71 (8.51%) Financial Institution
11 38 (4.56%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (4.08%) Marketing
13 21 (2.52%) Legal
14 8 (0.96%) Front Office
15 7 (0.84%) Advertising
15 7 (0.84%) French Language
16 6 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.72%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.60%) Games
18 3 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 236 (28.30%) Senior
2 195 (23.38%) Software Engineer
3 137 (16.43%) Architect
4 77 (9.23%) Lead
5 68 (8.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 64 (7.67%) Analyst
7 57 (6.83%) Python Engineer
8 50 (6.00%) GCP Engineer
9 46 (5.52%) Developer
10 41 (4.92%) Data Engineer
11 39 (4.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 34 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
13 33 (3.96%) Senior Analyst
14 32 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
15 30 (3.60%) Lead Software Engineer
16 29 (3.48%) Senior Architect
16 29 (3.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 28 (3.36%) Security Architect
17 28 (3.36%) Site Engineer
18 27 (3.24%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (26.26%) Terraform
2 65 (7.79%) React
3 48 (5.76%) Node.js
4 45 (5.40%) LangChain
5 40 (4.80%) REST
6 36 (4.32%) .NET
7 29 (3.48%) LangGraph
8 28 (3.36%) Spring
9 26 (3.12%) PyTorch
10 25 (3.00%) RESTful
11 22 (2.64%) FastAPI
11 22 (2.64%) Kafka
11 22 (2.64%) Middleware
12 21 (2.52%) Spring Boot
12 21 (2.52%) TensorFlow
13 20 (2.40%) OAuth
14 18 (2.16%) scikit-learn
15 17 (2.04%) LlamaIndex
15 17 (2.04%) OAuth2
15 17 (2.04%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 235 (28.18%) Cloud Native
2 92 (11.03%) Product Ownership
3 80 (9.59%) Distributed Systems
4 58 (6.95%) AI Agents
5 31 (3.72%) Blog
6 25 (3.00%) Distributed Architecture
7 21 (2.52%) Security Posture
8 20 (2.40%) Public Cloud
9 16 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.80%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.68%) Video\Live Streaming
12 13 (1.56%) Data Centre
12 13 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.56%) Social Media
13 12 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
14 11 (1.32%) Mobile App
15 10 (1.20%) Hedge funds
15 10 (1.20%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.52%) Linux
2 18 (2.16%) Unix
3 15 (1.80%) Windows
4 13 (1.56%) 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 (41.01%) CI/CD
2 299 (35.85%) Software Engineering
3 277 (33.21%) AI
4 274 (32.85%) Mentoring
5 207 (24.82%) Agile
6 189 (22.66%) DevOps
7 152 (18.23%) Infrastructure as Code
8 144 (17.27%) Microservices
9 143 (17.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 143 (17.15%) Technical Leadership
10 136 (16.31%) Test Automation
11 129 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
11 129 (15.47%) Roadmaps
12 125 (14.99%) Machine Learning
13 122 (14.63%) Observability
14 113 (13.55%) Clean Code
15 109 (13.07%) Analytics
16 107 (12.83%) Coaching
17 106 (12.71%) Containerisation
18 97 (11.63%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 292 (35.01%) Python
2 195 (23.38%) Java
3 143 (17.15%) SQL
4 76 (9.11%) JavaScript
5 59 (7.07%) Go
6 58 (6.95%) TypeScript
7 39 (4.68%) C#
8 28 (3.36%) Bash
9 23 (2.76%) Scala
10 19 (2.28%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.80%) R
12 13 (1.56%) Rust
13 11 (1.32%) C++
14 6 (0.72%) Ruby
14 6 (0.72%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.60%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.48%) C
16 4 (0.48%) PHP
17 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
18 2 (0.24%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 129 (15.47%) Security Cleared
2 114 (13.67%) SC Cleared
3 106 (12.71%) Degree
4 54 (6.47%) AWS Certification
5 32 (3.84%) CISSP
6 28 (3.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 27 (3.24%) CISM
8 23 (2.76%) Azure Certification
9 20 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.32%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.20%) CREST Certified
11 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (1.08%) OSCP
13 8 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 8 (0.96%) CCSP
14 6 (0.72%) Dell Certification
14 6 (0.72%) GIAC
15 5 (0.60%) GCFA
15 5 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.91%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 40 (4.80%) NIST
4 25 (3.00%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.88%) NCSC
6 22 (2.64%) GDPR
7 16 (1.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 13 (1.56%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (1.20%) QA
10 6 (0.72%) PMO
11 5 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.60%) SLA
12 4 (0.48%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.48%) GRC
12 4 (0.48%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.48%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
System Software
1 145 (17.39%) Docker
2 9 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.96%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.72%) vSphere
5 5 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.24%) Firmware
6 2 (0.24%) KVM
7 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 228 (27.34%) Kubernetes
2 106 (12.71%) Grafana
3 29 (3.48%) Ansible
4 22 (2.64%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.96%) 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%) CASB
9 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.48%) 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
1 178 (21.34%) Google
2 100 (11.99%) Microsoft
3 33 (3.96%) Adobe
4 28 (3.36%) ServiceNow
5 25 (3.00%) Apple
6 22 (2.64%) Databricks
7 17 (2.04%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.04%) Splunk
8 15 (1.80%) Informatica
8 15 (1.80%) Okta
8 15 (1.80%) OpenAI
8 15 (1.80%) Ping Identity
9 12 (1.44%) New Relic
9 12 (1.44%) SAP
9 12 (1.44%) VMware
10 10 (1.20%) Oracle
11 9 (1.08%) Typelevel
12 7 (0.84%) Cisco
12 7 (0.84%) Palo Alto
12 7 (0.84%) Veeam