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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 67 56
Rank change year-on-year -5 -11 -13
Permanent jobs citing GCP 827 773 943
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.29% 4.71% 4.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.46% 13.47% 10.47%
Number of salaries quoted 468 367 668
10th Percentile £52,200 £47,500 £53,000
25th Percentile £63,335 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £92,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -2.17% +15.53%
75th Percentile £95,000 £136,250 £142,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £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 8,739 5,737 9,004
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.71% 34.93% 43.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6,378 4,063 5,897
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,738
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £48,750
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 £58,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.76% -10.77% +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 16 October 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 14 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (1.57%) Apache
3 12 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.97%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.36%) Camunda
5 3 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.24%) WordPress
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.12%) Appian
7 1 (0.12%) CMS
7 1 (0.12%) Confluence
7 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (1.69%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.60%) 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%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.81%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) Odoo
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 657 (79.44%) AWS
2 514 (62.15%) Azure
3 137 (16.57%) SaaS
4 92 (11.12%) Amazon EKS
5 49 (5.93%) GitHub
6 36 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 35 (4.23%) dbt
8 34 (4.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 32 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (3.02%) Snowflake
11 22 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (2.66%) Google Compute Engine
11 22 (2.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 21 (2.54%) Cloud Run
12 21 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
13 20 (2.42%) Datadog
14 19 (2.30%) Amazon Bedrock
14 19 (2.30%) Anthropic Claude
14 19 (2.30%) Serverless
15 18 (2.18%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.96%) Network Security
2 36 (4.35%) TCP/IP
3 25 (3.02%) Broadband
4 24 (2.90%) VPN
5 23 (2.78%) BGP
5 23 (2.78%) Firewall
6 10 (1.21%) VLAN
6 10 (1.21%) WAN
7 8 (0.97%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.73%) HTTP
9 5 (0.60%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (0.60%) iSCSI
10 4 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.48%) SSH
11 3 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
11 3 (0.36%) MPLS
11 3 (0.36%) OSPF
11 3 (0.36%) VXLAN
12 2 (0.24%) 5G
12 2 (0.24%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (8.83%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (7.86%) BigQuery
3 34 (4.11%) Power BI
4 32 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (3.51%) Looker
6 25 (3.02%) NoSQL
6 25 (3.02%) SQL Server
7 23 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (2.78%) Metadata
8 22 (2.66%) Semantic Layer
9 20 (2.42%) Data Lake
10 18 (2.18%) Tableau
11 17 (2.06%) Pinecone
12 16 (1.93%) Chroma
13 14 (1.69%) Relational Database
14 12 (1.45%) MongoDB
15 11 (1.33%) MySQL
16 10 (1.21%) Redis
17 7 (0.85%) Metadata Repository
18 6 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 101 (12.21%) TeamCity
2 50 (6.05%) Git
3 45 (5.44%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.93%) GitLab
5 5 (0.60%) JUnit
6 4 (0.48%) Claude Code
6 4 (0.48%) JIRA
6 4 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.36%) Maven
7 3 (0.36%) Mockito
7 3 (0.36%) Postman
7 3 (0.36%) Selenium
8 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.24%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.24%) ERwin
8 2 (0.24%) MLflow
8 2 (0.24%) Subversion
9 1 (0.12%) Snyk
General
1 260 (31.44%) Finance
1 260 (31.44%) Social Skills
2 215 (26.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 173 (20.92%) Banking
4 170 (20.56%) Law
5 145 (17.53%) Retail
6 93 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
7 92 (11.12%) Public Sector
8 86 (10.40%) Back Office
9 85 (10.28%) Financial Institution
10 43 (5.20%) Marketing
11 38 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (2.66%) Legal
13 18 (2.18%) Front Office
14 12 (1.45%) French Language
15 11 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.85%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.73%) Advertising
18 5 (0.60%) Games
19 3 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 235 (28.42%) Senior
2 204 (24.67%) Software Engineer
3 131 (15.84%) Architect
4 81 (9.79%) Lead
5 69 (8.34%) Cloud Engineer
6 66 (7.98%) GCP Engineer
7 59 (7.13%) Python Engineer
8 58 (7.01%) Analyst
9 53 (6.41%) Developer
10 51 (6.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 40 (4.84%) Data Engineer
12 38 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
13 35 (4.23%) Lead Software Engineer
14 31 (3.75%) Security Engineer
14 31 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
15 30 (3.63%) Data Architect
16 29 (3.51%) Java Engineer
17 28 (3.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 27 (3.26%) Senior Architect
18 27 (3.26%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (29.26%) Terraform
2 62 (7.50%) React
3 57 (6.89%) LangChain
4 46 (5.56%) Node.js
5 41 (4.96%) LangGraph
6 40 (4.84%) REST
7 36 (4.35%) .NET
8 32 (3.87%) RESTful
9 28 (3.39%) Spring
10 27 (3.26%) PyTorch
11 22 (2.66%) TensorFlow
12 21 (2.54%) Spring Boot
13 20 (2.42%) Middleware
14 19 (2.30%) Kafka
14 19 (2.30%) scikit-learn
15 18 (2.18%) FastAPI
15 18 (2.18%) OAuth
15 18 (2.18%) OpenTelemetry
16 17 (2.06%) CrewAI
16 17 (2.06%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 249 (30.11%) Cloud Native
2 86 (10.40%) Product Ownership
3 85 (10.28%) Distributed Systems
4 68 (8.22%) AI Agents
5 48 (5.80%) Blog
6 24 (2.90%) Security Posture
7 22 (2.66%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (2.06%) Hedge funds
10 15 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
10 15 (1.81%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.69%) Data Centre
11 14 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (1.57%) Management Information System
13 12 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.45%) Social Media
14 11 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (1.33%) Replication
15 9 (1.09%) Mobile App
16 8 (0.97%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.44%) Linux
2 18 (2.18%) Unix
3 12 (1.45%) Windows
4 11 (1.33%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.73%) macOS
6 4 (0.48%) Android
7 3 (0.36%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Debian
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (42.44%) CI/CD
2 304 (36.76%) Software Engineering
3 285 (34.46%) AI
4 266 (32.16%) Mentoring
5 192 (23.22%) DevOps
6 188 (22.73%) Agile
7 149 (18.02%) Infrastructure as Code
8 145 (17.53%) Technical Leadership
9 143 (17.29%) Test Automation
10 140 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
11 139 (16.81%) Microservices
12 136 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 128 (15.48%) Observability
14 122 (14.75%) Machine Learning
15 116 (14.03%) Roadmaps
16 112 (13.54%) Clean Code
17 109 (13.18%) Analytics
18 107 (12.94%) Fintech
19 105 (12.70%) Deployment Automation
20 98 (11.85%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 313 (37.85%) Python
2 206 (24.91%) Java
3 161 (19.47%) SQL
4 71 (8.59%) JavaScript
5 63 (7.62%) TypeScript
6 60 (7.26%) Go
7 37 (4.47%) Bash
7 37 (4.47%) C#
8 26 (3.14%) R
9 18 (2.18%) PowerShell
10 15 (1.81%) Scala
11 11 (1.33%) Rust
12 7 (0.85%) C++
12 7 (0.85%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.60%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.48%) C
14 4 (0.48%) PHP
14 4 (0.48%) Ruby
15 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 126 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 110 (13.30%) SC Cleared
3 97 (11.73%) Degree
4 49 (5.93%) AWS Certification
5 37 (4.47%) CISSP
6 32 (3.87%) CISM
7 27 (3.26%) Azure Certification
8 19 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (1.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 13 (1.57%) CCSP
12 10 (1.21%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.85%) GIAC
15 6 (0.73%) CRISC
15 6 (0.73%) GCFA
15 6 (0.73%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.60%) CREST Certified
16 5 (0.60%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (8.46%) Data Quality
2 55 (6.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (5.44%) NIST
4 28 (3.39%) GDPR
4 28 (3.39%) PCI DSS
5 22 (2.66%) NCSC
6 20 (2.42%) SOC 2
7 19 (2.30%) Accessibility
8 14 (1.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 10 (1.21%) QA
10 9 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.60%) PMO
13 4 (0.48%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.48%) GRC
13 4 (0.48%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.48%) SLA
14 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 145 (17.53%) Docker
2 8 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.60%) vSphere
6 2 (0.24%) Firmware
6 2 (0.24%) KVM
7 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 256 (30.96%) Kubernetes
2 126 (15.24%) Grafana
3 31 (3.75%) Ansible
4 28 (3.39%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (1.09%) Cilium
7 7 (0.85%) Istio
8 6 (0.73%) Argo
8 6 (0.73%) Puppet
9 5 (0.60%) Avamar
9 5 (0.60%) CASB
9 5 (0.60%) Dell DRAC
9 5 (0.60%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (0.60%) EMC VPLEX
9 5 (0.60%) VxRail
10 3 (0.36%) linkerd
10 3 (0.36%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
12 1 (0.12%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 213 (25.76%) Google
2 89 (10.76%) Microsoft
3 25 (3.02%) Adobe
4 24 (2.90%) ServiceNow
5 23 (2.78%) Databricks
6 18 (2.18%) Splunk
7 17 (2.06%) Apple
7 17 (2.06%) Dynatrace
8 16 (1.93%) OpenAI
9 15 (1.81%) Informatica
9 15 (1.81%) Okta
9 15 (1.81%) Ping Identity
10 13 (1.57%) New Relic
11 12 (1.45%) Oracle
12 11 (1.33%) SAP
13 9 (1.09%) VMware
14 8 (0.97%) Cisco
15 7 (0.85%) Palo Alto
16 6 (0.73%) Veeam
17 5 (0.60%) 3PAR