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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 46 80
Rank change year-on-year -19 +34 -44
Permanent jobs citing GCP 729 945 1,208
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.65% 6.16% 3.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.68% 16.09% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 364 503 1,012
10th Percentile £52,582 £51,698 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £62,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +6.57% +3.23%
75th Percentile £92,813 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £110,875 £137,500 £146,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £78,126
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.60% -2.34%

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 7,530 5,874 14,578
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.72% 38.26% 42.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5,265 4,270 12,120
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,103
25th Percentile £45,748 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -9.45%

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 17 June 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 39 (5.35%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.82%) Apache
4 4 (0.55%) Confluence
5 3 (0.41%) CMS
5 3 (0.41%) SAS
6 2 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.27%) Camunda
6 2 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) Drupal
7 1 (0.14%) IIS
7 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (3.29%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.27%) Shopify
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 587 (80.52%) AWS
2 430 (58.98%) Azure
3 83 (11.39%) SaaS
4 66 (9.05%) Amazon EKS
5 29 (3.98%) Serverless
6 28 (3.84%) Snowflake
7 26 (3.57%) Power Platform
8 25 (3.43%) dbt
9 24 (3.29%) Cloud Run
9 24 (3.29%) Vertex AI
10 20 (2.74%) GitHub
10 20 (2.74%) Google Analytics
11 18 (2.47%) Cloud Functions
11 18 (2.47%) Dagster
11 18 (2.47%) Entra ID
12 17 (2.33%) PaaS
13 16 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 100 (13.72%) Broadband
2 25 (3.43%) Network Security
3 18 (2.47%) Firewall
4 17 (2.33%) WAN
5 13 (1.78%) LAN
6 12 (1.65%) DNS
7 10 (1.37%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.10%) Internet
8 8 (1.10%) LTE
8 8 (1.10%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.10%) VPN
9 6 (0.82%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (0.82%) iSCSI
10 5 (0.69%) DHCP
11 4 (0.55%) MPLS
11 4 (0.55%) MQTT
11 4 (0.55%) SSL
11 4 (0.55%) Wireless
12 3 (0.41%) BGP
12 3 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (12.89%) BigQuery
2 53 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (4.66%) Metadata
5 33 (4.53%) NoSQL
6 30 (4.12%) Semantic Layer
7 28 (3.84%) Looker
8 27 (3.70%) MongoDB
9 24 (3.29%) Data Lake
10 22 (3.02%) Power BI
11 18 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (2.33%) Relational Database
12 17 (2.33%) Tableau
13 16 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (2.19%) Pinecone
14 9 (1.23%) Delta Lake
14 9 (1.23%) Weaviate
15 8 (1.10%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (1.10%) SQL Server
16 6 (0.82%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 53 (7.27%) TeamCity
2 40 (5.49%) Git
3 30 (4.12%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.92%) CircleCI
4 14 (1.92%) GitLab
4 14 (1.92%) JIRA
5 12 (1.65%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.23%) MLflow
7 3 (0.41%) Storybook
8 2 (0.27%) Postman
8 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.27%) Selenium
8 2 (0.27%) TestRail
8 2 (0.27%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.14%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.14%) ERwin
9 1 (0.14%) JMeter
9 1 (0.14%) JUnit
9 1 (0.14%) Subversion
9 1 (0.14%) Vagrant
General
1 192 (26.34%) Social Skills
2 180 (24.69%) Finance
3 168 (23.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 146 (20.03%) Law
5 112 (15.36%) Banking
6 89 (12.21%) Retail
7 87 (11.93%) Public Sector
8 48 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
9 41 (5.62%) Back Office
9 41 (5.62%) Financial Institution
10 25 (3.43%) Legal
11 24 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.19%) Front Office
13 10 (1.37%) Marketing
14 8 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.96%) Legal Technology
16 6 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.69%) Telecoms
18 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
19 3 (0.41%) French Language
Job Titles
1 201 (27.57%) Senior
2 152 (20.85%) Software Engineer
3 122 (16.74%) Architect
4 61 (8.37%) Developer
5 60 (8.23%) Lead
6 57 (7.82%) Data Engineer
7 54 (7.41%) Analyst
8 52 (7.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 39 (5.35%) Consultant
10 35 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
11 32 (4.39%) Senior Software Engineer
12 30 (4.12%) Lead Software Engineer
12 30 (4.12%) Scala Engineer
13 29 (3.98%) Data Architect
13 29 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
13 29 (3.98%) Senior Architect
14 28 (3.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 28 (3.84%) GCP Engineer
15 25 (3.43%) Principal Engineer
15 25 (3.43%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (10.15%) React
2 68 (9.33%) Node.js
3 49 (6.72%) gRPC
4 48 (6.58%) Kafka
5 30 (4.12%) Django
6 29 (3.98%) LangChain
6 29 (3.98%) REST
7 23 (3.16%) .NET
7 23 (3.16%) PyTorch
7 23 (3.16%) TensorFlow
8 20 (2.74%) RESTful
9 19 (2.61%) FastAPI
10 18 (2.47%) LangGraph
10 18 (2.47%) Spring
11 17 (2.33%) Redux
12 16 (2.19%) Vue
13 15 (2.06%) Playwright
13 15 (2.06%) Spring Boot
14 14 (1.92%) AngularJS
15 12 (1.65%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 203 (27.85%) Cloud Native
2 81 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (10.97%) Product Ownership
4 46 (6.31%) Over-the-Top Content
4 46 (6.31%) Video\Live Streaming
5 28 (3.84%) Security Posture
6 26 (3.57%) AI Agents
6 26 (3.57%) Blog
7 25 (3.43%) Public Cloud
8 24 (3.29%) Distributed Architecture
9 23 (3.16%) Data Structures
10 21 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (2.74%) Onboarding
12 19 (2.61%) Management Information System
13 17 (2.33%) Social Media
14 16 (2.19%) Fixed Income
15 11 (1.51%) Data Centre
16 10 (1.37%) Cyberattack
16 10 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
16 10 (1.37%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.94%) Linux
2 16 (2.19%) Windows
3 12 (1.65%) Android
3 12 (1.65%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.69%) Unix
6 1 (0.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Debian
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (40.88%) CI/CD
2 263 (36.08%) Software Engineering
3 219 (30.04%) Agile
4 205 (28.12%) Mentoring
5 199 (27.30%) AI
6 161 (22.09%) DevOps
7 154 (21.12%) Microservices
8 148 (20.30%) Containerisation
9 143 (19.62%) Roadmaps
10 141 (19.34%) Machine Learning
11 135 (18.52%) Test Automation
12 134 (18.38%) Clean Code
13 132 (18.11%) Coaching
14 125 (17.15%) Technical Leadership
15 113 (15.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 106 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
17 97 (13.31%) Infrastructure as Code
18 91 (12.48%) Data Science
19 87 (11.93%) Analytics
20 80 (10.97%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 275 (37.72%) Python
2 179 (24.55%) Java
3 107 (14.68%) SQL
4 101 (13.85%) Go
5 91 (12.48%) JavaScript
6 65 (8.92%) Scala
7 62 (8.50%) TypeScript
8 20 (2.74%) C#
9 19 (2.61%) Bash
10 15 (2.06%) C++
11 14 (1.92%) Rust
12 7 (0.96%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.69%) C
14 4 (0.55%) Ruby
15 3 (0.41%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.41%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.41%) Perl
15 3 (0.41%) PHP
16 2 (0.27%) ABAP
16 2 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 106 (14.54%) Security Cleared
2 101 (13.85%) Degree
3 87 (11.93%) SC Cleared
4 39 (5.35%) AWS Certification
5 32 (4.39%) CISSP
6 27 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.47%) CISM
9 16 (2.19%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.92%) CREST Certified
10 14 (1.92%) OSCP
11 11 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (1.37%) DV Cleared
13 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.96%) GIAC
15 6 (0.82%) CCSP
15 6 (0.82%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.82%) Dell Certification
16 5 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 5 (0.69%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.04%) Data Quality
2 37 (5.08%) NIST
3 32 (4.39%) Accessibility
4 31 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (3.43%) QA
6 19 (2.61%) GDPR
7 15 (2.06%) GRC
8 13 (1.78%) NCSC
9 10 (1.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (1.10%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.96%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.82%) PMO
13 4 (0.55%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.55%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.41%) SLA
15 2 (0.27%) COBIT
15 2 (0.27%) SEPA
15 2 (0.27%) SOC 1
16 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 160 (21.95%) Docker
2 13 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.96%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.82%) vSphere
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 159 (21.81%) Kubernetes
2 153 (20.99%) Terraform
3 70 (9.60%) Grafana
4 36 (4.94%) Ansible
5 15 (2.06%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.78%) Istio
6 13 (1.78%) Puppet
7 12 (1.65%) Podman
8 6 (0.82%) Avamar
8 6 (0.82%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (0.82%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.82%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.82%) VxRail
9 5 (0.69%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.55%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.41%) Argo
12 2 (0.27%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.27%) linkerd
12 2 (0.27%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 142 (19.48%) Google
2 93 (12.76%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.17%) Typelevel
4 31 (4.25%) Adobe
5 24 (3.29%) Apple
5 24 (3.29%) ServiceNow
6 23 (3.16%) Databricks
7 14 (1.92%) SAP
7 14 (1.92%) VMware
8 11 (1.51%) Oracle
9 10 (1.37%) Palantir
10 9 (1.23%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.23%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.10%) Cisco
11 8 (1.10%) Confluent
11 8 (1.10%) Dell
12 7 (0.96%) Veeam
13 6 (0.82%) 3PAR
13 6 (0.82%) Foundry
13 6 (0.82%) Isilon