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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 57 72
Rank change year-on-year -13 +15 -37
Permanent jobs citing GCP 797 891 1,008
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.65% 5.41% 3.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.38% 14.68% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 437 463 832
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,350
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,810 £67,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £90,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% -6.06% +13.44%
75th Percentile £93,750 £126,250 £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 8,499 6,068 11,299
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.93% 36.81% 41.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,079 4,478 9,142
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,762 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 26 July 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 24 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (1.88%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.88%) Apache
4 4 (0.50%) Confluence
5 3 (0.38%) Camunda
5 3 (0.38%) CMS
5 3 (0.38%) SAS
6 2 (0.25%) WordPress
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.13%) Appian
7 1 (0.13%) Drupal
7 1 (0.13%) IIS
7 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.13%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (3.01%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.25%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 635 (79.67%) AWS
2 486 (60.98%) Azure
3 80 (10.04%) SaaS
4 59 (7.40%) Amazon EKS
5 32 (4.02%) Cloud Run
5 32 (4.02%) GitHub
6 29 (3.64%) Serverless
7 28 (3.51%) Power Platform
8 27 (3.39%) dbt
9 25 (3.14%) Snowflake
10 22 (2.76%) Cloud Functions
11 21 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (2.51%) Google Analytics
13 19 (2.38%) Anthropic Claude
13 19 (2.38%) PaaS
14 18 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (2.13%) Entra ID
15 17 (2.13%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 98 (12.30%) Broadband
2 30 (3.76%) Network Security
3 18 (2.26%) Firewall
4 16 (2.01%) TCP/IP
4 16 (2.01%) WAN
5 11 (1.38%) DNS
5 11 (1.38%) LAN
6 9 (1.13%) SD-WAN
6 9 (1.13%) VPN
7 8 (1.00%) LTE
8 7 (0.88%) Internet
9 6 (0.75%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (0.75%) iSCSI
10 5 (0.63%) DHCP
10 5 (0.63%) HTTP
10 5 (0.63%) MQTT
11 4 (0.50%) SSH
12 3 (0.38%) MPLS
12 3 (0.38%) SSL
12 3 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (9.79%) BigQuery
2 55 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (3.89%) NoSQL
5 28 (3.51%) MongoDB
6 26 (3.26%) Power BI
7 25 (3.14%) Data Lake
7 25 (3.14%) Semantic Layer
8 22 (2.76%) Looker
9 20 (2.51%) Metadata
10 19 (2.38%) Relational Database
10 19 (2.38%) SQL Server
11 18 (2.26%) Pinecone
12 14 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (1.51%) Tableau
14 9 (1.13%) Redis
15 8 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.00%) MySQL
16 6 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.75%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 50 (6.27%) Git
2 48 (6.02%) TeamCity
3 41 (5.14%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.88%) JIRA
5 13 (1.63%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.51%) CircleCI
7 10 (1.25%) GitLab
8 3 (0.38%) MLflow
8 3 (0.38%) Postman
8 3 (0.38%) Selenium
8 3 (0.38%) TestRail
8 3 (0.38%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.25%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.25%) JUnit
9 2 (0.25%) Subversion
9 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.13%) Gatling
10 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 217 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 206 (25.85%) Finance
3 171 (21.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 137 (17.19%) Law
5 108 (13.55%) Banking
6 82 (10.29%) Public Sector
6 82 (10.29%) Retail
7 60 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
8 42 (5.27%) Financial Institution
9 41 (5.14%) Back Office
10 32 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
11 24 (3.01%) Legal
12 18 (2.26%) Marketing
13 16 (2.01%) Front Office
14 7 (0.88%) Legal Technology
14 7 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.75%) Advertising
15 6 (0.75%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.63%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 223 (27.98%) Senior
2 176 (22.08%) Software Engineer
3 124 (15.56%) Architect
4 79 (9.91%) Lead
5 64 (8.03%) Cloud Engineer
5 64 (8.03%) Developer
6 53 (6.65%) Data Engineer
7 50 (6.27%) Analyst
8 43 (5.40%) GCP Engineer
9 40 (5.02%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (4.27%) Python Engineer
11 33 (4.14%) Consultant
11 33 (4.14%) Lead Software Engineer
11 33 (4.14%) Senior Software Engineer
12 32 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 32 (4.02%) Senior Analyst
13 31 (3.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 30 (3.76%) Scala Engineer
15 27 (3.39%) Senior Architect
16 25 (3.14%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (11.04%) React
2 63 (7.90%) Node.js
3 49 (6.15%) gRPC
4 46 (5.77%) Kafka
5 44 (5.52%) REST
6 37 (4.64%) LangChain
7 29 (3.64%) .NET
8 27 (3.39%) Django
9 24 (3.01%) Spring
10 23 (2.89%) FastAPI
10 23 (2.89%) LangGraph
10 23 (2.89%) OAuth
11 21 (2.63%) PyTorch
12 20 (2.51%) TensorFlow
13 19 (2.38%) OpenID
13 19 (2.38%) Spring Boot
14 18 (2.26%) AngularJS
14 18 (2.26%) RESTful
14 18 (2.26%) Vue
15 17 (2.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 210 (26.35%) Cloud Native
2 93 (11.67%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (10.29%) Product Ownership
4 49 (6.15%) Video\Live Streaming
5 46 (5.77%) Over-the-Top Content
6 42 (5.27%) AI Agents
7 24 (3.01%) Security Posture
8 23 (2.89%) Distributed Architecture
9 22 (2.76%) Data Structures
10 20 (2.51%) Public Cloud
11 19 (2.38%) Management Information System
11 19 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (2.26%) Onboarding
13 17 (2.13%) Blog
13 17 (2.13%) Social Media
14 16 (2.01%) Fixed Income
15 14 (1.76%) Mobile App
16 13 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
17 11 (1.38%) Data Centre
18 10 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.77%) Linux
2 18 (2.26%) Windows
3 14 (1.76%) Unix
4 9 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.88%) Android
5 7 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) CentOS
6 1 (0.13%) Debian
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (42.41%) CI/CD
2 298 (37.39%) Software Engineering
3 231 (28.98%) Mentoring
4 227 (28.48%) Agile
5 225 (28.23%) AI
6 181 (22.71%) DevOps
7 166 (20.83%) Microservices
8 162 (20.33%) Containerisation
9 147 (18.44%) Machine Learning
10 142 (17.82%) Roadmaps
11 136 (17.06%) Infrastructure as Code
12 135 (16.94%) Technical Leadership
13 134 (16.81%) Test Automation
14 130 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
15 128 (16.06%) Clean Code
16 127 (15.93%) Coaching
17 122 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
18 97 (12.17%) Observability
19 96 (12.05%) Analytics
20 95 (11.92%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 305 (38.27%) Python
2 167 (20.95%) Java
3 119 (14.93%) SQL
4 101 (12.67%) JavaScript
5 99 (12.42%) Go
6 62 (7.78%) Scala
7 59 (7.40%) TypeScript
8 31 (3.89%) C#
9 20 (2.51%) Bash
10 16 (2.01%) C++
10 16 (2.01%) Rust
11 12 (1.51%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.75%) C
13 5 (0.63%) Ruby
14 4 (0.50%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.50%) PHP
15 3 (0.38%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.38%) Perl
15 3 (0.38%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 121 (15.18%) Security Cleared
2 110 (13.80%) Degree
3 103 (12.92%) SC Cleared
4 46 (5.77%) AWS Certification
5 35 (4.39%) CISSP
6 29 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.89%) CISM
9 18 (2.26%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.38%) CREST Certified
11 11 (1.38%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.38%) OSCP
12 6 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.75%) CCSP
12 6 (0.75%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.75%) Dell Certification
12 6 (0.75%) GIAC
13 5 (0.63%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (6.02%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.52%) NIST
3 31 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 29 (3.64%) Accessibility
5 25 (3.14%) QA
6 20 (2.51%) GDPR
7 18 (2.26%) NCSC
8 14 (1.76%) GRC
9 13 (1.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.88%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.75%) PMO
13 4 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.50%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.50%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.50%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.38%) SLA
15 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 2 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 189 (23.71%) Docker
2 14 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.00%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.75%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.75%) vSphere
6 2 (0.25%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 183 (22.96%) Kubernetes
2 175 (21.96%) Terraform
3 70 (8.78%) Grafana
4 35 (4.39%) Ansible
5 17 (2.13%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.88%) Istio
7 14 (1.76%) Puppet
8 13 (1.63%) Podman
9 6 (0.75%) Avamar
9 6 (0.75%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.75%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.75%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.75%) VxRail
10 5 (0.63%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.63%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.50%) CASB
11 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.38%) linkerd
13 2 (0.25%) Argo
13 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 147 (18.44%) Google
2 103 (12.92%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.65%) Typelevel
4 27 (3.39%) Adobe
5 25 (3.14%) ServiceNow
6 24 (3.01%) Apple
7 21 (2.63%) Databricks
8 17 (2.13%) Okta
9 15 (1.88%) SAP
9 15 (1.88%) VMware
10 13 (1.63%) Ping Identity
11 12 (1.51%) Oracle
12 11 (1.38%) Informatica
13 10 (1.25%) Splunk
14 9 (1.13%) Dynatrace
14 9 (1.13%) ForgeRock
15 8 (1.00%) Confluent
15 8 (1.00%) Dell
15 8 (1.00%) OpenAI
16 7 (0.88%) Cisco