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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 68 59
Rank change year-on-year -6 -9 -17
Permanent jobs citing GCP 827 785 985
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.34% 4.74% 4.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.52% 13.66% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 479 377 687
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% - +18.75%
75th Percentile £95,000 £136,250 £142,500
90th Percentile £112,550 £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 8,687 5,747 9,454
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.11% 34.70% 41.62%
Number of salaries quoted 6,368 4,092 6,294
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,276
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 28 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 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (1.45%) Apache
3 10 (1.21%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.97%) 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 (1.81%) 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%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (2.90%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 662 (80.05%) AWS
2 521 (63.00%) Azure
3 120 (14.51%) SaaS
4 75 (9.07%) Amazon EKS
5 40 (4.84%) GitHub
6 38 (4.59%) Power Platform
7 31 (3.75%) dbt
8 26 (3.14%) Cloud Run
8 26 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (3.02%) Snowflake
10 24 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (2.78%) Serverless
12 22 (2.66%) Google Analytics
13 19 (2.30%) Anthropic Claude
13 19 (2.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 18 (2.18%) Datadog
14 18 (2.18%) Firebase
15 17 (2.06%) Cloud Functions
16 14 (1.69%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.47%) Network Security
2 33 (3.99%) Broadband
3 22 (2.66%) TCP/IP
4 17 (2.06%) Firewall
5 12 (1.45%) VPN
5 12 (1.45%) WAN
6 9 (1.09%) BGP
7 8 (0.97%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.73%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (0.73%) HTTP
8 6 (0.73%) iSCSI
9 4 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.48%) LAN
9 4 (0.48%) SSH
10 3 (0.36%) DNS
10 3 (0.36%) Internet
10 3 (0.36%) LTE
10 3 (0.36%) MPLS
10 3 (0.36%) OSPF
10 3 (0.36%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (8.10%) BigQuery
2 58 (7.01%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (4.35%) Power BI
4 35 (4.23%) NoSQL
5 34 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (3.51%) Looker
7 26 (3.14%) SQL Server
8 23 (2.78%) MongoDB
9 21 (2.54%) Data Lake
10 20 (2.42%) Semantic Layer
11 19 (2.30%) Metadata
12 17 (2.06%) Pinecone
12 17 (2.06%) Tableau
13 16 (1.93%) Chroma
14 15 (1.81%) Relational Database
15 10 (1.21%) MySQL
16 9 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
17 8 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
18 7 (0.85%) Metadata Repository
18 7 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 78 (9.43%) TeamCity
2 50 (6.05%) Git
3 42 (5.08%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.45%) GitLab
5 10 (1.21%) JIRA
6 7 (0.85%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.73%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.60%) JUnit
9 4 (0.48%) Maven
10 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.36%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.36%) Mockito
10 3 (0.36%) Postman
10 3 (0.36%) Selenium
10 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.24%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.24%) ERwin
11 2 (0.24%) MLflow
11 2 (0.24%) Subversion
General
1 253 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 237 (28.66%) Finance
3 213 (25.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 165 (19.95%) Law
5 158 (19.11%) Banking
6 130 (15.72%) Retail
7 95 (11.49%) Public Sector
8 77 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
9 72 (8.71%) Back Office
10 71 (8.59%) Financial Institution
11 38 (4.59%) Marketing
11 38 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (2.66%) Legal
13 11 (1.33%) Front Office
14 8 (0.97%) Advertising
14 8 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.85%) French Language
16 6 (0.73%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.60%) Games
18 3 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 236 (28.54%) Senior
2 193 (23.34%) Software Engineer
3 139 (16.81%) Architect
4 81 (9.79%) Lead
5 68 (8.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 63 (7.62%) Analyst
7 58 (7.01%) Python Engineer
8 50 (6.05%) GCP Engineer
9 47 (5.68%) Developer
10 43 (5.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 39 (4.72%) Data Engineer
12 33 (3.99%) Senior Analyst
12 33 (3.99%) Senior Software Engineer
13 32 (3.87%) Lead Software Engineer
13 32 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
14 29 (3.51%) Senior Architect
14 29 (3.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 28 (3.39%) Data Architect
15 28 (3.39%) Security Architect
15 28 (3.39%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (26.24%) Terraform
2 64 (7.74%) React
3 49 (5.93%) LangChain
4 47 (5.68%) Node.js
5 39 (4.72%) REST
6 37 (4.47%) .NET
7 32 (3.87%) LangGraph
8 28 (3.39%) Spring
9 26 (3.14%) PyTorch
9 26 (3.14%) RESTful
10 23 (2.78%) Middleware
11 22 (2.66%) Kafka
12 21 (2.54%) FastAPI
12 21 (2.54%) Spring Boot
12 21 (2.54%) TensorFlow
13 19 (2.30%) OAuth
14 18 (2.18%) scikit-learn
15 17 (2.06%) LlamaIndex
15 17 (2.06%) OAuth2
15 17 (2.06%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 233 (28.17%) Cloud Native
2 91 (11.00%) Product Ownership
3 71 (8.59%) Distributed Systems
4 61 (7.38%) AI Agents
5 31 (3.75%) Blog
6 24 (2.90%) Distributed Architecture
7 20 (2.42%) Security Posture
8 19 (2.30%) Public Cloud
9 15 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.69%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.69%) Social Media
11 13 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.57%) Hedge funds
12 11 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
12 11 (1.33%) Mobile App
13 10 (1.21%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.21%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.44%) Linux
2 18 (2.18%) Unix
3 14 (1.69%) Windows
4 13 (1.57%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.85%) 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
1 333 (40.27%) CI/CD
2 289 (34.95%) Software Engineering
3 282 (34.10%) AI
4 273 (33.01%) Mentoring
5 208 (25.15%) Agile
6 189 (22.85%) DevOps
7 151 (18.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 144 (17.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 143 (17.29%) Technical Leadership
10 136 (16.44%) Microservices
10 136 (16.44%) Test Automation
11 127 (15.36%) Roadmaps
12 123 (14.87%) Observability
13 121 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
14 116 (14.03%) Machine Learning
15 108 (13.06%) Analytics
16 102 (12.33%) Clean Code
17 98 (11.85%) Coaching
17 98 (11.85%) Containerisation
18 96 (11.61%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 287 (34.70%) Python
2 193 (23.34%) Java
3 144 (17.41%) SQL
4 76 (9.19%) JavaScript
5 58 (7.01%) TypeScript
6 49 (5.93%) Go
7 39 (4.72%) C#
8 27 (3.26%) Bash
9 19 (2.30%) R
10 18 (2.18%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.69%) Scala
12 12 (1.45%) Rust
13 10 (1.21%) C++
14 6 (0.73%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.60%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.60%) Ruby
16 4 (0.48%) C
16 4 (0.48%) PHP
17 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
18 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 129 (15.60%) Security Cleared
2 114 (13.78%) SC Cleared
3 100 (12.09%) Degree
4 54 (6.53%) AWS Certification
5 32 (3.87%) CISSP
6 28 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 27 (3.26%) CISM
8 23 (2.78%) Azure Certification
9 17 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.33%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (1.09%) CREST Certified
13 8 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 8 (0.97%) CCSP
13 8 (0.97%) OSCP
14 6 (0.73%) Dell Certification
14 6 (0.73%) GIAC
15 5 (0.60%) CRISC
15 5 (0.60%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.98%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 40 (4.84%) NIST
4 24 (2.90%) Accessibility
4 24 (2.90%) GDPR
4 24 (2.90%) NCSC
5 16 (1.93%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 13 (1.57%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.21%) QA
8 9 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.73%) PMO
10 5 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.48%) Def Stans
11 4 (0.48%) GRC
11 4 (0.48%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.48%) SLA
11 4 (0.48%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 139 (16.81%) Docker
2 9 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.97%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.73%) 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 (27.57%) Kubernetes
2 106 (12.82%) Grafana
3 30 (3.63%) Ansible
4 22 (2.66%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.97%) Puppet
6 7 (0.85%) Istio
6 7 (0.85%) Podman
7 6 (0.73%) Avamar
7 6 (0.73%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.73%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.73%) 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%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 182 (22.01%) Google
2 99 (11.97%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.11%) Adobe
4 28 (3.39%) ServiceNow
5 25 (3.02%) Apple
6 21 (2.54%) Databricks
7 17 (2.06%) Dynatrace
8 16 (1.93%) OpenAI
8 16 (1.93%) Splunk
9 15 (1.81%) Informatica
9 15 (1.81%) Okta
9 15 (1.81%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.45%) New Relic
10 12 (1.45%) VMware
11 11 (1.33%) Oracle
11 11 (1.33%) SAP
12 8 (0.97%) Cisco
13 7 (0.85%) Palo Alto
13 7 (0.85%) Veeam
14 6 (0.73%) Nimble Storage