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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 48 76
Rank change year-on-year -17 +28 -40
Permanent jobs citing GCP 752 937 1,208
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.66% 5.95% 3.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.55% 15.70% 8.48%
Number of salaries quoted 386 497 1,010
10th Percentile £52,637 £51,519 £49,875
25th Percentile £62,684 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +3.34% +6.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £112,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £110,625 £137,500 £156,599
UK median annual salary £75,000 £81,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +1.25% -

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 7,873 5,968 14,248
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.31% 37.91% 42.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5,611 4,377 11,839
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,125 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -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% -8.73%

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 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 34 (4.52%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (2.79%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.66%) Apache
4 4 (0.53%) Confluence
5 3 (0.40%) CMS
5 3 (0.40%) SAS
6 2 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.27%) Camunda
6 2 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.27%) WordPress
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%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (3.19%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.27%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 603 (80.19%) AWS
2 443 (58.91%) Azure
3 90 (11.97%) SaaS
4 70 (9.31%) Amazon EKS
5 30 (3.99%) Serverless
6 29 (3.86%) Cloud Run
7 28 (3.72%) Power Platform
8 25 (3.32%) Snowflake
9 24 (3.19%) dbt
10 23 (3.06%) GitHub
10 23 (3.06%) Vertex AI
11 20 (2.66%) Cloud Functions
12 19 (2.53%) Google Analytics
13 18 (2.39%) Entra ID
13 18 (2.39%) PaaS
14 17 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (2.13%) Dagster
16 15 (1.99%) Anthropic Claude
17 14 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 100 (13.30%) Broadband
2 28 (3.72%) Network Security
3 16 (2.13%) Firewall
3 16 (2.13%) WAN
4 12 (1.60%) LAN
5 11 (1.46%) DNS
6 9 (1.20%) SD-WAN
7 8 (1.06%) LTE
7 8 (1.06%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.06%) VPN
8 7 (0.93%) Internet
9 6 (0.80%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (0.80%) iSCSI
10 5 (0.66%) DHCP
11 4 (0.53%) MQTT
12 3 (0.40%) BGP
12 3 (0.40%) Modbus
12 3 (0.40%) MPLS
12 3 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (11.84%) BigQuery
2 59 (7.85%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (4.52%) Metadata
5 32 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 29 (3.86%) Semantic Layer
7 27 (3.59%) MongoDB
8 25 (3.32%) Looker
9 24 (3.19%) Data Lake
9 24 (3.19%) Power BI
10 18 (2.39%) Pinecone
10 18 (2.39%) Relational Database
11 16 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (1.99%) Tableau
13 10 (1.33%) SQL Server
14 7 (0.93%) Delta Lake
14 7 (0.93%) Weaviate
15 6 (0.80%) Apache Iceberg
15 6 (0.80%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 57 (7.58%) TeamCity
2 44 (5.85%) Git
3 34 (4.52%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.86%) CircleCI
4 14 (1.86%) JIRA
5 12 (1.60%) Cypress.io
6 11 (1.46%) GitLab
7 7 (0.93%) MLflow
8 3 (0.40%) Postman
8 3 (0.40%) Selenium
9 2 (0.27%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.27%) JUnit
9 2 (0.27%) Subversion
9 2 (0.27%) TestRail
9 2 (0.27%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 195 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 191 (25.40%) Finance
3 172 (22.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 151 (20.08%) Law
5 115 (15.29%) Banking
6 94 (12.50%) Retail
7 89 (11.84%) Public Sector
8 49 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
9 45 (5.98%) Back Office
9 45 (5.98%) Financial Institution
10 25 (3.32%) Legal
10 25 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (2.13%) Front Office
12 10 (1.33%) Marketing
13 8 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.93%) Legal Technology
15 5 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.66%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.66%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.53%) French Language
Job Titles
1 207 (27.53%) Senior
2 160 (21.28%) Software Engineer
3 130 (17.29%) Architect
4 64 (8.51%) Developer
4 64 (8.51%) Lead
5 61 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 56 (7.45%) Data Engineer
7 52 (6.91%) Analyst
8 39 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
9 38 (5.05%) Consultant
10 36 (4.79%) GCP Engineer
11 34 (4.52%) Senior Software Engineer
12 33 (4.39%) Lead Software Engineer
13 30 (3.99%) Scala Engineer
13 30 (3.99%) Senior Architect
14 29 (3.86%) Data Architect
14 29 (3.86%) Senior Analyst
15 27 (3.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 27 (3.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 26 (3.46%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (9.97%) React
2 64 (8.51%) Node.js
3 50 (6.65%) Kafka
4 49 (6.52%) gRPC
5 33 (4.39%) LangChain
6 31 (4.12%) REST
7 30 (3.99%) Django
8 25 (3.32%) .NET
9 24 (3.19%) PyTorch
9 24 (3.19%) TensorFlow
10 21 (2.79%) FastAPI
10 21 (2.79%) LangGraph
10 21 (2.79%) Spring
11 20 (2.66%) RESTful
12 18 (2.39%) Spring Boot
13 17 (2.26%) Redux
13 17 (2.26%) Vue
14 14 (1.86%) AngularJS
14 14 (1.86%) LlamaIndex
14 14 (1.86%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 209 (27.79%) Cloud Native
2 82 (10.90%) Product Ownership
3 81 (10.77%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (6.12%) Over-the-Top Content
4 46 (6.12%) Video\Live Streaming
5 34 (4.52%) AI Agents
6 27 (3.59%) Public Cloud
6 27 (3.59%) Security Posture
7 26 (3.46%) Blog
8 24 (3.19%) Data Structures
9 23 (3.06%) Distributed Architecture
10 20 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (2.53%) Management Information System
11 19 (2.53%) Onboarding
12 17 (2.26%) Social Media
13 16 (2.13%) Fixed Income
14 11 (1.46%) Data Centre
15 10 (1.33%) Cyberattack
15 10 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (1.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 38 (5.05%) Linux
2 16 (2.13%) Windows
3 11 (1.46%) Android
3 11 (1.46%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.80%) Unix
6 1 (0.13%) CentOS
6 1 (0.13%) Debian
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (41.22%) CI/CD
2 272 (36.17%) Software Engineering
3 226 (30.05%) Agile
4 220 (29.26%) Mentoring
5 206 (27.39%) AI
6 169 (22.47%) DevOps
7 163 (21.68%) Microservices
8 151 (20.08%) Containerisation
9 146 (19.41%) Roadmaps
10 142 (18.88%) Machine Learning
11 139 (18.48%) Test Automation
12 135 (17.95%) Clean Code
12 135 (17.95%) Coaching
13 127 (16.89%) Technical Leadership
14 115 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 113 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
16 99 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
17 91 (12.10%) Data Science
18 83 (11.04%) Analytics
19 77 (10.24%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 282 (37.50%) Python
2 183 (24.34%) Java
3 109 (14.49%) SQL
4 96 (12.77%) Go
5 95 (12.63%) JavaScript
6 64 (8.51%) Scala
7 61 (8.11%) TypeScript
8 22 (2.93%) C#
9 18 (2.39%) Bash
10 15 (1.99%) C++
11 14 (1.86%) Rust
12 9 (1.20%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.66%) C
13 5 (0.66%) Ruby
14 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.53%) PHP
15 3 (0.40%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.40%) Perl
16 2 (0.27%) ABAP
16 2 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 108 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 101 (13.43%) Degree
3 88 (11.70%) SC Cleared
4 41 (5.45%) AWS Certification
5 35 (4.65%) CISSP
6 29 (3.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (2.66%) CISM
9 18 (2.39%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.73%) CREST Certified
10 13 (1.73%) OSCP
11 11 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.33%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.93%) GIAC
14 6 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.80%) CCSP
14 6 (0.80%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.80%) Dell Certification
15 5 (0.66%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.79%) NIST
3 30 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (3.72%) Accessibility
5 26 (3.46%) QA
6 19 (2.53%) GDPR
7 15 (1.99%) GRC
8 14 (1.86%) NCSC
9 11 (1.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.93%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.80%) PMO
12 6 (0.80%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.53%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.53%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.40%) SLA
15 2 (0.27%) COBIT
15 2 (0.27%) SEPA
15 2 (0.27%) SOC 1
System Software
1 159 (21.14%) Docker
2 13 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.93%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.80%) vSphere
5 1 (0.13%) Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 168 (22.34%) Kubernetes
2 154 (20.48%) Terraform
3 73 (9.71%) Grafana
4 34 (4.52%) Ansible
5 14 (1.86%) Istio
6 13 (1.73%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.73%) Puppet
7 12 (1.60%) Podman
8 6 (0.80%) Avamar
8 6 (0.80%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (0.80%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.80%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.80%) VxRail
9 5 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.53%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.40%) Argo
12 2 (0.27%) linkerd
12 2 (0.27%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 145 (19.28%) Google
2 96 (12.77%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.98%) Typelevel
4 30 (3.99%) Adobe
5 24 (3.19%) Apple
5 24 (3.19%) Databricks
5 24 (3.19%) ServiceNow
6 16 (2.13%) SAP
7 14 (1.86%) VMware
8 13 (1.73%) Oracle
9 9 (1.20%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.06%) Confluent
10 8 (1.06%) Dell
10 8 (1.06%) Palantir
10 8 (1.06%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.93%) Cisco
11 7 (0.93%) Splunk
11 7 (0.93%) Veeam
12 6 (0.80%) NetApp
12 6 (0.80%) Nimble Storage