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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 60 65
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 -25
Permanent jobs citing GCP 813 809 940
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.39% 5.00% 4.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.41% 14.11% 9.96%
Number of salaries quoted 465 399 685
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,334 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £93,750 £133,750 £142,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £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 8,636 5,733 9,437
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.03% 35.42% 40.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,348 4,123 6,604
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,533
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 15 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 10 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (1.23%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.11%) Apache
3 8 (0.98%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.62%) Confluence
5 3 (0.37%) Camunda
5 3 (0.37%) WordPress
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Appian
6 1 (0.12%) CMS
6 1 (0.12%) Drupal
6 1 (0.12%) IIS
6 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.12%) nginx
6 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (1.85%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.25%) Weka
4 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (2.95%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 658 (80.93%) AWS
2 524 (64.45%) Azure
3 103 (12.67%) SaaS
4 71 (8.73%) Amazon EKS
5 36 (4.43%) Power Platform
6 35 (4.31%) GitHub
7 27 (3.32%) Cloud Run
8 26 (3.20%) dbt
9 25 (3.08%) Serverless
10 24 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (2.71%) Google Analytics
12 22 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
13 21 (2.58%) Snowflake
14 19 (2.34%) Anthropic Claude
15 17 (2.09%) Cloud Functions
15 17 (2.09%) Datadog
15 17 (2.09%) Firebase
16 16 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
17 15 (1.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 43 (5.29%) Broadband
2 37 (4.55%) Network Security
3 19 (2.34%) Firewall
3 19 (2.34%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.85%) WAN
5 10 (1.23%) SD-WAN
5 10 (1.23%) VPN
6 7 (0.86%) LAN
7 6 (0.74%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (0.74%) HTTP
7 6 (0.74%) iSCSI
8 5 (0.62%) BGP
8 5 (0.62%) DNS
9 4 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.49%) LTE
9 4 (0.49%) SSH
9 4 (0.49%) Wireless
10 3 (0.37%) Internet
10 3 (0.37%) MPLS
10 3 (0.37%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (7.38%) BigQuery
2 51 (6.27%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (4.43%) NoSQL
4 34 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (4.18%) Power BI
5 23 (2.83%) Looker
5 23 (2.83%) MongoDB
5 23 (2.83%) SQL Server
6 19 (2.34%) Semantic Layer
7 18 (2.21%) Data Lake
8 17 (2.09%) Metadata
8 17 (2.09%) Pinecone
8 17 (2.09%) Relational Database
8 17 (2.09%) Tableau
9 16 (1.97%) Chroma
10 10 (1.23%) MySQL
11 9 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.86%) Metadata Repository
13 5 (0.62%) Redis
13 5 (0.62%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 66 (8.12%) TeamCity
2 52 (6.40%) Git
3 42 (5.17%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.72%) JIRA
5 8 (0.98%) Cypress.io
5 8 (0.98%) GitLab
6 7 (0.86%) CircleCI
7 5 (0.62%) JUnit
8 4 (0.49%) Maven
9 3 (0.37%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.37%) Mockito
9 3 (0.37%) Postman
9 3 (0.37%) Selenium
9 3 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.25%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.25%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.25%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.25%) Subversion
10 2 (0.25%) TestRail
10 2 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 246 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 233 (28.66%) Finance
3 197 (24.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 151 (18.57%) Law
5 146 (17.96%) Banking
6 112 (13.78%) Retail
7 94 (11.56%) Public Sector
8 72 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
9 60 (7.38%) Back Office
9 60 (7.38%) Financial Institution
10 38 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (3.44%) Marketing
12 23 (2.83%) Legal
13 8 (0.98%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.86%) Advertising
14 7 (0.86%) French Language
15 5 (0.62%) Games
15 5 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.49%) Front Office
16 4 (0.49%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 232 (28.54%) Senior
2 188 (23.12%) Software Engineer
3 140 (17.22%) Architect
4 70 (8.61%) Lead
5 67 (8.24%) Cloud Engineer
6 58 (7.13%) Analyst
7 52 (6.40%) Python Engineer
8 45 (5.54%) GCP Engineer
9 41 (5.04%) Developer
10 38 (4.67%) Data Engineer
11 35 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
12 34 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
13 33 (4.06%) Senior Analyst
14 32 (3.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 30 (3.69%) Senior Architect
16 29 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 28 (3.44%) Site Engineer
18 27 (3.32%) Data Architect
18 27 (3.32%) Security Architect
19 25 (3.08%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (25.95%) Terraform
2 71 (8.73%) React
3 51 (6.27%) Node.js
4 43 (5.29%) REST
5 41 (5.04%) LangChain
6 34 (4.18%) .NET
7 29 (3.57%) Spring
8 27 (3.32%) Kafka
9 26 (3.20%) LangGraph
9 26 (3.20%) PyTorch
10 22 (2.71%) OAuth
10 22 (2.71%) RESTful
10 22 (2.71%) Spring Boot
11 21 (2.58%) FastAPI
11 21 (2.58%) Middleware
11 21 (2.58%) TensorFlow
12 18 (2.21%) Django
12 18 (2.21%) OpenID
12 18 (2.21%) scikit-learn
13 17 (2.09%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 223 (27.43%) Cloud Native
2 91 (11.19%) Product Ownership
3 76 (9.35%) Distributed Systems
4 53 (6.52%) AI Agents
5 27 (3.32%) Blog
5 27 (3.32%) Distributed Architecture
6 20 (2.46%) Public Cloud
7 19 (2.34%) Security Posture
8 18 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.85%) Data Centre
9 15 (1.85%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
11 13 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.60%) Social Media
12 12 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.48%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (1.35%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.23%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.03%) Linux
2 18 (2.21%) Unix
3 15 (1.85%) Windows
4 9 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.74%) Android
5 6 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.12%) CentOS
7 1 (0.12%) Debian
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (40.71%) CI/CD
2 295 (36.29%) Software Engineering
3 268 (32.96%) Mentoring
4 261 (32.10%) AI
5 211 (25.95%) Agile
6 193 (23.74%) DevOps
7 150 (18.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 148 (18.20%) Technical Leadership
9 138 (16.97%) Test Automation
10 137 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 136 (16.73%) Microservices
12 135 (16.61%) Roadmaps
13 119 (14.64%) Machine Learning
14 118 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
15 117 (14.39%) Observability
16 113 (13.90%) Containerisation
17 108 (13.28%) Clean Code
18 104 (12.79%) Coaching
19 101 (12.42%) Analytics
20 98 (12.05%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 280 (34.44%) Python
2 180 (22.14%) Java
3 131 (16.11%) SQL
4 83 (10.21%) JavaScript
5 58 (7.13%) Go
5 58 (7.13%) TypeScript
6 38 (4.67%) C#
7 23 (2.83%) Bash
8 20 (2.46%) PowerShell
8 20 (2.46%) Scala
9 12 (1.48%) Rust
10 10 (1.23%) C++
11 9 (1.11%) R
12 7 (0.86%) Ruby
13 5 (0.62%) C
13 5 (0.62%) PHP
14 4 (0.49%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.37%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.37%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 130 (15.99%) Security Cleared
2 112 (13.78%) SC Cleared
3 106 (13.04%) Degree
4 55 (6.77%) AWS Certification
5 32 (3.94%) CISSP
6 29 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (3.20%) CISM
8 24 (2.95%) Azure Certification
9 21 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.35%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.11%) CREST Certified
12 9 (1.11%) OSCP
13 7 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.86%) CCSP
14 6 (0.74%) Dell Certification
15 5 (0.62%) CRISC
15 5 (0.62%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.49%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.38%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.80%) NIST
3 37 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (3.44%) Accessibility
5 25 (3.08%) NCSC
6 20 (2.46%) GDPR
7 16 (1.97%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 13 (1.60%) QA
9 10 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (1.11%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.86%) GRC
12 6 (0.74%) PMO
12 6 (0.74%) SLA
13 5 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.49%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.49%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
17 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
17 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 149 (18.33%) Docker
2 12 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.98%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.74%) vSphere
6 3 (0.37%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.37%) Firmware
7 2 (0.25%) KVM
Systems Management
1 215 (26.45%) Kubernetes
2 93 (11.44%) Grafana
3 34 (4.18%) Ansible
4 19 (2.34%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.60%) Istio
6 10 (1.23%) Puppet
7 8 (0.98%) Podman
8 6 (0.74%) Avamar
8 6 (0.74%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.74%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.74%) VxRail
9 5 (0.62%) CASB
9 5 (0.62%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.37%) Argo
11 3 (0.37%) linkerd
12 2 (0.25%) Packer
13 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.12%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 162 (19.93%) Google
2 107 (13.16%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.06%) Adobe
4 28 (3.44%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.95%) Apple
6 21 (2.58%) Databricks
7 17 (2.09%) Dynatrace
8 16 (1.97%) Okta
9 15 (1.85%) Informatica
9 15 (1.85%) OpenAI
9 15 (1.85%) Ping Identity
10 13 (1.60%) Splunk
11 12 (1.48%) SAP
11 12 (1.48%) VMware
12 10 (1.23%) Cisco
12 10 (1.23%) Oracle
13 9 (1.11%) New Relic
13 9 (1.11%) Palo Alto
13 9 (1.11%) Typelevel
14 7 (0.86%) Dell