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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 56 67
Rank change year-on-year -12 +11 -32
Permanent jobs citing GCP 799 889 1,017
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.65% 5.40% 3.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.40% 14.72% 9.27%
Number of salaries quoted 446 463 825
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,509 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% -7.84% +15.63%
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 8,503 6,039 10,969
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.85% 36.69% 41.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,118 4,456 8,816
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,549 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 29 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 23 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (1.75%) 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 (3.00%) 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
1 636 (79.60%) AWS
2 493 (61.70%) Azure
3 81 (10.14%) SaaS
4 60 (7.51%) Amazon EKS
5 33 (4.13%) Cloud Run
6 32 (4.01%) GitHub
7 31 (3.88%) dbt
8 30 (3.75%) Power Platform
9 29 (3.63%) Serverless
10 25 (3.13%) Snowflake
11 22 (2.75%) Cloud Functions
12 21 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 21 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (2.50%) Anthropic Claude
13 20 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (2.50%) Google Analytics
14 19 (2.38%) PaaS
15 17 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (2.13%) Entra ID
15 17 (2.13%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 89 (11.14%) Broadband
2 31 (3.88%) Network Security
3 19 (2.38%) Firewall
3 19 (2.38%) TCP/IP
4 17 (2.13%) WAN
5 11 (1.38%) DNS
5 11 (1.38%) LAN
6 10 (1.25%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.13%) VPN
8 8 (1.00%) LTE
9 7 (0.88%) Internet
10 6 (0.75%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (0.75%) iSCSI
11 5 (0.63%) DHCP
11 5 (0.63%) HTTP
11 5 (0.63%) MQTT
12 4 (0.50%) SSH
13 3 (0.38%) MPLS
13 3 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (9.76%) BigQuery
2 56 (7.01%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (4.13%) NoSQL
4 29 (3.63%) MongoDB
5 28 (3.50%) Power BI
6 25 (3.13%) Data Lake
7 23 (2.88%) Looker
7 23 (2.88%) Semantic Layer
8 20 (2.50%) Metadata
8 20 (2.50%) SQL Server
9 19 (2.38%) Relational Database
10 18 (2.25%) Pinecone
11 14 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (1.63%) Tableau
13 9 (1.13%) Redis
14 8 (1.00%) MySQL
15 7 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.75%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 53 (6.63%) Git
2 50 (6.26%) TeamCity
3 43 (5.38%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.88%) JIRA
5 13 (1.63%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.50%) CircleCI
7 10 (1.25%) GitLab
8 3 (0.38%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.38%) Postman
8 3 (0.38%) Selenium
8 3 (0.38%) TestRail
8 3 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.38%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.25%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.25%) JUnit
9 2 (0.25%) MLflow
9 2 (0.25%) Subversion
10 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.13%) Jaeger
General
1 230 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 207 (25.91%) Finance
3 177 (22.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 140 (17.52%) Law
5 111 (13.89%) Banking
6 85 (10.64%) Retail
7 81 (10.14%) Public Sector
8 64 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
9 43 (5.38%) Financial Institution
10 42 (5.26%) Back Office
11 33 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (2.88%) Legal
13 18 (2.25%) Marketing
14 16 (2.00%) Front Office
15 7 (0.88%) Legal Technology
15 7 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.75%) Advertising
16 6 (0.75%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.63%) Games
17 5 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 225 (28.16%) Senior
2 178 (22.28%) Software Engineer
3 124 (15.52%) Architect
4 81 (10.14%) Lead
5 64 (8.01%) Cloud Engineer
6 61 (7.63%) Developer
7 53 (6.63%) Analyst
8 52 (6.51%) Data Engineer
9 44 (5.51%) GCP Engineer
10 39 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
11 38 (4.76%) Python Engineer
12 34 (4.26%) Lead Software Engineer
13 33 (4.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 33 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
14 32 (4.01%) Senior Analyst
15 31 (3.88%) Consultant
15 31 (3.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 27 (3.38%) Senior Architect
17 25 (3.13%) Senior Manager
18 24 (3.00%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (11.26%) React
2 64 (8.01%) Node.js
3 46 (5.76%) Kafka
4 45 (5.63%) REST
5 40 (5.01%) gRPC
6 37 (4.63%) LangChain
7 28 (3.50%) .NET
7 28 (3.50%) Django
8 25 (3.13%) Spring
9 24 (3.00%) FastAPI
9 24 (3.00%) OAuth
10 23 (2.88%) LangGraph
11 20 (2.50%) OpenID
11 20 (2.50%) PyTorch
11 20 (2.50%) Spring Boot
12 19 (2.38%) RESTful
12 19 (2.38%) TensorFlow
13 18 (2.25%) AngularJS
13 18 (2.25%) SAML
13 18 (2.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 214 (26.78%) Cloud Native
2 87 (10.89%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (10.26%) Product Ownership
4 43 (5.38%) AI Agents
5 40 (5.01%) Video\Live Streaming
6 37 (4.63%) Over-the-Top Content
7 24 (3.00%) Security Posture
8 23 (2.88%) Distributed Architecture
9 22 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (2.63%) Data Structures
10 21 (2.63%) Public Cloud
11 19 (2.38%) Management Information System
12 18 (2.25%) Onboarding
12 18 (2.25%) Social Media
13 17 (2.13%) Blog
14 16 (2.00%) Fixed Income
15 14 (1.75%) Mobile App
16 13 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
17 12 (1.50%) Data Centre
18 10 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.13%) Linux
2 18 (2.25%) Windows
3 17 (2.13%) 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
1 336 (42.05%) CI/CD
2 297 (37.17%) Software Engineering
3 240 (30.04%) Mentoring
4 229 (28.66%) Agile
5 227 (28.41%) AI
6 184 (23.03%) DevOps
7 158 (19.77%) Microservices
8 152 (19.02%) Containerisation
9 140 (17.52%) Roadmaps
10 139 (17.40%) Infrastructure as Code
11 138 (17.27%) Machine Learning
12 137 (17.15%) Test Automation
13 134 (16.77%) Technical Leadership
14 126 (15.77%) Continuous Improvement
15 125 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
16 123 (15.39%) Clean Code
17 122 (15.27%) Coaching
18 101 (12.64%) Observability
19 96 (12.02%) Analytics
20 85 (10.64%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 304 (38.05%) Python
2 170 (21.28%) Java
3 121 (15.14%) SQL
4 103 (12.89%) JavaScript
5 90 (11.26%) Go
6 62 (7.76%) TypeScript
7 52 (6.51%) Scala
8 32 (4.01%) C#
9 20 (2.50%) Bash
10 16 (2.00%) Rust
11 15 (1.88%) C++
12 13 (1.63%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.75%) Ruby
14 5 (0.63%) C
15 4 (0.50%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.50%) PHP
15 4 (0.50%) R
16 3 (0.38%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.38%) Perl
16 3 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 125 (15.64%) Security Cleared
2 109 (13.64%) Degree
3 107 (13.39%) SC Cleared
4 46 (5.76%) AWS Certification
5 35 (4.38%) CISSP
6 29 (3.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.88%) CISM
9 18 (2.25%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.38%) DV Cleared
12 10 (1.25%) CREST Certified
12 10 (1.25%) OSCP
13 6 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.75%) CCSP
13 6 (0.75%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.75%) Dell Certification
14 5 (0.63%) CCIE
14 5 (0.63%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (6.26%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.76%) NIST
3 32 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (3.75%) Accessibility
5 24 (3.00%) QA
6 21 (2.63%) GDPR
7 18 (2.25%) NCSC
8 13 (1.63%) GRC
8 13 (1.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 9 (1.13%) PCI DSS
10 8 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.75%) PMO
12 4 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.50%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.50%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.50%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.38%) SLA
14 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 182 (22.78%) Docker
2 15 (1.88%) 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
1 187 (23.40%) Kubernetes
2 181 (22.65%) Terraform
3 71 (8.89%) Grafana
4 35 (4.38%) Ansible
5 17 (2.13%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.88%) Istio
7 14 (1.75%) 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%) CASB
10 5 (0.63%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.38%) linkerd
13 2 (0.25%) Argo
13 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 153 (19.15%) Google
2 103 (12.89%) Microsoft
3 36 (4.51%) Typelevel
4 27 (3.38%) Adobe
5 25 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 24 (3.00%) Apple
7 20 (2.50%) Databricks
8 18 (2.25%) Okta
9 15 (1.88%) SAP
9 15 (1.88%) VMware
10 14 (1.75%) Ping Identity
11 12 (1.50%) 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%) Cisco
15 8 (1.00%) Confluent
15 8 (1.00%) Dell
16 7 (0.88%) Veeam