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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 61 65
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -28
Permanent jobs citing GCP 819 835 992
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.55% 5.03% 4.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.46% 13.96% 9.83%
Number of salaries quoted 465 414 762
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,502 £67,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £86,126 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% -9.34% +18.75%
75th Percentile £93,750 £132,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £112,000 £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 8,661 5,982 10,093
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.53% 36.04% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 6,322 4,374 7,672
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
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 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 24 August 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 13 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.10%) Apache
2 9 (1.10%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.61%) Confluence
3 5 (0.61%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.49%) Camunda
5 3 (0.37%) CMS
5 3 (0.37%) WordPress
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Appian
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 12 (1.47%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.12%) Trello
4 1 (0.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (2.93%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Shopify
3 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 655 (79.98%) AWS
2 519 (63.37%) Azure
3 90 (10.99%) SaaS
4 57 (6.96%) Amazon EKS
5 36 (4.40%) Power Platform
6 35 (4.27%) GitHub
7 33 (4.03%) Cloud Run
8 28 (3.42%) Serverless
9 27 (3.30%) dbt
10 24 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (2.69%) Cloud Functions
12 22 (2.69%) Google Analytics
13 20 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (2.44%) Snowflake
14 19 (2.32%) Anthropic Claude
15 18 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
16 17 (2.08%) Datadog
16 17 (2.08%) Firebase
17 16 (1.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 71 (8.67%) Broadband
2 35 (4.27%) Network Security
3 22 (2.69%) Firewall
3 22 (2.69%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.32%) WAN
5 12 (1.47%) SD-WAN
6 11 (1.34%) LAN
6 11 (1.34%) VPN
7 8 (0.98%) LTE
8 7 (0.85%) DNS
8 7 (0.85%) Internet
9 6 (0.73%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (0.73%) HTTP
9 6 (0.73%) iSCSI
10 5 (0.61%) BGP
11 4 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.49%) SSH
11 4 (0.49%) Wireless
12 3 (0.37%) Modbus
12 3 (0.37%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (7.94%) BigQuery
2 46 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (4.88%) NoSQL
4 34 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (4.15%) Power BI
5 29 (3.54%) MongoDB
6 23 (2.81%) Data Lake
6 23 (2.81%) Looker
6 23 (2.81%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.44%) Semantic Layer
8 19 (2.32%) Relational Database
9 17 (2.08%) Pinecone
9 17 (2.08%) Tableau
10 10 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (1.22%) Metadata
10 10 (1.22%) MySQL
11 5 (0.61%) Data Vault
11 5 (0.61%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.61%) Redis
11 5 (0.61%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 57 (6.96%) Git
2 48 (5.86%) TeamCity
3 41 (5.01%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.83%) JIRA
5 13 (1.59%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.47%) CircleCI
7 9 (1.10%) GitLab
8 4 (0.49%) JUnit
9 3 (0.37%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.37%) Maven
9 3 (0.37%) Postman
9 3 (0.37%) Selenium
9 3 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.24%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.24%) ERwin
10 2 (0.24%) Mockito
10 2 (0.24%) Subversion
10 2 (0.24%) TestRail
10 2 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 250 (30.53%) Social Skills
2 211 (25.76%) Finance
3 176 (21.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 131 (16.00%) Law
5 114 (13.92%) Banking
6 87 (10.62%) Retail
7 82 (10.01%) Public Sector
8 75 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
9 48 (5.86%) Financial Institution
10 47 (5.74%) Back Office
11 37 (4.52%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (2.93%) Marketing
13 23 (2.81%) Legal
14 7 (0.85%) Advertising
14 7 (0.85%) Legal Technology
14 7 (0.85%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.61%) Games
16 4 (0.49%) French Language
16 4 (0.49%) Front Office
16 4 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 226 (27.59%) Senior
2 175 (21.37%) Software Engineer
3 137 (16.73%) Architect
4 69 (8.42%) Lead
5 68 (8.30%) Cloud Engineer
6 52 (6.35%) Analyst
7 50 (6.11%) Python Engineer
8 49 (5.98%) Developer
9 45 (5.49%) GCP Engineer
10 44 (5.37%) Data Engineer
11 41 (5.01%) Solutions Architect
12 33 (4.03%) Senior Analyst
13 31 (3.79%) Senior Software Engineer
14 29 (3.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 28 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 28 (3.42%) Site Engineer
16 26 (3.17%) Principal Engineer
17 25 (3.05%) Consultant
17 25 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
17 25 (3.05%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (23.81%) Terraform
2 84 (10.26%) React
3 59 (7.20%) Node.js
4 49 (5.98%) REST
5 37 (4.52%) .NET
6 35 (4.27%) LangChain
7 33 (4.03%) Kafka
8 31 (3.79%) gRPC
9 28 (3.42%) Spring
10 24 (2.93%) FastAPI
11 23 (2.81%) OAuth
12 22 (2.69%) PyTorch
13 21 (2.56%) Django
13 21 (2.56%) RESTful
14 20 (2.44%) LangGraph
14 20 (2.44%) Spring Boot
15 18 (2.20%) OpenID
15 18 (2.20%) TensorFlow
16 17 (2.08%) Middleware
16 17 (2.08%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 211 (25.76%) Cloud Native
2 89 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (10.13%) Product Ownership
4 49 (5.98%) AI Agents
5 32 (3.91%) Video\Live Streaming
6 28 (3.42%) Over-the-Top Content
7 25 (3.05%) Distributed Architecture
8 21 (2.56%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (2.44%) Security Posture
10 17 (2.08%) Blog
10 17 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.95%) Onboarding
12 15 (1.83%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.83%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.71%) Management Information System
13 14 (1.71%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.59%) Social Media
15 12 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.98%) Linux
2 18 (2.20%) Unix
3 15 (1.83%) Windows
4 8 (0.98%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.73%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) CentOS
7 1 (0.12%) Debian
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (41.03%) CI/CD
2 301 (36.75%) Software Engineering
3 252 (30.77%) AI
4 248 (30.28%) Mentoring
5 216 (26.37%) Agile
6 186 (22.71%) DevOps
7 155 (18.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 147 (17.95%) Microservices
9 142 (17.34%) Roadmaps
9 142 (17.34%) Technical Leadership
10 138 (16.85%) Containerisation
10 138 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 134 (16.36%) Machine Learning
12 130 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
13 129 (15.75%) Test Automation
14 118 (14.41%) Observability
15 113 (13.80%) Clean Code
16 106 (12.94%) Coaching
17 105 (12.82%) Analytics
18 91 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 298 (36.39%) Python
2 161 (19.66%) Java
3 131 (16.00%) SQL
4 96 (11.72%) JavaScript
5 75 (9.16%) Go
6 61 (7.45%) TypeScript
7 40 (4.88%) C#
8 37 (4.52%) Scala
9 20 (2.44%) Bash
10 19 (2.32%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.47%) Rust
12 9 (1.10%) C++
13 7 (0.85%) Ruby
14 5 (0.61%) C
14 5 (0.61%) PHP
15 4 (0.49%) R
16 3 (0.37%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.37%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.37%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 128 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 112 (13.68%) SC Cleared
3 107 (13.06%) Degree
4 52 (6.35%) AWS Certification
5 29 (3.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 29 (3.54%) CISSP
6 24 (2.93%) CISM
6 24 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.71%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.10%) CREST Certified
10 9 (1.10%) OSCP
11 6 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (0.73%) CCSP
11 6 (0.73%) Dell Certification
12 5 (0.61%) CCIE
12 5 (0.61%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.72%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.40%) NIST
3 34 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (3.66%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.69%) NCSC
6 17 (2.08%) GDPR
7 16 (1.95%) QA
8 15 (1.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 10 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (1.22%) GRC
10 7 (0.85%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.85%) SLA
11 6 (0.73%) PMO
12 5 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.49%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.49%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 176 (21.49%) Docker
2 15 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.98%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.73%) vSphere
6 3 (0.37%) Active Directory
7 2 (0.24%) Firmware
7 2 (0.24%) KVM
Systems Management
1 194 (23.69%) Kubernetes
2 74 (9.04%) Grafana
3 36 (4.40%) Ansible
4 16 (1.95%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.83%) Istio
6 13 (1.59%) Podman
7 12 (1.47%) Puppet
8 6 (0.73%) Avamar
8 6 (0.73%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.73%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.73%) VxRail
9 5 (0.61%) CASB
9 5 (0.61%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.37%) Argo
11 3 (0.37%) linkerd
12 2 (0.24%) Packer
13 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.12%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 164 (20.02%) Google
2 104 (12.70%) Microsoft
3 30 (3.66%) Adobe
4 27 (3.30%) Typelevel
5 25 (3.05%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.93%) Apple
7 21 (2.56%) Databricks
8 17 (2.08%) Dynatrace
9 16 (1.95%) Okta
10 15 (1.83%) Ping Identity
11 14 (1.71%) Informatica
11 14 (1.71%) SAP
11 14 (1.71%) VMware
12 12 (1.47%) OpenAI
12 12 (1.47%) Splunk
13 10 (1.22%) Cisco
13 10 (1.22%) Oracle
14 9 (1.10%) New Relic
14 9 (1.10%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.98%) Confluent