Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 30 July 2021

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for GCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GCP over the 6 months to 30 July 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
30 Jul 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 37 113 81
Rank change year-on-year +76 -32 +116
Permanent jobs citing GCP 1,554 140 324
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.77% 2.58% 4.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.14% 5.82% 9.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,249 129 311
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,200 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £92,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £95,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +7.41% +8.00%

GCP is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,989 2,404 3,254
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 47.88% 44.35% 40.21%
Number of salaries quoted 9,129 2,122 2,959
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £90,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

GCP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GCP trend for jobs with a WFH option

GCP
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GCP.

GCP salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

GCP
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GCP over the 6 months to 30 July 2021.

GCP salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 30 July 2021, GCP job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for GCP.

1 1,248 (80.31%) AWS
2 923 (59.40%) Azure
3 676 (43.50%) Agile Software Development
4 643 (41.38%) Python
5 611 (39.32%) Kubernetes
6 592 (38.10%) JavaScript
7 586 (37.71%) Software Engineering
8 532 (34.23%) Docker
9 531 (34.17%) Google
10 513 (33.01%) React
11 508 (32.69%) DevOps
12 402 (25.87%) Java
13 387 (24.90%) Finance
14 352 (22.65%) Microservices
15 339 (21.81%) SQL
16 322 (20.72%) Terraform
17 302 (19.43%) .NET
18 266 (17.12%) Artificial Intelligence
19 261 (16.80%) Social Skills
20 246 (15.83%) Serverless
21 241 (15.51%) Machine Learning
22 232 (14.93%) C#
23 229 (14.74%) AngularJS
24 227 (14.61%) Full Stack Development
25 223 (14.35%) Web Services
26 216 (13.90%) TypeScript
26 216 (13.90%) Node.js
27 202 (13.00%) Big Data
28 197 (12.68%) Linux
29 195 (12.55%) Jenkins

GCP
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 74 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 62 (3.99%) Apache
3 59 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
4 50 (3.22%) Apache Spark
5 29 (1.87%) nginx
6 26 (1.67%) CMS
7 22 (1.42%) OpenStack
8 19 (1.22%) SharePoint
9 17 (1.09%) Apache Solr
9 17 (1.09%) Confluence
9 17 (1.09%) WordPress
10 9 (0.58%) MS Exchange
11 7 (0.45%) SAS
12 6 (0.39%) Apache Pig
12 6 (0.39%) IIS
12 6 (0.39%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
13 5 (0.32%) CloudStack
13 5 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.32%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (0.71%) Sketch
2 7 (0.45%) Adobe XD
3 5 (0.32%) Figma
4 4 (0.26%) Zeplin
5 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 15 (0.97%) Sentinel
2 9 (0.58%) Magento
3 6 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.19%) Shopify
5 2 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.064%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,248 (80.31%) AWS
2 923 (59.40%) Azure
3 246 (15.83%) Serverless
4 107 (6.89%) SaaS
5 80 (5.15%) PaaS
6 73 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 64 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
8 59 (3.80%) IaaS
9 56 (3.60%) Firebase
10 55 (3.54%) GitHub
11 45 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
12 42 (2.70%) Power Platform
13 37 (2.38%) Cloud Functions
14 35 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
15 34 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
15 34 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
16 28 (1.80%) Snowflake
17 25 (1.61%) OpenShift
18 24 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
19 22 (1.42%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.06%) Firewall
2 17 (1.09%) Internet
3 14 (0.90%) SSH
4 9 (0.58%) HTTP
5 7 (0.45%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.32%) IPv4
6 5 (0.32%) LAN
6 5 (0.32%) VLAN
6 5 (0.32%) VPN
6 5 (0.32%) WAN
7 4 (0.26%) DNS
7 4 (0.26%) FTP
7 4 (0.26%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.19%) SSL
9 2 (0.13%) Calico
9 2 (0.13%) Network Security
9 2 (0.13%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.13%) tcpdump
10 1 (0.064%) 5G
10 1 (0.064%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (13.00%) Big Data
2 162 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
3 145 (9.33%) BigQuery
4 127 (8.17%) NoSQL
5 112 (7.21%) Redis
6 109 (7.01%) MongoDB
7 106 (6.82%) MySQL
8 71 (4.57%) GIS
9 68 (4.38%) SQL Server
10 67 (4.31%) Amazon DynamoDB
11 65 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
12 60 (3.86%) Hadoop
13 51 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
14 50 (3.22%) Relational Database
15 48 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
16 44 (2.83%) Data Lake
17 36 (2.32%) Tableau
18 35 (2.25%) Power BI
19 30 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
20 27 (1.74%) Looker
Development Applications
1 195 (12.55%) Jenkins
2 174 (11.20%) Git (software)
3 78 (5.02%) GitLab
4 40 (2.57%) JIRA
5 35 (2.25%) Cypress.io
6 29 (1.87%) JMeter
7 27 (1.74%) Postman
8 21 (1.35%) CircleCI
9 20 (1.29%) TeamCity
10 18 (1.16%) JUnit
11 16 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 16 (1.03%) Mocha
12 15 (0.97%) Gradle
12 15 (0.97%) gulp
12 15 (0.97%) Maven
12 15 (0.97%) Vagrant
12 15 (0.97%) webpack
13 13 (0.84%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.84%) Spinnaker
14 11 (0.71%) Subversion
General
1 387 (24.90%) Finance
2 261 (16.80%) Social Skills
3 126 (8.11%) Retail
4 101 (6.50%) Marketing
5 84 (5.41%) Banking
6 55 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (3.54%) Public Sector
7 45 (2.90%) Telecoms
8 34 (2.19%) Front Office
9 32 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (1.42%) Electronics
11 19 (1.22%) Law
12 14 (0.90%) Automotive
13 12 (0.77%) Publishing
14 11 (0.71%) Games
14 11 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (0.64%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (0.58%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.51%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 638 (41.06%) Developer
2 263 (16.92%) Software Engineer
3 165 (10.62%) Architect
4 157 (10.10%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 157 (10.10%) React Developer
5 130 (8.37%) DevOps Engineer
5 130 (8.37%) Java Developer
5 130 (8.37%) Senior Developer
6 89 (5.73%) Lead Developer
7 79 (5.08%) C# Developer
8 78 (5.02%) Cloud Architect
9 74 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 63 (4.05%) Data Engineer
11 56 (3.60%) PHP Developer
12 54 (3.47%) Backend Developer
13 51 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
13 51 (3.28%) Python Engineer
14 47 (3.02%) JavaScript Developer
15 46 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
16 45 (2.90%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 513 (33.01%) React
2 302 (19.43%) .NET
3 229 (14.74%) AngularJS
4 223 (14.35%) Web Services
5 216 (13.90%) Node.js
6 167 (10.75%) Vue.js
7 151 (9.72%) React Native
8 145 (9.33%) REST
9 121 (7.79%) Material-UI
9 121 (7.79%) Spring
10 105 (6.76%) Spring Boot
11 97 (6.24%) CSS
12 94 (6.05%) HTML
13 87 (5.60%) Kafka
14 85 (5.47%) RESTful
15 82 (5.28%) .NET Core
16 69 (4.44%) GraphQL
17 54 (3.47%) HTML5
18 53 (3.41%) Django
19 50 (3.22%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 97 (6.24%) Cloud Native
1 97 (6.24%) Public Cloud
2 82 (5.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 76 (4.89%) User Experience
4 74 (4.76%) iPad
5 60 (3.86%) Greenfield Project
6 57 (3.67%) Hedge funds
7 46 (2.96%) Mobile App
8 38 (2.45%) Virtual Team
9 35 (2.25%) Derivative
10 34 (2.19%) Fixed Income
11 33 (2.12%) Algorithms
12 23 (1.48%) Data Centre
12 23 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (1.09%) Clustering
15 15 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
16 12 (0.77%) Equities
16 12 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 12 (0.77%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 197 (12.68%) Linux
2 82 (5.28%) Windows
3 61 (3.93%) Unix
4 54 (3.47%) Android
5 51 (3.28%) Apple iOS
6 19 (1.22%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.51%) CentOS
8 7 (0.45%) VMS
9 6 (0.39%) SUSE
9 6 (0.39%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.13%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.13%) Debian
11 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.13%) Solaris
11 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.13%) Windows 2000 Server
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.13%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (43.50%) Agile Software Development
2 586 (37.71%) Software Engineering
3 508 (32.69%) DevOps
4 352 (22.65%) Microservices
5 266 (17.12%) Artificial Intelligence
6 241 (15.51%) Machine Learning
7 227 (14.61%) Full Stack Development
8 176 (11.33%) ETL
9 171 (11.00%) Asset Management
10 169 (10.88%) Scrum
11 152 (9.78%) Analytics
12 151 (9.72%) E-Commerce
13 140 (9.01%) Data Science
13 140 (9.01%) Infrastructure as Code
14 137 (8.82%) TDD
15 129 (8.30%) Web Application Development
16 124 (7.98%) Front End Development
17 122 (7.85%) Progressive Web App
18 111 (7.14%) Mentoring
19 109 (7.01%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 643 (41.38%) Python
2 592 (38.10%) JavaScript
3 402 (25.87%) Java
4 339 (21.81%) SQL
5 232 (14.93%) C#
6 216 (13.90%) TypeScript
7 156 (10.04%) Go
8 101 (6.50%) Kotlin
9 98 (6.31%) PHP
10 86 (5.53%) Bash Shell
11 77 (4.95%) Scala
12 58 (3.73%) PowerShell
13 55 (3.54%) C++
14 39 (2.51%) Ruby
15 38 (2.45%) Java 8
16 35 (2.25%) ES6
17 30 (1.93%) C
18 28 (1.80%) R
19 27 (1.74%) Cython
20 19 (1.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 103 (6.63%) Degree
2 38 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (2.12%) Security Cleared
4 29 (1.87%) PhD
5 24 (1.54%) SC Cleared
6 12 (0.77%) AWS Certification
7 11 (0.71%) CISSP
8 9 (0.58%) OSCP
9 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.26%) GPEN
10 4 (0.26%) SANS
11 3 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.19%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.19%) MCSA
11 3 (0.19%) MCSE
12 2 (0.13%) FFIEC
13 1 (0.064%) CCSP
13 1 (0.064%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.064%) MCT
13 1 (0.064%) MPhil
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (4.31%) QA
2 28 (1.80%) GDPR
3 25 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (0.77%) Accessibility
5 11 (0.71%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.64%) SLA
7 8 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.32%) GRC
9 4 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.19%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 3 (0.19%) NCSC
10 3 (0.19%) NIST
10 3 (0.19%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.064%) WCAG
System Software
1 532 (34.23%) Docker
2 29 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.45%) vSphere
6 6 (0.39%) VirtualBox
7 5 (0.32%) Gluster
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.26%) Apache Flume
9 3 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.13%) Ceph
10 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.13%) Varnish
10 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.13%) Xen
11 1 (0.064%) KVM
11 1 (0.064%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.064%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 611 (39.32%) Kubernetes
2 322 (20.72%) Terraform
3 178 (11.45%) Ansible
4 59 (3.80%) Opscode Chef
5 57 (3.67%) Puppet
6 39 (2.51%) Prometheus
7 28 (1.80%) Grafana
8 11 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
9 10 (0.64%) Packer
10 6 (0.39%) Rancher
10 6 (0.39%) SCCM
10 6 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.32%) Consul
11 5 (0.32%) Istio
11 5 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.32%) Salt
12 4 (0.26%) AirWatch
12 4 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.26%) Nagios
12 4 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 531 (34.17%) Google
2 94 (6.05%) Microsoft
3 90 (5.79%) Oracle
4 35 (2.25%) Yahoo!
5 23 (1.48%) VMware
6 21 (1.35%) Qubit
7 16 (1.03%) SAP
8 15 (0.97%) IBM
9 14 (0.90%) Adobe
9 14 (0.90%) Databricks
9 14 (0.90%) Rackspace
9 14 (0.90%) Teradata
10 13 (0.84%) Cloudera
11 12 (0.77%) Hortonworks
11 12 (0.77%) Salesforce.com
12 11 (0.71%) Elastic Path
12 11 (0.71%) Meraki
13 9 (0.58%) Citrix
13 9 (0.58%) SaltStack
14 8 (0.51%) MKS