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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 59 63
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -26
Permanent jobs citing GCP 838 860 991
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.69% 5.18% 3.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.67% 14.45% 9.70%
Number of salaries quoted 475 438 779
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,375 £63,938 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% -10.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £95,000 £127,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £83,230
% change year-on-year -6.25% -3.88% +4.04%

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 8,670 5,950 10,214
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.15% 35.81% 41.04%
Number of salaries quoted 6,273 4,388 7,983
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,250 £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 £81,313 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%

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 13 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 19 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.07%) Apache
4 5 (0.60%) Confluence
5 4 (0.48%) Camunda
5 4 (0.48%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.36%) CMS
6 3 (0.36%) WordPress
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.12%) Appian
7 1 (0.12%) Drupal
7 1 (0.12%) IIS
7 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.12%) nginx
7 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.72%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.48%) 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 (2.86%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Shopify
3 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 668 (79.71%) AWS
2 532 (63.48%) Azure
3 86 (10.26%) SaaS
4 55 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
5 38 (4.53%) dbt
6 37 (4.42%) Power Platform
7 36 (4.30%) GitHub
8 33 (3.94%) Cloud Run
9 30 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 29 (3.46%) Serverless
11 23 (2.74%) Cloud Functions
11 23 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (2.74%) Google Analytics
12 22 (2.63%) Snowflake
13 20 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (2.27%) Anthropic Claude
14 19 (2.27%) PaaS
15 17 (2.03%) Entra ID
15 17 (2.03%) Firebase
16 16 (1.91%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 80 (9.55%) Broadband
2 33 (3.94%) Network Security
3 27 (3.22%) TCP/IP
4 23 (2.74%) Firewall
5 20 (2.39%) WAN
6 12 (1.43%) LAN
6 12 (1.43%) SD-WAN
6 12 (1.43%) VPN
7 11 (1.31%) DNS
8 8 (0.95%) LTE
9 7 (0.84%) Internet
10 6 (0.72%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (0.72%) HTTP
10 6 (0.72%) iSCSI
11 5 (0.60%) BGP
11 5 (0.60%) DHCP
12 4 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (0.48%) SSH
12 4 (0.48%) Wireless
13 3 (0.36%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (8.71%) BigQuery
2 54 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
3 37 (4.42%) NoSQL
4 35 (4.18%) Power BI
5 33 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (3.58%) MongoDB
7 25 (2.98%) Looker
8 23 (2.74%) Data Lake
8 23 (2.74%) SQL Server
9 20 (2.39%) Semantic Layer
10 18 (2.15%) Relational Database
10 18 (2.15%) Tableau
11 17 (2.03%) Metadata
11 17 (2.03%) Pinecone
12 10 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.19%) Redis
13 9 (1.07%) MySQL
14 6 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.72%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 60 (7.16%) Git
2 45 (5.37%) TeamCity
3 43 (5.13%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.91%) JIRA
5 13 (1.55%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.43%) CircleCI
7 10 (1.19%) GitLab
8 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.36%) JUnit
8 3 (0.36%) Postman
8 3 (0.36%) Selenium
8 3 (0.36%) TestRail
8 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.36%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.24%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.24%) ERwin
9 2 (0.24%) Maven
9 2 (0.24%) Subversion
10 1 (0.12%) Gatling
General
1 262 (31.26%) Social Skills
2 217 (25.89%) Finance
3 176 (21.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 134 (15.99%) Law
5 108 (12.89%) Banking
6 84 (10.02%) Public Sector
7 83 (9.90%) Retail
8 76 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
9 44 (5.25%) Financial Institution
10 42 (5.01%) Back Office
11 37 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (3.46%) Legal
13 23 (2.74%) Marketing
14 12 (1.43%) Front Office
15 7 (0.84%) Advertising
15 7 (0.84%) Legal Technology
15 7 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.84%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.60%) Games
17 4 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 243 (29.00%) Senior
2 178 (21.24%) Software Engineer
3 135 (16.11%) Architect
4 79 (9.43%) Lead
5 67 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 56 (6.68%) Developer
7 53 (6.32%) Analyst
8 51 (6.09%) Data Engineer
9 50 (5.97%) Python Engineer
10 45 (5.37%) GCP Engineer
11 41 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
12 34 (4.06%) Senior Software Engineer
13 33 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
14 31 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 31 (3.70%) Consultant
15 30 (3.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 29 (3.46%) Lead Software Engineer
17 27 (3.22%) Senior Manager
17 27 (3.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 26 (3.10%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (11.22%) React
2 63 (7.52%) Node.js
3 50 (5.97%) REST
4 44 (5.25%) Kafka
5 38 (4.53%) LangChain
6 37 (4.42%) .NET
7 31 (3.70%) gRPC
8 29 (3.46%) Spring
9 28 (3.34%) Django
10 26 (3.10%) OAuth
11 25 (2.98%) FastAPI
12 23 (2.74%) LangGraph
13 21 (2.51%) OpenID
13 21 (2.51%) RESTful
13 21 (2.51%) Spring Boot
14 20 (2.39%) AngularJS
14 20 (2.39%) PyTorch
14 20 (2.39%) Vue
15 19 (2.27%) SAML
16 18 (2.15%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 212 (25.30%) Cloud Native
2 84 (10.02%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (9.31%) Product Ownership
4 48 (5.73%) AI Agents
5 32 (3.82%) Video\Live Streaming
6 28 (3.34%) Over-the-Top Content
7 25 (2.98%) Public Cloud
8 24 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
9 23 (2.74%) Security Posture
10 22 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (2.39%) Data Structures
12 18 (2.15%) Management Information System
12 18 (2.15%) Social Media
13 17 (2.03%) Blog
14 16 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
14 16 (1.91%) Onboarding
15 15 (1.79%) Data Centre
15 15 (1.79%) Mobile App
16 12 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
16 12 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (6.92%) Linux
2 23 (2.74%) Unix
3 17 (2.03%) Windows
4 9 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.84%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) CentOS
7 1 (0.12%) Debian
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (40.81%) CI/CD
2 302 (36.04%) Software Engineering
3 254 (30.31%) Mentoring
4 246 (29.36%) AI
5 241 (28.76%) Agile
6 195 (23.27%) DevOps
7 163 (19.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 150 (17.90%) Microservices
9 148 (17.66%) Roadmaps
10 146 (17.42%) Containerisation
11 143 (17.06%) Technical Leadership
12 138 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 136 (16.23%) Machine Learning
14 132 (15.75%) Test Automation
15 131 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
16 119 (14.20%) Clean Code
16 119 (14.20%) Observability
17 115 (13.72%) Coaching
18 110 (13.13%) Analytics
19 85 (10.14%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 315 (37.59%) Python
2 172 (20.53%) Java
3 134 (15.99%) SQL
4 104 (12.41%) JavaScript
5 80 (9.55%) Go
6 67 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 42 (5.01%) Scala
8 40 (4.77%) C#
9 21 (2.51%) Bash
10 18 (2.15%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.67%) C++
12 13 (1.55%) Rust
13 7 (0.84%) Ruby
14 5 (0.60%) C
14 5 (0.60%) PHP
14 5 (0.60%) R
15 4 (0.48%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.36%) Perl
16 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 141 (16.83%) Security Cleared
2 122 (14.56%) SC Cleared
3 111 (13.25%) Degree
4 52 (6.21%) AWS Certification
5 35 (4.18%) CISSP
6 29 (3.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.74%) CISM
9 21 (2.51%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.67%) DV Cleared
11 12 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (1.19%) CREST Certified
13 10 (1.19%) OSCP
14 6 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.72%) CCSP
14 6 (0.72%) Dell Certification
15 5 (0.60%) CCIE
15 5 (0.60%) GIAC
15 5 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.56%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.42%) NIST
3 32 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (3.58%) Accessibility
5 23 (2.74%) GDPR
6 21 (2.51%) QA
7 20 (2.39%) NCSC
8 13 (1.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 11 (1.31%) GRC
10 10 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.95%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.72%) PMO
12 6 (0.72%) SLA
13 5 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.48%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.48%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.36%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
17 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 184 (21.96%) Docker
2 16 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.72%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.72%) vSphere
6 2 (0.24%) Firmware
6 2 (0.24%) KVM
Systems Management
1 197 (23.51%) Terraform
2 193 (23.03%) Kubernetes
3 70 (8.35%) Grafana
4 38 (4.53%) Ansible
5 16 (1.91%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.79%) Istio
7 13 (1.55%) Podman
8 12 (1.43%) Puppet
9 6 (0.72%) Avamar
9 6 (0.72%) CASB
9 6 (0.72%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.72%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.72%) VxRail
10 5 (0.60%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.60%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.36%) Argo
12 3 (0.36%) linkerd
13 2 (0.24%) Packer
Vendors
1 181 (21.60%) Google
2 111 (13.25%) Microsoft
3 30 (3.58%) Adobe
4 27 (3.22%) Typelevel
5 25 (2.98%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.86%) Apple
7 22 (2.63%) Databricks
8 19 (2.27%) Okta
9 15 (1.79%) Dynatrace
9 15 (1.79%) Ping Identity
9 15 (1.79%) SAP
9 15 (1.79%) VMware
10 14 (1.67%) Informatica
11 12 (1.43%) Oracle
11 12 (1.43%) Splunk
12 10 (1.19%) Cisco
13 9 (1.07%) ForgeRock
13 9 (1.07%) New Relic
13 9 (1.07%) Palo Alto
14 8 (0.95%) Confluent