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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 70 60
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 -18
Permanent jobs citing GCP 833 780 977
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.35% 4.64% 4.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.58% 13.51% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 484 374 686
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,625 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +2.70% +16.16%
75th Percentile £95,000 £136,250 £142,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 8,699 5,772 9,375
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.97% 34.30% 41.95%
Number of salaries quoted 6,384 4,090 6,204
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 £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 3 October 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 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (1.44%) Apache
3 11 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.36%) Camunda
5 3 (0.36%) Confluence
6 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.24%) WordPress
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.12%) Appian
7 1 (0.12%) CMS
7 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (1.80%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.24%) Weka
4 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (2.88%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 663 (79.59%) AWS
2 526 (63.15%) Azure
3 122 (14.65%) SaaS
4 78 (9.36%) Amazon EKS
5 45 (5.40%) GitHub
6 36 (4.32%) Power Platform
7 34 (4.08%) dbt
8 30 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (3.24%) Cloud Run
10 25 (3.00%) Snowflake
11 23 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
12 22 (2.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 21 (2.52%) Serverless
14 19 (2.28%) Anthropic Claude
14 19 (2.28%) Datadog
14 19 (2.28%) Google Analytics
15 18 (2.16%) Firebase
16 17 (2.04%) Cloud Functions
17 16 (1.92%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.56%) Network Security
2 33 (3.96%) Broadband
3 25 (3.00%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.28%) Firewall
5 15 (1.80%) VPN
6 12 (1.44%) BGP
6 12 (1.44%) WAN
7 8 (0.96%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.72%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (0.72%) HTTP
8 6 (0.72%) iSCSI
9 4 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.48%) LAN
9 4 (0.48%) SSH
9 4 (0.48%) VLAN
10 3 (0.36%) DNS
10 3 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.36%) MPLS
10 3 (0.36%) OSPF
10 3 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (7.92%) BigQuery
2 61 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (4.08%) Power BI
4 33 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (3.96%) NoSQL
5 28 (3.36%) Looker
6 26 (3.12%) SQL Server
7 22 (2.64%) Metadata
7 22 (2.64%) MongoDB
7 22 (2.64%) Semantic Layer
8 21 (2.52%) Data Lake
9 17 (2.04%) Pinecone
9 17 (2.04%) Tableau
10 16 (1.92%) Chroma
11 14 (1.68%) Relational Database
12 12 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (1.20%) MySQL
14 7 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (0.84%) Metadata Repository
14 7 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 85 (10.20%) TeamCity
2 51 (6.12%) Git
3 45 (5.40%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.56%) GitLab
5 9 (1.08%) JIRA
6 8 (0.96%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.72%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.60%) JUnit
9 4 (0.48%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.48%) Maven
10 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.36%) Mockito
10 3 (0.36%) Postman
10 3 (0.36%) Selenium
10 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.24%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.24%) ERwin
11 2 (0.24%) MLflow
11 2 (0.24%) Subversion
General
1 256 (30.73%) Social Skills
2 242 (29.05%) Finance
3 215 (25.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 166 (19.93%) Law
5 160 (19.21%) Banking
6 134 (16.09%) Retail
7 95 (11.40%) Public Sector
8 82 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
9 74 (8.88%) Back Office
10 73 (8.76%) Financial Institution
11 42 (5.04%) Marketing
12 38 (4.56%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (2.76%) Legal
14 14 (1.68%) Front Office
15 9 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.96%) Advertising
17 7 (0.84%) French Language
17 7 (0.84%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.60%) Games
19 3 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 239 (28.69%) Senior
2 195 (23.41%) Software Engineer
3 140 (16.81%) Architect
4 80 (9.60%) Lead
5 69 (8.28%) Cloud Engineer
6 63 (7.56%) Analyst
7 58 (6.96%) Python Engineer
8 55 (6.60%) GCP Engineer
9 50 (6.00%) Developer
10 47 (5.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 39 (4.68%) Data Engineer
12 34 (4.08%) Lead Software Engineer
13 33 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
14 32 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
15 31 (3.72%) Senior Analyst
16 29 (3.48%) Data Architect
16 29 (3.48%) Senior Architect
16 29 (3.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 28 (3.36%) Security Architect
17 28 (3.36%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (26.53%) Terraform
2 63 (7.56%) React
3 53 (6.36%) LangChain
4 47 (5.64%) Node.js
5 38 (4.56%) REST
6 37 (4.44%) LangGraph
7 35 (4.20%) .NET
8 28 (3.36%) Spring
9 27 (3.24%) PyTorch
9 27 (3.24%) RESTful
10 22 (2.64%) Middleware
10 22 (2.64%) TensorFlow
11 21 (2.52%) Kafka
11 21 (2.52%) Spring Boot
12 20 (2.40%) FastAPI
13 19 (2.28%) scikit-learn
14 18 (2.16%) OAuth
15 17 (2.04%) OAuth2
15 17 (2.04%) OpenID
16 16 (1.92%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 237 (28.45%) Cloud Native
2 91 (10.92%) Product Ownership
3 74 (8.88%) Distributed Systems
4 64 (7.68%) AI Agents
5 35 (4.20%) Blog
6 23 (2.76%) Distributed Architecture
7 20 (2.40%) Security Posture
8 17 (2.04%) Public Cloud
9 15 (1.80%) Hedge funds
10 14 (1.68%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.68%) Social Media
11 13 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
12 12 (1.44%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.32%) Replication
14 10 (1.20%) Mobile App
15 9 (1.08%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.28%) Linux
2 18 (2.16%) Unix
3 13 (1.56%) Windows
4 12 (1.44%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.72%) Android
6 5 (0.60%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.60%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) CentOS
7 1 (0.12%) Debian
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (40.58%) CI/CD
2 290 (34.81%) Software Engineering
3 289 (34.69%) AI
4 273 (32.77%) Mentoring
5 206 (24.73%) Agile
6 190 (22.81%) DevOps
7 148 (17.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 146 (17.53%) Technical Leadership
9 145 (17.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 136 (16.33%) Test Automation
11 134 (16.09%) Microservices
12 127 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
13 123 (14.77%) Observability
13 123 (14.77%) Roadmaps
14 120 (14.41%) Machine Learning
15 111 (13.33%) Analytics
16 102 (12.24%) Clean Code
17 100 (12.00%) Deployment Automation
18 98 (11.76%) Coaching
19 97 (11.64%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 294 (35.29%) Python
2 196 (23.53%) Java
3 147 (17.65%) SQL
4 75 (9.00%) JavaScript
5 59 (7.08%) TypeScript
6 50 (6.00%) Go
7 37 (4.44%) C#
8 29 (3.48%) Bash
9 23 (2.76%) R
10 17 (2.04%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.68%) Scala
12 11 (1.32%) Rust
13 9 (1.08%) C++
14 6 (0.72%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.60%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.48%) C
16 4 (0.48%) PHP
16 4 (0.48%) Ruby
17 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
18 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 127 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 112 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 100 (12.00%) Degree
4 55 (6.60%) AWS Certification
5 34 (4.08%) CISSP
6 29 (3.48%) CISM
7 28 (3.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 22 (2.64%) Azure Certification
9 18 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.32%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 10 (1.20%) CCSP
11 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.84%) CREST Certified
13 6 (0.72%) Dell Certification
13 6 (0.72%) GIAC
13 6 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.72%) OSCP
14 5 (0.60%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (8.16%) Data Quality
2 44 (5.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (5.04%) NIST
4 25 (3.00%) GDPR
5 24 (2.88%) NCSC
6 22 (2.64%) Accessibility
7 17 (2.04%) PCI DSS
8 16 (1.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 9 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (1.08%) QA
10 7 (0.84%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.72%) PMO
12 5 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.48%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.48%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.48%) SLA
14 3 (0.36%) GRC
14 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
System Software
1 141 (16.93%) Docker
2 9 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.96%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.72%) vSphere
5 2 (0.24%) Firmware
5 2 (0.24%) KVM
6 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 233 (27.97%) Kubernetes
2 112 (13.45%) Grafana
3 32 (3.84%) Ansible
4 24 (2.88%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.96%) Puppet
6 7 (0.84%) Istio
6 7 (0.84%) Podman
7 6 (0.72%) Avamar
7 6 (0.72%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.72%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.72%) VxRail
8 5 (0.60%) Argo
8 5 (0.60%) CASB
9 4 (0.48%) Cilium
9 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.36%) linkerd
11 1 (0.12%) QRadar
Vendors
1 190 (22.81%) Google
2 96 (11.52%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.08%) Adobe
4 28 (3.36%) ServiceNow
5 26 (3.12%) Apple
6 21 (2.52%) Databricks
7 17 (2.04%) Dynatrace
8 16 (1.92%) OpenAI
8 16 (1.92%) Splunk
9 15 (1.80%) Informatica
9 15 (1.80%) Okta
9 15 (1.80%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.44%) New Relic
10 12 (1.44%) VMware
11 11 (1.32%) Oracle
11 11 (1.32%) SAP
12 8 (0.96%) Cisco
13 7 (0.84%) Palo Alto
13 7 (0.84%) Veeam
14 6 (0.72%) Nimble Storage