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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 51 75
Rank change year-on-year -18 +24 -39
Permanent jobs citing GCP 761 933 1,223
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.65% 5.81% 3.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.49% 15.47% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 397 494 1,026
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,334 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +0.30% +9.30%
75th Percentile £93,750 £112,500 £122,861
90th Percentile £110,000 £137,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £81,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -7.98% +1.88% -

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 8,015 6,032 14,190
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.47% 37.57% 42.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5,703 4,443 11,789
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,520 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

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 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 30 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.66%) Apache
4 4 (0.53%) Confluence
5 3 (0.39%) CMS
5 3 (0.39%) SAS
6 2 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.26%) Camunda
6 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.26%) WordPress
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%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (3.15%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.26%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 612 (80.42%) AWS
2 451 (59.26%) Azure
3 90 (11.83%) SaaS
4 70 (9.20%) Amazon EKS
5 32 (4.20%) Serverless
6 29 (3.81%) Cloud Run
7 28 (3.68%) Power Platform
8 24 (3.15%) GitHub
8 24 (3.15%) Snowflake
9 23 (3.02%) dbt
10 22 (2.89%) Vertex AI
11 20 (2.63%) Cloud Functions
12 19 (2.50%) Google Analytics
13 18 (2.37%) Entra ID
13 18 (2.37%) PaaS
14 17 (2.23%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
15 15 (1.97%) Anthropic Claude
15 15 (1.97%) Dagster
15 15 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 100 (13.14%) Broadband
2 28 (3.68%) Network Security
3 18 (2.37%) Firewall
4 16 (2.10%) WAN
5 12 (1.58%) DNS
5 12 (1.58%) LAN
6 10 (1.31%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.18%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.18%) VPN
8 8 (1.05%) LTE
9 7 (0.92%) Internet
10 6 (0.79%) DHCP
10 6 (0.79%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (0.79%) iSCSI
11 5 (0.66%) MQTT
12 3 (0.39%) BGP
12 3 (0.39%) Modbus
12 3 (0.39%) MPLS
12 3 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (11.43%) BigQuery
2 60 (7.88%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (4.47%) Metadata
5 32 (4.20%) NoSQL
6 28 (3.68%) Semantic Layer
7 27 (3.55%) MongoDB
8 25 (3.29%) Looker
9 24 (3.15%) Power BI
10 23 (3.02%) Data Lake
11 19 (2.50%) Relational Database
12 17 (2.23%) Pinecone
13 14 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (1.84%) Tableau
14 11 (1.45%) SQL Server
15 6 (0.79%) Big Data
15 6 (0.79%) Delta Lake
15 6 (0.79%) Redis
15 6 (0.79%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 57 (7.49%) TeamCity
2 44 (5.78%) Git
3 35 (4.60%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.84%) CircleCI
4 14 (1.84%) JIRA
5 12 (1.58%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.18%) GitLab
7 6 (0.79%) MLflow
8 3 (0.39%) Postman
8 3 (0.39%) Selenium
9 2 (0.26%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.26%) JUnit
9 2 (0.26%) Subversion
9 2 (0.26%) TestRail
9 2 (0.26%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.13%) Vite
10 1 (0.13%) webpack
General
1 198 (26.02%) Social Skills
2 194 (25.49%) Finance
3 173 (22.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 151 (19.84%) Law
5 115 (15.11%) Banking
6 97 (12.75%) Retail
7 89 (11.70%) Public Sector
8 50 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
9 45 (5.91%) Back Office
9 45 (5.91%) Financial Institution
10 26 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (3.29%) Legal
12 16 (2.10%) Front Office
13 11 (1.45%) Marketing
14 8 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.92%) Legal Technology
16 6 (0.79%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.66%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.53%) French Language
Job Titles
1 214 (28.12%) Senior
2 161 (21.16%) Software Engineer
3 133 (17.48%) Architect
4 64 (8.41%) Developer
5 63 (8.28%) Lead
6 62 (8.15%) Cloud Engineer
7 54 (7.10%) Analyst
8 53 (6.96%) Data Engineer
9 39 (5.12%) Solutions Architect
10 37 (4.86%) Consultant
11 36 (4.73%) GCP Engineer
12 33 (4.34%) Lead Software Engineer
12 33 (4.34%) Senior Software Engineer
13 32 (4.20%) Senior Architect
14 31 (4.07%) Data Architect
14 31 (4.07%) Senior Analyst
15 30 (3.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 30 (3.94%) Scala Engineer
16 27 (3.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 26 (3.42%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (10.64%) React
2 66 (8.67%) Node.js
3 50 (6.57%) gRPC
4 49 (6.44%) Kafka
5 33 (4.34%) LangChain
5 33 (4.34%) REST
6 29 (3.81%) Django
7 27 (3.55%) .NET
8 23 (3.02%) PyTorch
8 23 (3.02%) TensorFlow
9 21 (2.76%) FastAPI
9 21 (2.76%) LangGraph
10 20 (2.63%) RESTful
10 20 (2.63%) Spring
11 17 (2.23%) Redux
11 17 (2.23%) Spring Boot
11 17 (2.23%) Vue
12 15 (1.97%) AngularJS
12 15 (1.97%) OAuth
13 14 (1.84%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 211 (27.73%) Cloud Native
2 81 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
2 81 (10.64%) Product Ownership
3 46 (6.04%) Over-the-Top Content
3 46 (6.04%) Video\Live Streaming
4 34 (4.47%) AI Agents
5 28 (3.68%) Security Posture
6 27 (3.55%) Public Cloud
7 26 (3.42%) Blog
8 23 (3.02%) Data Structures
8 23 (3.02%) Distributed Architecture
9 20 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (2.50%) Management Information System
10 19 (2.50%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.23%) Social Media
12 16 (2.10%) Fixed Income
13 11 (1.45%) Data Centre
13 11 (1.45%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.31%) Cyberattack
15 9 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.26%) Linux
2 16 (2.10%) Windows
3 11 (1.45%) Android
3 11 (1.45%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.05%) Unix
6 2 (0.26%) CentOS
6 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.13%) Debian
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (41.26%) CI/CD
2 276 (36.27%) Software Engineering
3 226 (29.70%) Agile
4 219 (28.78%) Mentoring
5 207 (27.20%) AI
6 171 (22.47%) DevOps
7 161 (21.16%) Microservices
8 152 (19.97%) Containerisation
9 146 (19.19%) Roadmaps
10 142 (18.66%) Machine Learning
11 139 (18.27%) Test Automation
12 134 (17.61%) Clean Code
12 134 (17.61%) Coaching
13 127 (16.69%) Technical Leadership
14 118 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
15 115 (15.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 102 (13.40%) Infrastructure as Code
17 90 (11.83%) Data Science
18 84 (11.04%) Analytics
19 78 (10.25%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 282 (37.06%) Python
2 181 (23.78%) Java
3 109 (14.32%) SQL
4 97 (12.75%) JavaScript
5 95 (12.48%) Go
6 62 (8.15%) Scala
7 60 (7.88%) TypeScript
8 24 (3.15%) C#
9 19 (2.50%) Bash
10 15 (1.97%) C++
11 14 (1.84%) Rust
12 9 (1.18%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.66%) C
13 5 (0.66%) Ruby
14 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.53%) PHP
15 3 (0.39%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.39%) Perl
16 2 (0.26%) ABAP
16 2 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 108 (14.19%) Security Cleared
2 100 (13.14%) Degree
3 88 (11.56%) SC Cleared
4 42 (5.52%) AWS Certification
5 36 (4.73%) CISSP
6 29 (3.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (2.76%) CISM
9 18 (2.37%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.71%) CREST Certified
10 13 (1.71%) OSCP
11 11 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.31%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.92%) GIAC
14 6 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.79%) CCSP
14 6 (0.79%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.79%) Dell Certification
14 6 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.52%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.99%) NIST
3 32 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (3.55%) Accessibility
5 26 (3.42%) QA
6 20 (2.63%) GDPR
7 15 (1.97%) GRC
8 14 (1.84%) NCSC
9 11 (1.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (1.05%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.79%) PMO
11 6 (0.79%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.53%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.53%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.39%) SLA
14 2 (0.26%) COBIT
14 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.26%) SOC 1
System Software
1 164 (21.55%) Docker
2 13 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.05%) Hyper-V
3 8 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.92%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.79%) vSphere
6 1 (0.13%) Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) KVM
6 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 172 (22.60%) Kubernetes
2 160 (21.02%) Terraform
3 73 (9.59%) Grafana
4 34 (4.47%) Ansible
5 14 (1.84%) Istio
5 14 (1.84%) Puppet
6 13 (1.71%) Prometheus
7 12 (1.58%) Podman
8 6 (0.79%) Avamar
8 6 (0.79%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.79%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.79%) VxRail
9 5 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.53%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.39%) Argo
12 2 (0.26%) linkerd
12 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 147 (19.32%) Google
2 98 (12.88%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.91%) Typelevel
4 30 (3.94%) Adobe
5 24 (3.15%) Apple
5 24 (3.15%) ServiceNow
6 23 (3.02%) Databricks
7 16 (2.10%) SAP
8 15 (1.97%) VMware
9 13 (1.71%) Oracle
10 9 (1.18%) Okta
10 9 (1.18%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.05%) Confluent
11 8 (1.05%) Dell
11 8 (1.05%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.92%) Cisco
12 7 (0.92%) ForgeRock
12 7 (0.92%) Palantir
12 7 (0.92%) Splunk
12 7 (0.92%) Veeam