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

 6 months to
23 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 52 74
Rank change year-on-year -6 +22 -33
Permanent jobs citing GCP 673 716 1,289
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.76% 5.35% 3.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.91% 11.95% 9.19%
Number of salaries quoted 346 589 1,095
10th Percentile £53,262 £53,100 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +9.68% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £108,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.45% -2.68%

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 6,788 5,993 14,020
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.91% 44.78% 43.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,579 4,696 12,054
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,225 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.58% +8.22% -11.54%

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 23 April 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 47 (6.98%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (4.31%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.93%) Confluence
4 7 (1.04%) Apache
5 5 (0.74%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.45%) CMS
6 3 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.45%) SAS
6 3 (0.45%) WordPress
7 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) Camunda
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) IIS
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Strapi
Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.30%) Trello
3 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.15%) Notion
Business Applications
1 12 (1.78%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.30%) Shopify
3 1 (0.15%) Magento
3 1 (0.15%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 565 (83.95%) AWS
2 416 (61.81%) Azure
3 76 (11.29%) SaaS
4 61 (9.06%) Amazon EKS
5 35 (5.20%) GitHub
6 29 (4.31%) dbt
6 29 (4.31%) Serverless
7 28 (4.16%) Snowflake
8 26 (3.86%) Power Platform
9 25 (3.71%) Entra ID
9 25 (3.71%) Vertex AI
10 21 (3.12%) Google Analytics
11 20 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 19 (2.82%) Dagster
13 18 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (2.53%) Cloud Run
15 16 (2.38%) Azure Machine Learning
15 16 (2.38%) Figma
16 15 (2.23%) Amazon ECS
16 15 (2.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 84 (12.48%) Broadband
2 18 (2.67%) Firewall
2 18 (2.67%) Network Security
3 15 (2.23%) DNS
4 14 (2.08%) WAN
5 12 (1.78%) LAN
6 9 (1.34%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.19%) Internet
7 8 (1.19%) SD-WAN
7 8 (1.19%) VPN
8 7 (1.04%) LTE
8 7 (1.04%) SSL
9 5 (0.74%) DHCP
10 4 (0.59%) MQTT
10 4 (0.59%) Wireless
11 3 (0.45%) Modbus
11 3 (0.45%) SCCP
11 3 (0.45%) WLAN
12 2 (0.30%) iSCSI
12 2 (0.30%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (12.33%) BigQuery
2 63 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (7.13%) NoSQL
4 37 (5.50%) Metadata
5 33 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (4.01%) Looker
7 26 (3.86%) MongoDB
8 22 (3.27%) Tableau
9 21 (3.12%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (2.97%) Power BI
11 18 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (2.67%) Data Lake
12 17 (2.53%) Relational Database
13 13 (1.93%) Semantic Layer
14 10 (1.49%) Apache Iceberg
14 10 (1.49%) Delta Lake
14 10 (1.49%) MySQL
14 10 (1.49%) Pinecone
15 9 (1.34%) SQL Server
15 9 (1.34%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 48 (7.13%) TeamCity
2 43 (6.39%) Git
3 25 (3.71%) GitLab
4 24 (3.57%) JIRA
5 18 (2.67%) CircleCI
6 15 (2.23%) Jenkins
7 12 (1.78%) Cypress.io
7 12 (1.78%) MLflow
8 8 (1.19%) Subversion
9 7 (1.04%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.04%) Storybook
10 2 (0.30%) git-flow
10 2 (0.30%) Maven
10 2 (0.30%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.30%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.30%) TestRail
10 2 (0.30%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.15%) JMeter
11 1 (0.15%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 190 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 178 (26.45%) Finance
3 133 (19.76%) Law
4 126 (18.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (14.71%) Banking
6 86 (12.78%) Retail
7 80 (11.89%) Public Sector
8 54 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
9 37 (5.50%) Back Office
9 37 (5.50%) Financial Institution
10 35 (5.20%) Telecoms
11 30 (4.46%) Legal
12 21 (3.12%) Marketing
13 17 (2.53%) Front Office
14 16 (2.38%) Manufacturing
14 16 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (0.74%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 206 (30.61%) Senior
2 148 (21.99%) Software Engineer
3 99 (14.71%) Architect
4 72 (10.70%) Lead
5 64 (9.51%) Developer
6 52 (7.73%) Data Engineer
7 41 (6.09%) Analyst
7 41 (6.09%) Consultant
8 36 (5.35%) Senior Software Engineer
9 34 (5.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 31 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
11 30 (4.46%) Scala Engineer
12 29 (4.31%) Lead Software Engineer
13 27 (4.01%) Senior Consultant
14 26 (3.86%) Data Architect
14 26 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
15 25 (3.71%) Senior Architect
16 22 (3.27%) Full-Stack Developer
16 22 (3.27%) Python Engineer
16 22 (3.27%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (14.86%) React
2 70 (10.40%) Kafka
3 67 (9.96%) Node.js
4 64 (9.51%) gRPC
5 39 (5.79%) RESTful
6 36 (5.35%) REST
7 29 (4.31%) Django
8 27 (4.01%) .NET
9 23 (3.42%) Redux
10 21 (3.12%) OAuth
11 20 (2.97%) Spring
12 18 (2.67%) CSS
12 18 (2.67%) HTML
12 18 (2.67%) React Native
12 18 (2.67%) Vue
13 17 (2.53%) AngularJS
13 17 (2.53%) PyTorch
13 17 (2.53%) TensorFlow
14 15 (2.23%) FastAPI
14 15 (2.23%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 168 (24.96%) Cloud Native
2 95 (14.12%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (10.40%) Product Ownership
4 47 (6.98%) Video\Live Streaming
5 46 (6.84%) Over-the-Top Content
6 26 (3.86%) Public Cloud
7 25 (3.71%) Blog
8 24 (3.57%) Data Structures
8 24 (3.57%) Distributed Architecture
8 24 (3.57%) Security Posture
9 20 (2.97%) Onboarding
9 20 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (2.82%) Management Information System
11 17 (2.53%) Mobile App
11 17 (2.53%) Social Media
12 16 (2.38%) Fixed Income
13 15 (2.23%) AI Agents
14 12 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
16 9 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 36 (5.35%) Linux
2 27 (4.01%) Android
3 19 (2.82%) Windows
4 18 (2.67%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.19%) Unix
6 7 (1.04%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (42.79%) CI/CD
2 240 (35.66%) Software Engineering
3 192 (28.53%) Agile
4 180 (26.75%) DevOps
5 175 (26.00%) Microservices
6 166 (24.67%) Containerisation
7 163 (24.22%) AI
8 157 (23.33%) Mentoring
9 133 (19.76%) Machine Learning
10 129 (19.17%) Clean Code
11 127 (18.87%) Roadmaps
12 121 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
13 119 (17.68%) Coaching
14 111 (16.49%) Test Automation
15 108 (16.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 97 (14.41%) Infrastructure as Code
17 93 (13.82%) Data Science
18 91 (13.52%) Analytics
19 86 (12.78%) Technical Leadership
20 81 (12.04%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 244 (36.26%) Python
2 169 (25.11%) Java
3 123 (18.28%) Go
4 101 (15.01%) SQL
5 90 (13.37%) JavaScript
6 77 (11.44%) TypeScript
7 64 (9.51%) Scala
8 25 (3.71%) C#
9 23 (3.42%) Bash
10 22 (3.27%) C++
11 12 (1.78%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.78%) Rust
12 8 (1.19%) PHP
13 5 (0.74%) C
13 5 (0.74%) Ruby
14 3 (0.45%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.45%) Perl
15 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.30%) R
15 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 124 (18.42%) Degree
2 85 (12.63%) Security Cleared
3 73 (10.85%) SC Cleared
4 52 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 23 (3.42%) CISSP
7 17 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (2.23%) CREST Certified
8 15 (2.23%) OSCP
9 12 (1.78%) CISM
10 11 (1.63%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.34%) DV Cleared
12 8 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.89%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.89%) GIAC
13 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.74%) GPEN
14 5 (0.74%) ISACA
14 5 (0.74%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.74%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.05%) Accessibility
1 34 (5.05%) QA
2 26 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (3.57%) NIST
4 23 (3.42%) Data Quality
4 23 (3.42%) GDPR
5 18 (2.67%) GRC
6 10 (1.49%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.19%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.59%) NCSC
10 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.45%) SLA
11 2 (0.30%) COBIT
11 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.30%) PMO
11 2 (0.30%) SEPA
11 2 (0.30%) SOC 1
11 2 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 178 (26.45%) Docker
2 16 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.30%) vSphere
6 1 (0.15%) Firmware
6 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 171 (25.41%) Kubernetes
2 154 (22.88%) Terraform
3 73 (10.85%) Grafana
4 45 (6.69%) Ansible
5 25 (3.71%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.78%) Podman
6 12 (1.78%) Puppet
7 8 (1.19%) Argo
7 8 (1.19%) Istio
8 7 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (0.45%) cPanel
10 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.45%) Plesk
11 2 (0.30%) Avamar
11 2 (0.30%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.30%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (0.30%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.30%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 143 (21.25%) Google
2 75 (11.14%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.69%) Typelevel
4 24 (3.57%) Databricks
5 22 (3.27%) Adobe
6 14 (2.08%) Apple
7 13 (1.93%) Palantir
8 12 (1.78%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.78%) SAP
8 12 (1.78%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.63%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.49%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.49%) VMware
11 8 (1.19%) Confluent
11 8 (1.19%) Foundry
11 8 (1.19%) Oracle
12 6 (0.89%) Cisco
12 6 (0.89%) Dell
13 5 (0.74%) Ericsson
13 5 (0.74%) Nokia
324 hybrid/remote GCP jobs