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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 51 73
Rank change year-on-year -18 +22 -37
Permanent jobs citing GCP 777 932 1,191
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.66% 5.68% 3.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.39% 15.12% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 411 489 982
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,334 £65,000 £63,353
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +0.30% +6.74%
75th Percentile £92,500 £112,500 £131,875
90th Percentile £110,000 £137,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -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 8,271 6,165 13,705
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.01% 37.58% 42.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,886 4,539 11,311
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,720 £35,750
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 £84,750 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 9 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 29 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.32%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.64%) Apache
4 4 (0.51%) 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 (3.09%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.26%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 624 (80.31%) AWS
2 460 (59.20%) Azure
3 91 (11.71%) SaaS
4 71 (9.14%) Amazon EKS
5 32 (4.12%) Serverless
6 29 (3.73%) Cloud Run
7 28 (3.60%) Power Platform
8 25 (3.22%) GitHub
9 23 (2.96%) dbt
9 23 (2.96%) Snowflake
10 21 (2.70%) Vertex AI
11 20 (2.57%) Cloud Functions
12 18 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (2.32%) Entra ID
12 18 (2.32%) Google Analytics
12 18 (2.32%) PaaS
13 17 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (1.93%) Anthropic Claude
15 15 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 100 (12.87%) Broadband
2 29 (3.73%) Network Security
3 18 (2.32%) Firewall
4 16 (2.06%) WAN
5 12 (1.54%) DNS
5 12 (1.54%) LAN
6 10 (1.29%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.16%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.16%) VPN
8 8 (1.03%) LTE
9 7 (0.90%) Internet
10 6 (0.77%) DHCP
10 6 (0.77%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (0.77%) iSCSI
11 5 (0.64%) 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%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (10.81%) BigQuery
2 64 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (4.25%) Metadata
5 32 (4.12%) NoSQL
6 28 (3.60%) MongoDB
6 28 (3.60%) Semantic Layer
7 24 (3.09%) Data Lake
7 24 (3.09%) Power BI
8 23 (2.96%) Looker
9 20 (2.57%) Relational Database
10 16 (2.06%) Pinecone
11 13 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.54%) SQL Server
12 12 (1.54%) Tableau
13 7 (0.90%) MySQL
13 7 (0.90%) Redis
14 6 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.77%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 59 (7.59%) TeamCity
2 44 (5.66%) Git
3 36 (4.63%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.93%) JIRA
5 14 (1.80%) CircleCI
6 12 (1.54%) Cypress.io
7 9 (1.16%) GitLab
8 5 (0.64%) MLflow
9 3 (0.39%) Postman
9 3 (0.39%) Selenium
9 3 (0.39%) TestRail
9 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.26%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.26%) JUnit
10 2 (0.26%) Subversion
11 1 (0.13%) ERwin
11 1 (0.13%) JMeter
11 1 (0.13%) Maven
11 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 204 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 198 (25.48%) Finance
3 179 (23.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 155 (19.95%) Law
5 118 (15.19%) Banking
6 100 (12.87%) Retail
7 87 (11.20%) Public Sector
8 51 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
9 46 (5.92%) Back Office
9 46 (5.92%) Financial Institution
10 27 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (3.22%) Legal
12 16 (2.06%) Front Office
13 13 (1.67%) Marketing
14 8 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.90%) Legal Technology
16 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.64%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.51%) Advertising
18 4 (0.51%) French Language
Job Titles
1 223 (28.70%) Senior
2 164 (21.11%) Software Engineer
3 133 (17.12%) Architect
4 70 (9.01%) Lead
5 64 (8.24%) Developer
6 63 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 53 (6.82%) Analyst
7 53 (6.82%) Data Engineer
8 40 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
9 38 (4.89%) GCP Engineer
10 36 (4.63%) Consultant
11 35 (4.50%) Lead Software Engineer
11 35 (4.50%) Senior Architect
12 34 (4.38%) Senior Software Engineer
13 32 (4.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 31 (3.99%) Senior Analyst
15 30 (3.86%) Data Architect
15 30 (3.86%) Scala Engineer
16 27 (3.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 27 (3.47%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (10.94%) React
2 66 (8.49%) Node.js
3 50 (6.44%) gRPC
4 49 (6.31%) Kafka
5 36 (4.63%) REST
6 34 (4.38%) LangChain
7 29 (3.73%) Django
8 25 (3.22%) .NET
9 23 (2.96%) FastAPI
10 22 (2.83%) PyTorch
10 22 (2.83%) Spring
10 22 (2.83%) TensorFlow
11 21 (2.70%) LangGraph
11 21 (2.70%) RESTful
12 19 (2.45%) Spring Boot
13 18 (2.32%) Vue
14 17 (2.19%) OAuth
14 17 (2.19%) Redux
15 16 (2.06%) AngularJS
16 15 (1.93%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 217 (27.93%) Cloud Native
2 82 (10.55%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (10.30%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.92%) Over-the-Top Content
4 46 (5.92%) Video\Live Streaming
5 35 (4.50%) AI Agents
6 28 (3.60%) Security Posture
7 27 (3.47%) Blog
7 27 (3.47%) Public Cloud
8 22 (2.83%) Data Structures
8 22 (2.83%) Distributed Architecture
9 20 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (2.45%) Management Information System
10 19 (2.45%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.19%) Social Media
12 16 (2.06%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.54%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.42%) Data Centre
15 10 (1.29%) Cyberattack
16 9 (1.16%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.28%) Linux
2 17 (2.19%) Windows
3 11 (1.42%) Android
3 11 (1.42%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.16%) Unix
4 9 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.26%) CentOS
5 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.13%) Debian
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (41.96%) CI/CD
2 281 (36.16%) Software Engineering
3 231 (29.73%) Agile
4 224 (28.83%) Mentoring
5 212 (27.28%) AI
6 177 (22.78%) DevOps
7 167 (21.49%) Microservices
8 157 (20.21%) Containerisation
9 146 (18.79%) Machine Learning
10 144 (18.53%) Test Automation
11 143 (18.40%) Roadmaps
12 135 (17.37%) Clean Code
13 134 (17.25%) Coaching
14 129 (16.60%) Technical Leadership
15 121 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
16 117 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
17 110 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
18 92 (11.84%) Data Science
19 89 (11.45%) Analytics
20 78 (10.04%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 287 (36.94%) Python
2 183 (23.55%) Java
3 114 (14.67%) SQL
4 101 (13.00%) JavaScript
5 96 (12.36%) Go
6 61 (7.85%) Scala
7 58 (7.46%) TypeScript
8 24 (3.09%) C#
9 20 (2.57%) Bash
10 15 (1.93%) C++
11 14 (1.80%) Rust
12 10 (1.29%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.64%) C
13 5 (0.64%) Ruby
14 4 (0.51%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.51%) PHP
15 3 (0.39%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.39%) Perl
16 2 (0.26%) ABAP
16 2 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 109 (14.03%) Security Cleared
2 101 (13.00%) Degree
3 89 (11.45%) SC Cleared
4 43 (5.53%) AWS Certification
5 37 (4.76%) CISSP
6 30 (3.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (2.83%) CISM
9 19 (2.45%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.67%) CREST Certified
10 13 (1.67%) OSCP
11 12 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (1.29%) DV Cleared
14 7 (0.90%) GIAC
15 6 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.77%) CCSP
15 6 (0.77%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.77%) Dell Certification
15 6 (0.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.53%) Data Quality
2 39 (5.02%) NIST
3 33 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (3.47%) Accessibility
5 26 (3.35%) QA
6 21 (2.70%) GDPR
7 15 (1.93%) GRC
7 15 (1.93%) NCSC
8 12 (1.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 8 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (1.03%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.77%) PMO
10 6 (0.77%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.51%) Def Stans
11 4 (0.51%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.39%) SLA
13 2 (0.26%) COBIT
13 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 173 (22.27%) Docker
2 13 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.03%) Hyper-V
3 8 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.90%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.77%) vSphere
6 1 (0.13%) Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) KVM
6 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 181 (23.29%) Kubernetes
2 169 (21.75%) Terraform
3 77 (9.91%) Grafana
4 35 (4.50%) Ansible
5 15 (1.93%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.80%) Istio
6 14 (1.80%) Puppet
7 12 (1.54%) Podman
8 6 (0.77%) Avamar
8 6 (0.77%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.77%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.77%) VxRail
9 5 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.51%) 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
1 149 (19.18%) Google
2 102 (13.13%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.79%) Typelevel
4 29 (3.73%) Adobe
5 25 (3.22%) ServiceNow
6 24 (3.09%) Apple
7 22 (2.83%) Databricks
8 17 (2.19%) SAP
9 15 (1.93%) VMware
10 14 (1.80%) Oracle
11 11 (1.42%) Okta
12 9 (1.16%) Informatica
12 9 (1.16%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.03%) Confluent
13 8 (1.03%) Dell
13 8 (1.03%) ForgeRock
13 8 (1.03%) Salesforce
13 8 (1.03%) Splunk
14 7 (0.90%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.90%) Veeam