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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 63 65
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -24
Permanent jobs citing GCP 811 813 954
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.39% 5.00% 4.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.40% 14.07% 10.05%
Number of salaries quoted 460 402 700
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,938 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £93,750 £132,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £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 8,628 5,777 9,496
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.10% 35.50% 40.77%
Number of salaries quoted 6,329 4,169 6,677
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,500
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 £86,000
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 14 September 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 10 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (1.23%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.11%) Apache
3 8 (0.99%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.62%) Confluence
5 3 (0.37%) Camunda
5 3 (0.37%) WordPress
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Appian
6 1 (0.12%) CMS
6 1 (0.12%) Drupal
6 1 (0.12%) IIS
6 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.12%) nginx
6 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (1.85%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.25%) Weka
4 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (2.96%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 655 (80.76%) AWS
2 524 (64.61%) Azure
3 101 (12.45%) SaaS
4 67 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
5 36 (4.44%) Power Platform
6 35 (4.32%) GitHub
7 30 (3.70%) Cloud Run
8 25 (3.08%) dbt
8 25 (3.08%) Serverless
9 24 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (2.71%) Google Analytics
11 22 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (2.47%) Cloud Functions
12 20 (2.47%) Snowflake
13 19 (2.34%) Anthropic Claude
14 17 (2.10%) Datadog
14 17 (2.10%) Firebase
15 16 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (1.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 50 (6.17%) Broadband
2 37 (4.56%) Network Security
3 19 (2.34%) Firewall
3 19 (2.34%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.85%) WAN
5 10 (1.23%) SD-WAN
5 10 (1.23%) VPN
6 7 (0.86%) LAN
7 6 (0.74%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (0.74%) HTTP
7 6 (0.74%) iSCSI
8 5 (0.62%) BGP
8 5 (0.62%) DNS
9 4 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.49%) LTE
9 4 (0.49%) SSH
9 4 (0.49%) Wireless
10 3 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (7.40%) BigQuery
2 48 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (4.81%) NoSQL
4 34 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (4.19%) Power BI
5 26 (3.21%) MongoDB
6 23 (2.84%) Looker
6 23 (2.84%) SQL Server
7 19 (2.34%) Semantic Layer
8 18 (2.22%) Data Lake
9 17 (2.10%) Pinecone
9 17 (2.10%) Relational Database
9 17 (2.10%) Tableau
10 16 (1.97%) Chroma
10 16 (1.97%) Metadata
11 10 (1.23%) MySQL
12 9 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.86%) Metadata Repository
14 5 (0.62%) Redis
14 5 (0.62%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 62 (7.64%) TeamCity
2 52 (6.41%) Git
3 42 (5.18%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.73%) JIRA
5 11 (1.36%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.23%) CircleCI
7 8 (0.99%) GitLab
8 5 (0.62%) JUnit
9 4 (0.49%) Maven
10 3 (0.37%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.37%) Mockito
10 3 (0.37%) Postman
10 3 (0.37%) Selenium
10 3 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.25%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.25%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.25%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.25%) Subversion
11 2 (0.25%) TestRail
11 2 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 247 (30.46%) Social Skills
2 229 (28.24%) Finance
3 193 (23.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 145 (17.88%) Law
5 141 (17.39%) Banking
6 106 (13.07%) Retail
7 93 (11.47%) Public Sector
8 76 (9.37%) Analytical Skills
9 58 (7.15%) Back Office
9 58 (7.15%) Financial Institution
10 38 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (3.33%) Marketing
12 22 (2.71%) Legal
13 8 (0.99%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.86%) Advertising
14 7 (0.86%) French Language
15 5 (0.62%) Games
16 4 (0.49%) Front Office
16 4 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.49%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 229 (28.24%) Senior
2 185 (22.81%) Software Engineer
3 138 (17.02%) Architect
4 71 (8.75%) Lead
5 68 (8.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 58 (7.15%) Analyst
7 51 (6.29%) Python Engineer
8 45 (5.55%) GCP Engineer
9 43 (5.30%) Developer
10 38 (4.69%) Data Engineer
11 34 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
12 33 (4.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 33 (4.07%) Senior Analyst
12 33 (4.07%) Senior Software Engineer
13 30 (3.70%) Senior Architect
14 29 (3.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 28 (3.45%) Site Engineer
16 27 (3.33%) Security Architect
17 26 (3.21%) Data Architect
18 25 (3.08%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (25.52%) Terraform
2 74 (9.12%) React
3 54 (6.66%) Node.js
4 43 (5.30%) REST
5 41 (5.06%) LangChain
6 34 (4.19%) .NET
7 29 (3.58%) Spring
8 27 (3.33%) Kafka
9 26 (3.21%) LangGraph
9 26 (3.21%) PyTorch
10 22 (2.71%) OAuth
10 22 (2.71%) RESTful
10 22 (2.71%) Spring Boot
11 21 (2.59%) FastAPI
11 21 (2.59%) Middleware
11 21 (2.59%) TensorFlow
12 18 (2.22%) Django
12 18 (2.22%) OpenID
12 18 (2.22%) scikit-learn
13 17 (2.10%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 218 (26.88%) Cloud Native
2 90 (11.10%) Product Ownership
3 75 (9.25%) Distributed Systems
4 52 (6.41%) AI Agents
5 27 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 24 (2.96%) Blog
7 20 (2.47%) Public Cloud
8 19 (2.34%) Security Posture
9 18 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.85%) Data Centre
10 15 (1.85%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.73%) Video\Live Streaming
12 13 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (1.60%) Social Media
13 12 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (1.48%) Onboarding
14 11 (1.36%) Mobile App
15 10 (1.23%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.23%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.04%) Linux
2 18 (2.22%) Unix
3 15 (1.85%) Windows
4 9 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.74%) Android
5 6 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.12%) CentOS
7 1 (0.12%) Debian
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (40.69%) CI/CD
2 292 (36.00%) Software Engineering
3 265 (32.68%) Mentoring
4 261 (32.18%) AI
5 217 (26.76%) Agile
6 192 (23.67%) DevOps
7 149 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 149 (18.37%) Technical Leadership
8 139 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 136 (16.77%) Roadmaps
10 135 (16.65%) Test Automation
11 134 (16.52%) Microservices
12 121 (14.92%) Machine Learning
13 120 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
14 116 (14.30%) Containerisation
14 116 (14.30%) Observability
15 105 (12.95%) Clean Code
16 103 (12.70%) Coaching
17 100 (12.33%) Analytics
18 98 (12.08%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 282 (34.77%) Python
2 179 (22.07%) Java
3 130 (16.03%) SQL
4 86 (10.60%) JavaScript
5 58 (7.15%) Go
6 57 (7.03%) TypeScript
7 38 (4.69%) C#
8 23 (2.84%) Bash
9 20 (2.47%) PowerShell
9 20 (2.47%) Scala
10 11 (1.36%) Rust
11 9 (1.11%) C++
11 9 (1.11%) R
12 7 (0.86%) Ruby
13 5 (0.62%) C
13 5 (0.62%) PHP
14 4 (0.49%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.37%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.37%) Perl
15 3 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 128 (15.78%) Security Cleared
2 110 (13.56%) SC Cleared
3 105 (12.95%) Degree
4 55 (6.78%) AWS Certification
5 32 (3.95%) CISSP
6 29 (3.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (3.21%) CISM
8 24 (2.96%) Azure Certification
9 21 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.36%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.11%) CREST Certified
12 9 (1.11%) OSCP
13 7 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.86%) CCSP
14 6 (0.74%) Dell Certification
15 5 (0.62%) CRISC
15 5 (0.62%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.62%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.40%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.81%) NIST
3 37 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (3.45%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.96%) NCSC
6 19 (2.34%) GDPR
7 16 (1.97%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 13 (1.60%) QA
9 10 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (1.11%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.86%) GRC
12 6 (0.74%) PMO
12 6 (0.74%) SLA
13 5 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.49%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.49%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
17 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 152 (18.74%) Docker
2 12 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.99%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.74%) vSphere
6 3 (0.37%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.37%) Firmware
7 2 (0.25%) KVM
Systems Management
1 210 (25.89%) Kubernetes
2 88 (10.85%) Grafana
3 35 (4.32%) Ansible
4 18 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.60%) Istio
6 11 (1.36%) Podman
6 11 (1.36%) Puppet
7 6 (0.74%) Avamar
7 6 (0.74%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.74%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.74%) VxRail
8 5 (0.62%) CASB
8 5 (0.62%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.37%) Argo
10 3 (0.37%) linkerd
11 2 (0.25%) Packer
12 1 (0.12%) QRadar
12 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 168 (20.72%) Google
2 106 (13.07%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.07%) Adobe
4 28 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.96%) Apple
6 21 (2.59%) Databricks
7 17 (2.10%) Dynatrace
8 16 (1.97%) Okta
9 15 (1.85%) Informatica
9 15 (1.85%) OpenAI
9 15 (1.85%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.48%) SAP
10 12 (1.48%) Splunk
10 12 (1.48%) VMware
11 10 (1.23%) Cisco
11 10 (1.23%) Oracle
12 9 (1.11%) New Relic
12 9 (1.11%) Palo Alto
12 9 (1.11%) Typelevel
13 7 (0.86%) Dell