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

 6 months to
30 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 53 77
Rank change year-on-year -2 +24 -38
Permanent jobs citing GCP 698 706 1,267
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.85% 5.24% 3.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.23% 12.02% 9.04%
Number of salaries quoted 360 580 1,080
10th Percentile £52,775 £52,420 £48,750
25th Percentile £64,267 £65,750 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,250 £85,253 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.39% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £110,000
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% -3.13%

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 6,825 5,874 14,014
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.68% 43.63% 43.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,625 4,628 12,024
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £35,631
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,188 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,182 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.16% +6.40% -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 30 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 48 (6.88%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (4.15%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.72%) Confluence
4 7 (1.00%) Apache
5 5 (0.72%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.43%) CMS
6 3 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.43%) SAS
7 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.29%) WordPress
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Camunda
8 1 (0.14%) Drupal
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
8 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Strapi
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Trello
3 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.14%) Notion
Business Applications
1 16 (2.29%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.29%) Shopify
3 1 (0.14%) Magento
3 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 575 (82.38%) AWS
2 426 (61.03%) Azure
3 79 (11.32%) SaaS
4 60 (8.60%) Amazon EKS
5 33 (4.73%) GitHub
6 30 (4.30%) dbt
7 29 (4.15%) Serverless
7 29 (4.15%) Snowflake
8 25 (3.58%) Entra ID
8 25 (3.58%) Power Platform
8 25 (3.58%) Vertex AI
9 21 (3.01%) Google Analytics
10 19 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (2.72%) Dagster
11 17 (2.44%) Cloud Run
11 17 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (2.29%) Azure Machine Learning
12 16 (2.29%) Figma
13 15 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (2.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 86 (12.32%) Broadband
2 19 (2.72%) Firewall
2 19 (2.72%) Network Security
3 15 (2.15%) DNS
3 15 (2.15%) WAN
4 12 (1.72%) LAN
5 9 (1.29%) SD-WAN
5 9 (1.29%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.15%) Internet
6 8 (1.15%) VPN
7 7 (1.00%) LTE
7 7 (1.00%) SSL
8 5 (0.72%) DHCP
9 4 (0.57%) MQTT
9 4 (0.57%) Wireless
10 3 (0.43%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (0.43%) Modbus
10 3 (0.43%) MPLS
10 3 (0.43%) SCCP
10 3 (0.43%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (12.61%) BigQuery
2 62 (8.88%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 38 (5.44%) Metadata
5 35 (5.01%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (3.87%) Looker
7 25 (3.58%) MongoDB
8 22 (3.15%) Tableau
9 21 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (2.87%) Data Lake
10 20 (2.87%) Power BI
11 18 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (2.44%) Relational Database
13 15 (2.15%) Semantic Layer
14 10 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
14 10 (1.43%) Delta Lake
14 10 (1.43%) Pinecone
15 9 (1.29%) Redis
15 9 (1.29%) SQL Server
15 9 (1.29%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 48 (6.88%) TeamCity
2 40 (5.73%) Git
3 24 (3.44%) GitLab
4 22 (3.15%) JIRA
5 18 (2.58%) CircleCI
6 16 (2.29%) Jenkins
7 12 (1.72%) Cypress.io
7 12 (1.72%) MLflow
8 7 (1.00%) Storybook
8 7 (1.00%) Subversion
9 6 (0.86%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.29%) Maven
10 2 (0.29%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.29%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.29%) TestRail
10 2 (0.29%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.14%) Gatling
11 1 (0.14%) JMeter
11 1 (0.14%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 190 (27.22%) Social Skills
2 182 (26.07%) Finance
3 135 (19.34%) Law
4 132 (18.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 101 (14.47%) Banking
6 86 (12.32%) Retail
7 81 (11.60%) Public Sector
8 58 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
9 37 (5.30%) Back Office
9 37 (5.30%) Financial Institution
10 34 (4.87%) Telecoms
11 31 (4.44%) Legal
12 20 (2.87%) Marketing
13 17 (2.44%) Front Office
13 17 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (2.15%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.72%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 209 (29.94%) Senior
2 151 (21.63%) Software Engineer
3 105 (15.04%) Architect
4 71 (10.17%) Lead
5 59 (8.45%) Developer
6 53 (7.59%) Data Engineer
7 46 (6.59%) Analyst
8 42 (6.02%) Consultant
9 38 (5.44%) Cloud Engineer
10 36 (5.16%) Senior Software Engineer
11 34 (4.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 30 (4.30%) Data Architect
12 30 (4.30%) Scala Engineer
13 29 (4.15%) Lead Software Engineer
14 27 (3.87%) Senior Consultant
14 27 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
15 26 (3.72%) Senior Architect
16 22 (3.15%) Java Engineer
16 22 (3.15%) Senior Manager
17 21 (3.01%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (13.75%) React
2 69 (9.89%) Kafka
2 69 (9.89%) Node.js
3 64 (9.17%) gRPC
4 37 (5.30%) RESTful
5 36 (5.16%) REST
6 28 (4.01%) Django
7 25 (3.58%) .NET
8 23 (3.30%) Redux
9 21 (3.01%) OAuth
10 19 (2.72%) Spring
11 18 (2.58%) React Native
12 17 (2.44%) AngularJS
12 17 (2.44%) PyTorch
12 17 (2.44%) TensorFlow
12 17 (2.44%) Vue
13 16 (2.29%) CSS
13 16 (2.29%) HTML
14 15 (2.15%) WebSockets
15 14 (2.01%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 175 (25.07%) Cloud Native
2 95 (13.61%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (10.32%) Product Ownership
4 47 (6.73%) Video\Live Streaming
5 46 (6.59%) Over-the-Top Content
6 27 (3.87%) Distributed Architecture
7 26 (3.72%) Public Cloud
8 25 (3.58%) Blog
8 25 (3.58%) Security Posture
9 24 (3.44%) Data Structures
10 20 (2.87%) Onboarding
10 20 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (2.72%) Management Information System
12 18 (2.58%) Social Media
13 17 (2.44%) Mobile App
14 16 (2.29%) Fixed Income
15 15 (2.15%) AI Agents
16 13 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
17 9 (1.29%) Cyberattack
17 9 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 36 (5.16%) Linux
2 27 (3.87%) Android
3 19 (2.72%) Windows
4 18 (2.58%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.15%) Unix
6 7 (1.00%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) Debian
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (41.12%) CI/CD
2 243 (34.81%) Software Engineering
3 197 (28.22%) Agile
4 179 (25.64%) DevOps
5 175 (25.07%) Microservices
6 172 (24.64%) AI
7 166 (23.78%) Mentoring
8 164 (23.50%) Containerisation
9 136 (19.48%) Machine Learning
10 133 (19.05%) Roadmaps
11 128 (18.34%) Clean Code
12 121 (17.34%) Coaching
13 119 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
14 113 (16.19%) Test Automation
15 109 (15.62%) Continuous Improvement
16 100 (14.33%) Infrastructure as Code
17 94 (13.47%) Technical Leadership
18 93 (13.32%) Analytics
19 92 (13.18%) Data Science
20 79 (11.32%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 247 (35.39%) Python
2 173 (24.79%) Java
3 125 (17.91%) Go
4 102 (14.61%) SQL
5 89 (12.75%) JavaScript
6 74 (10.60%) TypeScript
7 65 (9.31%) Scala
8 23 (3.30%) Bash
9 22 (3.15%) C++
10 21 (3.01%) C#
11 13 (1.86%) Rust
12 12 (1.72%) PowerShell
13 7 (1.00%) PHP
14 5 (0.72%) C
14 5 (0.72%) Ruby
15 3 (0.43%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.43%) Perl
16 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.29%) R
16 2 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 124 (17.77%) Degree
2 92 (13.18%) Security Cleared
3 77 (11.03%) SC Cleared
4 52 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (4.15%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.58%) CISSP
7 20 (2.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (2.15%) CREST Certified
8 15 (2.15%) OSCP
9 13 (1.86%) CISM
10 11 (1.58%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.43%) DV Cleared
12 9 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.86%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.86%) GIAC
15 5 (0.72%) CCSP
15 5 (0.72%) ISACA
15 5 (0.72%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.72%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.01%) Accessibility
2 31 (4.44%) QA
3 26 (3.72%) Data Quality
4 25 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (3.58%) NIST
5 24 (3.44%) GDPR
6 18 (2.58%) GRC
7 10 (1.43%) SOC 2
8 8 (1.15%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.72%) NCSC
10 4 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.43%) PMO
11 3 (0.43%) SLA
12 2 (0.29%) COBIT
12 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.29%) SEPA
12 2 (0.29%) SOC 1
12 2 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 176 (25.21%) Docker
2 15 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.43%) vSphere
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 168 (24.07%) Kubernetes
2 155 (22.21%) Terraform
3 72 (10.32%) Grafana
4 45 (6.45%) Ansible
5 24 (3.44%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.72%) Podman
6 12 (1.72%) Puppet
7 9 (1.29%) Argo
7 9 (1.29%) Istio
8 6 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.43%) Avamar
11 3 (0.43%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
11 3 (0.43%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.43%) VxRail
12 2 (0.29%) cPanel
12 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.29%) Plesk
Vendors
1 150 (21.49%) Google
2 82 (11.75%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.45%) Typelevel
4 26 (3.72%) Adobe
5 25 (3.58%) Databricks
6 18 (2.58%) Apple
7 16 (2.29%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.86%) Palantir
8 13 (1.86%) SAP
9 11 (1.58%) Atlassian
9 11 (1.58%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.58%) VMware
10 10 (1.43%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.15%) Confluent
11 8 (1.15%) Foundry
11 8 (1.15%) Oracle
12 7 (1.00%) Cisco
12 7 (1.00%) Dell
13 5 (0.72%) Ericsson
13 5 (0.72%) Nokia
277 hybrid/remote GCP jobs