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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 51 73
Rank change year-on-year -17 +22 -37
Permanent jobs citing GCP 771 932 1,198
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.66% 5.74% 3.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.42% 15.29% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 407 491 995
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,334 £65,000 £63,552
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +0.30% +8.97%
75th Percentile £93,750 £113,750 £125,625
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 8,182 6,095 13,899
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.80% 37.54% 42.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5,841 4,492 11,503
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,599 £36,000
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 £84,500 £82,500 £80,750
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 7 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 (3.89%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.46%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.65%) Apache
4 4 (0.52%) 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 (3.11%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.26%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 619 (80.29%) AWS
2 458 (59.40%) Azure
3 91 (11.80%) SaaS
4 70 (9.08%) Amazon EKS
5 32 (4.15%) Serverless
6 29 (3.76%) Cloud Run
7 28 (3.63%) Power Platform
8 25 (3.24%) GitHub
9 24 (3.11%) Snowflake
10 23 (2.98%) dbt
11 22 (2.85%) Vertex AI
12 20 (2.59%) Cloud Functions
13 18 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (2.33%) Entra ID
13 18 (2.33%) Google Analytics
13 18 (2.33%) PaaS
14 17 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (1.95%) Anthropic Claude
16 15 (1.95%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 100 (12.97%) Broadband
2 29 (3.76%) Network Security
3 18 (2.33%) Firewall
4 16 (2.08%) WAN
5 12 (1.56%) DNS
5 12 (1.56%) LAN
6 10 (1.30%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.17%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.17%) VPN
8 8 (1.04%) LTE
9 7 (0.91%) Internet
10 6 (0.78%) DHCP
10 6 (0.78%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (0.78%) iSCSI
11 5 (0.65%) MQTT
12 3 (0.39%) Modbus
12 3 (0.39%) MPLS
12 3 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.39%) SSH
12 3 (0.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (11.15%) BigQuery
2 61 (7.91%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (4.28%) Metadata
5 32 (4.15%) NoSQL
6 28 (3.63%) MongoDB
6 28 (3.63%) Semantic Layer
7 24 (3.11%) Looker
7 24 (3.11%) Power BI
8 23 (2.98%) Data Lake
9 19 (2.46%) Relational Database
10 17 (2.20%) Pinecone
11 14 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (1.69%) Tableau
13 11 (1.43%) SQL Server
14 6 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.78%) Big Data
14 6 (0.78%) Redis
14 6 (0.78%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 57 (7.39%) TeamCity
2 44 (5.71%) Git
3 36 (4.67%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.82%) CircleCI
4 14 (1.82%) JIRA
5 12 (1.56%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.17%) GitLab
7 6 (0.78%) 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%) ERwin
10 1 (0.13%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 201 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 195 (25.29%) Finance
3 176 (22.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 153 (19.84%) Law
5 115 (14.92%) Banking
6 97 (12.58%) Retail
7 89 (11.54%) Public Sector
8 50 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
9 45 (5.84%) Back Office
9 45 (5.84%) Financial Institution
10 27 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (3.24%) Legal
12 16 (2.08%) Front Office
13 12 (1.56%) Marketing
14 8 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.91%) Legal Technology
16 6 (0.78%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.65%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.52%) French Language
18 4 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 221 (28.66%) Senior
2 163 (21.14%) Software Engineer
3 133 (17.25%) Architect
4 66 (8.56%) Lead
5 64 (8.30%) Developer
6 63 (8.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 53 (6.87%) Analyst
7 53 (6.87%) Data Engineer
8 39 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
9 37 (4.80%) Consultant
9 37 (4.80%) GCP Engineer
10 34 (4.41%) Lead Software Engineer
10 34 (4.41%) Senior Architect
10 34 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
11 31 (4.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 31 (4.02%) Senior Analyst
12 30 (3.89%) Data Architect
12 30 (3.89%) Scala Engineer
13 27 (3.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 27 (3.50%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (10.89%) React
2 66 (8.56%) Node.js
3 50 (6.49%) gRPC
4 49 (6.36%) Kafka
5 34 (4.41%) LangChain
5 34 (4.41%) REST
6 30 (3.89%) Django
7 26 (3.37%) .NET
8 23 (2.98%) PyTorch
8 23 (2.98%) TensorFlow
9 22 (2.85%) FastAPI
10 21 (2.72%) LangGraph
10 21 (2.72%) RESTful
10 21 (2.72%) Spring
11 18 (2.33%) Spring Boot
11 18 (2.33%) Vue
12 17 (2.20%) OAuth
12 17 (2.20%) Redux
13 16 (2.08%) AngularJS
14 15 (1.95%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 214 (27.76%) Cloud Native
2 82 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (10.38%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.97%) Over-the-Top Content
4 46 (5.97%) Video\Live Streaming
5 35 (4.54%) AI Agents
6 28 (3.63%) Security Posture
7 27 (3.50%) Public Cloud
8 26 (3.37%) Blog
9 23 (2.98%) Data Structures
10 22 (2.85%) Distributed Architecture
11 20 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (2.46%) Management Information System
12 19 (2.46%) Onboarding
13 17 (2.20%) Social Media
14 16 (2.08%) Fixed Income
15 12 (1.56%) Mobile App
16 11 (1.43%) Data Centre
17 10 (1.30%) Cyberattack
18 9 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.32%) Linux
2 17 (2.20%) Windows
3 11 (1.43%) Android
3 11 (1.43%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.17%) Unix
4 9 (1.17%) 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
1 320 (41.50%) CI/CD
2 279 (36.19%) Software Engineering
3 229 (29.70%) Agile
4 221 (28.66%) Mentoring
5 210 (27.24%) AI
6 175 (22.70%) DevOps
7 164 (21.27%) Microservices
8 156 (20.23%) Containerisation
9 145 (18.81%) Machine Learning
10 144 (18.68%) Roadmaps
11 140 (18.16%) Test Automation
12 134 (17.38%) Clean Code
12 134 (17.38%) Coaching
13 127 (16.47%) Technical Leadership
14 120 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
15 116 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 106 (13.75%) Infrastructure as Code
17 92 (11.93%) Data Science
18 86 (11.15%) Analytics
19 78 (10.12%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 286 (37.09%) Python
2 181 (23.48%) Java
3 110 (14.27%) SQL
4 99 (12.84%) JavaScript
5 96 (12.45%) Go
6 62 (8.04%) Scala
7 59 (7.65%) TypeScript
8 24 (3.11%) C#
9 21 (2.72%) Bash
10 15 (1.95%) C++
11 14 (1.82%) Rust
12 9 (1.17%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.65%) C
13 5 (0.65%) Ruby
14 4 (0.52%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.52%) 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
1 109 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 103 (13.36%) Degree
3 89 (11.54%) SC Cleared
4 42 (5.45%) AWS Certification
5 37 (4.80%) CISSP
6 29 (3.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (2.85%) CISM
9 18 (2.33%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.69%) CREST Certified
10 13 (1.69%) OSCP
11 11 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.30%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.91%) GIAC
14 6 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.78%) CCSP
14 6 (0.78%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.78%) Dell Certification
14 6 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 39 (5.06%) NIST
3 33 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (3.50%) Accessibility
5 26 (3.37%) QA
6 20 (2.59%) GDPR
7 15 (1.95%) GRC
7 15 (1.95%) NCSC
8 12 (1.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 8 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (1.04%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.78%) PMO
10 6 (0.78%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.52%) Def Stans
11 4 (0.52%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.39%) SLA
13 2 (0.26%) COBIT
13 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 171 (22.18%) Docker
2 13 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.04%) Hyper-V
3 8 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.91%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.78%) vSphere
6 1 (0.13%) Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) KVM
6 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 179 (23.22%) Kubernetes
2 164 (21.27%) Terraform
3 74 (9.60%) Grafana
4 34 (4.41%) Ansible
5 14 (1.82%) Istio
5 14 (1.82%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.82%) Puppet
6 12 (1.56%) Podman
7 6 (0.78%) Avamar
7 6 (0.78%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.78%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.78%) VxRail
8 5 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.52%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.39%) Argo
11 2 (0.26%) linkerd
11 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 149 (19.33%) Google
2 99 (12.84%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.84%) Typelevel
4 29 (3.76%) Adobe
5 25 (3.24%) ServiceNow
6 24 (3.11%) Apple
7 23 (2.98%) Databricks
8 16 (2.08%) SAP
9 15 (1.95%) VMware
10 13 (1.69%) Oracle
11 11 (1.43%) Okta
12 9 (1.17%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.04%) Confluent
13 8 (1.04%) Dell
13 8 (1.04%) ForgeRock
13 8 (1.04%) Salesforce
13 8 (1.04%) Splunk
14 7 (0.91%) Cisco
14 7 (0.91%) Informatica
14 7 (0.91%) Veeam