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

 6 months to
28 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 52 78
Rank change year-on-year -7 +26 -38
Permanent jobs citing GCP 687 714 1,262
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.78% 5.29% 3.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.05% 12.11% 9.04%
Number of salaries quoted 356 587 1,072
10th Percentile £52,637 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £66,125 £60,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £107,500
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 6,837 5,894 13,966
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.66% 43.64% 43.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,612 4,643 11,979
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,550 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £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 £108,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £61,500 £62,373 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.40% +8.47% -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 28 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 (6.84%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (4.22%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.89%) Confluence
4 7 (1.02%) Apache
5 5 (0.73%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.44%) CMS
6 3 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.44%) SAS
7 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.29%) WordPress
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 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Trello
3 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.15%) Notion
Business Applications
1 14 (2.04%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.29%) Shopify
3 1 (0.15%) Magento
3 1 (0.15%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 570 (82.97%) AWS
2 420 (61.14%) Azure
3 76 (11.06%) SaaS
4 61 (8.88%) Amazon EKS
5 34 (4.95%) GitHub
6 29 (4.22%) dbt
6 29 (4.22%) Serverless
7 28 (4.08%) Snowflake
8 26 (3.78%) Entra ID
9 25 (3.64%) Power Platform
9 25 (3.64%) Vertex AI
10 21 (3.06%) Google Analytics
11 19 (2.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (2.77%) Dagster
12 18 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (2.47%) Cloud Run
14 16 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
14 16 (2.33%) Figma
15 15 (2.18%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (2.18%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 85 (12.37%) Broadband
2 19 (2.77%) Firewall
2 19 (2.77%) Network Security
3 15 (2.18%) DNS
3 15 (2.18%) WAN
4 12 (1.75%) LAN
5 9 (1.31%) SD-WAN
5 9 (1.31%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.16%) Internet
6 8 (1.16%) VPN
7 7 (1.02%) LTE
7 7 (1.02%) SSL
8 5 (0.73%) DHCP
9 4 (0.58%) MQTT
9 4 (0.58%) Wireless
10 3 (0.44%) Modbus
10 3 (0.44%) MPLS
10 3 (0.44%) SCCP
10 3 (0.44%) WLAN
11 2 (0.29%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (12.37%) BigQuery
2 63 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (6.70%) NoSQL
4 37 (5.39%) Metadata
5 33 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (3.93%) Looker
7 26 (3.78%) MongoDB
8 22 (3.20%) Tableau
9 21 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (2.91%) Power BI
11 18 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (2.62%) Data Lake
12 17 (2.47%) Relational Database
13 13 (1.89%) Semantic Layer
14 10 (1.46%) Apache Iceberg
14 10 (1.46%) Delta Lake
14 10 (1.46%) Pinecone
15 9 (1.31%) Redis
15 9 (1.31%) SQL Server
15 9 (1.31%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 48 (6.99%) TeamCity
2 41 (5.97%) Git
3 25 (3.64%) GitLab
4 24 (3.49%) JIRA
5 18 (2.62%) CircleCI
6 15 (2.18%) Jenkins
7 12 (1.75%) Cypress.io
7 12 (1.75%) MLflow
8 8 (1.16%) Subversion
9 7 (1.02%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.02%) Storybook
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 (0.15%) JMeter
11 1 (0.15%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.15%) webpack
General
1 189 (27.51%) Social Skills
2 180 (26.20%) Finance
3 134 (19.51%) Law
4 129 (18.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (14.56%) Banking
6 86 (12.52%) Retail
7 80 (11.64%) Public Sector
8 56 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
9 37 (5.39%) Back Office
9 37 (5.39%) Financial Institution
10 35 (5.09%) Telecoms
11 30 (4.37%) Legal
12 20 (2.91%) Marketing
13 17 (2.47%) Front Office
13 17 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (2.33%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (0.73%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 207 (30.13%) Senior
2 150 (21.83%) Software Engineer
3 101 (14.70%) Architect
4 71 (10.33%) Lead
5 60 (8.73%) Developer
6 52 (7.57%) Data Engineer
7 43 (6.26%) Analyst
8 41 (5.97%) Consultant
9 37 (5.39%) Cloud Engineer
9 37 (5.39%) Senior Software Engineer
10 34 (4.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 30 (4.37%) Scala Engineer
12 29 (4.22%) Lead Software Engineer
13 28 (4.08%) Data Architect
14 27 (3.93%) Senior Consultant
15 25 (3.64%) Senior Architect
15 25 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
16 22 (3.20%) Java Engineer
16 22 (3.20%) Python Engineer
16 22 (3.20%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (14.12%) React
2 69 (10.04%) Kafka
3 68 (9.90%) Node.js
4 64 (9.32%) gRPC
5 38 (5.53%) RESTful
6 36 (5.24%) REST
7 29 (4.22%) Django
8 24 (3.49%) .NET
9 23 (3.35%) Redux
10 21 (3.06%) OAuth
11 20 (2.91%) Spring
12 18 (2.62%) React Native
12 18 (2.62%) Vue
13 17 (2.47%) AngularJS
13 17 (2.47%) PyTorch
13 17 (2.47%) TensorFlow
14 16 (2.33%) CSS
14 16 (2.33%) HTML
15 15 (2.18%) Spring Boot
15 15 (2.18%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 169 (24.60%) Cloud Native
2 94 (13.68%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (10.19%) Product Ownership
4 47 (6.84%) Video\Live Streaming
5 46 (6.70%) Over-the-Top Content
6 26 (3.78%) Public Cloud
7 25 (3.64%) Blog
7 25 (3.64%) Distributed Architecture
7 25 (3.64%) Security Posture
8 24 (3.49%) Data Structures
9 20 (2.91%) Onboarding
9 20 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (2.77%) Management Information System
11 18 (2.62%) Social Media
12 17 (2.47%) Mobile App
13 16 (2.33%) Fixed Income
14 15 (2.18%) AI Agents
15 13 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
16 9 (1.31%) Cyberattack
16 9 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 36 (5.24%) Linux
2 27 (3.93%) Android
3 19 (2.77%) Windows
4 18 (2.62%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.16%) Unix
6 7 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.29%) 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
1 287 (41.78%) CI/CD
2 241 (35.08%) Software Engineering
3 193 (28.09%) Agile
4 178 (25.91%) DevOps
5 173 (25.18%) Microservices
6 170 (24.75%) AI
7 165 (24.02%) Containerisation
8 162 (23.58%) Mentoring
9 135 (19.65%) Machine Learning
10 131 (19.07%) Roadmaps
11 128 (18.63%) Clean Code
12 120 (17.47%) Coaching
12 120 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
13 112 (16.30%) Test Automation
14 109 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
15 97 (14.12%) Infrastructure as Code
16 93 (13.54%) Data Science
17 91 (13.25%) Analytics
18 87 (12.66%) Technical Leadership
19 79 (11.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 245 (35.66%) Python
2 170 (24.75%) Java
3 124 (18.05%) Go
4 100 (14.56%) SQL
5 89 (12.95%) JavaScript
6 75 (10.92%) TypeScript
7 64 (9.32%) Scala
8 23 (3.35%) Bash
9 22 (3.20%) C++
10 21 (3.06%) C#
11 13 (1.89%) Rust
12 12 (1.75%) PowerShell
13 7 (1.02%) PHP
14 5 (0.73%) C
14 5 (0.73%) Ruby
15 3 (0.44%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.44%) Perl
16 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.29%) R
16 2 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 124 (18.05%) Degree
2 89 (12.95%) Security Cleared
3 75 (10.92%) SC Cleared
4 52 (7.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.78%) AWS Certification
6 24 (3.49%) CISSP
7 18 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (2.18%) CREST Certified
8 15 (2.18%) OSCP
9 13 (1.89%) CISM
10 10 (1.46%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.46%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.87%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.87%) GIAC
14 5 (0.73%) GPEN
14 5 (0.73%) ISACA
14 5 (0.73%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.73%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.95%) Accessibility
2 32 (4.66%) QA
3 27 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (3.64%) NIST
5 24 (3.49%) GDPR
6 23 (3.35%) Data Quality
7 18 (2.62%) GRC
8 10 (1.46%) SOC 2
9 8 (1.16%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.73%) NCSC
11 4 (0.58%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.44%) SLA
13 2 (0.29%) COBIT
13 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.29%) PMO
13 2 (0.29%) SEPA
13 2 (0.29%) SOC 1
13 2 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 176 (25.62%) Docker
2 16 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.29%) vSphere
6 1 (0.15%) Firmware
6 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 169 (24.60%) Kubernetes
2 154 (22.42%) Terraform
3 73 (10.63%) Grafana
4 45 (6.55%) Ansible
5 25 (3.64%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.75%) Podman
6 12 (1.75%) Puppet
7 8 (1.16%) Argo
7 8 (1.16%) Istio
8 7 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.73%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.29%) Avamar
11 2 (0.29%) cPanel
11 2 (0.29%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.29%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.29%) Plesk
11 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 145 (21.11%) Google
2 78 (11.35%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.55%) Typelevel
4 24 (3.49%) Adobe
4 24 (3.49%) Databricks
5 16 (2.33%) Apple
6 14 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.89%) Palantir
8 12 (1.75%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.75%) SAP
9 11 (1.60%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.46%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.46%) VMware
11 8 (1.16%) Confluent
11 8 (1.16%) Foundry
11 8 (1.16%) Oracle
12 7 (1.02%) Cisco
13 6 (0.87%) Dell
14 5 (0.73%) Ericsson
14 5 (0.73%) Nokia
460 hybrid/remote GCP jobs