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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 56 64
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 -28
Permanent jobs citing GCP 825 897 986
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.70% 5.40% 3.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.56% 14.75% 9.56%
Number of salaries quoted 463 469 794
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,542 £64,509 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% -10.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £95,000 £125,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -3.03% +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 8,630 6,082 10,313
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.69% 36.62% 40.99%
Number of salaries quoted 6,214 4,489 8,201
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,720 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.76% -3.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 3 August 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 22 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (1.70%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.85%) Apache
4 4 (0.48%) Confluence
5 3 (0.36%) Camunda
5 3 (0.36%) CMS
5 3 (0.36%) SAS
5 3 (0.36%) WordPress
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Appian
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 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (2.91%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Magento
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 658 (79.76%) AWS
2 511 (61.94%) Azure
3 83 (10.06%) SaaS
4 62 (7.52%) Amazon EKS
5 34 (4.12%) dbt
6 33 (4.00%) Cloud Run
6 33 (4.00%) Power Platform
7 32 (3.88%) GitHub
8 28 (3.39%) Serverless
9 26 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 25 (3.03%) Snowflake
11 22 (2.67%) Cloud Functions
12 21 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (2.55%) Google Analytics
13 20 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (2.30%) Anthropic Claude
14 19 (2.30%) PaaS
15 17 (2.06%) Entra ID
15 17 (2.06%) Firebase
16 16 (1.94%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 90 (10.91%) Broadband
2 31 (3.76%) Network Security
3 24 (2.91%) TCP/IP
4 20 (2.42%) Firewall
5 17 (2.06%) WAN
6 11 (1.33%) DNS
6 11 (1.33%) LAN
7 10 (1.21%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.09%) VPN
9 8 (0.97%) LTE
10 7 (0.85%) Internet
11 6 (0.73%) Fibre Channel
11 6 (0.73%) HTTP
11 6 (0.73%) iSCSI
12 5 (0.61%) DHCP
13 4 (0.48%) MQTT
13 4 (0.48%) SSH
14 3 (0.36%) Modbus
14 3 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
14 3 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (9.58%) BigQuery
2 58 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (4.12%) NoSQL
4 32 (3.88%) Power BI
5 30 (3.64%) MongoDB
6 25 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 25 (3.03%) Looker
7 23 (2.79%) Semantic Layer
8 21 (2.55%) SQL Server
9 19 (2.30%) Metadata
10 18 (2.18%) Pinecone
10 18 (2.18%) Relational Database
11 15 (1.82%) Tableau
12 14 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.21%) Redis
14 9 (1.09%) MySQL
15 7 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.73%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 57 (6.91%) Git
2 52 (6.30%) TeamCity
3 42 (5.09%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.82%) JIRA
5 13 (1.58%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.45%) CircleCI
7 10 (1.21%) GitLab
8 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.36%) JUnit
8 3 (0.36%) Postman
8 3 (0.36%) Selenium
8 3 (0.36%) TestRail
8 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.36%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.24%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.24%) Maven
9 2 (0.24%) MLflow
9 2 (0.24%) Subversion
10 1 (0.12%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.12%) Gatling
General
1 246 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 214 (25.94%) Finance
3 181 (21.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 144 (17.45%) Law
5 114 (13.82%) Banking
6 88 (10.67%) Retail
7 85 (10.30%) Public Sector
8 67 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
9 45 (5.45%) Back Office
9 45 (5.45%) Financial Institution
10 35 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
11 24 (2.91%) Legal
12 18 (2.18%) Marketing
13 16 (1.94%) Front Office
14 7 (0.85%) Legal Technology
14 7 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.73%) Advertising
15 6 (0.73%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.61%) Games
16 5 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 232 (28.12%) Senior
2 183 (22.18%) Software Engineer
3 131 (15.88%) Architect
4 84 (10.18%) Lead
5 65 (7.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 63 (7.64%) Developer
7 55 (6.67%) Analyst
8 51 (6.18%) Data Engineer
9 45 (5.45%) Python Engineer
10 44 (5.33%) GCP Engineer
11 41 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
12 35 (4.24%) Lead Software Engineer
13 34 (4.12%) Senior Software Engineer
14 33 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 32 (3.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 32 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
16 31 (3.76%) Consultant
17 27 (3.27%) Senior Architect
18 26 (3.15%) Senior Manager
19 24 (2.91%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (11.27%) React
2 64 (7.76%) Node.js
3 48 (5.82%) REST
4 46 (5.58%) Kafka
5 40 (4.85%) gRPC
6 38 (4.61%) LangChain
7 33 (4.00%) .NET
8 28 (3.39%) Django
9 27 (3.27%) Spring
10 25 (3.03%) FastAPI
10 25 (3.03%) OAuth
11 23 (2.79%) LangGraph
12 21 (2.55%) Spring Boot
13 20 (2.42%) OpenID
13 20 (2.42%) PyTorch
13 20 (2.42%) RESTful
14 19 (2.30%) AngularJS
14 19 (2.30%) TensorFlow
14 19 (2.30%) Vue
15 18 (2.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 218 (26.42%) Cloud Native
2 92 (11.15%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (10.06%) Product Ownership
4 45 (5.45%) AI Agents
5 41 (4.97%) Video\Live Streaming
6 37 (4.48%) Over-the-Top Content
7 24 (2.91%) Security Posture
7 24 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (2.79%) Distributed Architecture
8 23 (2.79%) Public Cloud
9 20 (2.42%) Data Structures
9 20 (2.42%) Management Information System
10 19 (2.30%) Social Media
11 18 (2.18%) Blog
11 18 (2.18%) Onboarding
12 16 (1.94%) Fixed Income
13 15 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.82%) Mobile App
14 12 (1.45%) Data Centre
15 11 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.55%) Linux
2 21 (2.55%) Unix
3 17 (2.06%) Windows
4 9 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.85%) Android
5 7 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) CentOS
6 1 (0.12%) Debian
6 1 (0.12%) Solaris
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (42.30%) CI/CD
2 307 (37.21%) Software Engineering
3 252 (30.55%) Mentoring
4 234 (28.36%) Agile
5 231 (28.00%) AI
6 192 (23.27%) DevOps
7 163 (19.76%) Microservices
8 153 (18.55%) Containerisation
9 147 (17.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 145 (17.58%) Roadmaps
11 140 (16.97%) Machine Learning
12 139 (16.85%) Test Automation
13 137 (16.61%) Technical Leadership
14 135 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
15 131 (15.88%) Clean Code
16 129 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
17 128 (15.52%) Coaching
18 108 (13.09%) Observability
19 99 (12.00%) Analytics
20 87 (10.55%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 316 (38.30%) Python
2 177 (21.45%) Java
3 128 (15.52%) SQL
4 106 (12.85%) JavaScript
5 91 (11.03%) Go
6 67 (8.12%) TypeScript
7 53 (6.42%) Scala
8 36 (4.36%) C#
9 21 (2.55%) Bash
10 15 (1.82%) C++
10 15 (1.82%) PowerShell
10 15 (1.82%) Rust
11 6 (0.73%) Ruby
12 5 (0.61%) C
12 5 (0.61%) PHP
12 5 (0.61%) R
13 4 (0.48%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.36%) Perl
14 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 133 (16.12%) Security Cleared
2 115 (13.94%) SC Cleared
3 111 (13.45%) Degree
4 49 (5.94%) AWS Certification
5 35 (4.24%) CISSP
6 29 (3.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.79%) CISM
9 19 (2.30%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.45%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (1.21%) CREST Certified
12 10 (1.21%) OSCP
13 6 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.73%) CCSP
13 6 (0.73%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.73%) Dell Certification
14 5 (0.61%) CCIE
14 5 (0.61%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.18%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.61%) NIST
3 32 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (3.64%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.67%) QA
6 21 (2.55%) GDPR
7 19 (2.30%) NCSC
8 13 (1.58%) GRC
8 13 (1.58%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 9 (1.09%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.73%) PMO
12 4 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.48%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.48%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.48%) SLA
12 4 (0.48%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 184 (22.30%) Docker
2 15 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.73%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.73%) vSphere
6 2 (0.24%) KVM
7 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 190 (23.03%) Terraform
2 189 (22.91%) Kubernetes
3 74 (8.97%) Grafana
4 36 (4.36%) Ansible
5 16 (1.94%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.82%) Istio
7 14 (1.70%) Puppet
8 13 (1.58%) Podman
9 6 (0.73%) Avamar
9 6 (0.73%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.73%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.73%) VxRail
10 5 (0.61%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.61%) CASB
10 5 (0.61%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.36%) linkerd
13 2 (0.24%) Argo
13 2 (0.24%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 161 (19.52%) Google
2 104 (12.61%) Microsoft
3 36 (4.36%) Typelevel
4 26 (3.15%) Adobe
5 25 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.91%) Apple
7 21 (2.55%) Databricks
8 18 (2.18%) Okta
9 15 (1.82%) SAP
9 15 (1.82%) VMware
10 14 (1.70%) Ping Identity
11 12 (1.45%) Informatica
11 12 (1.45%) Oracle
12 11 (1.33%) Dynatrace
12 11 (1.33%) Splunk
13 9 (1.09%) ForgeRock
14 8 (0.97%) Cisco
14 8 (0.97%) Confluent
14 8 (0.97%) Dell
14 8 (0.97%) New Relic