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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 56 73
Rank change year-on-year -13 +17 -38
Permanent jobs citing GCP 803 889 1,003
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.66% 5.40% 3.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.43% 14.67% 9.01%
Number of salaries quoted 444 462 830
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,475
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,715 £67,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £91,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% -6.83% +14.38%
75th Percentile £94,063 £126,875 £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 8,517 6,059 11,129
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.87% 36.82% 41.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,114 4,470 8,988
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 28 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 24 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (1.87%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.87%) Apache
4 4 (0.50%) Confluence
5 3 (0.37%) Camunda
5 3 (0.37%) CMS
5 3 (0.37%) SAS
6 2 (0.25%) WordPress
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.12%) Appian
7 1 (0.12%) Drupal
7 1 (0.12%) IIS
7 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.12%) nginx
7 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (2.99%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.25%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Magento
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 640 (79.70%) AWS
2 492 (61.27%) Azure
3 81 (10.09%) SaaS
4 59 (7.35%) Amazon EKS
5 33 (4.11%) Cloud Run
6 32 (3.99%) GitHub
7 30 (3.74%) Serverless
8 29 (3.61%) dbt
8 29 (3.61%) Power Platform
9 25 (3.11%) Snowflake
10 22 (2.74%) Cloud Functions
11 21 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (2.49%) Anthropic Claude
12 20 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (2.49%) Google Analytics
13 19 (2.37%) PaaS
14 17 (2.12%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (2.12%) Entra ID
14 17 (2.12%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 97 (12.08%) Broadband
2 30 (3.74%) Network Security
3 18 (2.24%) Firewall
3 18 (2.24%) TCP/IP
4 16 (1.99%) WAN
5 11 (1.37%) DNS
5 11 (1.37%) LAN
6 9 (1.12%) SD-WAN
6 9 (1.12%) VPN
7 8 (1.00%) LTE
8 7 (0.87%) Internet
9 6 (0.75%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (0.75%) iSCSI
10 5 (0.62%) DHCP
10 5 (0.62%) HTTP
10 5 (0.62%) MQTT
11 4 (0.50%) SSH
12 3 (0.37%) MPLS
12 3 (0.37%) SSL
12 3 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (9.71%) BigQuery
2 55 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (3.99%) NoSQL
5 28 (3.49%) MongoDB
6 27 (3.36%) Power BI
7 25 (3.11%) Data Lake
8 24 (2.99%) Semantic Layer
9 23 (2.86%) Looker
10 20 (2.49%) Metadata
11 19 (2.37%) Pinecone
11 19 (2.37%) Relational Database
11 19 (2.37%) SQL Server
12 14 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (1.62%) Tableau
14 9 (1.12%) Redis
15 8 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.00%) MySQL
16 6 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.75%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 52 (6.48%) Git
2 48 (5.98%) TeamCity
3 41 (5.11%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.87%) JIRA
5 13 (1.62%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.49%) CircleCI
7 10 (1.25%) GitLab
8 3 (0.37%) MLflow
8 3 (0.37%) Postman
8 3 (0.37%) Selenium
8 3 (0.37%) TestRail
8 3 (0.37%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.25%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.25%) JUnit
9 2 (0.25%) Subversion
9 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.12%) Gatling
10 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
General
1 224 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 207 (25.78%) Finance
3 173 (21.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 138 (17.19%) Law
5 109 (13.57%) Banking
6 83 (10.34%) Retail
7 81 (10.09%) Public Sector
8 61 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
9 43 (5.35%) Financial Institution
10 42 (5.23%) Back Office
11 32 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (2.99%) Legal
13 18 (2.24%) Marketing
14 16 (1.99%) Front Office
15 7 (0.87%) Legal Technology
15 7 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.75%) Advertising
16 6 (0.75%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.62%) Games
17 5 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 226 (28.14%) Senior
2 179 (22.29%) Software Engineer
3 124 (15.44%) Architect
4 80 (9.96%) Lead
5 64 (7.97%) Cloud Engineer
6 63 (7.85%) Developer
7 53 (6.60%) Data Engineer
8 51 (6.35%) Analyst
9 44 (5.48%) GCP Engineer
10 40 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
11 37 (4.61%) Python Engineer
12 33 (4.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 33 (4.11%) Consultant
12 33 (4.11%) Lead Software Engineer
12 33 (4.11%) Senior Software Engineer
13 32 (3.99%) Senior Analyst
14 31 (3.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 30 (3.74%) Scala Engineer
16 27 (3.36%) Senior Architect
17 25 (3.11%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (11.08%) React
2 64 (7.97%) Node.js
3 48 (5.98%) gRPC
4 46 (5.73%) Kafka
5 44 (5.48%) REST
6 37 (4.61%) LangChain
7 29 (3.61%) .NET
8 28 (3.49%) Django
9 25 (3.11%) Spring
10 24 (2.99%) FastAPI
11 23 (2.86%) LangGraph
11 23 (2.86%) OAuth
12 21 (2.62%) PyTorch
13 20 (2.49%) Spring Boot
13 20 (2.49%) TensorFlow
14 19 (2.37%) OpenID
14 19 (2.37%) RESTful
15 18 (2.24%) AngularJS
15 18 (2.24%) Vue
16 17 (2.12%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 212 (26.40%) Cloud Native
2 95 (11.83%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (10.21%) Product Ownership
4 48 (5.98%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (5.60%) Over-the-Top Content
6 43 (5.35%) AI Agents
7 24 (2.99%) Security Posture
8 23 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
9 22 (2.74%) Data Structures
10 21 (2.62%) Public Cloud
11 20 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (2.37%) Management Information System
13 18 (2.24%) Onboarding
14 17 (2.12%) Social Media
15 16 (1.99%) Blog
15 16 (1.99%) Fixed Income
16 14 (1.74%) Mobile App
17 13 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
18 11 (1.37%) Data Centre
19 10 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.98%) Linux
2 18 (2.24%) Windows
3 16 (1.99%) Unix
4 9 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.87%) Android
5 7 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) CentOS
6 1 (0.12%) Debian
6 1 (0.12%) Solaris
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (42.47%) CI/CD
2 303 (37.73%) Software Engineering
3 236 (29.39%) Mentoring
4 229 (28.52%) Agile
5 227 (28.27%) AI
6 182 (22.67%) DevOps
7 166 (20.67%) Microservices
8 161 (20.05%) Containerisation
9 147 (18.31%) Machine Learning
10 141 (17.56%) Roadmaps
11 137 (17.06%) Infrastructure as Code
12 135 (16.81%) Test Automation
13 133 (16.56%) Technical Leadership
14 131 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
15 130 (16.19%) Clean Code
16 129 (16.06%) Coaching
17 124 (15.44%) Continuous Improvement
18 100 (12.45%) Observability
19 96 (11.96%) Analytics
20 94 (11.71%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 310 (38.61%) Python
2 169 (21.05%) Java
3 120 (14.94%) SQL
4 103 (12.83%) JavaScript
5 98 (12.20%) Go
6 62 (7.72%) TypeScript
7 61 (7.60%) Scala
8 33 (4.11%) C#
9 20 (2.49%) Bash
10 16 (1.99%) C++
10 16 (1.99%) Rust
11 12 (1.49%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.75%) C
12 6 (0.75%) Ruby
13 4 (0.50%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.50%) PHP
14 3 (0.37%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.37%) Perl
14 3 (0.37%) R
14 3 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 123 (15.32%) Security Cleared
2 110 (13.70%) Degree
3 105 (13.08%) SC Cleared
4 46 (5.73%) AWS Certification
5 35 (4.36%) CISSP
6 29 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.86%) CISM
9 18 (2.24%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.37%) CREST Certified
11 11 (1.37%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.37%) OSCP
12 6 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.75%) CCSP
12 6 (0.75%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.75%) Dell Certification
12 6 (0.75%) GIAC
13 5 (0.62%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (6.10%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.48%) NIST
3 31 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 29 (3.61%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.99%) QA
6 20 (2.49%) GDPR
7 18 (2.24%) NCSC
8 13 (1.62%) GRC
8 13 (1.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 8 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.87%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.75%) PMO
12 4 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.50%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.50%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.50%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.37%) SLA
14 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 189 (23.54%) Docker
2 14 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.00%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.75%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.75%) vSphere
6 2 (0.25%) KVM
7 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 184 (22.91%) Kubernetes
2 177 (22.04%) Terraform
3 70 (8.72%) Grafana
4 35 (4.36%) Ansible
5 17 (2.12%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.87%) Istio
7 14 (1.74%) Puppet
8 13 (1.62%) Podman
9 6 (0.75%) Avamar
9 6 (0.75%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.75%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.75%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.75%) VxRail
10 5 (0.62%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.62%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.50%) CASB
11 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.37%) linkerd
13 2 (0.25%) Argo
13 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 152 (18.93%) Google
2 103 (12.83%) Microsoft
3 44 (5.48%) Typelevel
4 27 (3.36%) Adobe
5 25 (3.11%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.99%) Apple
7 21 (2.62%) Databricks
8 17 (2.12%) Okta
9 15 (1.87%) SAP
9 15 (1.87%) VMware
10 13 (1.62%) Ping Identity
11 12 (1.49%) Oracle
12 11 (1.37%) Informatica
13 10 (1.25%) Splunk
14 9 (1.12%) Dynatrace
14 9 (1.12%) ForgeRock
15 8 (1.00%) Confluent
15 8 (1.00%) Dell
16 7 (0.87%) Cisco
16 7 (0.87%) Veeam