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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 72 60
Rank change year-on-year -2 -12 -16
Permanent jobs citing GCP 831 764 950
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.33% 4.62% 4.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.61% 13.39% 10.40%
Number of salaries quoted 467 358 669
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,335 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £91,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -1.64% +14.90%
75th Percentile £95,000 £136,250 £142,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £137,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £83,615
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.32% +4.52%

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 8,645 5,706 9,131
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.69% 34.53% 42.51%
Number of salaries quoted 6,312 4,040 5,974
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £58,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.76% -10.77% +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 12 October 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 13 (1.56%) Apache
2 12 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.36%) Camunda
5 3 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.24%) WordPress
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.12%) Appian
7 1 (0.12%) CMS
7 1 (0.12%) Confluence
7 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (1.68%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.24%) Weka
4 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (2.29%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) Odoo
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 661 (79.54%) AWS
2 517 (62.21%) Azure
3 137 (16.49%) SaaS
4 92 (11.07%) Amazon EKS
5 46 (5.54%) GitHub
6 36 (4.33%) Power Platform
7 35 (4.21%) dbt
8 32 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
8 32 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 25 (3.01%) Cloud Run
9 25 (3.01%) Snowflake
10 22 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (2.41%) Datadog
12 20 (2.41%) Google Compute Engine
12 20 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 19 (2.29%) Amazon Bedrock
13 19 (2.29%) Anthropic Claude
13 19 (2.29%) Serverless
14 18 (2.17%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.69%) Network Security
2 34 (4.09%) TCP/IP
3 30 (3.61%) Broadband
4 22 (2.65%) VPN
5 21 (2.53%) BGP
5 21 (2.53%) Firewall
6 10 (1.20%) WAN
7 9 (1.08%) VLAN
8 8 (0.96%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.72%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (0.72%) HTTP
9 6 (0.72%) iSCSI
10 4 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.48%) SSH
11 3 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
11 3 (0.36%) MPLS
11 3 (0.36%) OSPF
11 3 (0.36%) VXLAN
12 2 (0.24%) LAN
12 2 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (8.30%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (7.70%) BigQuery
3 34 (4.09%) Power BI
4 31 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (3.49%) Looker
5 29 (3.49%) NoSQL
6 24 (2.89%) SQL Server
7 23 (2.77%) Metadata
8 22 (2.65%) Semantic Layer
9 21 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (2.29%) Data Lake
11 18 (2.17%) Tableau
12 17 (2.05%) Pinecone
13 16 (1.93%) Chroma
13 16 (1.93%) MongoDB
14 12 (1.44%) Relational Database
15 10 (1.20%) MySQL
16 9 (1.08%) Redis
17 7 (0.84%) Metadata Repository
18 6 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 101 (12.15%) TeamCity
2 50 (6.02%) Git
3 46 (5.54%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.81%) GitLab
5 6 (0.72%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.60%) JUnit
7 4 (0.48%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.48%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.48%) JIRA
7 4 (0.48%) Maven
8 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.36%) Mockito
8 3 (0.36%) Postman
8 3 (0.36%) Selenium
8 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.24%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.24%) ERwin
9 2 (0.24%) MLflow
9 2 (0.24%) Subversion
General
1 261 (31.41%) Social Skills
2 258 (31.05%) Finance
3 220 (26.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 173 (20.82%) Banking
5 171 (20.58%) Law
6 145 (17.45%) Retail
7 91 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
7 91 (10.95%) Public Sector
8 86 (10.35%) Back Office
9 85 (10.23%) Financial Institution
10 43 (5.17%) Marketing
11 38 (4.57%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (2.65%) Legal
13 17 (2.05%) Front Office
14 12 (1.44%) French Language
15 11 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.84%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.72%) Advertising
18 5 (0.60%) Games
19 3 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 237 (28.52%) Senior
2 205 (24.67%) Software Engineer
3 133 (16.00%) Architect
4 82 (9.87%) Lead
5 68 (8.18%) Cloud Engineer
6 63 (7.58%) Analyst
6 63 (7.58%) GCP Engineer
7 58 (6.98%) Python Engineer
8 53 (6.38%) Developer
9 51 (6.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 38 (4.57%) Data Engineer
10 38 (4.57%) Senior Software Engineer
11 36 (4.33%) Lead Software Engineer
12 31 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
13 30 (3.61%) Data Architect
13 30 (3.61%) Java Engineer
13 30 (3.61%) Security Engineer
14 28 (3.37%) Senior Architect
14 28 (3.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 27 (3.25%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (28.76%) Terraform
2 64 (7.70%) React
3 57 (6.86%) LangChain
4 49 (5.90%) Node.js
5 41 (4.93%) LangGraph
6 40 (4.81%) REST
7 34 (4.09%) .NET
8 30 (3.61%) RESTful
9 28 (3.37%) Spring
10 27 (3.25%) PyTorch
11 22 (2.65%) TensorFlow
12 21 (2.53%) Middleware
12 21 (2.53%) Spring Boot
13 19 (2.29%) Kafka
13 19 (2.29%) scikit-learn
14 18 (2.17%) FastAPI
14 18 (2.17%) OAuth
15 17 (2.05%) CrewAI
15 17 (2.05%) OAuth2
15 17 (2.05%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 247 (29.72%) Cloud Native
2 87 (10.47%) Product Ownership
3 83 (9.99%) Distributed Systems
4 67 (8.06%) AI Agents
5 46 (5.54%) Blog
6 23 (2.77%) Security Posture
7 22 (2.65%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (2.05%) Hedge funds
10 15 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
10 15 (1.81%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.68%) Data Centre
11 14 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (1.56%) Social Media
13 12 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (1.44%) Management Information System
14 11 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.32%) Replication
15 9 (1.08%) Data Structures
15 9 (1.08%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.42%) Linux
2 18 (2.17%) Unix
3 12 (1.44%) Windows
4 11 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.72%) macOS
6 4 (0.48%) Android
7 3 (0.36%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Debian
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (42.24%) CI/CD
2 304 (36.58%) Software Engineering
3 289 (34.78%) AI
4 270 (32.49%) Mentoring
5 191 (22.98%) DevOps
6 190 (22.86%) Agile
7 148 (17.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 145 (17.45%) Technical Leadership
9 144 (17.33%) Test Automation
10 140 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 140 (16.85%) Microservices
11 138 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
12 127 (15.28%) Observability
13 121 (14.56%) Machine Learning
14 117 (14.08%) Roadmaps
15 112 (13.48%) Clean Code
16 107 (12.88%) Analytics
17 106 (12.76%) Deployment Automation
17 106 (12.76%) Fintech
18 99 (11.91%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 307 (36.94%) Python
2 208 (25.03%) Java
3 155 (18.65%) SQL
4 76 (9.15%) JavaScript
5 63 (7.58%) TypeScript
6 58 (6.98%) Go
7 36 (4.33%) C#
8 35 (4.21%) Bash
9 26 (3.13%) R
10 18 (2.17%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.81%) Scala
12 11 (1.32%) Rust
13 8 (0.96%) C++
14 7 (0.84%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.60%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.48%) C
16 4 (0.48%) PHP
16 4 (0.48%) Ruby
17 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
18 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 124 (14.92%) Security Cleared
2 108 (13.00%) SC Cleared
3 98 (11.79%) Degree
4 54 (6.50%) AWS Certification
5 36 (4.33%) CISSP
6 31 (3.73%) CISM
7 27 (3.25%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 12 (1.44%) CCSP
12 10 (1.20%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.84%) GIAC
15 6 (0.72%) CRISC
15 6 (0.72%) Dell Certification
15 6 (0.72%) GCFA
15 6 (0.72%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.60%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 52 (6.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (5.17%) NIST
4 27 (3.25%) GDPR
5 26 (3.13%) PCI DSS
6 22 (2.65%) NCSC
7 18 (2.17%) Accessibility
7 18 (2.17%) SOC 2
8 14 (1.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 9 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (1.08%) QA
10 6 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.72%) PMO
11 4 (0.48%) Def Stans
11 4 (0.48%) GRC
11 4 (0.48%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.48%) SLA
12 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 146 (17.57%) Docker
2 9 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.96%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.72%) vSphere
5 2 (0.24%) Firmware
5 2 (0.24%) KVM
6 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 254 (30.57%) Kubernetes
2 126 (15.16%) Grafana
3 32 (3.85%) Ansible
4 27 (3.25%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.96%) Cilium
7 7 (0.84%) Istio
7 7 (0.84%) Puppet
8 6 (0.72%) Argo
8 6 (0.72%) Avamar
8 6 (0.72%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.72%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.72%) VxRail
9 5 (0.60%) CASB
9 5 (0.60%) Podman
10 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.36%) linkerd
12 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.12%) QRadar
Vendors
1 211 (25.39%) Google
2 93 (11.19%) Microsoft
3 29 (3.49%) Adobe
4 28 (3.37%) ServiceNow
5 23 (2.77%) Databricks
6 21 (2.53%) Apple
7 18 (2.17%) Splunk
8 17 (2.05%) Dynatrace
9 16 (1.93%) OpenAI
10 15 (1.81%) Informatica
10 15 (1.81%) Okta
10 15 (1.81%) Ping Identity
11 13 (1.56%) New Relic
12 11 (1.32%) Oracle
12 11 (1.32%) SAP
13 10 (1.20%) VMware
14 8 (0.96%) Cisco
15 7 (0.84%) Palo Alto
15 7 (0.84%) Veeam
16 6 (0.72%) Nimble Storage