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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 46 78
Rank change year-on-year -19 +32 -41
Permanent jobs citing GCP 744 948 1,226
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.66% 6.09% 3.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.61% 15.98% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 376 506 1,022
10th Percentile £52,637 £51,474 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +3.34% +6.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £110,625 £137,500 £146,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,000 £79,932
% change year-on-year -8.54% +2.59% -0.09%

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 7,739 5,931 14,572
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.04% 38.12% 42.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5,461 4,320 12,106
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,735 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £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 £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

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 23 June 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 36 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (2.96%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.67%) Apache
4 4 (0.54%) Confluence
5 3 (0.40%) CMS
5 3 (0.40%) SAS
6 2 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.27%) Camunda
6 2 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
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
7 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (3.23%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.27%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 596 (80.11%) AWS
2 437 (58.74%) Azure
3 89 (11.96%) SaaS
4 69 (9.27%) Amazon EKS
5 30 (4.03%) Serverless
6 28 (3.76%) Cloud Run
7 27 (3.63%) Power Platform
7 27 (3.63%) Snowflake
8 24 (3.23%) dbt
8 24 (3.23%) Vertex AI
9 21 (2.82%) Cloud Functions
9 21 (2.82%) GitHub
10 20 (2.69%) Google Analytics
11 18 (2.42%) Entra ID
11 18 (2.42%) PaaS
12 17 (2.28%) Dagster
13 15 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (1.75%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 100 (13.44%) Broadband
2 26 (3.49%) Network Security
3 17 (2.28%) Firewall
4 16 (2.15%) WAN
5 12 (1.61%) LAN
6 11 (1.48%) DNS
7 9 (1.21%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.08%) LTE
8 8 (1.08%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.08%) VPN
9 7 (0.94%) Internet
10 6 (0.81%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (0.81%) iSCSI
11 5 (0.67%) DHCP
12 4 (0.54%) MQTT
13 3 (0.40%) BGP
13 3 (0.40%) Modbus
13 3 (0.40%) MPLS
13 3 (0.40%) SCCP
13 3 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (12.50%) BigQuery
2 59 (7.93%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (4.70%) Metadata
4 34 (4.57%) NoSQL
5 29 (3.90%) Semantic Layer
6 27 (3.63%) Looker
6 27 (3.63%) MongoDB
7 24 (3.23%) Data Lake
8 23 (3.09%) Power BI
9 18 (2.42%) Pinecone
10 17 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
10 17 (2.28%) Relational Database
10 17 (2.28%) Tableau
11 16 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.34%) SQL Server
13 8 (1.08%) Delta Lake
13 8 (1.08%) Weaviate
14 7 (0.94%) Apache Iceberg
15 6 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 56 (7.53%) TeamCity
2 43 (5.78%) Git
3 31 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.88%) CircleCI
4 14 (1.88%) GitLab
4 14 (1.88%) JIRA
5 12 (1.61%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.08%) MLflow
7 2 (0.27%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.27%) JUnit
7 2 (0.27%) Postman
7 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.27%) Selenium
7 2 (0.27%) Storybook
7 2 (0.27%) Subversion
7 2 (0.27%) TestRail
7 2 (0.27%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.13%) ERwin
8 1 (0.13%) JMeter
8 1 (0.13%) Maven
General
1 193 (25.94%) Social Skills
2 189 (25.40%) Finance
3 169 (22.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 147 (19.76%) Law
5 115 (15.46%) Banking
6 94 (12.63%) Retail
7 87 (11.69%) Public Sector
8 47 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
9 44 (5.91%) Back Office
9 44 (5.91%) Financial Institution
10 25 (3.36%) Legal
11 24 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.15%) Front Office
13 10 (1.34%) Marketing
14 8 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.94%) Legal Technology
16 6 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.67%) Telecoms
18 4 (0.54%) Manufacturing
19 3 (0.40%) French Language
Job Titles
1 201 (27.02%) Senior
2 159 (21.37%) Software Engineer
3 129 (17.34%) Architect
4 65 (8.74%) Lead
5 62 (8.33%) Developer
6 56 (7.53%) Data Engineer
7 55 (7.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 54 (7.26%) Analyst
9 39 (5.24%) Consultant
10 38 (5.11%) Solutions Architect
11 33 (4.44%) Lead Software Engineer
11 33 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
12 32 (4.30%) GCP Engineer
13 30 (4.03%) Data Architect
13 30 (4.03%) Scala Engineer
13 30 (4.03%) Senior Architect
14 29 (3.90%) Senior Analyst
15 27 (3.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 26 (3.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 25 (3.36%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (10.08%) React
2 66 (8.87%) Node.js
3 49 (6.59%) gRPC
3 49 (6.59%) Kafka
4 30 (4.03%) Django
4 30 (4.03%) LangChain
4 30 (4.03%) REST
5 24 (3.23%) PyTorch
5 24 (3.23%) TensorFlow
6 23 (3.09%) .NET
7 21 (2.82%) FastAPI
7 21 (2.82%) RESTful
8 20 (2.69%) Spring
9 19 (2.55%) LangGraph
10 17 (2.28%) Redux
10 17 (2.28%) Spring Boot
11 16 (2.15%) Vue
12 15 (2.02%) Playwright
13 14 (1.88%) AngularJS
14 12 (1.61%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 205 (27.55%) Cloud Native
2 83 (11.16%) Product Ownership
3 79 (10.62%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (6.18%) Over-the-Top Content
4 46 (6.18%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (3.90%) AI Agents
6 28 (3.76%) Security Posture
7 27 (3.63%) Public Cloud
8 26 (3.49%) Blog
9 25 (3.36%) Data Structures
10 23 (3.09%) Distributed Architecture
11 21 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (2.55%) Management Information System
12 19 (2.55%) Onboarding
13 17 (2.28%) Social Media
14 16 (2.15%) Fixed Income
15 11 (1.48%) Data Centre
15 11 (1.48%) Mobile App
16 10 (1.34%) Cyberattack
16 10 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 38 (5.11%) Linux
2 16 (2.15%) Windows
3 11 (1.48%) Android
3 11 (1.48%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.81%) Unix
6 1 (0.13%) CentOS
6 1 (0.13%) Debian
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (41.26%) CI/CD
2 271 (36.42%) Software Engineering
3 225 (30.24%) Agile
4 214 (28.76%) Mentoring
5 202 (27.15%) AI
6 167 (22.45%) DevOps
7 163 (21.91%) Microservices
8 151 (20.30%) Containerisation
9 145 (19.49%) Roadmaps
10 142 (19.09%) Machine Learning
11 138 (18.55%) Test Automation
12 135 (18.15%) Clean Code
12 135 (18.15%) Coaching
13 126 (16.94%) Technical Leadership
14 115 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
15 108 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
16 98 (13.17%) Infrastructure as Code
17 91 (12.23%) Data Science
18 85 (11.42%) Analytics
19 77 (10.35%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 278 (37.37%) Python
2 182 (24.46%) Java
3 111 (14.92%) SQL
4 96 (12.90%) Go
5 93 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 64 (8.60%) Scala
7 63 (8.47%) TypeScript
8 20 (2.69%) C#
9 19 (2.55%) Bash
10 14 (1.88%) C++
11 13 (1.75%) Rust
12 9 (1.21%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.67%) C
13 5 (0.67%) Ruby
14 3 (0.40%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.40%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.40%) Perl
14 3 (0.40%) PHP
15 2 (0.27%) ABAP
15 2 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 106 (14.25%) Security Cleared
2 100 (13.44%) Degree
3 86 (11.56%) SC Cleared
4 41 (5.51%) AWS Certification
5 32 (4.30%) CISSP
6 29 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.42%) Azure Certification
9 17 (2.28%) CISM
10 13 (1.75%) CREST Certified
10 13 (1.75%) OSCP
11 11 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.34%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.94%) GIAC
14 6 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.81%) CCSP
14 6 (0.81%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.81%) Dell Certification
15 5 (0.67%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.84%) NIST
3 31 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 30 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (3.49%) QA
6 20 (2.69%) GDPR
7 15 (2.02%) GRC
8 13 (1.75%) NCSC
9 10 (1.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (1.08%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.81%) PMO
11 6 (0.81%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.54%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.54%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.40%) SLA
14 2 (0.27%) COBIT
14 2 (0.27%) SEPA
14 2 (0.27%) SOC 1
System Software
1 162 (21.77%) Docker
2 13 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.94%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.81%) vSphere
5 1 (0.13%) Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 165 (22.18%) Kubernetes
2 155 (20.83%) Terraform
3 74 (9.95%) Grafana
4 37 (4.97%) Ansible
5 15 (2.02%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.75%) Istio
6 13 (1.75%) Puppet
7 12 (1.61%) Podman
8 6 (0.81%) Avamar
8 6 (0.81%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.81%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.81%) VxRail
9 5 (0.67%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.54%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.40%) Argo
12 2 (0.27%) linkerd
12 2 (0.27%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 144 (19.35%) Google
2 96 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.05%) Typelevel
4 31 (4.17%) Adobe
5 25 (3.36%) Databricks
6 24 (3.23%) Apple
6 24 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.15%) SAP
8 14 (1.88%) VMware
9 13 (1.75%) Oracle
10 9 (1.21%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.21%) Palantir
10 9 (1.21%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.08%) Confluent
11 8 (1.08%) Dell
12 7 (0.94%) Cisco
12 7 (0.94%) Veeam
13 6 (0.81%) 3PAR
13 6 (0.81%) Foundry
13 6 (0.81%) Isilon