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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 46 76
Rank change year-on-year -19 +30 -39
Permanent jobs citing GCP 722 935 1,231
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.66% 6.13% 3.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.67% 16.00% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 358 497 1,038
10th Percentile £52,775 £51,519 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £62,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +6.57% +3.23%
75th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £111,700 £137,500 £143,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £78,126
% change year-on-year -6.25% +2.40% -2.34%

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 7,465 5,843 14,568
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.80% 38.34% 42.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,193 4,244 12,151
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,375 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% +2.29% -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% -10.16%

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 13 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 39 (5.40%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (3.05%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.69%) Apache
4 4 (0.55%) Confluence
5 3 (0.42%) CMS
5 3 (0.42%) SAS
6 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.28%) Camunda
6 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) Drupal
7 1 (0.14%) IIS
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (3.32%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.28%) Shopify
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 582 (80.61%) AWS
2 424 (58.73%) Azure
3 82 (11.36%) SaaS
4 66 (9.14%) Amazon EKS
5 28 (3.88%) Serverless
5 28 (3.88%) Snowflake
6 25 (3.46%) dbt
6 25 (3.46%) Power Platform
7 24 (3.32%) Vertex AI
8 23 (3.19%) Cloud Run
9 19 (2.63%) Entra ID
9 19 (2.63%) GitHub
9 19 (2.63%) Google Analytics
10 18 (2.49%) Dagster
11 17 (2.35%) Cloud Functions
11 17 (2.35%) PaaS
12 16 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (1.94%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 98 (13.57%) Broadband
2 24 (3.32%) Network Security
3 19 (2.63%) Firewall
4 18 (2.49%) WAN
5 13 (1.80%) LAN
6 12 (1.66%) DNS
7 11 (1.52%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.25%) TCP/IP
8 9 (1.25%) VPN
9 8 (1.11%) Internet
9 8 (1.11%) LTE
10 6 (0.83%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (0.83%) iSCSI
11 5 (0.69%) DHCP
12 4 (0.55%) MPLS
12 4 (0.55%) MQTT
12 4 (0.55%) SSL
12 4 (0.55%) Wireless
13 3 (0.42%) Modbus
13 3 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (12.60%) BigQuery
2 53 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (4.71%) Metadata
4 33 (4.57%) NoSQL
5 28 (3.88%) Semantic Layer
6 27 (3.74%) Looker
6 27 (3.74%) MongoDB
7 22 (3.05%) Data Lake
8 21 (2.91%) Power BI
9 18 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
10 17 (2.35%) Relational Database
10 17 (2.35%) Tableau
11 16 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (2.08%) Pinecone
13 9 (1.25%) Delta Lake
13 9 (1.25%) Weaviate
14 8 (1.11%) Apache Iceberg
14 8 (1.11%) SQL Server
15 6 (0.83%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 53 (7.34%) TeamCity
2 38 (5.26%) Git
3 26 (3.60%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.94%) CircleCI
4 14 (1.94%) GitLab
4 14 (1.94%) JIRA
5 12 (1.66%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.25%) MLflow
7 4 (0.55%) Storybook
8 2 (0.28%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.28%) TestRail
8 2 (0.28%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.14%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.14%) ERwin
9 1 (0.14%) Gatling
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) Selenium
9 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.14%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 188 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 180 (24.93%) Finance
3 166 (22.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 146 (20.22%) Law
5 114 (15.79%) Banking
6 89 (12.33%) Retail
7 84 (11.63%) Public Sector
8 48 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
9 41 (5.68%) Back Office
9 41 (5.68%) Financial Institution
10 26 (3.60%) Legal
11 24 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.22%) Front Office
13 10 (1.39%) Marketing
14 8 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.97%) Legal Technology
16 6 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.69%) Telecoms
18 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
19 3 (0.42%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 199 (27.56%) Senior
2 154 (21.33%) Software Engineer
3 118 (16.34%) Architect
4 61 (8.45%) Lead
5 59 (8.17%) Developer
6 56 (7.76%) Data Engineer
7 53 (7.34%) Analyst
8 51 (7.06%) Cloud Engineer
9 39 (5.40%) Consultant
10 32 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
10 32 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
11 30 (4.16%) Lead Software Engineer
11 30 (4.16%) Scala Engineer
12 29 (4.02%) Senior Analyst
12 29 (4.02%) Senior Architect
13 28 (3.88%) Data Architect
13 28 (3.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 26 (3.60%) GCP Engineer
15 25 (3.46%) Principal Engineer
15 25 (3.46%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (10.25%) React
2 67 (9.28%) Node.js
3 49 (6.79%) gRPC
4 47 (6.51%) Kafka
5 30 (4.16%) Django
6 29 (4.02%) REST
7 27 (3.74%) LangChain
8 23 (3.19%) .NET
9 22 (3.05%) PyTorch
9 22 (3.05%) TensorFlow
10 19 (2.63%) FastAPI
11 18 (2.49%) RESTful
12 17 (2.35%) Redux
12 17 (2.35%) Spring
13 16 (2.22%) LangGraph
14 15 (2.08%) Playwright
14 15 (2.08%) Vue
15 14 (1.94%) Spring Boot
16 13 (1.80%) AngularJS
17 12 (1.66%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 200 (27.70%) Cloud Native
2 81 (11.22%) Product Ownership
3 80 (11.08%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (6.37%) Over-the-Top Content
4 46 (6.37%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (4.02%) Security Posture
6 26 (3.60%) Blog
7 25 (3.46%) Distributed Architecture
7 25 (3.46%) Public Cloud
8 24 (3.32%) AI Agents
9 22 (3.05%) Data Structures
10 21 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (2.77%) Onboarding
12 19 (2.63%) Management Information System
13 17 (2.35%) Social Media
14 16 (2.22%) Fixed Income
15 11 (1.52%) Data Centre
15 11 (1.52%) Mobile App
16 10 (1.39%) Cyberattack
16 10 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.99%) Linux
2 16 (2.22%) Windows
3 13 (1.80%) Android
3 13 (1.80%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.69%) Unix
6 1 (0.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Debian
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (40.86%) CI/CD
2 262 (36.29%) Software Engineering
3 216 (29.92%) Agile
4 202 (27.98%) Mentoring
5 192 (26.59%) AI
6 162 (22.44%) DevOps
7 152 (21.05%) Microservices
8 147 (20.36%) Containerisation
9 142 (19.67%) Roadmaps
10 138 (19.11%) Machine Learning
11 134 (18.56%) Test Automation
12 133 (18.42%) Clean Code
13 130 (18.01%) Coaching
14 122 (16.90%) Technical Leadership
15 113 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 104 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
17 99 (13.71%) Infrastructure as Code
18 90 (12.47%) Data Science
19 85 (11.77%) Analytics
20 77 (10.66%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 270 (37.40%) Python
2 178 (24.65%) Java
3 104 (14.40%) SQL
4 102 (14.13%) Go
5 90 (12.47%) JavaScript
6 64 (8.86%) Scala
7 62 (8.59%) TypeScript
8 20 (2.77%) C#
9 18 (2.49%) Bash
10 15 (2.08%) C++
11 14 (1.94%) Rust
12 8 (1.11%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.69%) C
14 4 (0.55%) Ruby
15 3 (0.42%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.42%) Perl
15 3 (0.42%) PHP
16 2 (0.28%) ABAP
16 2 (0.28%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 103 (14.27%) Security Cleared
2 99 (13.71%) Degree
3 85 (11.77%) SC Cleared
4 37 (5.12%) AWS Certification
5 31 (4.29%) CISSP
6 26 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (2.35%) CISM
9 15 (2.08%) CREST Certified
9 15 (2.08%) OSCP
10 14 (1.94%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (1.39%) DV Cleared
13 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.97%) GIAC
15 6 (0.83%) CCSP
15 6 (0.83%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.83%) Dell Certification
16 5 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 5 (0.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.82%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.99%) NIST
3 33 (4.57%) Accessibility
4 31 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (3.46%) QA
6 18 (2.49%) GDPR
7 15 (2.08%) GRC
8 12 (1.66%) NCSC
9 9 (1.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (1.11%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.97%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.83%) PMO
13 4 (0.55%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.55%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.42%) SLA
15 2 (0.28%) COBIT
15 2 (0.28%) SEPA
15 2 (0.28%) SOC 1
16 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 159 (22.02%) Docker
2 13 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.97%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.83%) vSphere
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 158 (21.88%) Kubernetes
2 156 (21.61%) Terraform
3 70 (9.70%) Grafana
4 37 (5.12%) Ansible
5 15 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.66%) Istio
6 12 (1.66%) Podman
6 12 (1.66%) Puppet
7 6 (0.83%) Avamar
7 6 (0.83%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.83%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.83%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.83%) VxRail
8 5 (0.69%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.42%) Argo
10 3 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.28%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.28%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 143 (19.81%) Google
2 93 (12.88%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.23%) Typelevel
4 31 (4.29%) Adobe
5 24 (3.32%) Apple
5 24 (3.32%) ServiceNow
6 22 (3.05%) Databricks
7 14 (1.94%) VMware
8 13 (1.80%) SAP
9 10 (1.39%) Oracle
9 10 (1.39%) Palantir
10 9 (1.25%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.25%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.11%) Cisco
11 8 (1.11%) Confluent
11 8 (1.11%) Dell
12 7 (0.97%) Veeam
13 6 (0.83%) 3PAR
13 6 (0.83%) Foundry
13 6 (0.83%) Isilon