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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 48 78
Rank change year-on-year -13 +30 -39
Permanent jobs citing GCP 691 995 1,247
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.70% 6.57% 3.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.77% 16.21% 8.93%
Number of salaries quoted 346 540 1,063
10th Percentile £52,775 £51,698 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £94,375 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £114,375 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.45% -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 7,072 6,139 13,963
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.88% 40.55% 42.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,846 4,490 11,916
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 18 May 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 43 (6.22%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (3.91%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.16%) Confluence
4 5 (0.72%) Apache
5 3 (0.43%) CMS
5 3 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (0.43%) SAS
6 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.29%) WordPress
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.14%) Camunda
7 1 (0.14%) Drupal
7 1 (0.14%) IIS
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Strapi
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (3.47%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.29%) Shopify
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
4 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 565 (81.77%) AWS
2 412 (59.62%) Azure
3 83 (12.01%) SaaS
4 66 (9.55%) Amazon EKS
5 30 (4.34%) Snowflake
6 29 (4.20%) Serverless
7 28 (4.05%) dbt
8 24 (3.47%) Power Platform
8 24 (3.47%) Vertex AI
9 23 (3.33%) Entra ID
10 22 (3.18%) GitHub
11 19 (2.75%) Dagster
11 19 (2.75%) Google Analytics
12 18 (2.60%) Cloud Run
13 16 (2.32%) Azure Machine Learning
13 16 (2.32%) Figma
14 15 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (2.17%) Cloud Functions
14 15 (2.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 88 (12.74%) Broadband
2 22 (3.18%) Network Security
3 19 (2.75%) Firewall
4 16 (2.32%) WAN
5 15 (2.17%) DNS
6 13 (1.88%) LAN
7 10 (1.45%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.30%) TCP/IP
9 8 (1.16%) Internet
9 8 (1.16%) VPN
10 7 (1.01%) LTE
10 7 (1.01%) SSL
11 5 (0.72%) DHCP
11 5 (0.72%) Wireless
12 4 (0.58%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (0.58%) iSCSI
12 4 (0.58%) MQTT
13 3 (0.43%) Modbus
13 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (0.43%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (12.88%) BigQuery
2 55 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
3 38 (5.50%) NoSQL
4 37 (5.35%) Metadata
5 33 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (3.91%) Looker
7 25 (3.62%) MongoDB
8 22 (3.18%) Data Lake
8 22 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (2.89%) Tableau
10 19 (2.75%) Semantic Layer
11 18 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (2.60%) Power BI
12 14 (2.03%) Relational Database
13 10 (1.45%) Apache Iceberg
13 10 (1.45%) Delta Lake
13 10 (1.45%) Pinecone
14 9 (1.30%) Weaviate
15 8 (1.16%) SQL Server
16 7 (1.01%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 53 (7.67%) TeamCity
2 37 (5.35%) Git
3 18 (2.60%) GitLab
3 18 (2.60%) JIRA
4 16 (2.32%) CircleCI
5 15 (2.17%) Jenkins
6 12 (1.74%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.74%) MLflow
7 7 (1.01%) Storybook
8 4 (0.58%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.58%) Subversion
9 2 (0.29%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.29%) TestRail
9 2 (0.29%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.14%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.14%) Gatling
10 1 (0.14%) Maven
10 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.14%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 176 (25.47%) Finance
2 175 (25.33%) Social Skills
3 155 (22.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 145 (20.98%) Law
5 111 (16.06%) Banking
6 91 (13.17%) Retail
7 76 (11.00%) Public Sector
8 52 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
9 40 (5.79%) Back Office
9 40 (5.79%) Financial Institution
10 27 (3.91%) Legal
11 19 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (2.46%) Front Office
13 15 (2.17%) Telecoms
14 14 (2.03%) Marketing
15 9 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.16%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
18 3 (0.43%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 201 (29.09%) Senior
2 153 (22.14%) Software Engineer
3 106 (15.34%) Architect
4 66 (9.55%) Lead
5 58 (8.39%) Developer
6 53 (7.67%) Analyst
6 53 (7.67%) Data Engineer
7 40 (5.79%) Consultant
8 39 (5.64%) Cloud Engineer
9 36 (5.21%) Senior Software Engineer
10 32 (4.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 30 (4.34%) Lead Software Engineer
11 30 (4.34%) Scala Engineer
11 30 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
12 28 (4.05%) Senior Analyst
12 28 (4.05%) Senior Architect
13 27 (3.91%) Data Architect
14 25 (3.62%) Senior Consultant
15 22 (3.18%) Senior Manager
16 21 (3.04%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (12.30%) React
2 61 (8.83%) Node.js
3 54 (7.81%) gRPC
4 53 (7.67%) Kafka
5 30 (4.34%) Django
5 30 (4.34%) REST
6 26 (3.76%) .NET
7 25 (3.62%) RESTful
8 21 (3.04%) Redux
9 17 (2.46%) Spring
10 16 (2.32%) LangChain
10 16 (2.32%) React Native
10 16 (2.32%) Vue
11 15 (2.17%) FastAPI
11 15 (2.17%) PyTorch
11 15 (2.17%) TensorFlow
12 14 (2.03%) AngularJS
12 14 (2.03%) OAuth
12 14 (2.03%) Playwright
12 14 (2.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 178 (25.76%) Cloud Native
2 86 (12.45%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (10.71%) Product Ownership
4 46 (6.66%) Over-the-Top Content
4 46 (6.66%) Video\Live Streaming
5 27 (3.91%) Blog
6 26 (3.76%) Distributed Architecture
6 26 (3.76%) Security Posture
7 25 (3.62%) Data Structures
7 25 (3.62%) Public Cloud
8 22 (3.18%) Onboarding
9 21 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (2.75%) Management Information System
11 17 (2.46%) Social Media
12 16 (2.32%) AI Agents
12 16 (2.32%) Fixed Income
12 16 (2.32%) Mobile App
13 12 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.45%) Cyberattack
15 8 (1.16%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.92%) Linux
2 21 (3.04%) Android
3 17 (2.46%) Apple iOS
3 17 (2.46%) Windows
4 7 (1.01%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.87%) 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
1 276 (39.94%) CI/CD
2 251 (36.32%) Software Engineering
3 198 (28.65%) Agile
4 181 (26.19%) Mentoring
5 167 (24.17%) AI
6 165 (23.88%) DevOps
7 162 (23.44%) Microservices
8 148 (21.42%) Containerisation
9 135 (19.54%) Clean Code
10 131 (18.96%) Machine Learning
11 125 (18.09%) Roadmaps
12 124 (17.95%) Coaching
13 118 (17.08%) Test Automation
14 112 (16.21%) Continuous Improvement
15 107 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
16 102 (14.76%) Technical Leadership
17 91 (13.17%) Infrastructure as Code
18 89 (12.88%) Data Science
19 87 (12.59%) Analytics
20 71 (10.27%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 249 (36.03%) Python
2 174 (25.18%) Java
3 113 (16.35%) Go
4 97 (14.04%) SQL
5 86 (12.45%) JavaScript
6 67 (9.70%) TypeScript
7 65 (9.41%) Scala
8 19 (2.75%) C#
8 19 (2.75%) C++
9 18 (2.60%) Bash
10 14 (2.03%) Rust
11 9 (1.30%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.01%) PHP
13 5 (0.72%) C
14 3 (0.43%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.43%) Perl
14 3 (0.43%) Ruby
15 2 (0.29%) R
15 2 (0.29%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.14%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 109 (15.77%) Degree
2 93 (13.46%) Security Cleared
3 75 (10.85%) SC Cleared
4 37 (5.35%) AWS Certification
5 34 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (4.20%) CISSP
7 27 (3.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (2.32%) CREST Certified
8 16 (2.32%) OSCP
9 15 (2.17%) CISM
10 13 (1.88%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (1.16%) DV Cleared
13 7 (1.01%) GIAC
13 7 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.87%) CCSP
14 6 (0.87%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.72%) CCNP
15 5 (0.72%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.92%) Accessibility
2 31 (4.49%) Data Quality
3 28 (4.05%) NIST
3 28 (4.05%) QA
4 24 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.60%) GDPR
6 16 (2.32%) GRC
7 9 (1.30%) SOC 2
8 7 (1.01%) NCSC
8 7 (1.01%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.87%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 5 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.58%) PMO
12 3 (0.43%) SLA
13 2 (0.29%) COBIT
13 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.29%) SEPA
13 2 (0.29%) SOC 1
13 2 (0.29%) WCAG
14 1 (0.14%) Def Stans
System Software
1 159 (23.01%) Docker
2 13 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (1.74%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.58%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.58%) vSphere
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 158 (22.87%) Kubernetes
2 154 (22.29%) Terraform
3 72 (10.42%) Grafana
4 39 (5.64%) Ansible
5 17 (2.46%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.74%) Podman
7 11 (1.59%) Puppet
8 9 (1.30%) Istio
9 5 (0.72%) Argo
9 5 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.58%) Avamar
10 4 (0.58%) Dell DRAC
10 4 (0.58%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (0.58%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.58%) VxRail
11 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.29%) Plesk
11 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 140 (20.26%) Google
2 90 (13.02%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.51%) Typelevel
4 34 (4.92%) Adobe
5 26 (3.76%) Databricks
6 25 (3.62%) Apple
7 24 (3.47%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.88%) Palantir
9 11 (1.59%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.59%) VMware
10 10 (1.45%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.45%) SAP
11 9 (1.30%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.30%) Oracle
12 8 (1.16%) Cisco
12 8 (1.16%) Confluent
12 8 (1.16%) Foundry
13 7 (1.01%) Dell
14 5 (0.72%) Okta
14 5 (0.72%) Splunk