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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 45 77
Rank change year-on-year -20 +32 -40
Permanent jobs citing GCP 736 948 1,239
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.64% 6.12% 3.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.58% 16.01% 8.46%
Number of salaries quoted 370 506 1,033
10th Percentile £52,747 £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 £110,125 £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 7,680 5,923 14,641
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.01% 38.23% 42.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5,414 4,315 12,172
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £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% -8.82%

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 21 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 37 (5.03%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.68%) Apache
4 4 (0.54%) Confluence
5 3 (0.41%) CMS
5 3 (0.41%) SAS
6 2 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.27%) Camunda
6 2 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) Drupal
7 1 (0.14%) IIS
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 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (3.26%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.27%) Shopify
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
4 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 590 (80.16%) AWS
2 433 (58.83%) Azure
3 86 (11.68%) SaaS
4 67 (9.10%) Amazon EKS
5 30 (4.08%) Serverless
6 27 (3.67%) Cloud Run
6 27 (3.67%) Power Platform
6 27 (3.67%) Snowflake
7 24 (3.26%) dbt
7 24 (3.26%) Vertex AI
8 21 (2.85%) GitHub
9 20 (2.72%) Cloud Functions
9 20 (2.72%) Google Analytics
10 18 (2.45%) Entra ID
10 18 (2.45%) PaaS
11 17 (2.31%) Dagster
12 15 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (1.77%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 100 (13.59%) Broadband
2 26 (3.53%) Network Security
3 17 (2.31%) Firewall
4 16 (2.17%) WAN
5 12 (1.63%) LAN
6 11 (1.49%) DNS
7 9 (1.22%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.09%) LTE
8 8 (1.09%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.09%) VPN
9 7 (0.95%) Internet
10 6 (0.82%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (0.82%) iSCSI
11 5 (0.68%) DHCP
12 4 (0.54%) MQTT
13 3 (0.41%) BGP
13 3 (0.41%) Modbus
13 3 (0.41%) MPLS
13 3 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (12.77%) BigQuery
2 55 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (4.76%) Metadata
4 34 (4.62%) NoSQL
5 30 (4.08%) Semantic Layer
6 27 (3.67%) Looker
6 27 (3.67%) MongoDB
7 24 (3.26%) Data Lake
8 23 (3.13%) Power BI
9 17 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (2.31%) Pinecone
9 17 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 17 (2.31%) Tableau
10 16 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.09%) Delta Lake
11 8 (1.09%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.09%) Weaviate
12 7 (0.95%) Apache Iceberg
13 6 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 54 (7.34%) TeamCity
2 41 (5.57%) Git
3 31 (4.21%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.90%) CircleCI
4 14 (1.90%) GitLab
4 14 (1.90%) JIRA
5 12 (1.63%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.09%) MLflow
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%) TestRail
7 2 (0.27%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.14%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.14%) Gatling
8 1 (0.14%) JUnit
8 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.14%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 190 (25.82%) Social Skills
2 187 (25.41%) Finance
3 167 (22.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 145 (19.70%) Law
5 113 (15.35%) Banking
6 91 (12.36%) Retail
7 87 (11.82%) Public Sector
8 46 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
9 43 (5.84%) Back Office
9 43 (5.84%) Financial Institution
10 25 (3.40%) Legal
11 24 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.17%) Front Office
13 10 (1.36%) Marketing
14 8 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.95%) Legal Technology
16 6 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.68%) Telecoms
18 4 (0.54%) Manufacturing
19 3 (0.41%) French Language
Job Titles
1 200 (27.17%) Senior
2 156 (21.20%) Software Engineer
3 127 (17.26%) Architect
4 63 (8.56%) Lead
5 60 (8.15%) Developer
6 57 (7.74%) Data Engineer
7 54 (7.34%) Analyst
7 54 (7.34%) Cloud Engineer
8 39 (5.30%) Consultant
9 37 (5.03%) Solutions Architect
10 32 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
10 32 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
11 30 (4.08%) Data Architect
11 30 (4.08%) GCP Engineer
11 30 (4.08%) Scala Engineer
11 30 (4.08%) Senior Architect
12 29 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
13 27 (3.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 26 (3.53%) Principal Engineer
15 25 (3.40%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (9.92%) React
2 66 (8.97%) Node.js
3 49 (6.66%) gRPC
3 49 (6.66%) Kafka
4 30 (4.08%) Django
4 30 (4.08%) LangChain
4 30 (4.08%) REST
5 24 (3.26%) PyTorch
5 24 (3.26%) TensorFlow
6 23 (3.13%) .NET
7 20 (2.72%) RESTful
7 20 (2.72%) Spring
8 19 (2.58%) FastAPI
8 19 (2.58%) LangGraph
9 17 (2.31%) Redux
9 17 (2.31%) Spring Boot
10 16 (2.17%) Vue
11 15 (2.04%) Playwright
12 14 (1.90%) AngularJS
13 12 (1.63%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 203 (27.58%) Cloud Native
2 83 (11.28%) Product Ownership
3 79 (10.73%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (6.25%) Over-the-Top Content
4 46 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
5 28 (3.80%) AI Agents
5 28 (3.80%) Security Posture
6 25 (3.40%) Blog
6 25 (3.40%) Public Cloud
7 24 (3.26%) Distributed Architecture
8 23 (3.13%) Data Structures
9 21 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (2.58%) Management Information System
10 19 (2.58%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.31%) Social Media
12 16 (2.17%) Fixed Income
13 11 (1.49%) Data Centre
14 10 (1.36%) Cyberattack
14 10 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.36%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 37 (5.03%) Linux
2 16 (2.17%) Windows
3 11 (1.49%) Android
3 11 (1.49%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.82%) 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
1 304 (41.30%) CI/CD
2 266 (36.14%) Software Engineering
3 223 (30.30%) Agile
4 210 (28.53%) Mentoring
5 201 (27.31%) AI
6 165 (22.42%) DevOps
7 159 (21.60%) Microservices
8 150 (20.38%) Containerisation
9 144 (19.57%) Roadmaps
10 142 (19.29%) Machine Learning
11 136 (18.48%) Test Automation
12 134 (18.21%) Coaching
13 133 (18.07%) Clean Code
14 126 (17.12%) Technical Leadership
15 114 (15.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 107 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
17 95 (12.91%) Infrastructure as Code
18 91 (12.36%) Data Science
19 85 (11.55%) Analytics
20 78 (10.60%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 277 (37.64%) Python
2 180 (24.46%) Java
3 109 (14.81%) SQL
4 96 (13.04%) Go
5 92 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 64 (8.70%) Scala
7 61 (8.29%) TypeScript
8 20 (2.72%) C#
9 19 (2.58%) Bash
10 14 (1.90%) C++
11 13 (1.77%) Rust
12 9 (1.22%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.68%) C
13 5 (0.68%) Ruby
14 3 (0.41%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.41%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.41%) Perl
14 3 (0.41%) PHP
15 2 (0.27%) ABAP
15 2 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 106 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 99 (13.45%) Degree
3 86 (11.68%) SC Cleared
4 40 (5.43%) AWS Certification
5 32 (4.35%) CISSP
6 28 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (2.31%) Azure Certification
8 17 (2.31%) CISM
9 13 (1.77%) CREST Certified
9 13 (1.77%) OSCP
10 11 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.36%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.95%) GIAC
13 6 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.82%) CCSP
13 6 (0.82%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.82%) Dell Certification
14 5 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.89%) NIST
3 31 (4.21%) Accessibility
4 30 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (3.53%) QA
6 19 (2.58%) GDPR
7 15 (2.04%) GRC
8 13 (1.77%) NCSC
9 10 (1.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (1.09%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.82%) PMO
11 6 (0.82%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.54%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.54%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.41%) SLA
14 2 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.27%) COBIT
14 2 (0.27%) SEPA
14 2 (0.27%) SOC 1
System Software
1 161 (21.88%) Docker
2 13 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.95%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.82%) vSphere
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 162 (22.01%) Kubernetes
2 153 (20.79%) Terraform
3 72 (9.78%) Grafana
4 37 (5.03%) Ansible
5 15 (2.04%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.77%) Istio
6 13 (1.77%) Puppet
7 12 (1.63%) Podman
8 6 (0.82%) Avamar
8 6 (0.82%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (0.82%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.82%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.82%) VxRail
9 5 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.54%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.41%) Argo
12 2 (0.27%) linkerd
12 2 (0.27%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 144 (19.57%) Google
2 95 (12.91%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.11%) Typelevel
4 31 (4.21%) Adobe
5 24 (3.26%) Apple
5 24 (3.26%) ServiceNow
6 23 (3.13%) Databricks
7 15 (2.04%) SAP
8 14 (1.90%) VMware
9 12 (1.63%) Oracle
10 9 (1.22%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.22%) Palantir
10 9 (1.22%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.09%) Confluent
11 8 (1.09%) Dell
12 7 (0.95%) Cisco
12 7 (0.95%) Veeam
13 6 (0.82%) 3PAR
13 6 (0.82%) Foundry
13 6 (0.82%) Isilon