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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 70 60
Rank change year-on-year -1 -10 -17
Permanent jobs citing GCP 825 766 958
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.32% 4.61% 4.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.57% 13.35% 10.44%
Number of salaries quoted 468 359 677
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 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -2.70% +16.16%
75th Percentile £95,000 £136,250 £142,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £137,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

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 8,617 5,738 9,176
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.64% 34.53% 42.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6,308 4,067 6,006
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,619
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 £58,400 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.02% -10.15% +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 11 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 (1.58%) Apache
2 12 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.97%) 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 (1.70%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.61%) 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 (2.30%) 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
1 655 (79.39%) AWS
2 513 (62.18%) Azure
3 135 (16.36%) SaaS
4 90 (10.91%) Amazon EKS
5 47 (5.70%) GitHub
6 35 (4.24%) dbt
6 35 (4.24%) Power Platform
7 32 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
8 31 (3.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 25 (3.03%) Cloud Run
9 25 (3.03%) Snowflake
10 22 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (2.42%) Datadog
13 19 (2.30%) Amazon Bedrock
13 19 (2.30%) Anthropic Claude
13 19 (2.30%) Google Compute Engine
13 19 (2.30%) Serverless
13 19 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 18 (2.18%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.61%) Network Security
2 33 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 30 (3.64%) Broadband
4 21 (2.55%) VPN
5 20 (2.42%) BGP
5 20 (2.42%) Firewall
6 10 (1.21%) WAN
7 9 (1.09%) VLAN
8 8 (0.97%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.73%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (0.73%) HTTP
9 6 (0.73%) 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%) 5G
12 2 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (7.76%) BigQuery
3 33 (4.00%) Power BI
4 31 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (3.52%) Looker
6 28 (3.39%) NoSQL
7 24 (2.91%) SQL Server
8 23 (2.79%) Metadata
9 22 (2.67%) Semantic Layer
10 20 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (2.30%) Data Lake
12 18 (2.18%) Tableau
13 17 (2.06%) Pinecone
14 16 (1.94%) Chroma
14 16 (1.94%) MongoDB
15 12 (1.45%) Relational Database
16 10 (1.21%) MySQL
17 9 (1.09%) Redis
18 7 (0.85%) Metadata Repository
19 6 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 99 (12.00%) TeamCity
2 50 (6.06%) Git
3 46 (5.58%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.82%) GitLab
5 6 (0.73%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.61%) JUnit
7 4 (0.48%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.48%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.48%) Maven
8 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.36%) JIRA
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
1 260 (31.52%) Social Skills
2 256 (31.03%) Finance
3 219 (26.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 172 (20.85%) Banking
5 170 (20.61%) Law
6 144 (17.45%) Retail
7 91 (11.03%) Public Sector
8 88 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
9 84 (10.18%) Back Office
10 83 (10.06%) Financial Institution
11 43 (5.21%) Marketing
12 38 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (2.67%) Legal
14 17 (2.06%) Front Office
15 11 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.09%) French Language
17 7 (0.85%) Telecoms
18 6 (0.73%) Advertising
19 5 (0.61%) Games
20 3 (0.36%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 238 (28.85%) Senior
2 204 (24.73%) Software Engineer
3 133 (16.12%) Architect
4 82 (9.94%) Lead
5 68 (8.24%) Cloud Engineer
6 62 (7.52%) GCP Engineer
7 60 (7.27%) Analyst
8 58 (7.03%) Python Engineer
9 53 (6.42%) Developer
10 50 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 38 (4.61%) Data Engineer
11 38 (4.61%) Senior Software Engineer
12 36 (4.36%) Lead Software Engineer
13 31 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
14 30 (3.64%) Data Architect
14 30 (3.64%) Java Engineer
15 29 (3.52%) Security Engineer
15 29 (3.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 28 (3.39%) Senior Architect
16 28 (3.39%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (28.85%) Terraform
2 64 (7.76%) React
3 57 (6.91%) LangChain
4 49 (5.94%) Node.js
5 41 (4.97%) LangGraph
6 40 (4.85%) REST
7 34 (4.12%) .NET
8 30 (3.64%) RESTful
9 28 (3.39%) Spring
10 27 (3.27%) PyTorch
11 22 (2.67%) TensorFlow
12 21 (2.55%) Middleware
12 21 (2.55%) Spring Boot
13 19 (2.30%) Kafka
13 19 (2.30%) scikit-learn
14 18 (2.18%) FastAPI
14 18 (2.18%) OAuth
15 17 (2.06%) CrewAI
15 17 (2.06%) OpenID
15 17 (2.06%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 245 (29.70%) Cloud Native
2 86 (10.42%) Product Ownership
3 82 (9.94%) Distributed Systems
4 66 (8.00%) AI Agents
5 45 (5.45%) Blog
6 22 (2.67%) Distributed Architecture
6 22 (2.67%) Security Posture
7 17 (2.06%) Hedge funds
8 16 (1.94%) Public Cloud
9 15 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
9 15 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.70%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.58%) Social Media
12 12 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.33%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.33%) Replication
14 9 (1.09%) Data Structures
14 9 (1.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.45%) Linux
2 18 (2.18%) Unix
3 12 (1.45%) Windows
4 11 (1.33%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.73%) 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
1 350 (42.42%) CI/CD
2 302 (36.61%) Software Engineering
3 288 (34.91%) AI
4 269 (32.61%) Mentoring
5 190 (23.03%) Agile
5 190 (23.03%) DevOps
6 148 (17.94%) Infrastructure as Code
7 145 (17.58%) Technical Leadership
8 143 (17.33%) Test Automation
9 138 (16.73%) Microservices
10 137 (16.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 134 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
12 128 (15.52%) Observability
13 120 (14.55%) Machine Learning
14 117 (14.18%) Roadmaps
15 111 (13.45%) Clean Code
16 107 (12.97%) Analytics
17 105 (12.73%) Deployment Automation
17 105 (12.73%) Fintech
18 98 (11.88%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 305 (36.97%) Python
2 206 (24.97%) Java
3 152 (18.42%) SQL
4 76 (9.21%) JavaScript
5 62 (7.52%) TypeScript
6 57 (6.91%) Go
7 36 (4.36%) C#
8 35 (4.24%) Bash
9 26 (3.15%) R
10 18 (2.18%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.82%) Scala
12 11 (1.33%) Rust
13 8 (0.97%) C++
14 7 (0.85%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.61%) 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
1 123 (14.91%) Security Cleared
2 107 (12.97%) SC Cleared
3 95 (11.52%) Degree
4 51 (6.18%) AWS Certification
5 34 (4.12%) CISSP
6 29 (3.52%) CISM
7 24 (2.91%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 11 (1.33%) CCSP
12 10 (1.21%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.85%) GIAC
15 6 (0.73%) Dell Certification
15 6 (0.73%) GCFA
15 6 (0.73%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.61%) CREST Certified
16 5 (0.61%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 50 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (4.97%) NIST
4 27 (3.27%) GDPR
5 25 (3.03%) PCI DSS
6 22 (2.67%) NCSC
7 18 (2.18%) Accessibility
8 17 (2.06%) SOC 2
9 14 (1.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 9 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (1.09%) QA
11 6 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.73%) PMO
12 4 (0.48%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.48%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.48%) SLA
13 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.36%) GRC
13 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 145 (17.58%) Docker
2 9 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.97%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.73%) vSphere
5 2 (0.24%) Firmware
5 2 (0.24%) KVM
6 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 252 (30.55%) Kubernetes
2 124 (15.03%) Grafana
3 32 (3.88%) Ansible
4 27 (3.27%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.85%) Cilium
6 7 (0.85%) Istio
6 7 (0.85%) Puppet
7 6 (0.73%) Argo
7 6 (0.73%) Avamar
7 6 (0.73%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.73%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.73%) VxRail
8 5 (0.61%) CASB
8 5 (0.61%) Podman
9 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.36%) linkerd
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.12%) QRadar
Vendors
1 207 (25.09%) Google
2 90 (10.91%) Microsoft
3 29 (3.52%) Adobe
4 25 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 23 (2.79%) Databricks
6 21 (2.55%) Apple
7 18 (2.18%) Splunk
8 17 (2.06%) Dynatrace
9 16 (1.94%) OpenAI
10 15 (1.82%) Informatica
10 15 (1.82%) Okta
10 15 (1.82%) Ping Identity
11 13 (1.58%) New Relic
12 11 (1.33%) Oracle
12 11 (1.33%) SAP
13 10 (1.21%) VMware
14 8 (0.97%) Cisco
15 7 (0.85%) Palo Alto
15 7 (0.85%) Veeam
16 6 (0.73%) Nimble Storage