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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 46 76
Rank change year-on-year -16 +30 -37
Permanent jobs citing GCP 719 942 1,240
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.75% 6.43% 3.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.83% 16.35% 8.73%
Number of salaries quoted 361 494 1,057
10th Percentile £52,775 £51,698 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,313 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 7,313 5,760 14,197
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.15% 39.34% 42.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,030 4,148 12,046
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £109,125 £100,000
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 29 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 41 (5.70%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (3.34%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.83%) Confluence
4 5 (0.70%) Apache
5 3 (0.42%) SAS
6 2 (0.28%) Camunda
6 2 (0.28%) CMS
6 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
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%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (3.34%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.28%) Shopify
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 578 (80.39%) AWS
2 419 (58.28%) Azure
3 87 (12.10%) SaaS
4 68 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
5 30 (4.17%) Serverless
6 29 (4.03%) Snowflake
7 25 (3.48%) dbt
8 24 (3.34%) Vertex AI
9 22 (3.06%) Cloud Run
9 22 (3.06%) Power Platform
10 21 (2.92%) Entra ID
11 20 (2.78%) GitHub
12 19 (2.64%) Dagster
12 19 (2.64%) Google Analytics
13 17 (2.36%) PaaS
14 16 (2.23%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (2.23%) Azure Machine Learning
14 16 (2.23%) Cloud Functions
14 16 (2.23%) Figma
15 15 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 95 (13.21%) Broadband
2 22 (3.06%) Network Security
3 19 (2.64%) Firewall
4 16 (2.23%) WAN
5 14 (1.95%) DNS
6 13 (1.81%) LAN
7 10 (1.39%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.25%) TCP/IP
9 8 (1.11%) Internet
9 8 (1.11%) VPN
10 7 (0.97%) LTE
11 6 (0.83%) Fibre Channel
11 6 (0.83%) iSCSI
11 6 (0.83%) SSL
12 5 (0.70%) DHCP
12 5 (0.70%) Wireless
13 4 (0.56%) MQTT
14 3 (0.42%) MPLS
14 3 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
14 3 (0.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (13.21%) BigQuery
2 56 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (4.87%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (4.87%) Metadata
4 33 (4.59%) NoSQL
5 27 (3.76%) MongoDB
6 26 (3.62%) Looker
6 26 (3.62%) Semantic Layer
7 24 (3.34%) Data Lake
8 20 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (2.50%) Tableau
10 17 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (2.36%) Power BI
10 17 (2.36%) Relational Database
11 13 (1.81%) Pinecone
12 10 (1.39%) Apache Iceberg
12 10 (1.39%) Delta Lake
13 9 (1.25%) Weaviate
14 8 (1.11%) SQL Server
15 6 (0.83%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 55 (7.65%) TeamCity
2 36 (5.01%) Git
3 24 (3.34%) Jenkins
4 16 (2.23%) CircleCI
4 16 (2.23%) GitLab
5 15 (2.09%) JIRA
6 12 (1.67%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.67%) MLflow
7 7 (0.97%) Storybook
8 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.28%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.28%) Subversion
8 2 (0.28%) TestRail
8 2 (0.28%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.14%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Gatling
9 1 (0.14%) JMeter
9 1 (0.14%) Maven
9 1 (0.14%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 185 (25.73%) Social Skills
2 182 (25.31%) Finance
3 165 (22.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 148 (20.58%) Law
5 115 (15.99%) Banking
6 94 (13.07%) Retail
7 78 (10.85%) Public Sector
8 52 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
9 42 (5.84%) Back Office
9 42 (5.84%) Financial Institution
10 26 (3.62%) Legal
11 22 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.23%) Front Office
13 11 (1.53%) Marketing
13 11 (1.53%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.83%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.42%) Aviation
17 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 199 (27.68%) Senior
2 157 (21.84%) Software Engineer
3 118 (16.41%) Architect
4 62 (8.62%) Lead
5 59 (8.21%) Developer
6 57 (7.93%) Data Engineer
7 53 (7.37%) Analyst
8 44 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
9 41 (5.70%) Consultant
10 34 (4.73%) Senior Software Engineer
10 34 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
11 31 (4.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 31 (4.31%) Lead Software Engineer
12 30 (4.17%) Scala Engineer
13 29 (4.03%) Data Architect
13 29 (4.03%) Senior Analyst
13 29 (4.03%) Senior Architect
14 25 (3.48%) Senior Consultant
15 23 (3.20%) Principal Engineer
15 23 (3.20%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (10.99%) React
2 68 (9.46%) Node.js
3 53 (7.37%) gRPC
3 53 (7.37%) Kafka
4 31 (4.31%) REST
5 29 (4.03%) Django
6 25 (3.48%) .NET
7 22 (3.06%) RESTful
8 21 (2.92%) LangChain
9 19 (2.64%) Spring
10 18 (2.50%) FastAPI
10 18 (2.50%) PyTorch
10 18 (2.50%) Redux
10 18 (2.50%) TensorFlow
11 15 (2.09%) Spring Boot
11 15 (2.09%) Vue
12 14 (1.95%) OAuth
12 14 (1.95%) Playwright
12 14 (1.95%) React Native
13 13 (1.81%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 195 (27.12%) Cloud Native
2 85 (11.82%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (11.27%) Product Ownership
4 46 (6.40%) Over-the-Top Content
4 46 (6.40%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (4.03%) Security Posture
6 27 (3.76%) Blog
6 27 (3.76%) Distributed Architecture
7 25 (3.48%) Public Cloud
8 23 (3.20%) Data Structures
9 22 (3.06%) AI Agents
9 22 (3.06%) Onboarding
9 22 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (2.50%) Management Information System
11 17 (2.36%) Social Media
12 16 (2.23%) Fixed Income
13 14 (1.95%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.53%) Data Centre
15 10 (1.39%) Cyberattack
16 9 (1.25%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.87%) Linux
2 19 (2.64%) Android
3 17 (2.36%) Windows
4 16 (2.23%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.25%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.70%) Unix
7 1 (0.14%) CentOS
7 1 (0.14%) Debian
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (41.03%) CI/CD
2 260 (36.16%) Software Engineering
3 207 (28.79%) Agile
4 192 (26.70%) Mentoring
5 188 (26.15%) AI
6 169 (23.50%) DevOps
7 162 (22.53%) Microservices
8 156 (21.70%) Containerisation
9 142 (19.75%) Roadmaps
10 138 (19.19%) Machine Learning
11 137 (19.05%) Clean Code
12 131 (18.22%) Test Automation
13 127 (17.66%) Coaching
14 115 (15.99%) Technical Leadership
15 114 (15.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 106 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
17 102 (14.19%) Infrastructure as Code
18 88 (12.24%) Data Science
19 87 (12.10%) Analytics
20 73 (10.15%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 264 (36.72%) Python
2 178 (24.76%) Java
3 113 (15.72%) Go
4 102 (14.19%) SQL
5 91 (12.66%) JavaScript
6 68 (9.46%) TypeScript
7 65 (9.04%) Scala
8 22 (3.06%) C#
9 21 (2.92%) Bash
10 18 (2.50%) C++
11 14 (1.95%) Rust
12 9 (1.25%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.70%) C
14 4 (0.56%) 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%) R
16 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 104 (14.46%) Degree
2 99 (13.77%) Security Cleared
3 81 (11.27%) SC Cleared
4 38 (5.29%) AWS Certification
5 29 (4.03%) CISSP
6 27 (3.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 27 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.23%) CREST Certified
7 16 (2.23%) OSCP
8 15 (2.09%) Azure Certification
8 15 (2.09%) CISM
9 11 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.39%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.97%) GIAC
13 6 (0.83%) CCSP
13 6 (0.83%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.83%) Dell Certification
14 5 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.42%) Data Quality
2 34 (4.73%) Accessibility
3 32 (4.45%) NIST
4 28 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (3.89%) QA
5 18 (2.50%) GDPR
6 16 (2.23%) GRC
7 9 (1.25%) NCSC
7 9 (1.25%) SOC 2
8 7 (0.97%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 7 (0.97%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.83%) PMO
10 5 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.42%) SLA
12 2 (0.28%) COBIT
12 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.28%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.28%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.28%) SOC 1
12 2 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 166 (23.09%) Docker
2 13 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (1.39%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.97%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.83%) vSphere
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 167 (23.23%) Kubernetes
2 163 (22.67%) Terraform
3 74 (10.29%) Grafana
4 39 (5.42%) Ansible
5 17 (2.36%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.67%) Istio
6 12 (1.67%) Podman
6 12 (1.67%) 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 (0.70%) Argo
8 5 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.42%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.28%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.28%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 145 (20.17%) Google
2 93 (12.93%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.26%) Typelevel
4 32 (4.45%) Adobe
5 24 (3.34%) Apple
5 24 (3.34%) Databricks
5 24 (3.34%) ServiceNow
6 14 (1.95%) VMware
7 13 (1.81%) SAP
8 11 (1.53%) Palantir
9 9 (1.25%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.25%) Oracle
9 9 (1.25%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.11%) Cisco
10 8 (1.11%) Confluent
10 8 (1.11%) Dell
11 7 (0.97%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.97%) Veeam
12 6 (0.83%) 3PAR
12 6 (0.83%) Foundry