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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 55 72
Rank change year-on-year -14 +17 -38
Permanent jobs citing GCP 787 887 1,012
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.62% 5.39% 3.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.30% 14.67% 8.87%
Number of salaries quoted 433 459 836
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,565 £67,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £91,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% -6.83% +14.38%
75th Percentile £93,750 £125,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -3.03% +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 8,462 6,048 11,414
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.92% 36.77% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 6,050 4,461 9,241
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 25 July 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 24 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (1.78%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.76%) Apache
4 4 (0.51%) Confluence
5 3 (0.38%) CMS
5 3 (0.38%) SAS
6 2 (0.25%) Camunda
6 2 (0.25%) WordPress
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.13%) Appian
7 1 (0.13%) Drupal
7 1 (0.13%) IIS
7 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.13%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (3.05%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.25%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 628 (79.80%) AWS
2 478 (60.74%) Azure
3 80 (10.17%) SaaS
4 59 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
5 32 (4.07%) Cloud Run
6 31 (3.94%) GitHub
7 29 (3.68%) Serverless
8 27 (3.43%) dbt
8 27 (3.43%) Power Platform
9 25 (3.18%) Snowflake
10 22 (2.80%) Cloud Functions
11 20 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (2.54%) Google Analytics
12 19 (2.41%) Anthropic Claude
12 19 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (2.41%) PaaS
13 18 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (2.16%) Entra ID
14 17 (2.16%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 98 (12.45%) Broadband
2 30 (3.81%) Network Security
3 17 (2.16%) Firewall
4 16 (2.03%) WAN
5 15 (1.91%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.40%) DNS
6 11 (1.40%) LAN
7 9 (1.14%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.14%) VPN
8 8 (1.02%) LTE
9 7 (0.89%) Internet
10 6 (0.76%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (0.76%) iSCSI
11 5 (0.64%) DHCP
11 5 (0.64%) MQTT
12 4 (0.51%) HTTP
12 4 (0.51%) SSH
13 3 (0.38%) BGP
13 3 (0.38%) SSL
13 3 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (9.91%) BigQuery
2 54 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (3.94%) NoSQL
5 28 (3.56%) MongoDB
6 25 (3.18%) Data Lake
6 25 (3.18%) Power BI
6 25 (3.18%) Semantic Layer
7 22 (2.80%) Looker
8 20 (2.54%) Metadata
9 18 (2.29%) Pinecone
10 17 (2.16%) Relational Database
10 17 (2.16%) SQL Server
11 14 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (1.40%) Tableau
13 9 (1.14%) Redis
14 8 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (0.89%) MySQL
16 6 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.76%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 50 (6.35%) Git
2 48 (6.10%) TeamCity
3 41 (5.21%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.91%) JIRA
5 13 (1.65%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.52%) CircleCI
7 10 (1.27%) GitLab
8 3 (0.38%) MLflow
8 3 (0.38%) Postman
8 3 (0.38%) Selenium
8 3 (0.38%) TestRail
8 3 (0.38%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.25%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.25%) JUnit
9 2 (0.25%) Subversion
9 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.13%) Gatling
10 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 214 (27.19%) Social Skills
2 203 (25.79%) Finance
3 170 (21.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 137 (17.41%) Law
5 107 (13.60%) Banking
6 82 (10.42%) Retail
7 81 (10.29%) Public Sector
8 59 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
9 41 (5.21%) Back Office
9 41 (5.21%) Financial Institution
10 32 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
11 24 (3.05%) Legal
12 18 (2.29%) Marketing
13 16 (2.03%) Front Office
14 7 (0.89%) Legal Technology
14 7 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.76%) Advertising
15 6 (0.76%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.64%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.51%) French Language
Job Titles
1 221 (28.08%) Senior
2 173 (21.98%) Software Engineer
3 121 (15.37%) Architect
4 78 (9.91%) Lead
5 64 (8.13%) Cloud Engineer
5 64 (8.13%) Developer
6 53 (6.73%) Data Engineer
7 50 (6.35%) Analyst
8 43 (5.46%) GCP Engineer
9 39 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (4.32%) Python Engineer
11 33 (4.19%) Consultant
11 33 (4.19%) Lead Software Engineer
12 32 (4.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 32 (4.07%) Senior Analyst
12 32 (4.07%) Senior Software Engineer
13 31 (3.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 30 (3.81%) Scala Engineer
15 27 (3.43%) Senior Architect
16 25 (3.18%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (10.93%) React
2 63 (8.01%) Node.js
3 49 (6.23%) gRPC
4 45 (5.72%) Kafka
5 42 (5.34%) REST
6 37 (4.70%) LangChain
7 27 (3.43%) .NET
7 27 (3.43%) Django
8 23 (2.92%) FastAPI
8 23 (2.92%) LangGraph
8 23 (2.92%) OAuth
8 23 (2.92%) Spring
9 21 (2.67%) PyTorch
10 20 (2.54%) TensorFlow
11 19 (2.41%) OpenID
11 19 (2.41%) Spring Boot
12 18 (2.29%) RESTful
13 17 (2.16%) AngularJS
13 17 (2.16%) SAML
13 17 (2.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 209 (26.56%) Cloud Native
2 93 (11.82%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (10.29%) Product Ownership
4 48 (6.10%) Video\Live Streaming
5 46 (5.84%) Over-the-Top Content
6 41 (5.21%) AI Agents
7 24 (3.05%) Security Posture
8 22 (2.80%) Distributed Architecture
9 21 (2.67%) Data Structures
10 19 (2.41%) Public Cloud
10 19 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (2.29%) Management Information System
11 18 (2.29%) Onboarding
12 17 (2.16%) Blog
12 17 (2.16%) Social Media
13 16 (2.03%) Fixed Income
14 13 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (1.65%) Mobile App
15 11 (1.40%) Data Centre
16 9 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.72%) Linux
2 18 (2.29%) Windows
3 14 (1.78%) Unix
4 9 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.89%) Android
5 7 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) CentOS
6 1 (0.13%) Debian
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (42.44%) CI/CD
2 294 (37.36%) Software Engineering
3 227 (28.84%) Mentoring
4 226 (28.72%) Agile
5 222 (28.21%) AI
6 178 (22.62%) DevOps
7 164 (20.84%) Microservices
8 160 (20.33%) Containerisation
9 146 (18.55%) Machine Learning
10 140 (17.79%) Roadmaps
11 133 (16.90%) Test Automation
12 132 (16.77%) Infrastructure as Code
12 132 (16.77%) Technical Leadership
13 127 (16.14%) Coaching
13 127 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
14 126 (16.01%) Clean Code
15 121 (15.37%) Continuous Improvement
16 95 (12.07%) Observability
17 94 (11.94%) Analytics
17 94 (11.94%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 302 (38.37%) Python
2 165 (20.97%) Java
3 116 (14.74%) SQL
4 101 (12.83%) JavaScript
5 97 (12.33%) Go
6 61 (7.75%) Scala
7 58 (7.37%) TypeScript
8 29 (3.68%) C#
9 20 (2.54%) Bash
10 16 (2.03%) C++
10 16 (2.03%) Rust
11 12 (1.52%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.76%) C
13 5 (0.64%) Ruby
14 4 (0.51%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.51%) PHP
15 3 (0.38%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.38%) Perl
15 3 (0.38%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.25%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 119 (15.12%) Security Cleared
2 108 (13.72%) Degree
3 101 (12.83%) SC Cleared
4 45 (5.72%) AWS Certification
5 35 (4.45%) CISSP
6 29 (3.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.92%) CISM
9 18 (2.29%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.40%) CREST Certified
11 11 (1.40%) OSCP
12 9 (1.14%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.76%) CCSP
13 6 (0.76%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.76%) Dell Certification
13 6 (0.76%) GIAC
14 5 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.97%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.57%) NIST
3 31 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 29 (3.68%) Accessibility
5 25 (3.18%) QA
6 20 (2.54%) GDPR
7 18 (2.29%) NCSC
8 14 (1.78%) GRC
9 13 (1.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.89%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.76%) PMO
13 4 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.51%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.51%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.38%) SLA
15 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 2 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 187 (23.76%) Docker
2 14 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.76%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.76%) vSphere
6 2 (0.25%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 181 (23.00%) Kubernetes
2 173 (21.98%) Terraform
3 70 (8.89%) Grafana
4 35 (4.45%) Ansible
5 17 (2.16%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.91%) Istio
7 14 (1.78%) Puppet
8 13 (1.65%) Podman
9 6 (0.76%) Avamar
9 6 (0.76%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.76%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.76%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.76%) VxRail
10 5 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.64%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.51%) CASB
11 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.38%) linkerd
13 2 (0.25%) Argo
13 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 147 (18.68%) Google
2 100 (12.71%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.72%) Typelevel
4 27 (3.43%) Adobe
5 25 (3.18%) ServiceNow
6 24 (3.05%) Apple
7 20 (2.54%) Databricks
8 17 (2.16%) Okta
9 15 (1.91%) SAP
9 15 (1.91%) VMware
10 13 (1.65%) Ping Identity
11 12 (1.52%) Oracle
12 10 (1.27%) Informatica
13 9 (1.14%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.14%) ForgeRock
13 9 (1.14%) Splunk
14 8 (1.02%) Confluent
14 8 (1.02%) Dell
14 8 (1.02%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.89%) Cisco