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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 61 64
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -27
Permanent jobs citing GCP 827 834 990
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.57% 5.04% 3.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.52% 14.05% 9.80%
Number of salaries quoted 469 413 761
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,509 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £87,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% -8.42% +18.75%
75th Percentile £93,750 £132,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £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 8,685 5,936 10,100
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.50% 35.87% 40.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,339 4,337 7,667
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,101
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 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.99%

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 August 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 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.09%) Apache
2 9 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.85%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.60%) Confluence
5 4 (0.48%) Camunda
6 3 (0.36%) CMS
6 3 (0.36%) WordPress
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.12%) Appian
7 1 (0.12%) Drupal
7 1 (0.12%) IIS
7 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.12%) nginx
7 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (1.45%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.48%) 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%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (2.90%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Shopify
3 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 663 (80.17%) AWS
2 523 (63.24%) Azure
3 95 (11.49%) SaaS
4 59 (7.13%) Amazon EKS
5 36 (4.35%) Power Platform
6 35 (4.23%) GitHub
7 33 (3.99%) Cloud Run
8 27 (3.26%) dbt
8 27 (3.26%) Serverless
9 24 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (2.66%) Cloud Functions
11 22 (2.66%) Google Analytics
12 20 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (2.42%) Snowflake
13 19 (2.30%) Anthropic Claude
14 17 (2.06%) Datadog
14 17 (2.06%) Firebase
15 16 (1.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 70 (8.46%) Broadband
2 35 (4.23%) Network Security
3 22 (2.66%) Firewall
3 22 (2.66%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.30%) WAN
5 12 (1.45%) SD-WAN
5 12 (1.45%) VPN
6 11 (1.33%) LAN
7 8 (0.97%) LTE
8 7 (0.85%) DNS
8 7 (0.85%) Internet
9 6 (0.73%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (0.73%) HTTP
9 6 (0.73%) iSCSI
10 5 (0.60%) BGP
11 4 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.48%) SSH
11 4 (0.48%) Wireless
12 3 (0.36%) MPLS
12 3 (0.36%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (7.86%) BigQuery
2 46 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (4.84%) NoSQL
4 34 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (4.11%) Power BI
5 28 (3.39%) MongoDB
6 23 (2.78%) Data Lake
6 23 (2.78%) Looker
6 23 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.42%) Semantic Layer
8 19 (2.30%) Relational Database
9 17 (2.06%) Pinecone
9 17 (2.06%) Tableau
10 12 (1.45%) Metadata
11 10 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.21%) MySQL
12 5 (0.60%) Data Vault
12 5 (0.60%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.60%) Redis
12 5 (0.60%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 57 (6.89%) Git
2 50 (6.05%) TeamCity
3 41 (4.96%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.81%) JIRA
5 13 (1.57%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.45%) CircleCI
7 9 (1.09%) GitLab
8 4 (0.48%) JUnit
9 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.36%) Maven
9 3 (0.36%) Postman
9 3 (0.36%) Selenium
9 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.24%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.24%) ERwin
10 2 (0.24%) Mockito
10 2 (0.24%) Subversion
10 2 (0.24%) TestRail
10 2 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 252 (30.47%) Social Skills
2 216 (26.12%) Finance
3 181 (21.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 136 (16.44%) Law
5 119 (14.39%) Banking
6 92 (11.12%) Retail
7 85 (10.28%) Public Sector
8 75 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
9 51 (6.17%) Financial Institution
10 50 (6.05%) Back Office
11 37 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (3.02%) Marketing
13 23 (2.78%) Legal
14 7 (0.85%) Advertising
14 7 (0.85%) Legal Technology
14 7 (0.85%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.60%) Games
16 4 (0.48%) French Language
16 4 (0.48%) Front Office
16 4 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 228 (27.57%) Senior
2 177 (21.40%) Software Engineer
3 141 (17.05%) Architect
4 70 (8.46%) Lead
5 69 (8.34%) Cloud Engineer
6 52 (6.29%) Analyst
7 49 (5.93%) Python Engineer
8 48 (5.80%) Developer
9 45 (5.44%) GCP Engineer
10 44 (5.32%) Data Engineer
11 40 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
12 33 (3.99%) Senior Analyst
13 31 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
14 29 (3.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 28 (3.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 28 (3.39%) Site Engineer
16 27 (3.26%) Senior Architect
17 26 (3.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 26 (3.14%) Principal Engineer
18 25 (3.02%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (24.18%) Terraform
2 84 (10.16%) React
3 59 (7.13%) Node.js
4 50 (6.05%) REST
5 37 (4.47%) .NET
6 35 (4.23%) LangChain
7 33 (3.99%) Kafka
8 30 (3.63%) gRPC
9 28 (3.39%) Spring
10 23 (2.78%) FastAPI
10 23 (2.78%) OAuth
11 22 (2.66%) PyTorch
12 21 (2.54%) RESTful
13 20 (2.42%) Django
13 20 (2.42%) LangGraph
13 20 (2.42%) Middleware
13 20 (2.42%) Spring Boot
14 18 (2.18%) OpenID
14 18 (2.18%) TensorFlow
15 17 (2.06%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 213 (25.76%) Cloud Native
2 90 (10.88%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (10.28%) Product Ownership
4 49 (5.93%) AI Agents
5 31 (3.75%) Video\Live Streaming
6 27 (3.26%) Over-the-Top Content
7 25 (3.02%) Distributed Architecture
8 21 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (2.42%) Public Cloud
9 20 (2.42%) Security Posture
10 19 (2.30%) Blog
11 17 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.93%) Onboarding
13 15 (1.81%) Data Centre
13 15 (1.81%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.69%) Management Information System
14 14 (1.69%) Mobile App
15 13 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
15 13 (1.57%) Social Media
16 12 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.93%) Linux
2 18 (2.18%) Unix
3 15 (1.81%) Windows
4 8 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.73%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) CentOS
7 1 (0.12%) Debian
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (40.99%) CI/CD
2 304 (36.76%) Software Engineering
3 256 (30.96%) AI
3 256 (30.96%) Mentoring
4 220 (26.60%) Agile
5 189 (22.85%) DevOps
6 156 (18.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 148 (17.90%) Microservices
8 146 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
9 143 (17.29%) Roadmaps
10 140 (16.93%) Containerisation
11 139 (16.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 135 (16.32%) Machine Learning
13 131 (15.84%) Test Automation
14 129 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
15 119 (14.39%) Observability
16 115 (13.91%) Clean Code
17 111 (13.42%) Coaching
18 107 (12.94%) Analytics
19 91 (11.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 296 (35.79%) Python
2 164 (19.83%) Java
3 131 (15.84%) SQL
4 96 (11.61%) JavaScript
5 76 (9.19%) Go
6 61 (7.38%) TypeScript
7 40 (4.84%) C#
8 36 (4.35%) Scala
9 20 (2.42%) Bash
10 19 (2.30%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.45%) Rust
12 9 (1.09%) C++
13 7 (0.85%) Ruby
14 5 (0.60%) C
14 5 (0.60%) PHP
15 4 (0.48%) R
16 3 (0.36%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.36%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.36%) Perl
16 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 127 (15.36%) Security Cleared
2 111 (13.42%) SC Cleared
3 108 (13.06%) Degree
4 52 (6.29%) AWS Certification
5 29 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 29 (3.51%) CISSP
6 24 (2.90%) CISM
6 24 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.09%) CREST Certified
10 9 (1.09%) OSCP
11 6 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (0.73%) CCSP
11 6 (0.73%) Dell Certification
12 5 (0.60%) CCIE
12 5 (0.60%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.89%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.35%) NIST
3 35 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (3.87%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.66%) NCSC
6 17 (2.06%) GDPR
7 16 (1.93%) QA
8 15 (1.81%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 10 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (1.21%) GRC
10 7 (0.85%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.85%) SLA
11 6 (0.73%) PMO
12 5 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.48%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.48%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 174 (21.04%) Docker
2 15 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.73%) vSphere
6 3 (0.36%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.36%) Firmware
7 2 (0.24%) KVM
Systems Management
1 197 (23.82%) Kubernetes
2 77 (9.31%) Grafana
3 36 (4.35%) Ansible
4 17 (2.06%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.81%) Istio
6 13 (1.57%) Podman
7 12 (1.45%) Puppet
8 6 (0.73%) Avamar
8 6 (0.73%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.73%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.73%) VxRail
9 5 (0.60%) CASB
9 5 (0.60%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.36%) Argo
11 3 (0.36%) linkerd
12 2 (0.24%) Packer
13 1 (0.12%) Consul
13 1 (0.12%) QRadar
Vendors
1 166 (20.07%) Google
2 106 (12.82%) Microsoft
3 32 (3.87%) Adobe
4 26 (3.14%) Typelevel
5 25 (3.02%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.90%) Apple
7 21 (2.54%) Databricks
8 17 (2.06%) Dynatrace
9 16 (1.93%) Okta
10 15 (1.81%) Ping Identity
11 14 (1.69%) Informatica
11 14 (1.69%) SAP
11 14 (1.69%) VMware
12 12 (1.45%) OpenAI
12 12 (1.45%) Splunk
13 10 (1.21%) Cisco
13 10 (1.21%) Oracle
14 9 (1.09%) New Relic
14 9 (1.09%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.97%) Confluent