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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 52 74
Rank change year-on-year -17 +22 -39
Permanent jobs citing GCP 769 924 1,139
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.60% 5.60% 3.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.22% 15.03% 8.61%
Number of salaries quoted 407 488 940
10th Percentile £52,300 £51,564 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% -2.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £93,750 £115,000 £139,063
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -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 8,339 6,148 13,229
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.05% 37.24% 41.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,923 4,539 10,887
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,720 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 16 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 27 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (1.95%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.65%) Apache
4 4 (0.52%) Confluence
5 3 (0.39%) CMS
5 3 (0.39%) SAS
6 2 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.26%) Camunda
6 2 (0.26%) WordPress
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 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (3.12%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.26%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 618 (80.36%) AWS
2 456 (59.30%) Azure
3 86 (11.18%) SaaS
4 69 (8.97%) Amazon EKS
5 31 (4.03%) Cloud Run
6 28 (3.64%) GitHub
6 28 (3.64%) Serverless
7 26 (3.38%) Power Platform
8 22 (2.86%) dbt
8 22 (2.86%) Snowflake
9 20 (2.60%) Cloud Functions
10 19 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (2.47%) PaaS
10 19 (2.47%) Vertex AI
11 18 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (2.34%) Entra ID
12 17 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
12 17 (2.21%) Anthropic Claude
12 17 (2.21%) Google Analytics
13 14 (1.82%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 100 (13.00%) Broadband
2 28 (3.64%) Network Security
3 16 (2.08%) Firewall
3 16 (2.08%) WAN
4 12 (1.56%) DNS
4 12 (1.56%) LAN
5 10 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.17%) SD-WAN
6 9 (1.17%) VPN
7 8 (1.04%) LTE
8 7 (0.91%) Internet
9 6 (0.78%) DHCP
9 6 (0.78%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (0.78%) iSCSI
10 5 (0.65%) MQTT
11 4 (0.52%) SSH
12 3 (0.39%) BGP
12 3 (0.39%) MPLS
12 3 (0.39%) SSL
12 3 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (10.14%) BigQuery
2 61 (7.93%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (4.16%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (4.16%) NoSQL
4 27 (3.51%) MongoDB
5 26 (3.38%) Semantic Layer
6 23 (2.99%) Data Lake
6 23 (2.99%) Power BI
7 22 (2.86%) Metadata
8 21 (2.73%) Looker
9 20 (2.60%) Relational Database
10 17 (2.21%) Pinecone
11 13 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (1.69%) SQL Server
12 9 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.17%) Tableau
13 8 (1.04%) Redis
14 7 (0.91%) MySQL
15 6 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.78%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 58 (7.54%) TeamCity
2 46 (5.98%) Git
3 39 (5.07%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.95%) JIRA
5 13 (1.69%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.56%) CircleCI
7 9 (1.17%) GitLab
8 3 (0.39%) MLflow
8 3 (0.39%) Postman
8 3 (0.39%) Selenium
8 3 (0.39%) TestRail
8 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.26%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.26%) JUnit
9 2 (0.26%) Subversion
10 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.13%) ERwin
10 1 (0.13%) JMeter
10 1 (0.13%) Maven
10 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
General
1 205 (26.66%) Social Skills
2 202 (26.27%) Finance
3 178 (23.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 151 (19.64%) Law
5 121 (15.73%) Banking
6 95 (12.35%) Retail
7 78 (10.14%) Public Sector
8 51 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
9 47 (6.11%) Back Office
9 47 (6.11%) Financial Institution
10 27 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (3.25%) Legal
12 16 (2.08%) Front Office
13 13 (1.69%) Marketing
14 7 (0.91%) Legal Technology
14 7 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.65%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.65%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.52%) Advertising
16 4 (0.52%) French Language
Job Titles
1 212 (27.57%) Senior
2 174 (22.63%) Software Engineer
3 122 (15.86%) Architect
4 73 (9.49%) Lead
5 65 (8.45%) Developer
6 62 (8.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 51 (6.63%) Data Engineer
8 49 (6.37%) Analyst
9 40 (5.20%) GCP Engineer
9 40 (5.20%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (4.68%) Consultant
11 35 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
11 35 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
12 31 (4.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 31 (4.03%) Senior Analyst
13 30 (3.90%) Scala Engineer
14 29 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 28 (3.64%) Python Engineer
15 28 (3.64%) Senior Architect
16 27 (3.51%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (11.05%) React
2 63 (8.19%) Node.js
3 49 (6.37%) gRPC
4 47 (6.11%) Kafka
5 37 (4.81%) REST
6 36 (4.68%) LangChain
7 28 (3.64%) Django
8 24 (3.12%) .NET
8 24 (3.12%) FastAPI
8 24 (3.12%) LangGraph
9 22 (2.86%) PyTorch
9 22 (2.86%) TensorFlow
10 21 (2.73%) RESTful
11 20 (2.60%) OAuth
11 20 (2.60%) Spring
12 18 (2.34%) Vue
13 17 (2.21%) Spring Boot
14 16 (2.08%) AngularJS
14 16 (2.08%) OpenID
14 16 (2.08%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 213 (27.70%) Cloud Native
2 84 (10.92%) Distributed Systems
2 84 (10.92%) Product Ownership
3 46 (5.98%) Over-the-Top Content
3 46 (5.98%) Video\Live Streaming
4 36 (4.68%) AI Agents
5 25 (3.25%) Blog
5 25 (3.25%) Security Posture
6 22 (2.86%) Data Structures
6 22 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
7 19 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.47%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.47%) Public Cloud
7 19 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (2.21%) Social Media
9 16 (2.08%) Fixed Income
10 12 (1.56%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.43%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.30%) Cyberattack
13 9 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.20%) Linux
2 17 (2.21%) Windows
3 10 (1.30%) Unix
4 9 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.04%) Android
5 8 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) CentOS
6 1 (0.13%) Debian
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (42.00%) CI/CD
2 288 (37.45%) Software Engineering
3 221 (28.74%) Agile
4 219 (28.48%) Mentoring
5 212 (27.57%) AI
6 170 (22.11%) DevOps
7 166 (21.59%) Microservices
8 152 (19.77%) Containerisation
9 144 (18.73%) Machine Learning
10 142 (18.47%) Roadmaps
11 141 (18.34%) Test Automation
12 132 (17.17%) Technical Leadership
13 131 (17.04%) Clean Code
14 127 (16.51%) Coaching
15 125 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
16 115 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
17 112 (14.56%) Infrastructure as Code
18 92 (11.96%) Data Science
19 87 (11.31%) Analytics
20 80 (10.40%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 290 (37.71%) Python
2 178 (23.15%) Java
3 113 (14.69%) SQL
4 98 (12.74%) JavaScript
5 93 (12.09%) Go
6 63 (8.19%) Scala
7 59 (7.67%) TypeScript
8 24 (3.12%) C#
9 20 (2.60%) Bash
10 16 (2.08%) C++
10 16 (2.08%) Rust
11 11 (1.43%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.78%) C
13 5 (0.65%) Ruby
14 4 (0.52%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.52%) PHP
15 3 (0.39%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.39%) Perl
16 2 (0.26%) ABAP
16 2 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 111 (14.43%) Security Cleared
2 101 (13.13%) Degree
3 92 (11.96%) SC Cleared
4 43 (5.59%) AWS Certification
5 38 (4.94%) CISSP
6 29 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (2.99%) CISM
7 23 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.34%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.56%) CREST Certified
9 12 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.56%) OSCP
10 11 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.17%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.91%) GIAC
13 6 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.78%) CCSP
13 6 (0.78%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.78%) Dell Certification
14 5 (0.65%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.72%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.81%) NIST
3 31 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (3.64%) Accessibility
5 25 (3.25%) QA
6 20 (2.60%) GDPR
7 16 (2.08%) NCSC
8 14 (1.82%) GRC
9 13 (1.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 7 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.78%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.78%) PMO
12 5 (0.65%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.52%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.52%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.39%) SLA
15 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.26%) SEPA
16 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 175 (22.76%) Docker
2 14 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.91%) Active Directory
6 6 (0.78%) vSphere
7 2 (0.26%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) Firmware
8 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 177 (23.02%) Kubernetes
2 169 (21.98%) Terraform
3 78 (10.14%) Grafana
4 33 (4.29%) Ansible
5 16 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.82%) Istio
7 13 (1.69%) Podman
7 13 (1.69%) Puppet
8 6 (0.78%) Avamar
8 6 (0.78%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.78%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.78%) VxRail
9 5 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.26%) Argo
11 2 (0.26%) CASB
11 2 (0.26%) linkerd
11 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 137 (17.82%) Google
2 96 (12.48%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.85%) Typelevel
4 28 (3.64%) Adobe
5 25 (3.25%) ServiceNow
6 24 (3.12%) Apple
7 21 (2.73%) Databricks
8 16 (2.08%) SAP
8 16 (2.08%) VMware
9 14 (1.82%) Okta
10 12 (1.56%) Oracle
11 9 (1.17%) ForgeRock
11 9 (1.17%) Informatica
11 9 (1.17%) Ping Identity
12 8 (1.04%) Confluent
12 8 (1.04%) Dell
12 8 (1.04%) Dynatrace
12 8 (1.04%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.04%) Splunk
13 7 (0.91%) Veeam