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

 6 months to
3 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 48 67
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 -23
Permanent jobs citing GCP 664 730 1,314
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.94% 5.69% 4.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.16% 12.17% 9.48%
Number of salaries quoted 353 602 1,111
10th Percentile £52,750 £55,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £64,439 £66,063 £61,215
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +9.68% +2.32%
75th Percentile £97,500 £107,188 £103,750
90th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £138,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.45% -2.60%

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 6,535 5,998 13,854
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.74% 46.74% 44.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4,418 4,671 12,010
10th Percentile £33,000 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,711 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £78,584
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 3 April 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 47 (7.08%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (4.07%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.26%) Confluence
4 7 (1.05%) Apache
5 5 (0.75%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.45%) CMS
6 3 (0.45%) IIS
6 3 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.45%) SAS
6 3 (0.45%) WordPress
7 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) Camunda
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.45%) Trello
3 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Cloudability
1 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.30%) Shopify
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 563 (84.79%) AWS
2 409 (61.60%) Azure
3 102 (15.36%) SaaS
4 66 (9.94%) Amazon EKS
5 48 (7.23%) GitHub
6 40 (6.02%) dbt
7 35 (5.27%) Snowflake
8 32 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 32 (4.82%) Power Platform
9 29 (4.37%) Serverless
10 26 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
11 24 (3.61%) Vertex AI
12 23 (3.46%) Amazon ECS
12 23 (3.46%) Entra ID
13 20 (3.01%) Google Analytics
14 19 (2.86%) Dagster
15 18 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
16 16 (2.41%) Azure Machine Learning
16 16 (2.41%) OpenShift
16 16 (2.41%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 69 (10.39%) Broadband
2 22 (3.31%) Firewall
3 18 (2.71%) Network Security
4 17 (2.56%) TCP/IP
5 15 (2.26%) DNS
6 13 (1.96%) WAN
7 12 (1.81%) LAN
8 10 (1.51%) VPN
9 7 (1.05%) Internet
9 7 (1.05%) SD-WAN
9 7 (1.05%) SSL
10 6 (0.90%) LTE
11 5 (0.75%) DHCP
12 4 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.60%) MQTT
12 4 (0.60%) Wireless
13 3 (0.45%) Modbus
13 3 (0.45%) SCCP
13 3 (0.45%) WLAN
14 2 (0.30%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (12.80%) BigQuery
2 74 (11.14%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (6.93%) NoSQL
4 40 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (5.72%) Metadata
6 29 (4.37%) Elasticsearch
7 28 (4.22%) Looker
8 27 (4.07%) Tableau
9 26 (3.92%) Power BI
10 19 (2.86%) Data Lake
11 18 (2.71%) MongoDB
12 17 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (2.56%) Redis
13 16 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (2.41%) Relational Database
14 13 (1.96%) MySQL
14 13 (1.96%) Semantic Layer
14 13 (1.96%) SQL Server
15 10 (1.51%) Apache Iceberg
15 10 (1.51%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 57 (8.58%) TeamCity
2 41 (6.17%) Git
3 30 (4.52%) GitLab
4 22 (3.31%) JIRA
5 18 (2.71%) Jenkins
6 12 (1.81%) CircleCI
6 12 (1.81%) MLflow
7 9 (1.36%) Subversion
8 8 (1.20%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.05%) Storybook
10 6 (0.90%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.60%) git-flow
12 3 (0.45%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.45%) ERwin
12 3 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
12 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.30%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.30%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.30%) TestRail
13 2 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 213 (32.08%) Social Skills
2 190 (28.61%) Finance
3 138 (20.78%) Law
4 120 (18.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 113 (17.02%) Banking
6 103 (15.51%) Retail
7 78 (11.75%) Public Sector
8 57 (8.58%) Analytical Skills
9 54 (8.13%) Financial Institution
10 50 (7.53%) Back Office
11 39 (5.87%) Telecoms
12 30 (4.52%) Legal
13 19 (2.86%) Marketing
14 18 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (2.56%) Front Office
15 17 (2.56%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 207 (31.17%) Senior
2 150 (22.59%) Software Engineer
3 99 (14.91%) Architect
4 80 (12.05%) Lead
5 65 (9.79%) Developer
6 49 (7.38%) Data Engineer
7 40 (6.02%) Consultant
8 39 (5.87%) Senior Software Engineer
9 32 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
10 31 (4.67%) Analyst
10 31 (4.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 30 (4.52%) Scala Engineer
12 29 (4.37%) Data Architect
12 29 (4.37%) Lead Software Engineer
13 27 (4.07%) Senior Consultant
14 25 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
15 23 (3.46%) Cloud Engineer
15 23 (3.46%) Senior Architect
16 22 (3.31%) Java Engineer
16 22 (3.31%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (16.27%) React
2 72 (10.84%) Kafka
3 66 (9.94%) Node.js
4 64 (9.64%) gRPC
5 41 (6.17%) RESTful
6 38 (5.72%) Django
7 37 (5.57%) REST
8 33 (4.97%) .NET
9 23 (3.46%) Redux
10 22 (3.31%) OAuth
11 21 (3.16%) CSS
11 21 (3.16%) HTML
12 20 (3.01%) Spring
13 18 (2.71%) React Native
13 18 (2.71%) Vue
14 17 (2.56%) FastAPI
15 16 (2.41%) AngularJS
15 16 (2.41%) PyTorch
15 16 (2.41%) TensorFlow
16 15 (2.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 172 (25.90%) Cloud Native
2 104 (15.66%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (10.09%) Product Ownership
4 47 (7.08%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (6.78%) Over-the-Top Content
6 30 (4.52%) Blog
7 23 (3.46%) Public Cloud
7 23 (3.46%) Security Posture
8 21 (3.16%) Management Information System
8 21 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (3.01%) Data Structures
10 19 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
10 19 (2.86%) Onboarding
11 16 (2.41%) Fixed Income
11 16 (2.41%) Mobile App
12 14 (2.11%) AI Agents
13 10 (1.51%) Cyberattack
13 10 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.36%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.53%) Linux
2 29 (4.37%) Windows
3 25 (3.77%) Android
4 19 (2.86%) Unix
5 16 (2.41%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.05%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.90%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.15%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (46.23%) CI/CD
2 248 (37.35%) Software Engineering
3 196 (29.52%) DevOps
4 186 (28.01%) Microservices
5 179 (26.96%) Agile
6 164 (24.70%) Containerisation
7 155 (23.34%) AI
8 154 (23.19%) Mentoring
9 142 (21.39%) Clean Code
10 126 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
11 125 (18.83%) Machine Learning
12 122 (18.37%) Coaching
13 119 (17.92%) Roadmaps
13 119 (17.92%) Test Automation
14 113 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
15 98 (14.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 94 (14.16%) Data Science
17 91 (13.70%) Computer Science
18 90 (13.55%) Analytics
19 81 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 248 (37.35%) Python
2 167 (25.15%) Java
3 121 (18.22%) Go
4 107 (16.11%) SQL
5 87 (13.10%) TypeScript
6 83 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 64 (9.64%) Scala
8 32 (4.82%) C#
9 29 (4.37%) Bash
10 19 (2.86%) C++
11 15 (2.26%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.51%) Rust
13 7 (1.05%) PHP
14 6 (0.90%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.75%) Ruby
16 4 (0.60%) C
17 3 (0.45%) Objective-C
17 3 (0.45%) Perl
18 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 123 (18.52%) Degree
2 83 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 74 (11.14%) SC Cleared
4 62 (9.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.71%) CISSP
6 17 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.56%) CREST Certified
6 17 (2.56%) OSCP
7 14 (2.11%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.36%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.20%) OSCE
10 7 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.05%) CISM
10 7 (1.05%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.90%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.90%) GIAC
12 5 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.75%) GPEN
12 5 (0.75%) ISACA
12 5 (0.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.42%) QA
2 32 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (4.52%) Accessibility
4 29 (4.37%) GDPR
5 23 (3.46%) Data Quality
6 22 (3.31%) NIST
7 21 (3.16%) GRC
8 16 (2.41%) SOC 2
9 14 (2.11%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.90%) EU AI Act
11 6 (0.90%) SLA
12 4 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.30%) ISO 14001
14 2 (0.30%) ISO 26262
14 2 (0.30%) NCSC
14 2 (0.30%) SEPA
14 2 (0.30%) SOC 1
System Software
1 186 (28.01%) Docker
2 17 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.15%) Firmware
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 187 (28.16%) Kubernetes
2 175 (26.36%) Terraform
3 81 (12.20%) Grafana
4 45 (6.78%) Ansible
5 27 (4.07%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.20%) Argo
6 8 (1.20%) Istio
6 8 (1.20%) Puppet
6 8 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.90%) Podman
8 5 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (0.60%) Cilium
10 3 (0.45%) cPanel
10 3 (0.45%) Plesk
11 2 (0.30%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.30%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.15%) CASB
12 1 (0.15%) Icinga
12 1 (0.15%) Packer
12 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 152 (22.89%) Google
2 65 (9.79%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.78%) Typelevel
4 28 (4.22%) Databricks
5 13 (1.96%) Atlassian
5 13 (1.96%) Palantir
5 13 (1.96%) SAP
6 12 (1.81%) Adobe
7 11 (1.66%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.36%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.36%) Oracle
9 8 (1.20%) Confluent
9 8 (1.20%) Foundry
9 8 (1.20%) Informatica
9 8 (1.20%) Splunk
9 8 (1.20%) VMware
10 5 (0.75%) Ericsson
10 5 (0.75%) ForgeRock
10 5 (0.75%) Mavenir
10 5 (0.75%) Okta
308 hybrid/remote GCP jobs