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

 6 months to
11 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 47 68
Rank change year-on-year -7 +21 -26
Permanent jobs citing GCP 688 737 1,313
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.97% 5.66% 4.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.29% 12.31% 9.44%
Number of salaries quoted 361 608 1,098
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £49,625
25th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +9.68% +3.26%
75th Percentile £97,500 £109,063 £104,812
90th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.45% -2.68%

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 6,685 5,989 13,909
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.57% 46.03% 43.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,507 4,691 12,050
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,375 £46,368 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £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 11 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 49 (7.12%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (4.07%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.47%) Confluence
4 7 (1.02%) Apache
5 5 (0.73%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.44%) CMS
6 3 (0.44%) IIS
6 3 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.44%) SAS
6 3 (0.44%) WordPress
7 2 (0.29%) 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 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.58%) Trello
2 3 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.15%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (0.73%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.29%) Shopify
3 1 (0.15%) Magento
3 1 (0.15%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 581 (84.45%) AWS
2 424 (61.63%) Azure
3 97 (14.10%) SaaS
4 68 (9.88%) Amazon EKS
5 44 (6.40%) GitHub
6 39 (5.67%) dbt
7 32 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (4.65%) Snowflake
8 31 (4.51%) Serverless
9 30 (4.36%) Power Platform
10 26 (3.78%) Vertex AI
11 25 (3.63%) Entra ID
11 25 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (3.20%) Google Analytics
14 19 (2.76%) Dagster
15 16 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
15 16 (2.33%) Figma
15 16 (2.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 72 (10.47%) Broadband
2 21 (3.05%) Firewall
3 20 (2.91%) Network Security
4 17 (2.47%) TCP/IP
5 15 (2.18%) DNS
6 13 (1.89%) WAN
7 12 (1.74%) LAN
8 9 (1.31%) VPN
9 8 (1.16%) Internet
10 7 (1.02%) LTE
10 7 (1.02%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.02%) SSL
11 5 (0.73%) DHCP
12 4 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.58%) MQTT
12 4 (0.58%) Wireless
13 3 (0.44%) Modbus
13 3 (0.44%) SCCP
13 3 (0.44%) WLAN
14 2 (0.29%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (12.35%) BigQuery
2 76 (11.05%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (7.27%) NoSQL
4 37 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (5.38%) Metadata
5 29 (4.22%) Elasticsearch
6 28 (4.07%) Looker
7 25 (3.63%) Tableau
8 24 (3.49%) MongoDB
8 24 (3.49%) Power BI
9 19 (2.76%) Data Lake
10 17 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (2.47%) Redis
10 17 (2.47%) Relational Database
11 16 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (2.03%) SQL Server
13 13 (1.89%) Semantic Layer
14 11 (1.60%) MySQL
15 10 (1.45%) Apache Iceberg
15 10 (1.45%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 58 (8.43%) TeamCity
2 42 (6.10%) Git
3 30 (4.36%) GitLab
4 28 (4.07%) JIRA
5 17 (2.47%) Jenkins
6 14 (2.03%) CircleCI
7 12 (1.74%) MLflow
8 9 (1.31%) Subversion
9 8 (1.16%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.16%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.02%) Storybook
11 3 (0.44%) git-flow
11 3 (0.44%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.29%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.29%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.29%) TestRail
12 2 (0.29%) Zephyr
13 1 (0.15%) ER Studio
13 1 (0.15%) Gradle
13 1 (0.15%) webpack
General
1 218 (31.69%) Social Skills
2 195 (28.34%) Finance
3 147 (21.37%) Law
4 129 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 116 (16.86%) Banking
6 104 (15.12%) Retail
7 82 (11.92%) Public Sector
8 57 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
9 56 (8.14%) Financial Institution
10 52 (7.56%) Back Office
11 39 (5.67%) Telecoms
12 31 (4.51%) Legal
13 22 (3.20%) Marketing
14 18 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (2.47%) Front Office
15 17 (2.47%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 212 (30.81%) Senior
2 153 (22.24%) Software Engineer
3 101 (14.68%) Architect
4 77 (11.19%) Lead
5 63 (9.16%) Developer
6 51 (7.41%) Data Engineer
7 40 (5.81%) Consultant
8 39 (5.67%) Senior Software Engineer
9 36 (5.23%) Analyst
10 33 (4.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 31 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
12 30 (4.36%) Scala Engineer
13 28 (4.07%) Lead Software Engineer
14 27 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
14 27 (3.92%) Data Architect
14 27 (3.92%) Senior Consultant
15 25 (3.63%) Python Engineer
16 23 (3.34%) Java Engineer
16 23 (3.34%) Senior Architect
17 22 (3.20%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (15.26%) React
2 72 (10.47%) Kafka
3 64 (9.30%) gRPC
3 64 (9.30%) Node.js
4 42 (6.10%) RESTful
5 40 (5.81%) Django
6 36 (5.23%) REST
7 31 (4.51%) .NET
8 23 (3.34%) Redux
9 21 (3.05%) OAuth
10 20 (2.91%) CSS
10 20 (2.91%) HTML
11 19 (2.76%) Spring
11 19 (2.76%) Vue
12 18 (2.62%) FastAPI
12 18 (2.62%) React Native
13 17 (2.47%) PyTorch
13 17 (2.47%) TensorFlow
14 16 (2.33%) AngularJS
15 15 (2.18%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 182 (26.45%) Cloud Native
2 104 (15.12%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (10.76%) Product Ownership
4 47 (6.83%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (6.54%) Over-the-Top Content
6 30 (4.36%) Blog
7 26 (3.78%) Security Posture
8 24 (3.49%) Public Cloud
9 23 (3.34%) Data Structures
10 22 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (3.05%) Distributed Architecture
12 20 (2.91%) Management Information System
13 19 (2.76%) Onboarding
14 17 (2.47%) Mobile App
15 16 (2.33%) Fixed Income
16 15 (2.18%) AI Agents
17 11 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
18 10 (1.45%) Cyberattack
18 10 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
18 10 (1.45%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.27%) Linux
2 29 (4.22%) Windows
3 27 (3.92%) Android
4 19 (2.76%) Unix
5 18 (2.62%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.87%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.15%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (45.35%) CI/CD
2 251 (36.48%) Software Engineering
3 198 (28.78%) DevOps
4 191 (27.76%) Agile
5 185 (26.89%) Microservices
6 168 (24.42%) Containerisation
7 159 (23.11%) AI
8 155 (22.53%) Mentoring
9 144 (20.93%) Clean Code
10 129 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
11 128 (18.60%) Machine Learning
12 124 (18.02%) Roadmaps
13 123 (17.88%) Coaching
14 120 (17.44%) Test Automation
15 116 (16.86%) Infrastructure as Code
16 109 (15.84%) Continuous Improvement
17 96 (13.95%) Analytics
18 94 (13.66%) Data Science
19 89 (12.94%) Computer Science
20 82 (11.92%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 256 (37.21%) Python
2 174 (25.29%) Java
3 123 (17.88%) Go
4 111 (16.13%) SQL
5 84 (12.21%) JavaScript
6 82 (11.92%) TypeScript
7 64 (9.30%) Scala
8 30 (4.36%) C#
9 29 (4.22%) Bash
10 20 (2.91%) C++
11 15 (2.18%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.45%) Rust
13 7 (1.02%) PHP
14 6 (0.87%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.73%) Ruby
16 4 (0.58%) C
17 3 (0.44%) Objective-C
17 3 (0.44%) Perl
18 2 (0.29%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 130 (18.90%) Degree
2 88 (12.79%) Security Cleared
3 79 (11.48%) SC Cleared
4 60 (8.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.05%) CISSP
6 19 (2.76%) AWS Certification
6 19 (2.76%) CREST Certified
6 19 (2.76%) OSCP
7 16 (2.33%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (1.45%) CISM
9 8 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.16%) OSCE
10 7 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.02%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.87%) GIAC
12 5 (0.73%) GPEN
12 5 (0.73%) ISACA
12 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.73%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.23%) QA
2 35 (5.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (4.94%) Accessibility
4 29 (4.22%) GDPR
5 25 (3.63%) NIST
6 24 (3.49%) Data Quality
7 21 (3.05%) GRC
8 16 (2.33%) SOC 2
9 14 (2.03%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.87%) EU AI Act
11 6 (0.87%) SLA
12 4 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.44%) NCSC
14 2 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.29%) ISO 26262
14 2 (0.29%) SEPA
14 2 (0.29%) SOC 1
System Software
1 187 (27.18%) Docker
2 17 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.15%) Firmware
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 189 (27.47%) Kubernetes
2 176 (25.58%) Terraform
3 84 (12.21%) Grafana
4 46 (6.69%) Ansible
5 29 (4.22%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.31%) Puppet
7 8 (1.16%) Argo
7 8 (1.16%) Istio
7 8 (1.16%) Podman
7 8 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.73%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (0.58%) Cilium
10 3 (0.44%) cPanel
10 3 (0.44%) Plesk
11 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.15%) CASB
12 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 154 (22.38%) Google
2 73 (10.61%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.54%) Typelevel
4 26 (3.78%) Databricks
5 15 (2.18%) Adobe
6 13 (1.89%) Atlassian
6 13 (1.89%) Palantir
6 13 (1.89%) SAP
7 11 (1.60%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.31%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.31%) Oracle
9 8 (1.16%) Confluent
9 8 (1.16%) Foundry
9 8 (1.16%) Splunk
9 8 (1.16%) VMware
10 7 (1.02%) Apple
11 6 (0.87%) Informatica
12 5 (0.73%) Cisco
12 5 (0.73%) Ericsson
12 5 (0.73%) Nokia
308 hybrid/remote GCP jobs