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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 60 64
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 -28
Permanent jobs citing GCP 822 841 1,006
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.53% 5.09% 4.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.48% 14.12% 9.95%
Number of salaries quoted 471 421 767
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,375 £65,000 £69,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £93,750 £132,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £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 8,669 5,954 10,112
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.26% 36.02% 40.75%
Number of salaries quoted 6,342 4,342 7,617
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% - -4.76%

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 28 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 12 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.09%) Apache
2 9 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 8 (0.97%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.61%) Confluence
5 4 (0.49%) Camunda
6 3 (0.36%) WordPress
7 2 (0.24%) CMS
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.12%) Appian
8 1 (0.12%) Drupal
8 1 (0.12%) IIS
8 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.12%) nginx
8 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (1.46%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.49%) 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 (2.92%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) Magento
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 658 (80.05%) AWS
2 527 (64.11%) Azure
3 96 (11.68%) SaaS
4 60 (7.30%) Amazon EKS
5 36 (4.38%) Power Platform
6 35 (4.26%) GitHub
7 33 (4.01%) Cloud Run
8 27 (3.28%) dbt
9 26 (3.16%) Serverless
10 24 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (2.68%) Cloud Functions
12 22 (2.68%) Google Analytics
13 21 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
14 20 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
14 20 (2.43%) Snowflake
15 19 (2.31%) Anthropic Claude
16 17 (2.07%) Datadog
16 17 (2.07%) Firebase
17 16 (1.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 62 (7.54%) Broadband
2 35 (4.26%) Network Security
3 22 (2.68%) Firewall
3 22 (2.68%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.31%) WAN
5 12 (1.46%) SD-WAN
5 12 (1.46%) VPN
6 11 (1.34%) LAN
7 7 (0.85%) DNS
7 7 (0.85%) LTE
8 6 (0.73%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (0.73%) HTTP
8 6 (0.73%) Internet
8 6 (0.73%) iSCSI
9 5 (0.61%) BGP
10 4 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.49%) SSH
10 4 (0.49%) Wireless
11 3 (0.36%) MPLS
11 3 (0.36%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (7.91%) BigQuery
2 46 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (4.87%) NoSQL
4 34 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (4.14%) Power BI
5 28 (3.41%) MongoDB
6 23 (2.80%) Data Lake
6 23 (2.80%) Looker
6 23 (2.80%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.43%) Semantic Layer
8 19 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 17 (2.07%) Pinecone
9 17 (2.07%) Tableau
10 15 (1.82%) Metadata
11 10 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.22%) MySQL
12 5 (0.61%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.61%) Metadata Repository
12 5 (0.61%) Redis
12 5 (0.61%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 56 (6.81%) Git
2 51 (6.20%) TeamCity
3 41 (4.99%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.82%) JIRA
5 13 (1.58%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.46%) CircleCI
7 8 (0.97%) GitLab
8 4 (0.49%) 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
1 251 (30.54%) Social Skills
2 218 (26.52%) Finance
3 181 (22.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 136 (16.55%) Law
5 122 (14.84%) Banking
6 92 (11.19%) Retail
7 90 (10.95%) Public Sector
8 75 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
9 52 (6.33%) Financial Institution
10 51 (6.20%) Back Office
11 37 (4.50%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (2.92%) Marketing
13 23 (2.80%) Legal
14 7 (0.85%) Advertising
14 7 (0.85%) Legal Technology
14 7 (0.85%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.61%) Games
16 4 (0.49%) French Language
16 4 (0.49%) Front Office
16 4 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 232 (28.22%) Senior
2 177 (21.53%) Software Engineer
3 143 (17.40%) Architect
4 70 (8.52%) Lead
5 69 (8.39%) Cloud Engineer
6 52 (6.33%) Analyst
7 49 (5.96%) Python Engineer
8 47 (5.72%) Developer
9 45 (5.47%) GCP Engineer
10 41 (4.99%) Data Engineer
11 38 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
12 33 (4.01%) Senior Analyst
13 31 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
14 30 (3.65%) Senior Architect
15 29 (3.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 28 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 28 (3.41%) Site Engineer
17 27 (3.28%) Data Architect
18 26 (3.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 26 (3.16%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (24.45%) Terraform
2 84 (10.22%) React
3 59 (7.18%) Node.js
4 51 (6.20%) REST
5 37 (4.50%) .NET
6 36 (4.38%) LangChain
7 32 (3.89%) Kafka
8 29 (3.53%) Spring
9 23 (2.80%) FastAPI
9 23 (2.80%) OAuth
9 23 (2.80%) PyTorch
10 22 (2.68%) gRPC
11 21 (2.55%) LangGraph
11 21 (2.55%) Middleware
11 21 (2.55%) RESTful
11 21 (2.55%) Spring Boot
12 20 (2.43%) Django
13 19 (2.31%) TensorFlow
14 18 (2.19%) OpenID
15 17 (2.07%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 215 (26.16%) Cloud Native
2 87 (10.58%) Product Ownership
3 81 (9.85%) Distributed Systems
4 49 (5.96%) AI Agents
5 26 (3.16%) Distributed Architecture
6 23 (2.80%) Video\Live Streaming
7 20 (2.43%) Public Cloud
7 20 (2.43%) Security Posture
7 20 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (2.31%) Blog
8 19 (2.31%) Over-the-Top Content
9 17 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.95%) Onboarding
11 15 (1.82%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.82%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.70%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
13 13 (1.58%) Management Information System
13 13 (1.58%) Social Media
14 12 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.96%) Linux
2 18 (2.19%) Unix
3 15 (1.82%) 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
1 335 (40.75%) CI/CD
2 299 (36.37%) Software Engineering
3 261 (31.75%) Mentoring
4 257 (31.27%) AI
5 224 (27.25%) Agile
6 194 (23.60%) DevOps
7 156 (18.98%) Infrastructure as Code
8 153 (18.61%) Technical Leadership
9 144 (17.52%) Roadmaps
10 140 (17.03%) Microservices
11 139 (16.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 133 (16.18%) Containerisation
13 132 (16.06%) Test Automation
14 128 (15.57%) Machine Learning
15 120 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
16 117 (14.23%) Observability
17 108 (13.14%) Clean Code
17 108 (13.14%) Coaching
18 107 (13.02%) Analytics
19 93 (11.31%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 287 (34.91%) Python
2 167 (20.32%) Java
3 130 (15.82%) SQL
4 96 (11.68%) JavaScript
5 68 (8.27%) Go
6 61 (7.42%) TypeScript
7 40 (4.87%) C#
8 28 (3.41%) Scala
9 20 (2.43%) Bash
10 19 (2.31%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.34%) Rust
12 9 (1.09%) C++
13 7 (0.85%) Ruby
14 5 (0.61%) C
14 5 (0.61%) PHP
15 4 (0.49%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.49%) R
16 3 (0.36%) Perl
16 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 126 (15.33%) Security Cleared
2 110 (13.38%) SC Cleared
3 106 (12.90%) Degree
4 52 (6.33%) AWS Certification
5 29 (3.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 29 (3.53%) CISSP
6 24 (2.92%) CISM
6 24 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (2.55%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.70%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.34%) 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 (0.61%) CCIE
12 5 (0.61%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.18%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.38%) NIST
3 35 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (4.14%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.68%) NCSC
6 17 (2.07%) GDPR
7 15 (1.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 15 (1.82%) QA
8 10 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (1.22%) GRC
9 7 (0.85%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.85%) SLA
10 6 (0.73%) PMO
11 5 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.49%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.49%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 166 (20.19%) Docker
2 15 (1.82%) 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
1 198 (24.09%) Kubernetes
2 77 (9.37%) Grafana
3 35 (4.26%) Ansible
4 16 (1.95%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.82%) Istio
6 13 (1.58%) Podman
7 12 (1.46%) 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 (0.61%) CASB
9 5 (0.61%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.36%) Argo
11 3 (0.36%) linkerd
12 2 (0.24%) Packer
13 1 (0.12%) QRadar
13 1 (0.12%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 167 (20.32%) Google
2 107 (13.02%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.01%) Adobe
4 25 (3.04%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.92%) Apple
6 20 (2.43%) Databricks
7 18 (2.19%) Typelevel
8 17 (2.07%) Dynatrace
9 16 (1.95%) Okta
10 15 (1.82%) Ping Identity
11 14 (1.70%) Informatica
11 14 (1.70%) VMware
12 13 (1.58%) SAP
13 12 (1.46%) OpenAI
13 12 (1.46%) Splunk
14 10 (1.22%) Cisco
14 10 (1.22%) Oracle
15 9 (1.09%) New Relic
15 9 (1.09%) Palo Alto
16 8 (0.97%) Confluent