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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 56 47
Rank change year-on-year -30 -9 +8
Permanent jobs citing GCP 543 926 1,371
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.40% 4.66% 6.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.67% 10.58% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 379 649 1,113
10th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £46,306
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £87,500 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +9.88% +6.18%
75th Percentile £132,500 £138,750 £98,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £147,500 £132,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +3.23%

All Cloud 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 5,615 8,756 10,643
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.17% 44.08% 48.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,157 5,665 9,088
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £37,063
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 8 November 2025.

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 81 (14.92%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.58%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.21%) Apache
4 8 (1.47%) Confluence
4 8 (1.47%) IIS
5 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.37%) Luigi
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.18%) MetaMask
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.37%) Magento
4 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 492 (90.61%) AWS
2 388 (71.45%) Azure
3 97 (17.86%) SaaS
4 86 (15.84%) dbt
5 40 (7.37%) GitHub
6 33 (6.08%) Power Platform
7 24 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (3.68%) OCI
9 20 (3.68%) PaaS
10 19 (3.50%) Snowflake
11 17 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (3.13%) Serverless
12 14 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (2.58%) IaaS
13 12 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (1.66%) Fivetran
14 9 (1.66%) Pulumi
15 8 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.52%) Firewall
2 21 (3.87%) VPN
3 17 (3.13%) Network Security
3 17 (3.13%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.84%) BGP
4 10 (1.84%) DNS
4 10 (1.84%) WAN
5 9 (1.66%) LAN
6 8 (1.47%) VLAN
7 7 (1.29%) OSPF
8 6 (1.10%) Broadband
9 5 (0.92%) DHCP
9 5 (0.92%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (0.55%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.55%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.18%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (0.18%) NAS
11 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (20.63%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (11.97%) Amazon Athena
3 63 (11.60%) Apache Arrow
3 63 (11.60%) Apache Iceberg
3 63 (11.60%) Dremio
4 43 (7.92%) NoSQL
5 36 (6.63%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (5.71%) Power BI
7 30 (5.52%) BigQuery
8 23 (4.24%) Tableau
9 22 (4.05%) MongoDB
10 20 (3.68%) SQL Server
11 17 (3.13%) Data Lake
12 15 (2.76%) MySQL
13 14 (2.58%) Redis
14 13 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (2.21%) Metadata
16 9 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
17 8 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
17 8 (1.47%) Looker
Development Applications
1 32 (5.89%) Git
2 22 (4.05%) GitLab
3 19 (3.50%) Jenkins
4 18 (3.31%) JIRA
5 13 (2.39%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.74%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.74%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.74%) ERwin
6 4 (0.74%) git-flow
6 4 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.55%) JUnit
7 3 (0.55%) MLflow
7 3 (0.55%) Subversion
7 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.37%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.37%) Mocha
8 2 (0.37%) Mockito
8 2 (0.37%) webpack
9 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 199 (36.65%) Finance
2 148 (27.26%) Social Skills
3 88 (16.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 80 (14.73%) Front Office
5 44 (8.10%) Retail
6 39 (7.18%) Banking
7 37 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
8 35 (6.45%) Law
9 25 (4.60%) Financial Institution
10 21 (3.87%) Public Sector
11 20 (3.68%) Telecoms
12 19 (3.50%) Marketing
13 18 (3.31%) Back Office
14 17 (3.13%) Legal
15 13 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.84%) Manufacturing
17 7 (1.29%) Tech for Good
18 6 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
18 6 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
19 5 (0.92%) Games
Job Titles
1 184 (33.89%) Software Engineer
2 169 (31.12%) Senior
3 150 (27.62%) Developer
4 80 (14.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 76 (14.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 75 (13.81%) Architect
7 66 (12.15%) AWS Engineer
7 66 (12.15%) Python Engineer
8 63 (11.60%) AWS Developer
8 63 (11.60%) AWS Software Engineer
9 58 (10.68%) Python Software Engineer
10 55 (10.13%) Python Developer
11 52 (9.58%) Lead
12 36 (6.63%) Full-Stack Developer
13 34 (6.26%) Engineering Manager
14 33 (6.08%) Software Developer
15 31 (5.71%) .NET Developer
16 30 (5.52%) .NET Software Developer
16 30 (5.52%) Solutions Architect
17 25 (4.60%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (31.68%) Node.js
2 140 (25.78%) React
3 135 (24.86%) .NET
4 85 (15.65%) Vue
5 80 (14.73%) AngularJS
6 72 (13.26%) Pandas
7 68 (12.52%) NumPy
8 63 (11.60%) SciPy
9 51 (9.39%) Kafka
10 31 (5.71%) RESTful
11 22 (4.05%) Django
12 21 (3.87%) Redux
13 17 (3.13%) FastAPI
13 17 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
13 17 (3.13%) REST
13 17 (3.13%) Spring
13 17 (3.13%) Spring Boot
14 16 (2.95%) Flask
15 15 (2.76%) CSS
16 14 (2.58%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 89 (16.39%) Cloud Native
2 80 (14.73%) Fixed Income
3 74 (13.63%) Equities
3 74 (13.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 69 (12.71%) Self-Motivation
5 68 (12.52%) Linux Command Line
6 67 (12.34%) Cyberattack
7 42 (7.73%) Distributed Systems
8 29 (5.34%) Management Information System
9 24 (4.42%) Public Cloud
10 23 (4.24%) Product Ownership
11 11 (2.03%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.84%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.47%) Data Centre
13 8 (1.47%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (1.10%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 100 (18.42%) Linux
2 28 (5.16%) Windows
3 17 (3.13%) Unix
4 6 (1.10%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.37%) Android
6 2 (0.37%) CentOS
6 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (53.59%) Agile
2 249 (45.86%) Software Engineering
3 166 (30.57%) CI/CD
4 147 (27.07%) DevOps
5 143 (26.34%) Microservices
6 128 (23.57%) Mentoring
7 114 (20.99%) AI
8 113 (20.81%) Machine Learning
9 94 (17.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 93 (17.13%) Fintech
11 92 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
12 90 (16.57%) Cloud Security
12 90 (16.57%) Data Engineering
12 90 (16.57%) User Experience
13 84 (15.47%) Infrastructure as Code
14 80 (14.73%) Investment Management
15 79 (14.55%) Scrum
16 76 (14.00%) Asset Management
17 75 (13.81%) Roadmaps
18 72 (13.26%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 269 (49.54%) Python
2 207 (38.12%) JavaScript
3 161 (29.65%) Java
4 155 (28.55%) TypeScript
5 97 (17.86%) SQL
6 80 (14.73%) Go
7 63 (11.60%) C++
7 63 (11.60%) Rust
8 47 (8.66%) C#
9 15 (2.76%) Bash
10 13 (2.39%) Scala
11 10 (1.84%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.84%) R
12 7 (1.29%) PHP
12 7 (1.29%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.10%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.18%) Bicep
16 1 (0.18%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 103 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 86 (15.84%) AWS Certification
3 75 (13.81%) DV Cleared
4 73 (13.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 63 (11.60%) AWS Certified Developer
5 63 (11.60%) Degree
6 38 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (6.26%) SC Cleared
8 25 (4.60%) Azure Certification
9 16 (2.95%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
11 8 (1.47%) DBS Check
12 7 (1.29%) PhD
13 6 (1.10%) OSCP
14 4 (0.74%) CREST Certified
14 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.74%) OSCE
15 3 (0.55%) CCNP
15 3 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.55%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.08%) GDPR
2 24 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.50%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.13%) NIST
5 12 (2.21%) QA
6 11 (2.03%) HIPAA
6 11 (2.03%) SOC 2
7 7 (1.29%) GRC
8 6 (1.10%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.10%) EU AI Act
8 6 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.10%) SLA
9 4 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.37%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.37%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.37%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 92 (16.94%) Docker
2 10 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.55%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.37%) Firmware
6 1 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.18%) Varnish
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 118 (21.73%) Kubernetes
2 86 (15.84%) Terraform
3 49 (9.02%) Ansible
4 30 (5.52%) Grafana
5 20 (3.68%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.74%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.74%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.74%) Puppet
7 3 (0.55%) Cilium
7 3 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.37%) Argo
8 2 (0.37%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.18%) cPanel
9 1 (0.18%) Nmap
9 1 (0.18%) Plesk
9 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 105 (19.34%) Google
2 29 (5.34%) Microsoft
3 17 (3.13%) Databricks
4 11 (2.03%) Talend
5 10 (1.84%) Informatica
6 9 (1.66%) Alteryx
6 9 (1.66%) Oracle
6 9 (1.66%) Zoho
7 8 (1.47%) IBM
7 8 (1.47%) VMware
8 6 (1.10%) Cisco
8 6 (1.10%) SAP
9 5 (0.92%) Sage
9 5 (0.92%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.92%) Xamarin
10 4 (0.74%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.74%) Dell
10 4 (0.74%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.74%) PayPal
10 4 (0.74%) Splunk