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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 65 62
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 -21
Permanent jobs citing GCP 834 795 948
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.39% 4.92% 4.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.52% 13.85% 10.24%
Number of salaries quoted 477 387 680
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% - +19.30%
75th Percentile £93,750 £136,250 £142,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £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 8,761 5,740 9,259
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.62% 35.52% 41.06%
Number of salaries quoted 6,440 4,121 6,329
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £37,500
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 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -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 23 September 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 14 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (1.32%) Apache
3 10 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.48%) Confluence
6 3 (0.36%) Camunda
7 2 (0.24%) WordPress
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.12%) Appian
8 1 (0.12%) CMS
8 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (1.80%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.48%) 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 (2.88%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 670 (80.34%) AWS
2 522 (62.59%) Azure
3 118 (14.15%) SaaS
4 74 (8.87%) Amazon EKS
5 38 (4.56%) GitHub
6 37 (4.44%) Power Platform
7 29 (3.48%) dbt
8 26 (3.12%) Cloud Run
9 24 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (2.88%) Snowflake
10 23 (2.76%) Google Analytics
10 23 (2.76%) Serverless
11 22 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (2.28%) Anthropic Claude
13 18 (2.16%) Firebase
13 18 (2.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 17 (2.04%) Cloud Functions
14 17 (2.04%) Datadog
15 14 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.04%) Broadband
2 38 (4.56%) Network Security
3 22 (2.64%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.28%) Firewall
5 14 (1.68%) WAN
6 13 (1.56%) VPN
7 9 (1.08%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.96%) BGP
9 6 (0.72%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (0.72%) HTTP
9 6 (0.72%) iSCSI
9 6 (0.72%) LAN
10 4 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.48%) DNS
10 4 (0.48%) LTE
10 4 (0.48%) SSH
11 3 (0.36%) Internet
11 3 (0.36%) MPLS
11 3 (0.36%) OSPF
11 3 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (8.03%) BigQuery
2 58 (6.95%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (4.20%) NoSQL
3 35 (4.20%) Power BI
4 27 (3.24%) Looker
5 25 (3.00%) SQL Server
6 23 (2.76%) MongoDB
7 20 (2.40%) Semantic Layer
8 19 (2.28%) Data Lake
9 18 (2.16%) Metadata
10 17 (2.04%) Pinecone
10 17 (2.04%) Relational Database
10 17 (2.04%) Tableau
11 16 (1.92%) Chroma
12 10 (1.20%) MySQL
13 9 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (0.84%) Metadata Repository
16 5 (0.60%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 77 (9.23%) TeamCity
2 50 (6.00%) Git
3 42 (5.04%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.32%) JIRA
5 10 (1.20%) GitLab
6 7 (0.84%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.72%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.60%) JUnit
9 4 (0.48%) Maven
10 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.36%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.36%) Mockito
10 3 (0.36%) Postman
10 3 (0.36%) Selenium
10 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.24%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.24%) ERwin
11 2 (0.24%) MLflow
11 2 (0.24%) Subversion
General
1 250 (29.98%) Social Skills
2 237 (28.42%) Finance
3 211 (25.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 165 (19.78%) Law
5 155 (18.59%) Banking
6 127 (15.23%) Retail
7 95 (11.39%) Public Sector
8 77 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
9 71 (8.51%) Back Office
10 70 (8.39%) Financial Institution
11 38 (4.56%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (4.08%) Marketing
13 22 (2.64%) Legal
14 8 (0.96%) Front Office
15 7 (0.84%) Advertising
15 7 (0.84%) French Language
15 7 (0.84%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.60%) Games
18 3 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 235 (28.18%) Senior
2 195 (23.38%) Software Engineer
3 139 (16.67%) Architect
4 76 (9.11%) Lead
5 68 (8.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 64 (7.67%) Analyst
7 57 (6.83%) Python Engineer
8 50 (6.00%) GCP Engineer
9 45 (5.40%) Developer
10 40 (4.80%) Data Engineer
11 39 (4.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 34 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
13 33 (3.96%) Senior Analyst
14 32 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
15 30 (3.60%) Lead Software Engineer
15 30 (3.60%) Senior Architect
16 29 (3.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 28 (3.36%) Security Architect
17 28 (3.36%) Site Engineer
18 27 (3.24%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (26.14%) Terraform
2 66 (7.91%) React
3 48 (5.76%) Node.js
4 45 (5.40%) LangChain
5 39 (4.68%) REST
6 36 (4.32%) .NET
7 29 (3.48%) LangGraph
8 28 (3.36%) Spring
9 26 (3.12%) PyTorch
10 25 (3.00%) RESTful
11 22 (2.64%) FastAPI
11 22 (2.64%) Kafka
11 22 (2.64%) Middleware
12 21 (2.52%) Spring Boot
12 21 (2.52%) TensorFlow
13 20 (2.40%) OAuth
14 18 (2.16%) scikit-learn
15 17 (2.04%) LlamaIndex
15 17 (2.04%) OAuth2
15 17 (2.04%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 234 (28.06%) Cloud Native
2 93 (11.15%) Product Ownership
3 79 (9.47%) Distributed Systems
4 58 (6.95%) AI Agents
5 31 (3.72%) Blog
6 26 (3.12%) Distributed Architecture
7 20 (2.40%) Public Cloud
7 20 (2.40%) Security Posture
8 16 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.80%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.68%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.68%) Video\Live Streaming
11 13 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.56%) Social Media
12 12 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (1.32%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.20%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.20%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.64%) Linux
2 18 (2.16%) Unix
3 16 (1.92%) Windows
4 13 (1.56%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.84%) Android
6 6 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.60%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Debian
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (40.89%) CI/CD
2 300 (35.97%) Software Engineering
3 275 (32.97%) AI
4 272 (32.61%) Mentoring
5 209 (25.06%) Agile
6 190 (22.78%) DevOps
7 152 (18.23%) Infrastructure as Code
8 145 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
9 144 (17.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 143 (17.15%) Microservices
11 136 (16.31%) Test Automation
12 132 (15.83%) Roadmaps
13 129 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
14 124 (14.87%) Machine Learning
15 121 (14.51%) Observability
16 113 (13.55%) Clean Code
17 108 (12.95%) Analytics
18 106 (12.71%) Coaching
19 105 (12.59%) Containerisation
20 98 (11.75%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 290 (34.77%) Python
2 193 (23.14%) Java
3 140 (16.79%) SQL
4 77 (9.23%) JavaScript
5 59 (7.07%) Go
6 58 (6.95%) TypeScript
7 39 (4.68%) C#
8 28 (3.36%) Bash
9 22 (2.64%) Scala
10 19 (2.28%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.80%) R
12 13 (1.56%) Rust
13 11 (1.32%) C++
14 6 (0.72%) Ruby
15 5 (0.60%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.60%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.48%) C
16 4 (0.48%) PHP
17 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
18 2 (0.24%) Perl
Qualifications
1 130 (15.59%) Security Cleared
2 114 (13.67%) SC Cleared
3 106 (12.71%) Degree
4 55 (6.59%) AWS Certification
5 32 (3.84%) CISSP
6 28 (3.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 27 (3.24%) CISM
8 24 (2.88%) Azure Certification
9 20 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.32%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (1.08%) CREST Certified
12 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.08%) OSCP
13 8 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 8 (0.96%) CCSP
14 6 (0.72%) Dell Certification
14 6 (0.72%) GIAC
15 5 (0.60%) CRISC
15 5 (0.60%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (7.79%) Data Quality
2 40 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 40 (4.80%) NIST
3 26 (3.12%) Accessibility
4 24 (2.88%) NCSC
5 22 (2.64%) GDPR
6 16 (1.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 13 (1.56%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (1.20%) QA
9 6 (0.72%) PMO
10 5 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.60%) GRC
10 5 (0.60%) SLA
11 4 (0.48%) Def Stans
11 4 (0.48%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.48%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 144 (17.27%) Docker
2 9 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.96%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.72%) vSphere
5 5 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.36%) Firmware
7 2 (0.24%) KVM
8 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 226 (27.10%) Kubernetes
2 104 (12.47%) Grafana
3 31 (3.72%) Ansible
4 22 (2.64%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.08%) Puppet
6 7 (0.84%) Istio
6 7 (0.84%) Podman
7 6 (0.72%) Avamar
7 6 (0.72%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.72%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.72%) VxRail
8 5 (0.60%) CASB
9 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.36%) Argo
10 3 (0.36%) linkerd
10 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.24%) Cilium
12 1 (0.12%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 177 (21.22%) Google
2 101 (12.11%) Microsoft
3 33 (3.96%) Adobe
4 28 (3.36%) ServiceNow
5 25 (3.00%) Apple
6 21 (2.52%) Databricks
7 17 (2.04%) Dynatrace
8 16 (1.92%) Splunk
9 15 (1.80%) Informatica
9 15 (1.80%) Okta
9 15 (1.80%) OpenAI
9 15 (1.80%) Ping Identity
10 13 (1.56%) VMware
11 12 (1.44%) SAP
12 11 (1.32%) New Relic
13 10 (1.20%) Oracle
14 9 (1.08%) Cisco
14 9 (1.08%) Typelevel
15 8 (0.96%) Palo Alto
16 7 (0.84%) Dell