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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 56 58
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -8
Permanent jobs citing GCP 600 828 1,387
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.65% 5.33% 5.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.69% 11.40% 11.00%
Number of salaries quoted 386 604 1,185
10th Percentile £48,250 £55,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £96,539
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -3.23%

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 6,192 7,265 12,610
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.65% 46.79% 45.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,250 4,751 11,033
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £35,235
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 19 February 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 59 (9.83%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (5.67%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.17%) Apache
3 13 (2.17%) Confluence
4 7 (1.17%) IIS
5 5 (0.83%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.50%) SAS
7 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.33%) WordPress
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Strapi
Applications
1 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.50%) Trello
3 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.17%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 508 (84.67%) AWS
2 389 (64.83%) Azure
3 125 (20.83%) SaaS
4 56 (9.33%) dbt
5 54 (9.00%) Amazon EKS
6 50 (8.33%) GitHub
7 35 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 34 (5.67%) Power Platform
8 34 (5.67%) Snowflake
9 28 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
10 27 (4.50%) Serverless
11 23 (3.83%) Vertex AI
12 19 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
13 17 (2.83%) Google Analytics
14 15 (2.50%) Azure Machine Learning
14 15 (2.50%) Dagster
15 14 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (2.33%) Entra ID
16 13 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
16 13 (2.17%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 33 (5.50%) Broadband
2 24 (4.00%) Firewall
3 16 (2.67%) Network Security
4 15 (2.50%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.33%) DNS
5 14 (2.33%) VPN
6 10 (1.67%) WAN
7 8 (1.33%) DHCP
7 8 (1.33%) LAN
8 6 (1.00%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.67%) SSL
10 3 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (0.50%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.50%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.50%) MQTT
10 3 (0.50%) SCCP
11 2 (0.33%) AMQP
11 2 (0.33%) Wireless
12 1 (0.17%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (13.00%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (12.83%) BigQuery
3 47 (7.83%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (6.67%) Metadata
5 39 (6.50%) NoSQL
6 32 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
7 29 (4.83%) Tableau
8 27 (4.50%) Looker
8 27 (4.50%) Power BI
9 24 (4.00%) Apache Iceberg
10 21 (3.50%) Data Lake
11 18 (3.00%) SQL Server
12 17 (2.83%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (2.83%) MySQL
13 16 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (2.67%) Redis
14 15 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (2.33%) Apache Arrow
15 14 (2.33%) Dremio
16 13 (2.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 52 (8.67%) TeamCity
2 33 (5.50%) Git
3 30 (5.00%) GitLab
4 22 (3.67%) JIRA
5 16 (2.67%) Jenkins
6 12 (2.00%) MLflow
7 9 (1.50%) Subversion
8 8 (1.33%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.33%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.17%) Storybook
10 5 (0.83%) git-flow
11 4 (0.67%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.67%) ERwin
11 4 (0.67%) PowerDesigner
12 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.50%) webpack
13 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.33%) Mocha
13 2 (0.33%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.33%) SonarQube
General
1 196 (32.67%) Social Skills
2 188 (31.33%) Finance
3 112 (18.67%) Law
4 98 (16.33%) Retail
5 95 (15.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 89 (14.83%) Banking
7 64 (10.67%) Public Sector
8 52 (8.67%) Financial Institution
9 49 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
10 45 (7.50%) Back Office
11 37 (6.17%) Telecoms
12 27 (4.50%) Legal
13 23 (3.83%) Front Office
14 15 (2.50%) Manufacturing
14 15 (2.50%) Marketing
15 13 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
18 7 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 183 (30.50%) Senior
2 129 (21.50%) Software Engineer
3 89 (14.83%) Developer
4 83 (13.83%) Architect
5 69 (11.50%) Lead
6 48 (8.00%) Data Engineer
7 33 (5.50%) Consultant
8 32 (5.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 29 (4.83%) Engineering Manager
9 29 (4.83%) Software Developer
10 28 (4.67%) Analyst
10 28 (4.67%) Data Architect
10 28 (4.67%) Python Engineer
11 26 (4.33%) Full-Stack Developer
12 25 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
13 24 (4.00%) .NET Developer
13 24 (4.00%) .NET Software Developer
13 24 (4.00%) Senior Consultant
14 23 (3.83%) Python Software Engineer
14 23 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (17.50%) React
2 70 (11.67%) Kafka
3 69 (11.50%) Node.js
4 60 (10.00%) .NET
5 43 (7.17%) RESTful
6 34 (5.67%) gRPC
7 28 (4.67%) Vue
8 27 (4.50%) AngularJS
9 26 (4.33%) Django
10 20 (3.33%) Spring
11 19 (3.17%) OAuth
11 19 (3.17%) REST
12 18 (3.00%) CSS
13 17 (2.83%) HTML
13 17 (2.83%) PyTorch
13 17 (2.83%) Redux
13 17 (2.83%) Spring Boot
13 17 (2.83%) TensorFlow
14 16 (2.67%) Pandas
14 16 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 145 (24.17%) Cloud Native
2 81 (13.50%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (9.50%) Product Ownership
4 28 (4.67%) Blog
5 22 (3.67%) Fixed Income
6 20 (3.33%) Public Cloud
6 20 (3.33%) Video\Live Streaming
7 18 (3.00%) Equities
7 18 (3.00%) Over-the-Top Content
8 17 (2.83%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.83%) Distributed Architecture
9 14 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (2.33%) Security Posture
10 12 (2.00%) AI Agents
10 12 (2.00%) Mobile App
10 12 (2.00%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.83%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.83%) Social Media
12 10 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 46 (7.67%) Linux
2 26 (4.33%) Windows
3 24 (4.00%) Android
4 23 (3.83%) Unix
5 15 (2.50%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.00%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.50%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.17%) CentOS
9 1 (0.17%) Debian
9 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (42.50%) CI/CD
2 215 (35.83%) Software Engineering
3 183 (30.50%) Agile
4 175 (29.17%) DevOps
5 156 (26.00%) AI
6 149 (24.83%) Microservices
7 135 (22.50%) Mentoring
8 118 (19.67%) Roadmaps
9 115 (19.17%) Containerisation
10 106 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
11 104 (17.33%) Clean Code
12 96 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 88 (14.67%) Test Automation
14 87 (14.50%) Computer Science
15 86 (14.33%) Machine Learning
16 84 (14.00%) Coaching
17 82 (13.67%) Analytics
18 74 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
19 73 (12.17%) Data Science
20 72 (12.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 206 (34.33%) Python
2 157 (26.17%) Java
3 116 (19.33%) TypeScript
4 105 (17.50%) SQL
5 93 (15.50%) JavaScript
6 77 (12.83%) Go
7 42 (7.00%) Scala
8 37 (6.17%) C#
9 26 (4.33%) Bash
10 16 (2.67%) C++
11 15 (2.50%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.17%) PHP
13 6 (1.00%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.00%) Rust
14 5 (0.83%) R
14 5 (0.83%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.33%) Ruby
15 2 (0.33%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.17%) Korn
Qualifications
1 106 (17.67%) Degree
2 68 (11.33%) Security Cleared
3 63 (10.50%) SC Cleared
4 61 (10.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.50%) CISSP
6 13 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 13 (2.17%) CREST Certified
6 13 (2.17%) OSCP
7 11 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.00%) CISM
9 5 (0.83%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.83%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.83%) OSCE
10 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.67%) CEH
10 4 (0.67%) GIAC
10 4 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.50%) CISA
11 3 (0.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (5.17%) GDPR
3 28 (4.67%) Data Quality
3 28 (4.67%) QA
4 20 (3.33%) NIST
5 19 (3.17%) SOC 2
6 18 (3.00%) Accessibility
7 16 (2.67%) GRC
8 14 (2.33%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.00%) EU AI Act
10 5 (0.83%) SLA
11 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.33%) ISO 14001
12 2 (0.33%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.33%) SEPA
12 2 (0.33%) SOC 1
System Software
1 134 (22.33%) Docker
2 20 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (0.50%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.17%) Firmware
5 1 (0.17%) HDFS
5 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 171 (28.50%) Kubernetes
2 156 (26.00%) Terraform
3 77 (12.83%) Grafana
4 48 (8.00%) Ansible
5 28 (4.67%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.50%) Argo
7 8 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.00%) Puppet
9 5 (0.83%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.67%) Cilium
10 4 (0.67%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.50%) cPanel
11 3 (0.50%) Plesk
12 2 (0.33%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.17%) CASB
13 1 (0.17%) Icinga
13 1 (0.17%) Nagios
13 1 (0.17%) Nessus
13 1 (0.17%) Nmap
Vendors
1 141 (23.50%) Google
2 49 (8.17%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.17%) Databricks
4 18 (3.00%) Typelevel
5 14 (2.33%) Palantir
6 13 (2.17%) Atlassian
7 10 (1.67%) Adobe
7 10 (1.67%) Oracle
8 9 (1.50%) Informatica
8 9 (1.50%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.50%) SAP
9 8 (1.33%) Foundry
9 8 (1.33%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.17%) Sage
10 7 (1.17%) VMware
11 6 (1.00%) Talend
12 5 (0.83%) Mavenir
12 5 (0.83%) Splunk
12 5 (0.83%) Xamarin
12 5 (0.83%) Zoho