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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 55 61
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 -12
Permanent jobs citing GCP 603 787 1,362
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.67% 5.25% 4.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.75% 11.22% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 374 585 1,165
10th Percentile £46,500 £55,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £64,579 £66,250 £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 £103,750 £97,290
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,250 £118,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -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 6,184 7,017 12,739
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.61% 46.79% 45.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,209 4,682 11,146
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
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 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -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 27 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 51 (8.46%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (5.47%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.16%) Confluence
4 12 (1.99%) Apache
5 7 (1.16%) IIS
6 5 (0.83%) Apache Pulsar
7 4 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.50%) SAS
8 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.33%) WordPress
10 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (0.66%) 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 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 511 (84.74%) AWS
2 390 (64.68%) Azure
3 119 (19.73%) SaaS
4 54 (8.96%) Amazon EKS
5 48 (7.96%) dbt
5 48 (7.96%) GitHub
6 35 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 35 (5.80%) Snowflake
7 32 (5.31%) Power Platform
8 28 (4.64%) Serverless
9 27 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
10 23 (3.81%) Vertex AI
11 20 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (2.65%) Azure Machine Learning
12 16 (2.65%) Dagster
12 16 (2.65%) Google Analytics
13 15 (2.49%) Entra ID
14 14 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (2.16%) Azure Service Bus
15 13 (2.16%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 41 (6.80%) Broadband
2 23 (3.81%) Firewall
3 15 (2.49%) DNS
3 15 (2.49%) Network Security
3 15 (2.49%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.16%) VPN
5 10 (1.66%) WAN
6 9 (1.49%) DHCP
7 8 (1.33%) LAN
8 6 (1.00%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.66%) MQTT
9 4 (0.66%) SSL
10 3 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (0.50%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.50%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.50%) SCCP
11 2 (0.33%) AMQP
11 2 (0.33%) Wireless
12 1 (0.17%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (12.44%) BigQuery
2 72 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (7.30%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (6.47%) Metadata
5 38 (6.30%) NoSQL
6 31 (5.14%) Elasticsearch
7 28 (4.64%) Tableau
8 26 (4.31%) Looker
9 25 (4.15%) Power BI
10 19 (3.15%) Data Lake
11 18 (2.99%) SQL Server
12 17 (2.82%) Apache Iceberg
13 16 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (2.65%) MySQL
13 16 (2.65%) Redis
14 15 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (2.32%) MongoDB
16 12 (1.99%) Semantic Layer
17 10 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
17 10 (1.66%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 52 (8.62%) TeamCity
2 32 (5.31%) Git
3 30 (4.98%) GitLab
4 20 (3.32%) JIRA
5 16 (2.65%) Jenkins
6 12 (1.99%) MLflow
7 9 (1.49%) Subversion
8 8 (1.33%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.16%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.16%) Storybook
10 5 (0.83%) git-flow
11 4 (0.66%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.66%) ERwin
11 4 (0.66%) PowerDesigner
12 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.33%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.33%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.33%) webpack
14 1 (0.17%) Gradle
14 1 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 198 (32.84%) Social Skills
2 182 (30.18%) Finance
3 114 (18.91%) Law
4 97 (16.09%) Retail
5 96 (15.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 89 (14.76%) Banking
7 69 (11.44%) Public Sector
8 52 (8.62%) Financial Institution
9 50 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
10 45 (7.46%) Back Office
11 37 (6.14%) Telecoms
12 29 (4.81%) Legal
13 20 (3.32%) Front Office
14 15 (2.49%) Manufacturing
14 15 (2.49%) Marketing
15 14 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 186 (30.85%) Senior
2 132 (21.89%) Software Engineer
3 84 (13.93%) Architect
4 80 (13.27%) Developer
5 74 (12.27%) Lead
6 49 (8.13%) Data Engineer
7 36 (5.97%) Consultant
8 33 (5.47%) Senior Software Engineer
9 27 (4.48%) Analyst
9 27 (4.48%) Data Architect
10 25 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
10 25 (4.15%) Full-Stack Developer
10 25 (4.15%) Senior Consultant
10 25 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
11 24 (3.98%) Lead Software Engineer
12 23 (3.81%) Engineering Manager
12 23 (3.81%) Python Engineer
12 23 (3.81%) Software Developer
13 22 (3.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 22 (3.65%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (16.42%) React
2 72 (11.94%) Kafka
3 63 (10.45%) Node.js
4 53 (8.79%) .NET
5 43 (7.13%) gRPC
5 43 (7.13%) RESTful
6 28 (4.64%) Django
7 23 (3.81%) Vue
8 22 (3.65%) Spring
9 21 (3.48%) AngularJS
10 20 (3.32%) OAuth
10 20 (3.32%) Redux
10 20 (3.32%) REST
11 19 (3.15%) Spring Boot
12 18 (2.99%) CSS
13 17 (2.82%) HTML
13 17 (2.82%) PyTorch
13 17 (2.82%) TensorFlow
14 16 (2.65%) RabbitMQ
15 14 (2.32%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 148 (24.54%) Cloud Native
2 88 (14.59%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (9.45%) Product Ownership
4 29 (4.81%) Video\Live Streaming
5 28 (4.64%) Blog
6 27 (4.48%) Over-the-Top Content
7 21 (3.48%) Public Cloud
8 19 (3.15%) Fixed Income
9 17 (2.82%) Data Structures
10 16 (2.65%) Distributed Architecture
11 15 (2.49%) Security Posture
12 13 (2.16%) Equities
12 13 (2.16%) Management Information System
13 12 (1.99%) AI Agents
13 12 (1.99%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.82%) Onboarding
14 11 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (1.66%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 47 (7.79%) Linux
2 27 (4.48%) Windows
3 24 (3.98%) Android
4 22 (3.65%) Unix
5 15 (2.49%) 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
1 264 (43.78%) CI/CD
2 218 (36.15%) Software Engineering
3 179 (29.68%) DevOps
4 178 (29.52%) Agile
5 160 (26.53%) Microservices
6 154 (25.54%) AI
7 140 (23.22%) Mentoring
8 125 (20.73%) Containerisation
9 112 (18.57%) Clean Code
9 112 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
10 111 (18.41%) Roadmaps
11 98 (16.25%) Coaching
11 98 (16.25%) Infrastructure as Code
12 97 (16.09%) Machine Learning
13 94 (15.59%) Test Automation
14 88 (14.59%) Computer Science
15 81 (13.43%) Analytics
15 81 (13.43%) Data Science
16 79 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
17 71 (11.77%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 212 (35.16%) Python
2 160 (26.53%) Java
3 106 (17.58%) TypeScript
4 105 (17.41%) SQL
5 88 (14.59%) Go
6 84 (13.93%) JavaScript
7 48 (7.96%) Scala
8 36 (5.97%) C#
9 26 (4.31%) Bash
10 16 (2.65%) C++
11 15 (2.49%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.16%) PHP
12 7 (1.16%) Rust
13 6 (1.00%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.83%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.50%) R
16 2 (0.33%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.33%) Ruby
16 2 (0.33%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.17%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 109 (18.08%) Degree
2 74 (12.27%) Security Cleared
3 68 (11.28%) SC Cleared
4 61 (10.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.99%) CISSP
6 15 (2.49%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.16%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.16%) CREST Certified
7 13 (2.16%) OSCP
8 11 (1.82%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.00%) CISM
10 5 (0.83%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.83%) GIAC
10 5 (0.83%) OSCE
11 4 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.66%) CEH
11 4 (0.66%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.66%) ISACA
11 4 (0.66%) SANS
11 4 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (5.31%) GDPR
2 32 (5.31%) QA
3 26 (4.31%) Data Quality
4 21 (3.48%) NIST
5 19 (3.15%) SOC 2
6 16 (2.65%) Accessibility
6 16 (2.65%) GRC
7 14 (2.32%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.00%) EU AI Act
9 5 (0.83%) SLA
10 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.33%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.33%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.33%) SEPA
11 2 (0.33%) SOC 1
System Software
1 148 (24.54%) Docker
2 21 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (0.50%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 173 (28.69%) Kubernetes
2 154 (25.54%) Terraform
3 77 (12.77%) Grafana
4 48 (7.96%) Ansible
5 28 (4.64%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.49%) Argo
7 8 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.83%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (0.83%) Puppet
9 4 (0.66%) Cilium
9 4 (0.66%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.50%) cPanel
10 3 (0.50%) Plesk
11 2 (0.33%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.17%) CASB
12 1 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.17%) Icinga
12 1 (0.17%) Nessus
12 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 143 (23.71%) Google
2 51 (8.46%) Microsoft
3 32 (5.31%) Databricks
4 27 (4.48%) Typelevel
5 14 (2.32%) Palantir
6 13 (2.16%) Atlassian
7 11 (1.82%) Oracle
8 10 (1.66%) Adobe
8 10 (1.66%) SAP
9 9 (1.49%) Foundry
9 9 (1.49%) Informatica
9 9 (1.49%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.33%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.16%) Sage
11 7 (1.16%) VMware
12 6 (1.00%) Talend
13 5 (0.83%) Dell
13 5 (0.83%) Nokia
13 5 (0.83%) Splunk
13 5 (0.83%) Zoho