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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 61 67
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 -30
Permanent jobs citing GCP 824 842 978
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.59% 5.08% 3.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.53% 14.16% 9.72%
Number of salaries quoted 470 420 762
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,125 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,313 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £86,126 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% -9.34% +18.75%
75th Percentile £94,688 £132,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £112,975 £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 8,648 5,948 10,060
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.72% 35.92% 40.78%
Number of salaries quoted 6,292 4,361 7,767
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,489 £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 £81,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 20 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 13 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.09%) Apache
2 9 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.61%) Confluence
3 5 (0.61%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.49%) Camunda
5 3 (0.36%) CMS
5 3 (0.36%) WordPress
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Appian
6 1 (0.12%) Drupal
6 1 (0.12%) IIS
6 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.12%) nginx
6 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.12%) Trello
4 1 (0.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (2.91%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Shopify
3 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 659 (79.98%) AWS
2 523 (63.47%) Azure
3 90 (10.92%) SaaS
4 57 (6.92%) Amazon EKS
5 36 (4.37%) GitHub
5 36 (4.37%) Power Platform
6 33 (4.00%) Cloud Run
7 29 (3.52%) Serverless
8 27 (3.28%) dbt
9 24 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (2.67%) Cloud Functions
11 22 (2.67%) Google Analytics
12 21 (2.55%) Snowflake
13 20 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (2.31%) Anthropic Claude
15 18 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
16 17 (2.06%) Firebase
17 16 (1.94%) Datadog
17 16 (1.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 72 (8.74%) Broadband
2 34 (4.13%) Network Security
3 22 (2.67%) Firewall
3 22 (2.67%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.31%) WAN
5 12 (1.46%) SD-WAN
6 11 (1.33%) LAN
6 11 (1.33%) VPN
7 8 (0.97%) DNS
7 8 (0.97%) LTE
8 7 (0.85%) Internet
9 6 (0.73%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (0.73%) HTTP
9 6 (0.73%) iSCSI
10 5 (0.61%) BGP
11 4 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.49%) SSH
11 4 (0.49%) Wireless
12 3 (0.36%) MPLS
12 3 (0.36%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (7.89%) BigQuery
2 48 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
3 37 (4.49%) NoSQL
4 34 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (4.13%) Power BI
5 29 (3.52%) MongoDB
6 23 (2.79%) Data Lake
6 23 (2.79%) Looker
6 23 (2.79%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.43%) Semantic Layer
8 19 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 17 (2.06%) Pinecone
9 17 (2.06%) Tableau
10 10 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (1.21%) Metadata
10 10 (1.21%) MySQL
11 6 (0.73%) SAP HANA
12 5 (0.61%) Data Vault
12 5 (0.61%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (7.16%) Git
2 48 (5.83%) TeamCity
3 42 (5.10%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.94%) JIRA
5 13 (1.58%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.46%) CircleCI
7 9 (1.09%) 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%) TestRail
9 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.36%) Zephyr
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
General
1 255 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 214 (25.97%) Finance
3 175 (21.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 131 (15.90%) Law
5 112 (13.59%) Banking
6 87 (10.56%) Retail
7 83 (10.07%) Public Sector
8 76 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
9 48 (5.83%) Financial Institution
10 47 (5.70%) Back Office
11 38 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (2.91%) Legal
12 24 (2.91%) Marketing
13 8 (0.97%) Front Office
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%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 226 (27.43%) Senior
2 180 (21.84%) Software Engineer
3 136 (16.50%) Architect
4 74 (8.98%) Lead
5 68 (8.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 53 (6.43%) Developer
7 52 (6.31%) Analyst
8 49 (5.95%) Python Engineer
9 45 (5.46%) GCP Engineer
10 44 (5.34%) Data Engineer
11 41 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
12 33 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
13 32 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
14 29 (3.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 29 (3.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 28 (3.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 27 (3.28%) Consultant
16 27 (3.28%) Lead Software Engineer
16 27 (3.28%) Site Engineer
17 26 (3.16%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (23.54%) Terraform
2 89 (10.80%) React
3 61 (7.40%) Node.js
4 50 (6.07%) REST
5 37 (4.49%) .NET
6 35 (4.25%) Kafka
6 35 (4.25%) LangChain
7 31 (3.76%) gRPC
8 30 (3.64%) Spring
9 24 (2.91%) FastAPI
9 24 (2.91%) OAuth
10 22 (2.67%) Django
10 22 (2.67%) Spring Boot
11 21 (2.55%) RESTful
12 20 (2.43%) LangGraph
12 20 (2.43%) PyTorch
13 19 (2.31%) OpenID
14 18 (2.18%) AngularJS
15 17 (2.06%) OAuth2
15 17 (2.06%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 213 (25.85%) Cloud Native
2 88 (10.68%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (9.95%) Product Ownership
4 49 (5.95%) AI Agents
5 32 (3.88%) Video\Live Streaming
6 28 (3.40%) Over-the-Top Content
7 24 (2.91%) Distributed Architecture
8 22 (2.67%) Public Cloud
8 22 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (2.55%) Security Posture
10 17 (2.06%) Blog
10 17 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.94%) Onboarding
12 15 (1.82%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.82%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.70%) Management Information System
13 14 (1.70%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.58%) Social Media
15 12 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.31%) Linux
2 18 (2.18%) Unix
3 16 (1.94%) 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
1 338 (41.02%) CI/CD
2 306 (37.14%) Software Engineering
3 252 (30.58%) Mentoring
4 251 (30.46%) AI
5 223 (27.06%) Agile
6 188 (22.82%) DevOps
7 157 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 150 (18.20%) Microservices
9 143 (17.35%) Roadmaps
10 142 (17.23%) Technical Leadership
11 140 (16.99%) Containerisation
11 140 (16.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 134 (16.26%) Machine Learning
13 132 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
13 132 (16.02%) Test Automation
14 116 (14.08%) Observability
15 114 (13.83%) Clean Code
16 109 (13.23%) Coaching
17 106 (12.86%) Analytics
18 88 (10.68%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 301 (36.53%) Python
2 165 (20.02%) Java
3 129 (15.66%) SQL
4 102 (12.38%) JavaScript
5 77 (9.34%) Go
6 66 (8.01%) TypeScript
7 40 (4.85%) C#
8 37 (4.49%) Scala
9 20 (2.43%) Bash
10 18 (2.18%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.46%) 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%) R
16 3 (0.36%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.36%) Perl
16 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 130 (15.78%) Security Cleared
2 113 (13.71%) SC Cleared
3 107 (12.99%) Degree
4 52 (6.31%) AWS Certification
5 29 (3.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 29 (3.52%) CISSP
6 24 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.79%) CISM
8 21 (2.55%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.70%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (1.09%) CREST Certified
11 9 (1.09%) OSCP
12 6 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.73%) CCSP
12 6 (0.73%) Dell Certification
13 5 (0.61%) CCIE
13 5 (0.61%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.37%) NIST
3 33 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (3.64%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.55%) NCSC
6 20 (2.43%) QA
7 17 (2.06%) GDPR
8 14 (1.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 10 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (1.21%) GRC
10 7 (0.85%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.73%) PMO
11 6 (0.73%) SLA
12 5 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.49%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.49%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 177 (21.48%) Docker
2 16 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.73%) vSphere
6 4 (0.49%) Active Directory
7 2 (0.24%) Firmware
7 2 (0.24%) KVM
Systems Management
1 194 (23.54%) Kubernetes
2 73 (8.86%) Grafana
3 36 (4.37%) Ansible
4 16 (1.94%) 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 (20.27%) Google
2 107 (12.99%) Microsoft
3 30 (3.64%) Adobe
4 27 (3.28%) Typelevel
5 25 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.91%) Apple
7 22 (2.67%) Databricks
8 17 (2.06%) Okta
9 16 (1.94%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.82%) Ping Identity
10 15 (1.82%) SAP
11 14 (1.70%) Informatica
11 14 (1.70%) VMware
12 12 (1.46%) Splunk
13 10 (1.21%) Cisco
13 10 (1.21%) Oracle
14 9 (1.09%) New Relic
14 9 (1.09%) OpenAI
14 9 (1.09%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.97%) Confluent