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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 47 79
Rank change year-on-year -16 +32 -41
Permanent jobs citing GCP 713 939 1,211
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.70% 6.32% 3.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.74% 16.24% 8.51%
Number of salaries quoted 355 497 1,031
10th Percentile £52,775 £51,698 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £78,126
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +9.12% +0.81%
75th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +3.23% -3.13%

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 7,319 5,782 14,236
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.03% 38.95% 42.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5,022 4,188 12,023
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,599 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,104 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 4 June 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 41 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (3.37%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.70%) Apache
3 5 (0.70%) Confluence
4 3 (0.42%) SAS
5 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.28%) Camunda
5 2 (0.28%) CMS
5 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.14%) Drupal
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.14%) nginx
6 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (3.37%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.28%) Shopify
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 573 (80.36%) AWS
2 417 (58.49%) Azure
3 82 (11.50%) SaaS
4 67 (9.40%) Amazon EKS
5 29 (4.07%) Serverless
6 28 (3.93%) Snowflake
7 25 (3.51%) dbt
7 25 (3.51%) Vertex AI
8 23 (3.23%) Power Platform
9 21 (2.95%) Cloud Run
10 20 (2.81%) Entra ID
10 20 (2.81%) GitHub
11 19 (2.66%) Dagster
11 19 (2.66%) Google Analytics
12 17 (2.38%) Cloud Functions
12 17 (2.38%) PaaS
13 16 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (2.10%) Azure Machine Learning
14 15 (2.10%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 95 (13.32%) Broadband
2 22 (3.09%) Network Security
3 19 (2.66%) Firewall
4 17 (2.38%) WAN
5 13 (1.82%) DNS
5 13 (1.82%) LAN
6 10 (1.40%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.26%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.26%) VPN
8 8 (1.12%) Internet
9 7 (0.98%) LTE
10 6 (0.84%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (0.84%) iSCSI
11 5 (0.70%) DHCP
11 5 (0.70%) SSL
11 5 (0.70%) Wireless
12 4 (0.56%) MQTT
13 3 (0.42%) BGP
13 3 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (0.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (13.32%) BigQuery
2 56 (7.85%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (4.91%) Metadata
4 31 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 27 (3.79%) Looker
5 27 (3.79%) MongoDB
6 26 (3.65%) Semantic Layer
7 24 (3.37%) Data Lake
8 20 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (2.66%) Tableau
10 18 (2.52%) Power BI
11 17 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (2.38%) Relational Database
12 13 (1.82%) Pinecone
13 11 (1.54%) Delta Lake
14 10 (1.40%) Apache Iceberg
15 9 (1.26%) Weaviate
16 8 (1.12%) SQL Server
17 6 (0.84%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 54 (7.57%) TeamCity
2 36 (5.05%) Git
3 24 (3.37%) Jenkins
4 16 (2.24%) CircleCI
4 16 (2.24%) GitLab
5 14 (1.96%) JIRA
6 12 (1.68%) Cypress.io
7 10 (1.40%) MLflow
8 6 (0.84%) Storybook
9 2 (0.28%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.28%) TestRail
9 2 (0.28%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.14%) Gatling
10 1 (0.14%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.14%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.14%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 184 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 177 (24.82%) Finance
3 165 (23.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 148 (20.76%) Law
5 114 (15.99%) Banking
6 91 (12.76%) Retail
7 79 (11.08%) Public Sector
8 49 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
9 41 (5.75%) Back Office
9 41 (5.75%) Financial Institution
10 26 (3.65%) Legal
11 22 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.24%) Front Office
13 10 (1.40%) Marketing
14 9 (1.26%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.70%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.42%) Aviation
19 2 (0.28%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 197 (27.63%) Senior
2 153 (21.46%) Software Engineer
3 118 (16.55%) Architect
4 61 (8.56%) Lead
5 58 (8.13%) Developer
6 56 (7.85%) Data Engineer
7 53 (7.43%) Analyst
8 46 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 40 (5.61%) Consultant
10 33 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
11 32 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
12 31 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 30 (4.21%) Lead Software Engineer
13 30 (4.21%) Scala Engineer
14 29 (4.07%) Senior Analyst
14 29 (4.07%) Senior Architect
15 27 (3.79%) Data Architect
16 24 (3.37%) Senior Consultant
17 23 (3.23%) Principal Engineer
17 23 (3.23%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (10.80%) React
2 67 (9.40%) Node.js
3 52 (7.29%) gRPC
4 51 (7.15%) Kafka
5 30 (4.21%) REST
6 29 (4.07%) Django
7 25 (3.51%) .NET
8 23 (3.23%) LangChain
9 21 (2.95%) RESTful
10 20 (2.81%) PyTorch
10 20 (2.81%) TensorFlow
11 18 (2.52%) FastAPI
11 18 (2.52%) Redux
11 18 (2.52%) Spring
12 15 (2.10%) Vue
13 14 (1.96%) OAuth
13 14 (1.96%) Playwright
13 14 (1.96%) Spring Boot
14 13 (1.82%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.82%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 195 (27.35%) Cloud Native
2 83 (11.64%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (11.36%) Product Ownership
4 46 (6.45%) Over-the-Top Content
4 46 (6.45%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (4.07%) Security Posture
6 27 (3.79%) Blog
7 26 (3.65%) Distributed Architecture
8 25 (3.51%) Public Cloud
9 23 (3.23%) Data Structures
10 22 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (2.95%) AI Agents
11 21 (2.95%) Onboarding
12 18 (2.52%) Management Information System
13 17 (2.38%) Social Media
14 16 (2.24%) Fixed Income
15 13 (1.82%) Mobile App
16 11 (1.54%) Data Centre
17 10 (1.40%) Cyberattack
18 9 (1.26%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.91%) Linux
2 18 (2.52%) Android
3 17 (2.38%) Windows
4 16 (2.24%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.26%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.70%) Unix
7 1 (0.14%) CentOS
7 1 (0.14%) Debian
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (41.37%) CI/CD
2 258 (36.19%) Software Engineering
3 209 (29.31%) Agile
4 192 (26.93%) Mentoring
5 186 (26.09%) AI
6 166 (23.28%) DevOps
7 159 (22.30%) Microservices
8 152 (21.32%) Containerisation
9 144 (20.20%) Roadmaps
10 137 (19.21%) Machine Learning
11 135 (18.93%) Clean Code
12 131 (18.37%) Test Automation
13 126 (17.67%) Coaching
14 118 (16.55%) Technical Leadership
15 114 (15.99%) Continuous Improvement
16 103 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
17 102 (14.31%) Infrastructure as Code
18 88 (12.34%) Data Science
19 84 (11.78%) Analytics
20 73 (10.24%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 265 (37.17%) Python
2 176 (24.68%) Java
3 109 (15.29%) Go
4 102 (14.31%) SQL
5 91 (12.76%) JavaScript
6 66 (9.26%) TypeScript
7 65 (9.12%) Scala
8 22 (3.09%) C#
9 20 (2.81%) Bash
10 17 (2.38%) C++
11 14 (1.96%) Rust
12 9 (1.26%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.70%) C
14 4 (0.56%) Ruby
15 3 (0.42%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.42%) Perl
15 3 (0.42%) PHP
16 2 (0.28%) ABAP
16 2 (0.28%) R
16 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 102 (14.31%) Degree
2 100 (14.03%) Security Cleared
3 82 (11.50%) SC Cleared
4 38 (5.33%) AWS Certification
5 29 (4.07%) CISSP
6 27 (3.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (2.24%) CREST Certified
8 16 (2.24%) OSCP
9 15 (2.10%) Azure Certification
9 15 (2.10%) CISM
10 11 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.40%) DV Cleared
12 8 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.98%) GIAC
14 6 (0.84%) CCSP
14 6 (0.84%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.84%) Dell Certification
15 5 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.63%) Accessibility
2 33 (4.63%) NIST
3 29 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (3.93%) QA
5 17 (2.38%) GDPR
6 16 (2.24%) GRC
7 10 (1.40%) NCSC
8 8 (1.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 8 (1.12%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.98%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.84%) PMO
11 5 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.42%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.42%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.42%) SLA
13 2 (0.28%) COBIT
13 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.28%) SEPA
13 2 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 161 (22.58%) Docker
2 13 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.26%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.98%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.84%) vSphere
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 162 (22.72%) Kubernetes
2 161 (22.58%) Terraform
3 73 (10.24%) Grafana
4 39 (5.47%) Ansible
5 17 (2.38%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.68%) Istio
6 12 (1.68%) Podman
6 12 (1.68%) Puppet
7 6 (0.84%) Avamar
7 6 (0.84%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.84%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.84%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.84%) VxRail
8 5 (0.70%) Argo
8 5 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.28%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.28%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 145 (20.34%) Google
2 93 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.31%) Typelevel
4 33 (4.63%) Adobe
5 24 (3.37%) Apple
5 24 (3.37%) Databricks
5 24 (3.37%) ServiceNow
6 14 (1.96%) VMware
7 12 (1.68%) SAP
8 11 (1.54%) Palantir
9 9 (1.26%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.26%) Oracle
10 8 (1.12%) Cisco
10 8 (1.12%) Confluent
10 8 (1.12%) Dell
10 8 (1.12%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.98%) Veeam
12 6 (0.84%) 3PAR
12 6 (0.84%) Foundry
12 6 (0.84%) Isilon