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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 61 65
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 -28
Permanent jobs citing GCP 824 840 980
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.60% 5.09% 3.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.52% 14.17% 9.70%
Number of salaries quoted 468 418 760
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,875 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,938 £68,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,253 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% -10.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £95,000 £132,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £113,425 £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 8,659 5,930 10,106
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.82% 35.96% 40.82%
Number of salaries quoted 6,293 4,346 7,812
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £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 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
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 19 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
2 524 (63.59%) 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%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 15 (1.82%) Entra ID
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%) Power BI
5 33 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (3.52%) MongoDB
7 23 (2.79%) Data Lake
7 23 (2.79%) Looker
7 23 (2.79%) SQL Server
8 20 (2.43%) Semantic Layer
9 19 (2.31%) Relational Database
10 17 (2.06%) Pinecone
10 17 (2.06%) Tableau
11 10 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.21%) Metadata
11 10 (1.21%) MySQL
12 6 (0.73%) SAP HANA
13 5 (0.61%) Data Vault
13 5 (0.61%) DynamoDB
13 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
2 215 (26.09%) Finance
3 175 (21.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 131 (15.90%) Law
5 111 (13.47%) Banking
6 87 (10.56%) Retail
7 85 (10.32%) Public Sector
8 74 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
9 48 (5.83%) Financial Institution
10 47 (5.70%) Back Office
11 37 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (3.16%) Legal
13 24 (2.91%) Marketing
14 8 (0.97%) Front Office
15 7 (0.85%) Advertising
15 7 (0.85%) Legal Technology
15 7 (0.85%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.61%) Games
17 4 (0.49%) French Language
17 4 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 227 (27.55%) Senior
2 180 (21.84%) Software Engineer
3 137 (16.63%) Architect
4 74 (8.98%) Lead
5 67 (8.13%) 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 42 (5.10%) 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%) Consultant
16 27 (3.28%) Lead Software Engineer
16 27 (3.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 26 (3.16%) Principal Engineer
17 26 (3.16%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (10.80%) React
2 61 (7.40%) Node.js
3 50 (6.07%) REST
4 37 (4.49%) .NET
5 35 (4.25%) Kafka
5 35 (4.25%) LangChain
6 31 (3.76%) gRPC
7 30 (3.64%) Spring
8 24 (2.91%) FastAPI
8 24 (2.91%) OAuth
9 22 (2.67%) Django
9 22 (2.67%) Spring Boot
10 21 (2.55%) RESTful
11 20 (2.43%) LangGraph
11 20 (2.43%) PyTorch
12 19 (2.31%) OpenID
13 18 (2.18%) AngularJS
14 17 (2.06%) OAuth2
14 17 (2.06%) TensorFlow
14 17 (2.06%) Vue
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%) Management Information System
11 16 (1.94%) Onboarding
12 15 (1.82%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.82%) Data Structures
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
3 253 (30.70%) Mentoring
4 250 (30.34%) AI
5 224 (27.18%) Agile
6 190 (23.06%) DevOps
7 156 (18.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 150 (18.20%) Microservices
9 144 (17.48%) Technical Leadership
10 142 (17.23%) Roadmaps
11 140 (16.99%) Containerisation
11 140 (16.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 134 (16.26%) Test Automation
13 133 (16.14%) Machine Learning
14 131 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
15 115 (13.96%) Observability
16 114 (13.83%) Clean Code
17 111 (13.47%) Coaching
18 105 (12.74%) Analytics
19 87 (10.56%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 299 (36.29%) Python
2 165 (20.02%) Java
3 128 (15.53%) 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 17 (2.06%) 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
1 132 (16.02%) Security Cleared
2 115 (13.96%) SC Cleared
3 107 (12.99%) Degree
4 52 (6.31%) AWS Certification
5 31 (3.76%) CISSP
6 29 (3.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.79%) CISM
9 21 (2.55%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.70%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.09%) CREST Certified
12 9 (1.09%) OSCP
13 6 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.73%) CCSP
13 6 (0.73%) Dell Certification
14 5 (0.61%) CCIE
14 5 (0.61%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.55%) 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 19 (2.31%) 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
2 193 (23.42%) Terraform
3 72 (8.74%) Grafana
4 35 (4.25%) Ansible
5 16 (1.94%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.82%) Istio
7 13 (1.58%) Podman
8 12 (1.46%) Puppet
9 6 (0.73%) Avamar
9 6 (0.73%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.73%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.73%) VxRail
10 5 (0.61%) CASB
10 5 (0.61%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.36%) Argo
12 3 (0.36%) linkerd
13 2 (0.24%) Packer
14 1 (0.12%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 169 (20.51%) 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 15 (1.82%) Dynatrace
9 15 (1.82%) Ping Identity
9 15 (1.82%) SAP
10 14 (1.70%) Informatica
10 14 (1.70%) VMware
11 12 (1.46%) Splunk
12 11 (1.33%) Oracle
13 10 (1.21%) Cisco
14 9 (1.09%) New Relic
14 9 (1.09%) OpenAI
14 9 (1.09%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.97%) Confluent