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

 6 months to
20 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 51 75
Rank change year-on-year 0 +24 -34
Permanent jobs citing GCP 695 722 1,281
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.90% 5.42% 3.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.25% 12.07% 9.15%
Number of salaries quoted 354 592 1,087
10th Percentile £54,650 £53,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £64,439 £67,500 £60,840
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,253 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +0.73%
75th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.45% -2.68%

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 6,781 5,981 13,995
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.04% 44.90% 43.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,566 4,688 12,036
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,188 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 20 April 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 47 (6.76%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.16%) Confluence
4 7 (1.01%) Apache
5 5 (0.72%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.43%) CMS
6 3 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.43%) SAS
6 3 (0.43%) WordPress
7 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Camunda
8 1 (0.14%) Drupal
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
8 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Strapi
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.43%) Trello
2 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Notion
Business Applications
1 12 (1.73%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.29%) Shopify
3 1 (0.14%) Magento
3 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 589 (84.75%) AWS
2 426 (61.29%) Azure
3 95 (13.67%) SaaS
4 70 (10.07%) Amazon EKS
5 41 (5.90%) GitHub
6 35 (5.04%) dbt
7 31 (4.46%) Serverless
8 28 (4.03%) Snowflake
9 27 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (3.88%) Power Platform
10 26 (3.74%) Entra ID
11 25 (3.60%) Vertex AI
12 23 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (3.17%) Google Analytics
14 19 (2.73%) Dagster
15 17 (2.45%) Cloud Run
16 16 (2.30%) Azure Machine Learning
16 16 (2.30%) Figma
17 15 (2.16%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 77 (11.08%) Broadband
2 21 (3.02%) Firewall
2 21 (3.02%) Network Security
3 15 (2.16%) DNS
3 15 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.01%) WAN
5 12 (1.73%) LAN
6 8 (1.15%) Internet
6 8 (1.15%) SD-WAN
6 8 (1.15%) VPN
7 7 (1.01%) LTE
7 7 (1.01%) SSL
8 5 (0.72%) DHCP
9 4 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.58%) MQTT
9 4 (0.58%) Wireless
10 3 (0.43%) Modbus
10 3 (0.43%) SCCP
10 3 (0.43%) WLAN
11 2 (0.29%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (11.94%) BigQuery
2 72 (10.36%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (7.19%) NoSQL
4 37 (5.32%) Metadata
5 33 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
6 27 (3.88%) Looker
6 27 (3.88%) MongoDB
7 22 (3.17%) Tableau
8 21 (3.02%) Power BI
9 18 (2.59%) Data Lake
10 17 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (2.45%) Relational Database
11 15 (2.16%) Redis
12 14 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (1.87%) Semantic Layer
14 10 (1.44%) Apache Iceberg
14 10 (1.44%) Delta Lake
14 10 (1.44%) MySQL
14 10 (1.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 60 (8.63%) TeamCity
2 43 (6.19%) Git
3 28 (4.03%) GitLab
4 26 (3.74%) JIRA
5 18 (2.59%) CircleCI
6 16 (2.30%) Jenkins
7 12 (1.73%) Cypress.io
7 12 (1.73%) MLflow
8 9 (1.29%) Subversion
9 8 (1.15%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.01%) Storybook
11 2 (0.29%) git-flow
11 2 (0.29%) Maven
11 2 (0.29%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.29%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.29%) TestRail
11 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.29%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.14%) JMeter
12 1 (0.14%) Metasploit
General
1 205 (29.50%) Social Skills
2 198 (28.49%) Finance
3 151 (21.73%) Law
4 141 (20.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 119 (17.12%) Banking
6 105 (15.11%) Retail
7 82 (11.80%) Public Sector
8 58 (8.35%) Financial Institution
9 56 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
10 54 (7.77%) Back Office
11 37 (5.32%) Telecoms
12 30 (4.32%) Legal
13 22 (3.17%) Marketing
14 18 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (2.45%) Front Office
15 17 (2.45%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
19 5 (0.72%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 218 (31.37%) Senior
2 155 (22.30%) Software Engineer
3 102 (14.68%) Architect
4 77 (11.08%) Lead
5 62 (8.92%) Developer
6 52 (7.48%) Data Engineer
7 42 (6.04%) Analyst
8 40 (5.76%) Consultant
9 39 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
10 34 (4.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 32 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (4.32%) Scala Engineer
13 29 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
13 29 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
14 27 (3.88%) Senior Consultant
15 26 (3.74%) Data Architect
16 25 (3.60%) Java Engineer
17 24 (3.45%) Python Engineer
17 24 (3.45%) Senior Architect
18 22 (3.17%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (14.68%) React
2 70 (10.07%) Kafka
3 67 (9.64%) Node.js
4 64 (9.21%) gRPC
5 41 (5.90%) RESTful
6 37 (5.32%) Django
7 36 (5.18%) REST
8 26 (3.74%) .NET
9 23 (3.31%) Redux
10 21 (3.02%) OAuth
11 20 (2.88%) Spring
12 18 (2.59%) CSS
12 18 (2.59%) HTML
12 18 (2.59%) React Native
12 18 (2.59%) Vue
13 17 (2.45%) FastAPI
14 16 (2.30%) AngularJS
14 16 (2.30%) PyTorch
14 16 (2.30%) TensorFlow
15 15 (2.16%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 184 (26.47%) Cloud Native
2 102 (14.68%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (10.79%) Product Ownership
4 47 (6.76%) Video\Live Streaming
5 46 (6.62%) Over-the-Top Content
6 30 (4.32%) Blog
7 27 (3.88%) Security Posture
8 26 (3.74%) Public Cloud
9 24 (3.45%) Data Structures
10 23 (3.31%) Distributed Architecture
11 22 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (2.88%) Onboarding
13 19 (2.73%) Management Information System
14 17 (2.45%) Mobile App
15 16 (2.30%) Fixed Income
16 14 (2.01%) AI Agents
17 12 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
18 10 (1.44%) Cyberattack
18 10 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
18 10 (1.44%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.76%) Linux
2 27 (3.88%) Android
3 25 (3.60%) Windows
4 18 (2.59%) Apple iOS
5 15 (2.16%) Unix
6 7 (1.01%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.86%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) Debian
9 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (45.32%) CI/CD
2 252 (36.26%) Software Engineering
3 192 (27.63%) DevOps
4 191 (27.48%) Agile
5 186 (26.76%) Microservices
6 171 (24.60%) Containerisation
7 163 (23.45%) AI
8 161 (23.17%) Mentoring
9 144 (20.72%) Clean Code
10 127 (18.27%) Roadmaps
11 126 (18.13%) Machine Learning
12 124 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
13 123 (17.70%) Coaching
14 120 (17.27%) Test Automation
15 116 (16.69%) Infrastructure as Code
16 115 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
17 92 (13.24%) Analytics
17 92 (13.24%) Data Science
18 84 (12.09%) Technical Leadership
19 83 (11.94%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 251 (36.12%) Python
2 179 (25.76%) Java
3 123 (17.70%) Go
4 103 (14.82%) SQL
5 88 (12.66%) JavaScript
6 78 (11.22%) TypeScript
7 64 (9.21%) Scala
8 27 (3.88%) Bash
9 26 (3.74%) C#
10 21 (3.02%) C++
11 13 (1.87%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.44%) Rust
13 7 (1.01%) PHP
14 6 (0.86%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.72%) Ruby
16 4 (0.58%) C
17 3 (0.43%) Objective-C
17 3 (0.43%) Perl
18 2 (0.29%) Shell Script
19 1 (0.14%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 127 (18.27%) Degree
2 90 (12.95%) Security Cleared
3 79 (11.37%) SC Cleared
4 55 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.88%) AWS Certification
6 23 (3.31%) CISSP
7 19 (2.73%) CREST Certified
7 19 (2.73%) OSCP
8 17 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (2.16%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.73%) CISM
11 9 (1.29%) DV Cleared
12 8 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (1.15%) OSCE
13 6 (0.86%) GIAC
13 6 (0.86%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.72%) ISACA
14 5 (0.72%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (4.89%) Accessibility
2 34 (4.89%) QA
3 27 (3.88%) GDPR
3 27 (3.88%) NIST
4 23 (3.31%) Data Quality
5 21 (3.02%) GRC
6 16 (2.30%) SOC 2
7 14 (2.01%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.86%) EU AI Act
9 6 (0.86%) SLA
10 4 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.58%) NCSC
11 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 2 (0.29%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.29%) SEPA
12 2 (0.29%) SOC 1
System Software
1 186 (26.76%) Docker
2 17 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 188 (27.05%) Kubernetes
2 176 (25.32%) Terraform
3 84 (12.09%) Grafana
4 46 (6.62%) Ansible
5 27 (3.88%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.73%) Podman
7 11 (1.58%) Puppet
8 8 (1.15%) Argo
8 8 (1.15%) Istio
8 8 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.58%) Cilium
11 3 (0.43%) cPanel
11 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.43%) Plesk
12 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.14%) Avamar
13 1 (0.14%) CASB
Vendors
1 149 (21.44%) Google
2 76 (10.94%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.47%) Typelevel
4 24 (3.45%) Databricks
5 22 (3.17%) Adobe
6 14 (2.01%) Apple
7 13 (1.87%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.87%) Palantir
8 12 (1.73%) SAP
8 12 (1.73%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.58%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.29%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.29%) VMware
11 8 (1.15%) Confluent
11 8 (1.15%) Foundry
11 8 (1.15%) Oracle
12 6 (0.86%) Cisco
12 6 (0.86%) Splunk
13 5 (0.72%) Dell
13 5 (0.72%) Ericsson
341 hybrid/remote GCP jobs