GCP Jobs in the UK excluding London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for GCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GCP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 50 93
Rank change year-on-year -77 +43 +12
Permanent jobs citing GCP 1,591 3,326 2,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.09% 5.88% 3.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.60% 15.15% 8.93%
Number of salaries quoted 869 1,253 1,263
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,250 £48,091 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,029 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +2.45% +8.70%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

GCP is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 24,112 21,949 29,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.74% 38.82% 39.84%
Number of salaries quoted 17,718 13,331 19,511
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.85% +3.20% +7.76%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -61 500 £65,066 +0.10% 111
South West -30 270 £65,864 +4.55% 37
Scotland -67 259 £68,500 +14.17% 25
North West -78 252 £67,500 +3.85% 66
South East -94 230 £60,000 -14.29% 62
Yorkshire -28 194 £65,066 -2.99% 37
Midlands -108 192 £65,000 +15.04% 36
West Midlands -108 122 £73,000 +23.73% 21
East Midlands -62 70 £56,250 +2.27% 15
East of England -82 67 £55,000 -8.33% 14
North East +2 54 £75,000 +36.36% 8
Wales -27 48 £62,500 +21.36% 10
Northern Ireland -19 19 £65,000 +23.81% 11
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 - 1
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 77 (4.84%) Apache Spark
2 57 (3.58%) Apache
3 44 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (1.95%) Confluence
5 30 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
6 20 (1.26%) SharePoint
7 17 (1.07%) Cloud Foundry
8 16 (1.01%) IIS
9 13 (0.82%) OpenStack
10 8 (0.50%) nginx
11 7 (0.44%) SharePoint 2010
11 7 (0.44%) SharePoint 2013
12 6 (0.38%) Captiva
12 6 (0.38%) FileNet
12 6 (0.38%) Luigi
12 6 (0.38%) SAS
12 6 (0.38%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.13%) CMS
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.063%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 7 (0.44%) Simulink
2 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.13%) Sketch
2 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.063%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.063%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.063%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.063%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (0.063%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,131 (71.09%) AWS
2 1,079 (67.82%) Azure
3 203 (12.76%) SaaS
4 159 (9.99%) Microsoft 365
5 119 (7.48%) GitHub
6 114 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
7 79 (4.97%) Cloud Computing
8 69 (4.34%) Power Platform
9 62 (3.90%) Serverless
10 57 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 50 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (2.89%) PaaS
13 45 (2.83%) Snowflake
14 43 (2.70%) OpenShift
15 42 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
16 36 (2.26%) IaaS
17 35 (2.20%) Amazon S3
18 33 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
19 29 (1.82%) dbt
20 26 (1.63%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 109 (6.85%) Firewall
2 60 (3.77%) WAN
3 52 (3.27%) VPN
4 33 (2.07%) LAN
5 31 (1.95%) SD-WAN
6 29 (1.82%) AMQP
7 25 (1.57%) SAN
8 23 (1.45%) Network Security
9 21 (1.32%) DNS
10 17 (1.07%) Kerberos
11 15 (0.94%) Wireless
12 14 (0.88%) VLAN
13 13 (0.82%) DHCP
13 13 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
13 13 (0.82%) TCP/IP
13 13 (0.82%) VoIP
14 12 (0.75%) BGP
14 12 (0.75%) iSCSI
15 10 (0.63%) MPLS
15 10 (0.63%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 435 (27.34%) BigQuery
2 370 (23.26%) Looker
3 260 (16.34%) Data Warehouse
4 108 (6.79%) Data Lake
5 103 (6.47%) SQL Server
6 101 (6.35%) Big Data
7 81 (5.09%) MySQL
8 66 (4.15%) Power BI
8 66 (4.15%) Relational Database
9 64 (4.02%) NoSQL
10 58 (3.65%) Hadoop
10 58 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
11 53 (3.33%) Tableau
12 39 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
12 39 (2.45%) Qlik Sense
13 29 (1.82%) Cloudera CDH
14 28 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
14 28 (1.76%) Redis
15 19 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
15 19 (1.19%) DB2
Development Applications
1 136 (8.55%) Git
2 97 (6.10%) Jenkins
3 59 (3.71%) JIRA
4 42 (2.64%) Selenium
5 39 (2.45%) GitLab
6 28 (1.76%) CircleCI
7 16 (1.01%) IBM UrbanCode
8 15 (0.94%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.88%) JUnit
9 14 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
10 12 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.63%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.63%) Terragrunt
12 9 (0.57%) Spinnaker
13 8 (0.50%) Maven
14 7 (0.44%) PHPUnit
15 6 (0.38%) Appium
15 6 (0.38%) JMeter
16 5 (0.31%) webpack
17 4 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 394 (24.76%) Analytical Skills
2 363 (22.82%) Finance
3 293 (18.42%) Social Skills
4 159 (9.99%) Banking
5 129 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 118 (7.42%) Presentation Skills
7 100 (6.29%) Law
8 73 (4.59%) Billing
9 68 (4.27%) Legal
10 67 (4.21%) Retail
11 60 (3.77%) Marketing
12 35 (2.20%) Public Sector
13 33 (2.07%) Aerospace
14 20 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
15 19 (1.19%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.13%) Games
17 17 (1.07%) Tech for Good
18 11 (0.69%) Investment Banking
19 8 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
20 7 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 317 (19.92%) Architect
2 284 (17.85%) Data Engineer
3 258 (16.22%) Senior
4 251 (15.78%) Software Engineer
5 181 (11.38%) Lead
5 181 (11.38%) Principal Engineer
6 165 (10.37%) Platform Engineer
7 160 (10.06%) Principal Data Engineer
8 136 (8.55%) Developer
9 116 (7.29%) Data Architect
10 101 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
11 99 (6.22%) Cloud Architect
12 98 (6.16%) Data Manager
13 83 (5.22%) Engineering Manager
14 75 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
15 72 (4.53%) Senior Software Engineer
16 60 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
17 54 (3.39%) Java Engineer
18 51 (3.21%) Java Software Engineer
19 47 (2.95%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (10.75%) React
2 111 (6.98%) AngularJS
3 101 (6.35%) Node.js
4 88 (5.53%) Spring
5 77 (4.84%) Kafka
6 76 (4.78%) REST
7 69 (4.34%) Spring Boot
8 65 (4.09%) CSS
9 60 (3.77%) HTML
10 54 (3.39%) RESTful
11 50 (3.14%) GraphQL
12 49 (3.08%) .NET
13 48 (3.02%) PySpark
14 37 (2.33%) gRPC
15 34 (2.14%) Vue
16 33 (2.07%) RabbitMQ
17 30 (1.89%) OpenAPI
17 30 (1.89%) Swagger
18 29 (1.82%) jQuery
18 29 (1.82%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 260 (16.34%) Public Cloud
2 259 (16.28%) Self-Motivation
3 127 (7.98%) Product Ownership
4 120 (7.54%) Cloud Native
5 93 (5.85%) Algorithms
6 70 (4.40%) PKI
7 59 (3.71%) Onboarding
8 44 (2.77%) Data Centre
9 36 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
10 34 (2.14%) Data Structures
11 32 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
12 30 (1.89%) Mobile App
13 28 (1.76%) Management Information System
14 26 (1.63%) IoT
15 23 (1.45%) Private Cloud
16 20 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
17 18 (1.13%) Replication
18 16 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
18 16 (1.01%) Mainframe
19 12 (0.75%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 185 (11.63%) Linux
2 144 (9.05%) Windows
3 68 (4.27%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.83%) Ubuntu
5 40 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (2.39%) Debian
7 37 (2.33%) Unix
8 31 (1.95%) CentOS
9 17 (1.07%) Android
10 9 (0.57%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.57%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.50%) Solaris
11 8 (0.50%) Windows 7
11 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (0.38%) Mesosphere
13 5 (0.31%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.13%) VMS
14 2 (0.13%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 749 (47.08%) Agile
2 542 (34.07%) Problem-Solving
3 529 (33.25%) DevOps
4 457 (28.72%) Mentoring
5 433 (27.22%) Data Engineering
6 363 (22.82%) Platform Engineering
7 329 (20.68%) Software Engineering
8 323 (20.30%) CI/CD
9 259 (16.28%) ETL
10 248 (15.59%) Data Science
11 238 (14.96%) Data Pipeline
12 234 (14.71%) Data Modelling
13 195 (12.26%) Project Management
14 194 (12.19%) Infrastructure as Code
15 185 (11.63%) Change Management
16 179 (11.25%) Scrum
17 169 (10.62%) Analytics
18 168 (10.56%) Containerisation
19 165 (10.37%) Microservices
20 164 (10.31%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 396 (24.89%) Python
2 306 (19.23%) SQL
3 279 (17.54%) Java
4 201 (12.63%) JavaScript
5 94 (5.91%) TypeScript
6 86 (5.41%) Go
7 69 (4.34%) C#
8 59 (3.71%) PHP
9 52 (3.27%) PowerShell
10 49 (3.08%) Bash
11 42 (2.64%) Scala
12 24 (1.51%) Shell Script
13 18 (1.13%) Groovy
14 16 (1.01%) R
15 15 (0.94%) C++
16 10 (0.63%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.50%) Ruby
18 6 (0.38%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.38%) Perl
19 5 (0.31%) Rust
Qualifications
1 144 (9.05%) Degree
2 104 (6.54%) Security Cleared
3 80 (5.03%) SC Cleared
4 67 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (3.65%) DV Cleared
6 50 (3.14%) AWS Certification
7 36 (2.26%) Azure Certification
7 36 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
8 31 (1.95%) CCNA
9 27 (1.70%) Master's Degree
10 25 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (0.75%) CCNP
12 12 (0.75%) PMI Certification
13 11 (0.69%) CISSP
13 11 (0.69%) DBS Check
13 11 (0.69%) MCITP
14 10 (0.63%) MCSE
15 9 (0.57%) CISM
16 7 (0.44%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (16.47%) GDPR
2 135 (8.49%) Data Quality
3 113 (7.10%) QA
4 16 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (0.88%) SLA
6 13 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.82%) NIST
7 8 (0.50%) PSD2
8 7 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.19%) GRC
11 3 (0.19%) NCSC
11 3 (0.19%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.063%) Basel III
13 1 (0.063%) PMO
13 1 (0.063%) SOC 2
System Software
1 227 (14.27%) Docker
2 102 (6.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (4.71%) Active Directory
4 56 (3.52%) Hyper-V
5 20 (1.26%) XenApp
6 15 (0.94%) VMware NSX
6 15 (0.94%) XenDesktop
7 10 (0.63%) vSphere
8 8 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.13%) KVM
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.063%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 288 (18.10%) Kubernetes
2 255 (16.03%) Terraform
3 128 (8.05%) Ansible
4 59 (3.71%) Puppet
5 41 (2.58%) Progress Chef
6 31 (1.95%) Prometheus
7 26 (1.63%) Grafana
8 20 (1.26%) ZABBIX
9 15 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
9 15 (0.94%) Nagios
10 13 (0.82%) FortiGate
10 13 (0.82%) SCCM
11 12 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.75%) Opsgenie
11 12 (0.75%) VxRail
12 8 (0.50%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.31%) OfficeScan
14 5 (0.31%) SCOM
14 5 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 847 (53.24%) Google
2 255 (16.03%) Microsoft
3 127 (7.98%) VMware
4 73 (4.59%) Cisco
4 73 (4.59%) Oracle
5 52 (3.27%) Red Hat
6 50 (3.14%) IBM
7 41 (2.58%) Alteryx
7 41 (2.58%) Dell
8 34 (2.14%) Citrix
9 31 (1.95%) Databricks
10 30 (1.89%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.82%) SaltStack
12 25 (1.57%) NetApp
13 20 (1.26%) Fortinet
14 18 (1.13%) HP
14 18 (1.13%) Teradata
15 17 (1.07%) SolarWinds
16 13 (0.82%) Centreon
17 12 (0.75%) EMC