Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 90 32 44
Rank change year-on-year -58 +12 +10
Permanent jobs citing GCP 3,028 6,706 12,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.89% 7.09% 7.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.39% 16.47% 15.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,929 3,305 4,392
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,750 £58,664 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £106,250 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £130,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,029 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.52% +2.45% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 36,095 40,721 82,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.39% 43.02% 48.78%
Number of salaries quoted 26,995 27,249 41,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,452 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% +3.20% +7.76%
75th Percentile £77,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,150 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the UK

GCP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP.

Salary trend for GCP in the UK

GCP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for GCP in the UK

GCP
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the UK 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
England -54 2,604 £80,000 - 659
UK excluding London -77 1,591 £65,000 +1.52% 304
London -15 1,299 £95,000 +5.56% 385
Work from Home -34 1,294 £78,126 +0.81% 346
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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 374 (12.35%) Apache Airflow
2 363 (11.99%) Apache
3 172 (5.68%) Apache Spark
4 60 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 44 (1.45%) Confluence
6 33 (1.09%) SharePoint
7 20 (0.66%) nginx
8 18 (0.59%) IIS
9 17 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
10 14 (0.46%) SharePoint 2010
10 14 (0.46%) SharePoint 2013
11 13 (0.43%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.30%) Luigi
12 9 (0.30%) SAS
13 6 (0.20%) Captiva
13 6 (0.20%) FileNet
13 6 (0.20%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.17%) WordPress
15 4 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
15 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 25 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.23%) Simulink
4 4 (0.13%) Trello
5 3 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.066%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.066%) Sketch
7 1 (0.033%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.033%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.099%) Ripple
3 2 (0.066%) Magento
4 1 (0.033%) HFM
4 1 (0.033%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.033%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.033%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.033%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.033%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.033%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,345 (77.44%) AWS
2 2,055 (67.87%) Azure
3 282 (9.31%) SaaS
4 206 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
5 205 (6.77%) dbt
6 201 (6.64%) Snowflake
7 197 (6.51%) GitHub
8 155 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
9 127 (4.19%) Cloud Computing
10 126 (4.16%) Power Platform
11 119 (3.93%) PaaS
12 103 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
13 99 (3.27%) Serverless
14 85 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
15 77 (2.54%) IaaS
16 63 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
17 56 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
18 55 (1.82%) Amazon S3
19 48 (1.59%) OpenShift
20 39 (1.29%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 174 (5.75%) Firewall
2 78 (2.58%) WAN
3 67 (2.21%) DNS
4 65 (2.15%) VPN
5 53 (1.75%) LAN
6 39 (1.29%) TCP/IP
7 36 (1.19%) SD-WAN
8 35 (1.16%) AMQP
9 33 (1.09%) Network Security
10 30 (0.99%) SAN
11 20 (0.66%) Internet
12 17 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
12 17 (0.56%) Kerberos
12 17 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
13 16 (0.53%) Wireless
14 15 (0.50%) DHCP
14 15 (0.50%) VLAN
15 14 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
15 14 (0.46%) VoIP
16 13 (0.43%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 572 (18.89%) BigQuery
2 421 (13.90%) Looker
3 346 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
4 274 (9.05%) Apache Ignite
5 272 (8.98%) Data Lake
6 180 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
7 173 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
8 155 (5.12%) Dremio
9 149 (4.92%) Apache Arrow
10 148 (4.89%) Big Data
11 145 (4.79%) SQL Server
12 135 (4.46%) NoSQL
13 114 (3.76%) Hadoop
14 113 (3.73%) Power BI
15 107 (3.53%) MySQL
16 105 (3.47%) Relational Database
17 84 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
18 78 (2.58%) Tableau
19 57 (1.88%) MongoDB
20 53 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 224 (7.40%) Git
2 205 (6.77%) Jenkins
3 86 (2.84%) Cypress.io
4 85 (2.81%) JIRA
5 82 (2.71%) GitLab
6 49 (1.62%) CircleCI
7 48 (1.59%) Selenium
8 26 (0.86%) SonarQube
9 22 (0.73%) Spinnaker
10 20 (0.66%) TeamCity
11 18 (0.59%) JUnit
12 16 (0.53%) Cucumber
12 16 (0.53%) IBM UrbanCode
12 16 (0.53%) Terragrunt
13 15 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
14 13 (0.43%) Maven
15 11 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
16 10 (0.33%) webpack
17 8 (0.26%) JMeter
17 8 (0.26%) MLflow
General
1 978 (32.30%) Finance
2 564 (18.63%) Social Skills
3 544 (17.97%) Analytical Skills
4 523 (17.27%) Banking
5 422 (13.94%) Front Office
6 271 (8.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 166 (5.48%) Law
8 160 (5.28%) Presentation Skills
9 139 (4.59%) Retail
10 137 (4.52%) Investment Banking
11 111 (3.67%) Legal
12 97 (3.20%) Marketing
12 97 (3.20%) Public Sector
13 73 (2.41%) Billing
14 51 (1.68%) Back Office
15 43 (1.42%) Retail Banking
16 42 (1.39%) Financial Institution
17 39 (1.29%) Aerospace
18 36 (1.19%) Telecoms
19 25 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 657 (21.70%) Software Engineer
2 604 (19.95%) Senior
3 598 (19.75%) Architect
4 581 (19.19%) Developer
5 431 (14.23%) Data Engineer
6 349 (11.53%) Lead
7 305 (10.07%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 217 (7.17%) Python Developer
9 214 (7.07%) Principal Engineer
10 205 (6.77%) Python Engineer
11 201 (6.64%) Platform Engineer
12 186 (6.14%) Solutions Architect
13 184 (6.08%) Principal Data Engineer
14 181 (5.98%) Data Architect
15 175 (5.78%) DevOps Engineer
16 172 (5.68%) Python Software Engineer
17 166 (5.48%) Cloud Architect
18 156 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
19 138 (4.56%) Senior Developer
20 136 (4.49%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 521 (17.21%) React
2 323 (10.67%) gRPC
3 278 (9.18%) Protocol Buffers
4 257 (8.49%) Redux
5 244 (8.06%) AngularJS
6 224 (7.40%) Node.js
7 196 (6.47%) .NET
8 188 (6.21%) Pandas
9 168 (5.55%) Kafka
10 159 (5.25%) NumPy
11 152 (5.02%) Material-UI
12 150 (4.95%) SciPy
12 150 (4.95%) Vue
13 132 (4.36%) REST
14 122 (4.03%) Spring
15 91 (3.01%) CSS
16 90 (2.97%) PySpark
17 87 (2.87%) GraphQL
18 85 (2.81%) HTML
19 83 (2.74%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 417 (13.77%) Fixed Income
2 339 (11.20%) Hedge funds
3 331 (10.93%) Public Cloud
4 315 (10.40%) Equities
5 299 (9.87%) Self-Motivation
6 251 (8.29%) Derivative
7 220 (7.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 200 (6.61%) Cloud Native
9 153 (5.05%) Product Ownership
10 129 (4.26%) Algorithms
11 109 (3.60%) PKI
12 92 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
13 84 (2.77%) Onboarding
14 83 (2.74%) Management Information System
15 65 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
16 61 (2.01%) Data Structures
17 57 (1.88%) Data Centre
18 47 (1.55%) Mobile App
19 46 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
20 35 (1.16%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 285 (9.41%) Linux
2 222 (7.33%) Windows
3 86 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 51 (1.68%) Ubuntu
5 49 (1.62%) Unix
6 44 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 41 (1.35%) CentOS
8 38 (1.25%) Debian
9 30 (0.99%) Android
10 22 (0.73%) Apple iOS
11 16 (0.53%) zOS
12 13 (0.43%) Solaris
13 10 (0.33%) Windows 10
13 10 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (0.26%) Windows 7
14 8 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
15 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.23%) VMS
16 6 (0.20%) Mesosphere
17 2 (0.066%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,518 (50.13%) Agile
2 997 (32.93%) Software Engineering
3 829 (27.38%) DevOps
4 783 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
5 620 (20.48%) Mentoring
6 594 (19.62%) CI/CD
7 563 (18.59%) Data Engineering
8 495 (16.35%) Asset Management
9 439 (14.50%) Platform Engineering
10 407 (13.44%) ETL
11 393 (12.98%) Analytics
12 386 (12.75%) Machine Learning
13 376 (12.42%) Data Science
14 358 (11.82%) Infrastructure as Code
15 357 (11.79%) Data Modelling
16 355 (11.72%) Data Pipeline
17 350 (11.56%) Investment Management
18 332 (10.96%) Artificial Intelligence
19 331 (10.93%) Full Stack Development
20 293 (9.68%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,203 (39.73%) Python
2 665 (21.96%) Java
3 642 (21.20%) SQL
4 571 (18.86%) JavaScript
5 520 (17.17%) TypeScript
6 226 (7.46%) C#
7 158 (5.22%) Go
8 138 (4.56%) Scala
9 101 (3.34%) Bash
10 83 (2.74%) PowerShell
11 78 (2.58%) Kotlin
12 75 (2.48%) R
13 66 (2.18%) PHP
14 45 (1.49%) Ruby
15 40 (1.32%) Shell Script
16 24 (0.79%) C++
17 23 (0.76%) T-SQL
18 22 (0.73%) Groovy
19 16 (0.53%) Perl
20 15 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 354 (11.69%) Degree
2 190 (6.27%) Security Cleared
3 171 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 146 (4.82%) SC Cleared
5 123 (4.06%) AWS Certification
6 75 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 73 (2.41%) Master's Degree
8 69 (2.28%) Azure Certification
9 54 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 52 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
11 47 (1.55%) CISSP
12 36 (1.19%) CCNA
13 34 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
14 31 (1.02%) CISM
15 25 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
16 20 (0.66%) GIAC
17 18 (0.59%) MCITP
17 18 (0.59%) MCSE
18 17 (0.56%) CCNP
18 17 (0.56%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 310 (10.24%) GDPR
2 200 (6.61%) Data Quality
3 196 (6.47%) QA
4 49 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (1.25%) NIST
6 34 (1.12%) Accessibility
7 22 (0.73%) PCI DSS
7 22 (0.73%) SLA
8 16 (0.53%) COBIT
9 12 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.26%) NCSC
10 8 (0.26%) PSD2
11 7 (0.23%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.17%) WCAG
14 4 (0.13%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.099%) GRC
15 3 (0.099%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.066%) ITGC
System Software
1 421 (13.90%) Docker
2 135 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 104 (3.43%) Active Directory
4 69 (2.28%) Hyper-V
5 32 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (0.92%) XenApp
7 23 (0.76%) XenDesktop
8 15 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (0.50%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.40%) vSphere
10 10 (0.33%) KVM
11 8 (0.26%) HDFS
12 5 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.066%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.066%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.066%) Varnish
13 2 (0.066%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 528 (17.44%) Kubernetes
2 499 (16.48%) Terraform
3 220 (7.27%) Ansible
4 87 (2.87%) Puppet
5 55 (1.82%) Grafana
6 51 (1.68%) Progress Chef
7 46 (1.52%) Prometheus
8 25 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 25 (0.83%) Nagios
9 22 (0.73%) SCCM
9 22 (0.73%) ZABBIX
10 17 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 14 (0.46%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.46%) Istio
12 12 (0.40%) Opsgenie
12 12 (0.40%) VxRail
13 11 (0.36%) Graphite
13 11 (0.36%) Packer
14 9 (0.30%) vCenter Server
15 8 (0.26%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 1,334 (44.06%) Google
2 433 (14.30%) Microsoft
3 162 (5.35%) VMware
4 121 (4.00%) Databricks
5 107 (3.53%) Oracle
6 105 (3.47%) Cisco
7 59 (1.95%) Red Hat
8 58 (1.92%) IBM
9 55 (1.82%) ServiceNow
10 49 (1.62%) Dell
11 43 (1.42%) Citrix
12 42 (1.39%) Alteryx
13 34 (1.12%) Bloomberg
14 29 (0.96%) SaltStack
15 28 (0.92%) HP
16 25 (0.83%) NetApp
17 23 (0.76%) SAP
17 23 (0.76%) Splunk
18 22 (0.73%) Fortinet
18 22 (0.73%) Symantec