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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 33 45
Rank change year-on-year -57 +12 +7
Permanent jobs citing GCP 3,014 7,287 11,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.06% 7.02% 7.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.52% 16.41% 14.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,967 3,573 4,514
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - +12.28%
75th Percentile £102,500 £101,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £123,300 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,066 £64,029 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.62% +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 35,382 44,396 75,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.88% 42.78% 48.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26,757 29,121 41,951
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,788 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £100,000
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 3 May 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 3 May 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 2,558 £79,875 -0.16% 659
UK excluding London -69 1,625 £65,066 +1.62% 333
Work from Home -33 1,330 £77,500 - 393
London -20 1,231 £95,000 +8.57% 374
North of England -54 513 £69,447 +6.84% 86
Scotland -54 294 £69,750 +15.77% 33
South West -17 281 £70,000 +7.69% 70
North West -67 256 £69,447 +11.12% 53
Yorkshire -23 206 £68,000 -0.01% 26
South East -103 206 £60,000 -14.29% 57
Midlands -83 203 £65,000 +18.18% 33
West Midlands -90 130 £75,000 +31.58% 19
East Midlands -48 76 £57,500 +4.55% 14
East of England -67 68 £55,000 -8.33% 26
North East +6 51 £75,000 +36.36% 7
Wales -26 45 £62,500 +22.30% 15
Northern Ireland -15 14 £90,000 +71.43% 18
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
1 299 (9.92%) Apache Airflow
2 289 (9.59%) Apache
3 185 (6.14%) Apache Spark
4 58 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 47 (1.56%) Confluence
6 31 (1.03%) SharePoint
7 29 (0.96%) WebSphere
8 28 (0.93%) Captiva
8 28 (0.93%) FileNet
9 22 (0.73%) nginx
10 20 (0.66%) IIS
11 17 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
12 13 (0.43%) SAS
13 12 (0.40%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.30%) SharePoint 2010
14 9 (0.30%) SharePoint 2013
15 8 (0.27%) WordPress
16 5 (0.17%) Apache Solr
17 4 (0.13%) Luigi
18 3 (0.100%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 28 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.23%) Simulink
4 4 (0.13%) Trello
5 3 (0.100%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.066%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.066%) Sketch
7 1 (0.033%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.033%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.033%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.13%) Magento
3 2 (0.066%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.066%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (0.033%) HFM
4 1 (0.033%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.033%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.033%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.033%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.033%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,244 (74.45%) AWS
2 2,051 (68.05%) Azure
3 313 (10.38%) SaaS
4 224 (7.43%) GitHub
5 199 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
6 162 (5.37%) Snowflake
7 161 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
8 158 (5.24%) dbt
9 153 (5.08%) Power Platform
10 126 (4.18%) PaaS
11 119 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
12 105 (3.48%) Serverless
13 90 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
14 85 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
15 84 (2.79%) IaaS
16 68 (2.26%) Amazon S3
17 62 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
18 55 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
19 50 (1.66%) OpenShift
20 45 (1.49%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 170 (5.64%) Firewall
2 76 (2.52%) DNS
3 69 (2.29%) WAN
4 64 (2.12%) VPN
5 46 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 45 (1.49%) LAN
7 36 (1.19%) SD-WAN
8 31 (1.03%) AMQP
9 30 (1.00%) SAN
10 26 (0.86%) Network Security
11 22 (0.73%) DHCP
12 21 (0.70%) Internet
12 21 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
13 17 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
13 17 (0.56%) Kerberos
13 17 (0.56%) VoIP
14 15 (0.50%) VLAN
15 14 (0.46%) BGP
15 14 (0.46%) Wireless
16 12 (0.40%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 593 (19.67%) BigQuery
2 423 (14.03%) Looker
3 372 (12.34%) Data Warehouse
4 258 (8.56%) Data Lake
5 217 (7.20%) Apache Ignite
6 166 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
7 163 (5.41%) NoSQL
8 155 (5.14%) SQL Server
9 154 (5.11%) Big Data
10 137 (4.55%) Power BI
11 132 (4.38%) Hadoop
12 128 (4.25%) Amazon Athena
13 120 (3.98%) MySQL
14 110 (3.65%) Apache Arrow
14 110 (3.65%) Dremio
15 109 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
16 102 (3.38%) Relational Database
17 92 (3.05%) Tableau
18 63 (2.09%) MongoDB
19 55 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 228 (7.56%) Git
2 223 (7.40%) Jenkins
3 100 (3.32%) JIRA
4 71 (2.36%) Cypress.io
4 71 (2.36%) GitLab
5 46 (1.53%) CircleCI
5 46 (1.53%) Selenium
6 41 (1.36%) Oracle Forms
7 25 (0.83%) IBM UrbanCode
7 25 (0.83%) Spinnaker
8 23 (0.76%) TeamCity
9 19 (0.63%) Maven
10 18 (0.60%) JUnit
11 16 (0.53%) Cucumber
12 13 (0.43%) SonarQube
13 12 (0.40%) webpack
14 9 (0.30%) JMeter
14 9 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.27%) git-flow
16 7 (0.23%) Appium
General
1 1,006 (33.38%) Finance
2 563 (18.68%) Banking
3 561 (18.61%) Social Skills
4 558 (18.51%) Analytical Skills
5 368 (12.21%) Front Office
6 274 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 166 (5.51%) Presentation Skills
8 162 (5.37%) Law
9 152 (5.04%) Retail
10 111 (3.68%) Investment Banking
11 101 (3.35%) Legal
12 99 (3.28%) Marketing
13 91 (3.02%) Public Sector
14 72 (2.39%) Billing
15 46 (1.53%) Back Office
16 38 (1.26%) Retail Banking
17 37 (1.23%) Aerospace
18 35 (1.16%) Financial Institution
19 31 (1.03%) Telecoms
20 29 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 625 (20.74%) Software Engineer
2 616 (20.44%) Senior
3 584 (19.38%) Architect
4 546 (18.12%) Developer
5 442 (14.66%) Data Engineer
6 323 (10.72%) Lead
7 267 (8.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 217 (7.20%) Principal Engineer
9 198 (6.57%) Platform Engineer
10 187 (6.20%) Python Developer
11 182 (6.04%) Principal Data Engineer
12 175 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
13 174 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
14 169 (5.61%) Data Architect
15 167 (5.54%) Python Engineer
16 165 (5.47%) Cloud Architect
17 147 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
18 136 (4.51%) Senior Developer
19 134 (4.45%) Python Software Engineer
20 116 (3.85%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 497 (16.49%) React
2 252 (8.36%) gRPC
3 244 (8.10%) AngularJS
4 229 (7.60%) Redux
5 212 (7.03%) Protocol Buffers
6 208 (6.90%) .NET
7 195 (6.47%) Node.js
8 193 (6.40%) Kafka
9 144 (4.78%) Pandas
10 143 (4.74%) Vue
11 135 (4.48%) Material-UI
12 129 (4.28%) REST
13 121 (4.01%) Spring
14 116 (3.85%) NumPy
15 105 (3.48%) SciPy
16 101 (3.35%) GraphQL
17 89 (2.95%) CSS
17 89 (2.95%) RESTful
18 85 (2.82%) .NET Core
19 83 (2.75%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 368 (12.21%) Fixed Income
2 342 (11.35%) Public Cloud
3 300 (9.95%) Hedge funds
4 288 (9.56%) Self-Motivation
5 275 (9.12%) Equities
6 231 (7.66%) Derivative
7 192 (6.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 180 (5.97%) Cloud Native
9 157 (5.21%) Product Ownership
10 139 (4.61%) Algorithms
11 110 (3.65%) PKI
12 99 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
13 86 (2.85%) Onboarding
14 77 (2.55%) Management Information System
15 73 (2.42%) Data Structures
16 58 (1.92%) Private Cloud
17 57 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
18 52 (1.73%) Data Centre
19 45 (1.49%) Mobile App
20 42 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 322 (10.68%) Linux
2 221 (7.33%) Windows
3 85 (2.82%) Windows Server
4 80 (2.65%) Unix
5 42 (1.39%) Ubuntu
6 39 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 35 (1.16%) CentOS
8 33 (1.09%) Android
9 31 (1.03%) Debian
10 26 (0.86%) Apple iOS
11 16 (0.53%) zOS
12 11 (0.36%) Solaris
13 10 (0.33%) Windows 10
14 9 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
15 8 (0.27%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.27%) Windows 7
15 8 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
16 6 (0.20%) Mesosphere
17 5 (0.17%) VMS
18 2 (0.066%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,517 (50.33%) Agile
2 958 (31.79%) Software Engineering
3 865 (28.70%) DevOps
4 779 (25.85%) Problem-Solving
5 603 (20.01%) Mentoring
6 576 (19.11%) CI/CD
7 571 (18.94%) Data Engineering
8 429 (14.23%) Platform Engineering
9 426 (14.13%) Asset Management
10 421 (13.97%) ETL
11 409 (13.57%) Analytics
12 398 (13.21%) Data Science
13 387 (12.84%) Machine Learning
14 374 (12.41%) Data Modelling
15 359 (11.91%) Data Pipeline
16 342 (11.35%) Infrastructure as Code
17 341 (11.31%) Artificial Intelligence
18 324 (10.75%) Investment Management
19 304 (10.09%) Containerisation
20 303 (10.05%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,156 (38.35%) Python
2 704 (23.36%) SQL
3 656 (21.77%) Java
4 517 (17.15%) JavaScript
5 476 (15.79%) TypeScript
6 247 (8.20%) C#
7 161 (5.34%) Go
8 126 (4.18%) Scala
9 119 (3.95%) Bash
10 89 (2.95%) PowerShell
11 86 (2.85%) R
12 65 (2.16%) PHP
13 56 (1.86%) Kotlin
14 43 (1.43%) Ruby
15 42 (1.39%) Shell Script
16 29 (0.96%) Groovy
17 28 (0.93%) T-SQL
18 22 (0.73%) C++
19 17 (0.56%) Perl
20 13 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 359 (11.91%) Degree
2 171 (5.67%) Security Cleared
3 164 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 127 (4.21%) SC Cleared
5 96 (3.19%) AWS Certification
6 72 (2.39%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 54 (1.79%) Azure Certification
9 50 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 49 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
11 46 (1.53%) CISSP
12 31 (1.03%) CCNA
12 31 (1.03%) CISM
13 29 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
14 28 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
15 20 (0.66%) DBS Check
15 20 (0.66%) PhD
16 19 (0.63%) GIAC
17 15 (0.50%) ISSMP
17 15 (0.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (10.98%) GDPR
2 204 (6.77%) Data Quality
3 187 (6.20%) QA
4 49 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 39 (1.29%) Accessibility
6 34 (1.13%) NIST
7 20 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.63%) SLA
9 15 (0.50%) COBIT
10 9 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.30%) WCAG
11 8 (0.27%) NCSC
11 8 (0.27%) PSD2
12 6 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.17%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.100%) CRD IV
15 3 (0.100%) GRC
15 3 (0.100%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.100%) NIST 800
System Software
1 401 (13.30%) Docker
2 127 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 102 (3.38%) Active Directory
4 62 (2.06%) Hyper-V
5 25 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.60%) XenApp
7 16 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (0.50%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.43%) XenDesktop
10 9 (0.30%) KVM
11 8 (0.27%) HDFS
12 6 (0.20%) vSphere
13 5 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
15 2 (0.066%) Apache Flume
15 2 (0.066%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 2 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 2 (0.066%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.066%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 526 (17.45%) Kubernetes
2 484 (16.06%) Terraform
3 211 (7.00%) Ansible
4 81 (2.69%) Puppet
5 57 (1.89%) Grafana
6 53 (1.76%) Progress Chef
7 47 (1.56%) Prometheus
8 25 (0.83%) Nagios
9 22 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 20 (0.66%) ZABBIX
11 19 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 16 (0.53%) SCCM
13 15 (0.50%) FortiGate
14 14 (0.46%) Istio
15 12 (0.40%) Graphite
15 12 (0.40%) Opsgenie
15 12 (0.40%) VxRail
16 10 (0.33%) HAProxy
16 10 (0.33%) Packer
16 10 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,363 (45.22%) Google
2 427 (14.17%) Microsoft
3 153 (5.08%) VMware
4 136 (4.51%) Oracle
5 113 (3.75%) Databricks
6 93 (3.09%) Cisco
7 88 (2.92%) IBM
8 61 (2.02%) ServiceNow
9 55 (1.82%) SAP
10 54 (1.79%) Red Hat
11 53 (1.76%) Dell
12 41 (1.36%) Alteryx
13 38 (1.26%) Bloomberg
14 35 (1.16%) Citrix
15 28 (0.93%) Kofax
15 28 (0.93%) Pega
16 25 (0.83%) NetApp
16 25 (0.83%) SaltStack
16 25 (0.83%) Splunk
17 21 (0.70%) Fortinet