GCP Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 41 56
Rank change year-on-year -18 +15 -16
Permanent jobs citing GCP 37 10 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.27% 2.24% 2.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.08% 8.20% 6.72%
Number of salaries quoted 35 9 16
10th Percentile £38,750 £45,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £62,015
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.01% -26.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £92,500 £65,000 £83,759
90th Percentile £102,000 £68,500 -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £69,653 £55,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +26.64% -26.67% +36.36%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

GCP falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 367 122 402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.56% 27.29% 37.08%
Number of salaries quoted 267 91 319
10th Percentile £35,750 £25,300 £27,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £31,599 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £90,000 £73,750 £80,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £52,315 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.35% +5.00% -9.09%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GCP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

GCP job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

GCP
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for GCP in Newcastle upon Tyne

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 9 (24.32%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 32 (86.49%) AWS
2 31 (83.78%) Azure
3 8 (21.62%) GitHub
4 7 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (18.92%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (13.51%) Serverless
6 4 (10.81%) Google Analytics
6 4 (10.81%) Google Tag Manager
7 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
7 3 (8.11%) Vertex AI
8 2 (5.41%) Dagster
8 2 (5.41%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.70%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (2.70%) dbt
9 1 (2.70%) Mimecast
9 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.70%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.62%) Firewall
2 7 (18.92%) DNS
2 7 (18.92%) HTTP
2 7 (18.92%) TCP/IP
3 3 (8.11%) Network Security
4 1 (2.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) BigQuery
2 4 (10.81%) Looker
3 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (8.11%) Power BI
3 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.70%) Big Data
5 1 (2.70%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.70%) Metadata
5 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.51%) JIRA
3 4 (10.81%) SonarQube
4 3 (8.11%) Artifactory
4 3 (8.11%) Bitbucket
4 3 (8.11%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (8.11%) TeamCity
5 2 (5.41%) GitLab
6 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.70%) Gatling
6 1 (2.70%) JMeter
6 1 (2.70%) REST Assured
General
1 7 (18.92%) Law
1 7 (18.92%) Telecoms
2 6 (16.22%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.11%) Banking
4 3 (8.11%) Financial Institution
4 3 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Data Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Lead
3 7 (18.92%) Python Data Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) Python Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Lead Data Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Cloud Security Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Data Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Junior
6 2 (5.41%) Junior DevOps
6 2 (5.41%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 2 (5.41%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.03%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (10.81%) LangChain
2 4 (10.81%) LlamaIndex
3 2 (5.41%) .NET
4 1 (2.70%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.70%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.70%) Node.js
4 1 (2.70%) Playwright
4 1 (2.70%) REST
4 1 (2.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Distributed Computing
2 6 (16.22%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.81%) AI Agents
3 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.81%) Life Science
4 2 (5.41%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.41%) Client/Server
4 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.41%) Hedge funds
4 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Online Gambling
5 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) DevOps
2 15 (40.54%) CI/CD
3 14 (37.84%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (29.73%) Agile
5 10 (27.03%) DevSecOps
5 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (24.32%) Containerisation
7 8 (21.62%) Analytics
7 8 (21.62%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (21.62%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 7 (18.92%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (18.92%) Event-Driven
8 7 (18.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (18.92%) High Availability
8 7 (18.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (18.92%) Software Engineering
8 7 (18.92%) Static Code Analysis
9 6 (16.22%) Code Quality
9 6 (16.22%) Decision-Making
9 6 (16.22%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 28 (75.68%) Python
2 13 (35.14%) SQL
3 8 (21.62%) Bash
4 7 (18.92%) Go
5 6 (16.22%) Java
6 5 (13.51%) C#
6 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.70%) C
7 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Degree
2 4 (10.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 4 (10.81%) CCSP
2 4 (10.81%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (10.81%) CISSP
3 3 (8.11%) CISM
3 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.70%) CISA
5 1 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.70%) GSEC
5 1 (2.70%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Accessibility
1 4 (10.81%) Data Quality
1 4 (10.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (10.81%) NIST
2 3 (8.11%) GDPR
2 3 (8.11%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (32.43%) Terraform
2 11 (29.73%) Ansible
2 11 (29.73%) Grafana
3 7 (18.92%) Prometheus
4 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
5 3 (8.11%) Control-M
5 3 (8.11%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Databricks
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) Google
3 3 (8.11%) Atlassian
3 3 (8.11%) VMware
4 1 (2.70%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco
4 1 (2.70%) Dataiku
4 1 (2.70%) Proofpoint
4 1 (2.70%) Zscaler