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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 39 48
Rank change year-on-year -16 +9 -19
Permanent jobs citing GCP 54 10 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.94% 2.12% 2.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.80% 7.58% 7.35%
Number of salaries quoted 52 9 10
10th Percentile £42,725 £45,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £46,250 £58,857
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.09% -26.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £92,500 £65,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £68,500 £78,700
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £76,750 £55,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +39.55% -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 422 132 272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.96% 28.03% 34.87%
Number of salaries quoted 309 103 180
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,300 £30,875
25th Percentile £44,241 £30,049 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £92,500 £73,750 £78,200
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +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 15 August 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 11 (20.37%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.70%) Confluence
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 49 (90.74%) AWS
2 44 (81.48%) Azure
3 9 (16.67%) Serverless
4 8 (14.81%) Google Analytics
4 8 (14.81%) Google Tag Manager
5 5 (9.26%) Amazon S3
5 5 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (9.26%) GitHub
6 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 3 (5.56%) Snowflake
7 3 (5.56%) Vertex AI
8 2 (3.70%) Dagster
8 2 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.85%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 1 (1.85%) IaaS
9 1 (1.85%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.26%) Firewall
2 4 (7.41%) DNS
2 4 (7.41%) HTTP
2 4 (7.41%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.56%) Network Security
4 1 (1.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.52%) BigQuery
2 8 (14.81%) Looker
3 7 (12.96%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (9.26%) Metadata
6 3 (5.56%) Power BI
6 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.85%) Big Data
7 1 (1.85%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.85%) Flink
7 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 6 (11.11%) JIRA
2 4 (7.41%) SonarQube
3 3 (5.56%) Artifactory
3 3 (5.56%) Bitbucket
3 3 (5.56%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (5.56%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.70%) Git
4 2 (3.70%) GitLab
5 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.85%) Gatling
5 1 (1.85%) JMeter
5 1 (1.85%) REST Assured
General
1 21 (38.89%) Public Sector
2 14 (25.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.96%) Finance
5 5 (9.26%) Telecoms
6 4 (7.41%) Law
7 3 (5.56%) Banking
7 3 (5.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 17 (31.48%) Lead
2 11 (20.37%) Data Engineer
3 10 (18.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Python Data Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Python Engineer
5 8 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Architect
7 5 (9.26%) Lead Data Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Analyst
9 3 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (5.56%) Cloud Security Architect
9 3 (5.56%) Data Analyst
9 3 (5.56%) Security Architect
9 3 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Technical Architect
10 2 (3.70%) Developer
10 2 (3.70%) Junior
10 2 (3.70%) Lead Architect
10 2 (3.70%) Linux Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) LangChain
1 9 (16.67%) LlamaIndex
2 7 (12.96%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.56%) Web Services
4 2 (3.70%) .NET
5 1 (1.85%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.85%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.85%) Kafka
5 1 (1.85%) Middleware
5 1 (1.85%) Node.js
5 1 (1.85%) Playwright
5 1 (1.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Onboarding
2 9 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (12.96%) Cloud Native
4 6 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (7.41%) AI Agents
5 4 (7.41%) Life Science
6 2 (3.70%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.70%) Client/Server
6 2 (3.70%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.70%) Hedge funds
6 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.85%) Online Gambling
7 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.85%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.26%) Linux
2 3 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (42.59%) Agile
2 21 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (37.04%) CI/CD
4 18 (33.33%) AI
4 18 (33.33%) DevOps
4 18 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 15 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (25.93%) Analytics
7 13 (24.07%) Data Engineering
7 13 (24.07%) Mentoring
8 12 (22.22%) LLM
8 12 (22.22%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 12 (22.22%) Roadmaps
9 11 (20.37%) Containerisation
10 10 (18.52%) Decision-Making
10 10 (18.52%) Knowledge Transfer
10 10 (18.52%) MLOps
10 10 (18.52%) Prompt Engineering
10 10 (18.52%) Rainbow Teams
10 10 (18.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 40 (74.07%) Python
2 19 (35.19%) SQL
3 9 (16.67%) Java
4 5 (9.26%) Bash
4 5 (9.26%) C#
4 5 (9.26%) PowerShell
5 4 (7.41%) Go
6 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.85%) C
Qualifications
1 15 (27.78%) BPSS Clearance
2 9 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 9 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 8 (14.81%) AWS Certification
4 7 (12.96%) SC Cleared
5 6 (11.11%) Degree
5 6 (11.11%) DV Cleared
6 4 (7.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (7.41%) CCSP
6 4 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (7.41%) CISSP
7 3 (5.56%) CISM
8 1 (1.85%) CISA
8 1 (1.85%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.85%) CSPO
8 1 (1.85%) GSEC
8 1 (1.85%) IIBA
8 1 (1.85%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.81%) Data Quality
2 7 (12.96%) GDPR
3 4 (7.41%) Accessibility
3 4 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (7.41%) NIST
4 3 (5.56%) NCSC
4 3 (5.56%) QA
5 1 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (12.96%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (18.52%) Terraform
2 8 (14.81%) Ansible
2 8 (14.81%) Grafana
3 6 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 4 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.56%) Control-M
5 3 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (20.37%) Databricks
2 10 (18.52%) Google
3 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.56%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.56%) VMware
5 1 (1.85%) Adobe
5 1 (1.85%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco
5 1 (1.85%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.85%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.85%) Zscaler