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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 42 53
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 -19
Permanent jobs citing GCP 68 11 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.06% 2.22% 1.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.85% 8.66% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 62 10 6
10th Percentile £58,750 £45,750 £60,905
25th Percentile £62,000 £46,313 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £55,000 £76,500
Median % change year-on-year +46.36% -28.10% +24.90%
75th Percentile £87,500 £65,000 £86,875
90th Percentile £97,500 £70,000 £88,750
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £80,500 £55,000 £79,932
% change year-on-year +46.36% -31.19% +30.50%

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 491 127 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.09% 25.66% 31.10%
Number of salaries quoted 381 104 116
10th Percentile £38,772 £25,300 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,217 £28,500 £39,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,437 £68,750 £70,685
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £95,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.44% -10.87%

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 14 October 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 (13.24%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.47%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 67 (98.53%) AWS
2 58 (85.29%) Azure
3 9 (13.24%) Serverless
4 7 (10.29%) Google Analytics
4 7 (10.29%) Google Tag Manager
5 6 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (8.82%) OpenShift
6 5 (7.35%) Amazon S3
6 5 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.41%) GitHub
7 3 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.41%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.94%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.94%) IaaS
8 2 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) Internet
2 1 (1.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.71%) BigQuery
2 7 (10.29%) Looker
3 6 (8.82%) Metadata
4 5 (7.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (7.35%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.47%) Flink
6 1 (1.47%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 6 (8.82%) GitLab
1 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
1 6 (8.82%) SonarQube
2 4 (5.88%) Git
2 4 (5.88%) JIRA
3 3 (4.41%) Artifactory
3 3 (4.41%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.41%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (4.41%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (55.88%) Public Sector
2 29 (42.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (19.12%) Social Skills
4 9 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.35%) Finance
6 3 (4.41%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.47%) Banking
7 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (38.24%) Lead
2 21 (30.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 12 (17.65%) Data Engineer
4 11 (16.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (14.71%) Architect
6 9 (13.24%) Databricks Data Engineer
6 9 (13.24%) Databricks Engineer
6 9 (13.24%) Python Data Engineer
6 9 (13.24%) Python Engineer
7 8 (11.76%) Technical Architect
8 7 (10.29%) Senior
9 6 (8.82%) Lead Architect
9 6 (8.82%) Technical Leader
10 4 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
11 3 (4.41%) Senior Architect
11 3 (4.41%) Software Engineer
12 2 (2.94%) Senior Data Engineer
12 2 (2.94%) Senior Technical Architect
12 2 (2.94%) Trainee
13 1 (1.47%) Cloud Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (27.94%) LangChain
1 19 (27.94%) LlamaIndex
2 10 (14.71%) Terraform
3 9 (13.24%) Web Services
4 6 (8.82%) AWS CDK
4 6 (8.82%) Node.js
5 3 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.94%) Middleware
7 1 (1.47%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 25 (36.76%) Onboarding
2 14 (20.59%) Cloud Native
3 9 (13.24%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (5.88%) AI Agents
4 4 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.88%) Life Science
5 3 (4.41%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.35%) Linux
2 3 (4.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (52.94%) Agile
2 34 (50.00%) AI
3 31 (45.59%) CI/CD
3 31 (45.59%) Machine Learning
4 28 (41.18%) LLM
4 28 (41.18%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 26 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (38.24%) Knowledge Transfer
6 25 (36.76%) Data Engineering
6 25 (36.76%) MLOps
6 25 (36.76%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (36.76%) Rainbow Teams
7 24 (35.29%) DevOps
7 24 (35.29%) Docs as Code
7 24 (35.29%) Mentoring
8 23 (33.82%) Open Source
9 22 (32.35%) Technical Leadership
10 21 (30.88%) Prompt Engineering
11 20 (29.41%) Containerisation
11 20 (29.41%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 49 (72.06%) Python
2 19 (27.94%) SQL
3 9 (13.24%) PowerShell
4 8 (11.76%) TypeScript
5 7 (10.29%) Java
6 6 (8.82%) Bash
7 3 (4.41%) Bicep
7 3 (4.41%) C#
8 2 (2.94%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (39.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 18 (26.47%) AWS Certification
2 18 (26.47%) Azure Certification
3 9 (13.24%) Security Cleared
4 8 (11.76%) SC Cleared
5 7 (10.29%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.41%) Degree
7 1 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.47%) CCSP
7 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.47%) CISM
7 1 (1.47%) CISSP
7 1 (1.47%) CSPO
7 1 (1.47%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.24%) NCSC
2 8 (11.76%) Data Quality
3 7 (10.29%) GDPR
4 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.47%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (19.12%) Docker
2 3 (4.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (16.18%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.82%) Ansible
2 6 (8.82%) Grafana
3 3 (4.41%) Control-M
3 3 (4.41%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (4.41%) Progress Chef
3 3 (4.41%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (17.65%) Google
2 10 (14.71%) Databricks
3 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.41%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.41%) Splunk
4 3 (4.41%) VMware
5 2 (2.94%) Adobe