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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 40 49
Rank change year-on-year -12 +9 -19
Permanent jobs citing GCP 63 9 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.08% 1.89% 2.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.38% 7.50% 6.80%
Number of salaries quoted 61 8 9
10th Percentile £55,000 £44,750 £55,947
25th Percentile £62,000 £46,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £51,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +56.31% -31.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £92,500 £59,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £65,000 £88,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £80,500 £51,500 £76,500
% change year-on-year +56.31% -32.68% +39.09%

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 438 120 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 21.44% 25.21% 32.81%
Number of salaries quoted 333 92 148
10th Percentile £38,350 £25,300 £31,175
25th Percentile £45,000 £28,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% +2.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £70,063
90th Percentile £92,254 £72,375 £85,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%

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 September 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 (17.46%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.17%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 59 (93.65%) AWS
2 52 (82.54%) Azure
3 11 (17.46%) Serverless
4 8 (12.70%) Google Analytics
4 8 (12.70%) Google Tag Manager
5 5 (7.94%) Amazon S3
5 5 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.76%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.76%) Snowflake
6 3 (4.76%) Vertex AI
7 2 (3.17%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 2 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.17%) Dagster
7 2 (3.17%) IaaS
7 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (3.17%) OneDrive
7 2 (3.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (1.59%) Firewall
2 1 (1.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.87%) BigQuery
2 8 (12.70%) Looker
3 7 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (9.52%) Metadata
5 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.17%) Power BI
7 1 (1.59%) Big Data
7 1 (1.59%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.59%) Flink
7 1 (1.59%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) JIRA
1 6 (9.52%) SonarQube
2 4 (6.35%) GitLab
2 4 (6.35%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.76%) Artifactory
3 3 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (4.76%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.17%) Git
5 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.59%) Gatling
5 1 (1.59%) JMeter
5 1 (1.59%) REST Assured
General
1 32 (50.79%) Public Sector
2 23 (36.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 7 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.11%) Finance
5 3 (4.76%) Banking
5 3 (4.76%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (38.10%) Lead
2 17 (26.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 11 (17.46%) Data Engineer
4 10 (15.87%) Architect
5 9 (14.29%) Databricks Data Engineer
5 9 (14.29%) Databricks Engineer
5 9 (14.29%) Python Data Engineer
5 9 (14.29%) Python Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) Technical Architect
7 5 (7.94%) Lead Data Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Lead Architect
8 4 (6.35%) Senior
8 4 (6.35%) Technical Leader
9 3 (4.76%) Analyst
9 3 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Cloud Security Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Security Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Senior Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (23.81%) LangChain
1 15 (23.81%) LlamaIndex
2 8 (12.70%) Terraform
3 7 (11.11%) Web Services
4 3 (4.76%) AWS CDK
4 3 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (4.76%) Node.js
5 2 (3.17%) .NET
5 2 (3.17%) Middleware
6 1 (1.59%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.59%) Kafka
6 1 (1.59%) Playwright
6 1 (1.59%) Pulumi
6 1 (1.59%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (30.16%) Onboarding
2 11 (17.46%) Cloud Native
3 9 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
4 6 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.35%) AI Agents
5 4 (6.35%) Life Science
6 3 (4.76%) Private Cloud
7 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
7 2 (3.17%) Client/Server
7 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
7 2 (3.17%) Hedge funds
7 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
7 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.59%) Online Gambling
8 1 (1.59%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.76%) Linux
1 3 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (52.38%) Agile
2 28 (44.44%) AI
3 27 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (41.27%) Machine Learning
5 25 (39.68%) CI/CD
6 21 (33.33%) DevOps
6 21 (33.33%) LLM
6 21 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 20 (31.75%) Data Engineering
7 20 (31.75%) Mentoring
8 19 (30.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (30.16%) Knowledge Transfer
8 19 (30.16%) MLOps
8 19 (30.16%) Rainbow Teams
9 17 (26.98%) Docs as Code
9 17 (26.98%) Open Source
9 17 (26.98%) Prompt Engineering
9 17 (26.98%) Technical Leadership
10 15 (23.81%) Analytics
10 15 (23.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 45 (71.43%) Python
2 19 (30.16%) SQL
3 9 (14.29%) Java
4 7 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.94%) C#
5 5 (7.94%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.76%) Bash
7 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.59%) C
Qualifications
1 23 (36.51%) BPSS Clearance
2 15 (23.81%) Azure Certification
3 14 (22.22%) AWS Certification
4 10 (15.87%) Security Cleared
5 8 (12.70%) SC Cleared
6 7 (11.11%) DV Cleared
7 6 (9.52%) Degree
8 4 (6.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (6.35%) CCSP
8 4 (6.35%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (6.35%) CISSP
9 3 (4.76%) CISM
10 1 (1.59%) CISA
10 1 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.59%) CSPO
10 1 (1.59%) GSEC
10 1 (1.59%) IIBA
10 1 (1.59%) ISTQB
10 1 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 8 (12.70%) GDPR
3 7 (11.11%) NCSC
4 4 (6.35%) Accessibility
4 4 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (6.35%) NIST
5 2 (3.17%) QA
6 1 (1.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (12.70%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.52%) Ansible
3 4 (6.35%) Grafana
4 3 (4.76%) Control-M
4 3 (4.76%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (4.76%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (17.46%) Databricks
1 11 (17.46%) Google
2 9 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.76%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.76%) VMware
4 2 (3.17%) Adobe
5 1 (1.59%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco
5 1 (1.59%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.59%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.59%) Zscaler