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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 34 51
Rank change year-on-year -13 +17 +2
Permanent jobs citing GCP 24 10 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.34% 3.28% 3.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.89% 8.33% 8.13%
Number of salaries quoted 21 9 20
10th Percentile £36,250 £46,950 £41,375
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% -24.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £83,759
90th Percentile £97,500 £82,750 £87,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £48,750 £56,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -13.72% -24.67% +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 270 120 406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 26.37% 39.34% 40.20%
Number of salaries quoted 170 102 335
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £29,600
25th Percentile £36,875 £42,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,125 £83,400 £77,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 18 April 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 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (87.50%) Azure
2 20 (83.33%) AWS
3 10 (41.67%) GitHub
4 9 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 2 (8.33%) Dagster
6 2 (8.33%) Google Analytics
6 2 (8.33%) Google Tag Manager
6 2 (8.33%) Serverless
6 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
6 2 (8.33%) Vertex AI
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.17%) dbt
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.17%) Mimecast
7 1 (4.17%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (41.67%) Firewall
2 9 (37.50%) DNS
2 9 (37.50%) HTTP
2 9 (37.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.33%) Network Security
4 1 (4.17%) Internet
4 1 (4.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) BigQuery
1 3 (12.50%) Power BI
2 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.33%) Looker
2 2 (8.33%) Metadata
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.17%) Big Data
3 1 (4.17%) Data Vault
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.17%) Gatling
3 1 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) JMeter
3 1 (4.17%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (4.17%) REST Assured
3 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (37.50%) Law
1 9 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.50%) Finance
5 2 (8.33%) Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Data Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Junior
5 2 (8.33%) Junior DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) Junior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) Security Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.33%) .NET
3 1 (4.17%) Gherkin
3 1 (4.17%) Playwright
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.33%) Client/Server
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Hedge funds
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.17%) Online Gambling
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) DevOps
2 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 13 (54.17%) Containerisation
4 12 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (45.83%) Continuous Delivery
5 11 (45.83%) DevSecOps
6 10 (41.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 9 (37.50%) High Availability
7 9 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (37.50%) Static Code Analysis
8 8 (33.33%) Agile
9 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (16.67%) Coaching
10 4 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 4 (16.67%) User Experience
11 3 (12.50%) Cloud Security
11 3 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
11 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
11 3 (12.50%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) Python
2 9 (37.50%) Bash
2 9 (37.50%) Go
3 3 (12.50%) C#
3 3 (12.50%) Java
4 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (12.50%) CCSP
2 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (12.50%) CISSP
3 2 (8.33%) CISM
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.17%) CISA
4 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) GSEC
4 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (12.50%) NIST
1 3 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Grafana
1 11 (45.83%) Terraform
2 10 (41.67%) Ansible
3 9 (37.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.17%) Control-M
4 1 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) Alteryx
3 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco
3 1 (4.17%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) Dataiku
3 1 (4.17%) Proofpoint
3 1 (4.17%) VMware
3 1 (4.17%) Zscaler