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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 38 49
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 +3
Permanent jobs citing GCP 27 10 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.24% 3.13% 3.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.15% 9.01% 8.37%
Number of salaries quoted 25 9 22
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,950 £42,113
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -26.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £77,424 £68,250 £83,759
90th Percentile £97,500 £82,750 £87,250
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 295 111 418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 24.52% 34.69% 40.39%
Number of salaries quoted 197 88 346
10th Percentile £32,800 £30,519 £29,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +13.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £66,137
90th Percentile £86,253 £82,800 £80,000
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 17 May 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 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (85.19%) Azure
2 22 (81.48%) AWS
3 9 (33.33%) GitHub
4 8 (29.63%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (29.63%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 3 (11.11%) Serverless
5 3 (11.11%) Vertex AI
6 2 (7.41%) Dagster
6 2 (7.41%) Google Analytics
6 2 (7.41%) Google Tag Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Snowflake
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.70%) dbt
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.70%) Mimecast
7 1 (3.70%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (33.33%) Firewall
2 8 (29.63%) DNS
2 8 (29.63%) HTTP
2 8 (29.63%) TCP/IP
3 3 (11.11%) Network Security
4 1 (3.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) BigQuery
1 3 (11.11%) Power BI
2 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.41%) Looker
2 2 (7.41%) Metadata
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.70%) Big Data
3 1 (3.70%) Data Vault
3 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.81%) JIRA
3 2 (7.41%) Artifactory
3 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
3 2 (7.41%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (7.41%) SonarQube
3 2 (7.41%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.70%) Gatling
4 1 (3.70%) GitLab
4 1 (3.70%) JMeter
4 1 (3.70%) REST Assured
General
1 8 (29.63%) Law
1 8 (29.63%) Telecoms
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 3 (11.11%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Financial Institution
5 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Cloud Security Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Lead
4 3 (11.11%) Security Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Data Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Junior DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) Junior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (37.04%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (11.11%) LangChain
2 3 (11.11%) LlamaIndex
3 2 (7.41%) .NET
4 1 (3.70%) Gherkin
4 1 (3.70%) Playwright
4 1 (3.70%) REST
4 1 (3.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (14.81%) Public Cloud
3 3 (11.11%) AI Agents
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 3 (11.11%) Life Science
4 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
4 2 (7.41%) Client/Server
4 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (7.41%) Hedge funds
5 1 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.70%) Online Gambling
5 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.70%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) DevOps
2 16 (59.26%) CI/CD
3 11 (40.74%) Containerisation
3 11 (40.74%) DevSecOps
4 10 (37.04%) Continuous Delivery
4 10 (37.04%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (33.33%) Agile
5 9 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 8 (29.63%) High Availability
6 8 (29.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 8 (29.63%) Static Code Analysis
7 6 (22.22%) Event-Driven
7 6 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (18.52%) Analytics
8 5 (18.52%) Coaching
8 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
9 4 (14.81%) AI
9 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 18 (66.67%) Python
2 8 (29.63%) Bash
2 8 (29.63%) Go
3 4 (14.81%) C#
3 4 (14.81%) Java
3 4 (14.81%) SQL
4 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.70%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 4 (14.81%) CCSP
2 4 (14.81%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (14.81%) CISSP
3 3 (11.11%) CISM
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.70%) CISA
4 1 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.70%) GSEC
4 1 (3.70%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (14.81%) NIST
2 3 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 3 (11.11%) QA
3 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.70%) GDPR
4 1 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) Grafana
1 11 (40.74%) Terraform
2 10 (37.04%) Ansible
3 8 (29.63%) Prometheus
4 2 (7.41%) Control-M
4 2 (7.41%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Google
3 2 (7.41%) Atlassian
3 2 (7.41%) VMware
4 1 (3.70%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco
4 1 (3.70%) Databricks
4 1 (3.70%) Dataiku
4 1 (3.70%) Proofpoint
4 1 (3.70%) Zscaler