GCP Jobs in the UK excluding London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for GCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GCP over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 51 94
Rank change year-on-year -69 +43 +12
Permanent jobs citing GCP 1,614 3,490 2,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.25% 5.90% 3.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.85% 15.29% 8.93%
Number of salaries quoted 910 1,332 1,271
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,066 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,539 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +13.68%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

GCP is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,573 22,822 28,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.91% 38.59% 39.90%
Number of salaries quoted 17,413 13,617 19,644
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,298 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -53 506 £67,500 +3.85% 112
Scotland -54 289 £69,500 +15.83% 43
South West -22 280 £70,000 +7.69% 54
North West -70 256 £67,500 +3.85% 58
South East -95 215 £61,750 -11.79% 157
Yorkshire -28 199 £67,500 - 44
Midlands -102 191 £65,000 +18.18% 44
West Midlands -94 122 £73,000 +23.73% 29
East Midlands -63 69 £55,000 - 15
East of England -76 68 £55,000 -8.33% 25
North East +5 51 £75,000 +36.36% 10
Wales -32 43 £57,500 +5.50% 18
Northern Ireland -19 16 £90,000 +71.43% 18
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 - 1
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 87 (5.39%) Apache Spark
2 53 (3.28%) Apache
3 45 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 32 (1.98%) Confluence
5 29 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
6 19 (1.18%) SharePoint
7 18 (1.12%) WebSphere
8 17 (1.05%) Captiva
8 17 (1.05%) Cloud Foundry
8 17 (1.05%) FileNet
8 17 (1.05%) IIS
9 13 (0.81%) OpenStack
10 10 (0.62%) nginx
10 10 (0.62%) SAS
11 7 (0.43%) SharePoint 2010
11 7 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
12 4 (0.25%) Luigi
13 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.062%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.43%) Simulink
2 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.12%) Sketch
2 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.062%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.062%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) SAP FI-GL
2 1 (0.062%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.062%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (0.062%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,117 (69.21%) AWS
2 1,089 (67.47%) Azure
3 224 (13.88%) SaaS
4 156 (9.67%) Microsoft 365
5 138 (8.55%) GitHub
6 120 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
7 73 (4.52%) Cloud Computing
8 70 (4.34%) Power Platform
9 61 (3.78%) Serverless
10 58 (3.59%) PaaS
11 49 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 46 (2.85%) OpenShift
13 45 (2.79%) Snowflake
14 44 (2.73%) Amazon S3
14 44 (2.73%) IaaS
15 39 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
16 31 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
16 31 (1.92%) Slack
17 29 (1.80%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 108 (6.69%) Firewall
2 56 (3.47%) WAN
3 53 (3.28%) VPN
4 30 (1.86%) LAN
4 30 (1.86%) SD-WAN
5 27 (1.67%) AMQP
6 25 (1.55%) SAN
7 23 (1.43%) DNS
8 19 (1.18%) Network Security
9 17 (1.05%) Kerberos
10 15 (0.93%) DHCP
11 14 (0.87%) TCP/IP
11 14 (0.87%) VoIP
12 13 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
12 13 (0.81%) VLAN
12 13 (0.81%) Wireless
13 12 (0.74%) BGP
13 12 (0.74%) iSCSI
14 10 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 439 (27.20%) BigQuery
2 371 (22.99%) Looker
3 272 (16.85%) Data Warehouse
4 116 (7.19%) Data Lake
5 109 (6.75%) Big Data
6 107 (6.63%) SQL Server
7 80 (4.96%) MySQL
7 80 (4.96%) NoSQL
8 67 (4.15%) Power BI
9 65 (4.03%) Hadoop
10 63 (3.90%) Relational Database
11 55 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
12 53 (3.28%) Tableau
13 46 (2.85%) Elasticsearch
14 39 (2.42%) Qlik Sense
15 33 (2.04%) Redis
16 30 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
17 27 (1.67%) Cloudera CDH
18 22 (1.36%) Scylla
19 19 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 144 (8.92%) Git
2 113 (7.00%) Jenkins
3 58 (3.59%) JIRA
4 44 (2.73%) Selenium
5 38 (2.35%) GitLab
6 29 (1.80%) Oracle Forms
7 25 (1.55%) CircleCI
7 25 (1.55%) IBM UrbanCode
8 17 (1.05%) Spinnaker
9 14 (0.87%) JUnit
10 13 (0.81%) Maven
11 12 (0.74%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.62%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.43%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.37%) Appium
14 6 (0.37%) JMeter
15 5 (0.31%) PHPUnit
15 5 (0.31%) webpack
16 4 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
16 4 (0.25%) TeamCity
General
1 434 (26.89%) Finance
2 396 (24.54%) Analytical Skills
3 294 (18.22%) Social Skills
4 228 (14.13%) Banking
5 144 (8.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 122 (7.56%) Presentation Skills
7 107 (6.63%) Law
8 75 (4.65%) Retail
9 72 (4.46%) Billing
10 69 (4.28%) Legal
11 61 (3.78%) Marketing
12 32 (1.98%) Aerospace
13 27 (1.67%) Public Sector
14 19 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
15 18 (1.12%) Games
16 17 (1.05%) Tech for Good
16 17 (1.05%) Telecoms
17 13 (0.81%) Investment Banking
18 8 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
19 7 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 318 (19.70%) Architect
2 288 (17.84%) Data Engineer
3 284 (17.60%) Software Engineer
4 270 (16.73%) Senior
5 185 (11.46%) Principal Engineer
6 179 (11.09%) Lead
7 162 (10.04%) Platform Engineer
8 158 (9.79%) Principal Data Engineer
9 126 (7.81%) Developer
10 112 (6.94%) Data Architect
11 99 (6.13%) Cloud Architect
11 99 (6.13%) Data Manager
12 94 (5.82%) DevOps Engineer
13 84 (5.20%) Engineering Manager
14 78 (4.83%) Senior Software Engineer
15 74 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
16 65 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
17 60 (3.72%) Java Engineer
18 57 (3.53%) Java Software Engineer
19 50 (3.10%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (10.35%) React
2 108 (6.69%) AngularJS
3 92 (5.70%) Spring
4 91 (5.64%) Kafka
5 83 (5.14%) Node.js
6 74 (4.58%) REST
6 74 (4.58%) Spring Boot
7 63 (3.90%) CSS
8 59 (3.66%) HTML
9 58 (3.59%) GraphQL
10 57 (3.53%) RESTful
11 51 (3.16%) .NET
12 46 (2.85%) PySpark
13 34 (2.11%) gRPC
14 33 (2.04%) Vue
15 32 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
16 28 (1.73%) jQuery
16 28 (1.73%) OpenAPI
16 28 (1.73%) Swagger
17 27 (1.67%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 276 (17.10%) Public Cloud
2 260 (16.11%) Self-Motivation
3 127 (7.87%) Product Ownership
4 116 (7.19%) Cloud Native
5 101 (6.26%) Algorithms
6 70 (4.34%) PKI
7 59 (3.66%) Onboarding
8 42 (2.60%) Data Structures
9 41 (2.54%) Private Cloud
10 39 (2.42%) Data Centre
11 36 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
12 28 (1.73%) Mobile App
13 27 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
13 27 (1.67%) Management Information System
14 25 (1.55%) Mainframe
15 21 (1.30%) Blockchain
16 20 (1.24%) IoT
17 19 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
18 18 (1.12%) Replication
19 17 (1.05%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 196 (12.14%) Linux
2 149 (9.23%) Windows
3 70 (4.34%) Windows Server
4 55 (3.41%) Unix
5 42 (2.60%) Ubuntu
6 38 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 35 (2.17%) Debian
8 28 (1.73%) CentOS
9 17 (1.05%) Android
10 10 (0.62%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.56%) Windows 10
11 9 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.50%) Windows 7
12 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (0.43%) Solaris
14 6 (0.37%) Mesosphere
15 5 (0.31%) Mac OS
16 2 (0.12%) VMS
16 2 (0.12%) Windows Vista
17 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 788 (48.82%) Agile
2 549 (34.01%) DevOps
3 543 (33.64%) Problem-Solving
4 445 (27.57%) Mentoring
5 443 (27.45%) Data Engineering
6 363 (22.49%) Platform Engineering
7 355 (22.00%) Software Engineering
8 324 (20.07%) CI/CD
9 260 (16.11%) ETL
10 257 (15.92%) Data Science
11 238 (14.75%) Data Modelling
12 234 (14.50%) Data Pipeline
13 199 (12.33%) Infrastructure as Code
14 197 (12.21%) Change Management
15 193 (11.96%) Project Management
16 180 (11.15%) Analytics
17 175 (10.84%) Microservices
18 172 (10.66%) Roadmaps
19 169 (10.47%) Containerisation
20 158 (9.79%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 394 (24.41%) Python
2 334 (20.69%) SQL
3 313 (19.39%) Java
4 194 (12.02%) JavaScript
5 91 (5.64%) Go
5 91 (5.64%) TypeScript
6 73 (4.52%) C#
7 60 (3.72%) Bash
8 53 (3.28%) PHP
9 49 (3.04%) PowerShell
9 49 (3.04%) Scala
10 25 (1.55%) Groovy
10 25 (1.55%) Shell Script
11 16 (0.99%) R
12 15 (0.93%) C++
13 10 (0.62%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.43%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.43%) Ruby
15 6 (0.37%) Bicep
16 5 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 139 (8.61%) Degree
2 88 (5.45%) Security Cleared
3 64 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 63 (3.90%) SC Cleared
5 52 (3.22%) DV Cleared
6 43 (2.66%) AWS Certification
7 33 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
8 28 (1.73%) CCNA
9 26 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (1.61%) Master's Degree
10 25 (1.55%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (0.74%) PMI Certification
13 11 (0.68%) CCNP
13 11 (0.68%) MCSE
14 10 (0.62%) CISSP
14 10 (0.62%) DBS Check
15 9 (0.56%) CISM
15 9 (0.56%) MCITP
16 8 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (16.85%) GDPR
2 136 (8.43%) Data Quality
3 113 (7.00%) QA
4 16 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 14 (0.87%) SLA
6 12 (0.74%) NIST
7 8 (0.50%) PSD2
8 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.31%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.19%) GRC
10 3 (0.19%) NCSC
10 3 (0.19%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.12%) CRD IV
11 2 (0.12%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.062%) Basel III
12 1 (0.062%) PMO
12 1 (0.062%) SOC 2
System Software
1 221 (13.69%) Docker
2 98 (6.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 76 (4.71%) Active Directory
4 54 (3.35%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.12%) XenApp
6 14 (0.87%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.81%) XenDesktop
8 8 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.43%) vSphere
10 6 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.062%) Apache Flume
13 1 (0.062%) KVM
13 1 (0.062%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 294 (18.22%) Kubernetes
2 253 (15.68%) Terraform
3 120 (7.43%) Ansible
4 57 (3.53%) Puppet
5 47 (2.91%) Progress Chef
6 29 (1.80%) Prometheus
7 23 (1.43%) Grafana
8 20 (1.24%) ZABBIX
9 16 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.87%) Nagios
10 14 (0.87%) SCCM
11 13 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.81%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.74%) Opsgenie
12 12 (0.74%) VxRail
13 8 (0.50%) EMC VPLEX
14 6 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
14 6 (0.37%) Istio
14 6 (0.37%) SCOM
14 6 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 875 (54.21%) Google
2 253 (15.68%) Microsoft
3 123 (7.62%) VMware
4 88 (5.45%) Oracle
5 68 (4.21%) Cisco
5 68 (4.21%) IBM
6 50 (3.10%) Red Hat
7 48 (2.97%) Dell
8 41 (2.54%) Alteryx
9 32 (1.98%) Citrix
10 31 (1.92%) ServiceNow
11 30 (1.86%) Databricks
12 27 (1.67%) SaltStack
13 26 (1.61%) SAP
14 25 (1.55%) NetApp
15 19 (1.18%) Fortinet
16 18 (1.12%) Teradata
17 17 (1.05%) Kofax
17 17 (1.05%) Pega
17 17 (1.05%) SolarWinds