Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 31 44
Rank change year-on-year -57 +13 +9
Permanent jobs citing GCP 3,026 7,151 11,628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.03% 7.19% 7.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.54% 16.67% 14.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,970 3,502 4,408
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,350 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,664 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £130,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,066 £64,828 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.37% +3.72% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,439 42,907 78,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 43.11% 48.41%
Number of salaries quoted 26,676 28,199 41,290
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the UK

GCP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP.

Salary trend for GCP in the UK

GCP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GCP in the UK

GCP
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England -54 2,577 £80,000 - 809
UK excluding London -72 1,616 £65,066 +0.37% 459
Work from Home -32 1,328 £77,500 - 438
London -16 1,264 £95,000 +5.56% 497
North of England -57 505 £67,500 +3.85% 111
Scotland -58 289 £69,500 +15.83% 38
South West -17 281 £70,000 +7.69% 52
North West -69 255 £67,500 +3.85% 57
South East -102 216 £61,000 -12.86% 157
Yorkshire -28 198 £67,082 -0.62% 44
Midlands -95 193 £65,000 +18.18% 45
West Midlands -96 123 £74,000 +25.42% 30
East Midlands -55 70 £55,000 - 15
East of England -76 67 £55,000 -8.33% 21
North East +5 52 £71,250 +29.55% 10
Wales -34 43 £57,500 +5.50% 15
Northern Ireland -22 16 £90,000 +71.43% 22
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 - 1

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 343 (11.34%) Apache Airflow
2 331 (10.94%) Apache
3 182 (6.01%) Apache Spark
4 59 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 46 (1.52%) Confluence
6 31 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 22 (0.73%) nginx
7 22 (0.73%) WebSphere
8 21 (0.69%) Captiva
8 21 (0.69%) FileNet
9 19 (0.63%) IIS
10 17 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
11 14 (0.46%) SAS
12 12 (0.40%) OpenStack
12 12 (0.40%) SharePoint 2010
12 12 (0.40%) SharePoint 2013
13 7 (0.23%) Luigi
13 7 (0.23%) WordPress
14 6 (0.20%) Apache Solr
15 3 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 27 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.23%) Simulink
4 4 (0.13%) Trello
5 3 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.066%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.066%) Sketch
7 1 (0.033%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.033%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.033%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.099%) Magento
3 2 (0.066%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (0.033%) HFM
4 1 (0.033%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.033%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.033%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.033%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.033%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.033%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,288 (75.61%) AWS
2 2,055 (67.91%) Azure
3 310 (10.24%) SaaS
4 218 (7.20%) GitHub
5 202 (6.68%) Microsoft 365
6 179 (5.92%) Snowflake
7 178 (5.88%) dbt
8 161 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
9 135 (4.46%) Power Platform
10 131 (4.33%) PaaS
11 116 (3.83%) Cloud Computing
12 101 (3.34%) Serverless
13 87 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
14 86 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
14 86 (2.84%) IaaS
15 65 (2.15%) Amazon S3
16 62 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
17 55 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
18 50 (1.65%) OpenShift
19 42 (1.39%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 171 (5.65%) Firewall
2 71 (2.35%) DNS
2 71 (2.35%) WAN
3 64 (2.12%) VPN
4 47 (1.55%) LAN
5 42 (1.39%) TCP/IP
6 35 (1.16%) SD-WAN
7 33 (1.09%) AMQP
8 30 (0.99%) SAN
9 27 (0.89%) Network Security
10 21 (0.69%) Internet
11 19 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
12 18 (0.59%) DHCP
13 17 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
13 17 (0.56%) Kerberos
14 16 (0.53%) VoIP
15 14 (0.46%) VLAN
15 14 (0.46%) Wireless
16 13 (0.43%) BGP
17 12 (0.40%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 577 (19.07%) BigQuery
2 419 (13.85%) Looker
3 363 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
4 260 (8.59%) Data Lake
5 250 (8.26%) Apache Ignite
6 174 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
7 153 (5.06%) Big Data
8 150 (4.96%) NoSQL
8 150 (4.96%) SQL Server
9 146 (4.82%) Amazon Athena
10 130 (4.30%) Apache Arrow
10 130 (4.30%) Dremio
11 123 (4.06%) Hadoop
12 122 (4.03%) Power BI
13 111 (3.67%) MySQL
14 102 (3.37%) Relational Database
15 99 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
16 82 (2.71%) Tableau
17 58 (1.92%) MongoDB
18 51 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 231 (7.63%) Git
2 217 (7.17%) Jenkins
3 88 (2.91%) JIRA
4 82 (2.71%) Cypress.io
5 74 (2.45%) GitLab
6 50 (1.65%) Selenium
7 46 (1.52%) CircleCI
8 34 (1.12%) Oracle Forms
9 27 (0.89%) Spinnaker
10 25 (0.83%) IBM UrbanCode
11 22 (0.73%) TeamCity
12 17 (0.56%) JUnit
13 16 (0.53%) Cucumber
13 16 (0.53%) Maven
14 14 (0.46%) SonarQube
15 12 (0.40%) webpack
16 10 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
17 8 (0.26%) JMeter
18 7 (0.23%) Appium
18 7 (0.23%) MLflow
General
1 1,026 (33.91%) Finance
2 572 (18.90%) Banking
3 569 (18.80%) Social Skills
4 554 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
5 401 (13.25%) Front Office
6 279 (9.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 167 (5.52%) Law
8 165 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
9 149 (4.92%) Retail
10 125 (4.13%) Investment Banking
11 105 (3.47%) Legal
12 98 (3.24%) Marketing
13 90 (2.97%) Public Sector
14 72 (2.38%) Billing
15 47 (1.55%) Back Office
16 41 (1.35%) Retail Banking
17 38 (1.26%) Aerospace
18 37 (1.22%) Financial Institution
19 30 (0.99%) Telecoms
20 26 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 659 (21.78%) Software Engineer
2 616 (20.36%) Senior
3 588 (19.43%) Architect
4 570 (18.84%) Developer
5 436 (14.41%) Data Engineer
6 330 (10.91%) Lead
7 294 (9.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 216 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
9 209 (6.91%) Python Developer
10 200 (6.61%) Platform Engineer
11 187 (6.18%) Python Engineer
12 182 (6.01%) Principal Data Engineer
13 177 (5.85%) Solutions Architect
14 172 (5.68%) Data Architect
15 168 (5.55%) DevOps Engineer
16 163 (5.39%) Cloud Architect
17 156 (5.16%) Python Software Engineer
18 152 (5.02%) Senior Software Engineer
19 137 (4.53%) Senior Developer
20 132 (4.36%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 514 (16.99%) React
2 293 (9.68%) gRPC
3 251 (8.29%) Protocol Buffers
4 250 (8.26%) Redux
5 246 (8.13%) AngularJS
6 204 (6.74%) .NET
7 199 (6.58%) Node.js
8 183 (6.05%) Kafka
9 163 (5.39%) Pandas
10 150 (4.96%) Material-UI
11 148 (4.89%) Vue
12 135 (4.46%) NumPy
13 130 (4.30%) REST
14 125 (4.13%) SciPy
15 121 (4.00%) Spring
16 95 (3.14%) GraphQL
17 90 (2.97%) CSS
18 88 (2.91%) RESTful
19 85 (2.81%) .NET Core
20 84 (2.78%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 401 (13.25%) Fixed Income
2 345 (11.40%) Public Cloud
3 327 (10.81%) Hedge funds
4 301 (9.95%) Equities
5 292 (9.65%) Self-Motivation
6 243 (8.03%) Derivative
7 206 (6.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 187 (6.18%) Cloud Native
9 150 (4.96%) Product Ownership
10 136 (4.49%) Algorithms
11 111 (3.67%) PKI
12 98 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
13 86 (2.84%) Onboarding
14 83 (2.74%) Management Information System
15 70 (2.31%) Data Structures
16 59 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
17 51 (1.69%) Private Cloud
18 50 (1.65%) Data Centre
19 45 (1.49%) Mobile App
20 42 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 304 (10.05%) Linux
2 226 (7.47%) Windows
3 87 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 70 (2.31%) Unix
5 46 (1.52%) Ubuntu
6 41 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 38 (1.26%) CentOS
8 34 (1.12%) Debian
9 31 (1.02%) Android
10 24 (0.79%) Apple iOS
11 16 (0.53%) zOS
12 12 (0.40%) Solaris
13 10 (0.33%) Windows 10
13 10 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (0.26%) Windows 7
14 8 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
15 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.23%) VMS
16 6 (0.20%) Mesosphere
17 2 (0.066%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,533 (50.66%) Agile
2 987 (32.62%) Software Engineering
3 847 (27.99%) DevOps
4 777 (25.68%) Problem-Solving
5 596 (19.70%) Mentoring
6 580 (19.17%) CI/CD
7 565 (18.67%) Data Engineering
8 467 (15.43%) Asset Management
9 435 (14.38%) Platform Engineering
10 413 (13.65%) ETL
11 403 (13.32%) Analytics
12 393 (12.99%) Machine Learning
13 383 (12.66%) Data Science
14 364 (12.03%) Data Modelling
15 351 (11.60%) Data Pipeline
16 350 (11.57%) Infrastructure as Code
17 345 (11.40%) Artificial Intelligence
18 343 (11.34%) Investment Management
19 315 (10.41%) Full Stack Development
20 294 (9.72%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,178 (38.93%) Python
2 687 (22.70%) SQL
3 671 (22.17%) Java
4 548 (18.11%) JavaScript
5 501 (16.56%) TypeScript
6 238 (7.87%) C#
7 163 (5.39%) Go
8 133 (4.40%) Scala
9 116 (3.83%) Bash
10 82 (2.71%) PowerShell
11 80 (2.64%) R
12 69 (2.28%) Kotlin
13 64 (2.12%) PHP
14 47 (1.55%) Ruby
15 40 (1.32%) Shell Script
16 29 (0.96%) Groovy
17 26 (0.86%) T-SQL
18 23 (0.76%) C++
19 16 (0.53%) Perl
20 15 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 356 (11.76%) Degree
2 171 (5.65%) Security Cleared
3 167 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 127 (4.20%) SC Cleared
5 104 (3.44%) AWS Certification
6 70 (2.31%) Master's Degree
7 68 (2.25%) DV Cleared
8 57 (1.88%) Azure Certification
9 53 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 47 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (1.49%) CISSP
12 32 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
13 31 (1.02%) CCNA
13 31 (1.02%) CISM
14 26 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
15 20 (0.66%) GIAC
16 19 (0.63%) DBS Check
16 19 (0.63%) PhD
17 16 (0.53%) ISSMP
17 16 (0.53%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 324 (10.71%) GDPR
2 201 (6.64%) Data Quality
3 193 (6.38%) QA
4 50 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 34 (1.12%) NIST
7 20 (0.66%) SLA
8 19 (0.63%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.53%) COBIT
10 9 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.26%) PSD2
12 7 (0.23%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.23%) NCSC
12 7 (0.23%) WCAG
13 6 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.13%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.099%) CRD IV
15 3 (0.099%) GRC
15 3 (0.099%) NIST 800
System Software
1 402 (13.28%) Docker
2 129 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 103 (3.40%) Active Directory
4 65 (2.15%) Hyper-V
5 31 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.76%) XenApp
7 18 (0.59%) XenDesktop
8 15 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.46%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.30%) KVM
10 9 (0.30%) vSphere
11 8 (0.26%) HDFS
12 4 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.066%) Apache Flume
13 2 (0.066%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.066%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.066%) Varnish
14 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 528 (17.45%) Kubernetes
2 486 (16.06%) Terraform
3 210 (6.94%) Ansible
4 85 (2.81%) Puppet
5 56 (1.85%) Progress Chef
6 53 (1.75%) Grafana
7 44 (1.45%) Prometheus
8 25 (0.83%) Nagios
9 24 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (0.69%) ZABBIX
11 20 (0.66%) SCCM
12 18 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 15 (0.50%) Istio
14 14 (0.46%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.40%) Graphite
15 12 (0.40%) Opsgenie
15 12 (0.40%) VxRail
16 10 (0.33%) Argo
16 10 (0.33%) Packer
17 9 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,367 (45.18%) Google
2 431 (14.24%) Microsoft
3 155 (5.12%) VMware
4 127 (4.20%) Oracle
5 117 (3.87%) Databricks
6 95 (3.14%) Cisco
7 82 (2.71%) IBM
8 56 (1.85%) Red Hat
8 56 (1.85%) ServiceNow
9 55 (1.82%) Dell
10 44 (1.45%) SAP
11 41 (1.35%) Alteryx
12 39 (1.29%) Citrix
13 38 (1.26%) Bloomberg
14 27 (0.89%) SaltStack
15 25 (0.83%) NetApp
16 24 (0.79%) HP
16 24 (0.79%) Splunk
17 21 (0.69%) Kofax
17 21 (0.69%) Pega