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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 47 91
Rank change year-on-year -92 +44 +10
Permanent jobs citing GCP 1,559 3,286 2,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.97% 5.90% 3.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.39% 15.21% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 836 1,254 1,282
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,091 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,343 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.95% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £78,126 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.34% - +14.29%

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 24,385 21,606 30,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.87% 38.82% 39.67%
Number of salaries quoted 17,824 13,300 19,551
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,975 £40,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,088 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.16% +2.40% +6.33%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -64 482 £65,000 - 110
South West -35 266 £64,419 +0.66% 37
North West -79 250 £66,250 +1.92% 69
South East -77 240 £58,500 -21.48% 56
Scotland -70 238 £69,500 +15.83% 22
Midlands -118 191 £66,250 +12.29% 38
Yorkshire -39 178 £60,000 -11.11% 35
West Midlands -113 120 £74,000 +25.42% 23
East Midlands -72 71 £56,250 -10.00% 15
East of England -83 69 £55,000 -2.22% 16
North East -4 54 £75,000 +36.36% 6
Wales -28 48 £58,750 +14.96% 8
Northern Ireland -18 19 £65,000 +23.81% 13
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 75 (4.81%) Apache Spark
2 57 (3.66%) Apache
3 45 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (1.86%) Confluence
6 21 (1.35%) SharePoint
7 17 (1.09%) Cloud Foundry
8 16 (1.03%) IIS
9 13 (0.83%) OpenStack
10 8 (0.51%) nginx
10 8 (0.51%) SharePoint 2010
10 8 (0.51%) SharePoint 2013
11 6 (0.38%) Luigi
11 6 (0.38%) SAS
12 4 (0.26%) Captiva
12 4 (0.26%) FileNet
12 4 (0.26%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.13%) CMS
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.064%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.45%) Simulink
2 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.13%) Sketch
2 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.064%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.064%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.064%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.064%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (0.064%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,126 (72.23%) AWS
2 1,054 (67.61%) Azure
3 194 (12.44%) SaaS
4 161 (10.33%) Microsoft 365
5 109 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
5 109 (6.99%) GitHub
6 77 (4.94%) Cloud Computing
7 67 (4.30%) Power Platform
8 61 (3.91%) Serverless
9 58 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 50 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (2.89%) Snowflake
12 43 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (2.44%) OpenShift
14 35 (2.25%) PaaS
15 34 (2.18%) Amazon S3
16 33 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
17 31 (1.99%) IaaS
18 29 (1.86%) dbt
19 26 (1.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 110 (7.06%) Firewall
2 63 (4.04%) WAN
3 53 (3.40%) VPN
4 35 (2.25%) LAN
5 31 (1.99%) SD-WAN
6 29 (1.86%) AMQP
7 25 (1.60%) SAN
8 24 (1.54%) Network Security
9 20 (1.28%) DNS
10 17 (1.09%) Kerberos
11 15 (0.96%) VLAN
11 15 (0.96%) Wireless
12 13 (0.83%) DHCP
12 13 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
12 13 (0.83%) VoIP
13 12 (0.77%) BGP
13 12 (0.77%) iSCSI
13 12 (0.77%) TCP/IP
14 10 (0.64%) MPLS
14 10 (0.64%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 434 (27.84%) BigQuery
2 370 (23.73%) Looker
3 251 (16.10%) Data Warehouse
4 105 (6.74%) SQL Server
5 103 (6.61%) Data Lake
6 95 (6.09%) Big Data
7 82 (5.26%) MySQL
8 67 (4.30%) Relational Database
9 64 (4.11%) Power BI
10 59 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
11 57 (3.66%) Hadoop
12 53 (3.40%) Tableau
13 51 (3.27%) NoSQL
14 39 (2.50%) Qlik Sense
15 38 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
16 29 (1.86%) Cloudera CDH
17 28 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
18 27 (1.73%) Redis
19 19 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
19 19 (1.22%) DB2
Development Applications
1 135 (8.66%) Git
2 84 (5.39%) Jenkins
3 55 (3.53%) JIRA
4 41 (2.63%) Selenium
5 40 (2.57%) GitLab
6 27 (1.73%) CircleCI
7 15 (0.96%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.83%) Cypress.io
8 13 (0.83%) JUnit
9 12 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
10 10 (0.64%) Terragrunt
11 9 (0.58%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.58%) IBM UrbanCode
12 8 (0.51%) Maven
12 8 (0.51%) PHPUnit
13 7 (0.45%) Spinnaker
14 6 (0.38%) Appium
14 6 (0.38%) JMeter
15 5 (0.32%) webpack
16 4 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 396 (25.40%) Analytical Skills
2 313 (20.08%) Finance
3 284 (18.22%) Social Skills
4 118 (7.57%) Banking
5 112 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 111 (7.12%) Presentation Skills
7 85 (5.45%) Law
8 73 (4.68%) Billing
9 65 (4.17%) Legal
10 64 (4.11%) Retail
11 58 (3.72%) Marketing
12 35 (2.25%) Public Sector
13 33 (2.12%) Aerospace
14 21 (1.35%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
16 18 (1.15%) Games
17 17 (1.09%) Tech for Good
18 7 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
18 7 (0.45%) Financial Institution
18 7 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 307 (19.69%) Architect
2 284 (18.22%) Data Engineer
3 245 (15.72%) Senior
4 233 (14.95%) Software Engineer
5 183 (11.74%) Principal Engineer
6 173 (11.10%) Lead
7 165 (10.58%) Platform Engineer
8 161 (10.33%) Principal Data Engineer
9 140 (8.98%) Developer
10 116 (7.44%) Data Architect
11 99 (6.35%) Cloud Architect
12 98 (6.29%) Data Manager
13 94 (6.03%) DevOps Engineer
14 83 (5.32%) Engineering Manager
15 71 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
16 68 (4.36%) Senior Software Engineer
17 53 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
18 50 (3.21%) Senior Developer
19 47 (3.01%) Java Engineer
20 45 (2.89%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (11.03%) React
2 113 (7.25%) AngularJS
3 104 (6.67%) Node.js
4 85 (5.45%) Spring
5 77 (4.94%) Kafka
6 76 (4.87%) REST
7 68 (4.36%) CSS
8 62 (3.98%) HTML
9 60 (3.85%) Spring Boot
10 53 (3.40%) RESTful
11 49 (3.14%) .NET
12 48 (3.08%) GraphQL
12 48 (3.08%) PySpark
13 37 (2.37%) gRPC
14 35 (2.25%) RabbitMQ
14 35 (2.25%) Vue
15 30 (1.92%) OpenAPI
15 30 (1.92%) Swagger
16 29 (1.86%) jQuery
16 29 (1.86%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 259 (16.61%) Self-Motivation
2 237 (15.20%) Public Cloud
3 120 (7.70%) Product Ownership
4 109 (6.99%) Cloud Native
5 87 (5.58%) Algorithms
6 70 (4.49%) PKI
7 55 (3.53%) Onboarding
8 44 (2.82%) Data Centre
9 37 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
10 33 (2.12%) Data Structures
11 29 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
11 29 (1.86%) Management Information System
11 29 (1.86%) Mobile App
12 26 (1.67%) IoT
13 22 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
14 18 (1.15%) Replication
15 16 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
16 12 (0.77%) PMI
16 12 (0.77%) Private Cloud
17 11 (0.71%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 179 (11.48%) Linux
2 138 (8.85%) Windows
3 69 (4.43%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.89%) Ubuntu
5 40 (2.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (2.44%) Debian
7 31 (1.99%) CentOS
7 31 (1.99%) Unix
8 17 (1.09%) Android
9 9 (0.58%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.58%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.51%) Solaris
10 8 (0.51%) Windows 7
10 8 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
11 6 (0.38%) Mesosphere
12 5 (0.32%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.13%) VMS
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 703 (45.09%) Agile
2 549 (35.21%) Problem-Solving
3 506 (32.46%) DevOps
4 448 (28.74%) Mentoring
5 433 (27.77%) Data Engineering
6 362 (23.22%) Platform Engineering
7 316 (20.27%) Software Engineering
8 307 (19.69%) CI/CD
9 259 (16.61%) ETL
10 245 (15.72%) Data Science
11 238 (15.27%) Data Pipeline
12 234 (15.01%) Data Modelling
13 196 (12.57%) Project Management
14 182 (11.67%) Change Management
14 182 (11.67%) Scrum
15 175 (11.23%) Infrastructure as Code
16 163 (10.46%) Analytics
17 162 (10.39%) Containerisation
18 154 (9.88%) Data Governance
18 154 (9.88%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 387 (24.82%) Python
2 291 (18.67%) SQL
3 257 (16.48%) Java
4 200 (12.83%) JavaScript
5 93 (5.97%) TypeScript
6 84 (5.39%) Go
7 70 (4.49%) C#
8 62 (3.98%) PHP
9 54 (3.46%) PowerShell
10 50 (3.21%) Bash
11 42 (2.69%) Scala
12 24 (1.54%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.03%) C++
13 16 (1.03%) R
14 11 (0.71%) Groovy
15 10 (0.64%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.51%) Ruby
17 6 (0.38%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.38%) Perl
18 5 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 149 (9.56%) Degree
2 109 (6.99%) Security Cleared
3 82 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 68 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (3.91%) DV Cleared
6 50 (3.21%) AWS Certification
7 37 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (2.31%) Azure Certification
9 32 (2.05%) CCNA
10 27 (1.73%) Master's Degree
11 25 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 19 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.77%) CCNP
13 12 (0.77%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.77%) MCITP
13 12 (0.77%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.71%) CISSP
14 11 (0.71%) MCSE
15 9 (0.58%) CISM
16 7 (0.45%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (16.68%) GDPR
2 134 (8.60%) Data Quality
3 110 (7.06%) QA
4 16 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (0.90%) SLA
6 13 (0.83%) NIST
7 12 (0.77%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.45%) PSD2
9 6 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.19%) GRC
11 3 (0.19%) NCSC
11 3 (0.19%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.064%) Basel III
13 1 (0.064%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.064%) PMO
13 1 (0.064%) SOC 2
System Software
1 223 (14.30%) Docker
2 103 (6.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 77 (4.94%) Active Directory
4 57 (3.66%) Hyper-V
5 21 (1.35%) XenApp
6 16 (1.03%) XenDesktop
7 15 (0.96%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.64%) vSphere
9 8 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.13%) KVM
12 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.064%) Firmware
13 1 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.064%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 278 (17.83%) Kubernetes
2 233 (14.95%) Terraform
3 122 (7.83%) Ansible
4 60 (3.85%) Puppet
5 35 (2.25%) Progress Chef
6 32 (2.05%) Prometheus
7 27 (1.73%) Grafana
8 20 (1.28%) ZABBIX
9 17 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (0.96%) Nagios
11 14 (0.90%) SCCM
12 13 (0.83%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 12 (0.77%) Opsgenie
13 12 (0.77%) VxRail
14 8 (0.51%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.32%) OfficeScan
16 5 (0.32%) SCOM
16 5 (0.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 824 (52.85%) Google
2 252 (16.16%) Microsoft
3 128 (8.21%) VMware
4 75 (4.81%) Cisco
5 72 (4.62%) Oracle
6 52 (3.34%) Red Hat
7 41 (2.63%) Alteryx
7 41 (2.63%) Dell
8 40 (2.57%) IBM
9 35 (2.25%) Citrix
10 31 (1.99%) Databricks
11 29 (1.86%) SaltStack
12 28 (1.80%) ServiceNow
13 25 (1.60%) NetApp
14 20 (1.28%) Fortinet
15 19 (1.22%) HP
16 18 (1.15%) Teradata
17 17 (1.09%) SolarWinds
18 13 (0.83%) Centreon
19 12 (0.77%) EMC