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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 31 44
Rank change year-on-year -59 +13 +10
Permanent jobs citing GCP 3,023 7,119 11,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.03% 7.18% 7.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.53% 16.67% 14.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,970 3,479 4,412
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% - +13.58%
75th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £130,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,066 £64,343 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.12% +2.95% +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 35,421 42,712 77,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 43.07% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,675 28,032 41,298
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 18 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 18 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 -55 2,574 £80,000 - 780
UK excluding London -72 1,616 £65,066 +1.12% 460
Work from Home -31 1,328 £77,500 - 436
London -18 1,261 £95,000 +5.56% 472
North of England -58 505 £67,500 +3.85% 106
Scotland -55 289 £69,500 +15.83% 40
South West -22 281 £70,000 +7.69% 54
North West -71 255 £67,500 +3.85% 52
South East -95 216 £61,000 -12.86% 158
Yorkshire -26 198 £67,082 -0.62% 44
Midlands -102 193 £65,000 +18.18% 44
West Midlands -90 123 £74,000 +27.59% 28
East Midlands -51 70 £55,000 - 16
East of England -76 67 £55,000 -8.33% 24
North East +3 52 £71,250 +29.55% 10
Wales -32 43 £57,500 +5.50% 16
Northern Ireland -25 16 £90,000 +71.43% 20
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
1 342 (11.31%) Apache Airflow
2 330 (10.92%) Apache
3 181 (5.99%) Apache Spark
4 59 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 46 (1.52%) Confluence
6 31 (1.03%) 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%) Apache Pulsar
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 2,285 (75.59%) AWS
2 2,053 (67.91%) Azure
3 310 (10.25%) SaaS
4 217 (7.18%) GitHub
5 202 (6.68%) Microsoft 365
6 179 (5.92%) Snowflake
7 178 (5.89%) dbt
8 161 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
9 135 (4.47%) Power Platform
10 131 (4.33%) PaaS
11 116 (3.84%) 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 (5.66%) 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 (0.60%) 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 (19.09%) BigQuery
2 419 (13.86%) Looker
3 363 (12.01%) Data Warehouse
4 260 (8.60%) Data Lake
5 250 (8.27%) Apache Ignite
6 174 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
7 153 (5.06%) Big Data
8 150 (4.96%) NoSQL
8 150 (4.96%) SQL Server
9 146 (4.83%) Amazon Athena
10 130 (4.30%) Apache Arrow
10 130 (4.30%) Dremio
11 123 (4.07%) Hadoop
12 122 (4.04%) 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 (7.64%) Git
2 217 (7.18%) Jenkins
3 88 (2.91%) JIRA
4 82 (2.71%) Cypress.io
5 73 (2.41%) 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 (33.94%) Finance
2 572 (18.92%) Banking
3 569 (18.82%) Social Skills
4 554 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
5 401 (13.26%) Front Office
6 279 (9.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 167 (5.52%) Law
8 165 (5.46%) Presentation Skills
9 149 (4.93%) Retail
10 125 (4.13%) Investment Banking
11 105 (3.47%) Legal
12 98 (3.24%) Marketing
13 90 (2.98%) Public Sector
14 72 (2.38%) Billing
15 47 (1.55%) Back Office
16 41 (1.36%) 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
1 656 (21.70%) Software Engineer
2 615 (20.34%) Senior
3 588 (19.45%) Architect
4 570 (18.86%) Developer
5 436 (14.42%) Data Engineer
6 329 (10.88%) Lead
7 294 (9.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 216 (7.15%) Principal Engineer
9 209 (6.91%) Python Developer
10 200 (6.62%) Platform Engineer
11 187 (6.19%) Python Engineer
12 182 (6.02%) Principal Data Engineer
13 177 (5.86%) Solutions Architect
14 172 (5.69%) Data Architect
15 168 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
16 163 (5.39%) Cloud Architect
17 156 (5.16%) Python Software Engineer
18 151 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
19 137 (4.53%) Senior Developer
20 132 (4.37%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 514 (17.00%) React
2 293 (9.69%) gRPC
3 251 (8.30%) Protocol Buffers
4 250 (8.27%) Redux
5 246 (8.14%) AngularJS
6 204 (6.75%) .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 (4.90%) Vue
12 135 (4.47%) NumPy
13 129 (4.27%) REST
14 125 (4.13%) SciPy
15 121 (4.00%) Spring
16 94 (3.11%) GraphQL
17 90 (2.98%) CSS
18 88 (2.91%) RESTful
19 85 (2.81%) .NET Core
20 84 (2.78%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 401 (13.26%) Fixed Income
2 345 (11.41%) Public Cloud
3 327 (10.82%) Hedge funds
4 301 (9.96%) Equities
5 291 (9.63%) Self-Motivation
6 243 (8.04%) Derivative
7 206 (6.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 187 (6.19%) Cloud Native
9 150 (4.96%) Product Ownership
10 136 (4.50%) Algorithms
11 111 (3.67%) PKI
12 98 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
13 86 (2.84%) Onboarding
14 82 (2.71%) Management Information System
15 70 (2.32%) 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 (10.06%) Linux
2 226 (7.48%) Windows
3 87 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 70 (2.32%) Unix
5 46 (1.52%) Ubuntu
6 41 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 38 (1.26%) CentOS
8 34 (1.12%) Debian
9 31 (1.03%) 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 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,530 (50.61%) Agile
2 984 (32.55%) Software Engineering
3 847 (28.02%) DevOps
4 776 (25.67%) Problem-Solving
5 596 (19.72%) Mentoring
6 577 (19.09%) CI/CD
7 565 (18.69%) Data Engineering
8 467 (15.45%) Asset Management
9 435 (14.39%) Platform Engineering
10 413 (13.66%) ETL
11 403 (13.33%) Analytics
12 392 (12.97%) Machine Learning
13 383 (12.67%) Data Science
14 364 (12.04%) Data Modelling
15 351 (11.61%) Data Pipeline
16 348 (11.51%) Infrastructure as Code
17 345 (11.41%) Artificial Intelligence
18 343 (11.35%) Investment Management
19 314 (10.39%) Full Stack Development
20 294 (9.73%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,177 (38.93%) Python
2 687 (22.73%) SQL
3 668 (22.10%) Java
4 548 (18.13%) JavaScript
5 501 (16.57%) TypeScript
6 238 (7.87%) C#
7 163 (5.39%) Go
8 130 (4.30%) Scala
9 116 (3.84%) Bash
10 82 (2.71%) PowerShell
11 80 (2.65%) R
12 66 (2.18%) 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
1 355 (11.74%) Degree
2 171 (5.66%) Security Cleared
3 166 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 127 (4.20%) SC Cleared
5 104 (3.44%) AWS Certification
6 70 (2.32%) Master's Degree
7 68 (2.25%) DV Cleared
8 57 (1.89%) 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 (1.03%) CCNA
13 31 (1.03%) 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%) CRISC
17 16 (0.53%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 324 (10.72%) GDPR
2 201 (6.65%) Data Quality
3 191 (6.32%) 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
1 401 (13.26%) Docker
2 129 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 103 (3.41%) Active Directory
4 65 (2.15%) Hyper-V
5 29 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.76%) XenApp
7 18 (0.60%) 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 (17.47%) Kubernetes
2 484 (16.01%) Terraform
3 210 (6.95%) Ansible
4 85 (2.81%) Puppet
5 56 (1.85%) Progress Chef
6 53 (1.75%) Grafana
7 44 (1.46%) Prometheus
8 25 (0.83%) Nagios
9 24 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (0.69%) ZABBIX
11 20 (0.66%) SCCM
12 18 (0.60%) 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 1,365 (45.15%) Google
2 429 (14.19%) Microsoft
3 155 (5.13%) VMware
4 127 (4.20%) Oracle
5 116 (3.84%) 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 (1.46%) SAP
11 41 (1.36%) 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