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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 33 44
Rank change year-on-year -57 +11 +9
Permanent jobs citing GCP 3,020 7,130 11,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.05% 7.04% 7.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.54% 16.44% 14.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,973 3,506 4,422
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,875 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £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 £136,250 £125,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,066 £63,150 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +1.04% +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 35,381 43,379 75,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.70% 42.80% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,736 28,530 41,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,784 £33,750
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 £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
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 9 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 9 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 2,564 £80,000 - 679
UK excluding London -69 1,623 £65,066 +3.03% 347
Work from Home -34 1,326 £77,500 - 406
London -17 1,246 £95,000 +8.57% 385
North of England -52 507 £68,000 +4.62% 87
Scotland -57 295 £69,500 +15.35% 38
South West -21 283 £70,000 +11.11% 66
North West -73 253 £69,447 +11.12% 45
South East -106 208 £60,500 -13.57% 68
Yorkshire -20 202 £68,000 -0.01% 34
Midlands -95 198 £65,000 +18.18% 35
West Midlands -94 126 £73,000 +26.96% 21
East Midlands -58 73 £55,000 - 14
East of England -65 68 £55,000 -8.33% 28
North East +3 52 £71,250 +29.55% 8
Wales -30 44 £62,500 +21.83% 12
Northern Ireland -18 15 £90,000 +71.43% 17
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
1 324 (10.73%) Apache Airflow
2 311 (10.30%) Apache
3 180 (5.96%) Apache Spark
4 60 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 46 (1.52%) Confluence
6 33 (1.09%) SharePoint
7 29 (0.96%) WebSphere
8 28 (0.93%) Captiva
8 28 (0.93%) FileNet
9 21 (0.70%) IIS
9 21 (0.70%) nginx
10 17 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
11 14 (0.46%) SAS
12 12 (0.40%) OpenStack
13 11 (0.36%) SharePoint 2010
13 11 (0.36%) SharePoint 2013
14 7 (0.23%) WordPress
15 6 (0.20%) Luigi
16 5 (0.17%) Apache Solr
17 3 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 27 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.50%) 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 Business One
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%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.033%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.033%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.033%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,266 (75.03%) AWS
2 2,060 (68.21%) Azure
3 314 (10.40%) SaaS
4 221 (7.32%) GitHub
5 203 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
6 170 (5.63%) Snowflake
7 167 (5.53%) dbt
8 163 (5.40%) Azure DevOps
9 138 (4.57%) Power Platform
10 132 (4.37%) PaaS
11 116 (3.84%) Cloud Computing
12 102 (3.38%) Serverless
13 88 (2.91%) IaaS
14 85 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 85 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
15 66 (2.19%) Amazon S3
16 62 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
17 55 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
18 50 (1.66%) OpenShift
19 43 (1.42%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 171 (5.66%) Firewall
2 74 (2.45%) DNS
3 70 (2.32%) WAN
4 65 (2.15%) VPN
5 46 (1.52%) LAN
6 43 (1.42%) TCP/IP
7 35 (1.16%) SD-WAN
8 32 (1.06%) AMQP
9 30 (0.99%) SAN
10 27 (0.89%) Network Security
11 22 (0.73%) Internet
12 21 (0.70%) DHCP
13 20 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
14 17 (0.56%) Kerberos
15 16 (0.53%) VoIP
16 14 (0.46%) BGP
16 14 (0.46%) VLAN
16 14 (0.46%) Wireless
17 12 (0.40%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 578 (19.14%) BigQuery
2 418 (13.84%) Looker
3 369 (12.22%) Data Warehouse
4 258 (8.54%) Data Lake
5 237 (7.85%) Apache Ignite
6 170 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
7 154 (5.10%) NoSQL
8 152 (5.03%) Big Data
8 152 (5.03%) SQL Server
9 136 (4.50%) Amazon Athena
10 126 (4.17%) Hadoop
11 122 (4.04%) Power BI
12 120 (3.97%) Apache Arrow
12 120 (3.97%) Dremio
13 114 (3.77%) MySQL
14 106 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
15 98 (3.25%) Relational Database
16 83 (2.75%) Tableau
17 61 (2.02%) MongoDB
18 51 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 228 (7.55%) Git
2 218 (7.22%) Jenkins
3 97 (3.21%) JIRA
4 78 (2.58%) Cypress.io
5 70 (2.32%) GitLab
6 47 (1.56%) Selenium
7 46 (1.52%) CircleCI
8 41 (1.36%) Oracle Forms
9 26 (0.86%) Spinnaker
10 25 (0.83%) IBM UrbanCode
11 22 (0.73%) TeamCity
12 18 (0.60%) JUnit
13 16 (0.53%) Cucumber
13 16 (0.53%) Maven
14 14 (0.46%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.43%) webpack
16 9 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
17 8 (0.26%) JMeter
18 7 (0.23%) Appium
18 7 (0.23%) git-flow
General
1 1,024 (33.91%) Finance
2 575 (19.04%) Banking
3 570 (18.87%) Social Skills
4 556 (18.41%) Analytical Skills
5 390 (12.91%) Front Office
6 275 (9.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 166 (5.50%) Law
7 166 (5.50%) Presentation Skills
8 149 (4.93%) Retail
9 119 (3.94%) Investment Banking
10 103 (3.41%) Legal
11 99 (3.28%) Marketing
12 90 (2.98%) Public Sector
13 72 (2.38%) Billing
14 46 (1.52%) Back Office
15 40 (1.32%) Retail Banking
16 38 (1.26%) Aerospace
17 36 (1.19%) Financial Institution
18 32 (1.06%) Telecoms
19 27 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 647 (21.42%) Software Engineer
2 612 (20.26%) Senior
3 584 (19.34%) Architect
4 559 (18.51%) Developer
5 434 (14.37%) Data Engineer
6 322 (10.66%) Lead
7 285 (9.44%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 216 (7.15%) Principal Engineer
9 202 (6.69%) Python Developer
10 200 (6.62%) Platform Engineer
11 181 (5.99%) Principal Data Engineer
12 180 (5.96%) Python Engineer
13 175 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
14 171 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
15 169 (5.60%) Data Architect
16 163 (5.40%) Cloud Architect
17 148 (4.90%) Python Software Engineer
17 148 (4.90%) Senior Software Engineer
18 134 (4.44%) Senior Developer
19 128 (4.24%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 512 (16.95%) React
2 276 (9.14%) gRPC
3 245 (8.11%) AngularJS
3 245 (8.11%) Redux
4 235 (7.78%) Protocol Buffers
5 206 (6.82%) .NET
6 197 (6.52%) Node.js
7 185 (6.13%) Kafka
8 155 (5.13%) Pandas
9 147 (4.87%) Material-UI
10 145 (4.80%) Vue
11 127 (4.21%) REST
12 126 (4.17%) NumPy
13 122 (4.04%) Spring
14 115 (3.81%) SciPy
15 97 (3.21%) GraphQL
16 89 (2.95%) CSS
17 88 (2.91%) RESTful
18 85 (2.81%) .NET Core
19 84 (2.78%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 390 (12.91%) Fixed Income
2 346 (11.46%) Public Cloud
3 318 (10.53%) Hedge funds
4 290 (9.60%) Equities
5 288 (9.54%) Self-Motivation
6 238 (7.88%) Derivative
7 199 (6.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 184 (6.09%) Cloud Native
9 153 (5.07%) Product Ownership
10 138 (4.57%) Algorithms
11 110 (3.64%) PKI
12 100 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
13 85 (2.81%) Onboarding
14 78 (2.58%) Management Information System
15 72 (2.38%) Data Structures
16 58 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
16 58 (1.92%) Private Cloud
17 53 (1.75%) Data Centre
18 46 (1.52%) Mobile App
19 41 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 320 (10.60%) Linux
2 226 (7.48%) Windows
3 86 (2.85%) Windows Server
4 79 (2.62%) Unix
5 44 (1.46%) Ubuntu
6 40 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 37 (1.23%) CentOS
8 33 (1.09%) Android
9 32 (1.06%) Debian
10 26 (0.86%) Apple iOS
11 16 (0.53%) zOS
12 11 (0.36%) Solaris
13 10 (0.33%) Windows 10
14 9 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
15 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.26%) Windows 7
15 8 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
16 7 (0.23%) VMS
17 6 (0.20%) Mesosphere
18 2 (0.066%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,527 (50.56%) Agile
2 979 (32.42%) Software Engineering
3 860 (28.48%) DevOps
4 778 (25.76%) Problem-Solving
5 598 (19.80%) Mentoring
6 570 (18.87%) CI/CD
7 569 (18.84%) Data Engineering
8 453 (15.00%) Asset Management
9 433 (14.34%) Platform Engineering
10 412 (13.64%) ETL
11 402 (13.31%) Analytics
12 392 (12.98%) Data Science
12 392 (12.98%) Machine Learning
13 369 (12.22%) Data Modelling
14 350 (11.59%) Data Pipeline
15 344 (11.39%) Artificial Intelligence
16 341 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
17 339 (11.23%) Investment Management
18 312 (10.33%) Full Stack Development
19 297 (9.83%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,166 (38.61%) Python
2 700 (23.18%) SQL
3 663 (21.95%) Java
4 535 (17.72%) JavaScript
5 495 (16.39%) TypeScript
6 242 (8.01%) C#
7 161 (5.33%) Go
8 125 (4.14%) Scala
9 120 (3.97%) Bash
10 89 (2.95%) PowerShell
11 82 (2.72%) R
12 64 (2.12%) PHP
13 60 (1.99%) Kotlin
14 45 (1.49%) Ruby
15 41 (1.36%) Shell Script
16 29 (0.96%) Groovy
17 26 (0.86%) T-SQL
18 23 (0.76%) C++
19 17 (0.56%) Perl
20 13 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 360 (11.92%) Degree
2 169 (5.60%) Security Cleared
3 164 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 125 (4.14%) SC Cleared
5 99 (3.28%) AWS Certification
6 71 (2.35%) Master's Degree
7 65 (2.15%) DV Cleared
8 58 (1.92%) Azure Certification
9 51 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 48 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (1.49%) CISSP
12 34 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 31 (1.03%) CCNA
14 30 (0.99%) CISM
15 27 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
16 20 (0.66%) PhD
17 19 (0.63%) DBS Check
17 19 (0.63%) GIAC
18 17 (0.56%) MCSE
19 15 (0.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (10.96%) GDPR
2 203 (6.72%) Data Quality
3 188 (6.23%) QA
4 51 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 34 (1.13%) NIST
7 21 (0.70%) SLA
8 20 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.50%) COBIT
10 9 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.26%) PSD2
11 8 (0.26%) WCAG
12 7 (0.23%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.23%) NCSC
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
1 400 (13.25%) Docker
2 128 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 104 (3.44%) Active Directory
4 64 (2.12%) Hyper-V
5 25 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.73%) XenApp
7 17 (0.56%) XenDesktop
8 16 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.46%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.30%) KVM
11 8 (0.26%) HDFS
11 8 (0.26%) vSphere
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%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.066%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 527 (17.45%) Kubernetes
2 476 (15.76%) Terraform
3 212 (7.02%) Ansible
4 82 (2.72%) Puppet
5 56 (1.85%) Grafana
6 53 (1.75%) Progress Chef
7 47 (1.56%) Prometheus
8 26 (0.86%) Nagios
9 23 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (0.70%) ZABBIX
11 19 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 18 (0.60%) SCCM
13 15 (0.50%) Istio
14 14 (0.46%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.43%) Graphite
16 12 (0.40%) Opsgenie
16 12 (0.40%) VxRail
17 10 (0.33%) Argo
17 10 (0.33%) Packer
17 10 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,359 (45.00%) Google
2 431 (14.27%) Microsoft
3 154 (5.10%) VMware
4 136 (4.50%) Oracle
5 113 (3.74%) Databricks
6 94 (3.11%) Cisco
7 89 (2.95%) IBM
8 63 (2.09%) ServiceNow
9 55 (1.82%) Dell
9 55 (1.82%) Red Hat
10 53 (1.75%) SAP
11 41 (1.36%) Alteryx
12 39 (1.29%) Citrix
13 38 (1.26%) Bloomberg
14 28 (0.93%) Kofax
14 28 (0.93%) Pega
15 26 (0.86%) SaltStack
16 25 (0.83%) NetApp
16 25 (0.83%) Splunk
17 22 (0.73%) HP