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Cloud Engineer (GCP) Career Market Report 2026

259 active jobs. 95 companies. Median salary $135K. Data from Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Workable, and 14 additional ATS sources. Last computed: 2026-06-01.

259
Active Job Openings
95
Companies Hiring
$135K
Median Salary (US)
78%
With Salary Data

About This Report

The Cloud Engineer (GCP) market data on this page is updated daily from 800,000+ active job postings across 20 ATS platforms.

Greenhouse Lever Workday Ashby SmartRecruiters Workable + 14 more ATS sources

Salary: Extracted via NLP. Only USD $5K-$3M included. Skills: Named entity recognition, noise-filtered (generic soft skills excluded). Experience: Inferred from title + description. Coverage: 78% of positions include salary data.

Key Findings

Median salary: $135K in the US

Middle 50% of salaries range from $117K to $190K.

GCP is the most-demanded skill at 100%

Bash demand rose +15.3pp — fastest-growing skill

Devoteam leads hiring with 29 open positions

Biggest salary jump: Mid-Level → Director (+$27K, +17%)

Salary increase: +$27K · Sample: Mid-Level → Director

AI automation risk: medium (score 55/100)

Score: 55/100 · AI/LLM demand: 44% of postings

Salary by Experience Level

LevelJobsP25MedianP90
Senior9$87K$116K$170K
Mid-Level4$160K$163K$180K
Director4$190K$190K$205K

What jumps out

Mid-Level → Director: +$27K (17%) — the biggest single-step increase. The salary curve is back-loaded: the largest raises come at transitions where scope changes from executing tasks to owning outcomes, or from owning outcomes to shaping architecture across teams.

Salary by Country

CountryJobsMedianCurrency
United States15$135KUSD

Work Mode

ModeShare
On-Site2.3%
Remote8.1%
Hybrid2.7%

~80% of postings do not specify work mode. Figures show only positions where it is explicitly stated.

Top Skills in Demand

GCP
100%
Terraform
46%
DevOps
45%
AI/LLM
44%
CI/CD
41%
Python
38%
AWS
33%
Kubernetes
33%
Azure
27%
BigQuery
25%
Docker
24%
SQL
20%

Skills on the Rise

Bash ↑+15.3ppLinux ↑+14.4ppMicroservices ↑+13.4ppGitLab CI ↑+10.9ppAI/LLM ↑+3.4pp

Declining in Demand

Agile ↓-24.0ppSQL ↓-5.7ppData Pipeline ↓-3.8pp

Top Companies Hiring

CompanyOpeningsShare
Devoteam2911.2%
Soprasteria72.7%
Kyndryl62.3%
Google62.3%
Mullers Solutions62.3%
Valtech51.9%
Fractal51.9%
Barclays51.9%

Top Countries by Job Volume

CountryJobs
United States44
India31
France28
Saudi Arabia11
United Kingdom9
Remote8
Spain7
Germany6

Education Requirements

LevelSharePositions
Associate Degree51.0%103
Bachelor's Degree10.9%22
Master's Degree9.9%20
MBA0.5%1

Certifications

GCP Certified (15%)ITIL (11%)Azure Certified (4%)Databricks Certified (2%)MBA (2%)PRINCE2 (1%)Certified Scrum Master (1%)CompTIA (1%)

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