Job market reports · Skill · August 2026
gcp
1,104 live US technical postings name gcp in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.
Which roles ask for it
Share of the 1,104 postings naming gcp that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer44%
- 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer17.8%
- 3Security Engineer11.9%
- 4Data Engineer6.6%
- 5AI Engineer5.2%
- 6Full-Stack Engineer3.6%
- 7Machine Learning Engineer3.6%
- 8Backend Engineer3.5%
What postings asking for it pay
Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1San Francisco, CA18.4%
- 2Remote14.2%
- 3New York, NY12.9%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA9.5%
- 5Washington, DC4.3%
- 6Austin, TX3.4%
- 7Seattle, WA3.2%
- 8Boston, MA2.1%
How we counted
457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.