GCP Job Trends in Berkshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 116 133
Rank change year-on-year +61 +17 -82
Permanent jobs citing GCP 78 17 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 3.88% 0.99% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.62% 3.17% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 1
10th Percentile - £53,000 -
25th Percentile £46,000 - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £63,750 £84,375 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £100,750 -
South East median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £69,250
% change year-on-year +8.00% -9.75% +10.80%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Berkshire

GCP falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 618 536 536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 30.78% 31.09% 27.67%
Number of salaries quoted 242 249 396
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,125 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,625 £85,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GCP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

GCP job vacancy trend in Berkshire

GCP
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in Berkshire over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for GCP in Berkshire

GCP
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Maidenhead - 22 £57,500 -
Slough -15 19 - - 204
Windsor -17 19 - -
Reading +22 4 £75,000 -7.69% 48
Bracknell - 2 £46,000 -
Wokingham - 1 - - 2
GCP
South East

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 58 (74.36%) AWS
1 58 (74.36%) Azure
2 11 (14.10%) SaaS
3 6 (7.69%) Azure AI
3 6 (7.69%) Vertex AI
4 5 (6.41%) Amazon S3
4 5 (6.41%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (6.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (6.41%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (6.41%) GitHub
4 5 (6.41%) Serverless
5 4 (5.13%) Google Workspace
5 4 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.85%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.28%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.41%) DNS
1 5 (6.41%) Firewall
2 4 (5.13%) DHCP
3 2 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (34.62%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (25.64%) BigQuery
3 7 (8.97%) MySQL
4 5 (6.41%) DynamoDB
4 5 (6.41%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.56%) Power BI
5 2 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.56%) Tableau
6 1 (1.28%) Looker
6 1 (1.28%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (21.79%) Git
2 5 (6.41%) git-flow
3 2 (2.56%) Burp Suite
3 2 (2.56%) Metasploit
4 1 (1.28%) GitLab
General
1 59 (75.64%) Law
2 54 (69.23%) Marketing
3 24 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.69%) Legal
5 2 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.56%) Finance
5 2 (2.56%) Retail
6 1 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (50.00%) Architect
2 38 (48.72%) Senior
3 21 (26.92%) Developer
4 20 (25.64%) Cloud Architect
4 20 (25.64%) Full-Stack Developer
4 20 (25.64%) GCP Architect
4 20 (25.64%) Platform Architect
5 19 (24.36%) Data Architect
5 19 (24.36%) Senior Architect
5 19 (24.36%) Senior Data Architect
5 19 (24.36%) Senior Developer
5 19 (24.36%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (17.95%) Full-Stack Web Developer
6 14 (17.95%) Senior Web Developer
6 14 (17.95%) Web Developer
7 8 (10.26%) Product Manager
8 6 (7.69%) Product Delivery Manager
9 4 (5.13%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Linux Support
9 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.64%) CSS
1 20 (25.64%) React
2 18 (23.08%) HTML
3 15 (19.23%) Node.js
3 15 (19.23%) RESTful
4 5 (6.41%) .NET
4 5 (6.41%) AWS CDK
4 5 (6.41%) Kafka
4 5 (6.41%) Material-UI
4 5 (6.41%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.28%) Express.js
5 1 (1.28%) Next.js
5 1 (1.28%) Sequelize
5 1 (1.28%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.69%) AI Agents
3 5 (6.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.97%) Linux
2 4 (5.13%) Windows
3 2 (2.56%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (61.54%) Continuous Improvement
2 47 (60.26%) Roadmaps
3 46 (58.97%) Data Science
4 40 (51.28%) Architectural Design
5 39 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 39 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 28 (35.90%) Agile
7 27 (34.62%) AI
8 26 (33.33%) Data Modelling
8 26 (33.33%) Machine Learning
9 25 (32.05%) Generative AI
10 24 (30.77%) CI/CD
11 23 (29.49%) Analytics
12 22 (28.21%) Cloud Security
12 22 (28.21%) Cost Optimisation
13 21 (26.92%) Data Architecture
13 21 (26.92%) Data Governance
13 21 (26.92%) Data Pipeline
13 21 (26.92%) ETL
14 20 (25.64%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (30.77%) Python
2 20 (25.64%) Go
2 20 (25.64%) Java
3 15 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.69%) TypeScript
5 5 (6.41%) C#
6 2 (2.56%) Bash
6 2 (2.56%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.56%) SQL
7 1 (1.28%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (2.56%) OSCP
1 2 (2.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.28%) CREST Certified
2 1 (1.28%) Degree
2 1 (1.28%) GPEN
2 1 (1.28%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (26.92%) Data Quality
1 21 (26.92%) QA
2 2 (2.56%) NIST
3 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.28%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (19.23%) Docker
2 4 (5.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (44.87%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.56%) Nmap
Vendors
1 33 (42.31%) Google
2 7 (8.97%) Foundry
3 4 (5.13%) Atlassian
3 4 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.28%) Informatica
4 1 (1.28%) Palantir