GCP Job Trends in the East Midlands

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 96 83
Rank change year-on-year -13 -13 -32
Permanent jobs citing GCP 31 22 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.97% 1.25% 2.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.07% 3.53% 6.21%
Number of salaries quoted 13 13 57
10th Percentile £45,750 £36,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -6.12%
75th Percentile £81,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £74,750 £80,850
England median annual salary £77,250 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.36% +6.45% -3.13%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,010 623 1,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 31.52% 35.52% 35.64%
Number of salaries quoted 580 436 1,033
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,938 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,938 £33,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,063 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,625 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

GCP job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

GCP
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Salary histogram for GCP in the East Midlands

GCP
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 March 2026. 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
Northamptonshire +8 16 £77,500 +19.23% 2
Nottinghamshire +1 8 £80,000 +23.08% 2
Leicestershire -6 5 £64,000 +6.67% 2
Derbyshire -23 2 £52,500 - 4
GCP
England

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (9.68%) SharePoint
1 3 (9.68%) Skype for Business
2 1 (3.23%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 26 (83.87%) Azure
2 23 (74.19%) AWS
3 10 (32.26%) Serverless
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (9.68%) SaaS
5 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.23%) IaaS
6 1 (3.23%) npm
6 1 (3.23%) NuGet
6 1 (3.23%) PaaS
6 1 (3.23%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) Skype
2 2 (6.45%) Firewall
3 1 (3.23%) NAS
3 1 (3.23%) SAN
3 1 (3.23%) VPN
3 1 (3.23%) Wireless
3 1 (3.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.68%) DTS
3 2 (6.45%) MySQL
4 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Git
1 2 (6.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) Burp Suite
2 1 (3.23%) Metasploit
General
1 7 (22.58%) Finance
2 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Manufacturing
3 3 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Retail
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (58.06%) Architect
2 14 (45.16%) Cloud Architect
3 11 (35.48%) Senior
4 10 (32.26%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (29.03%) AWS Architect
5 9 (29.03%) AWS Solution Architect
5 9 (29.03%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 7 (22.58%) Azure Architect
6 7 (22.58%) GCP Architect
6 7 (22.58%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
7 5 (16.13%) Senior Architect
7 5 (16.13%) Senior Cloud Architect
8 3 (9.68%) .NET Architect
8 3 (9.68%) C# Architect
8 3 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Support
8 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 3 (9.68%) Product Architect
8 3 (9.68%) SaaS Architect
8 3 (9.68%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) .NET
2 2 (6.45%) Laravel
2 2 (6.45%) RESTful
3 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (3.23%) Node.js
3 1 (3.23%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (3.23%) React
3 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.68%) Client/Server
2 3 (9.68%) CMDB
2 3 (9.68%) Onboarding
2 3 (9.68%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.45%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.23%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.23%) Replication
4 1 (3.23%) SCADA
4 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Windows
2 3 (9.68%) Windows Server
2 3 (9.68%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (6.45%) Linux
4 1 (3.23%) Android
4 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) Business Transformation
1 9 (29.03%) Containerisation
2 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (22.58%) Agile
3 7 (22.58%) Enterprise Architecture
3 7 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (16.13%) Logistics
5 4 (12.90%) DevOps
5 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
5 4 (12.90%) Microservices
5 4 (12.90%) Roadmaps
5 4 (12.90%) Server Management
5 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
5 4 (12.90%) Workflow
6 3 (9.68%) CI/CD
6 3 (9.68%) Customer Service
6 3 (9.68%) Event-Driven
6 3 (9.68%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) SQL
2 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.90%) C#
4 3 (9.68%) Python
4 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.45%) PHP
6 1 (3.23%) Bash
6 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) CHECK Team Member
2 1 (3.23%) CREST Certified
2 1 (3.23%) GPEN
2 1 (3.23%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (3.23%) GRC
1 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
1 4 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (9.68%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Nagios
1 3 (9.68%) Terraform
1 3 (9.68%) ZABBIX
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) Grafana
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Nessus
2 1 (3.23%) Nmap
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Google
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.90%) VMware
4 3 (9.68%) BMC
4 3 (9.68%) Citrix
4 3 (9.68%) Darktrace
4 3 (9.68%) Proofpoint
4 3 (9.68%) Red Hat
4 3 (9.68%) SolarWinds
4 3 (9.68%) Tanium
4 3 (9.68%) Trend Micro
5 2 (6.45%) Zend
5 2 (6.45%) Zoho
6 1 (3.23%) Cisco
6 1 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.23%) Qualys