GCP Job Trends in the East of England

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 147 148
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 -44
Permanent jobs citing GCP 34 27 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.51% 0.78% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.33% 2.96% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 14 12 30
10th Percentile £34,175 £32,050 £25,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,688 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.48% -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £73,863 £65,250 £73,438
90th Percentile £78,375 £66,225 £112,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -6.83% -2.42% +3.13%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,459 913 1,653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 22.02% 26.44% 25.61%
Number of salaries quoted 891 663 1,370
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £78,500 £75,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

GCP job vacancy trend in the East of England

GCP
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for GCP in the East of England

GCP
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
Hertfordshire - 12 - - 14
Cambridgeshire -20 9 £60,100 +6.84% 23
Essex -15 6 £31,750 +0.79% 21
Suffolk +27 5 £66,250 +39.47% 9
Bedfordshire -7 2 - - 6
GCP
England

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (23.53%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (20.59%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 28 (82.35%) AWS
2 24 (70.59%) Azure
3 8 (23.53%) dbt
4 7 (20.59%) Power Platform
4 7 (20.59%) Snowflake
5 6 (17.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (11.76%) SaaS
7 2 (5.88%) Apigee
7 2 (5.88%) GitHub
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (2.94%) AWS KMS
8 1 (2.94%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.94%) Dagster
8 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.94%) n8n
8 1 (2.94%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 10 (29.41%) Broadband
2 3 (8.82%) SSL
3 1 (2.94%) DHCP
3 1 (2.94%) DNS
3 1 (2.94%) Firewall
3 1 (2.94%) LAN
3 1 (2.94%) Network Security
3 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.94%) VLAN
3 1 (2.94%) VPN
3 1 (2.94%) WAN
3 1 (2.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (32.35%) BigQuery
2 7 (20.59%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (20.59%) Power BI
3 6 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (17.65%) Data Lake
3 6 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (17.65%) Looker
3 6 (17.65%) Snowflake Schema
3 6 (17.65%) Tableau
4 3 (8.82%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.94%) Airbyte
6 1 (2.94%) Metadata
6 1 (2.94%) Power Query
6 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) MLflow
2 3 (8.82%) Git
2 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.82%) JIRA
General
1 10 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Finance
3 5 (14.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.94%) Digital Economy
6 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Law
6 1 (2.94%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Senior
2 8 (23.53%) Lead
3 7 (20.59%) Systems Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Software Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Data Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Graduate
7 2 (5.88%) IT Support
7 2 (5.88%) Junior
7 2 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Python Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Python Software Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Technical Support
8 1 (2.94%) C++ Software Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Junior Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) Kafka
2 7 (20.59%) scikit-learn
2 7 (20.59%) TensorFlow
3 6 (17.65%) LangChain
3 6 (17.65%) LlamaIndex
3 6 (17.65%) pgvector
3 6 (17.65%) PyTorch
4 4 (11.76%) REST
5 3 (8.82%) JSON
5 3 (8.82%) Node.js
5 3 (8.82%) OAuth
5 3 (8.82%) SOAP
5 3 (8.82%) XML
6 2 (5.88%) Django
6 2 (5.88%) Flask
6 2 (5.88%) gRPC
7 1 (2.94%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.94%) RESTful
7 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (47.06%) Cloud Native
2 6 (17.65%) Clustering
2 6 (17.65%) Public Cloud
3 5 (14.71%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (14.71%) Onboarding
4 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
5 3 (8.82%) Client/Server
5 3 (8.82%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (5.88%) Over-the-Top Content
6 2 (5.88%) Social Media
6 2 (5.88%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (2.94%) Anti-Piracy
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.94%) Driving Licence
7 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Unix
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
1 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) AI
2 14 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 13 (38.24%) Machine Learning
4 11 (32.35%) Data Engineering
4 11 (32.35%) Software Engineering
5 10 (29.41%) Agile
5 10 (29.41%) Data Modelling
5 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (26.47%) Data Science
6 9 (26.47%) Mentoring
6 9 (26.47%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (26.47%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (23.53%) Analytics
8 7 (20.59%) Data Governance
8 7 (20.59%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (20.59%) Microservices
8 7 (20.59%) Predictive Modelling
8 7 (20.59%) RBAC
8 7 (20.59%) Semantic Search
Programming Languages
1 23 (67.65%) Python
2 13 (38.24%) SQL
3 5 (14.71%) Java
4 4 (11.76%) C++
5 3 (8.82%) Go
5 3 (8.82%) Rust
5 3 (8.82%) Scala
5 3 (8.82%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.94%) Bash
7 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Degree
2 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) CCNA
3 1 (2.94%) CCNP
3 1 (2.94%) CISA
3 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.94%) CISM
3 1 (2.94%) CISSP
3 1 (2.94%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (2.94%) CRISC
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.94%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (2.94%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 6 (17.65%) GDPR
2 3 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.82%) SLA
3 2 (5.88%) QA
4 1 (2.94%) GRC
4 1 (2.94%) ISO 31000
4 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.94%) NIST
4 1 (2.94%) NIST 800
4 1 (2.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Terraform
2 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Google
2 6 (17.65%) Cloudera
2 6 (17.65%) Databricks
2 6 (17.65%) Dell
3 3 (8.82%) Splunk
4 2 (5.88%) Pega
4 2 (5.88%) Typelevel
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco
5 1 (2.94%) Citrix
5 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.94%) Meraki
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.94%) Sophos
5 1 (2.94%) VMware
5 1 (2.94%) WatchGuard