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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 143 123
Rank change year-on-year -5 -20 -18
Permanent jobs citing GCP 13 30 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.38% 0.72% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 2.87% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11 14 10
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £48,750 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +26.19% -19.23%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,375 £66,563
90th Percentile £87,500 £109,250 £78,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -

All Cloud 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 1,109 1,044 726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 32.08% 25.02% 34.59%
Number of salaries quoted 689 545 596
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £61,250 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.85%

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 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
Cambridgeshire +24 6 £65,000 -13.33% 24
Bedfordshire +23 3 £57,500 +4.55% 10
Hertfordshire +1 3 £85,000 +44.68% 8
Essex -9 1 £67,500 -25.00% 4
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 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (7.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
2 10 (76.92%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (23.08%) SaaS
4 2 (15.38%) Firebase
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Alexa
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (7.69%) BigCommerce
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (7.69%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (7.69%) Google Workspace
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) BigQuery
1 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (15.38%) Tableau
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.69%) Looker
2 1 (7.69%) Metadata
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) MSTest
3 2 (15.38%) NUnit
3 2 (15.38%) SpecFlow
3 2 (15.38%) TestNG
4 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
4 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Automotive
4 1 (7.69%) Advertising
4 1 (7.69%) Electronics
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Science Developer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.69%) GCP Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) React Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) scikit-learn
2 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) NumPy
2 2 (15.38%) Pandas
2 2 (15.38%) Playwright
2 2 (15.38%) PyTorch
2 2 (15.38%) React
2 2 (15.38%) TensorFlow
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) Hugging Face
3 1 (7.69%) Laravel
3 1 (7.69%) Matplotlib
3 1 (7.69%) React Native
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) IoT
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.69%) Home Automation
3 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) AI
4 3 (23.08%) Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
4 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (23.08%) Data Science
4 3 (23.08%) ETL
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) API Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
5 2 (15.38%) Generative AI
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (15.38%) LLM
5 2 (15.38%) Security Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) PHP
4 1 (7.69%) R
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 5 (38.46%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Alteryx
2 1 (7.69%) HubSpot
2 1 (7.69%) OpenAI
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.69%) Talend
2 1 (7.69%) Zoho