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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 153 120
Rank change year-on-year +13 -33 -19
Permanent jobs citing GCP 25 32 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.77% 0.77% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.82% 3.04% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 10 16 12
10th Percentile £44,375 £44,375 £24,000
25th Percentile £54,063 £46,875 £27,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +32.50% -23.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £79,125 £67,188
90th Percentile £87,625 £103,750 £84,250
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 887 1,051 736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 27.43% 25.14% 33.79%
Number of salaries quoted 673 565 600
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -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% -3.10%

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 29 October 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 29 October 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
Bedfordshire +19 13 £57,500 +4.55% 3
Cambridgeshire +23 8 £65,000 -13.33% 20
Hertfordshire +6 3 £85,000 +44.68% 5
Norfolk +8 1 - - 2
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 13 (52.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 24 (96.00%) AWS
2 22 (88.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) GitHub
3 3 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (12.00%) SaaS
4 2 (8.00%) Firebase
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Alexa
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (4.00%) dbt
5 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.00%) Fivetran
5 1 (4.00%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) Serverless
5 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (56.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.00%) Tableau
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.00%) Big Data
3 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.00%) Looker
3 1 (4.00%) Metadata
3 1 (4.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (60.00%) JIRA
2 14 (56.00%) GitLab
3 13 (52.00%) Bitbucket
3 13 (52.00%) Cucumber
3 13 (52.00%) Maven
3 13 (52.00%) Selenium
3 13 (52.00%) SonarQube
3 13 (52.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (20.00%) Git
5 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
6 2 (8.00%) MSTest
6 2 (8.00%) NUnit
6 2 (8.00%) SpecFlow
6 2 (8.00%) TestNG
7 1 (4.00%) CircleCI
General
1 16 (64.00%) Finance
2 13 (52.00%) Banking
2 13 (52.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Automotive
5 1 (4.00%) Electronics
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Developer
3 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Senior
3 2 (8.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Data Science Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.00%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (4.00%) React Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Research Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (60.00%) React
2 14 (56.00%) CSS
2 14 (56.00%) HTML
3 13 (52.00%) Hibernate
3 13 (52.00%) JPA
3 13 (52.00%) Kafka
3 13 (52.00%) Redux
3 13 (52.00%) Spring
3 13 (52.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (12.00%) scikit-learn
5 2 (8.00%) .NET
5 2 (8.00%) NumPy
5 2 (8.00%) Pandas
5 2 (8.00%) Playwright
5 2 (8.00%) PyTorch
5 2 (8.00%) TensorFlow
6 1 (4.00%) Laravel
6 1 (4.00%) Matplotlib
6 1 (4.00%) REST
6 1 (4.00%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 13 (52.00%) Enterprise Software
1 13 (52.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) IoT
3 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.00%) Home Automation
4 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (80.00%) DevOps
2 18 (72.00%) Containerisation
3 16 (64.00%) CI/CD
4 15 (60.00%) Agile
4 15 (60.00%) Test Automation
5 14 (56.00%) Front End Development
5 14 (56.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (56.00%) Microservices
5 14 (56.00%) Software Engineering
6 13 (52.00%) Clean Code
6 13 (52.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (52.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 13 (52.00%) SDLC
6 13 (52.00%) TDD
7 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (16.00%) Machine Learning
7 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (12.00%) Analytics
8 3 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (12.00%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 16 (64.00%) SQL
2 15 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 14 (56.00%) Java
4 6 (24.00%) Python
5 2 (8.00%) C#
5 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (4.00%) PHP
6 1 (4.00%) R
6 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (52.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (76.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (72.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Solace
2 4 (16.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Alteryx
3 1 (4.00%) HubSpot
3 1 (4.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.00%) Talend
3 1 (4.00%) Zoho