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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 164 116
Rank change year-on-year +11 -48 +10
Permanent jobs citing GCP 12 26 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.30% 0.69% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.99% 2.30% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 10 12 10
10th Percentile £38,625 £40,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £39,688 £45,000 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £73,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +13.46% -1.89%
75th Percentile £82,813 £88,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,625 £114,750 £83,875
England median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.82% +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 1,212 1,130 646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 29.81% 30.01% 33.82%
Number of salaries quoted 627 634 547
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £39,813 £35,460
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.95% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,750 £68,125
90th Percentile £79,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 14 December 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 14 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
Cambridgeshire +17 5 £65,000 -18.75% 29
Hertfordshire +2 3 £85,000 +88.89% 44
Essex -9 2 £67,500 -25.00% 51
Suffolk -13 2 £41,250 -36.54% 17
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 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (8.33%) Apache
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (91.67%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) GitHub
3 4 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (33.33%) Snowflake
4 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (25.00%) SaaS
5 2 (16.67%) Workato
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (8.33%) Datadog
6 1 (8.33%) dbt
6 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (8.33%) Fivetran
6 1 (8.33%) Google Data Studio
6 1 (8.33%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (25.00%) Power BI
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (16.67%) Big Data
2 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (16.67%) Tableau
3 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
3 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (8.33%) Looker
3 1 (8.33%) Metadata
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) MSTest
2 2 (16.67%) NUnit
2 2 (16.67%) SpecFlow
2 2 (16.67%) TestNG
3 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
3 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Advertising
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Architect
1 2 (16.67%) Data Architect
1 2 (16.67%) Developer
1 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Senior
1 2 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Associate Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Business Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Data Science Developer
2 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) NumPy
1 2 (16.67%) Pandas
1 2 (16.67%) Playwright
1 2 (16.67%) scikit-learn
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Beam
2 1 (8.33%) Hugging Face
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Matplotlib
2 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
2 1 (8.33%) Seaborn
2 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) VMS
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Analytics
2 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) ETL
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 2 (16.67%) BDD
5 2 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 2 (16.67%) Generative AI
5 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Security Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) Bash
4 2 (16.67%) C#
5 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (41.67%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Alteryx
1 1 (8.33%) Databricks
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) HubSpot
1 1 (8.33%) Netezza
1 1 (8.33%) OpenAI
1 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (8.33%) Talend
1 1 (8.33%) Zoho