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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 148 137
Rank change year-on-year -30 -11 -21
Permanent jobs citing GCP 31 23 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.38% 0.69% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.27% 2.59% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 20 8 16
10th Percentile £31,225 £30,075 £44,375
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,250 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -12.77% +11.90%
75th Percentile £75,500 £68,125 £76,688
90th Percentile £77,050 £80,500 £103,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

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 1,367 888 986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 16.80% 26.52% 22.37%
Number of salaries quoted 964 643 590
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,700
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £45,000 £54,892
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -18.02% +9.78%
75th Percentile £68,750 £61,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £64,169 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.95% -7.69% +0.78%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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
Cambridgeshire -24 14 £65,750 +11.91% 26
Essex -14 8 £37,500 +21.95% 3
Hertfordshire -32 4 £75,000 -11.76% 24
Suffolk - 3 £50,000 - 5
Bedfordshire -19 2 - - 1
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 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 22 (70.97%) AWS
2 20 (64.52%) Azure
3 6 (19.35%) Google Workspace
3 6 (19.35%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (16.13%) SaaS
5 3 (9.68%) GitHub
6 2 (6.45%) ChatGPT
6 2 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.45%) Google Gemini
6 2 (6.45%) Google Sheets
6 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.23%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (3.23%) dbt
7 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.23%) n8n
7 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) Broadband
2 2 (6.45%) DHCP
2 2 (6.45%) DNS
2 2 (6.45%) Firewall
2 2 (6.45%) LAN
2 2 (6.45%) Network Security
2 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.45%) VLAN
2 2 (6.45%) VPN
2 2 (6.45%) WAN
2 2 (6.45%) WLAN
3 1 (3.23%) MQTT
3 1 (3.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) BigQuery
2 3 (9.68%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (3.23%) Airbyte
3 1 (3.23%) Big Data
3 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.23%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (3.23%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (3.23%) Neo4j
3 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Power BI
3 1 (3.23%) Power Query
3 1 (3.23%) Redis
3 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.23%) Spatial Data
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Git
2 4 (12.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.45%) GitLab
4 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (12.90%) Finance
3 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Digital Economy
4 2 (6.45%) Financial Institution
4 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Senior
1 10 (32.26%) Software Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) Python Engineer
3 7 (22.58%) Python Software Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Business Development Manager
5 4 (12.90%) Business Manager
5 4 (12.90%) Development Manager
5 4 (12.90%) Junior
6 2 (6.45%) Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Lead
6 2 (6.45%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Site Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) RESTful
2 3 (9.68%) Django
2 3 (9.68%) FastAPI
2 3 (9.68%) Flask
2 3 (9.68%) Node.js
2 3 (9.68%) REST
2 3 (9.68%) Terraform
3 2 (6.45%) Kafka
3 2 (6.45%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.23%) gRPC
4 1 (3.23%) OAuth
4 1 (3.23%) PostGIS
4 1 (3.23%) PySpark
4 1 (3.23%) pytest
4 1 (3.23%) React
4 1 (3.23%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.23%) Swagger
4 1 (3.23%) TensorFlow
4 1 (3.23%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Cloud Native
1 6 (19.35%) Cyber Threat
1 6 (19.35%) Driving Licence
2 5 (16.13%) Onboarding
3 4 (12.90%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (9.68%) Client/Server
5 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.23%) Life Science
6 1 (3.23%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (3.23%) Social Media
6 1 (3.23%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
1 2 (6.45%) Unix
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
1 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) AI
2 15 (48.39%) Software Engineering
3 14 (45.16%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (38.71%) CI/CD
5 9 (29.03%) Agile
6 8 (25.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (25.81%) Critical Thinking
6 8 (25.81%) Machine Learning
7 7 (22.58%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (22.58%) Mentoring
7 7 (22.58%) Test Automation
8 6 (19.35%) Decision-Making
8 6 (19.35%) Prototyping
8 6 (19.35%) Rapid Prototyping
8 6 (19.35%) Validation
9 5 (16.13%) Containerisation
9 5 (16.13%) Data Engineering
9 5 (16.13%) Microservices
9 5 (16.13%) Observability
9 5 (16.13%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (70.97%) Python
2 9 (29.03%) SQL
3 7 (22.58%) C++
3 7 (22.58%) Rust
3 7 (22.58%) TypeScript
4 3 (9.68%) Go
4 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.45%) Bash
5 2 (6.45%) Java
5 2 (6.45%) Scala
6 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) CCNA
2 2 (6.45%) CCNP
2 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.45%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) QA
2 3 (9.68%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Google
2 8 (25.81%) Microsoft
3 6 (19.35%) Sophos
4 4 (12.90%) Adobe
5 2 (6.45%) Cisco
5 2 (6.45%) Citrix
5 2 (6.45%) Fortinet
5 2 (6.45%) Meraki
5 2 (6.45%) VMware
5 2 (6.45%) WatchGuard
6 1 (3.23%) Databricks
6 1 (3.23%) Splunk
6 1 (3.23%) Typelevel