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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 148 117
Rank change year-on-year -21 -31 +2
Permanent jobs citing GCP 36 26 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.50% 0.76% 1.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.48% 2.69% 5.14%
Number of salaries quoted 14 12 25
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,550 £25,000
25th Percentile £33,688 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £65,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £78,375 £66,225 £112,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +5.86%

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 1,452 966 1,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 20.08% 28.07% 22.70%
Number of salaries quoted 935 704 807
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,375 £31,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -7.69%

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 August 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 12 August 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 - 13 - - 6
Cambridgeshire -18 9 £55,000 +10.00% 24
Essex -13 6 £31,750 +3.25% 6
Suffolk - 5 £66,250 - 2
Bedfordshire -20 3 - -
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 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (19.44%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 29 (80.56%) AWS
2 25 (69.44%) Azure
3 8 (22.22%) dbt
4 7 (19.44%) Power Platform
4 7 (19.44%) Snowflake
5 6 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (11.11%) GitHub
6 4 (11.11%) SaaS
7 2 (5.56%) Apigee
7 2 (5.56%) ChatGPT
7 2 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.56%) Google Gemini
7 2 (5.56%) Google Sheets
7 2 (5.56%) Google Workspace
7 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (2.78%) AWS KMS
8 1 (2.78%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.78%) Broadband
2 3 (8.33%) SSL
3 2 (5.56%) DHCP
3 2 (5.56%) DNS
3 2 (5.56%) Firewall
3 2 (5.56%) LAN
3 2 (5.56%) Network Security
3 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.56%) VLAN
3 2 (5.56%) VPN
3 2 (5.56%) WAN
3 2 (5.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (30.56%) BigQuery
2 7 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (19.44%) Power BI
3 6 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 6 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (16.67%) Looker
3 6 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
3 6 (16.67%) Tableau
4 3 (8.33%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.78%) Airbyte
6 1 (2.78%) Metadata
6 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.78%) Power Query
6 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Git
1 6 (16.67%) MLflow
2 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) GitLab
General
1 13 (36.11%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (19.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (16.67%) Finance
5 4 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Digital Economy
6 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.78%) Law
7 1 (2.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Senior
2 7 (19.44%) Software Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Lead
5 4 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Junior
6 3 (8.33%) Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Python Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Graduate
7 2 (5.56%) IT Support
7 2 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Python Software Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Site Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Technical Support
8 1 (2.78%) Cloud Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) Kafka
2 7 (19.44%) scikit-learn
2 7 (19.44%) TensorFlow
3 6 (16.67%) LangChain
3 6 (16.67%) LlamaIndex
3 6 (16.67%) pgvector
3 6 (16.67%) PyTorch
4 4 (11.11%) Django
4 4 (11.11%) REST
5 3 (8.33%) Flask
5 3 (8.33%) JSON
5 3 (8.33%) Node.js
5 3 (8.33%) OAuth
5 3 (8.33%) SOAP
5 3 (8.33%) XML
6 2 (5.56%) gRPC
6 2 (5.56%) RESTful
7 1 (2.78%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (38.89%) Cloud Native
2 8 (22.22%) Onboarding
3 6 (16.67%) Clustering
3 6 (16.67%) Public Cloud
4 3 (8.33%) Client/Server
4 3 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.56%) Driving Licence
5 2 (5.56%) Over-the-Top Content
5 2 (5.56%) Social Media
5 2 (5.56%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (2.78%) Anti-Piracy
6 1 (2.78%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Linux
1 2 (5.56%) Unix
1 2 (5.56%) Windows
1 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) AI
2 16 (44.44%) Machine Learning
3 15 (41.67%) Software Engineering
4 14 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (36.11%) Agile
5 13 (36.11%) CI/CD
6 12 (33.33%) Data Engineering
7 11 (30.56%) Data Science
8 10 (27.78%) Data Modelling
9 9 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (22.22%) Analytics
10 8 (22.22%) Mentoring
10 8 (22.22%) Prompt Engineering
11 7 (19.44%) Data Governance
11 7 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (19.44%) Presales
11 7 (19.44%) RBAC
11 7 (19.44%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 7 (19.44%) Semantic Search
11 7 (19.44%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (77.78%) Python
2 15 (41.67%) SQL
3 5 (13.89%) Java
4 4 (11.11%) C++
4 4 (11.11%) Go
4 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.33%) Rust
5 3 (8.33%) Scala
6 2 (5.56%) Bash
7 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.56%) CCNA
3 2 (5.56%) CCNP
3 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (2.78%) CISA
4 1 (2.78%) CISM
4 1 (2.78%) CISSP
4 1 (2.78%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.78%) CRISC
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.78%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 6 (16.67%) GDPR
2 5 (13.89%) QA
3 3 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (8.33%) SLA
4 1 (2.78%) GRC
4 1 (2.78%) ISO 31000
4 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.78%) NIST
4 1 (2.78%) NIST 800
4 1 (2.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Terraform
2 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Google
2 6 (16.67%) Cloudera
2 6 (16.67%) Databricks
2 6 (16.67%) Dell
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 3 (8.33%) Splunk
5 2 (5.56%) Cisco
5 2 (5.56%) Citrix
5 2 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.56%) Meraki
5 2 (5.56%) Pega
5 2 (5.56%) Sophos
5 2 (5.56%) Typelevel
5 2 (5.56%) VMware
5 2 (5.56%) WatchGuard