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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 142 160
Rank change year-on-year -7 +18 -80
Permanent jobs citing GCP 31 13 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.55% 0.50% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.09% 1.52% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 13 10 27
10th Percentile £37,750 £43,125 £25,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,188 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% +6.82% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,188 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,000 £85,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.06% +3.13% -

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 1,480 858 1,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.33% 33.11% 29.74%
Number of salaries quoted 653 620 1,441
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,975 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £34,688 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,143
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +11.36% -14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 12 - - 1
Cambridgeshire -13 8 £60,100 -3.84% 3
Suffolk +12 5 £60,000 +6.67% 1
Essex -18 5 £49,250 +3.68% 7
Bedfordshire +14 1 - - 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 10 (32.26%) Apache Spark
2 8 (25.81%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.23%) Apache
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 28 (90.32%) AWS
2 26 (83.87%) Azure
3 9 (29.03%) Snowflake
4 8 (25.81%) Power Platform
5 7 (22.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (22.58%) dbt
6 5 (16.13%) SaaS
7 4 (12.90%) GitHub
8 2 (6.45%) Apigee
8 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (6.45%) Workato
9 1 (3.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (3.23%) AWS KMS
9 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.23%) Cloud Composer
9 1 (3.23%) Dagster
9 1 (3.23%) Datadog
9 1 (3.23%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) Broadband
2 3 (9.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) BigQuery
2 8 (25.81%) Power BI
2 8 (25.81%) Tableau
3 7 (22.58%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (22.58%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (19.35%) Data Lake
4 6 (19.35%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (19.35%) Looker
4 6 (19.35%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (9.68%) Big Data
6 2 (6.45%) Hadoop
6 2 (6.45%) Metadata
6 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (3.23%) Data Mining
7 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) MLflow
2 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
2 3 (9.68%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.23%) MSTest
3 1 (3.23%) NUnit
3 1 (3.23%) SpecFlow
3 1 (3.23%) TestNG
General
1 13 (41.94%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Finance
5 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.23%) Advertising
6 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Law
6 1 (3.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Senior
2 7 (22.58%) Lead
2 7 (22.58%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Data Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Data Science Developer
6 2 (6.45%) IT Support
6 2 (6.45%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Technical Support
7 1 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Cloud Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Compliance Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Data Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) Kafka
1 8 (25.81%) PyTorch
1 8 (25.81%) scikit-learn
1 8 (25.81%) TensorFlow
2 6 (19.35%) LangChain
2 6 (19.35%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (19.35%) pgvector
3 3 (9.68%) JSON
3 3 (9.68%) OAuth
3 3 (9.68%) REST
3 3 (9.68%) SOAP
3 3 (9.68%) XML
4 2 (6.45%) Django
4 2 (6.45%) Flask
4 2 (6.45%) gRPC
4 2 (6.45%) Matplotlib
4 2 (6.45%) NumPy
4 2 (6.45%) Pandas
4 2 (6.45%) Seaborn
5 1 (3.23%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 14 (45.16%) Cloud Native
2 6 (19.35%) Clustering
2 6 (19.35%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (19.35%) Public Cloud
3 4 (12.90%) Onboarding
3 4 (12.90%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.45%) Over-the-Top Content
4 2 (6.45%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.23%) Anti-Piracy
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.23%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Machine Learning
2 12 (38.71%) Analytics
3 11 (35.48%) AI
3 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
3 11 (35.48%) Data Science
4 10 (32.26%) Data Modelling
4 10 (32.26%) ETL
5 9 (29.03%) Data Engineering
5 9 (29.03%) Data Governance
5 9 (29.03%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (29.03%) Generative AI
6 8 (25.81%) Agile
6 8 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (25.81%) Feature Engineering
7 7 (22.58%) Data Management
7 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (22.58%) RBAC
7 7 (22.58%) Software Engineering
7 7 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (22.58%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 20 (64.52%) Python
2 10 (32.26%) SQL
3 4 (12.90%) Java
4 3 (9.68%) Scala
5 2 (6.45%) Bash
5 2 (6.45%) Go
5 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.45%) R
6 1 (3.23%) C#
6 1 (3.23%) C++
6 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.23%) CISA
2 1 (3.23%) CISM
2 1 (3.23%) CISSP
2 1 (3.23%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (3.23%) CRISC
2 1 (3.23%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) GDPR
2 6 (19.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 4 (12.90%) Data Quality
4 3 (9.68%) SLA
5 1 (3.23%) GRC
5 1 (3.23%) ISO 31000
5 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (3.23%) NIST
5 1 (3.23%) NIST 800
5 1 (3.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Terraform
2 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Databricks
2 6 (19.35%) Cloudera
2 6 (19.35%) Dell
2 6 (19.35%) Google
3 3 (9.68%) Splunk
4 2 (6.45%) Pega
4 2 (6.45%) Typelevel
5 1 (3.23%) Netezza