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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 149 127
Rank change year-on-year -10 -22 -14
Permanent jobs citing GCP 39 28 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.51% 0.80% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.75% 2.95% 4.57%
Number of salaries quoted 19 13 20
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,350 £25,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £75,500 £66,000 £70,625
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,250 £92,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £87,283
% change year-on-year -6.25% -8.34% +9.10%

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 1,416 949 1,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 18.46% 27.27% 22.35%
Number of salaries quoted 970 692 715
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -6.50% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,375 £78,750
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% -4.62%

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 2 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 2 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
Hertfordshire -14 11 - - 10
Essex -13 10 £37,500 +21.95% 4
Cambridgeshire -25 10 £55,000 +10.00% 18
Suffolk - 5 £66,250 - 7
Bedfordshire -22 3 - - 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 7 (17.95%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (15.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 28 (71.79%) AWS
2 25 (64.10%) Azure
3 8 (20.51%) SaaS
4 6 (15.38%) dbt
4 6 (15.38%) Google Workspace
4 6 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 6 (15.38%) Snowflake
5 5 (12.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (10.26%) GitHub
7 2 (5.13%) Apigee
7 2 (5.13%) ChatGPT
7 2 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.13%) Google Gemini
7 2 (5.13%) Google Sheets
7 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (2.56%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (2.56%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.08%) Broadband
2 3 (7.69%) SSL
3 2 (5.13%) DHCP
3 2 (5.13%) DNS
3 2 (5.13%) Firewall
3 2 (5.13%) LAN
3 2 (5.13%) Network Security
3 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.13%) VLAN
3 2 (5.13%) VPN
3 2 (5.13%) WAN
3 2 (5.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) BigQuery
2 6 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (15.38%) Power BI
3 5 (12.82%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (12.82%) Data Lake
3 5 (12.82%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (12.82%) Looker
3 5 (12.82%) Milvus
3 5 (12.82%) Snowflake Schema
3 5 (12.82%) Tableau
4 3 (7.69%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.56%) Airbyte
6 1 (2.56%) Big Data
6 1 (2.56%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (2.56%) Neo4j
6 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.56%) Power Query
6 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Git
2 5 (12.82%) MLflow
3 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
4 3 (7.69%) JIRA
5 1 (2.56%) GitLab
General
1 15 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (17.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (15.38%) Finance
4 6 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.26%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Digital Economy
6 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Senior
2 7 (17.95%) Software Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Lead
4 5 (12.82%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Business Development Manager
5 4 (10.26%) Business Manager
5 4 (10.26%) Development Manager
5 4 (10.26%) Junior
6 3 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Python Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) IT Support
7 2 (5.13%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Python Software Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Site Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) Kafka
1 6 (15.38%) scikit-learn
1 6 (15.38%) TensorFlow
2 5 (12.82%) LangChain
2 5 (12.82%) LlamaIndex
2 5 (12.82%) pgvector
2 5 (12.82%) PyTorch
2 5 (12.82%) Terraform
3 4 (10.26%) Django
3 4 (10.26%) REST
4 3 (7.69%) Flask
4 3 (7.69%) JSON
4 3 (7.69%) Node.js
4 3 (7.69%) OAuth
4 3 (7.69%) SOAP
4 3 (7.69%) XML
5 2 (5.13%) gRPC
5 2 (5.13%) RESTful
6 1 (2.56%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 8 (20.51%) Onboarding
3 6 (15.38%) Driving Licence
4 5 (12.82%) Clustering
4 5 (12.82%) Public Cloud
5 4 (10.26%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (7.69%) Client/Server
6 3 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (5.13%) Over-the-Top Content
7 2 (5.13%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (2.56%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (2.56%) Life Science
8 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
8 1 (2.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
1 2 (5.13%) Unix
1 2 (5.13%) Windows
1 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (51.28%) AI
2 15 (38.46%) Machine Learning
2 15 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 14 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (33.33%) Agile
4 13 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 10 (25.64%) Data Engineering
6 9 (23.08%) Data Science
6 9 (23.08%) Decision-Making
7 8 (20.51%) Data Modelling
7 8 (20.51%) Mentoring
7 8 (20.51%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (17.95%) Analytics
8 7 (17.95%) Prompt Engineering
8 7 (17.95%) Test Automation
9 6 (15.38%) Customer Experience
9 6 (15.38%) Generative AI
9 6 (15.38%) Lakehouse
9 6 (15.38%) RBAC
9 6 (15.38%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 27 (69.23%) Python
2 14 (35.90%) SQL
3 5 (12.82%) Java
4 4 (10.26%) Go
4 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.26%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.69%) C++
5 3 (7.69%) Rust
5 3 (7.69%) Scala
6 2 (5.13%) Bash
7 1 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Degree
2 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.13%) CCNA
3 2 (5.13%) CCNP
3 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.13%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (2.56%) CISA
4 1 (2.56%) CISM
4 1 (2.56%) CISSP
4 1 (2.56%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.56%) CRISC
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 5 (12.82%) GDPR
1 5 (12.82%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.69%) SLA
3 1 (2.56%) GRC
3 1 (2.56%) ISO 31000
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.56%) NIST
3 1 (2.56%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (38.46%) Google
2 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
3 6 (15.38%) Databricks
3 6 (15.38%) Sophos
4 5 (12.82%) Cloudera
4 5 (12.82%) Dell
5 4 (10.26%) Adobe
6 3 (7.69%) Splunk
7 2 (5.13%) Cisco
7 2 (5.13%) Citrix
7 2 (5.13%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.13%) Meraki
7 2 (5.13%) Pega
7 2 (5.13%) Typelevel
7 2 (5.13%) VMware
7 2 (5.13%) WatchGuard