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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 155 132
Rank change year-on-year +14 -23 -50
Permanent jobs citing GCP 14 23 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.34% 0.65% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.19% 2.17% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 12
10th Percentile £38,625 £39,750 £51,375
25th Percentile £39,688 £45,000 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +5.77% -
75th Percentile £82,813 £81,375 £79,063
90th Percentile £87,625 £87,750 £84,875
England median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.60% -0.46%

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 1,181 1,062 793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 28.44% 30.23% 32.37%
Number of salaries quoted 601 569 688
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.95% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £64,450 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 13 January 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 13 January 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 +19 5 £65,000 -18.75% 19
Hertfordshire +8 5 £85,000 +88.89% 17
Essex -3 2 £67,500 -25.00% 16
Suffolk -6 2 £41,250 -36.54% 12
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 4 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (92.86%) AWS
3 4 (28.57%) GitHub
3 4 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (28.57%) Snowflake
4 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
4 3 (21.43%) SaaS
5 2 (14.29%) Workato
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (7.14%) Datadog
6 1 (7.14%) dbt
6 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (7.14%) Fivetran
6 1 (7.14%) Google Data Studio
6 1 (7.14%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Big Data
1 4 (28.57%) Tableau
2 3 (21.43%) BigQuery
2 3 (21.43%) Hadoop
2 3 (21.43%) Power BI
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) Data Mining
4 1 (7.14%) Looker
4 1 (7.14%) Metadata
4 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) MSTest
2 2 (14.29%) NUnit
2 2 (14.29%) SpecFlow
2 2 (14.29%) TestNG
3 1 (7.14%) CircleCI
3 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Advertising
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Data Science Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Associate Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Business Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) NumPy
1 4 (28.57%) Pandas
1 4 (28.57%) scikit-learn
2 3 (21.43%) Matplotlib
2 3 (21.43%) PyTorch
2 3 (21.43%) Seaborn
2 3 (21.43%) TensorFlow
3 2 (14.29%) .NET
3 2 (14.29%) Playwright
4 1 (7.14%) Apache Beam
4 1 (7.14%) Hugging Face
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Algorithms
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) VMS
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps
2 7 (50.00%) Analytics
3 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
3 5 (35.71%) Visualisation
4 4 (28.57%) AI
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Data Munging
4 4 (28.57%) ETL
4 4 (28.57%) Generative AI
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
5 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
5 3 (21.43%) Data Analytics
5 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
5 3 (21.43%) Data Science
5 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
5 3 (21.43%) Predictive Analytics
5 3 (21.43%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 3 (21.43%) R
4 2 (14.29%) Bash
4 2 (14.29%) C#
5 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (35.71%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Alteryx
1 1 (7.14%) Databricks
1 1 (7.14%) Google
1 1 (7.14%) HubSpot
1 1 (7.14%) Netezza
1 1 (7.14%) OpenAI
1 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
1 1 (7.14%) Talend
1 1 (7.14%) Zoho