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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 153 135
Rank change year-on-year -23 -18 -21
Permanent jobs citing GCP 32 23 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.40% 0.68% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.32% 2.55% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 18 8 16
10th Percentile £31,175 £30,075 £44,375
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,250 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -12.77% +11.90%
75th Percentile £70,813 £68,125 £76,688
90th Percentile £77,875 £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 1,379 902 991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 17.29% 26.61% 22.28%
Number of salaries quoted 962 652 607
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,150
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,353 £61,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £79,250
England median annual salary £64,335 £60,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year +7.22% -4.76% -3.08%

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 16 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 16 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 -17 10 £56,250 -4.26% 38
Essex -15 9 £37,500 +21.95% 7
Hertfordshire -25 7 - - 20
Suffolk - 4 £55,000 - 9
Bedfordshire -21 2 - -
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 6 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (15.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 22 (68.75%) AWS
2 20 (62.50%) Azure
3 6 (18.75%) Google Workspace
3 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (18.75%) SaaS
4 5 (15.63%) dbt
4 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
4 5 (15.63%) Snowflake
5 4 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (9.38%) GitHub
7 2 (6.25%) ChatGPT
7 2 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
7 2 (6.25%) Google Gemini
7 2 (6.25%) Google Sheets
7 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.13%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (3.13%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) Broadband
2 2 (6.25%) DHCP
2 2 (6.25%) DNS
2 2 (6.25%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) LAN
2 2 (6.25%) Network Security
2 2 (6.25%) SSL
2 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.25%) VLAN
2 2 (6.25%) VPN
2 2 (6.25%) WAN
2 2 (6.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 5 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (15.63%) Power BI
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 4 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (12.50%) Looker
3 4 (12.50%) Milvus
3 4 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (12.50%) Tableau
4 3 (9.38%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (3.13%) Airbyte
5 1 (3.13%) Big Data
5 1 (3.13%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (3.13%) Neo4j
5 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Git
2 4 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.50%) MLflow
3 2 (6.25%) JIRA
4 1 (3.13%) GitLab
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (15.63%) Finance
4 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.25%) Digital Economy
5 2 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Senior
2 7 (21.88%) Software Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Business Development Manager
3 4 (12.50%) Business Manager
3 4 (12.50%) Development Manager
3 4 (12.50%) Junior
3 4 (12.50%) Python Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Lead
4 3 (9.38%) Python Software Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Developer
5 2 (6.25%) IT Support
5 2 (6.25%) Site Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Kafka
1 5 (15.63%) scikit-learn
1 5 (15.63%) TensorFlow
2 4 (12.50%) LangChain
2 4 (12.50%) LlamaIndex
2 4 (12.50%) pgvector
2 4 (12.50%) PyTorch
2 4 (12.50%) Terraform
3 3 (9.38%) Django
3 3 (9.38%) Node.js
3 3 (9.38%) REST
4 2 (6.25%) Flask
4 2 (6.25%) JSON
4 2 (6.25%) OAuth
4 2 (6.25%) RESTful
4 2 (6.25%) SOAP
4 2 (6.25%) XML
5 1 (3.13%) pytest
5 1 (3.13%) React
5 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 6 (18.75%) Driving Licence
2 6 (18.75%) Onboarding
3 4 (12.50%) Clustering
3 4 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 4 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (9.38%) Client/Server
5 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.13%) Life Science
6 1 (3.13%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (3.13%) Social Media
6 1 (3.13%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
1 2 (6.25%) Unix
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
1 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) AI
2 13 (40.63%) Software Engineering
3 11 (34.38%) CI/CD
3 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (31.25%) Machine Learning
5 9 (28.13%) Agile
5 9 (28.13%) Data Engineering
6 7 (21.88%) Data Modelling
6 7 (21.88%) Data Science
6 7 (21.88%) Mentoring
6 7 (21.88%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (18.75%) Analytics
7 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (18.75%) Critical Thinking
7 6 (18.75%) Decision-Making
7 6 (18.75%) Prompt Engineering
7 6 (18.75%) Test Automation
8 5 (15.63%) Lakehouse
8 5 (15.63%) Observability
8 5 (15.63%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 22 (68.75%) Python
2 13 (40.63%) SQL
3 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
4 4 (12.50%) C++
4 4 (12.50%) Rust
5 3 (9.38%) Go
5 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.25%) Bash
6 2 (6.25%) Java
6 2 (6.25%) Scala
7 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) CCNA
2 2 (6.25%) CCNP
2 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) QA
2 4 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (12.50%) GDPR
3 3 (9.38%) Data Quality
4 2 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Google
2 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (18.75%) Sophos
4 5 (15.63%) Databricks
5 4 (12.50%) Adobe
5 4 (12.50%) Cloudera
5 4 (12.50%) Dell
6 2 (6.25%) Cisco
6 2 (6.25%) Citrix
6 2 (6.25%) Fortinet
6 2 (6.25%) Meraki
6 2 (6.25%) Splunk
6 2 (6.25%) VMware
6 2 (6.25%) WatchGuard
7 1 (3.13%) Pega
7 1 (3.13%) Typelevel