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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 131 112
Rank change year-on-year -26 -19 -18
Permanent jobs citing GCP 23 38 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.68% 0.85% 1.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.55% 3.81% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 8 16 20
10th Percentile £30,075 £44,375 £24,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £46,875 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £58,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.77% +11.90% -19.23%
75th Percentile £68,125 £76,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,500 £103,750 £85,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -

All Cloud 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 901 998 829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.55% 22.29% 32.72%
Number of salaries quoted 651 613 600
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,050 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £68,750 £66,313
90th Percentile £76,250 £79,750 £81,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.51% -2.31% +4.00%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for GCP 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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
Bedfordshire +2 13 £57,500 +4.55% 5
Cambridgeshire +23 5 £58,750 - 11
Hertfordshire +4 2 £85,000 +36.00% 8
Essex -14 2 £30,750 -65.83% 8
Norfolk +8 1 - - 5
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (56.52%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (95.65%) AWS
2 20 (86.96%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) SaaS
4 2 (8.70%) Firebase
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Alexa
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) BigCommerce
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (4.35%) dbt
5 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.35%) Fivetran
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.35%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (4.35%) Google Workspace
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
5 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) HTTP
1 2 (8.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (60.87%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
2 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.70%) Tableau
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.35%) Big Data
3 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.35%) Looker
3 1 (4.35%) MySQL
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (73.91%) JIRA
2 14 (60.87%) GitLab
3 13 (56.52%) Bitbucket
3 13 (56.52%) Cucumber
3 13 (56.52%) Maven
3 13 (56.52%) Selenium
3 13 (56.52%) SonarQube
3 13 (56.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (21.74%) Git
5 1 (4.35%) CircleCI
5 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (65.22%) Finance
2 13 (56.52%) Banking
2 13 (56.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Automotive
5 1 (4.35%) Electronics
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Software Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Applications Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Data Science Developer
4 1 (4.35%) DevOps Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.35%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Junior DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Junior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) React Developer
4 1 (4.35%) SaaS Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.35%) XML Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (65.22%) React
2 14 (60.87%) CSS
2 14 (60.87%) HTML
3 13 (56.52%) Hibernate
3 13 (56.52%) JPA
3 13 (56.52%) Kafka
3 13 (56.52%) Redux
3 13 (56.52%) Spring
3 13 (56.52%) Spring Boot
4 3 (13.04%) REST
4 3 (13.04%) scikit-learn
5 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (8.70%) JSON
5 2 (8.70%) NumPy
5 2 (8.70%) OAuth
5 2 (8.70%) Pandas
5 2 (8.70%) PyTorch
5 2 (8.70%) SOAP
5 2 (8.70%) TensorFlow
5 2 (8.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (65.22%) Product Ownership
2 13 (56.52%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (13.04%) IoT
4 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
4 2 (8.70%) Mobile App
5 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
5 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.35%) Home Automation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) DevOps
2 15 (65.22%) Agile
2 15 (65.22%) Containerisation
3 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
3 14 (60.87%) Front End Development
3 14 (60.87%) Full-Stack Development
3 14 (60.87%) Microservices
3 14 (60.87%) Software Engineering
4 13 (56.52%) Clean Code
4 13 (56.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (56.52%) Performance Optimisation
4 13 (56.52%) SDLC
4 13 (56.52%) TDD
4 13 (56.52%) Test Automation
5 4 (17.39%) Machine Learning
5 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.04%) Analytics
6 3 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
6 3 (13.04%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) SQL
2 15 (65.22%) JavaScript
3 14 (60.87%) Java
4 5 (21.74%) Python
5 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (4.35%) PHP
5 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) R
5 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) A+ Certification
2 2 (8.70%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (56.52%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) SLA
3 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (69.57%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (65.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) Graylog
4 1 (4.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Solace
2 6 (26.09%) Google
3 2 (8.70%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) Alteryx
4 1 (4.35%) HubSpot
4 1 (4.35%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.35%) Talend
4 1 (4.35%) Zoho