GCP Job Trends in the Home Counties

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South East > Home Counties

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Home Counties requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing GCP 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Home Counties 11.11% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.50% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -20.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Home Counties

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 Home Counties.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Home Counties 88.89% 33.33% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £66,250 - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -22.22% +28.57%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £90,000 - -
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GCP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties.

GCP job vacancy trend in the Home Counties

GCP
Salary Trend in the Home Counties

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Home Counties citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Home Counties citing GCP

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Home Counties 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle