GCP Engineer Job Trends in Reading

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer salary in Reading is £93,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.16% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £83,125 - -
25th Percentile £85,938 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £93,750 - -
75th Percentile £98,438 - -
90th Percentile £99,375 - -
Berkshire median annual salary £93,750 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Reading. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Reading with a recognized job title 1,146 453 1,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 85.31% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 766 240 1,139
10th Percentile £32,750 £28,500 £29,676
25th Percentile £40,563 £37,438 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year - +14.18% -13.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,625 £80,000
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £56,673 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.95% +7.95% -8.70%

GCP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'GCP Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Reading.

GCP Engineer job vacancy trend in Reading

GCP Engineer
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for GCP Engineer job vacancies in Reading.

Salary distribution trend for GCP Engineer job vacancies in Reading

GCP Engineer
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP Engineer in Reading over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Salary histogram for GCP Engineer in Reading

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Top 11 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 23 June 2026, GCP Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Reading region featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Firebase
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) pgvector
2 1 (50.00%) Pinecone

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (100.00%) Firebase
2 1 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Pinecone
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring