GCP Jobs in the South East

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring GCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GCP over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 185 108
Rank change year-on-year +31 -77 -2
Permanent jobs citing GCP 186 251 382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.94% 1.33% 2.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.65% 4.58% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 72 134 190
10th Percentile £29,750 £41,395 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,063 £48,750 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £74,750
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -23.08% +6.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £89,750 £96,250 £100,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - -

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,151 5,480 4,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 22.44% 28.94% 36.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,270 4,169 3,487
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,606 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.21% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,840 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the South East

GCP
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP in the South East.

Salary trend for GCP in the South East

GCP
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the South East over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Salary histogram for GCP in the South East

GCP
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 June 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
Thames Valley +61 104 £56,250 -13.46% 436
Berkshire +89 76 £77,500 -3.13% 297
Hampshire +72 33 £69,000 +20.00% 182
Surrey +43 24 £72,500 +16.00% 86
Oxfordshire +23 18 £37,500 -21.05% 61
Middlesex -2 13 £90,000 - 1
Buckinghamshire +18 10 £56,250 +45.16% 79
Kent +5 8 £70,000 +21.74% 72
East Sussex +3 3 £75,000 +42.86% 42
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (5.91%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.30%) Confluence
3 6 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.08%) Apache
5 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 165 (88.71%) Azure
2 163 (87.63%) AWS
3 30 (16.13%) Serverless
4 26 (13.98%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (12.90%) Snowflake
6 18 (9.68%) SaaS
7 17 (9.14%) PaaS
8 13 (6.99%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (6.99%) IaaS
9 10 (5.38%) OCI
10 9 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (4.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (4.30%) Vertex AI
12 7 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (3.23%) Azure AI
13 6 (3.23%) OpenShift
14 5 (2.69%) GitHub
15 4 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
15 4 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
15 4 (2.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.44%) Broadband
2 13 (6.99%) DHCP
2 13 (6.99%) DNS
3 11 (5.91%) Firewall
4 8 (4.30%) Network Security
5 7 (3.76%) TCP/IP
6 6 (3.23%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (3.23%) SMTP
7 4 (2.15%) VPN
8 3 (1.61%) LAN
8 3 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (18.82%) Data Lake
1 35 (18.82%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (15.59%) Metadata
3 12 (6.45%) MongoDB
4 11 (5.91%) Big Data
4 11 (5.91%) Hadoop
4 11 (5.91%) NoSQL
5 10 (5.38%) SQL Server
6 9 (4.84%) Data Mining
7 6 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.23%) MySQL
7 6 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.61%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.61%) Redis
9 2 (1.08%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.08%) Looker
9 2 (1.08%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (1.08%) Power BI
9 2 (1.08%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (6.99%) GitLab
2 12 (6.45%) Git
3 10 (5.38%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.84%) JIRA
5 8 (4.30%) Bitbucket
5 8 (4.30%) Cucumber
5 8 (4.30%) Maven
5 8 (4.30%) Selenium
5 8 (4.30%) SonarQube
5 8 (4.30%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.61%) JUnit
6 3 (1.61%) Mockito
7 1 (0.54%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.54%) ESLint
7 1 (0.54%) Gatling
7 1 (0.54%) JMeter
General
1 73 (39.25%) Law
2 68 (36.56%) Social Skills
3 55 (29.57%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (13.44%) Finance
5 20 (10.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (10.22%) Legal
7 13 (6.99%) Retail
8 11 (5.91%) Telecoms
9 8 (4.30%) Banking
10 3 (1.61%) Advertising
10 3 (1.61%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 98 (52.69%) Senior
2 42 (22.58%) Lead
3 25 (13.44%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 15 (8.06%) Architect
4 15 (8.06%) Developer
4 15 (8.06%) Software Engineer
5 14 (7.53%) Support Engineer
6 13 (6.99%) Senior Manager
7 11 (5.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.38%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.84%) Data Analytics Director
10 8 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) IT Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) Java Developer
11 7 (3.76%) IT Support
11 7 (3.76%) IT Support Engineer
12 6 (3.23%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 6 (3.23%) Product Manager
12 6 (3.23%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.44%) Kafka
2 18 (9.68%) React
3 16 (8.60%) Node.js
3 16 (8.60%) Spring Boot
4 13 (6.99%) Hugging Face
4 13 (6.99%) LangChain
4 13 (6.99%) PyTorch
4 13 (6.99%) TensorFlow
5 12 (6.45%) CSS
5 12 (6.45%) HTML
6 11 (5.91%) Hibernate
6 11 (5.91%) Spring
7 8 (4.30%) JPA
7 8 (4.30%) Redux
8 7 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (3.23%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.69%) LAMP
10 5 (2.69%) Loki
10 5 (2.69%) Vue
11 4 (2.15%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.44%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (9.68%) Public Cloud
3 17 (9.14%) Management Information System
4 15 (8.06%) Cloud Native
5 10 (5.38%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.84%) Algorithms
7 8 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (4.30%) Private Cloud
8 6 (3.23%) AI Agents
8 6 (3.23%) Clustering
8 6 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (3.23%) PKI
9 4 (2.15%) Hackathon
9 4 (2.15%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.08%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.75%) Windows
2 17 (9.14%) Linux
3 6 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (43.55%) Agile
2 73 (39.25%) CI/CD
3 69 (37.10%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (34.41%) Data Science
5 62 (33.33%) Machine Learning
6 59 (31.72%) Analytics
7 51 (27.42%) DevOps
8 43 (23.12%) Artificial Intelligence
8 43 (23.12%) Data Engineering
9 42 (22.58%) Use Case
10 40 (21.51%) Data Modelling
11 39 (20.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (20.43%) Clean Code
12 38 (20.43%) Data Governance
13 37 (19.89%) High Availability
13 37 (19.89%) Infrastructure as Code
14 36 (19.35%) Data Architecture
15 35 (18.82%) Incident Management
15 35 (18.82%) Mentoring
16 34 (18.28%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (39.78%) Python
2 55 (29.57%) SQL
3 28 (15.05%) TypeScript
4 22 (11.83%) Java
5 19 (10.22%) JavaScript
5 19 (10.22%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.76%) Go
7 6 (3.23%) Bash
8 5 (2.69%) PHP
9 4 (2.15%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 91 (48.92%) Degree
2 25 (13.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 25 (13.44%) Master's Degree
2 25 (13.44%) PhD
3 21 (11.29%) Security Cleared
4 15 (8.06%) DV Cleared
5 12 (6.45%) AWS Certification
5 12 (6.45%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (4.84%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.76%) A+ Certification
7 7 (3.76%) MCP
8 6 (3.23%) CISSP
9 4 (2.15%) CEH
9 4 (2.15%) CISM
9 4 (2.15%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (2.15%) OSCP
10 2 (1.08%) CCFP
10 2 (1.08%) GCFE
10 2 (1.08%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.20%) QA
2 26 (13.98%) Accessibility
2 26 (13.98%) Data Quality
3 14 (7.53%) GDPR
4 9 (4.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (2.69%) HIPAA
7 4 (2.15%) NIST
8 1 (0.54%) NCSC
8 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (19.35%) Docker
2 16 (8.60%) Active Directory
3 10 (5.38%) Hyper-V
3 10 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (3.76%) vSphere
6 6 (3.23%) BitLocker
6 6 (3.23%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (3.23%) Terminal Services
6 6 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 50 (26.88%) Kubernetes
2 29 (15.59%) Terraform
3 23 (12.37%) Ansible
4 22 (11.83%) Grafana
4 22 (11.83%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.38%) Puppet
6 6 (3.23%) Nagios
6 6 (3.23%) vCenter Server
6 6 (3.23%) vMotion
7 4 (2.15%) QRadar
8 3 (1.61%) SCCM
9 2 (1.08%) EnCase
9 2 (1.08%) FTK
9 2 (1.08%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (1.08%) RSA Security Analytics
10 1 (0.54%) Argo
10 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 46 (24.73%) Google
2 31 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.99%) OpenAI
3 13 (6.99%) VMware
4 10 (5.38%) Citrix
4 10 (5.38%) Databricks
5 8 (4.30%) Solace
6 7 (3.76%) HP
7 6 (3.23%) Foundry
7 6 (3.23%) Splunk
7 6 (3.23%) Symantec
8 5 (2.69%) Cisco
8 5 (2.69%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.61%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.08%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.08%) Dataiku
10 2 (1.08%) FireEye
10 2 (1.08%) MapR
10 2 (1.08%) NetWitness
11 1 (0.54%) Informatica