GCP Architect Job Trends in the South West

Google Cloud Platform Architect
England > South West

The median Google Cloud Platform Architect salary in the South West is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 October 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a GCP Architect 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.028% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £83,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 - -
75th Percentile £91,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £101,250 £95,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +6.58% -5.00% -9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 3,333 6,534 4,470
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.54% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,140 4,124 3,490
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £29,440
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,575 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

GCP Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

GCP Architect job vacancy trend in the South West

GCP Architect
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for GCP Architect job vacancies in the South West.

Salary distribution trend for GCP Architect job vacancies in the South West

GCP Architect
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP Architect within the South West region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Wiltshire - 1 £87,500 - 4
GCP Architect
England

GCP Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 5 October 2025, GCP Architect 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 South West region featuring GCP Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code

GCP Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Change
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk