GCP Job Trends in the South West

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 116 49
Rank change year-on-year -42 -67 +9
Permanent jobs citing GCP 26 84 234
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.52% 1.94% 5.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.23% 6.07% 12.86%
Number of salaries quoted 20 64 194
10th Percentile £38,625 £37,525 £42,500
25th Percentile £44,375 £55,938 £53,696
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £72,246 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +2.37% +12.92%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,125 £91,451
90th Percentile £82,625 £96,383 £96,539
England median annual salary £80,000 £84,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,165 1,384 1,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.22% 31.94% 41.40%
Number of salaries quoted 774 766 1,475
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

GCP job vacancy trend in the South West

GCP
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the South West over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for GCP in the South West

GCP
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 within the South West region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Bristol -37 10 £66,250 -8.62% 76
Wiltshire +15 7 £80,000 - 63
Gloucestershire +16 5 £50,000 +11.11% 123
Dorset -3 2 £70,000 +25.00% 52
GCP
England

GCP
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.69%) Apache
1 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Superset
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (69.23%) Azure
2 17 (65.38%) AWS
3 5 (19.23%) GitHub
3 5 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) Datadog
4 2 (7.69%) OCI
4 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.69%) Serverless
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Run
5 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.85%) Fivetran
5 1 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.85%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
1 1 (3.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) BigQuery
1 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.69%) MySQL
2 2 (7.69%) Power BI
2 2 (7.69%) Tableau
3 1 (3.85%) Airbyte
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.85%) Couchbase
3 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.85%) Looker
3 1 (3.85%) Metadata
3 1 (3.85%) Redis
3 1 (3.85%) Spark SQL
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) CircleCI
2 2 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (3.85%) GitLab
3 1 (3.85%) REST Assured
General
1 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Finance
3 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
4 4 (15.38%) Marketing
5 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Electronics
5 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
5 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
6 2 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Architect
2 5 (19.23%) GCP Architect
2 5 (19.23%) Senior
3 3 (11.54%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Administrator
4 2 (7.69%) Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) .NET Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Information Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
1 3 (11.54%) React
1 3 (11.54%) RESTful
2 2 (7.69%) .NET
2 2 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 2 (7.69%) Blazor
2 2 (7.69%) Laravel
2 2 (7.69%) NumPy
2 2 (7.69%) Pandas
2 2 (7.69%) PySpark
2 2 (7.69%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (3.85%) Node.js
3 1 (3.85%) Playwright
3 1 (3.85%) PrimeNG
3 1 (3.85%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.85%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (3.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.85%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.85%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (34.62%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) Containerisation
2 9 (34.62%) DevOps
3 8 (30.77%) Cloud Security
4 7 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
6 5 (19.23%) Analytics
6 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (19.23%) Machine Learning
6 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
6 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
7 4 (15.38%) AI
7 4 (15.38%) DevSecOps
7 4 (15.38%) ETL
7 4 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) SQL
3 6 (23.08%) Bash
4 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
5 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 2 (7.69%) C#
6 2 (7.69%) Java
6 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.85%) Bicep
7 1 (3.85%) C
7 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (3.85%) Elixir
7 1 (3.85%) Erlang
7 1 (3.85%) PHP
7 1 (3.85%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 10 (38.46%) DV Cleared
3 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) CCNA
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.85%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Data Quality
1 3 (11.54%) GDPR
2 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.69%) NCSC
3 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.85%) NIST
3 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.85%) KVM
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (38.46%) Terraform
3 6 (23.08%) Ansible
4 3 (11.54%) Grafana
5 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Google
2 3 (11.54%) SAP
3 2 (7.69%) Alteryx
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Foundry
4 1 (3.85%) Guidewire
4 1 (3.85%) HubSpot
4 1 (3.85%) New Relic
4 1 (3.85%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Palantir
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.85%) Splunk
4 1 (3.85%) Talend
4 1 (3.85%) VMware
4 1 (3.85%) Zoho