GCP Jobs in the South West

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 95 68
Rank change year-on-year +1 -27 +6
Permanent jobs citing GCP 88 269 305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.48% 2.75% 4.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.03% 9.79% 11.76%
Number of salaries quoted 72 154 196
10th Percentile £42,750 £37,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £50,245 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,996 £65,864 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.79% +1.33% +4.00%
75th Percentile £97,743 £84,688 £80,782
90th Percentile £122,500 £90,575 £100,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - -

All Cloud 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 877 2,747 2,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 24.73% 28.04% 39.11%
Number of salaries quoted 687 2,121 1,620
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £38,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £82,500 £83,750
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the South West

GCP
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for GCP in the South West

GCP
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 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 31 May 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 +18 67 £71,991 +2.01% 45
Gloucestershire +25 6 £55,000 -21.43% 30
Devon +4 5 £70,000 +75.00% 7
Wiltshire +32 3 - - 3
Dorset +12 3 £85,000 +129.73% 7
Somerset -6 2 £35,000 -47.17% 9
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (2.27%) CMS
2 1 (1.14%) Apache
2 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.14%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.14%) Drupal
2 1 (1.14%) Joomla!
2 1 (1.14%) nginx
2 1 (1.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 60 (68.18%) AWS
2 58 (65.91%) Azure
3 11 (12.50%) npm
3 11 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 9 (10.23%) Serverless
5 7 (7.95%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.55%) GitHub
6 4 (4.55%) Vertex AI
7 2 (2.27%) Apigee
7 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.27%) SaaS
7 2 (2.27%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.27%) Stackdriver
8 1 (1.14%) Fivetran
8 1 (1.14%) OCI
8 1 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.95%) Broadband
2 3 (3.41%) VPN
3 2 (2.27%) LAN
3 2 (2.27%) WAN
4 1 (1.14%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.14%) Converged Networks
4 1 (1.14%) DNS
4 1 (1.14%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (1.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (1.14%) Firewall
4 1 (1.14%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.14%) IPsec
4 1 (1.14%) Network Security
4 1 (1.14%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (19.32%) MySQL
2 11 (12.50%) Data Hub
2 11 (12.50%) Power BI
3 10 (11.36%) BigQuery
4 9 (10.23%) NoSQL
5 8 (9.09%) Tableau
6 6 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (5.68%) Big Data
7 5 (5.68%) Looker
8 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.14%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.14%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (40.91%) Git
2 13 (14.77%) Sonatype Nexus
3 11 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 11 (12.50%) Cypress.io
3 11 (12.50%) webpack
4 5 (5.68%) Jenkins
5 4 (4.55%) GitLab
5 4 (4.55%) JIRA
6 2 (2.27%) JUnit
6 2 (2.27%) Maven
6 2 (2.27%) SonarQube
General
1 67 (76.14%) Finance
2 43 (48.86%) Banking
3 18 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (18.18%) Social Skills
5 12 (13.64%) Games
6 4 (4.55%) Marketing
7 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.27%) Law
8 2 (2.27%) Retail
9 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Electronics
9 1 (1.14%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (31.82%) Lead
2 22 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 18 (20.45%) Senior
4 8 (9.09%) Developer
4 8 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 7 (7.95%) Data Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Architect
6 6 (6.82%) Java Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Lead Java Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Technical Leader
7 5 (5.68%) Development Team Leader
7 5 (5.68%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 5 (5.68%) Lead Data Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) PHP Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Provisioning Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Senior PHP Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Team Leader
8 4 (4.55%) Data Scientist
8 4 (4.55%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.32%) Spring Boot
2 14 (15.91%) RESTful
3 13 (14.77%) CSS
3 13 (14.77%) HTML
3 13 (14.77%) Laravel
4 12 (13.64%) LAMP
5 11 (12.50%) Jest
5 11 (12.50%) Node.js
5 11 (12.50%) React
5 11 (12.50%) Web Services
6 8 (9.09%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.68%) Spring
8 4 (4.55%) Pandas
8 4 (4.55%) XGBoost
9 3 (3.41%) JPA
9 3 (3.41%) PySpark
9 3 (3.41%) REST
9 3 (3.41%) Vue
10 2 (2.27%) Kafka
10 2 (2.27%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.64%) Mobile App
2 11 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 9 (10.23%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.95%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (7.95%) Reinsurance
4 7 (7.95%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (6.82%) Distributed Applications
6 5 (5.68%) Product Ownership
7 4 (4.55%) Data Structures
7 4 (4.55%) Robotics
8 2 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.27%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.14%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.68%) Linux
2 2 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 34 (38.64%) Software Engineering
3 31 (35.23%) DevOps
3 31 (35.23%) Mentoring
4 29 (32.95%) Agile
4 29 (32.95%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 21 (23.86%) Analytics
6 21 (23.86%) Data Science
6 21 (23.86%) Machine Learning
7 20 (22.73%) Microservices
7 20 (22.73%) Test Automation
8 17 (19.32%) Event-Driven
8 17 (19.32%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (19.32%) Web Development
9 14 (15.91%) E-Commerce
9 14 (15.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 13 (14.77%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (13.64%) Change Management
11 12 (13.64%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 37 (42.05%) Python
2 23 (26.14%) Java
3 22 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 17 (19.32%) SQL
5 16 (18.18%) PHP
6 8 (9.09%) Bash
7 6 (6.82%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.55%) Go
9 3 (3.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (10.23%) Degree
2 8 (9.09%) PhD
3 6 (6.82%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.68%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.41%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.27%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.14%) CCNA
7 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.41%) GDPR
3 2 (2.27%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (32.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (26.14%) Kubernetes
2 13 (14.77%) Terraform
3 4 (4.55%) Ansible
4 2 (2.27%) Istio
5 1 (1.14%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.14%) Grafana
5 1 (1.14%) Nagios
5 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (34.09%) Google
2 7 (7.95%) Databricks
2 7 (7.95%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.68%) F5
4 3 (3.41%) Twitter
5 2 (2.27%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.14%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.14%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.14%) Cisco
6 1 (1.14%) Informatica
6 1 (1.14%) Juniper
6 1 (1.14%) Oracle
6 1 (1.14%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.14%) SAP