GCP Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 75 156
Rank change year-on-year -38 +81 -43
Permanent jobs citing GCP 74 131 83
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.21% 3.64% 1.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.99% 13.55% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 37 33 27
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £41,250 £41,732
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -25.81%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £83,750 £90,900
South East median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +11.11% -22.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,483 967 1,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 24.20% 26.90% 28.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,027 478 1,365
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,063 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £77,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

GCP job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

GCP
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 July 2026. 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
Berkshire -33 39 £70,000 -8.20% 13
Buckinghamshire -5 21 £59,500 -0.83% 4
Oxfordshire -7 14 £87,500 +105.88% 13
GCP
South East

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.35%) Camunda
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 55 (74.32%) AWS
1 55 (74.32%) Azure
2 7 (9.46%) GitHub
3 5 (6.76%) Figma
4 3 (4.05%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (4.05%) Cloud Run
4 3 (4.05%) Firebase
4 3 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.05%) OCI
5 2 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.35%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.22%) DNS
1 12 (16.22%) Firewall
2 8 (10.81%) VPN
3 6 (8.11%) LAN
3 6 (8.11%) TCP/IP
3 6 (8.11%) WAN
4 4 (5.41%) Network Security
5 3 (4.05%) HTTP
6 2 (2.70%) DHCP
6 2 (2.70%) MQTT
7 1 (1.35%) DNSSEC
7 1 (1.35%) Modbus
7 1 (1.35%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.76%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.41%) Big Data
4 3 (4.05%) Pinecone
5 2 (2.70%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.70%) MySQL
5 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.35%) GIS
6 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (9.46%) Git
2 5 (6.76%) GitLab
3 3 (4.05%) JIRA
3 3 (4.05%) JUnit
4 2 (2.70%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.70%) Eclipse RCP
4 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.35%) Storybook
General
1 35 (47.30%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (17.57%) Telecoms
4 10 (13.51%) Finance
5 5 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.76%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.76%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.05%) Aviation
6 3 (4.05%) Games
6 3 (4.05%) Legal
6 3 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Law
8 1 (1.35%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (36.49%) Software Engineer
2 21 (28.38%) Senior
3 10 (13.51%) Architect
4 8 (10.81%) Analyst
5 6 (8.11%) Graduate
5 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Python Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Python Software Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.41%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.41%) Lead
7 4 (5.41%) OSS Business Analyst
7 4 (5.41%) Senior Manager
7 4 (5.41%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Software Team Leader
7 4 (5.41%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.81%) React
2 6 (8.11%) .NET
2 6 (8.11%) REST
3 5 (6.76%) Django
3 5 (6.76%) Twisted
3 5 (6.76%) Web Services
3 5 (6.76%) WebSockets
4 3 (4.05%) gRPC
4 3 (4.05%) pgvector
4 3 (4.05%) RESTful
5 2 (2.70%) CSS
5 2 (2.70%) HTML
5 2 (2.70%) JSON
5 2 (2.70%) Protocol Buffers
5 2 (2.70%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.35%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.35%) Celery
6 1 (1.35%) Kafka
6 1 (1.35%) Node.js
6 1 (1.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.62%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (17.57%) Client/Server
3 11 (14.86%) Cloud Native
4 7 (9.46%) Product Ownership
4 7 (9.46%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (9.46%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (5.41%) Cyber Defence
5 4 (5.41%) Life Science
5 4 (5.41%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (4.05%) AI Agents
6 3 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (4.05%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (4.05%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.70%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.70%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 28 (37.84%) Linux
2 14 (18.92%) Windows
3 9 (12.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.59%) Problem-Solving
1 33 (44.59%) Software Engineering
2 29 (39.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (35.14%) AI
3 26 (35.14%) Computer Science
4 23 (31.08%) Test Automation
5 21 (28.38%) Code Quality
6 17 (22.97%) Containerisation
7 15 (20.27%) Agile
8 13 (17.57%) Analytics
8 13 (17.57%) Mentoring
8 13 (17.57%) System Testing
9 12 (16.22%) CI/CD
10 11 (14.86%) Decision-Making
11 10 (13.51%) DevOps
11 10 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (13.51%) User Experience
12 9 (12.16%) Collaborative Culture
12 9 (12.16%) Data Architecture
13 8 (10.81%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (44.59%) Python
2 15 (20.27%) C
2 15 (20.27%) C++
3 13 (17.57%) Rust
3 13 (17.57%) SQL
4 7 (9.46%) JavaScript
4 7 (9.46%) TypeScript
5 6 (8.11%) C#
6 5 (6.76%) Java
7 3 (4.05%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.70%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.35%) Bash
9 1 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 36 (48.65%) Degree
2 17 (22.97%) Computer Science Degree
2 17 (22.97%) Security Cleared
3 13 (17.57%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.11%) DBS Check
5 4 (5.41%) Master's Degree
6 3 (4.05%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.70%) MCSE
7 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.35%) CCNA
8 1 (1.35%) CCNP
8 1 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.35%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (1.35%) GCIA
8 1 (1.35%) GCIH
8 1 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.97%) QA
2 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.35%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (17.57%) Hyper-V
1 13 (17.57%) KVM
1 13 (17.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (16.22%) Docker
3 5 (6.76%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (4.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (6.76%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (31.08%) Google
2 19 (25.68%) VMware
3 10 (13.51%) Microsoft
4 8 (10.81%) Oracle
5 5 (6.76%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.35%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (1.35%) Carbon Black
6 1 (1.35%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.35%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.35%) Pega
6 1 (1.35%) Splunk
6 1 (1.35%) UiPath