GCP Jobs in the Thames Valley

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 141 104
Rank change year-on-year +77 -37 +35
Permanent jobs citing GCP 155 93 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.25% 1.44% 2.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.63% 5.11% 7.73%
Number of salaries quoted 33 29 93
10th Percentile £26,350 £32,250 £51,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,732 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -22.58% +19.23%
75th Percentile £67,500 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,950 £106,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -20.00% +15.38%

All Cloud 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 992 1,821 1,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.22% 28.26% 37.91%
Number of salaries quoted 481 1,260 1,350
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,250 £37,500 £42,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,875 £93,875
South East median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +4.55%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

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 19 July 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
Berkshire +90 129 £75,000 -6.25% 40
Oxfordshire +17 14 £38,125 -15.28% 14
Buckinghamshire +5 12 £60,000 +77.78% 10
GCP
South East

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 9 (5.81%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.87%) Confluence
3 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 134 (86.45%) Azure
2 131 (84.52%) AWS
3 24 (15.48%) Snowflake
4 15 (9.68%) Azure AI
4 15 (9.68%) Vertex AI
5 13 (8.39%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (5.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (3.23%) GitHub
8 4 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.29%) IaaS
11 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.65%) OCI
11 1 (0.65%) PaaS
11 1 (0.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.87%) DNS
2 5 (3.23%) DHCP
3 4 (2.58%) LAN
3 4 (2.58%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.58%) WAN
4 3 (1.94%) Firewall
4 3 (1.94%) Wireless
5 2 (1.29%) VPN
6 1 (0.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (30.32%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (21.29%) Data Lake
3 24 (15.48%) Metadata
4 14 (9.03%) BigQuery
5 11 (7.10%) NoSQL
6 9 (5.81%) Big Data
6 9 (5.81%) Data Mining
6 9 (5.81%) Hadoop
7 8 (5.16%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.23%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.94%) MySQL
10 1 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (10.32%) Git
2 10 (6.45%) GitLab
3 6 (3.87%) Bitbucket
3 6 (3.87%) Cucumber
3 6 (3.87%) JIRA
3 6 (3.87%) Maven
3 6 (3.87%) Selenium
3 6 (3.87%) SonarQube
3 6 (3.87%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (2.58%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.94%) Burp Suite
5 3 (1.94%) JUnit
5 3 (1.94%) Metasploit
5 3 (1.94%) Mockito
General
1 114 (73.55%) Law
2 68 (43.87%) Social Skills
3 41 (26.45%) Marketing
4 28 (18.06%) Legal
5 19 (12.26%) Finance
6 14 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (7.10%) Retail
8 10 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.87%) Banking
10 3 (1.94%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.65%) Advertising
11 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 79 (50.97%) Senior
2 37 (23.87%) Lead
3 30 (19.35%) Architect
4 19 (12.26%) Developer
5 16 (10.32%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (9.68%) Cloud Architect
6 15 (9.68%) Platform Architect
6 15 (9.68%) Product Delivery Manager
6 15 (9.68%) Product Manager
7 14 (9.03%) Full-Stack Web Developer
7 14 (9.03%) GCP Architect
7 14 (9.03%) Senior Developer
7 14 (9.03%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (9.03%) Senior Web Developer
7 14 (9.03%) Web Developer
8 13 (8.39%) Data Architect
8 13 (8.39%) Senior Architect
8 13 (8.39%) Senior Data Architect
8 13 (8.39%) Senior Manager
9 9 (5.81%) Data Analytics Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (16.77%) React
2 22 (14.19%) CSS
2 22 (14.19%) HTML
3 19 (12.26%) Kafka
4 17 (10.97%) RESTful
5 16 (10.32%) Node.js
6 13 (8.39%) Hugging Face
6 13 (8.39%) LangChain
6 13 (8.39%) PyTorch
6 13 (8.39%) TensorFlow
7 9 (5.81%) Hibernate
7 9 (5.81%) Spring
7 9 (5.81%) Spring Boot
8 6 (3.87%) JPA
8 6 (3.87%) Redux
9 5 (3.23%) AngularJS
9 5 (3.23%) Loki
9 5 (3.23%) Vue
10 3 (1.94%) OAuth
10 3 (1.94%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.71%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.68%) AI Agents
3 10 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 9 (5.81%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.87%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.58%) Hackathon
6 4 (2.58%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.29%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.52%) Linux
2 6 (3.87%) Windows
3 3 (1.94%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (47.10%) Data Science
2 67 (43.23%) Continuous Improvement
3 65 (41.94%) Agile
4 64 (41.29%) Roadmaps
5 63 (40.65%) Analytics
6 61 (39.35%) Artificial Intelligence
7 59 (38.06%) Machine Learning
8 56 (36.13%) Data Engineering
9 51 (32.90%) Use Case
10 49 (31.61%) CI/CD
10 49 (31.61%) DevOps
11 46 (29.68%) Data Architecture
11 46 (29.68%) Data Governance
11 46 (29.68%) Data Modelling
11 46 (29.68%) ETL
12 41 (26.45%) Generative AI
13 39 (25.16%) Matrix Organization
14 38 (24.52%) Data Pipeline
15 37 (23.87%) Data Strategy
15 37 (23.87%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 50 (32.26%) SQL
2 49 (31.61%) Python
3 24 (15.48%) Java
3 24 (15.48%) JavaScript
4 18 (11.61%) Go
5 11 (7.10%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.23%) Bash
7 2 (1.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 53 (34.19%) Degree
2 24 (15.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (14.84%) Master's Degree
4 10 (6.45%) AWS Certification
5 9 (5.81%) Azure Certification
5 9 (5.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (4.52%) Security Cleared
7 6 (3.87%) SC Cleared
8 5 (3.23%) MCSE
9 4 (2.58%) A+ Certification
9 4 (2.58%) MCP
10 3 (1.94%) OSCP
10 3 (1.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.65%) CCNP
11 1 (0.65%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.65%) GPEN
11 1 (0.65%) RHCE
11 1 (0.65%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (28.39%) QA
2 37 (23.87%) Data Quality
3 24 (15.48%) Accessibility
4 11 (7.10%) GDPR
5 9 (5.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.94%) NIST
7 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.65%) NCSC
7 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (17.42%) Docker
2 8 (5.16%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.58%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (30.97%) Kubernetes
2 21 (13.55%) Grafana
2 21 (13.55%) Prometheus
3 13 (8.39%) Terraform
4 8 (5.16%) Ansible
5 4 (2.58%) SCCM
6 3 (1.94%) Nmap
6 3 (1.94%) Puppet
7 1 (0.65%) Argo
7 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 46 (29.68%) Google
2 15 (9.68%) Foundry
2 15 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 13 (8.39%) OpenAI
4 10 (6.45%) Databricks
5 9 (5.81%) VMware
6 6 (3.87%) Solace
7 4 (2.58%) Citrix
7 4 (2.58%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.65%) Cisco
8 1 (0.65%) Red Hat