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 7 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 121 134
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 -14
Permanent jobs citing GCP 80 85 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.69% 2.25% 2.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.03% 6.20% 6.98%
Number of salaries quoted 35 49 101
10th Percentile £25,750 £63,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £41,732 £70,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,509 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.09% +10.71% +3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £92,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,500 £90,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +15.38% -1.89%

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 1,327 1,370 2,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.04% 36.19% 32.60%
Number of salaries quoted 656 993 1,456
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £29,625
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £55,050 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -8.25% +5.73%
75th Percentile £73,750 £74,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,000 £86,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +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 7 October 2024.

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 7 October 2024. 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
Oxfordshire +12 41 £45,000 -35.71% 6
Berkshire -23 23 £81,250 +3.17% 9
Buckinghamshire -18 16 £65,000 -18.75% 8
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 3 (3.75%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 65 (81.25%) AWS
2 58 (72.50%) Azure
3 11 (13.75%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (6.25%) Serverless
7 4 (5.00%) SaaS
8 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.75%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 2 (2.50%) Firebase
9 2 (2.50%) GitHub
9 2 (2.50%) Google Play
10 1 (1.25%) Apigee
10 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.25%) AWS CodeStar
10 1 (1.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (1.25%) OCI
10 1 (1.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.75%) Network Security
1 7 (8.75%) TCP/IP
2 6 (7.50%) DHCP
2 6 (7.50%) DNS
2 6 (7.50%) Firewall
3 4 (5.00%) VPN
3 4 (5.00%) WAN
4 3 (3.75%) LAN
4 3 (3.75%) VLAN
5 1 (1.25%) BGP
5 1 (1.25%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.25%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.25%) DMVPN
5 1 (1.25%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (1.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (1.25%) HTTP
5 1 (1.25%) MPLS
5 1 (1.25%) OSPF
5 1 (1.25%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (31.25%) BigQuery
2 24 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (25.00%) Looker
4 6 (7.50%) Big Data
5 5 (6.25%) MongoDB
6 4 (5.00%) Data Mart
6 4 (5.00%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (3.75%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.75%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.75%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.75%) MySQL
7 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.50%) SQLite
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Git
1 4 (5.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.50%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.25%) GitLab
3 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 27 (33.75%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (32.50%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.50%) Billing
4 5 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Retail
7 2 (2.50%) Advertising
7 2 (2.50%) Finance
7 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.50%) Marketing
7 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (15.00%) Architect
1 12 (15.00%) Data Manager
1 12 (15.00%) Engineering Manager
2 11 (13.75%) Developer
3 10 (12.50%) Senior
4 8 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) IT Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) IT Support
5 7 (8.75%) IT Support Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) Principal Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) Support Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Data Architect
6 6 (7.50%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Data Modeller
8 4 (5.00%) Principal Network Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Database Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) EDI
2 5 (6.25%) React
3 4 (5.00%) React Native
4 3 (3.75%) Kafka
4 3 (3.75%) OpenMP
5 2 (2.50%) .NET
5 2 (2.50%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.50%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.50%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.50%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (2.50%) AutoMapper
5 2 (2.50%) CSS
5 2 (2.50%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.50%) HTML
5 2 (2.50%) Node.js
5 2 (2.50%) SwiftUI
6 1 (1.25%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.25%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.25%) gRPC
6 1 (1.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 10 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (8.75%) Algorithms
4 6 (7.50%) Mobile App
5 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
5 5 (6.25%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.75%) CUDA
6 3 (3.75%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (3.75%) Fat Client
6 3 (3.75%) Thin Client
7 2 (2.50%) Blog
7 2 (2.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.50%) Digital Media
8 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.25%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.25%) Lidar
8 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.50%) Linux
1 10 (12.50%) Windows
2 4 (5.00%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (3.75%) Android
3 3 (3.75%) Unix
3 3 (3.75%) VMS
4 2 (2.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (33.75%) Data Engineering
2 27 (33.75%) DevOps
3 26 (32.50%) Data Modelling
4 25 (31.25%) Platform Engineering
5 22 (27.50%) Agile
5 22 (27.50%) Mentoring
6 21 (26.25%) ETL
7 18 (22.50%) CI/CD
8 16 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 16 (20.00%) Scrum
9 15 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (17.50%) Project Management
11 12 (15.00%) Data Architecture
11 12 (15.00%) Data Integration
11 12 (15.00%) Software Engineering
12 11 (13.75%) Data Pipeline
13 10 (12.50%) Computer Science
13 10 (12.50%) Decision-Making
13 10 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 31 (38.75%) Python
2 13 (16.25%) C++
2 13 (16.25%) SQL
3 11 (13.75%) C
4 9 (11.25%) Bash
4 9 (11.25%) Java
5 7 (8.75%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.00%) C#
7 3 (3.75%) C-shell
7 3 (3.75%) Fortran
7 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.75%) Scala
8 2 (2.50%) Go
8 2 (2.50%) Objective-C
8 2 (2.50%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.50%) XAML
9 1 (1.25%) AWK
9 1 (1.25%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.25%) R
9 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (26.25%) Degree
2 10 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 8 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 7 (8.75%) AWS Certification
4 7 (8.75%) CCNA
4 7 (8.75%) DBS Check
4 7 (8.75%) SC Cleared
5 6 (7.50%) A+ Certification
5 6 (7.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (7.50%) MCP
5 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 4 (5.00%) PhD
7 3 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.75%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (3.75%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (2.50%) CISSP
9 1 (1.25%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (11.25%) QA
3 7 (8.75%) GDPR
4 5 (6.25%) Accessibility
5 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (11.25%) Docker
2 7 (8.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (16.25%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.00%) Terraform
3 3 (3.75%) Ansible
Vendors
1 42 (52.50%) Google
2 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.50%) Cisco
4 4 (5.00%) NVIDIA
5 3 (3.75%) Foundry
5 3 (3.75%) IBM
5 3 (3.75%) Palantir
6 2 (2.50%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.50%) Xamarin
7 1 (1.25%) Black Duck
7 1 (1.25%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.25%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.25%) Databricks
7 1 (1.25%) Juniper
7 1 (1.25%) McAfee
7 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.25%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.25%) Zscaler