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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 154 74
Rank change year-on-year +49 -80 +51
Permanent jobs citing GCP 83 89 236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.42% 1.32% 4.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.83% 4.55% 10.49%
Number of salaries quoted 34 25 91
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -13.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £67,500 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £83,750 - £100,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% -13.57% -

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 844 1,955 2,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 24.64% 29.09% 38.09%
Number of salaries quoted 452 1,480 1,443
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,338 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,125 £76,375 £92,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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 17 May 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 17 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
Berkshire +66 52 £77,500 -3.13% 55
Oxfordshire +20 21 £42,500 -22.73% 19
Buckinghamshire +16 10 £56,250 +45.16% 14
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 6 (7.23%) Apache Spark
1 6 (7.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 73 (87.95%) AWS
2 71 (85.54%) Azure
3 24 (28.92%) Snowflake
4 9 (10.84%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (10.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (7.23%) GitHub
7 3 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.41%) SaaS
8 2 (2.41%) Serverless
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.20%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.20%) IaaS
9 1 (1.20%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.43%) DHCP
1 7 (8.43%) DNS
1 7 (8.43%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.20%) LAN
2 1 (1.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (37.35%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (36.14%) Data Lake
3 24 (28.92%) Metadata
4 9 (10.84%) Data Mining
4 9 (10.84%) MySQL
5 8 (9.64%) NoSQL
6 7 (8.43%) SQL Server
7 6 (7.23%) Big Data
7 6 (7.23%) Hadoop
8 4 (4.82%) MongoDB
8 4 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.20%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (12.05%) GitLab
2 8 (9.64%) Git
3 6 (7.23%) Bitbucket
3 6 (7.23%) Cucumber
3 6 (7.23%) JIRA
3 6 (7.23%) Maven
3 6 (7.23%) Selenium
3 6 (7.23%) SonarQube
3 6 (7.23%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.61%) JUnit
5 3 (3.61%) Mockito
General
1 42 (50.60%) Law
2 36 (43.37%) Social Skills
3 16 (19.28%) Retail
4 14 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (12.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (7.23%) Banking
6 6 (7.23%) Finance
7 3 (3.61%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 41 (49.40%) Senior
2 35 (42.17%) Lead
3 9 (10.84%) Software Engineer
4 8 (9.64%) Support Engineer
5 7 (8.43%) IT Engineer
5 7 (8.43%) IT Support
5 7 (8.43%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) Data Analytics Director
6 6 (7.23%) Developer
6 6 (7.23%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (2.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 1 (1.20%) Architect
10 1 (1.20%) AWS Developer
10 1 (1.20%) Lead Software Engineer
10 1 (1.20%) Linux Engineer
10 1 (1.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 1 (1.20%) Site Engineer
10 1 (1.20%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.48%) Kafka
2 14 (16.87%) CSS
2 14 (16.87%) HTML
3 13 (15.66%) React
4 9 (10.84%) Hibernate
4 9 (10.84%) Spring
4 9 (10.84%) Spring Boot
5 7 (8.43%) LAMP
5 7 (8.43%) Laravel
5 7 (8.43%) Web Services
6 6 (7.23%) JPA
6 6 (7.23%) Redux
7 5 (6.02%) AngularJS
7 5 (6.02%) Loki
7 5 (6.02%) Vue
8 4 (4.82%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (4.82%) RESTful
9 3 (3.61%) OAuth
9 3 (3.61%) OAuth2
10 1 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.46%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.84%) Algorithms
3 7 (8.43%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (8.43%) Management Information System
3 7 (8.43%) Product Ownership
4 6 (7.23%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.82%) Hackathon
5 4 (4.82%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.64%) Linux
2 7 (8.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (55.42%) Analytics
2 40 (48.19%) Data Engineering
3 36 (43.37%) Use Case
4 33 (39.76%) Agile
5 32 (38.55%) DevOps
6 31 (37.35%) Data Modelling
6 31 (37.35%) Stakeholder Management
7 30 (36.14%) CI/CD
7 30 (36.14%) Data Architecture
7 30 (36.14%) Data Governance
7 30 (36.14%) ETL
8 25 (30.12%) Data Pipeline
9 24 (28.92%) Anomaly Detection
9 24 (28.92%) Data Stewardship
9 24 (28.92%) Data Strategy
9 24 (28.92%) Data Transformation
9 24 (28.92%) Data Validation
9 24 (28.92%) Master Data Management
9 24 (28.92%) Matrix Organization
9 24 (28.92%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (54.22%) SQL
2 30 (36.14%) Python
3 14 (16.87%) JavaScript
4 11 (13.25%) Java
5 7 (8.43%) PHP
5 7 (8.43%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.82%) Go
7 2 (2.41%) Bash
8 1 (1.20%) C#
Qualifications
1 36 (43.37%) Degree
2 8 (9.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (9.64%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (8.43%) A+ Certification
3 7 (8.43%) AWS Certification
3 7 (8.43%) Master's Degree
3 7 (8.43%) MCP
4 6 (7.23%) Azure Certification
4 6 (7.23%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.02%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.20%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (37.35%) QA
2 24 (28.92%) Accessibility
2 24 (28.92%) Data Quality
3 7 (8.43%) GDPR
4 6 (7.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.20%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (14.46%) Docker
2 10 (12.05%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.61%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.61%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (22.89%) Kubernetes
2 11 (13.25%) Terraform
3 8 (9.64%) Grafana
3 8 (9.64%) Prometheus
4 6 (7.23%) Ansible
5 3 (3.61%) Puppet
5 3 (3.61%) SCCM
6 1 (1.20%) Argo
Vendors
1 17 (20.48%) Google
2 16 (19.28%) Microsoft
3 10 (12.05%) Databricks
4 6 (7.23%) Solace
5 5 (6.02%) VMware
6 3 (3.61%) Citrix
6 3 (3.61%) SolarWinds