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 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 90 153 76
Rank change year-on-year +63 -77 +53
Permanent jobs citing GCP 97 96 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.84% 1.36% 3.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.49% 4.80% 10.17%
Number of salaries quoted 32 28 93
10th Percentile £25,750 £32,125 £39,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -13.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £67,500 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £89,425 £100,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £61,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -11.79% -

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 2,002 2,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 24.68% 28.39% 38.14%
Number of salaries quoted 430 1,488 1,428
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,463 £30,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £38,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £71,500 £62,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £92,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,875
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.51% +1.59%

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 31 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 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
Berkshire +80 68 £77,500 -3.13% 31
Oxfordshire +15 19 £42,500 -29.17% 18
Buckinghamshire +15 10 £56,250 +45.16% 7
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 (9.28%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.19%) Confluence
3 1 (1.03%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 87 (89.69%) AWS
1 87 (89.69%) Azure
2 24 (24.74%) Snowflake
3 13 (13.40%) Azure Monitor
4 9 (9.28%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (9.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (5.15%) GitHub
7 3 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.03%) IaaS
9 1 (1.03%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.22%) DHCP
1 7 (7.22%) DNS
1 7 (7.22%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.06%) LAN
2 2 (2.06%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (35.05%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (34.02%) Data Lake
3 24 (24.74%) Metadata
4 11 (11.34%) NoSQL
5 9 (9.28%) Big Data
5 9 (9.28%) Data Mining
5 9 (9.28%) Hadoop
6 7 (7.22%) SQL Server
7 6 (6.19%) MySQL
8 5 (5.15%) MongoDB
8 5 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (10.31%) GitLab
2 6 (6.19%) Bitbucket
2 6 (6.19%) Cucumber
2 6 (6.19%) JIRA
2 6 (6.19%) Maven
2 6 (6.19%) Selenium
2 6 (6.19%) SonarQube
2 6 (6.19%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (5.15%) Git
4 4 (4.12%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.09%) JUnit
5 3 (3.09%) Mockito
General
1 58 (59.79%) Law
2 53 (54.64%) Social Skills
3 19 (19.59%) Finance
4 14 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (14.43%) Retail
5 13 (13.40%) Legal
6 10 (10.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (6.19%) Banking
8 3 (3.09%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 53 (54.64%) Senior
2 35 (36.08%) Lead
3 13 (13.40%) Senior Manager
4 9 (9.28%) Data Analytics Director
4 9 (9.28%) Software Engineer
5 8 (8.25%) Support Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) IT Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) IT Support
6 7 (7.22%) IT Support Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Developer
9 3 (3.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) Java Developer
10 2 (2.06%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (2.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 1 (1.03%) Angular Developer
11 1 (1.03%) AWS Architect
11 1 (1.03%) AWS Developer
11 1 (1.03%) Azure Developer
11 1 (1.03%) NoSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.59%) Kafka
2 13 (13.40%) Hugging Face
2 13 (13.40%) LangChain
2 13 (13.40%) PyTorch
2 13 (13.40%) TensorFlow
3 12 (12.37%) React
4 11 (11.34%) CSS
4 11 (11.34%) HTML
5 9 (9.28%) Hibernate
5 9 (9.28%) Spring
5 9 (9.28%) Spring Boot
6 6 (6.19%) JPA
6 6 (6.19%) Redux
7 5 (5.15%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.15%) LAMP
7 5 (5.15%) Laravel
7 5 (5.15%) Loki
7 5 (5.15%) Vue
7 5 (5.15%) Web Services
8 3 (3.09%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.46%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.31%) Management Information System
3 9 (9.28%) Algorithms
4 6 (6.19%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (6.19%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.15%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (4.12%) Hackathon
6 4 (4.12%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.22%) Windows
2 6 (6.19%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (50.52%) Analytics
2 43 (44.33%) Data Engineering
3 36 (37.11%) Agile
3 36 (37.11%) Use Case
4 35 (36.08%) DevOps
5 34 (35.05%) CI/CD
5 34 (35.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 33 (34.02%) Artificial Intelligence
6 33 (34.02%) Data Architecture
6 33 (34.02%) Data Governance
6 33 (34.02%) Data Modelling
6 33 (34.02%) ETL
7 31 (31.96%) Data Science
7 31 (31.96%) Machine Learning
8 27 (27.84%) Computer Science
8 27 (27.84%) Platform Engineering
9 25 (25.77%) Data Pipeline
9 25 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (24.74%) Data Strategy
10 24 (24.74%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 49 (50.52%) SQL
2 31 (31.96%) Python
3 13 (13.40%) JavaScript
4 10 (10.31%) Java
5 7 (7.22%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.15%) PHP
7 4 (4.12%) Go
8 2 (2.06%) Bash
Qualifications
1 52 (53.61%) Degree
2 24 (24.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (23.71%) Master's Degree
4 10 (10.31%) AWS Certification
5 9 (9.28%) Azure Certification
5 9 (9.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (7.22%) A+ Certification
6 7 (7.22%) MCP
7 6 (6.19%) Security Cleared
8 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.06%) MCSE
10 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (30.93%) QA
2 24 (24.74%) Accessibility
2 24 (24.74%) Data Quality
3 10 (10.31%) GDPR
4 9 (9.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.03%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (13.40%) Docker
2 10 (10.31%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.09%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.09%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (21.65%) Grafana
1 21 (21.65%) Prometheus
2 20 (20.62%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.34%) Terraform
4 6 (6.19%) Ansible
5 3 (3.09%) Puppet
5 3 (3.09%) SCCM
6 1 (1.03%) Argo
Vendors
1 20 (20.62%) Google
2 16 (16.49%) Microsoft
3 13 (13.40%) OpenAI
4 10 (10.31%) Databricks
5 6 (6.19%) Solace
5 6 (6.19%) VMware
6 3 (3.09%) Citrix
6 3 (3.09%) SolarWinds