GCP Job Trends in the South East

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 110 169
Rank change year-on-year -51 +59 -48
Permanent jobs citing GCP 163 219 217
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.02% 2.55% 1.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.28% 9.59% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 109 71 123
10th Percentile £32,250 £39,000 £41,885
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,125 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -20.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £78,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £96,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,805 2,283 4,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.71% 26.56% 28.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,654 1,408 3,241
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

GCP job vacancy trend in the South East

GCP
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the South East over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Salary histogram for GCP in the South East

GCP
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the South East region over the 6 months to 24 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
Thames Valley -58 75 £65,000 +23.81% 35
Hampshire -26 48 £70,000 - 24
Berkshire -52 35 £72,500 -1.69% 9
Buckinghamshire +2 23 £59,500 -0.83% 10
Surrey -15 21 £55,000 -24.14% 9
Oxfordshire -7 17 £110,000 +158.82% 16
Kent -16 9 £34,500 -50.71% 8
East Sussex -7 7 £55,000 - 4
Home Counties - 1 - -
GCP
England

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.45%) Confluence
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.61%) Camunda
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 135 (82.82%) AWS
2 117 (71.78%) Azure
3 16 (9.82%) GitHub
4 12 (7.36%) Serverless
5 10 (6.13%) Anthropic Claude
5 10 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.68%) Cloud Run
6 6 (3.68%) Firebase
7 5 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (3.07%) Figma
7 5 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.45%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 4 (2.45%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (2.45%) Prefect
9 3 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.84%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (1.84%) dbt
9 3 (1.84%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (1.84%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.27%) Firewall
2 15 (9.20%) VPN
3 14 (8.59%) DNS
3 14 (8.59%) MQTT
4 13 (7.98%) WAN
5 12 (7.36%) LAN
6 8 (4.91%) Network Security
7 6 (3.68%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.45%) Broadband
9 3 (1.84%) HTTP
10 2 (1.23%) DHCP
11 1 (0.61%) BGP
11 1 (0.61%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.61%) Modbus
11 1 (0.61%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (17.79%) MySQL
2 27 (16.56%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (12.27%) MongoDB
4 17 (10.43%) NoSQL
5 15 (9.20%) Relational Database
6 8 (4.91%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (4.91%) Pinecone
7 6 (3.68%) BigQuery
7 6 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (3.68%) Redis
7 6 (3.68%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.07%) Looker
9 4 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.45%) Big Data
9 4 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.45%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.84%) Flink
11 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.61%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 44 (26.99%) Git
2 15 (9.20%) GitLab
3 7 (4.29%) JIRA
4 6 (3.68%) JUnit
5 5 (3.07%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.45%) PHPUnit
6 4 (2.45%) Selenium
7 3 (1.84%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.84%) Eclipse RCP
7 3 (1.84%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.84%) Mockito
8 2 (1.23%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.61%) Storybook
General
1 57 (34.97%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.18%) Finance
3 22 (13.50%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.36%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (6.13%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.68%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.07%) Games
9 4 (2.45%) Law
9 4 (2.45%) Legal
9 4 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.84%) Aviation
11 2 (1.23%) Banking
11 2 (1.23%) Retail
12 1 (0.61%) Advertising
12 1 (0.61%) Billing
12 1 (0.61%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.61%) Marketing
12 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 40 (24.54%) Senior
2 36 (22.09%) Software Engineer
3 26 (15.95%) Developer
4 17 (10.43%) Backend Developer
5 14 (8.59%) Analyst
5 14 (8.59%) Senior Developer
6 13 (7.98%) Data Engineer
6 13 (7.98%) Senior Backend Developer
7 12 (7.36%) Architect
8 11 (6.75%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (4.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (4.91%) Lead
9 8 (4.91%) Python Engineer
9 8 (4.91%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.68%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (3.68%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 6 (3.68%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.27%) Kafka
2 16 (9.82%) React
2 16 (9.82%) REST
3 10 (6.13%) Spring Boot
4 9 (5.52%) gRPC
4 9 (5.52%) Spring
5 8 (4.91%) RESTful
5 8 (4.91%) Web Services
6 7 (4.29%) CSS
6 7 (4.29%) HTML
7 6 (3.68%) Node.js
7 6 (3.68%) pgvector
7 6 (3.68%) Protocol Buffers
8 5 (3.07%) .NET
8 5 (3.07%) Django
8 5 (3.07%) Hibernate
8 5 (3.07%) JPA
8 5 (3.07%) LAMP
8 5 (3.07%) Twisted
8 5 (3.07%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.72%) Product Ownership
2 19 (11.66%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (9.82%) Cloud Native
3 16 (9.82%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (6.13%) AI Agents
4 10 (6.13%) Client/Server
4 10 (6.13%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (5.52%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.91%) Onboarding
7 7 (4.29%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (3.68%) Robotics
9 5 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (3.07%) Replication
10 4 (2.45%) Algorithms
10 4 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (2.45%) Life Science
10 4 (2.45%) Mobile App
10 4 (2.45%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.84%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 38 (23.31%) Linux
2 22 (13.50%) Windows
3 11 (6.75%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.61%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (35.58%) Agile
1 58 (35.58%) AI
2 53 (32.52%) CI/CD
3 52 (31.90%) Software Engineering
4 49 (30.06%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (26.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (25.15%) Containerisation
7 34 (20.86%) Test Automation
8 30 (18.40%) Machine Learning
9 29 (17.79%) Computer Science
10 28 (17.18%) Code Quality
10 28 (17.18%) DevOps
10 28 (17.18%) Mentoring
10 28 (17.18%) Microservices
11 27 (16.56%) Observability
12 26 (15.95%) Cybersecurity
13 23 (14.11%) Analytics
13 23 (14.11%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (14.11%) LLM
14 20 (12.27%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 70 (42.94%) Python
2 26 (15.95%) JavaScript
2 26 (15.95%) Rust
3 24 (14.72%) Java
4 23 (14.11%) SQL
5 22 (13.50%) TypeScript
6 17 (10.43%) C++
6 17 (10.43%) PHP
7 14 (8.59%) C
8 9 (5.52%) C#
9 6 (3.68%) Scala
10 4 (2.45%) Go
11 3 (1.84%) Bash
11 3 (1.84%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.84%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.84%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 56 (34.36%) Degree
2 38 (23.31%) Security Cleared
3 33 (20.25%) SC Cleared
4 21 (12.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.52%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.29%) CCNA
6 7 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.68%) DBS Check
7 6 (3.68%) DV Cleared
8 5 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.23%) MCSE
10 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.61%) CCNP
11 1 (0.61%) CISM
11 1 (0.61%) CISSP
11 1 (0.61%) GCIA
11 1 (0.61%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.43%) QA
2 7 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.68%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.84%) NIST
4 3 (1.84%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (38.04%) Docker
2 17 (10.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (9.82%) Hyper-V
4 11 (6.75%) Active Directory
4 11 (6.75%) KVM
5 6 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (31.29%) Kubernetes
2 34 (20.86%) Terraform
3 16 (9.82%) Ansible
4 14 (8.59%) Grafana
5 13 (7.98%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.29%) Puppet
7 5 (3.07%) Podman
8 3 (1.84%) Argo
8 3 (1.84%) Istio
8 3 (1.84%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.61%) CASB
9 1 (0.61%) Kibana
Vendors
1 53 (32.52%) Google
2 28 (17.18%) Microsoft
3 24 (14.72%) VMware
4 8 (4.91%) Oracle
5 6 (3.68%) Citrix
6 5 (3.07%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.07%) Tenable
7 4 (2.45%) NVIDIA
7 4 (2.45%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.84%) Confluent
8 3 (1.84%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.23%) Typelevel
10 1 (0.61%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.61%) Carbon Black
10 1 (0.61%) Cisco
10 1 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.61%) Foundry
10 1 (0.61%) Infoblox
10 1 (0.61%) Pega
10 1 (0.61%) UiPath