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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 139 194
Rank change year-on-year -34 +55 -86
Permanent jobs citing GCP 137 161 241
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.92% 2.05% 1.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.84% 7.81% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 85 72 132
10th Percentile £32,350 £29,750 £41,732
25th Percentile £47,500 £54,063 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +12.07% -22.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,500 £89,750 £96,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.13% -

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 3,569 2,062 5,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.05% 26.20% 28.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,441 1,258 4,169
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -24 70 £63,750 +13.33% 31
Berkshire -16 40 £70,000 -9.68% 21
Hampshire -29 33 £70,775 +2.57% 11
Buckinghamshire +5 19 £60,000 +6.67% 4
Surrey -11 17 £55,000 -24.14% 2
Oxfordshire -16 11 £75,000 +100.00% 7
Kent -23 9 £34,500 -50.71% 3
East Sussex -6 7 £55,000 -26.67%
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 (5.11%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.92%) Confluence
4 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.73%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 116 (84.67%) AWS
2 107 (78.10%) Azure
3 10 (7.30%) GitHub
3 10 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (7.30%) Serverless
4 5 (3.65%) Figma
5 4 (2.92%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 4 (2.92%) Prefect
6 3 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.19%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (2.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (2.19%) dbt
6 3 (2.19%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.19%) OCI
6 3 (2.19%) SaaS
6 3 (2.19%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.46%) Cloud Run
7 2 (1.46%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.14%) Firewall
2 15 (10.95%) VPN
3 13 (9.49%) WAN
4 12 (8.76%) DNS
4 12 (8.76%) LAN
4 12 (8.76%) MQTT
5 8 (5.84%) Network Security
6 4 (2.92%) Broadband
6 4 (2.92%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.46%) DHCP
7 2 (1.46%) HTTP
8 1 (0.73%) BGP
8 1 (0.73%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.73%) Modbus
8 1 (0.73%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.06%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (12.41%) NoSQL
3 16 (11.68%) MongoDB
3 16 (11.68%) MySQL
4 9 (6.57%) Relational Database
5 8 (5.84%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (5.11%) SQL Server
7 6 (4.38%) BigQuery
7 6 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.65%) Looker
8 5 (3.65%) Redis
9 4 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.92%) Big Data
9 4 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.92%) Pinecone
9 4 (2.92%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.19%) Flink
11 2 (1.46%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.73%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.73%) GIS
Development Applications
1 31 (22.63%) Git
2 17 (12.41%) GitLab
3 7 (5.11%) JIRA
4 6 (4.38%) JUnit
5 5 (3.65%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.19%) Mockito
7 2 (1.46%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.46%) Eclipse RCP
7 2 (1.46%) PHPUnit
7 2 (1.46%) Selenium
8 1 (0.73%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.73%) Storybook
General
1 47 (34.31%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.52%) Finance
3 17 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.49%) Telecoms
5 12 (8.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (7.30%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.38%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.65%) Law
9 4 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.19%) Aviation
10 3 (2.19%) Games
10 3 (2.19%) Legal
11 2 (1.46%) Banking
11 2 (1.46%) Marketing
11 2 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.46%) Retail
12 1 (0.73%) Advertising
12 1 (0.73%) Billing
12 1 (0.73%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (22.63%) Software Engineer
2 26 (18.98%) Senior
3 14 (10.22%) Developer
4 13 (9.49%) Analyst
5 12 (8.76%) Architect
6 11 (8.03%) Data Engineer
6 11 (8.03%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 8 (5.84%) Lead
8 7 (5.11%) Support Engineer
9 6 (4.38%) Backend Developer
9 6 (4.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.65%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (3.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (3.65%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 5 (3.65%) Python Engineer
10 5 (3.65%) Python Software Engineer
10 5 (3.65%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.65%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.41%) Kafka
2 13 (9.49%) REST
3 11 (8.03%) React
4 9 (6.57%) Web Services
5 8 (5.84%) gRPC
6 7 (5.11%) .NET
6 7 (5.11%) RESTful
7 6 (4.38%) Spring Boot
8 5 (3.65%) Django
8 5 (3.65%) Protocol Buffers
8 5 (3.65%) Spring
8 5 (3.65%) Twisted
8 5 (3.65%) WebSockets
9 4 (2.92%) React Native
9 4 (2.92%) Redux
10 3 (2.19%) CSS
10 3 (2.19%) HTML
10 3 (2.19%) JPA
10 3 (2.19%) Keycloak
10 3 (2.19%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.60%) Distributed Systems
1 20 (14.60%) Product Ownership
2 14 (10.22%) Client/Server
3 12 (8.76%) Cloud Native
4 9 (6.57%) Management Information System
4 9 (6.57%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (5.11%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.11%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (3.65%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.92%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.92%) Life Science
7 4 (2.92%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.92%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (2.92%) Replication
7 4 (2.92%) Robotics
8 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.19%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 40 (29.20%) Linux
2 21 (15.33%) Windows
3 10 (7.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (32.12%) Continuous Improvement
2 43 (31.39%) Agile
3 41 (29.93%) AI
3 41 (29.93%) CI/CD
3 41 (29.93%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (28.47%) Software Engineering
5 38 (27.74%) Containerisation
6 31 (22.63%) Computer Science
7 30 (21.90%) Test Automation
8 27 (19.71%) Machine Learning
8 27 (19.71%) Microservices
9 26 (18.98%) Cybersecurity
10 24 (17.52%) Code Quality
11 22 (16.06%) Analytics
12 21 (15.33%) Mentoring
13 20 (14.60%) Data Science
13 20 (14.60%) Observability
14 19 (13.87%) DevOps
14 19 (13.87%) Scrum
15 17 (12.41%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 65 (47.45%) Python
2 28 (20.44%) Rust
3 22 (16.06%) SQL
4 20 (14.60%) JavaScript
5 19 (13.87%) Java
6 18 (13.14%) C++
7 16 (11.68%) C
7 16 (11.68%) TypeScript
8 9 (6.57%) C#
9 6 (4.38%) Scala
10 5 (3.65%) PHP
11 3 (2.19%) Go
11 3 (2.19%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.46%) Bash
12 2 (1.46%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.46%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.73%) R
13 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (39.42%) Degree
2 35 (25.55%) Security Cleared
3 30 (21.90%) SC Cleared
4 22 (16.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.11%) CCNA
5 7 (5.11%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.38%) DBS Check
6 6 (4.38%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.38%) Master's Degree
7 5 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.46%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.46%) MCSE
9 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.73%) CCNP
10 1 (0.73%) CISM
10 1 (0.73%) CISSP
10 1 (0.73%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.33%) QA
2 8 (5.84%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.19%) NIST
3 3 (2.19%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.19%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.73%) GDPR
4 1 (0.73%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.73%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (29.93%) Docker
2 20 (14.60%) Hyper-V
2 20 (14.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (10.22%) KVM
4 11 (8.03%) Active Directory
5 5 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (23.36%) Kubernetes
2 21 (15.33%) Terraform
3 14 (10.22%) Ansible
4 10 (7.30%) Grafana
4 10 (7.30%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.11%) Puppet
6 4 (2.92%) Podman
7 1 (0.73%) CASB
7 1 (0.73%) Kibana
Vendors
1 43 (31.39%) Google
2 28 (20.44%) Microsoft
3 26 (18.98%) VMware
4 8 (5.84%) Oracle
5 6 (4.38%) Citrix
6 5 (3.65%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.65%) Tenable
7 4 (2.92%) NVIDIA
8 3 (2.19%) Confluent
8 3 (2.19%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.46%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.46%) Typelevel
10 1 (0.73%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.73%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.73%) Carbon Black
10 1 (0.73%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.73%) Foundry
10 1 (0.73%) Genesys
10 1 (0.73%) Pega
10 1 (0.73%) UiPath