GCP Jobs in the South East

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 210 105
Rank change year-on-year +62 -105 +8
Permanent jobs citing GCP 132 178 466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.68% 1.14% 2.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.94% 3.60% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 89 93 203
10th Percentile £25,750 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -12.86% +3.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £82,865 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.58% - -

All Cloud 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 2,224 4,944 5,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.23% 31.69% 36.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,437 3,967 3,929
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +4.00%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the South East

GCP
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP in the South East.

Salary trend for GCP in the South East

GCP
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the South East over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

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 1 April 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
Thames Valley +74 59 £60,000 -7.69% 62
Hampshire +60 43 £65,000 +22.64% 39
Berkshire +50 29 £60,000 -25.00% 29
Oxfordshire +45 27 £42,500 -42.18% 16
Middlesex - 13 £90,000 -
Surrey +43 8 £60,000 -4.00% 19
East Sussex +20 5 £75,000 +42.86% 11
Buckinghamshire +36 3 £60,000 +71.43% 20
Kent +12 3 £60,000 -15.49% 14
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.03%) Apache
2 4 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.76%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.76%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.76%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 12 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 97 (73.48%) AWS
2 95 (71.97%) Azure
3 17 (12.88%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (12.12%) SaaS
5 11 (8.33%) Snowflake
6 10 (7.58%) PaaS
7 9 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (6.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (3.79%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.79%) dbt
8 5 (3.79%) GitHub
8 5 (3.79%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.03%) Serverless
10 3 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.27%) IaaS
10 3 (2.27%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.09%) DHCP
1 12 (9.09%) DNS
1 12 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 8 (6.06%) Firewall
3 4 (3.03%) Network Security
4 2 (1.52%) LAN
4 2 (1.52%) VPN
4 2 (1.52%) WAN
5 1 (0.76%) MQTT
5 1 (0.76%) NGFW
5 1 (0.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.15%) MySQL
2 16 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (10.61%) Data Lake
3 14 (10.61%) Metadata
4 11 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 10 (7.58%) Data Mining
6 9 (6.82%) NoSQL
7 7 (5.30%) BigQuery
8 6 (4.55%) Looker
9 5 (3.79%) SQL Server
10 4 (3.03%) Big Data
10 4 (3.03%) Hadoop
11 3 (2.27%) DynamoDB
11 3 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.27%) Power BI
12 2 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (1.52%) Cloud Spanner
12 2 (1.52%) Impala
12 2 (1.52%) Metadata Repository
12 2 (1.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 29 (21.97%) Git
2 15 (11.36%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.27%) GitLab
4 2 (1.52%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.76%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.76%) ESLint
5 1 (0.76%) Gatling
5 1 (0.76%) JIRA
5 1 (0.76%) JMeter
5 1 (0.76%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.76%) Selenium
5 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 32 (24.24%) Law
3 23 (17.42%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (15.91%) Retail
5 14 (10.61%) Finance
6 10 (7.58%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.76%) Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Billing
9 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (47.73%) Senior
2 26 (19.70%) Lead
3 18 (13.64%) Developer
3 18 (13.64%) Support Engineer
4 16 (12.12%) IT Engineer
5 15 (11.36%) IT Support
5 15 (11.36%) IT Support Engineer
6 11 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (6.06%) Node.js Developer
7 8 (6.06%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.55%) Architect
9 6 (4.55%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Consultant
10 5 (3.79%) Data Consultant
10 5 (3.79%) Senior Consultant
10 5 (3.79%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.39%) Node.js
2 15 (11.36%) CSS
2 15 (11.36%) HTML
2 15 (11.36%) React
3 13 (9.85%) LAMP
4 11 (8.33%) .NET
5 10 (7.58%) Laravel
5 10 (7.58%) Web Services
6 8 (6.06%) .NET Core
6 8 (6.06%) Next.js
7 7 (5.30%) Tailwind CSS
8 6 (4.55%) Kafka
8 6 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (3.79%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.27%) AWS CDK
10 3 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (2.27%) Material-UI
10 3 (2.27%) PySpark
11 2 (1.52%) Lambda Expressions
11 2 (1.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.36%) Greenfield Project
2 13 (9.85%) Management Information System
3 11 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 9 (6.82%) Algorithms
5 8 (6.06%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.03%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.52%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.52%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.52%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.76%) Cybercrime
8 1 (0.76%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.76%) IoT
8 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (23.48%) Windows
2 25 (18.94%) Linux
3 7 (5.30%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.52%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.76%) Android
5 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (30.30%) DevOps
1 40 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (28.03%) Analytics
3 33 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 27 (20.45%) Agile
5 25 (18.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (18.18%) Data Engineering
7 23 (17.42%) Software Engineering
8 19 (14.39%) Data Modelling
8 19 (14.39%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (14.39%) Incident Management
9 18 (13.64%) Computer Science
9 18 (13.64%) Performance Monitoring
9 18 (13.64%) Use Case
10 17 (12.88%) High Availability
11 16 (12.12%) Artificial Intelligence
11 16 (12.12%) Data Governance
11 16 (12.12%) E-Commerce
11 16 (12.12%) Visualisation
12 15 (11.36%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 38 (28.79%) Python
2 23 (17.42%) SQL
3 21 (15.91%) JavaScript
4 14 (10.61%) PHP
5 12 (9.09%) Java
6 8 (6.06%) Go
6 8 (6.06%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.55%) Bash
8 4 (3.03%) C#
9 2 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.52%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.52%) Ruby
9 2 (1.52%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.76%) C++
10 1 (0.76%) R
10 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (25.00%) Degree
2 14 (10.61%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (9.09%) A+ Certification
3 12 (9.09%) MCP
4 7 (5.30%) CISSP
5 6 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.79%) Master's Degree
7 4 (3.03%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.27%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.27%) Security Cleared
9 2 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.52%) CCFP
9 2 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.52%) CISM
9 2 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.52%) EnCE
9 2 (1.52%) GCFE
9 2 (1.52%) GREM
9 2 (1.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.85%) Data Quality
2 12 (9.09%) QA
3 11 (8.33%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.03%) GDPR
5 3 (2.27%) NIST
6 2 (1.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.52%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (19.70%) Docker
2 21 (15.91%) Active Directory
3 14 (10.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (9.09%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.27%) vSphere
6 2 (1.52%) HDFS
6 2 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.76%) XenApp
7 1 (0.76%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 36 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 27 (20.45%) Terraform
3 21 (15.91%) Ansible
4 5 (3.79%) Grafana
4 5 (3.79%) Progress Chef
4 5 (3.79%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.79%) Puppet
5 4 (3.03%) SCCM
6 2 (1.52%) Argo
6 2 (1.52%) EnCase
6 2 (1.52%) FTK
6 2 (1.52%) Hadoop YARN
6 2 (1.52%) QRadar
6 2 (1.52%) RSA Security Analytics
7 1 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 47 (35.61%) Google
2 34 (25.76%) Microsoft
3 15 (11.36%) VMware
4 11 (8.33%) Databricks
5 5 (3.79%) Cisco
5 5 (3.79%) Citrix
6 4 (3.03%) Splunk
7 3 (2.27%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.27%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.52%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.52%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.52%) FireEye
8 2 (1.52%) HP
8 2 (1.52%) MapR
8 2 (1.52%) NetWitness
8 2 (1.52%) Oracle
9 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.76%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.76%) Dell
9 1 (0.76%) Informatica