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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 130 203
Rank change year-on-year -40 +73 -94
Permanent jobs citing GCP 128 154 199
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.87% 2.01% 1.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.18% 7.31% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 77 92 101
10th Percentile £39,750 £37,850 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,300 £79,875 £95,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +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 4,026 2,108 5,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 27.34% 27.55% 30.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,163 1,379 4,050
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,950 £27,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,063 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -4 68 £65,000 +8.33% 39
Berkshire +7 42 £62,500 -18.03% 26
Hampshire -28 32 £70,000 +7.69% 17
Buckinghamshire -5 20 £66,250 +17.78% 8
Surrey -14 11 £55,000 -16.98% 4
East Sussex -24 8 £60,000 -20.00% 1
Kent -31 8 £34,500 -50.71% 1
Oxfordshire -10 6 £55,000 +22.22% 5
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 8 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.13%) nginx
4 3 (2.34%) Confluence
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.78%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 108 (84.38%) AWS
2 101 (78.91%) Azure
3 12 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (7.81%) GitHub
5 5 (3.91%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.91%) Figma
5 5 (3.91%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.91%) SaaS
5 5 (3.91%) Serverless
6 4 (3.13%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 4 (3.13%) dbt
6 4 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.13%) Prefect
7 3 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.34%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (2.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.34%) OCI
7 3 (2.34%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (15.63%) Firewall
2 17 (13.28%) DNS
2 17 (13.28%) VPN
3 11 (8.59%) LAN
3 11 (8.59%) WAN
4 6 (4.69%) DHCP
4 6 (4.69%) Network Security
5 5 (3.91%) MQTT
6 4 (3.13%) Broadband
7 3 (2.34%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.78%) HTTP
8 1 (0.78%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.78%) Modbus
8 1 (0.78%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.19%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (15.63%) NoSQL
3 19 (14.84%) MySQL
4 14 (10.94%) MongoDB
5 12 (9.38%) Apache Cassandra
6 10 (7.81%) Relational Database
7 8 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (5.47%) SQL Server
9 6 (4.69%) BigQuery
10 5 (3.91%) Looker
11 4 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (3.13%) Big Data
11 4 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (3.13%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.34%) Flink
12 3 (2.34%) Redis
13 2 (1.56%) Data Lake
13 2 (1.56%) Power BI
13 2 (1.56%) Tableau
14 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (18.75%) Git
2 16 (12.50%) GitLab
3 6 (4.69%) JIRA
4 4 (3.13%) JUnit
5 3 (2.34%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.34%) Mockito
5 3 (2.34%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.56%) PHPUnit
6 2 (1.56%) Selenium
7 1 (0.78%) git-flow
General
1 39 (30.47%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.75%) Finance
3 16 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (9.38%) Telecoms
6 9 (7.03%) Law
7 8 (6.25%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.13%) Legal
8 4 (3.13%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.34%) Aviation
9 3 (2.34%) Games
9 3 (2.34%) Marketing
9 3 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.56%) Banking
10 2 (1.56%) Retail
11 1 (0.78%) Billing
11 1 (0.78%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (21.88%) Senior
2 20 (15.63%) Software Engineer
3 17 (13.28%) Developer
4 13 (10.16%) Analyst
5 10 (7.81%) Architect
6 9 (7.03%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 9 (7.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (7.03%) Senior Developer
7 8 (6.25%) Backend Developer
7 8 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.25%) Lead
7 8 (6.25%) Senior Backend Developer
8 7 (5.47%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (5.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (5.47%) Support Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) IT Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Python Engineer
11 4 (3.13%) OSS Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.94%) React
2 10 (7.81%) Kafka
3 9 (7.03%) .NET
3 9 (7.03%) REST
3 9 (7.03%) Web Services
4 8 (6.25%) RESTful
5 6 (4.69%) CSS
6 5 (3.91%) Django
6 5 (3.91%) HTML
6 5 (3.91%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.91%) Twisted
6 5 (3.91%) WebSockets
7 4 (3.13%) .NET Core
7 4 (3.13%) gRPC
7 4 (3.13%) Hibernate
7 4 (3.13%) React Native
7 4 (3.13%) Spring
8 3 (2.34%) Redux
8 3 (2.34%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.34%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.06%) Cloud Native
1 18 (14.06%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (10.16%) Client/Server
2 13 (10.16%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.03%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.91%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.91%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (3.13%) Replication
7 3 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.34%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.34%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.56%) Over-the-Top Content
8 2 (1.56%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (28.13%) Linux
2 21 (16.41%) Windows
3 12 (9.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (35.94%) Continuous Improvement
2 40 (31.25%) Agile
3 34 (26.56%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (25.78%) CI/CD
4 33 (25.78%) Containerisation
5 32 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 27 (21.09%) Software Engineering
7 24 (18.75%) Test Automation
8 23 (17.97%) AI
9 21 (16.41%) Code Quality
9 21 (16.41%) Microservices
10 19 (14.84%) Cybersecurity
10 19 (14.84%) DevOps
11 18 (14.06%) Data Science
11 18 (14.06%) Observability
12 17 (13.28%) Analytics
12 17 (13.28%) Collaborative Culture
12 17 (13.28%) Full-Stack Development
13 16 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
13 16 (12.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 55 (42.97%) Python
2 21 (16.41%) Rust
3 17 (13.28%) SQL
4 16 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 15 (11.72%) JavaScript
6 14 (10.94%) C++
7 13 (10.16%) C
7 13 (10.16%) Java
8 8 (6.25%) C#
8 8 (6.25%) PHP
9 6 (4.69%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.69%) Scala
10 3 (2.34%) Bash
10 3 (2.34%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.56%) Go
11 2 (1.56%) R
12 1 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (37.50%) Degree
2 29 (22.66%) Security Cleared
3 24 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 23 (17.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.69%) CCNA
5 6 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.91%) DBS Check
6 5 (3.91%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.91%) Master's Degree
7 4 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.13%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.56%) CISSP
9 2 (1.56%) MCSE
9 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.78%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (19.53%) QA
2 10 (7.81%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.13%) NIST
4 3 (2.34%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.34%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.56%) GDPR
5 2 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.78%) NCSC
System Software
1 35 (27.34%) Docker
2 18 (14.06%) Hyper-V
2 18 (14.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (10.16%) Active Directory
3 13 (10.16%) KVM
4 5 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.94%) Terraform
3 9 (7.03%) Ansible
3 9 (7.03%) Grafana
3 9 (7.03%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.13%) Puppet
5 1 (0.78%) Argo
5 1 (0.78%) CASB
5 1 (0.78%) Kibana
5 1 (0.78%) Podman
Vendors
1 38 (29.69%) Google
2 24 (18.75%) VMware
3 22 (17.19%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.25%) Oracle
5 5 (3.91%) Citrix
5 5 (3.91%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.34%) Confluent
6 3 (2.34%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.34%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.34%) Tenable
7 2 (1.56%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.56%) Foundry
7 2 (1.56%) Typelevel
8 1 (0.78%) Carbon Black
8 1 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.78%) Genesys
8 1 (0.78%) Informatica
8 1 (0.78%) Pega
8 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.78%) Splunk