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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 126 212
Rank change year-on-year -31 +86 -92
Permanent jobs citing GCP 117 197 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.08% 2.25% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.58% 6.80% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 85 120 80
10th Percentile £30,500 £25,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £118,750 £75,625 £75,813
90th Percentile £143,750 £90,375 £85,100
England median annual salary £77,500 £84,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -7.74% +8.39% -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 3,266 2,897 3,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.07% 33.15% 32.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,777 1,585 3,107
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £28,290
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -7.89%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 31 January 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 31 January 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 +1 57 £58,750 -2.08% 33
Berkshire +12 27 £70,000 - 19
Hampshire -26 27 £60,000 -7.69% 17
Buckinghamshire +14 20 £66,250 +3.92% 3
East Sussex +10 15 £112,500 +50.00% 5
Kent -8 11 £137,500 +77.42% 7
Oxfordshire -9 10 £28,500 +3.64% 11
Surrey -13 3 £85,000 +23.19% 9
Sussex - 2 £55,000 -
West Sussex +3 1 £60,000 -33.33% 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 5 (4.27%) IIS
2 4 (3.42%) nginx
3 2 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.85%) Camunda
Applications
1 7 (5.98%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 101 (86.32%) Azure
2 89 (76.07%) AWS
3 34 (29.06%) SaaS
4 21 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (9.40%) GitHub
6 10 (8.55%) Entra ID
7 9 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.98%) Power Platform
10 6 (5.13%) Serverless
11 5 (4.27%) Amazon S3
11 5 (4.27%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (4.27%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (4.27%) Google Workspace
12 4 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.56%) dbt
14 2 (1.71%) Fivetran
14 2 (1.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 24 (20.51%) DNS
2 21 (17.95%) DHCP
3 16 (13.68%) Firewall
4 12 (10.26%) VPN
5 8 (6.84%) Network Security
6 7 (5.98%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.85%) Broadband
7 1 (0.85%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.85%) LAN
7 1 (0.85%) MQTT
7 1 (0.85%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.40%) MySQL
1 11 (9.40%) NoSQL
2 10 (8.55%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.13%) BigQuery
5 5 (4.27%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (3.42%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (3.42%) Power BI
7 3 (2.56%) Looker
8 2 (1.71%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.71%) Tableau
9 1 (0.85%) Big Data
9 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.85%) GIS
9 1 (0.85%) Metadata
9 1 (0.85%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (7.69%) Git
2 8 (6.84%) GitLab
3 5 (4.27%) git-flow
4 4 (3.42%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.85%) MLflow
General
1 47 (40.17%) Finance
2 46 (39.32%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.69%) Legal
4 7 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (5.98%) Law
4 7 (5.98%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.13%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.56%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.71%) Marketing
8 2 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.71%) Retail
9 1 (0.85%) Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (32.48%) Developer
2 21 (17.95%) .NET Developer
2 21 (17.95%) .NET Software Developer
2 21 (17.95%) Engineering Manager
2 21 (17.95%) Senior
2 21 (17.95%) Software Developer
3 18 (15.38%) IT Engineer
4 17 (14.53%) Support Engineer
5 13 (11.11%) IT Support
5 13 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
6 10 (8.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (8.55%) Senior Developer
7 9 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (7.69%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Architect
8 7 (5.98%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) PHP Developer
9 6 (5.13%) Security Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.27%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (33.33%) .NET
2 11 (9.40%) React
3 10 (8.55%) CSS
4 9 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (6.84%) HTML
6 7 (5.98%) Kafka
7 6 (5.13%) .NET Framework
7 6 (5.13%) Entity Framework
8 5 (4.27%) AWS CDK
8 5 (4.27%) Material-UI
8 5 (4.27%) RESTful
8 5 (4.27%) WinForms
9 3 (2.56%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.56%) ASP.NET
9 3 (2.56%) Node.js
9 3 (2.56%) Web Services
10 2 (1.71%) Ajax
10 2 (1.71%) OAuth
10 2 (1.71%) OAuth2
10 2 (1.71%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.98%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.42%) Client/Server
4 4 (3.42%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.56%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.71%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.71%) Life Science
6 2 (1.71%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.71%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.85%) IoT
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (0.85%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 27 (23.08%) Windows
2 21 (17.95%) Linux
3 10 (8.55%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (46.15%) Agile
2 36 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 28 (23.93%) AI
3 28 (23.93%) Roadmaps
4 27 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 23 (19.66%) Business Strategy
5 23 (19.66%) DevOps
6 20 (17.09%) Computer Science
6 20 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (14.53%) Business Continuity
9 13 (11.11%) Data Modelling
10 12 (10.26%) Collaborative Culture
11 11 (9.40%) Containerisation
11 11 (9.40%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (9.40%) Microservices
12 10 (8.55%) Disaster Recovery
12 10 (8.55%) Mentoring
12 10 (8.55%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 31 (26.50%) TypeScript
2 28 (23.93%) JavaScript
3 21 (17.95%) Python
4 17 (14.53%) C#
5 16 (13.68%) SQL
6 10 (8.55%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.13%) PHP
7 6 (5.13%) T-SQL
8 5 (4.27%) C++
8 5 (4.27%) Rust
9 4 (3.42%) C
9 4 (3.42%) Java
10 3 (2.56%) Go
11 2 (1.71%) R
12 1 (0.85%) Bash
12 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (21.37%) Degree
2 15 (12.82%) Security Cleared
3 13 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (9.40%) SC Cleared
5 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (5.98%) A+ Certification
6 7 (5.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 4 (3.42%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.42%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.71%) CISSP
9 2 (1.71%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.85%) CISA
10 1 (0.85%) CRISC
10 1 (0.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.85%) MCSE
10 1 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.68%) QA
2 5 (4.27%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.42%) GDPR
4 3 (2.56%) NIST
5 2 (1.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.85%) GRC
6 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.85%) NCSC
6 1 (0.85%) SLA
6 1 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (17.95%) Active Directory
2 11 (9.40%) Docker
3 4 (3.42%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.42%) KVM
3 4 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (11.97%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.13%) Terraform
3 3 (2.56%) Ansible
3 3 (2.56%) Grafana
3 3 (2.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.85%) Argo
4 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (30.77%) Google
2 18 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.69%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.27%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.27%) Sage
4 5 (4.27%) VMware
4 5 (4.27%) Xamarin
4 5 (4.27%) Zoho
5 2 (1.71%) Oracle
6 1 (0.85%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (0.85%) Foundry
6 1 (0.85%) Genesys
6 1 (0.85%) Informatica
6 1 (0.85%) Palantir
6 1 (0.85%) Pega
6 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.85%) Typelevel
6 1 (0.85%) UiPath