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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 120 156
Rank change year-on-year -68 +36 -14
Permanent jobs citing GCP 153 218 227
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.87% 2.41% 1.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.02% 9.12% 6.01%
Number of salaries quoted 109 77 127
10th Percentile £32,450 £46,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £118,750 £96,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £87,283
% change year-on-year -6.25% -8.34% +9.10%

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 2,390 3,779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 21.55% 26.41% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,802 1,446 2,446
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,063 £41,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -0.75%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,563 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £84,938 £83,750
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% -4.62%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -57 66 £72,500 +20.83% 64
Hampshire -33 48 £62,500 -10.71% 29
Berkshire -59 25 £80,000 +4.92% 37
Surrey -6 22 £55,000 -24.14% 9
Oxfordshire -15 21 £95,000 +123.53% 17
Buckinghamshire +4 20 £60,000 - 10
East Sussex -18 5 £55,000 -51.11% 6
West Sussex - 5 £105,000 - 15
Kent -25 4 £38,500 -65.78% 2
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 4 (2.61%) Confluence
2 3 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Lightworks
1 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.31%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 130 (84.97%) AWS
2 115 (75.16%) Azure
3 22 (14.38%) GitHub
4 15 (9.80%) Serverless
5 13 (8.50%) Anthropic Claude
6 7 (4.58%) Cloud Run
6 7 (4.58%) Firebase
6 7 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.58%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.27%) ChatGPT
8 5 (3.27%) Entra ID
8 5 (3.27%) Google Gemini
9 4 (2.61%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (2.61%) Figma
9 4 (2.61%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.96%) Google Sheets
10 3 (1.96%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.80%) Firewall
2 13 (8.50%) VPN
3 12 (7.84%) DNS
4 11 (7.19%) MQTT
5 9 (5.88%) Network Security
6 8 (5.23%) WAN
7 6 (3.92%) LAN
8 5 (3.27%) HTTP
8 5 (3.27%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.31%) BGP
9 2 (1.31%) Broadband
9 2 (1.31%) DHCP
10 1 (0.65%) DNSSEC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (20.26%) MySQL
2 22 (14.38%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 15 (9.80%) MongoDB
5 10 (6.54%) NoSQL
6 9 (5.88%) Pinecone
7 7 (4.58%) Chroma
8 5 (3.27%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (3.27%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.61%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.61%) Redis
10 3 (1.96%) Looker
11 2 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.31%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.65%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.65%) Power BI
12 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (30.72%) Git
2 11 (7.19%) GitLab
3 6 (3.92%) JIRA
4 5 (3.27%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.27%) JUnit
5 4 (2.61%) PHPUnit
5 4 (2.61%) Selenium
5 4 (2.61%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.96%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.96%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.96%) Eclipse RCP
7 2 (1.31%) Mockito
7 2 (1.31%) NUnit
8 1 (0.65%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.65%) Storybook
General
1 59 (38.56%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.65%) Finance
3 20 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.61%) Games
6 4 (2.61%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.96%) Law
7 3 (1.96%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.31%) Aviation
9 1 (0.65%) Advertising
9 1 (0.65%) Billing
9 1 (0.65%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Legal
9 1 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (28.76%) Senior
2 35 (22.88%) Software Engineer
3 29 (18.95%) Developer
4 19 (12.42%) Backend Developer
5 15 (9.80%) Senior Developer
6 14 (9.15%) Architect
6 14 (9.15%) Senior Backend Developer
7 11 (7.19%) Lead
8 9 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (5.23%) Data Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) Analyst
10 7 (4.58%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (4.58%) GCP Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) GCP Software Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) Python Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (3.92%) Graduate
11 6 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (22.88%) Terraform
2 19 (12.42%) React
2 19 (12.42%) REST
3 14 (9.15%) Kafka
4 12 (7.84%) Spring
5 11 (7.19%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.23%) CSS
6 8 (5.23%) gRPC
6 8 (5.23%) HTML
6 8 (5.23%) Node.js
6 8 (5.23%) RESTful
7 7 (4.58%) .NET
7 7 (4.58%) Hibernate
7 7 (4.58%) pgvector
8 6 (3.92%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (3.92%) Web Services
9 5 (3.27%) JPA
9 5 (3.27%) LAMP
9 5 (3.27%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.61%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.42%) Product Ownership
2 18 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (9.15%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (8.50%) AI Agents
5 11 (7.19%) Cloud Native
6 10 (6.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (5.23%) Onboarding
7 8 (5.23%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.92%) Public Cloud
8 6 (3.92%) Robotics
8 6 (3.92%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (3.27%) Client/Server
9 5 (3.27%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.61%) Algorithms
10 4 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (2.61%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.96%) Life Science
11 3 (1.96%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 32 (20.92%) Linux
2 14 (9.15%) Windows
3 7 (4.58%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.65%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (39.87%) AI
2 60 (39.22%) CI/CD
3 55 (35.95%) Agile
3 55 (35.95%) Software Engineering
4 49 (32.03%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (23.53%) Containerisation
6 35 (22.88%) DevOps
7 32 (20.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (20.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (19.61%) Machine Learning
9 30 (19.61%) Mentoring
10 28 (18.30%) Code Quality
11 27 (17.65%) Observability
12 26 (16.99%) Computer Science
12 26 (16.99%) Test Automation
13 24 (15.69%) Microservices
14 23 (15.03%) LLM
15 18 (11.76%) Decision-Making
15 18 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
16 17 (11.11%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 59 (38.56%) Python
2 29 (18.95%) JavaScript
3 28 (18.30%) Java
4 23 (15.03%) SQL
5 21 (13.73%) TypeScript
6 18 (11.76%) PHP
7 17 (11.11%) Rust
8 12 (7.84%) C#
8 12 (7.84%) C++
9 9 (5.88%) C
10 4 (2.61%) Scala
10 4 (2.61%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.96%) ABAP
11 3 (1.96%) Go
12 2 (1.31%) Bash
12 2 (1.31%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 47 (30.72%) Degree
2 36 (23.53%) Security Cleared
3 31 (20.26%) SC Cleared
4 18 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.23%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.58%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.96%) CCNA
7 3 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.96%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.31%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.65%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.65%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.65%) GCIA
9 1 (0.65%) GCIH
9 1 (0.65%) GIAC
9 1 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.84%) QA
2 4 (2.61%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.61%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.96%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.31%) NIST
5 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (38.56%) Docker
2 8 (5.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.58%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.58%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.92%) KVM
4 6 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.31%) Firmware
5 2 (1.31%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 55 (35.95%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.46%) Ansible
3 9 (5.88%) Grafana
4 8 (5.23%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.58%) Puppet
6 6 (3.92%) Podman
7 5 (3.27%) Argo
8 3 (1.96%) Istio
8 3 (1.96%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.65%) Kibana
9 1 (0.65%) Packer
Vendors
1 44 (28.76%) Google
2 22 (14.38%) Microsoft
3 13 (8.50%) VMware
4 6 (3.92%) NVIDIA
5 5 (3.27%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.61%) Tenable
7 3 (1.96%) Oracle
7 3 (1.96%) SAP
8 2 (1.31%) Citrix
8 2 (1.31%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.31%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.65%) Carbon Black
9 1 (0.65%) Cisco
9 1 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.65%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.65%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.65%) Splunk
9 1 (0.65%) Typelevel