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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 119 202
Rank change year-on-year -40 +83 -88
Permanent jobs citing GCP 132 148 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.05% 2.13% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.60% 6.35% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 79 91 95
10th Percentile £31,900 £25,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -1.64% -7.92%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,875 £74,375
90th Percentile £85,500 £80,000 £85,600
England median annual salary £77,500 £83,230 £78,126
% change year-on-year -6.88% +6.53% -2.34%

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 3,666 2,332 4,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 29.18% 33.50% 32.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,994 1,483 3,903
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £27,525
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 22 March 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 22 March 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 74 £62,500 +35.14% 23
Berkshire +14 44 £66,250 +10.42% 12
Hampshire -19 34 £67,500 +3.85% 8
Buckinghamshire -1 21 £65,000 +6.12% 5
Oxfordshire -19 9 £28,500 +3.64% 6
Kent -28 8 £34,500 -40.00%
Surrey -21 7 £80,000 +33.33% 2
East Sussex -11 5 £60,000 -20.00% 5
Sussex - 2 £55,000 -
West Sussex -15 1 £60,000 - 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 5 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.03%) IIS
2 4 (3.03%) nginx
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.76%) Camunda
Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 107 (81.06%) Azure
2 101 (76.52%) AWS
3 22 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (10.61%) GitHub
5 11 (8.33%) SaaS
6 9 (6.82%) Entra ID
7 8 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (5.30%) Power Platform
8 7 (5.30%) Serverless
9 6 (4.55%) dbt
10 5 (3.79%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.79%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.79%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (3.79%) Figma
10 5 (3.79%) Google Workspace
10 5 (3.79%) Snowflake
11 4 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 23 (17.42%) DNS
2 22 (16.67%) Firewall
3 18 (13.64%) VPN
4 17 (12.88%) DHCP
5 9 (6.82%) LAN
5 9 (6.82%) WAN
6 6 (4.55%) Network Security
7 5 (3.79%) TCP/IP
8 4 (3.03%) MQTT
9 3 (2.27%) Broadband
10 1 (0.76%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.76%) Modbus
10 1 (0.76%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.91%) NoSQL
2 19 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (12.88%) MySQL
4 14 (10.61%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 11 (8.33%) SQL Server
6 9 (6.82%) Apache Cassandra
7 8 (6.06%) BigQuery
8 7 (5.30%) Relational Database
9 6 (4.55%) Looker
10 5 (3.79%) DynamoDB
11 4 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (3.03%) Big Data
11 4 (3.03%) Power BI
11 4 (3.03%) RDBMS
11 4 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (2.27%) Flink
12 3 (2.27%) Redis
13 2 (1.52%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 18 (13.64%) Git
2 11 (8.33%) GitLab
3 5 (3.79%) git-flow
4 3 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.27%) JIRA
4 3 (2.27%) JUnit
4 3 (2.27%) Mockito
5 1 (0.76%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.76%) Selenium
5 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
General
1 50 (37.88%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.73%) Finance
3 14 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (8.33%) Telecoms
6 9 (6.82%) Law
6 9 (6.82%) Legal
7 7 (5.30%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.03%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.27%) Aviation
9 3 (2.27%) Games
9 3 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.52%) Banking
10 2 (1.52%) Marketing
10 2 (1.52%) Retail
11 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (19.70%) Senior
2 22 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 18 (13.64%) IT Engineer
3 18 (13.64%) Support Engineer
4 15 (11.36%) Developer
5 13 (9.85%) IT Support
5 13 (9.85%) IT Support Engineer
6 12 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (8.33%) Analyst
8 10 (7.58%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (6.06%) Lead
10 7 (5.30%) Architect
10 7 (5.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (5.30%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (5.30%) Security Engineer
11 5 (3.79%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
11 5 (3.79%) IT Security Engineer
11 5 (3.79%) Linux Support
11 5 (3.79%) Linux Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.88%) .NET
2 15 (11.36%) React
3 13 (9.85%) Kafka
4 9 (6.82%) CSS
4 9 (6.82%) RabbitMQ
4 9 (6.82%) Web Services
5 8 (6.06%) REST
5 8 (6.06%) RESTful
6 7 (5.30%) HTML
7 5 (3.79%) .NET Framework
7 5 (3.79%) AWS CDK
7 5 (3.79%) Django
7 5 (3.79%) Entity Framework
7 5 (3.79%) Material-UI
7 5 (3.79%) Twisted
7 5 (3.79%) WebSockets
8 4 (3.03%) .NET Core
8 4 (3.03%) Hibernate
8 4 (3.03%) Spring
8 4 (3.03%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 17 (12.88%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (12.88%) Product Ownership
3 13 (9.85%) Client/Server
4 9 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (6.06%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.55%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.79%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (3.03%) Replication
9 3 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.27%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.52%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.52%) Life Science
10 2 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.52%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.76%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 38 (28.79%) Linux
2 33 (25.00%) Windows
3 15 (11.36%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (31.82%) Agile
2 39 (29.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 37 (28.03%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 32 (24.24%) Computer Science
6 29 (21.97%) Software Engineering
7 26 (19.70%) Containerisation
8 25 (18.94%) DevOps
9 24 (18.18%) Test Automation
10 21 (15.91%) Business Continuity
10 21 (15.91%) Code Quality
11 19 (14.39%) Disaster Recovery
11 19 (14.39%) Microservices
12 18 (13.64%) AI
12 18 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
12 18 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (12.88%) Collaborative Culture
13 17 (12.88%) Mentoring
14 13 (9.85%) Cybersecurity
14 13 (9.85%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 45 (34.09%) Python
2 19 (14.39%) SQL
3 18 (13.64%) Rust
4 17 (12.88%) TypeScript
5 16 (12.12%) C#
6 14 (10.61%) C++
7 13 (9.85%) C
8 12 (9.09%) JavaScript
9 10 (7.58%) Java
9 10 (7.58%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.79%) PHP
10 5 (3.79%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.27%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.52%) Bash
12 2 (1.52%) R
12 2 (1.52%) Scala
13 1 (0.76%) Go
Qualifications
1 46 (34.85%) Degree
2 23 (17.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 20 (15.15%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.79%) CCNA
6 5 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.03%) A+ Certification
7 4 (3.03%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.03%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (3.03%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.27%) DBS Check
8 3 (2.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (2.27%) MCSE
8 3 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.52%) CISSP
9 2 (1.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (21.97%) QA
2 9 (6.82%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.03%) NIST
4 3 (2.27%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.27%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.52%) GDPR
5 2 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (20.45%) Docker
2 25 (18.94%) Active Directory
3 18 (13.64%) Hyper-V
3 18 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (9.85%) KVM
5 5 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.09%) Terraform
3 6 (4.55%) Ansible
3 6 (4.55%) Grafana
3 6 (4.55%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.76%) Argo
4 1 (0.76%) CASB
4 1 (0.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (37.12%) Google
2 28 (21.21%) Microsoft
3 22 (16.67%) VMware
4 8 (6.06%) Dynatrace
4 8 (6.06%) Oracle
5 5 (3.79%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.79%) Citrix
6 4 (3.03%) Sage
6 4 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.03%) Xamarin
6 4 (3.03%) Zoho
7 3 (2.27%) Confluent
7 3 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.52%) Foundry
9 1 (0.76%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.76%) Genesys
9 1 (0.76%) Informatica
9 1 (0.76%) Pega
9 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.76%) UiPath