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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 119 145
Rank change year-on-year -66 +26 -4
Permanent jobs citing GCP 148 221 227
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.81% 2.43% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.86% 9.24% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 106 83 122
10th Percentile £34,375 £43,600 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +16.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £92,875 £84,063
90th Percentile £117,500 £138,750 £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 3,835 2,391 3,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 21.08% 26.29% 27.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,850 1,437 2,190
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -0.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.00% -3.85%

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 10 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 10 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 -64 64 £72,500 +38.10% 57
Hampshire -34 46 £62,500 -10.71% 20
Berkshire -58 24 £80,000 +4.92% 37
Surrey -1 22 £55,000 -24.14% 13
Oxfordshire -15 21 £95,000 +123.53% 11
Buckinghamshire -3 19 £60,000 - 9
East Sussex -19 5 £55,000 -51.11% 5
West Sussex - 5 £105,000 - 14
Kent -31 3 £42,500 -62.22%
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 (2.70%) Confluence
2 3 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Lightworks
1 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.35%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 125 (84.46%) AWS
2 110 (74.32%) Azure
3 21 (14.19%) GitHub
4 15 (10.14%) Serverless
5 13 (8.78%) Anthropic Claude
6 7 (4.73%) Cloud Run
6 7 (4.73%) Firebase
6 7 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.73%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (3.38%) ChatGPT
8 5 (3.38%) Entra ID
8 5 (3.38%) Google Gemini
8 5 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (2.70%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.03%) Azure AKS
10 3 (2.03%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (2.03%) Figma
10 3 (2.03%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.46%) Firewall
2 12 (8.11%) DNS
2 12 (8.11%) VPN
3 11 (7.43%) MQTT
4 9 (6.08%) Network Security
5 7 (4.73%) WAN
6 5 (3.38%) HTTP
6 5 (3.38%) LAN
6 5 (3.38%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.35%) BGP
7 2 (1.35%) Broadband
7 2 (1.35%) DHCP
8 1 (0.68%) 5G
8 1 (0.68%) DNSSEC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (19.59%) MySQL
2 18 (12.16%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (10.14%) Relational Database
4 12 (8.11%) MongoDB
5 9 (6.08%) Pinecone
6 7 (4.73%) Chroma
6 7 (4.73%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.70%) Redis
7 4 (2.70%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.03%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.03%) Looker
9 2 (1.35%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.68%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.68%) Power BI
10 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (31.08%) Git
2 11 (7.43%) GitLab
3 5 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.38%) JIRA
4 4 (2.70%) JUnit
4 4 (2.70%) PHPUnit
4 4 (2.70%) Selenium
4 4 (2.70%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.03%) Claude Code
5 3 (2.03%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.03%) Eclipse RCP
6 2 (1.35%) NUnit
7 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.68%) Mockito
7 1 (0.68%) Storybook
General
1 56 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.89%) Finance
3 20 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.38%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.03%) Games
7 3 (2.03%) Law
7 3 (2.03%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.35%) Aviation
8 2 (1.35%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Advertising
9 1 (0.68%) Billing
9 1 (0.68%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) French Language
9 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (29.73%) Senior
2 33 (22.30%) Software Engineer
3 29 (19.59%) Developer
4 19 (12.84%) Backend Developer
5 15 (10.14%) Architect
5 15 (10.14%) Senior Developer
6 14 (9.46%) Senior Backend Developer
7 10 (6.76%) Lead
8 9 (6.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (5.41%) Data Engineer
10 7 (4.73%) Analyst
10 7 (4.73%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (4.73%) GCP Engineer
10 7 (4.73%) GCP Software Engineer
10 7 (4.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.73%) Python Engineer
10 7 (4.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.05%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 6 (4.05%) Graduate
11 6 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (23.65%) Terraform
2 18 (12.16%) React
2 18 (12.16%) REST
3 14 (9.46%) Kafka
4 11 (7.43%) Spring
5 10 (6.76%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.41%) CSS
6 8 (5.41%) gRPC
6 8 (5.41%) HTML
6 8 (5.41%) Node.js
7 7 (4.73%) .NET
7 7 (4.73%) pgvector
7 7 (4.73%) RESTful
8 6 (4.05%) Hibernate
8 6 (4.05%) Protocol Buffers
9 5 (3.38%) LAMP
9 5 (3.38%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.70%) ASP.NET
10 4 (2.70%) Web Services
10 4 (2.70%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.16%) Greenfield Project
2 17 (11.49%) Product Ownership
3 13 (8.78%) AI Agents
3 13 (8.78%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (8.11%) Cloud Native
5 10 (6.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (4.73%) Onboarding
8 6 (4.05%) Public Cloud
8 6 (4.05%) Robotics
9 5 (3.38%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (2.70%) Algorithms
10 4 (2.70%) Client/Server
10 4 (2.70%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (2.70%) Mobile App
11 3 (2.03%) Life Science
11 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
11 3 (2.03%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (2.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 29 (19.59%) Linux
2 12 (8.11%) Windows
3 6 (4.05%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.68%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (41.22%) AI
2 59 (39.86%) CI/CD
3 54 (36.49%) Agile
4 53 (35.81%) Software Engineering
5 49 (33.11%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (22.97%) DevOps
7 33 (22.30%) Containerisation
8 32 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
9 31 (20.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (20.95%) Machine Learning
10 29 (19.59%) Mentoring
11 27 (18.24%) Observability
12 25 (16.89%) Code Quality
12 25 (16.89%) Computer Science
13 24 (16.22%) LLM
14 23 (15.54%) Microservices
14 23 (15.54%) Test Automation
15 18 (12.16%) Decision-Making
16 17 (11.49%) Analytics
16 17 (11.49%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 56 (37.84%) Python
2 28 (18.92%) JavaScript
3 27 (18.24%) Java
4 22 (14.86%) SQL
5 20 (13.51%) TypeScript
6 18 (12.16%) PHP
7 16 (10.81%) Rust
8 12 (8.11%) C#
9 11 (7.43%) C++
10 8 (5.41%) C
11 4 (2.70%) Scala
11 4 (2.70%) Shell Script
12 3 (2.03%) ABAP
12 3 (2.03%) Go
13 2 (1.35%) Bash
13 2 (1.35%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 44 (29.73%) Degree
2 35 (23.65%) Security Cleared
3 30 (20.27%) SC Cleared
4 17 (11.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.41%) Master's Degree
6 6 (4.05%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.70%) DBS Check
8 3 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.35%) CCNA
9 2 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.68%) CCNP
10 1 (0.68%) CCSP
10 1 (0.68%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.68%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.76%) QA
2 5 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.03%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.35%) NIST
6 1 (0.68%) GDPR
6 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (37.84%) Docker
2 6 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.38%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.38%) KVM
3 5 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.35%) Firmware
4 2 (1.35%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 54 (36.49%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.81%) Ansible
3 9 (6.08%) Grafana
4 8 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.73%) Puppet
6 6 (4.05%) Podman
7 5 (3.38%) Argo
8 3 (2.03%) Istio
8 3 (2.03%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.68%) Kibana
9 1 (0.68%) Packer
Vendors
1 41 (27.70%) Google
2 20 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.43%) VMware
4 6 (4.05%) NVIDIA
5 5 (3.38%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.70%) Tenable
7 3 (2.03%) SAP
8 2 (1.35%) Oracle
8 2 (1.35%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.68%) Carbon Black
9 1 (0.68%) Cisco
9 1 (0.68%) Citrix
9 1 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.68%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.68%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.68%) Splunk
9 1 (0.68%) Typelevel