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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 122 211
Rank change year-on-year -25 +89 -96
Permanent jobs citing GCP 140 156 155
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.17% 2.11% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.95% 6.27% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 90 105 96
10th Percentile £30,500 £25,750 £39,375
25th Percentile £43,000 £42,500 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,438 £70,000 £75,250
90th Percentile £97,375 £81,500 £86,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.06% +6.45% -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 3,540 2,488 4,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 29.60% 33.59% 32.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,955 1,523 3,768
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £27,713
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £36,250
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 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -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 8 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 8 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 +16 75 £62,500 +35.14% 20
Berkshire +17 40 £70,000 +16.67% 12
Hampshire -34 33 £67,500 +3.85% 12
Buckinghamshire +18 24 £62,500 +2.04% 4
East Sussex +3 11 £80,000 +6.67% 3
Oxfordshire -13 11 £28,500 +3.64% 4
Kent -14 11 £37,500 -34.78% 10
Surrey -20 6 £80,000 +33.33% 16
Sussex - 2 £55,000 - 7
West Sussex -11 1 £60,000 - 11
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 6 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.57%) IIS
2 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.86%) nginx
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.71%) Camunda
Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 112 (80.00%) Azure
2 104 (74.29%) AWS
3 24 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (15.71%) SaaS
5 13 (9.29%) GitHub
6 10 (7.14%) Entra ID
7 9 (6.43%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.00%) Power Platform
9 7 (5.00%) Serverless
10 6 (4.29%) dbt
11 5 (3.57%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (3.57%) Google Workspace
11 5 (3.57%) Snowflake
12 4 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.14%) DNS
2 22 (15.71%) Firewall
3 19 (13.57%) DHCP
4 18 (12.86%) VPN
5 8 (5.71%) LAN
5 8 (5.71%) WAN
6 7 (5.00%) Network Security
7 6 (4.29%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.86%) MQTT
9 2 (1.43%) Broadband
10 1 (0.71%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.71%) Modbus
10 1 (0.71%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 15 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (10.00%) MySQL
4 12 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (7.86%) SQL Server
6 8 (5.71%) BigQuery
6 8 (5.71%) MongoDB
7 7 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (4.29%) Looker
9 5 (3.57%) Big Data
9 5 (3.57%) DynamoDB
9 5 (3.57%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (2.86%) Power BI
11 3 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (2.14%) Flink
11 3 (2.14%) Redis
12 2 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.43%) RDBMS
12 2 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (10.00%) Git
2 11 (7.86%) GitLab
3 5 (3.57%) git-flow
4 3 (2.14%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.43%) JIRA
5 2 (1.43%) JUnit
5 2 (1.43%) Mockito
6 1 (0.71%) MLflow
6 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
General
1 53 (37.86%) Social Skills
2 37 (26.43%) Finance
3 13 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (8.57%) Telecoms
5 11 (7.86%) Legal
6 9 (6.43%) Law
7 7 (5.00%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.57%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.86%) Retail
10 3 (2.14%) Aviation
10 3 (2.14%) Banking
10 3 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.43%) Games
11 2 (1.43%) Marketing
12 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (17.86%) Senior
2 24 (17.14%) Developer
3 20 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 20 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 17 (12.14%) Software Engineer
5 15 (10.71%) IT Support
5 15 (10.71%) IT Support Engineer
6 12 (8.57%) Analyst
6 12 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (6.43%) Architect
7 9 (6.43%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.71%) .NET Developer
8 8 (5.71%) .NET Software Developer
8 8 (5.71%) Engineering Manager
8 8 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (5.71%) Software Developer
9 7 (5.00%) Lead
9 7 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) Security Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.57%) .NET
2 13 (9.29%) Kafka
3 12 (8.57%) React
4 10 (7.14%) CSS
5 9 (6.43%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (5.71%) HTML
7 7 (5.00%) RESTful
7 7 (5.00%) Web Services
8 6 (4.29%) .NET Framework
8 6 (4.29%) Entity Framework
9 5 (3.57%) AWS CDK
9 5 (3.57%) Material-UI
9 5 (3.57%) REST
9 5 (3.57%) WinForms
10 4 (2.86%) .NET Core
11 3 (2.14%) Hibernate
11 3 (2.14%) Node.js
11 3 (2.14%) Spring
12 2 (1.43%) Ajax
12 2 (1.43%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 10 (7.14%) Client/Server
4 8 (5.71%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.14%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.43%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.43%) Life Science
8 2 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.43%) Replication
8 2 (1.43%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.43%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.71%) IoT
9 1 (0.71%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (24.29%) Windows
2 32 (22.86%) Linux
3 14 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (35.71%) Agile
2 39 (27.86%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 34 (24.29%) CI/CD
5 32 (22.86%) Software Engineering
6 30 (21.43%) Computer Science
7 25 (17.86%) DevOps
8 24 (17.14%) AI
9 23 (16.43%) Business Continuity
10 22 (15.71%) Containerisation
11 19 (13.57%) Disaster Recovery
11 19 (13.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 19 (13.57%) Roadmaps
12 18 (12.86%) Microservices
13 17 (12.14%) Test Automation
14 16 (11.43%) Mentoring
15 15 (10.71%) Collaborative Culture
16 14 (10.00%) Analytics
16 14 (10.00%) Code Quality
16 14 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 40 (28.57%) Python
2 23 (16.43%) SQL
3 22 (15.71%) TypeScript
4 19 (13.57%) JavaScript
5 17 (12.14%) C#
6 15 (10.71%) Rust
7 11 (7.86%) C++
7 11 (7.86%) PowerShell
8 10 (7.14%) C
9 8 (5.71%) Java
10 6 (4.29%) PHP
10 6 (4.29%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.14%) Go
11 3 (2.14%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.43%) Bash
12 2 (1.43%) R
12 2 (1.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (30.00%) Degree
2 23 (16.43%) Security Cleared
3 21 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (13.57%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.57%) A+ Certification
6 5 (3.57%) CCNA
6 5 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 4 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.86%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.14%) CISSP
8 3 (2.14%) DBS Check
8 3 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.14%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.43%) MCSE
9 2 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.14%) QA
2 9 (6.43%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.57%) GDPR
3 5 (3.57%) NIST
4 4 (2.86%) SOC 2
5 3 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.14%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.71%) GRC
7 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.71%) NCSC
7 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (18.57%) Active Directory
2 24 (17.14%) Docker
3 15 (10.71%) Hyper-V
3 15 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (7.14%) KVM
5 2 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (15.71%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.29%) Terraform
3 6 (4.29%) Ansible
3 6 (4.29%) Grafana
3 6 (4.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.71%) Argo
4 1 (0.71%) CASB
4 1 (0.71%) Puppet
4 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (35.71%) Google
2 27 (19.29%) Microsoft
3 18 (12.86%) VMware
4 9 (6.43%) Dynatrace
5 7 (5.00%) Oracle
6 5 (3.57%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.57%) Citrix
6 5 (3.57%) Sage
6 5 (3.57%) Xamarin
6 5 (3.57%) Zoho
7 3 (2.14%) Confluent
7 3 (2.14%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.43%) Foundry
8 2 (1.43%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.71%) Genesys
9 1 (0.71%) Informatica
9 1 (0.71%) Palantir
9 1 (0.71%) Pega
9 1 (0.71%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.71%) Typelevel