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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 122 208
Rank change year-on-year -54 +86 -110
Permanent jobs citing GCP 121 147 197
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.85% 2.14% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.03% 6.89% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 71 96 97
10th Percentile £37,500 £27,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,125 £50,938 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £75,038 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £91,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% -

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 3,987 2,133 5,035
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.07% 31.08% 31.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,099 1,409 4,045
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £27,550
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,100 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.84% +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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -2 65 £65,000 +8.33% 17
Berkshire +7 40 £66,250 - 10
Hampshire -40 30 £70,000 +7.69% 13
Buckinghamshire -6 19 £65,000 +15.56% 5
Surrey -26 10 £55,000 -20.29% 5
Kent -35 8 £34,500 -50.71%
East Sussex -18 7 £60,000 -20.00% 2
Oxfordshire -23 6 £28,500 -32.94% 2
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 7 (5.79%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.31%) nginx
4 2 (1.65%) Confluence
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.83%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 100 (82.64%) AWS
2 95 (78.51%) Azure
3 14 (11.57%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (9.09%) GitHub
5 6 (4.96%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.96%) SaaS
6 5 (4.13%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (4.13%) Figma
6 5 (4.13%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.31%) dbt
7 4 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.31%) Serverless
8 3 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.48%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.48%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 3 (2.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.48%) OCI
8 3 (2.48%) Prefect
8 3 (2.48%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (14.88%) DNS
1 18 (14.88%) Firewall
2 15 (12.40%) VPN
3 11 (9.09%) LAN
3 11 (9.09%) WAN
4 9 (7.44%) DHCP
5 4 (3.31%) Broadband
5 4 (3.31%) MQTT
6 2 (1.65%) Network Security
6 2 (1.65%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.83%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.83%) Modbus
7 1 (0.83%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (17.36%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (16.53%) NoSQL
3 19 (15.70%) MySQL
4 13 (10.74%) MongoDB
5 11 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
6 9 (7.44%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (7.44%) Relational Database
7 7 (5.79%) SQL Server
8 5 (4.13%) BigQuery
9 4 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (3.31%) Big Data
9 4 (3.31%) Looker
9 4 (3.31%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.48%) Flink
10 3 (2.48%) Redis
11 2 (1.65%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.65%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.65%) Power BI
11 2 (1.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (18.18%) Git
2 12 (9.92%) GitLab
3 5 (4.13%) JIRA
4 3 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.48%) JUnit
4 3 (2.48%) Mockito
5 2 (1.65%) git-flow
5 2 (1.65%) PHPUnit
5 2 (1.65%) Selenium
6 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.83%) Finance
3 14 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (9.92%) Telecoms
6 9 (7.44%) Law
7 7 (5.79%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.31%) Legal
8 4 (3.31%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.48%) Aviation
9 3 (2.48%) Games
9 3 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.65%) Banking
10 2 (1.65%) Marketing
10 2 (1.65%) Retail
11 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (23.14%) Senior
2 19 (15.70%) Software Engineer
3 17 (14.05%) Developer
4 11 (9.09%) Analyst
5 10 (8.26%) Architect
5 10 (8.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (8.26%) Senior Developer
6 9 (7.44%) Support Engineer
7 8 (6.61%) Backend Developer
7 8 (6.61%) Senior Backend Developer
8 7 (5.79%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.79%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (5.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (5.79%) Lead
9 6 (4.96%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 6 (4.96%) IT Engineer
9 6 (4.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) IT Support Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.57%) React
2 10 (8.26%) .NET
2 10 (8.26%) Kafka
3 9 (7.44%) Web Services
4 8 (6.61%) REST
4 8 (6.61%) RESTful
5 7 (5.79%) CSS
6 6 (4.96%) HTML
6 6 (4.96%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (4.13%) Django
7 5 (4.13%) Twisted
7 5 (4.13%) WebSockets
8 4 (3.31%) .NET Core
8 4 (3.31%) Hibernate
8 4 (3.31%) Spring
9 3 (2.48%) JPA
9 3 (2.48%) Node.js
9 3 (2.48%) React Native
9 3 (2.48%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.48%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.88%) Cloud Native
1 18 (14.88%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (11.57%) Product Ownership
3 13 (10.74%) Client/Server
4 9 (7.44%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (6.61%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.96%) Management Information System
7 5 (4.13%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (4.13%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (3.31%) Replication
9 3 (2.48%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.48%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.65%) Life Science
10 2 (1.65%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.65%) Over-the-Top Content
10 2 (1.65%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.65%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (1.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (28.10%) Linux
2 23 (19.01%) Windows
3 14 (11.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (33.06%) Continuous Improvement
2 39 (32.23%) Agile
3 30 (24.79%) CI/CD
3 30 (24.79%) Computer Science
3 30 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (23.97%) Containerisation
5 26 (21.49%) Software Engineering
6 24 (19.83%) Test Automation
7 21 (17.36%) Code Quality
8 19 (15.70%) DevOps
8 19 (15.70%) Microservices
9 18 (14.88%) AI
9 18 (14.88%) Disaster Recovery
10 17 (14.05%) Collaborative Culture
10 17 (14.05%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (13.22%) Data Science
12 15 (12.40%) Mentoring
13 14 (11.57%) Cybersecurity
13 14 (11.57%) Observability
13 14 (11.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (39.67%) Python
2 18 (14.88%) Rust
3 16 (13.22%) TypeScript
4 15 (12.40%) SQL
5 14 (11.57%) C++
5 14 (11.57%) JavaScript
6 13 (10.74%) C
7 12 (9.92%) Java
8 9 (7.44%) C#
9 8 (6.61%) PHP
10 7 (5.79%) PowerShell
11 5 (4.13%) Scala
12 3 (2.48%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.65%) Bash
13 2 (1.65%) Go
13 2 (1.65%) R
14 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (36.36%) Degree
2 23 (19.01%) Security Cleared
3 21 (17.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (15.70%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.13%) CCNA
5 5 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.13%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.31%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.31%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.31%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.48%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.65%) CISSP
8 2 (1.65%) MCSE
8 2 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (21.49%) QA
2 9 (7.44%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.31%) NIST
4 3 (2.48%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.48%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.65%) GDPR
5 2 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.83%) NCSC
System Software
1 32 (26.45%) Docker
2 18 (14.88%) Hyper-V
2 18 (14.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (14.05%) Active Directory
4 13 (10.74%) KVM
5 5 (4.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (23.14%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.09%) Terraform
3 6 (4.96%) Ansible
3 6 (4.96%) Grafana
3 6 (4.96%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.83%) Argo
4 1 (0.83%) CASB
4 1 (0.83%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (30.58%) Google
2 24 (19.83%) VMware
3 21 (17.36%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.61%) Oracle
5 5 (4.13%) Citrix
5 5 (4.13%) Dynatrace
5 5 (4.13%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.48%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.48%) Confluent
6 3 (2.48%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.65%) Foundry
7 2 (1.65%) Typelevel
8 1 (0.83%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.83%) Genesys
8 1 (0.83%) Informatica
8 1 (0.83%) Palantir
8 1 (0.83%) Pega
8 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.83%) Tenable
8 1 (0.83%) UiPath