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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 131 208
Rank change year-on-year -33 +77 -105
Permanent jobs citing GCP 131 153 201
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.91% 1.99% 1.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.57% 7.29% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 81 88 103
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,450 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -1.64% -12.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,063 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £96,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 3,673 2,098 5,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.62% 27.30% 30.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,210 1,334 4,008
10th Percentile £30,450 £29,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.63% +6.96% -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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -9 66 £65,000 +8.33% 41
Berkshire +6 41 £62,500 -18.03% 18
Hampshire -36 35 £70,000 +7.69% 22
Buckinghamshire +3 19 £66,250 +17.78% 14
Surrey -16 12 £55,000 -16.98% 4
Kent -33 9 £34,500 -50.71% 1
East Sussex -15 8 £57,500 -23.33%
Oxfordshire -14 6 £55,000 +25.71% 9
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 (5.34%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.05%) Confluence
3 4 (3.05%) nginx
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.76%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 112 (85.50%) AWS
2 105 (80.15%) Azure
3 12 (9.16%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.11%) GitHub
4 8 (6.11%) Serverless
5 6 (4.58%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.82%) Figma
6 5 (3.82%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.05%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 4 (3.05%) dbt
7 4 (3.05%) Prefect
7 4 (3.05%) SaaS
8 3 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.29%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.29%) OCI
8 3 (2.29%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.53%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.03%) Firewall
2 18 (13.74%) VPN
3 16 (12.21%) DNS
4 12 (9.16%) LAN
4 12 (9.16%) WAN
5 9 (6.87%) MQTT
6 8 (6.11%) Network Security
7 5 (3.82%) DHCP
8 4 (3.05%) Broadband
9 3 (2.29%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.76%) HTTP
10 1 (0.76%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.76%) Modbus
10 1 (0.76%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.03%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (14.50%) NoSQL
3 18 (13.74%) MySQL
4 14 (10.69%) MongoDB
5 12 (9.16%) Apache Cassandra
6 10 (7.63%) Relational Database
7 7 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (5.34%) SQL Server
8 6 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (3.82%) BigQuery
9 5 (3.82%) Looker
10 4 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (3.05%) Big Data
10 4 (3.05%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.29%) Flink
11 3 (2.29%) Redis
12 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.53%) Power BI
12 2 (1.53%) Tableau
13 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (21.37%) Git
2 19 (14.50%) GitLab
3 7 (5.34%) JIRA
4 5 (3.82%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.05%) JUnit
6 3 (2.29%) Mockito
7 2 (1.53%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.53%) PHPUnit
7 2 (1.53%) Selenium
General
1 40 (30.53%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.32%) Finance
3 16 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (9.16%) Telecoms
6 9 (6.87%) Law
7 8 (6.11%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.05%) Legal
8 4 (3.05%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.29%) Aviation
9 3 (2.29%) Games
9 3 (2.29%) Marketing
9 3 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.53%) Banking
10 2 (1.53%) Retail
11 1 (0.76%) Billing
11 1 (0.76%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (19.08%) Senior
2 22 (16.79%) Software Engineer
3 17 (12.98%) Developer
4 12 (9.16%) Analyst
5 11 (8.40%) Architect
5 11 (8.40%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 9 (6.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (6.11%) Backend Developer
7 8 (6.11%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.11%) Lead
7 8 (6.11%) Senior Backend Developer
7 8 (6.11%) Senior Developer
7 8 (6.11%) Support Engineer
8 7 (5.34%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) IT Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) Python Engineer
11 4 (3.05%) Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.92%) Kafka
1 13 (9.92%) React
2 11 (8.40%) REST
3 9 (6.87%) RESTful
3 9 (6.87%) Web Services
4 8 (6.11%) .NET
5 7 (5.34%) gRPC
6 5 (3.82%) Django
6 5 (3.82%) React Native
6 5 (3.82%) Twisted
6 5 (3.82%) WebSockets
7 4 (3.05%) .NET Core
7 4 (3.05%) CSS
7 4 (3.05%) Hibernate
7 4 (3.05%) Protocol Buffers
7 4 (3.05%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (3.05%) Redux
7 4 (3.05%) Spring
8 3 (2.29%) HTML
8 3 (2.29%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.74%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (12.98%) Cloud Native
3 14 (10.69%) Product Ownership
4 13 (9.92%) Client/Server
5 9 (6.87%) Onboarding
6 8 (6.11%) Management Information System
6 8 (6.11%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.82%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.82%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (3.05%) Mobile App
8 4 (3.05%) Replication
9 3 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.29%) Low-Code
9 3 (2.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.53%) Over-the-Top Content
10 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (29.77%) Linux
2 21 (16.03%) Windows
3 11 (8.40%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (35.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 40 (30.53%) Agile
3 38 (29.01%) Containerisation
4 36 (27.48%) CI/CD
5 35 (26.72%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (23.66%) Computer Science
7 30 (22.90%) Software Engineering
8 27 (20.61%) AI
9 25 (19.08%) Test Automation
10 24 (18.32%) Microservices
11 22 (16.79%) Cybersecurity
12 21 (16.03%) Code Quality
12 21 (16.03%) Observability
13 20 (15.27%) DevOps
14 18 (13.74%) Data Science
14 18 (13.74%) Mentoring
15 17 (12.98%) Analytics
15 17 (12.98%) DevSecOps
15 17 (12.98%) Machine Learning
16 16 (12.21%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 60 (45.80%) Python
2 25 (19.08%) Rust
3 18 (13.74%) JavaScript
4 16 (12.21%) SQL
4 16 (12.21%) TypeScript
5 15 (11.45%) Java
6 14 (10.69%) C++
7 13 (9.92%) C
8 8 (6.11%) C#
8 8 (6.11%) PHP
9 6 (4.58%) Scala
10 5 (3.82%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.29%) Bash
11 3 (2.29%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.53%) Go
12 2 (1.53%) R
12 2 (1.53%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (37.40%) Degree
2 33 (25.19%) Security Cleared
3 27 (20.61%) SC Cleared
4 22 (16.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.34%) CCNA
5 7 (5.34%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.82%) DBS Check
6 5 (3.82%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.82%) Master's Degree
7 4 (3.05%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.05%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.53%) CISSP
9 2 (1.53%) MCSE
9 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.76%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (18.32%) QA
2 10 (7.63%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.05%) NIST
4 3 (2.29%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.29%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.53%) GDPR
5 2 (1.53%) 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 39 (29.77%) Docker
2 19 (14.50%) Hyper-V
2 19 (14.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (9.92%) Active Directory
3 13 (9.92%) KVM
4 5 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (27.48%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.74%) Terraform
3 13 (9.92%) Ansible
4 11 (8.40%) Grafana
4 11 (8.40%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.34%) Puppet
6 4 (3.05%) Podman
7 1 (0.76%) Argo
7 1 (0.76%) CASB
7 1 (0.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 38 (29.01%) Google
2 25 (19.08%) VMware
3 24 (18.32%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.11%) Oracle
5 6 (4.58%) Citrix
6 5 (3.82%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.82%) Tenable
7 4 (3.05%) NVIDIA
8 3 (2.29%) Confluent
8 3 (2.29%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.53%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.53%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.53%) Foundry
9 2 (1.53%) Typelevel
10 1 (0.76%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.76%) Carbon Black
10 1 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.76%) Palantir
10 1 (0.76%) Splunk
10 1 (0.76%) UiPath