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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 110 169
Rank change year-on-year -62 +59 -48
Permanent jobs citing GCP 157 221 218
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.99% 2.56% 1.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.15% 9.63% 4.85%
Number of salaries quoted 106 73 125
10th Percentile £32,250 £38,800 £42,039
25th Percentile £49,063 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -20.00%
75th Percentile £77,188 £75,000 £78,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £89,500 £96,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +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 3,787 2,294 4,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.77% 26.60% 28.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,641 1,416 3,353
10th Percentile £29,999 £28,625 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +3.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

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 July 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 July 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 -55 72 £65,000 +23.81% 32
Hampshire -19 46 £70,000 - 18
Berkshire -49 35 £72,500 -3.33% 9
Buckinghamshire -3 21 £59,500 -0.83% 9
Surrey -9 20 £55,000 -24.14% 8
Oxfordshire -12 16 £110,000 +188.52% 14
Kent -17 9 £34,500 -50.71% 6
East Sussex -6 7 £55,000 - 5
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 7 (4.46%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.55%) Confluence
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.64%) Camunda
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 129 (82.17%) AWS
2 114 (72.61%) Azure
3 14 (8.92%) GitHub
4 12 (7.64%) Serverless
5 10 (6.37%) Anthropic Claude
5 10 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.82%) Cloud Run
6 6 (3.82%) Firebase
7 5 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (3.18%) Figma
8 4 (2.55%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 4 (2.55%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (2.55%) Prefect
9 3 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.91%) dbt
9 3 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (1.91%) OCI
9 3 (1.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.74%) Firewall
2 15 (9.55%) VPN
3 14 (8.92%) DNS
3 14 (8.92%) MQTT
4 13 (8.28%) WAN
5 12 (7.64%) LAN
6 8 (5.10%) Network Security
7 6 (3.82%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.55%) Broadband
9 3 (1.91%) HTTP
10 2 (1.27%) DHCP
11 1 (0.64%) BGP
11 1 (0.64%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.64%) Modbus
11 1 (0.64%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (16.56%) MySQL
2 25 (15.92%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (12.74%) MongoDB
4 17 (10.83%) NoSQL
5 14 (8.92%) Relational Database
6 8 (5.10%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (5.10%) Pinecone
7 6 (3.82%) BigQuery
7 6 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (3.82%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.18%) Looker
8 5 (3.18%) Redis
9 4 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.55%) Big Data
9 4 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.55%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.91%) Flink
11 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.64%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 42 (26.75%) Git
2 15 (9.55%) GitLab
3 7 (4.46%) JIRA
4 6 (3.82%) JUnit
5 5 (3.18%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.91%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.91%) Eclipse RCP
6 3 (1.91%) Mockito
6 3 (1.91%) PHPUnit
6 3 (1.91%) Selenium
7 2 (1.27%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.64%) Storybook
General
1 55 (35.03%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.56%) Finance
3 21 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (7.01%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.37%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.82%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.55%) Games
7 4 (2.55%) Law
7 4 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.91%) Aviation
8 3 (1.91%) Legal
9 2 (1.27%) Banking
9 2 (1.27%) Retail
10 1 (0.64%) Advertising
10 1 (0.64%) Billing
10 1 (0.64%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.64%) Marketing
10 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (22.29%) Senior
1 35 (22.29%) Software Engineer
2 24 (15.29%) Developer
3 15 (9.55%) Backend Developer
4 14 (8.92%) Analyst
5 13 (8.28%) Data Engineer
6 12 (7.64%) Architect
6 12 (7.64%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.01%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 11 (7.01%) Senior Backend Developer
8 8 (5.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 7 (4.46%) Lead
9 7 (4.46%) Python Engineer
9 7 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (3.82%) GCP Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) GCP Software Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.74%) Kafka
2 16 (10.19%) REST
3 15 (9.55%) React
4 9 (5.73%) gRPC
4 9 (5.73%) Spring Boot
5 8 (5.10%) RESTful
5 8 (5.10%) Spring
5 8 (5.10%) Web Services
6 6 (3.82%) Node.js
6 6 (3.82%) pgvector
6 6 (3.82%) Protocol Buffers
7 5 (3.18%) .NET
7 5 (3.18%) CSS
7 5 (3.18%) Django
7 5 (3.18%) Hibernate
7 5 (3.18%) HTML
7 5 (3.18%) JPA
7 5 (3.18%) Twisted
7 5 (3.18%) WebSockets
8 4 (2.55%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.29%) Product Ownership
2 19 (12.10%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.92%) Cloud Native
3 14 (8.92%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (6.37%) AI Agents
4 10 (6.37%) Client/Server
4 10 (6.37%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (5.73%) Management Information System
6 8 (5.10%) Onboarding
7 7 (4.46%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (3.18%) Replication
8 5 (3.18%) Robotics
9 4 (2.55%) Algorithms
9 4 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.55%) Life Science
9 4 (2.55%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.55%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.91%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 38 (24.20%) Linux
2 22 (14.01%) Windows
3 11 (7.01%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.64%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (35.67%) Agile
1 56 (35.67%) AI
2 50 (31.85%) Software Engineering
3 49 (31.21%) CI/CD
4 48 (30.57%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (26.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 40 (25.48%) Containerisation
7 32 (20.38%) Test Automation
8 30 (19.11%) Machine Learning
9 29 (18.47%) Computer Science
10 28 (17.83%) Code Quality
10 28 (17.83%) Mentoring
10 28 (17.83%) Microservices
11 26 (16.56%) Cybersecurity
11 26 (16.56%) DevOps
12 24 (15.29%) Observability
13 23 (14.65%) Analytics
14 22 (14.01%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (14.01%) LLM
15 20 (12.74%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 68 (43.31%) Python
2 26 (16.56%) Rust
3 24 (15.29%) JavaScript
4 23 (14.65%) Java
5 22 (14.01%) SQL
6 19 (12.10%) TypeScript
7 17 (10.83%) C++
8 15 (9.55%) PHP
9 14 (8.92%) C
10 8 (5.10%) C#
11 6 (3.82%) Scala
12 3 (1.91%) Bash
12 3 (1.91%) Go
12 3 (1.91%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.91%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.91%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 56 (35.67%) Degree
2 37 (23.57%) Security Cleared
3 32 (20.38%) SC Cleared
4 21 (13.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.73%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.46%) CCNA
6 7 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.82%) DBS Check
7 6 (3.82%) DV Cleared
8 5 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.27%) MCSE
10 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.64%) CCNP
11 1 (0.64%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.64%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.83%) QA
2 7 (4.46%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.82%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.91%) NIST
4 3 (1.91%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.64%) GDPR
5 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (36.94%) Docker
2 17 (10.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (10.19%) Hyper-V
4 11 (7.01%) Active Directory
4 11 (7.01%) KVM
5 6 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (30.57%) Kubernetes
2 33 (21.02%) Terraform
3 16 (10.19%) Ansible
4 13 (8.28%) Grafana
4 13 (8.28%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.46%) Puppet
6 5 (3.18%) Podman
7 3 (1.91%) Argo
7 3 (1.91%) Istio
7 3 (1.91%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.64%) CASB
8 1 (0.64%) Kibana
Vendors
1 52 (33.12%) Google
2 28 (17.83%) Microsoft
3 24 (15.29%) VMware
4 8 (5.10%) Oracle
5 6 (3.82%) Citrix
6 5 (3.18%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.18%) Tenable
7 4 (2.55%) NVIDIA
7 4 (2.55%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.91%) Confluent
8 3 (1.91%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.27%) Typelevel
10 1 (0.64%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.64%) Carbon Black
10 1 (0.64%) Cisco
10 1 (0.64%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.64%) Foundry
10 1 (0.64%) Infoblox
10 1 (0.64%) Pega
10 1 (0.64%) UiPath