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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 128 201
Rank change year-on-year -31 +73 -101
Permanent jobs citing GCP 130 132 174
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.98% 1.97% 1.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.44% 6.11% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 77 89 97
10th Percentile £32,250 £25,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £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 3,777 2,160 4,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.49% 32.26% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,074 1,437 3,994
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 5 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 5 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 +7 73 £62,500 +4.17% 27
Berkshire +19 43 £66,250 +10.42% 16
Hampshire -27 32 £68,750 +5.77% 7
Buckinghamshire -5 21 £65,000 +6.12% 6
Oxfordshire -26 9 £28,500 -32.94% 5
Surrey -27 9 £67,500 +12.50% 4
Kent -27 8 £34,500 -42.50%
East Sussex -18 5 £60,000 -20.00% 5
Sussex - 2 £55,000 -
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 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.08%) nginx
4 2 (1.54%) IIS
5 1 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.77%) Camunda
Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 103 (79.23%) AWS
1 103 (79.23%) Azure
2 21 (16.15%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (10.00%) GitHub
4 10 (7.69%) SaaS
5 8 (6.15%) Entra ID
6 7 (5.38%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (5.38%) Power Platform
7 6 (4.62%) dbt
7 6 (4.62%) Serverless
8 5 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.85%) Figma
8 5 (3.85%) Google Workspace
8 5 (3.85%) Snowflake
9 4 (3.08%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.08%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (18.46%) DNS
2 21 (16.15%) Firewall
3 17 (13.08%) VPN
4 16 (12.31%) DHCP
5 11 (8.46%) LAN
5 11 (8.46%) WAN
6 5 (3.85%) TCP/IP
7 4 (3.08%) Broadband
7 4 (3.08%) MQTT
8 3 (2.31%) Network Security
9 1 (0.77%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.77%) Modbus
9 1 (0.77%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.15%) NoSQL
2 20 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (14.62%) MySQL
4 13 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (9.23%) MongoDB
6 10 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
7 9 (6.92%) SQL Server
8 8 (6.15%) Relational Database
9 7 (5.38%) BigQuery
10 6 (4.62%) Looker
11 4 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (3.08%) Big Data
11 4 (3.08%) DynamoDB
11 4 (3.08%) Power BI
11 4 (3.08%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (2.31%) Flink
12 3 (2.31%) Redis
13 2 (1.54%) Data Lake
13 2 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (16.15%) Git
2 11 (8.46%) GitLab
3 4 (3.08%) git-flow
4 3 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.31%) JIRA
4 3 (2.31%) JUnit
4 3 (2.31%) Mockito
5 2 (1.54%) PHPUnit
5 2 (1.54%) Selenium
6 1 (0.77%) SonarQube
General
1 44 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.77%) Finance
3 14 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (9.23%) Telecoms
6 9 (6.92%) Law
7 7 (5.38%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.62%) Legal
9 4 (3.08%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.31%) Aviation
10 3 (2.31%) Games
10 3 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.54%) Banking
11 2 (1.54%) Marketing
11 2 (1.54%) Retail
12 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (22.31%) Senior
2 21 (16.15%) Software Engineer
3 16 (12.31%) Developer
3 16 (12.31%) Support Engineer
4 14 (10.77%) IT Engineer
5 12 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (8.46%) Analyst
6 11 (8.46%) IT Support
6 11 (8.46%) IT Support Engineer
6 11 (8.46%) Senior Developer
7 10 (7.69%) Architect
8 7 (5.38%) Backend Developer
8 7 (5.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (5.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Lead
8 7 (5.38%) Linux Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Senior Backend Developer
9 6 (4.62%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.77%) .NET
1 14 (10.77%) React
2 12 (9.23%) Kafka
3 9 (6.92%) CSS
3 9 (6.92%) Web Services
4 8 (6.15%) HTML
4 8 (6.15%) RabbitMQ
4 8 (6.15%) REST
4 8 (6.15%) RESTful
5 5 (3.85%) Django
5 5 (3.85%) Twisted
5 5 (3.85%) WebSockets
6 4 (3.08%) .NET Core
6 4 (3.08%) AWS CDK
6 4 (3.08%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.08%) Material-UI
6 4 (3.08%) Spring
7 3 (2.31%) gRPC
7 3 (2.31%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.31%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.62%) Cloud Native
2 18 (13.85%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (12.31%) Product Ownership
4 13 (10.00%) Client/Server
5 9 (6.92%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (6.15%) Onboarding
7 6 (4.62%) Management Information System
8 5 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (3.08%) Replication
10 3 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (2.31%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.54%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.54%) Life Science
11 2 (1.54%) Over-the-Top Content
11 2 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (1.54%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.77%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 37 (28.46%) Linux
2 32 (24.62%) Windows
3 16 (12.31%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (32.31%) Agile
2 38 (29.23%) Continuous Improvement
3 36 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (24.62%) CI/CD
5 31 (23.85%) Computer Science
6 28 (21.54%) Software Engineering
7 27 (20.77%) Containerisation
8 24 (18.46%) Test Automation
9 21 (16.15%) Code Quality
9 21 (16.15%) DevOps
10 20 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
10 20 (15.38%) Microservices
11 18 (13.85%) AI
12 17 (13.08%) Business Continuity
12 17 (13.08%) Collaborative Culture
12 17 (13.08%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (13.08%) Mentoring
13 16 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 15 (11.54%) Data Science
15 14 (10.77%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 46 (35.38%) Python
2 18 (13.85%) Rust
2 18 (13.85%) SQL
3 16 (12.31%) TypeScript
4 14 (10.77%) C++
5 13 (10.00%) C
5 13 (10.00%) C#
6 12 (9.23%) JavaScript
7 11 (8.46%) Java
8 9 (6.92%) PowerShell
9 7 (5.38%) PHP
10 4 (3.08%) Scala
11 3 (2.31%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.31%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.54%) Bash
12 2 (1.54%) Go
12 2 (1.54%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (34.62%) Degree
2 22 (16.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (16.15%) Security Cleared
4 19 (14.62%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.85%) CCNA
6 5 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.08%) A+ Certification
7 4 (3.08%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.08%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (3.08%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.31%) DBS Check
8 3 (2.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (2.31%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.31%) MCSE
8 3 (2.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.54%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (21.54%) QA
2 10 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.08%) NIST
4 3 (2.31%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.31%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.54%) GDPR
5 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.77%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.77%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (23.08%) Docker
2 24 (18.46%) Active Directory
3 18 (13.85%) Hyper-V
3 18 (13.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (10.00%) KVM
5 5 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.46%) Terraform
3 6 (4.62%) Ansible
3 6 (4.62%) Grafana
3 6 (4.62%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.77%) Argo
4 1 (0.77%) CASB
4 1 (0.77%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (35.38%) Google
2 28 (21.54%) Microsoft
3 24 (18.46%) VMware
4 8 (6.15%) Oracle
5 7 (5.38%) Dynatrace
6 5 (3.85%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.85%) Citrix
6 5 (3.85%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.31%) Confluent
7 3 (2.31%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.54%) Foundry
8 2 (1.54%) Sage
8 2 (1.54%) Typelevel
8 2 (1.54%) Xamarin
8 2 (1.54%) Zoho
9 1 (0.77%) Genesys
9 1 (0.77%) Informatica
9 1 (0.77%) Pega
9 1 (0.77%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.77%) Tenable