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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 116 211
Rank change year-on-year -44 +95 -96
Permanent jobs citing GCP 120 194 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.09% 2.27% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.60% 6.88% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 86 119 85
10th Percentile £30,500 £25,750 £39,000
25th Percentile £51,563 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £112,813 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £143,750 £88,000 £86,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £77,000
% change year-on-year -8.82% +10.39% -3.75%

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 3,331 2,818 3,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.13% 33.02% 32.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,813 1,553 3,337
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +17.65% -8.18%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 7 February 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 7 February 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 59 £58,750 -2.08% 40
Berkshire +14 28 £70,000 - 24
Hampshire -33 28 £62,500 -3.85% 16
Buckinghamshire +17 20 £66,250 +3.92% 5
East Sussex +12 15 £112,500 +50.00% 2
Kent -12 11 £137,500 +129.17% 1
Oxfordshire -12 11 £28,500 +3.64% 11
Surrey -17 3 £85,000 +31.78% 5
Sussex - 2 £55,000 -
West Sussex 0 1 £60,000 -33.33% 4
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 5 (4.17%) IIS
2 4 (3.33%) nginx
3 2 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.83%) Camunda
Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 102 (85.00%) Azure
2 90 (75.00%) AWS
3 34 (28.33%) SaaS
4 21 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (9.17%) GitHub
6 10 (8.33%) Entra ID
7 9 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.83%) Power Platform
9 7 (5.83%) Serverless
10 5 (4.17%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (4.17%) Google Workspace
11 4 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.50%) dbt
13 2 (1.67%) Fivetran
13 2 (1.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 24 (20.00%) DNS
2 21 (17.50%) DHCP
3 16 (13.33%) Firewall
4 12 (10.00%) VPN
5 8 (6.67%) Network Security
6 7 (5.83%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.83%) Broadband
7 1 (0.83%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.83%) LAN
7 1 (0.83%) MQTT
7 1 (0.83%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.17%) MySQL
1 11 (9.17%) NoSQL
2 10 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (7.50%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.00%) BigQuery
5 5 (4.17%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (3.33%) Power BI
7 3 (2.50%) Looker
8 2 (1.67%) Big Data
8 2 (1.67%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.67%) Tableau
9 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.83%) GIS
9 1 (0.83%) Metadata
9 1 (0.83%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (7.50%) Git
1 9 (7.50%) GitLab
2 5 (4.17%) git-flow
3 4 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.83%) MLflow
4 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
General
1 47 (39.17%) Finance
1 47 (39.17%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.33%) Legal
3 9 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (5.83%) Law
4 7 (5.83%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.83%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.67%) Marketing
6 2 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.67%) Retail
7 1 (0.83%) Aviation
7 1 (0.83%) Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (31.67%) Developer
2 21 (17.50%) .NET Developer
2 21 (17.50%) .NET Software Developer
2 21 (17.50%) Engineering Manager
2 21 (17.50%) Senior
2 21 (17.50%) Software Developer
3 18 (15.00%) IT Engineer
4 17 (14.17%) Support Engineer
5 13 (10.83%) IT Support
5 13 (10.83%) IT Support Engineer
6 10 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 9 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (7.50%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) Architect
8 7 (5.83%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) PHP Developer
9 6 (5.00%) Security Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.17%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (32.50%) .NET
2 11 (9.17%) React
3 10 (8.33%) CSS
4 9 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (6.67%) HTML
6 7 (5.83%) Kafka
7 6 (5.00%) .NET Framework
7 6 (5.00%) Entity Framework
8 5 (4.17%) AWS CDK
8 5 (4.17%) Material-UI
8 5 (4.17%) RESTful
8 5 (4.17%) WinForms
9 3 (2.50%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.50%) ASP.NET
9 3 (2.50%) Node.js
9 3 (2.50%) Web Services
10 2 (1.67%) Ajax
10 2 (1.67%) OAuth
10 2 (1.67%) OAuth2
10 2 (1.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.83%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.33%) Client/Server
4 4 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.50%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.67%) Life Science
6 2 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.67%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.83%) IoT
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.83%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 27 (22.50%) Windows
2 22 (18.33%) Linux
3 10 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (45.00%) Agile
2 36 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 28 (23.33%) AI
3 28 (23.33%) CI/CD
3 28 (23.33%) Roadmaps
4 24 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 24 (20.00%) DevOps
5 22 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 18 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (14.17%) Business Continuity
9 13 (10.83%) Data Modelling
10 12 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
10 12 (10.00%) Containerisation
10 12 (10.00%) Microservices
11 11 (9.17%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (8.33%) Mentoring
12 10 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 31 (25.83%) TypeScript
2 28 (23.33%) JavaScript
3 22 (18.33%) Python
4 17 (14.17%) C#
4 17 (14.17%) SQL
5 10 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.00%) PHP
6 6 (5.00%) Rust
6 6 (5.00%) T-SQL
7 5 (4.17%) C++
8 4 (3.33%) C
8 4 (3.33%) Java
9 3 (2.50%) Go
10 2 (1.67%) R
11 1 (0.83%) Bash
11 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (20.83%) Degree
2 17 (14.17%) Security Cleared
3 13 (10.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (10.83%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (5.83%) A+ Certification
5 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 4 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.67%) CISSP
8 2 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.67%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.83%) CISA
9 1 (0.83%) CRISC
9 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.83%) MCSE
9 1 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.33%) QA
2 5 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.33%) GDPR
4 3 (2.50%) NIST
5 2 (1.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.83%) GRC
6 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.83%) NCSC
6 1 (0.83%) SLA
6 1 (0.83%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (17.50%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.00%) Docker
3 4 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.33%) KVM
3 4 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.83%) Terraform
3 4 (3.33%) Ansible
3 4 (3.33%) Grafana
3 4 (3.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.83%) Argo
4 1 (0.83%) Puppet
4 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (30.83%) Google
2 18 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.50%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.17%) Sage
4 5 (4.17%) VMware
4 5 (4.17%) Xamarin
4 5 (4.17%) Zoho
5 3 (2.50%) Oracle
6 1 (0.83%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (0.83%) Foundry
6 1 (0.83%) Genesys
6 1 (0.83%) Informatica
6 1 (0.83%) Palantir
6 1 (0.83%) Pega
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.83%) Tenable
6 1 (0.83%) Typelevel
6 1 (0.83%) UiPath