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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 124 168
Rank change year-on-year +15 +44 -24
Permanent jobs citing GCP 191 230 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.00% 2.08% 1.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.38% 6.77% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 95 142 85
10th Percentile £30,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £44,500 £50,000 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.37% +13.08%
75th Percentile £105,875 £78,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £95,000 £92,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -

All Cloud 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 2,996 3,397 2,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.33% 30.74% 36.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,737 1,892 2,227
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,050 £29,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £58,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% +10.38% -7.83%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 +58 125 £42,500 -29.17% 34
Berkshire +68 96 £46,000 -26.40% 22
Hampshire -14 36 £70,000 +16.67% 18
Buckinghamshire +24 18 £56,250 -13.46% 7
East Sussex +28 15 £112,500 +50.00% 2
Kent +3 12 £137,500 +175.00% 1
Oxfordshire +3 11 £28,500 -45.20% 7
Sussex - 2 £55,000 -
West Sussex +5 1 £60,000 -33.33% 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 5 (2.62%) IIS
2 2 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 161 (84.29%) Azure
2 148 (77.49%) AWS
3 45 (23.56%) SaaS
4 20 (10.47%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (8.38%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (8.38%) Vertex AI
6 15 (7.85%) Azure AI
7 11 (5.76%) GitHub
8 10 (5.24%) Entra ID
8 10 (5.24%) IaaS
8 10 (5.24%) OCI
8 10 (5.24%) PaaS
9 9 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (3.66%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.62%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.62%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (2.62%) dbt
11 5 (2.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (12.04%) DNS
2 21 (10.99%) DHCP
3 19 (9.95%) Firewall
4 14 (7.33%) VPN
5 8 (4.19%) Network Security
6 7 (3.66%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.09%) LAN
7 4 (2.09%) WAN
8 3 (1.57%) Wireless
9 1 (0.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.71%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (15.18%) BigQuery
3 9 (4.71%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.19%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.66%) MySQL
5 7 (3.66%) Power BI
6 5 (2.62%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.62%) Looker
6 5 (2.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (2.62%) Tableau
7 4 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.52%) Big Data
9 1 (0.52%) Metadata
9 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (12.57%) Git
2 5 (2.62%) git-flow
2 5 (2.62%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.57%) Burp Suite
3 3 (1.57%) GitLab
3 3 (1.57%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.52%) JIRA
4 1 (0.52%) MLflow
General
1 77 (40.31%) Law
2 69 (36.13%) Social Skills
3 56 (29.32%) Marketing
4 51 (26.70%) Finance
5 31 (16.23%) Legal
6 12 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.62%) Retail
8 3 (1.57%) Advertising
9 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.05%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.52%) Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 57 (29.84%) Senior
2 53 (27.75%) Architect
3 49 (25.65%) Developer
4 30 (15.71%) Cloud Architect
5 23 (12.04%) Full-Stack Developer
6 21 (10.99%) .NET Developer
6 21 (10.99%) .NET Software Developer
6 21 (10.99%) Data Architect
6 21 (10.99%) Engineering Manager
6 21 (10.99%) Platform Architect
6 21 (10.99%) Software Developer
7 20 (10.47%) GCP Architect
7 20 (10.47%) Senior Developer
7 20 (10.47%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 19 (9.95%) Senior Architect
8 19 (9.95%) Senior Data Architect
9 18 (9.42%) IT Engineer
10 17 (8.90%) Product Manager
10 17 (8.90%) Support Engineer
11 15 (7.85%) Product Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.32%) .NET
2 26 (13.61%) React
3 24 (12.57%) CSS
4 22 (11.52%) HTML
5 20 (10.47%) Node.js
6 16 (8.38%) RESTful
7 9 (4.71%) Hugging Face
8 8 (4.19%) TensorFlow
9 7 (3.66%) LangChain
9 7 (3.66%) PyTorch
10 6 (3.14%) .NET Framework
11 5 (2.62%) AWS CDK
11 5 (2.62%) Entity Framework
11 5 (2.62%) Kafka
11 5 (2.62%) Material-UI
11 5 (2.62%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (2.62%) WinForms
12 2 (1.05%) Next.js
12 2 (1.05%) Pandas
12 2 (1.05%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.18%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.85%) AI Agents
3 8 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.66%) Private Cloud
4 7 (3.66%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.57%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.52%) IoT
7 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.66%) Windows
2 18 (9.42%) Linux
3 12 (6.28%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.57%) Kali Linux
4 3 (1.57%) Unix
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (45.55%) Roadmaps
2 81 (42.41%) Agile
3 79 (41.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 67 (35.08%) AI
5 61 (31.94%) Data Science
6 54 (28.27%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (26.18%) Mentoring
8 45 (23.56%) Machine Learning
9 41 (21.47%) Generative AI
10 40 (20.94%) Architectural Design
11 39 (20.42%) Strategic Roadmap
12 37 (19.37%) Cloud Security
13 36 (18.85%) CI/CD
14 35 (18.32%) DevOps
15 32 (16.75%) Data Modelling
16 31 (16.23%) User Experience
17 30 (15.71%) Analytics
18 29 (15.18%) Software Engineering
19 27 (14.14%) ETL
20 26 (13.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 44 (23.04%) JavaScript
2 38 (19.90%) Python
3 30 (15.71%) TypeScript
4 22 (11.52%) Go
5 20 (10.47%) Java
5 20 (10.47%) SQL
6 19 (9.95%) PowerShell
7 11 (5.76%) C#
8 7 (3.66%) Bash
9 5 (2.62%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.05%) PHP
12 1 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (12.04%) Degree
2 16 (8.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (8.38%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (5.24%) DV Cleared
5 9 (4.71%) SC Cleared
6 8 (4.19%) Master's Degree
7 7 (3.66%) A+ Certification
7 7 (3.66%) MCP
8 6 (3.14%) OSCP
9 5 (2.62%) CISSP
9 5 (2.62%) MCSE
10 4 (2.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.57%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.57%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.57%) CEH
11 3 (1.57%) CISM
11 3 (1.57%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.52%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.52%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.52%) Data Quality
2 21 (10.99%) QA
3 8 (4.19%) NIST
4 7 (3.66%) GDPR
5 6 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.57%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.05%) NCSC
8 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.52%) GRC
8 1 (0.52%) SLA
8 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (10.99%) Active Directory
1 21 (10.99%) Docker
2 6 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (21.47%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.24%) Grafana
2 10 (5.24%) Prometheus
3 9 (4.71%) Terraform
4 6 (3.14%) Ansible
5 3 (1.57%) Nmap
5 3 (1.57%) QRadar
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.52%) SCCM
6 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (34.03%) Google
2 22 (11.52%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.38%) Foundry
4 9 (4.71%) Dynatrace
4 9 (4.71%) OpenAI
5 7 (3.66%) Zoho
6 5 (2.62%) Sage
6 5 (2.62%) VMware
6 5 (2.62%) Xamarin
7 4 (2.09%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.09%) Cisco
8 3 (1.57%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.57%) Splunk
9 2 (1.05%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.05%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.05%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.05%) Talend
10 1 (0.52%) Citrix
10 1 (0.52%) Informatica