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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 129 207
Rank change year-on-year -44 +78 -106
Permanent jobs citing GCP 124 145 198
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.86% 2.05% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.11% 6.87% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 73 92 100
10th Percentile £38,250 £29,650 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,938 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £78,375 £95,125
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 3,987 2,111 5,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 27.52% 29.78% 31.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,115 1,392 4,036
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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 29 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 29 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 -3 66 £65,000 +8.33% 18
Berkshire +7 42 £62,500 -13.79% 11
Hampshire -46 30 £70,000 +7.69% 16
Buckinghamshire -1 19 £65,000 +15.56% 3
Surrey -28 11 £55,000 -16.98% 2
East Sussex -21 8 £60,000 -20.00% 1
Kent -42 8 £34,500 -50.71%
Oxfordshire -25 5 - - 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 8 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.23%) nginx
4 3 (2.42%) Confluence
5 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.81%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 103 (83.06%) AWS
2 97 (78.23%) Azure
3 13 (10.48%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (8.06%) GitHub
5 6 (4.84%) SaaS
6 5 (4.03%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.03%) Figma
6 5 (4.03%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.23%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 4 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (3.23%) dbt
7 4 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.23%) Prefect
8 3 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.42%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.42%) OCI
8 3 (2.42%) Serverless
8 3 (2.42%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (16.13%) Firewall
2 18 (14.52%) DNS
3 16 (12.90%) VPN
4 11 (8.87%) LAN
4 11 (8.87%) WAN
5 7 (5.65%) DHCP
6 4 (3.23%) Broadband
6 4 (3.23%) MQTT
6 4 (3.23%) Network Security
7 2 (1.61%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.81%) HTTP
8 1 (0.81%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.81%) Modbus
8 1 (0.81%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.74%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (16.13%) NoSQL
3 19 (15.32%) MySQL
4 14 (11.29%) MongoDB
5 12 (9.68%) Apache Cassandra
6 10 (8.06%) Relational Database
7 8 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (5.65%) SQL Server
9 6 (4.84%) BigQuery
10 5 (4.03%) Looker
11 4 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (3.23%) Big Data
11 4 (3.23%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (2.42%) Flink
12 3 (2.42%) Redis
13 2 (1.61%) Data Lake
13 2 (1.61%) Power BI
13 2 (1.61%) Tableau
14 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (18.55%) Git
2 13 (10.48%) GitLab
3 6 (4.84%) JIRA
4 3 (2.42%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.42%) JUnit
4 3 (2.42%) Mockito
5 2 (1.61%) PHPUnit
5 2 (1.61%) Selenium
6 1 (0.81%) git-flow
6 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.16%) Finance
3 16 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (9.68%) Telecoms
6 9 (7.26%) Law
7 7 (5.65%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.23%) Legal
8 4 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.42%) Aviation
9 3 (2.42%) Games
9 3 (2.42%) Marketing
9 3 (2.42%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.61%) Banking
10 2 (1.61%) Retail
11 1 (0.81%) Billing
11 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (22.58%) Senior
2 19 (15.32%) Software Engineer
3 17 (13.71%) Developer
4 13 (10.48%) Analyst
5 10 (8.06%) Architect
6 9 (7.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (7.26%) Senior Developer
7 8 (6.45%) Backend Developer
7 8 (6.45%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.45%) Senior Backend Developer
7 8 (6.45%) Support Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (5.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Lead
9 6 (4.84%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) IT Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) Python Engineer
11 4 (3.23%) OSS Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.29%) React
2 9 (7.26%) .NET
2 9 (7.26%) Kafka
2 9 (7.26%) Web Services
3 8 (6.45%) REST
3 8 (6.45%) RESTful
4 6 (4.84%) CSS
5 5 (4.03%) Django
5 5 (4.03%) HTML
5 5 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (4.03%) Twisted
5 5 (4.03%) WebSockets
6 4 (3.23%) .NET Core
6 4 (3.23%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.23%) React Native
6 4 (3.23%) Spring
7 3 (2.42%) gRPC
7 3 (2.42%) Redux
7 3 (2.42%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.42%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.52%) Cloud Native
1 18 (14.52%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (10.48%) Client/Server
2 13 (10.48%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.26%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (6.45%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.65%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.03%) Cyber Defence
6 5 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (4.03%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (3.23%) Replication
8 3 (2.42%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.42%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.42%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.61%) Life Science
9 2 (1.61%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.61%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (28.23%) Linux
2 22 (17.74%) Windows
3 13 (10.48%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (34.68%) Continuous Improvement
2 40 (32.26%) Agile
3 32 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 30 (24.19%) CI/CD
5 30 (24.19%) Containerisation
6 26 (20.97%) Software Engineering
7 24 (19.35%) Test Automation
8 21 (16.94%) Code Quality
9 19 (15.32%) AI
9 19 (15.32%) DevOps
10 18 (14.52%) Microservices
11 17 (13.71%) Collaborative Culture
11 17 (13.71%) Data Science
11 17 (13.71%) Disaster Recovery
11 17 (13.71%) Full-Stack Development
12 16 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (12.10%) Analytics
13 15 (12.10%) Mentoring
13 15 (12.10%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 52 (41.94%) Python
2 18 (14.52%) Rust
3 17 (13.71%) SQL
4 16 (12.90%) TypeScript
5 15 (12.10%) JavaScript
6 14 (11.29%) C++
7 13 (10.48%) C
7 13 (10.48%) Java
8 8 (6.45%) C#
8 8 (6.45%) PHP
9 7 (5.65%) PowerShell
10 6 (4.84%) Scala
11 3 (2.42%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.61%) Bash
12 2 (1.61%) Go
12 2 (1.61%) R
13 1 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (37.10%) Degree
2 25 (20.16%) Security Cleared
3 22 (17.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (16.13%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.03%) CCNA
5 5 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.03%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.03%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.23%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.23%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.23%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.61%) CISSP
8 2 (1.61%) MCSE
8 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.81%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (20.16%) QA
2 10 (8.06%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.23%) NIST
4 3 (2.42%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.42%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.61%) GDPR
5 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.81%) NCSC
System Software
1 32 (25.81%) Docker
2 18 (14.52%) Hyper-V
2 18 (14.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (12.10%) Active Directory
4 13 (10.48%) KVM
5 5 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (23.39%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.87%) Terraform
3 6 (4.84%) Ansible
3 6 (4.84%) Grafana
3 6 (4.84%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.81%) Argo
4 1 (0.81%) CASB
4 1 (0.81%) Kibana
4 1 (0.81%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (30.65%) Google
2 24 (19.35%) VMware
3 22 (17.74%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.45%) Oracle
5 5 (4.03%) Citrix
5 5 (4.03%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.23%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.42%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.42%) Confluent
7 3 (2.42%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.61%) Foundry
8 2 (1.61%) Typelevel
9 1 (0.81%) Carbon Black
9 1 (0.81%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.81%) Genesys
9 1 (0.81%) Informatica
9 1 (0.81%) Pega
9 1 (0.81%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.81%) Splunk
9 1 (0.81%) Tenable