GCP Jobs in the South East

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring GCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GCP over the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 189 112
Rank change year-on-year +38 -77 +6
Permanent jobs citing GCP 194 234 344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.91% 1.33% 2.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.40% 4.54% 7.50%
Number of salaries quoted 74 127 194
10th Percentile £38,825 £41,732 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -23.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £92,188
90th Percentile £89,250 £96,250 £100,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +3.13% -

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 2,309 5,154 4,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 22.68% 29.27% 36.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,408 3,887 3,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £30,750
25th Percentile £36,813 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,840 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £88,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the South East

GCP
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP in the South East.

Salary trend for GCP in the South East

GCP
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the South East over the 6 months to 9 July 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 9 July 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 +67 111 £60,000 +4.35% 56
Berkshire +84 84 £76,250 -4.69% 33
Hampshire +58 35 £70,000 +19.66% 26
Surrey +46 24 £72,500 +16.00% 12
Oxfordshire +21 15 £42,500 -5.56% 15
Middlesex -3 13 £90,000 - 5
Buckinghamshire +11 12 £60,000 +84.62% 9
Kent -3 9 £70,000 +14.75% 6
East Sussex -3 1 - - 2
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (5.67%) Apache Spark
2 9 (4.64%) Confluence
3 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.03%) Apache
5 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 176 (90.72%) Azure
2 173 (89.18%) AWS
3 30 (15.46%) Serverless
4 26 (13.40%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (12.37%) Snowflake
6 18 (9.28%) SaaS
7 17 (8.76%) PaaS
8 14 (7.22%) Vertex AI
9 13 (6.70%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (6.70%) IaaS
10 12 (6.19%) Azure AI
11 10 (5.15%) OCI
12 9 (4.64%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (4.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (3.61%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (3.09%) OpenShift
15 5 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (2.58%) GitHub
15 5 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
15 5 (2.58%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.89%) Broadband
2 16 (8.25%) Firewall
3 12 (6.19%) DNS
4 11 (5.67%) DHCP
5 9 (4.64%) VPN
6 8 (4.12%) Network Security
7 6 (3.09%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (3.09%) SMTP
8 5 (2.58%) LAN
8 5 (2.58%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.58%) WAN
9 2 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (18.04%) Data Lake
1 35 (18.04%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (14.95%) Metadata
3 11 (5.67%) Big Data
3 11 (5.67%) Hadoop
3 11 (5.67%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.67%) NoSQL
4 10 (5.15%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.64%) Data Mining
6 6 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.58%) MySQL
8 3 (1.55%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.55%) Power BI
8 3 (1.55%) Redis
8 3 (1.55%) Tableau
9 2 (1.03%) HBase
9 2 (1.03%) Impala
9 2 (1.03%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (1.03%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (6.70%) GitLab
2 11 (5.67%) Git
3 10 (5.15%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.15%) JIRA
4 8 (4.12%) Bitbucket
4 8 (4.12%) Cucumber
4 8 (4.12%) Maven
4 8 (4.12%) Selenium
4 8 (4.12%) SonarQube
4 8 (4.12%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.55%) Burp Suite
5 3 (1.55%) JUnit
5 3 (1.55%) Mockito
6 2 (1.03%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.52%) ESLint
7 1 (0.52%) Gatling
7 1 (0.52%) JMeter
General
1 79 (40.72%) Law
2 72 (37.11%) Social Skills
3 58 (29.90%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (12.89%) Finance
4 25 (12.89%) Legal
5 20 (10.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (6.19%) Retail
7 11 (5.67%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.12%) Banking
9 3 (1.55%) Advertising
9 3 (1.55%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 96 (49.48%) Senior
2 43 (22.16%) Lead
3 25 (12.89%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 15 (7.73%) Architect
4 15 (7.73%) Developer
4 15 (7.73%) Software Engineer
5 13 (6.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (6.70%) Senior Manager
6 12 (6.19%) Product Delivery Manager
6 12 (6.19%) Product Manager
6 12 (6.19%) Support Engineer
7 10 (5.15%) Cloud Architect
7 10 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (4.64%) Data Analytics Director
8 9 (4.64%) Security Engineer
9 8 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (4.12%) Java Developer
10 7 (3.61%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 6 (3.09%) Infrastructure Support
11 6 (3.09%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.89%) Kafka
2 17 (8.76%) React
3 16 (8.25%) Node.js
3 16 (8.25%) Spring Boot
4 13 (6.70%) Hugging Face
4 13 (6.70%) LangChain
4 13 (6.70%) PyTorch
4 13 (6.70%) TensorFlow
5 11 (5.67%) CSS
5 11 (5.67%) Hibernate
5 11 (5.67%) HTML
5 11 (5.67%) Spring
6 8 (4.12%) JPA
6 8 (4.12%) Redux
7 7 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (3.09%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.58%) Loki
9 5 (2.58%) Vue
10 4 (2.06%) REST
10 4 (2.06%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.89%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (9.28%) Public Cloud
3 17 (8.76%) Management Information System
4 15 (7.73%) Cloud Native
5 12 (6.19%) AI Agents
6 11 (5.67%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.64%) Algorithms
8 8 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (4.12%) Private Cloud
9 7 (3.61%) Security Posture
10 6 (3.09%) Clustering
10 6 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (3.09%) PKI
11 5 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (2.06%) Hackathon
13 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (1.03%) Low-Code
13 2 (1.03%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
14 1 (0.52%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.79%) Windows
2 18 (9.28%) Linux
3 7 (3.61%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.03%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (45.36%) Agile
2 74 (38.14%) CI/CD
3 70 (36.08%) Data Science
3 70 (36.08%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (35.05%) Machine Learning
5 60 (30.93%) Analytics
6 51 (26.29%) DevOps
7 49 (25.26%) Artificial Intelligence
8 48 (24.74%) Use Case
9 46 (23.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (22.16%) Data Engineering
11 41 (21.13%) Data Modelling
12 38 (19.59%) Clean Code
12 38 (19.59%) Data Governance
13 37 (19.07%) Data Architecture
13 37 (19.07%) High Availability
13 37 (19.07%) Infrastructure as Code
13 37 (19.07%) Mentoring
13 37 (19.07%) Roadmaps
14 36 (18.56%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 78 (40.21%) Python
2 56 (28.87%) SQL
3 28 (14.43%) TypeScript
4 24 (12.37%) PowerShell
5 21 (10.82%) Java
6 18 (9.28%) JavaScript
7 11 (5.67%) Bash
8 7 (3.61%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (3.09%) Go
10 4 (2.06%) PHP
11 2 (1.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 95 (48.97%) Degree
2 25 (12.89%) Computer Science Degree
2 25 (12.89%) Master's Degree
2 25 (12.89%) PhD
3 21 (10.82%) Security Cleared
4 15 (7.73%) DV Cleared
5 12 (6.19%) AWS Certification
5 12 (6.19%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.64%) CISSP
6 9 (4.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (4.64%) OSCP
6 9 (4.64%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.61%) CEH
7 7 (3.61%) CISM
7 7 (3.61%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (2.58%) A+ Certification
8 5 (2.58%) MCP
9 4 (2.06%) MCSE
10 3 (1.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.03%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (16.49%) QA
2 26 (13.40%) Accessibility
2 26 (13.40%) Data Quality
3 18 (9.28%) GDPR
4 10 (5.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (4.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 9 (4.64%) NIST
6 8 (4.12%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.52%) NCSC
7 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (17.53%) Docker
2 14 (7.22%) Active Directory
3 10 (5.15%) Hyper-V
3 10 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (3.61%) vSphere
6 6 (3.09%) BitLocker
6 6 (3.09%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (3.09%) Terminal Services
6 6 (3.09%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.03%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 48 (24.74%) Kubernetes
2 28 (14.43%) Terraform
3 22 (11.34%) Ansible
3 22 (11.34%) Grafana
3 22 (11.34%) Prometheus
4 10 (5.15%) Puppet
5 7 (3.61%) QRadar
6 6 (3.09%) Nagios
6 6 (3.09%) vCenter Server
6 6 (3.09%) vMotion
7 3 (1.55%) SCCM
8 2 (1.03%) EnCase
8 2 (1.03%) FTK
8 2 (1.03%) Hadoop YARN
8 2 (1.03%) Nmap
8 2 (1.03%) RSA Security Analytics
9 1 (0.52%) Argo
9 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 48 (24.74%) Google
2 34 (17.53%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.73%) VMware
4 13 (6.70%) OpenAI
5 12 (6.19%) Foundry
6 10 (5.15%) Citrix
6 10 (5.15%) Databricks
7 9 (4.64%) Cisco
7 9 (4.64%) Splunk
8 8 (4.12%) Palo Alto
8 8 (4.12%) Solace
9 7 (3.61%) HP
10 6 (3.09%) Symantec
11 3 (1.55%) SolarWinds
12 2 (1.03%) Cloudera
12 2 (1.03%) Dataiku
12 2 (1.03%) FireEye
12 2 (1.03%) MapR
12 2 (1.03%) NetWitness
13 1 (0.52%) Bloomberg