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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 126 154
Rank change year-on-year -53 +28 -21
Permanent jobs citing GCP 157 216 224
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.89% 2.38% 1.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.11% 9.00% 5.79%
Number of salaries quoted 113 75 124
10th Percentile £33,250 £44,200 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £117,250 £96,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £86,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -7.51% +7.73%

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 3,819 2,401 3,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 21.72% 26.47% 27.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,796 1,461 2,610
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £31,225
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -2.14%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -53 69 £71,625 +19.38% 69
Hampshire -28 50 £62,500 -10.71% 28
Berkshire -61 26 £85,000 +13.33% 41
Buckinghamshire +2 22 £59,500 -0.83% 10
Surrey -6 21 £55,000 -24.14% 9
Oxfordshire -9 21 £95,000 +123.53% 20
East Sussex -16 5 £55,000 -51.11% 3
West Sussex - 5 £105,000 - 11
Kent -22 4 £38,500 -57.81% 2
Home Counties - 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 4 (2.55%) Confluence
2 3 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Lightworks
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.27%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 134 (85.35%) AWS
2 119 (75.80%) Azure
3 22 (14.01%) GitHub
4 15 (9.55%) Serverless
5 13 (8.28%) Anthropic Claude
6 7 (4.46%) Cloud Run
6 7 (4.46%) Firebase
6 7 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.46%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.18%) ChatGPT
8 5 (3.18%) Entra ID
8 5 (3.18%) Google Gemini
9 4 (2.55%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (2.55%) Figma
9 4 (2.55%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.91%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.91%) Google Sheets
10 3 (1.91%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.19%) Firewall
2 14 (8.92%) VPN
3 13 (8.28%) DNS
4 11 (7.01%) MQTT
5 9 (5.73%) Network Security
5 9 (5.73%) WAN
6 7 (4.46%) LAN
7 6 (3.82%) TCP/IP
8 5 (3.18%) HTTP
9 2 (1.27%) BGP
9 2 (1.27%) Broadband
9 2 (1.27%) DHCP
10 1 (0.64%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.64%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (21.02%) MySQL
2 25 (15.92%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (12.10%) Relational Database
4 17 (10.83%) MongoDB
5 12 (7.64%) NoSQL
6 9 (5.73%) Pinecone
7 7 (4.46%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (3.82%) BigQuery
8 6 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (3.82%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.55%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.55%) Redis
10 3 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.91%) Looker
11 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.64%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.64%) Power BI
11 1 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (29.94%) Git
2 11 (7.01%) GitLab
3 7 (4.46%) JIRA
4 5 (3.18%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.18%) JUnit
5 4 (2.55%) PHPUnit
5 4 (2.55%) Selenium
5 4 (2.55%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.91%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.91%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.91%) Eclipse RCP
7 2 (1.27%) Mockito
7 2 (1.27%) NUnit
8 1 (0.64%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.64%) Storybook
General
1 60 (38.22%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.47%) Finance
3 22 (14.01%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.92%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.18%) Games
7 4 (2.55%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.55%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.91%) Law
8 3 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Aviation
10 1 (0.64%) Advertising
10 1 (0.64%) Billing
10 1 (0.64%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Legal
10 1 (0.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 45 (28.66%) Senior
2 35 (22.29%) Software Engineer
3 29 (18.47%) Developer
4 19 (12.10%) Backend Developer
5 16 (10.19%) Architect
6 15 (9.55%) Senior Developer
7 14 (8.92%) Senior Backend Developer
8 11 (7.01%) Lead
9 9 (5.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (5.10%) Analyst
10 8 (5.10%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.46%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) GCP Software Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Python Engineer
12 6 (3.82%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (3.82%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (22.29%) Terraform
2 20 (12.74%) REST
3 19 (12.10%) React
4 14 (8.92%) Kafka
5 12 (7.64%) Spring
6 11 (7.01%) Spring Boot
7 9 (5.73%) gRPC
8 8 (5.10%) .NET
8 8 (5.10%) CSS
8 8 (5.10%) HTML
8 8 (5.10%) Node.js
8 8 (5.10%) RESTful
9 7 (4.46%) Hibernate
9 7 (4.46%) pgvector
10 6 (3.82%) Protocol Buffers
10 6 (3.82%) Web Services
11 5 (3.18%) JPA
11 5 (3.18%) LAMP
11 5 (3.18%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (2.55%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.10%) Product Ownership
2 18 (11.46%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (8.92%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (8.28%) AI Agents
5 12 (7.64%) Cloud Native
6 10 (6.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (5.73%) Onboarding
8 8 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (4.46%) Management Information System
10 6 (3.82%) Robotics
10 6 (3.82%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (3.18%) Client/Server
11 5 (3.18%) Public Cloud
11 5 (3.18%) Replication
12 4 (2.55%) Algorithms
12 4 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (2.55%) Mobile App
13 3 (1.91%) Life Science
13 3 (1.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 3 (1.91%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (20.38%) Linux
2 16 (10.19%) Windows
3 9 (5.73%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.64%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (39.49%) AI
2 60 (38.22%) CI/CD
3 56 (35.67%) Software Engineering
4 55 (35.03%) Agile
5 49 (31.21%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (24.20%) Containerisation
7 36 (22.93%) DevOps
8 33 (21.02%) Infrastructure as Code
9 31 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (19.11%) Machine Learning
10 30 (19.11%) Mentoring
11 28 (17.83%) Code Quality
12 27 (17.20%) Computer Science
12 27 (17.20%) Observability
13 26 (16.56%) Test Automation
14 25 (15.92%) Microservices
15 23 (14.65%) LLM
16 19 (12.10%) Decision-Making
17 18 (11.46%) Analytics
17 18 (11.46%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 60 (38.22%) Python
2 29 (18.47%) JavaScript
3 28 (17.83%) Java
4 24 (15.29%) SQL
5 21 (13.38%) TypeScript
6 18 (11.46%) PHP
7 17 (10.83%) Rust
8 13 (8.28%) C#
9 12 (7.64%) C++
10 9 (5.73%) C
11 4 (2.55%) Scala
11 4 (2.55%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.91%) ABAP
12 3 (1.91%) Go
13 2 (1.27%) Bash
13 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.64%) R
Qualifications
1 50 (31.85%) Degree
2 36 (22.93%) Security Cleared
3 31 (19.75%) SC Cleared
4 18 (11.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.10%) DV Cleared
5 8 (5.10%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.91%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.91%) CCNA
7 3 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.91%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.64%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.64%) GCIA
9 1 (0.64%) GCIH
9 1 (0.64%) GIAC
9 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.64%) QA
2 4 (2.55%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.55%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.91%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.27%) NIST
5 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (37.58%) Docker
2 8 (5.10%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.46%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.82%) KVM
4 6 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.27%) Firmware
5 2 (1.27%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 54 (34.39%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.55%) Ansible
3 9 (5.73%) Grafana
4 8 (5.10%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.46%) Puppet
6 6 (3.82%) Podman
7 5 (3.18%) Argo
8 3 (1.91%) Istio
8 3 (1.91%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.64%) Kibana
9 1 (0.64%) Packer
Vendors
1 47 (29.94%) Google
2 25 (15.92%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.92%) VMware
4 6 (3.82%) NVIDIA
5 5 (3.18%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.55%) Tenable
7 3 (1.91%) Oracle
7 3 (1.91%) SAP
7 3 (1.91%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.27%) Citrix
8 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.64%) Carbon Black
9 1 (0.64%) Cisco
9 1 (0.64%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.64%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.64%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.64%) Splunk
9 1 (0.64%) Typelevel