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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 117 201
Rank change year-on-year -37 +84 -85
Permanent jobs citing GCP 138 182 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.20% 2.27% 1.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.99% 6.80% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 93 120 88
10th Percentile £30,500 £25,750 £40,125
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £74,063 £75,250
90th Percentile £143,750 £85,125 £86,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% +9.68% -3.13%

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 3,460 2,677 4,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 29.99% 33.41% 32.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,906 1,528 3,395
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -9.09%
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 21 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 21 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 +8 68 £62,500 +31.58% 34
Berkshire +14 36 £66,250 +10.42% 14
Hampshire -28 32 £66,250 +1.92% 3
Buckinghamshire +17 20 £65,000 +1.96% 12
East Sussex +13 15 £112,500 +50.00%
Kent -10 13 £137,500 +129.17% 10
Oxfordshire -14 12 £28,500 +3.64% 8
Surrey -23 6 £80,000 +24.03% 10
Sussex - 2 £55,000 -
West Sussex -6 1 £60,000 - 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 6 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.62%) IIS
3 4 (2.90%) nginx
4 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.72%) Camunda
Applications
1 6 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 111 (80.43%) Azure
2 103 (74.64%) AWS
3 31 (22.46%) SaaS
4 23 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (8.70%) GitHub
6 10 (7.25%) Entra ID
7 9 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.07%) Power Platform
9 7 (5.07%) Serverless
10 6 (4.35%) dbt
11 5 (3.62%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.62%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.62%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (3.62%) Google Workspace
11 5 (3.62%) Snowflake
12 4 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.39%) DNS
2 20 (14.49%) DHCP
2 20 (14.49%) Firewall
3 16 (11.59%) VPN
4 8 (5.80%) Network Security
5 6 (4.35%) TCP/IP
6 5 (3.62%) LAN
6 5 (3.62%) WAN
7 3 (2.17%) MQTT
8 2 (1.45%) Broadband
9 1 (0.72%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.72%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.59%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.70%) MySQL
3 10 (7.25%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.52%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.35%) BigQuery
5 6 (4.35%) Looker
6 5 (3.62%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (3.62%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.62%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (2.90%) Big Data
7 4 (2.90%) Power BI
8 3 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.17%) Flink
8 3 (2.17%) Redis
8 3 (2.17%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.45%) Tableau
10 1 (0.72%) GIS
10 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (9.42%) Git
2 11 (7.97%) GitLab
3 5 (3.62%) git-flow
4 4 (2.90%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.72%) JUnit
5 1 (0.72%) MLflow
5 1 (0.72%) Mockito
5 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
General
1 51 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 43 (31.16%) Finance
3 12 (8.70%) Legal
4 11 (7.97%) Telecoms
5 10 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (5.80%) Law
7 6 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.90%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.90%) Retail
9 3 (2.17%) Aviation
9 3 (2.17%) Banking
9 3 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.45%) Marketing
11 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (23.91%) Developer
2 24 (17.39%) Senior
3 19 (13.77%) IT Engineer
3 19 (13.77%) Support Engineer
4 17 (12.32%) .NET Developer
4 17 (12.32%) .NET Software Developer
4 17 (12.32%) Engineering Manager
4 17 (12.32%) Software Developer
5 15 (10.87%) Software Engineer
6 14 (10.14%) IT Support
6 14 (10.14%) IT Support Engineer
7 11 (7.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) Analyst
8 9 (6.52%) Senior Developer
9 8 (5.80%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (5.07%) Architect
10 7 (5.07%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (5.07%) Security Engineer
11 6 (4.35%) Lead
11 6 (4.35%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (24.64%) .NET
2 12 (8.70%) Kafka
3 11 (7.97%) React
4 10 (7.25%) CSS
5 9 (6.52%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (5.80%) HTML
7 6 (4.35%) .NET Framework
7 6 (4.35%) Entity Framework
7 6 (4.35%) RESTful
8 5 (3.62%) AWS CDK
8 5 (3.62%) Material-UI
8 5 (3.62%) Web Services
8 5 (3.62%) WinForms
9 3 (2.17%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.17%) Node.js
9 3 (2.17%) REST
10 2 (1.45%) Ajax
10 2 (1.45%) Hibernate
10 2 (1.45%) OAuth
10 2 (1.45%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.32%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.42%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.97%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.52%) Client/Server
5 6 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.17%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.45%) Life Science
7 2 (1.45%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.45%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.72%) IoT
8 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.72%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.72%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.72%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 30 (21.74%) Windows
2 28 (20.29%) Linux
3 11 (7.97%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (41.30%) Agile
2 40 (28.99%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (27.54%) Software Engineering
4 33 (23.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 32 (23.19%) CI/CD
6 30 (21.74%) AI
7 28 (20.29%) Roadmaps
8 27 (19.57%) Computer Science
9 24 (17.39%) DevOps
10 22 (15.94%) Business Continuity
10 22 (15.94%) Business Strategy
11 19 (13.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (11.59%) Containerisation
12 16 (11.59%) Disaster Recovery
13 15 (10.87%) Microservices
14 14 (10.14%) Data Modelling
14 14 (10.14%) Mentoring
14 14 (10.14%) Test Automation
15 13 (9.42%) Analytics
15 13 (9.42%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 36 (26.09%) Python
2 30 (21.74%) TypeScript
3 27 (19.57%) JavaScript
4 20 (14.49%) SQL
5 16 (11.59%) C#
6 13 (9.42%) Rust
7 11 (7.97%) PowerShell
8 10 (7.25%) C++
9 9 (6.52%) C
10 7 (5.07%) Java
11 6 (4.35%) PHP
11 6 (4.35%) T-SQL
12 3 (2.17%) Go
12 3 (2.17%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.45%) Bash
13 2 (1.45%) R
13 2 (1.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (25.36%) Degree
2 20 (14.49%) Computer Science Degree
2 20 (14.49%) Security Cleared
3 16 (11.59%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.35%) A+ Certification
5 6 (4.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 4 (2.90%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.90%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.17%) CCNA
7 3 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.17%) CISSP
7 3 (2.17%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.17%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.45%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.45%) MCSE
8 2 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.22%) QA
2 9 (6.52%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.62%) GDPR
3 5 (3.62%) NIST
4 4 (2.90%) SOC 2
5 3 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.17%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.72%) GRC
7 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.72%) NCSC
7 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 19 (13.77%) Docker
3 12 (8.70%) Hyper-V
3 12 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (6.52%) KVM
5 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (15.22%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.42%) Terraform
3 6 (4.35%) Ansible
3 6 (4.35%) Grafana
3 6 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.72%) Argo
4 1 (0.72%) CASB
4 1 (0.72%) Puppet
4 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (32.61%) Google
2 23 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 14 (10.14%) VMware
4 9 (6.52%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.62%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.62%) Oracle
5 5 (3.62%) Sage
5 5 (3.62%) Xamarin
5 5 (3.62%) Zoho
6 3 (2.17%) Citrix
6 3 (2.17%) Confluent
7 2 (1.45%) Foundry
8 1 (0.72%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.72%) Genesys
8 1 (0.72%) Informatica
8 1 (0.72%) Palantir
8 1 (0.72%) Pega
8 1 (0.72%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.72%) UiPath