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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 130 161
Rank change year-on-year +20 +31 -17
Permanent jobs citing GCP 191 219 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.08% 1.96% 1.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.45% 6.58% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 89 130 90
10th Percentile £30,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £50,000 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.92% +13.85%
75th Percentile £115,000 £79,500 £85,750
90th Percentile £143,750 £95,000 £95,250
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 2,960 3,330 2,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 32.21% 29.79% 36.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,700 1,827 2,318
10th Percentile £27,750 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £44,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £59,125 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +7.50% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 18 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 18 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 +64 128 £42,500 -27.66% 52
Berkshire +70 101 £46,000 -35.44% 32
Hampshire -8 33 £70,000 +16.67% 27
Buckinghamshire +23 16 £52,500 -19.23% 6
East Sussex +29 14 £112,500 +136.84% 2
Kent -3 12 £137,500 +175.00% 4
Oxfordshire +9 11 £28,500 -37.77% 16
Sussex - 2 £55,000 - 1
West Sussex +1 1 £60,000 -33.33% 2
Surrey -17 1 £70,000 -20.00% 13
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 3 (1.57%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 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
2 150 (78.53%) AWS
3 44 (23.04%) SaaS
4 20 (10.47%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (8.90%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (8.38%) Vertex AI
7 15 (7.85%) Azure AI
8 10 (5.24%) GitHub
8 10 (5.24%) IaaS
8 10 (5.24%) OCI
8 10 (5.24%) PaaS
9 8 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (3.66%) Entra ID
11 6 (3.14%) Serverless
12 5 (2.62%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.62%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (2.62%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (2.62%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.47%) DNS
2 18 (9.42%) DHCP
2 18 (9.42%) Firewall
3 14 (7.33%) VPN
4 7 (3.66%) Network Security
4 7 (3.66%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.09%) LAN
5 4 (2.09%) WAN
6 3 (1.57%) Wireless
7 1 (0.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (16.23%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (15.18%) BigQuery
3 11 (5.76%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.19%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.62%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.62%) MySQL
5 5 (2.62%) Power BI
5 5 (2.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (2.09%) Big Data
6 4 (2.09%) Looker
7 3 (1.57%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.57%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.57%) Tableau
8 2 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.52%) Metadata
9 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (10.99%) Git
2 5 (2.62%) git-flow
3 4 (2.09%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.57%) Burp Suite
4 3 (1.57%) GitLab
4 3 (1.57%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.52%) JIRA
5 1 (0.52%) MLflow
General
1 85 (44.50%) Law
2 76 (39.79%) Social Skills
3 56 (29.32%) Marketing
4 53 (27.75%) Finance
5 36 (18.85%) Legal
6 11 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.62%) Retail
8 3 (1.57%) Advertising
8 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.52%) Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 64 (33.51%) Senior
2 52 (27.23%) Architect
3 47 (24.61%) Developer
4 30 (15.71%) Cloud Architect
5 21 (10.99%) .NET Developer
5 21 (10.99%) .NET Software Developer
5 21 (10.99%) Data Architect
5 21 (10.99%) Engineering Manager
5 21 (10.99%) Full-Stack Developer
5 21 (10.99%) Platform Architect
5 21 (10.99%) Senior Developer
5 21 (10.99%) Software Developer
6 20 (10.47%) GCP Architect
6 20 (10.47%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 19 (9.95%) Senior Architect
7 19 (9.95%) Senior Data Architect
8 17 (8.90%) IT Engineer
8 17 (8.90%) Product Manager
9 16 (8.38%) Support Engineer
10 15 (7.85%) Product Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (17.80%) .NET
2 23 (12.04%) React
3 22 (11.52%) CSS
4 21 (10.99%) HTML
5 18 (9.42%) Node.js
6 15 (7.85%) Hugging Face
7 14 (7.33%) RESTful
7 14 (7.33%) TensorFlow
8 13 (6.81%) LangChain
8 13 (6.81%) PyTorch
9 9 (4.71%) Kafka
10 6 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (2.62%) .NET Framework
11 5 (2.62%) AWS CDK
11 5 (2.62%) Entity Framework
11 5 (2.62%) Material-UI
11 5 (2.62%) WinForms
12 2 (1.05%) Ajax
12 2 (1.05%) scikit-learn
12 2 (1.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.71%) 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 4 (2.09%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.57%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.09%) Windows
2 14 (7.33%) Linux
3 10 (5.24%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.57%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.05%) Unix
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (48.17%) Roadmaps
2 82 (42.93%) Continuous Improvement
3 80 (41.88%) Agile
4 75 (39.27%) AI
5 70 (36.65%) Data Science
6 54 (28.27%) Machine Learning
7 52 (27.23%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (25.65%) Mentoring
9 47 (24.61%) Generative AI
10 42 (21.99%) Cloud Security
11 39 (20.42%) Architectural Design
11 39 (20.42%) Strategic Roadmap
12 37 (19.37%) DevOps
13 35 (18.32%) CI/CD
14 34 (17.80%) Data Modelling
15 31 (16.23%) Analytics
15 31 (16.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 31 (16.23%) User Experience
16 29 (15.18%) Change Management
16 29 (15.18%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 42 (21.99%) JavaScript
2 38 (19.90%) Python
3 28 (14.66%) TypeScript
4 22 (11.52%) Go
5 21 (10.99%) Java
5 21 (10.99%) SQL
6 18 (9.42%) PowerShell
7 11 (5.76%) C#
8 7 (3.66%) Bash
9 5 (2.62%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.09%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.05%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (15.18%) Degree
2 22 (11.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (8.90%) Master's Degree
4 15 (7.85%) Security Cleared
5 12 (6.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (5.24%) DV Cleared
7 8 (4.19%) SC Cleared
8 7 (3.66%) A+ Certification
8 7 (3.66%) MCP
8 7 (3.66%) OSCP
9 5 (2.62%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.62%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.62%) CISSP
9 5 (2.62%) MCSE
10 4 (2.09%) CEH
10 4 (2.09%) CISM
10 4 (2.09%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (2.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.52%) CISA
11 1 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.99%) Data Quality
2 19 (9.95%) QA
3 11 (5.76%) GDPR
4 8 (4.19%) NIST
5 7 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (2.09%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.52%) GRC
7 1 (0.52%) NCSC
7 1 (0.52%) SLA
7 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (10.47%) Docker
2 18 (9.42%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (21.47%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.38%) Grafana
2 16 (8.38%) Prometheus
3 9 (4.71%) Terraform
4 6 (3.14%) Ansible
5 4 (2.09%) QRadar
6 3 (1.57%) Nmap
7 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.52%) SCCM
7 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 67 (35.08%) Google
2 22 (11.52%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.85%) Foundry
3 15 (7.85%) OpenAI
4 7 (3.66%) Dynatrace
4 7 (3.66%) Zoho
5 5 (2.62%) Cisco
5 5 (2.62%) Sage
5 5 (2.62%) VMware
5 5 (2.62%) Xamarin
6 4 (2.09%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.09%) Splunk
7 3 (1.57%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.05%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.05%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.05%) Talend
9 1 (0.52%) Citrix
9 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.52%) SolarWinds