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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 115 203
Rank change year-on-year -61 +88 -105
Permanent jobs citing GCP 121 147 198
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.86% 2.15% 1.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.07% 6.89% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 71 96 98
10th Percentile £37,500 £27,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,125 £50,938 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £75,038 £73,750 £73,438
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £91,625
England median annual salary £77,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.41% +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 3,940 2,135 5,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 27.96% 31.20% 31.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,100 1,405 4,066
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 19 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 19 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% 22
Berkshire +3 40 £66,250 - 13
Hampshire -44 30 £70,000 +7.69% 14
Buckinghamshire -8 19 £65,000 +15.56% 6
Surrey -26 10 £55,000 -20.29% 6
Kent -37 8 £34,500 -50.71%
Oxfordshire -29 7 £28,500 -32.94% 3
East Sussex -21 6 £60,000 -20.00% 3
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 7 (5.79%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.31%) nginx
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.83%) Camunda
4 1 (0.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 100 (82.64%) AWS
2 95 (78.51%) Azure
3 15 (12.40%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (9.09%) GitHub
5 6 (4.96%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.96%) SaaS
6 5 (4.13%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (4.13%) Figma
6 5 (4.13%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.31%) dbt
7 4 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.31%) Serverless
8 3 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.48%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.48%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 3 (2.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.48%) Google Workspace
8 3 (2.48%) Prefect
8 3 (2.48%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.70%) DNS
2 18 (14.88%) Firewall
3 15 (12.40%) VPN
4 11 (9.09%) LAN
4 11 (9.09%) WAN
5 10 (8.26%) DHCP
6 4 (3.31%) Broadband
6 4 (3.31%) MQTT
7 3 (2.48%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.65%) Network Security
9 1 (0.83%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.83%) Modbus
9 1 (0.83%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (17.36%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (16.53%) NoSQL
3 19 (15.70%) MySQL
4 13 (10.74%) MongoDB
5 11 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
6 9 (7.44%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (7.44%) Relational Database
7 7 (5.79%) SQL Server
8 5 (4.13%) BigQuery
9 4 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (3.31%) Big Data
9 4 (3.31%) Looker
9 4 (3.31%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.48%) Flink
10 3 (2.48%) Redis
11 2 (1.65%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.65%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.65%) Power BI
11 2 (1.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (18.18%) Git
2 12 (9.92%) GitLab
3 4 (3.31%) JIRA
4 3 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.48%) JUnit
4 3 (2.48%) Mockito
5 2 (1.65%) git-flow
5 2 (1.65%) PHPUnit
5 2 (1.65%) Selenium
6 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
General
1 36 (29.75%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.83%) Finance
3 14 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (9.92%) Telecoms
6 9 (7.44%) Law
7 7 (5.79%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.31%) Legal
8 4 (3.31%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.48%) Aviation
9 3 (2.48%) Games
9 3 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.65%) Banking
10 2 (1.65%) Marketing
10 2 (1.65%) Retail
11 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (23.14%) Senior
2 19 (15.70%) Software Engineer
3 16 (13.22%) Developer
4 11 (9.09%) Analyst
5 10 (8.26%) Architect
5 10 (8.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (8.26%) Senior Developer
5 10 (8.26%) Support Engineer
6 8 (6.61%) Backend Developer
6 8 (6.61%) Senior Backend Developer
7 7 (5.79%) Data Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) IT Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) Lead
8 6 (4.96%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (4.96%) IT Support
8 6 (4.96%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.74%) React
2 10 (8.26%) .NET
2 10 (8.26%) Kafka
3 9 (7.44%) Web Services
4 8 (6.61%) REST
4 8 (6.61%) RESTful
5 7 (5.79%) CSS
6 6 (4.96%) HTML
6 6 (4.96%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (4.13%) Django
7 5 (4.13%) Twisted
7 5 (4.13%) WebSockets
8 4 (3.31%) .NET Core
8 4 (3.31%) Hibernate
8 4 (3.31%) Spring
9 3 (2.48%) gRPC
9 3 (2.48%) JPA
9 3 (2.48%) Node.js
9 3 (2.48%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.48%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.88%) Cloud Native
1 18 (14.88%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (11.57%) Product Ownership
3 13 (10.74%) Client/Server
4 9 (7.44%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (6.61%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.96%) Management Information System
7 5 (4.13%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (4.13%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (3.31%) Replication
9 3 (2.48%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.48%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.65%) Life Science
10 2 (1.65%) Over-the-Top Content
10 2 (1.65%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.65%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (1.65%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.83%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 34 (28.10%) Linux
2 24 (19.83%) Windows
3 14 (11.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (32.23%) Agile
1 39 (32.23%) Continuous Improvement
2 31 (25.62%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (24.79%) CI/CD
3 30 (24.79%) Computer Science
4 29 (23.97%) Containerisation
5 26 (21.49%) Software Engineering
6 24 (19.83%) Test Automation
7 21 (17.36%) Code Quality
8 19 (15.70%) DevOps
8 19 (15.70%) Microservices
9 18 (14.88%) AI
9 18 (14.88%) Disaster Recovery
10 17 (14.05%) Collaborative Culture
11 16 (13.22%) Data Science
11 16 (13.22%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (12.40%) Mentoring
13 14 (11.57%) Cybersecurity
13 14 (11.57%) Observability
13 14 (11.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (39.67%) Python
2 18 (14.88%) Rust
3 15 (12.40%) SQL
3 15 (12.40%) TypeScript
4 14 (11.57%) C++
5 13 (10.74%) C
5 13 (10.74%) JavaScript
6 12 (9.92%) Java
7 9 (7.44%) C#
8 8 (6.61%) PHP
9 7 (5.79%) PowerShell
10 5 (4.13%) Scala
11 3 (2.48%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.65%) Bash
12 2 (1.65%) Go
12 2 (1.65%) R
13 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (36.36%) Degree
2 23 (19.01%) Security Cleared
3 21 (17.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (15.70%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.13%) CCNA
5 5 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.13%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.31%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.31%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.31%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.48%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.65%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.65%) CISSP
8 2 (1.65%) MCSE
8 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (21.49%) QA
2 9 (7.44%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.31%) NIST
4 3 (2.48%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.48%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.65%) GDPR
5 2 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.83%) NCSC
System Software
1 32 (26.45%) Docker
2 18 (14.88%) Active Directory
2 18 (14.88%) Hyper-V
2 18 (14.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (10.74%) KVM
4 5 (4.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (23.14%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.09%) Terraform
3 6 (4.96%) Ansible
3 6 (4.96%) Grafana
3 6 (4.96%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.83%) Argo
4 1 (0.83%) CASB
4 1 (0.83%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (31.40%) Google
2 24 (19.83%) VMware
3 22 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.61%) Oracle
5 5 (4.13%) Citrix
5 5 (4.13%) Dynatrace
5 5 (4.13%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.48%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.48%) Confluent
6 3 (2.48%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.65%) Foundry
7 2 (1.65%) Typelevel
8 1 (0.83%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.83%) Genesys
8 1 (0.83%) Informatica
8 1 (0.83%) Palantir
8 1 (0.83%) Pega
8 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.83%) Tenable
8 1 (0.83%) UiPath