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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 121 205
Rank change year-on-year -24 +84 -84
Permanent jobs citing GCP 127 206 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.21% 2.29% 1.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.96% 7.01% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 88 127 75
10th Percentile £30,500 £25,750 £41,750
25th Percentile £46,375 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £143,750 £93,750 £86,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £82,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year -6.06% +3.60% -0.46%

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 3,211 2,937 3,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.58% 32.63% 32.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,751 1,596 2,524
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £69,670 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 17 January 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 17 January 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 +26 68 £52,500 -12.50% 126
Berkshire +19 37 £70,000 +16.67% 93
Hampshire -36 27 £60,000 -7.69% 34
Buckinghamshire +21 21 £65,000 +1.96% 16
East Sussex +13 15 £112,500 +50.00% 24
Kent -7 11 £137,500 +77.42% 21
Oxfordshire -14 10 £28,500 -45.20% 17
Surrey -15 2 £85,000 -2.86% 26
Sussex - 2 £55,000 -
West Sussex +1 1 £60,000 -33.33% 20
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 (3.94%) IIS
2 4 (3.15%) nginx
3 2 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 105 (82.68%) Azure
2 92 (72.44%) AWS
3 36 (28.35%) SaaS
4 21 (16.54%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (10.24%) GitHub
6 10 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (7.87%) Entra ID
7 9 (7.09%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (7.09%) Power Platform
8 6 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (4.72%) Serverless
9 5 (3.94%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.94%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.94%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (3.94%) dbt
9 5 (3.94%) Google Workspace
10 4 (3.15%) Fivetran
10 4 (3.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 24 (18.90%) DNS
2 21 (16.54%) DHCP
3 16 (12.60%) Firewall
4 12 (9.45%) VPN
5 8 (6.30%) Network Security
6 7 (5.51%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.79%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.79%) LAN
7 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.17%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (11.81%) BigQuery
3 11 (8.66%) MySQL
3 11 (8.66%) NoSQL
4 9 (7.09%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.72%) Power BI
6 5 (3.94%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.94%) Looker
6 5 (3.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (3.15%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (3.15%) Tableau
8 3 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.57%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.79%) Big Data
10 1 (0.79%) GIS
10 1 (0.79%) Metadata
10 1 (0.79%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (8.66%) Git
2 6 (4.72%) GitLab
3 5 (3.94%) git-flow
3 5 (3.94%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.79%) MLflow
General
1 49 (38.58%) Finance
2 45 (35.43%) Social Skills
3 19 (14.96%) Law
4 17 (13.39%) Marketing
5 9 (7.09%) Legal
6 7 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.51%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.94%) Retail
7 5 (3.94%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.79%) Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 37 (29.13%) Developer
2 27 (21.26%) Senior
3 21 (16.54%) .NET Developer
3 21 (16.54%) .NET Software Developer
3 21 (16.54%) Engineering Manager
3 21 (16.54%) Software Developer
4 18 (14.17%) Architect
4 18 (14.17%) IT Engineer
5 17 (13.39%) Support Engineer
6 13 (10.24%) IT Support
6 13 (10.24%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (7.87%) Senior Developer
8 9 (7.09%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (6.30%) Data Architect
9 8 (6.30%) Software Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Analyst
10 7 (5.51%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (4.72%) PHP Developer
11 6 (4.72%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (29.13%) .NET
2 11 (8.66%) React
3 10 (7.87%) CSS
4 9 (7.09%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (6.30%) HTML
6 6 (4.72%) .NET Framework
6 6 (4.72%) Entity Framework
7 5 (3.94%) AWS CDK
7 5 (3.94%) Kafka
7 5 (3.94%) Material-UI
7 5 (3.94%) RESTful
7 5 (3.94%) WinForms
8 3 (2.36%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.36%) ASP.NET
8 3 (2.36%) Node.js
8 3 (2.36%) Web Services
9 2 (1.57%) NumPy
9 2 (1.57%) OAuth
9 2 (1.57%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.75%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (4.72%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.15%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.36%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.57%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.57%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.79%) IoT
6 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (21.26%) Windows
2 20 (15.75%) Linux
3 10 (7.87%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (40.16%) Agile
2 38 (29.92%) Roadmaps
3 33 (25.98%) AI
4 32 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (25.20%) Software Engineering
5 30 (23.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (20.47%) CI/CD
6 26 (20.47%) DevOps
7 23 (18.11%) Business Strategy
8 22 (17.32%) Mentoring
9 18 (14.17%) Data Modelling
9 18 (14.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (13.39%) Analytics
10 17 (13.39%) Business Continuity
11 16 (12.60%) Computer Science
12 14 (11.02%) Architectural Design
12 14 (11.02%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (11.02%) Data Science
12 14 (11.02%) ETL
13 12 (9.45%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 31 (24.41%) TypeScript
2 28 (22.05%) JavaScript
3 23 (18.11%) Python
4 19 (14.96%) SQL
5 15 (11.81%) C#
6 10 (7.87%) PowerShell
7 8 (6.30%) Go
7 8 (6.30%) Java
8 6 (4.72%) PHP
8 6 (4.72%) T-SQL
9 4 (3.15%) C++
10 3 (2.36%) C
10 3 (2.36%) Rust
11 2 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.57%) R
12 1 (0.79%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (15.75%) Degree
2 15 (11.81%) Security Cleared
3 12 (9.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (8.66%) SC Cleared
5 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (5.51%) A+ Certification
6 7 (5.51%) MCP
7 4 (3.15%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.15%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.57%) CISSP
8 2 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.79%) CISA
9 1 (0.79%) CRISC
9 1 (0.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.79%) MCSE
9 1 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.45%) QA
2 11 (8.66%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.15%) GDPR
4 3 (2.36%) NIST
5 2 (1.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.79%) GRC
6 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.79%) NCSC
6 1 (0.79%) SLA
6 1 (0.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (16.54%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.09%) Docker
3 3 (2.36%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.36%) KVM
3 3 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (15.75%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.94%) Terraform
3 3 (2.36%) Grafana
3 3 (2.36%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.57%) Ansible
5 1 (0.79%) Argo
5 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (33.86%) Google
2 18 (14.17%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.09%) Dynatrace
4 7 (5.51%) Zoho
5 5 (3.94%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.94%) Sage
5 5 (3.94%) Xamarin
6 4 (3.15%) VMware
7 2 (1.57%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.57%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.57%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.57%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.57%) Talend
8 1 (0.79%) Foundry
8 1 (0.79%) Genesys
8 1 (0.79%) Informatica
8 1 (0.79%) Palantir
8 1 (0.79%) Red Hat