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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 117 154
Rank change year-on-year -52 +37 -25
Permanent jobs citing GCP 171 214 216
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.01% 2.44% 1.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.42% 9.40% 5.55%
Number of salaries quoted 120 70 119
10th Percentile £32,250 £38,975 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £77,813 £75,000 £81,500
90th Percentile £100,250 £90,050 £96,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +5.61%

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 3,871 2,277 3,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 22.76% 25.99% 28.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,755 1,418 2,705
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,423 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.85% -7.41% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £63,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.83% - -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 11 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 11 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 -57 76 £65,000 +15.56% 44
Hampshire -22 50 £66,250 -5.36% 27
Berkshire -58 32 £72,500 -3.33% 24
Buckinghamshire +1 24 £59,500 -0.83% 9
Surrey -3 23 £55,000 -24.14% 8
Oxfordshire -16 20 £95,000 +123.53% 13
Kent -20 9 £34,500 -50.71% 4
East Sussex -8 7 £55,000 - 1
West Sussex - 3 £80,000 - 9
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 6 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 144 (84.21%) AWS
2 129 (75.44%) Azure
3 19 (11.11%) GitHub
4 15 (8.77%) Serverless
5 12 (7.02%) Anthropic Claude
6 10 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.09%) Cloud Run
7 7 (4.09%) Firebase
8 6 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.92%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.92%) Figma
9 5 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (2.34%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 4 (2.34%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (2.34%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.34%) Prefect
11 3 (1.75%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.75%) ChatGPT
11 3 (1.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.28%) Firewall
2 17 (9.94%) VPN
3 14 (8.19%) DNS
3 14 (8.19%) WAN
4 13 (7.60%) MQTT
5 12 (7.02%) LAN
6 9 (5.26%) Network Security
7 6 (3.51%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.92%) HTTP
9 3 (1.75%) Broadband
10 2 (1.17%) BGP
10 2 (1.17%) DHCP
11 1 (0.58%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.58%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (18.71%) MySQL
2 28 (16.37%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (11.70%) MongoDB
4 18 (10.53%) Relational Database
5 16 (9.36%) NoSQL
6 9 (5.26%) Pinecone
7 8 (4.68%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (4.09%) SQL Server
9 6 (3.51%) BigQuery
9 6 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (3.51%) Redis
10 5 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (2.92%) Looker
11 4 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (2.34%) RDBMS
12 2 (1.17%) Big Data
12 2 (1.17%) Flink
13 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.58%) Data Mining
13 1 (0.58%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 48 (28.07%) Git
2 13 (7.60%) GitLab
3 7 (4.09%) JIRA
4 6 (3.51%) JUnit
5 4 (2.34%) PHPUnit
5 4 (2.34%) Selenium
5 4 (2.34%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.75%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.75%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.75%) Eclipse RCP
6 3 (1.75%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.75%) Mockito
7 2 (1.17%) NUnit
8 1 (0.58%) Storybook
General
1 62 (36.26%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.96%) Finance
3 23 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (8.19%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.09%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.51%) Games
8 5 (2.92%) Law
9 4 (2.34%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.75%) Aviation
11 2 (1.17%) Legal
12 1 (0.58%) Advertising
12 1 (0.58%) Banking
12 1 (0.58%) Billing
12 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Marketing
12 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (26.32%) Senior
2 39 (22.81%) Software Engineer
3 28 (16.37%) Developer
4 18 (10.53%) Backend Developer
5 15 (8.77%) Senior Developer
6 14 (8.19%) Architect
6 14 (8.19%) Senior Backend Developer
7 12 (7.02%) Analyst
7 12 (7.02%) Data Engineer
8 10 (5.85%) Lead
9 9 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (5.26%) Python Engineer
10 8 (4.68%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 8 (4.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.09%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.09%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (4.09%) GCP Software Engineer
11 7 (4.09%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (3.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.70%) REST
2 19 (11.11%) React
3 17 (9.94%) Kafka
4 11 (6.43%) Spring
5 10 (5.85%) Spring Boot
6 9 (5.26%) gRPC
7 8 (4.68%) .NET
7 8 (4.68%) Node.js
7 8 (4.68%) RESTful
7 8 (4.68%) Web Services
8 7 (4.09%) CSS
8 7 (4.09%) Hibernate
8 7 (4.09%) HTML
8 7 (4.09%) pgvector
9 6 (3.51%) Protocol Buffers
10 5 (2.92%) Django
10 5 (2.92%) JPA
10 5 (2.92%) LAMP
10 5 (2.92%) Twisted
10 5 (2.92%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.45%) Product Ownership
2 18 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (9.94%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (8.77%) Cloud Native
5 12 (7.02%) AI Agents
6 10 (5.85%) Onboarding
6 10 (5.85%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (5.26%) Client/Server
8 8 (4.68%) Management Information System
9 7 (4.09%) Video Conferencing
10 6 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (3.51%) Robotics
11 5 (2.92%) Replication
12 4 (2.34%) Algorithms
12 4 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (2.34%) Mobile App
12 4 (2.34%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 37 (21.64%) Linux
2 22 (12.87%) Windows
3 11 (6.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.58%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (35.67%) AI
2 60 (35.09%) Agile
3 58 (33.92%) CI/CD
4 57 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 50 (29.24%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (23.39%) Containerisation
7 37 (21.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (18.71%) Code Quality
8 32 (18.71%) DevOps
8 32 (18.71%) Mentoring
8 32 (18.71%) Test Automation
9 30 (17.54%) Computer Science
10 29 (16.96%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (16.96%) Machine Learning
11 27 (15.79%) Microservices
11 27 (15.79%) Observability
12 24 (14.04%) LLM
13 23 (13.45%) Cybersecurity
14 21 (12.28%) Analytics
15 20 (11.70%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 71 (41.52%) Python
2 30 (17.54%) JavaScript
3 28 (16.37%) Java
4 26 (15.20%) SQL
5 23 (13.45%) Rust
5 23 (13.45%) TypeScript
6 18 (10.53%) PHP
7 16 (9.36%) C++
8 13 (7.60%) C
8 13 (7.60%) C#
9 5 (2.92%) Scala
10 4 (2.34%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.75%) Bash
11 3 (1.75%) Go
11 3 (1.75%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.17%) ABAP
13 1 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 57 (33.33%) Degree
2 38 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 33 (19.30%) SC Cleared
4 23 (13.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.26%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.09%) CCNA
6 7 (4.09%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (4.09%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.34%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.75%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.17%) MCSE
10 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.58%) CCNP
11 1 (0.58%) CISM
11 1 (0.58%) CISSP
11 1 (0.58%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.36%) QA
2 7 (4.09%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.92%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.75%) NIST
5 2 (1.17%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.58%) GDPR
6 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (37.43%) Docker
2 16 (9.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (8.77%) Hyper-V
4 13 (7.60%) Active Directory
5 10 (5.85%) KVM
6 7 (4.09%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.58%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 55 (32.16%) Kubernetes
2 36 (21.05%) Terraform
3 15 (8.77%) Ansible
4 11 (6.43%) Grafana
5 10 (5.85%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.09%) Puppet
7 6 (3.51%) Podman
8 4 (2.34%) Argo
9 3 (1.75%) Istio
9 3 (1.75%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.58%) CASB
10 1 (0.58%) Kibana
10 1 (0.58%) Packer
Vendors
1 54 (31.58%) Google
2 31 (18.13%) Microsoft
3 23 (13.45%) VMware
4 6 (3.51%) Citrix
5 5 (2.92%) Oracle
6 4 (2.34%) NVIDIA
6 4 (2.34%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.34%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.34%) Tenable
7 3 (1.75%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.17%) Confluent
8 2 (1.17%) SAP
9 1 (0.58%) Carbon Black
9 1 (0.58%) Cisco
9 1 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.58%) Foundry
9 1 (0.58%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.58%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.58%) Splunk
9 1 (0.58%) Typelevel