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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 115 202
Rank change year-on-year -34 +87 -95
Permanent jobs citing GCP 137 168 144
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.17% 2.21% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.93% 6.64% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 91 112 91
10th Percentile £30,500 £25,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,250 £45,313 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £81,875 £69,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £82,250 £86,000
England median annual salary £75,338 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -8.68% +6.45% -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 3,484 2,532 4,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 29.80% 33.25% 32.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,916 1,493 3,538
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,600 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +17.65% -7.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £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 1 March 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 1 March 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 +18 71 £62,500 +35.14% 94
Berkshire +13 37 £66,250 +10.42% 65
Hampshire -34 31 £67,500 +3.85% 20
Buckinghamshire +21 22 £65,000 +4.00% 19
East Sussex +7 13 £80,000 +6.67% 14
Kent -6 12 £137,500 +139.13% 21
Oxfordshire -11 12 £28,500 +3.64% 10
Surrey -18 6 £80,000 +33.33% 23
Sussex - 2 £55,000 - 1
West Sussex -11 1 £60,000 - 16
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 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.65%) IIS
3 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.92%) nginx
4 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.73%) Camunda
Applications
1 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 109 (79.56%) Azure
2 101 (73.72%) AWS
3 27 (19.71%) SaaS
4 24 (17.52%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (8.76%) GitHub
6 10 (7.30%) Entra ID
7 9 (6.57%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.11%) Power Platform
9 7 (5.11%) Serverless
10 6 (4.38%) dbt
11 5 (3.65%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.65%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.65%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (3.65%) Google Workspace
11 5 (3.65%) Snowflake
12 4 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.52%) DNS
2 20 (14.60%) DHCP
2 20 (14.60%) Firewall
3 16 (11.68%) VPN
4 7 (5.11%) Network Security
5 6 (4.38%) LAN
5 6 (4.38%) TCP/IP
5 6 (4.38%) WAN
6 4 (2.92%) MQTT
7 2 (1.46%) Broadband
8 1 (0.73%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.73%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.68%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.76%) MySQL
3 11 (8.03%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (7.30%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (7.30%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.38%) BigQuery
5 6 (4.38%) Looker
6 5 (3.65%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (3.65%) Big Data
6 5 (3.65%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.65%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (2.92%) Power BI
8 3 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.19%) Flink
8 3 (2.19%) Redis
8 3 (2.19%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.46%) Tableau
10 1 (0.73%) GIS
10 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (9.49%) Git
2 11 (8.03%) GitLab
3 5 (3.65%) git-flow
4 3 (2.19%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.73%) JIRA
5 1 (0.73%) JUnit
5 1 (0.73%) MLflow
5 1 (0.73%) Mockito
5 1 (0.73%) SonarQube
General
1 51 (37.23%) Social Skills
2 39 (28.47%) Finance
3 12 (8.76%) Telecoms
4 11 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (8.03%) Legal
5 9 (6.57%) Law
6 7 (5.11%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.92%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.92%) Retail
8 3 (2.19%) Aviation
8 3 (2.19%) Banking
8 3 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.46%) Marketing
10 1 (0.73%) Games
10 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (21.17%) Developer
2 24 (17.52%) Senior
3 20 (14.60%) IT Engineer
3 20 (14.60%) Support Engineer
4 15 (10.95%) IT Support
4 15 (10.95%) IT Support Engineer
4 15 (10.95%) Software Engineer
5 13 (9.49%) .NET Developer
5 13 (9.49%) .NET Software Developer
5 13 (9.49%) Engineering Manager
5 13 (9.49%) Software Developer
6 11 (8.03%) Analyst
6 11 (8.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (6.57%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.84%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (5.11%) Architect
9 7 (5.11%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (5.11%) Security Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) Lead
10 6 (4.38%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (21.90%) .NET
2 13 (9.49%) Kafka
3 11 (8.03%) React
4 10 (7.30%) CSS
5 9 (6.57%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (5.84%) HTML
7 6 (4.38%) .NET Framework
7 6 (4.38%) Entity Framework
7 6 (4.38%) RESTful
8 5 (3.65%) AWS CDK
8 5 (3.65%) Material-UI
8 5 (3.65%) Web Services
8 5 (3.65%) WinForms
9 3 (2.19%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.19%) Node.js
9 3 (2.19%) REST
10 2 (1.46%) Ajax
10 2 (1.46%) Hibernate
10 2 (1.46%) OAuth
10 2 (1.46%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.87%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.49%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (8.76%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.57%) Client/Server
5 7 (5.11%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.19%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.46%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.46%) Life Science
8 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.46%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.46%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.73%) IoT
9 1 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.73%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.73%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.73%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.73%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.36%) Windows
2 29 (21.17%) Linux
3 12 (8.76%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (39.42%) Agile
2 39 (28.47%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (25.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 34 (24.82%) Software Engineering
5 32 (23.36%) CI/CD
6 28 (20.44%) Computer Science
7 27 (19.71%) AI
8 24 (17.52%) Roadmaps
9 23 (16.79%) DevOps
10 22 (16.06%) Business Continuity
11 18 (13.14%) Business Strategy
11 18 (13.14%) Containerisation
11 18 (13.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 17 (12.41%) Disaster Recovery
13 16 (11.68%) Microservices
14 15 (10.95%) Mentoring
15 14 (10.22%) Collaborative Culture
15 14 (10.22%) Data Modelling
15 14 (10.22%) Scrum
15 14 (10.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (27.01%) Python
2 26 (18.98%) TypeScript
3 23 (16.79%) JavaScript
4 21 (15.33%) SQL
5 16 (11.68%) C#
6 14 (10.22%) Rust
7 11 (8.03%) PowerShell
8 10 (7.30%) C++
9 9 (6.57%) C
10 7 (5.11%) Java
11 6 (4.38%) PHP
11 6 (4.38%) T-SQL
12 3 (2.19%) Go
12 3 (2.19%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.46%) Bash
13 2 (1.46%) R
13 2 (1.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (27.74%) Degree
2 22 (16.06%) Security Cleared
3 20 (14.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (13.14%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (4.38%) A+ Certification
6 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 4 (2.92%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.92%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.92%) CCNA
7 4 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.19%) CISSP
8 3 (2.19%) DBS Check
8 3 (2.19%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.46%) MCSE
9 2 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.73%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.06%) QA
2 9 (6.57%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.65%) GDPR
3 5 (3.65%) NIST
4 4 (2.92%) SOC 2
5 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.19%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.73%) GRC
7 1 (0.73%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.73%) NCSC
7 1 (0.73%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (18.25%) Active Directory
2 21 (15.33%) Docker
3 13 (9.49%) Hyper-V
3 13 (9.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (6.57%) KVM
5 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (15.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.49%) Terraform
3 6 (4.38%) Ansible
3 6 (4.38%) Grafana
3 6 (4.38%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.73%) Argo
4 1 (0.73%) CASB
4 1 (0.73%) Puppet
4 1 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (34.31%) Google
2 24 (17.52%) Microsoft
3 15 (10.95%) VMware
4 9 (6.57%) Dynatrace
5 6 (4.38%) Oracle
6 5 (3.65%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.65%) Sage
6 5 (3.65%) Xamarin
6 5 (3.65%) Zoho
7 4 (2.92%) Citrix
8 3 (2.19%) Confluent
9 2 (1.46%) Foundry
9 2 (1.46%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.73%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.73%) Genesys
10 1 (0.73%) Informatica
10 1 (0.73%) Palantir
10 1 (0.73%) Pega
10 1 (0.73%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.73%) Salesforce