GCP Jobs in the South East

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring GCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GCP over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 210 103
Rank change year-on-year +65 -107 +11
Permanent jobs citing GCP 145 203 467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.75% 1.22% 3.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.69% 3.92% 8.31%
Number of salaries quoted 92 98 204
10th Percentile £29,650 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,938 £45,625 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,563 £90,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £93,250 £97,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +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 2,166 5,178 5,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 26.12% 31.12% 37.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,413 4,057 3,891
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,700 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +4.00%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the South East

GCP
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP in the South East.

Salary trend for GCP in the South East

GCP
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 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 26 April 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 +62 70 £60,000 -7.69% 71
Hampshire +68 41 £65,000 +32.65% 29
Berkshire +67 40 £72,500 -9.38% 42
Oxfordshire +29 24 £43,750 -20.45% 21
Middlesex - 14 £90,000 - 2
Surrey +53 9 £66,250 +6.00% 15
Buckinghamshire +32 6 £56,250 +60.71% 15
Kent +19 5 £70,000 -1.41% 8
East Sussex +17 5 £75,000 +42.86% 12
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.76%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.38%) Apache
4 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.69%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.69%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 9 (6.21%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 113 (77.93%) AWS
1 113 (77.93%) Azure
2 19 (13.10%) Snowflake
3 15 (10.34%) SaaS
4 14 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (7.59%) PaaS
6 9 (6.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (6.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (5.52%) GitHub
8 6 (4.14%) Serverless
9 5 (3.45%) dbt
10 4 (2.76%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.76%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.76%) Nutanix
10 4 (2.76%) OpenShift
10 4 (2.76%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (2.07%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.97%) DHCP
1 13 (8.97%) DNS
2 10 (6.90%) Firewall
3 9 (6.21%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.14%) Network Security
5 4 (2.76%) Remote Desktop
5 4 (2.76%) SMTP
6 3 (2.07%) LAN
6 3 (2.07%) VPN
6 3 (2.07%) WAN
7 1 (0.69%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.86%) Data Warehouse
1 23 (15.86%) Metadata
2 22 (15.17%) Data Lake
3 17 (11.72%) MySQL
4 15 (10.34%) MongoDB
5 9 (6.21%) Data Mining
6 7 (4.83%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (3.45%) Looker
9 4 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.76%) Big Data
9 4 (2.76%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.76%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.76%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.07%) Redis
11 2 (1.38%) Apache Hive
11 2 (1.38%) Bigtable
11 2 (1.38%) Couchbase
11 2 (1.38%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.38%) HBase
Development Applications
1 25 (17.24%) Git
2 19 (13.10%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.83%) GitLab
4 3 (2.07%) JUnit
4 3 (2.07%) Mockito
5 2 (1.38%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.69%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.69%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.69%) ESLint
6 1 (0.69%) Gatling
6 1 (0.69%) JIRA
6 1 (0.69%) JMeter
General
1 49 (33.79%) Social Skills
2 45 (31.03%) Law
3 27 (18.62%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (14.48%) Retail
5 14 (9.66%) Telecoms
6 10 (6.90%) Finance
6 10 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.07%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.69%) Banking
9 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 72 (49.66%) Senior
2 36 (24.83%) Lead
3 22 (15.17%) Developer
4 19 (13.10%) Support Engineer
5 13 (8.97%) IT Engineer
6 12 (8.28%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (8.28%) IT Support
6 12 (8.28%) IT Support Engineer
7 11 (7.59%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (6.90%) Java Developer
9 9 (6.21%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 9 (6.21%) Senior Developer
10 8 (5.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) Node.js Developer
11 7 (4.83%) Software Engineer
12 6 (4.14%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (3.45%) Consultant
13 5 (3.45%) Data Consultant
13 5 (3.45%) Security Engineer
13 5 (3.45%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.17%) Node.js
2 15 (10.34%) React
3 14 (9.66%) CSS
3 14 (9.66%) HTML
4 12 (8.28%) LAMP
5 11 (7.59%) Kafka
5 11 (7.59%) RabbitMQ
6 10 (6.90%) Laravel
6 10 (6.90%) Web Services
7 9 (6.21%) .NET
8 8 (5.52%) Spring Boot
9 7 (4.83%) Next.js
10 6 (4.14%) .NET Core
10 6 (4.14%) AngularJS
10 6 (4.14%) Tailwind CSS
11 5 (3.45%) RESTful
11 5 (3.45%) Vue
12 4 (2.76%) REST
12 4 (2.76%) Spring
13 3 (2.07%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.66%) Greenfield Project
1 14 (9.66%) Management Information System
2 13 (8.97%) Public Cloud
3 9 (6.21%) Algorithms
4 8 (5.52%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.76%) Clustering
5 4 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.76%) PKI
6 3 (2.07%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.07%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.38%) Hackathon
7 2 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.38%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.69%) IoT
8 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (22.07%) Windows
2 31 (21.38%) Linux
3 10 (6.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.38%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (35.17%) Analytics
2 49 (33.79%) DevOps
3 41 (28.28%) CI/CD
3 41 (28.28%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (22.07%) Agile
5 30 (20.69%) Data Engineering
5 30 (20.69%) Use Case
6 28 (19.31%) Data Modelling
7 25 (17.24%) Data Governance
7 25 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (17.24%) Software Engineering
8 24 (16.55%) Incident Management
9 23 (15.86%) Data Architecture
9 23 (15.86%) Metadata Management
10 22 (15.17%) Computer Science
10 22 (15.17%) High Availability
11 21 (14.48%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (14.48%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (13.79%) Data Transformation
12 20 (13.79%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 49 (33.79%) Python
2 34 (23.45%) SQL
3 19 (13.10%) JavaScript
4 18 (12.41%) Java
5 16 (11.03%) PowerShell
6 12 (8.28%) PHP
7 8 (5.52%) Go
8 7 (4.83%) Bash
9 3 (2.07%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.07%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.38%) C#
10 2 (1.38%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.38%) Ruby
10 2 (1.38%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.69%) R
Qualifications
1 47 (32.41%) Degree
2 11 (7.59%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (6.21%) A+ Certification
3 9 (6.21%) MCP
3 9 (6.21%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.14%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.14%) CISSP
4 6 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.45%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.76%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.07%) CEH
7 3 (2.07%) CISM
7 3 (2.07%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.07%) OSCP
8 2 (1.38%) EnCE
8 2 (1.38%) GCFA
8 2 (1.38%) GCFE
8 2 (1.38%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.79%) Accessibility
1 20 (13.79%) Data Quality
1 20 (13.79%) QA
2 5 (3.45%) GDPR
3 3 (2.07%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.07%) NIST
4 2 (1.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 35 (24.14%) Docker
2 21 (14.48%) Active Directory
3 17 (11.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (11.03%) Hyper-V
5 8 (5.52%) vSphere
6 4 (2.76%) BitLocker
6 4 (2.76%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (2.76%) Terminal Services
6 4 (2.76%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.38%) HDFS
8 2 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.69%) XenApp
9 1 (0.69%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (36.55%) Kubernetes
2 35 (24.14%) Terraform
3 30 (20.69%) Ansible
4 13 (8.97%) Puppet
5 7 (4.83%) Grafana
5 7 (4.83%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.14%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.76%) Nagios
7 4 (2.76%) SCCM
7 4 (2.76%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.76%) vMotion
8 3 (2.07%) Argo
8 3 (2.07%) QRadar
9 2 (1.38%) EnCase
9 2 (1.38%) FTK
9 2 (1.38%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (1.38%) RSA Security Analytics
10 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 44 (30.34%) Google
2 35 (24.14%) Microsoft
3 19 (13.10%) VMware
4 11 (7.59%) Databricks
5 9 (6.21%) Citrix
6 6 (4.14%) HP
7 5 (3.45%) Cisco
7 5 (3.45%) Splunk
7 5 (3.45%) Symantec
8 4 (2.76%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.07%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.38%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.38%) Dataiku
10 2 (1.38%) FireEye
10 2 (1.38%) MapR
10 2 (1.38%) NetWitness
11 1 (0.69%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.69%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.69%) Dell
11 1 (0.69%) Informatica