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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 146 146
Rank change year-on-year +34 0 -23
Permanent jobs citing GCP 221 220 187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.46% 1.71% 2.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.31% 6.21% 5.75%
Number of salaries quoted 91 127 126
10th Percentile £43,000 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -20.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £96,750 £83,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £96,250 £98,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +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 2,373 3,542 3,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 26.46% 27.46% 36.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,456 2,119 2,693
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.04%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.08% +3.17%

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

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 September 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 17 September 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 +53 156 £52,500 -8.70% 71
Berkshire +76 127 £76,250 -6.15% 48
Hampshire +20 31 £70,000 +16.67% 24
Buckinghamshire -9 18 £60,000 -7.69% 13
Kent 0 15 £125,000 +150.00% 3
East Sussex +12 14 £112,500 +114.29% 3
Oxfordshire -1 11 £38,125 -19.74% 11
Surrey +6 4 £72,500 -17.14% 10
Middlesex -3 1 - - 1
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 (4.07%) Confluence
2 7 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 190 (85.97%) AWS
2 189 (85.52%) Azure
3 34 (15.38%) SaaS
4 26 (11.76%) Snowflake
5 15 (6.79%) Azure AI
5 15 (6.79%) Vertex AI
6 13 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
7 11 (4.98%) PaaS
8 10 (4.52%) IaaS
8 10 (4.52%) OCI
9 8 (3.62%) GitHub
10 7 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.71%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.26%) Serverless
13 4 (1.81%) Power Platform
14 3 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
15 2 (0.90%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.14%) Firewall
2 11 (4.98%) DNS
2 11 (4.98%) VPN
3 10 (4.52%) DHCP
4 8 (3.62%) Network Security
5 6 (2.71%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (2.71%) SMTP
6 4 (1.81%) LAN
6 4 (1.81%) WAN
7 3 (1.36%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.36%) Wireless
8 1 (0.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (23.98%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (14.03%) Data Lake
3 25 (11.31%) BigQuery
4 24 (10.86%) Metadata
5 12 (5.43%) SQL Server
6 11 (4.98%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.62%) Big Data
7 8 (3.62%) MongoDB
8 7 (3.17%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.81%) Power BI
12 3 (1.36%) Redis
12 3 (1.36%) Tableau
13 2 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.90%) Looker
14 1 (0.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 20 (9.05%) Git
2 15 (6.79%) GitLab
3 9 (4.07%) JIRA
4 8 (3.62%) Bitbucket
4 8 (3.62%) Cucumber
4 8 (3.62%) Maven
4 8 (3.62%) Selenium
4 8 (3.62%) SonarQube
4 8 (3.62%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (3.17%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.36%) Burp Suite
6 3 (1.36%) JUnit
6 3 (1.36%) Metasploit
6 3 (1.36%) Mockito
7 1 (0.45%) MLflow
General
1 117 (52.94%) Law
2 73 (33.03%) Social Skills
3 56 (25.34%) Marketing
4 48 (21.72%) Finance
5 31 (14.03%) Legal
6 19 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (8.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.07%) Banking
8 7 (3.17%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.81%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.36%) Advertising
10 3 (1.36%) Retail
11 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (38.91%) Senior
2 53 (23.98%) Architect
3 49 (22.17%) Developer
4 33 (14.93%) Lead
5 30 (13.57%) Cloud Architect
6 21 (9.50%) Data Architect
6 21 (9.50%) Platform Architect
6 21 (9.50%) Software Developer
7 20 (9.05%) .NET Developer
7 20 (9.05%) .NET Software Developer
7 20 (9.05%) Engineering Manager
7 20 (9.05%) GCP Architect
8 19 (8.60%) Senior Architect
8 19 (8.60%) Senior Data Architect
8 19 (8.60%) Senior Developer
9 17 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (6.79%) Product Delivery Manager
10 15 (6.79%) Product Manager
10 15 (6.79%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (6.33%) Senior Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.12%) React
2 24 (10.86%) .NET
2 24 (10.86%) CSS
2 24 (10.86%) HTML
3 23 (10.41%) Kafka
3 23 (10.41%) Node.js
4 17 (7.69%) RESTful
5 15 (6.79%) Hugging Face
5 15 (6.79%) Spring Boot
6 13 (5.88%) LangChain
6 13 (5.88%) PyTorch
6 13 (5.88%) TensorFlow
7 11 (4.98%) Hibernate
7 11 (4.98%) Spring
8 8 (3.62%) JPA
8 8 (3.62%) Redux
9 7 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.26%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.26%) Vue
11 4 (1.81%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 33 (14.93%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.79%) AI Agents
3 11 (4.98%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.98%) Public Cloud
4 9 (4.07%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.17%) Private Cloud
6 7 (3.17%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.71%) Clustering
7 6 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.71%) PKI
8 3 (1.36%) Hackathon
9 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.45%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.43%) Linux
1 12 (5.43%) Windows
2 8 (3.62%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.36%) Kali Linux
4 2 (0.90%) Unix
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (40.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 88 (39.82%) Agile
2 88 (39.82%) Roadmaps
3 77 (34.84%) Artificial Intelligence
4 74 (33.48%) Data Science
5 64 (28.96%) Analytics
6 57 (25.79%) Data Modelling
6 57 (25.79%) Machine Learning
7 55 (24.89%) ETL
8 52 (23.53%) Data Governance
9 51 (23.08%) CI/CD
9 51 (23.08%) Data Architecture
9 51 (23.08%) Data Engineering
9 51 (23.08%) Mentoring
10 49 (22.17%) DevOps
11 48 (21.72%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (21.27%) Data Pipeline
12 47 (21.27%) Generative AI
13 45 (20.36%) Cloud Security
14 44 (19.91%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 69 (31.22%) Python
2 57 (25.79%) SQL
3 49 (22.17%) JavaScript
4 36 (16.29%) Java
5 25 (11.31%) Go
6 24 (10.86%) TypeScript
7 23 (10.41%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.98%) Bash
9 7 (3.17%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.90%) PHP
11 1 (0.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 61 (27.60%) Degree
2 25 (11.31%) Security Cleared
3 22 (9.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (9.95%) Master's Degree
4 16 (7.24%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.98%) SC Cleared
6 10 (4.52%) AWS Certification
6 10 (4.52%) OSCP
7 9 (4.07%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.62%) CISSP
9 7 (3.17%) CEH
9 7 (3.17%) CISM
9 7 (3.17%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.81%) MCSE
11 3 (1.36%) A+ Certification
11 3 (1.36%) MCP
11 3 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.45%) CISA
12 1 (0.45%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (20.81%) QA
2 43 (19.46%) Data Quality
3 24 (10.86%) Accessibility
4 19 (8.60%) GDPR
5 11 (4.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (4.98%) NIST
6 8 (3.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 8 (3.62%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.45%) GRC
8 1 (0.45%) NCSC
8 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (20.81%) Docker
2 11 (4.98%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.07%) Hyper-V
3 9 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.17%) vSphere
5 6 (2.71%) BitLocker
5 6 (2.71%) Microsoft App-V
5 6 (2.71%) Terminal Services
5 6 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.71%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (33.48%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.50%) Grafana
2 21 (9.50%) Prometheus
2 21 (9.50%) Terraform
3 18 (8.14%) Ansible
4 10 (4.52%) Puppet
5 7 (3.17%) QRadar
6 6 (2.71%) Nagios
6 6 (2.71%) vCenter Server
6 6 (2.71%) vMotion
7 3 (1.36%) Nmap
8 2 (0.90%) SCCM
9 1 (0.45%) Argo
9 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 61 (27.60%) Google
2 19 (8.60%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.79%) Foundry
3 15 (6.79%) OpenAI
4 13 (5.88%) VMware
5 8 (3.62%) Cisco
5 8 (3.62%) Citrix
5 8 (3.62%) Solace
6 7 (3.17%) Palo Alto
6 7 (3.17%) Splunk
7 6 (2.71%) HP
7 6 (2.71%) Symantec
8 2 (0.90%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.90%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.90%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.90%) Talend
8 2 (0.90%) Zoho
9 1 (0.45%) Databricks
9 1 (0.45%) Red Hat