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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 118 156
Rank change year-on-year -47 +38 -27
Permanent jobs citing GCP 171 218 218
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.03% 2.51% 1.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.43% 9.56% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 119 72 120
10th Percentile £32,450 £39,225 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +9.70% -21.00%
75th Percentile £78,125 £75,000 £78,000
90th Percentile £100,500 £89,625 £96,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

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 3,856 2,281 3,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.25% 26.25% 28.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,720 1,413 2,762
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,800 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 4 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 4 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 -55 78 £65,000 +23.81% 59
Hampshire -26 49 £70,000 - 45
Berkshire -56 35 £72,500 -1.69% 30
Buckinghamshire +4 24 £59,500 -0.83% 12
Surrey -5 22 £55,000 -24.14% 11
Oxfordshire -4 19 £95,000 +123.53% 18
Kent -18 9 £34,500 -50.71% 7
East Sussex -5 8 £57,500 - 3
West Sussex - 2 £80,000 - 12
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 7 (4.09%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 142 (83.04%) AWS
2 124 (72.51%) Azure
3 17 (9.94%) 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 5 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (2.92%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.92%) Figma
8 5 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (2.34%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 4 (2.34%) Prefect
10 3 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.75%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.75%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (1.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.28%) Firewall
2 16 (9.36%) VPN
3 14 (8.19%) DNS
3 14 (8.19%) MQTT
4 13 (7.60%) WAN
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%) DHCP
11 1 (0.58%) BGP
11 1 (0.58%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.58%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (18.71%) MySQL
2 29 (16.96%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (12.28%) MongoDB
4 18 (10.53%) Relational Database
5 17 (9.94%) NoSQL
6 9 (5.26%) Pinecone
7 8 (4.68%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (4.09%) Redis
8 7 (4.09%) SQL Server
9 6 (3.51%) BigQuery
9 6 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.51%) Looker
10 4 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.34%) Big Data
10 4 (2.34%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.75%) Flink
12 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.58%) Power BI
12 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (26.90%) 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 59 (34.50%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.96%) Finance
3 22 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (7.60%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.51%) Games
7 5 (2.92%) Law
8 4 (2.34%) Aviation
8 4 (2.34%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.75%) Legal
10 2 (1.17%) Banking
10 2 (1.17%) Retail
11 1 (0.58%) Advertising
11 1 (0.58%) Billing
11 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Marketing
11 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 43 (25.15%) Senior
2 40 (23.39%) Software Engineer
3 28 (16.37%) Developer
4 18 (10.53%) Backend Developer
5 15 (8.77%) Analyst
5 15 (8.77%) Senior Developer
6 14 (8.19%) Senior Backend Developer
7 13 (7.60%) Data Engineer
8 12 (7.02%) Architect
9 10 (5.85%) Lead
9 10 (5.85%) Python Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (4.09%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.09%) GCP Engineer
12 7 (4.09%) GCP Software Engineer
12 7 (4.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (4.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (3.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.70%) REST
2 19 (11.11%) Kafka
2 19 (11.11%) React
3 10 (5.85%) Spring
3 10 (5.85%) Spring Boot
4 9 (5.26%) gRPC
5 8 (4.68%) Node.js
5 8 (4.68%) RESTful
5 8 (4.68%) Web Services
6 7 (4.09%) .NET
6 7 (4.09%) CSS
6 7 (4.09%) HTML
6 7 (4.09%) pgvector
7 6 (3.51%) Hibernate
7 6 (3.51%) Protocol Buffers
8 5 (2.92%) Django
8 5 (2.92%) JPA
8 5 (2.92%) LAMP
8 5 (2.92%) Twisted
8 5 (2.92%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.04%) Product Ownership
2 18 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (9.36%) Cloud Native
4 12 (7.02%) AI Agents
5 11 (6.43%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (5.85%) Client/Server
6 10 (5.85%) Onboarding
7 9 (5.26%) Management Information System
8 7 (4.09%) Video Conferencing
9 6 (3.51%) Robotics
10 5 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (2.92%) Replication
11 4 (2.34%) Algorithms
11 4 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (2.34%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.75%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 38 (22.22%) 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 56 (32.75%) CI/CD
3 56 (32.75%) Software Engineering
4 50 (29.24%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (23.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 38 (22.22%) Containerisation
7 34 (19.88%) Test Automation
8 33 (19.30%) Code Quality
9 32 (18.71%) Mentoring
10 30 (17.54%) Computer Science
10 30 (17.54%) DevOps
11 28 (16.37%) Machine Learning
12 27 (15.79%) Microservices
13 26 (15.20%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (15.20%) Observability
14 25 (14.62%) Cybersecurity
14 25 (14.62%) LLM
15 22 (12.87%) Analytics
16 20 (11.70%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 73 (42.69%) Python
2 30 (17.54%) JavaScript
3 26 (15.20%) Java
3 26 (15.20%) SQL
4 25 (14.62%) Rust
5 24 (14.04%) TypeScript
6 18 (10.53%) PHP
7 17 (9.94%) C++
8 14 (8.19%) C
9 12 (7.02%) C#
10 5 (2.92%) Scala
11 4 (2.34%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.75%) Bash
12 3 (1.75%) Go
12 3 (1.75%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.17%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.58%) ABAP
14 1 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 58 (33.92%) Degree
2 37 (21.64%) Security Cleared
3 32 (18.71%) SC Cleared
4 24 (14.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.26%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.09%) CCNA
6 7 (4.09%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.51%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.92%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.17%) Azure Certification
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%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.36%) QA
2 8 (4.68%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.51%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.34%) NIST
5 3 (1.75%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.17%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.58%) GDPR
7 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (38.01%) Docker
2 17 (9.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (9.36%) Hyper-V
4 13 (7.60%) Active Directory
5 11 (6.43%) KVM
6 6 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (30.99%) Kubernetes
2 35 (20.47%) Terraform
3 15 (8.77%) Ansible
4 12 (7.02%) Grafana
5 11 (6.43%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.09%) Puppet
7 6 (3.51%) Podman
8 3 (1.75%) Argo
8 3 (1.75%) Istio
8 3 (1.75%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.58%) CASB
9 1 (0.58%) Kibana
Vendors
1 53 (30.99%) Google
2 30 (17.54%) Microsoft
3 24 (14.04%) VMware
4 6 (3.51%) Citrix
4 6 (3.51%) Oracle
5 4 (2.34%) NVIDIA
5 4 (2.34%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.34%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.34%) Tenable
6 3 (1.75%) Confluent
6 3 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.58%) Carbon Black
7 1 (0.58%) Cisco
7 1 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.58%) Foundry
7 1 (0.58%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.58%) Infoblox
7 1 (0.58%) SAP
7 1 (0.58%) Splunk
7 1 (0.58%) Typelevel