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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 126 157
Rank change year-on-year -40 +31 -26
Permanent jobs citing GCP 169 206 209
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.99% 2.33% 1.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.36% 8.93% 5.43%
Number of salaries quoted 120 65 120
10th Percentile £32,250 £46,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £79,688 £76,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £104,000 £90,300 £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 3,879 2,307 3,849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 22.67% 26.13% 27.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,776 1,415 2,681
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -8.26% -5.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £64,025 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.71% - -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 15 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 15 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 74 £67,500 +12.50% 57
Hampshire -19 51 £66,250 -5.36% 32
Berkshire -55 29 £72,500 -3.33% 29
Buckinghamshire +2 24 £59,500 -0.83% 9
Surrey -3 22 £62,500 -13.79% 8
Oxfordshire -11 21 £95,000 +105.41% 21
Kent -19 9 £34,500 -50.71% 3
East Sussex -14 6 £55,000 -26.67% 4
West Sussex - 4 £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 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Lightworks
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.59%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 143 (84.62%) AWS
2 129 (76.33%) Azure
3 21 (12.43%) GitHub
4 15 (8.88%) Serverless
5 12 (7.10%) Anthropic Claude
6 10 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.14%) Cloud Run
7 7 (4.14%) Firebase
7 7 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (2.96%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.96%) Figma
8 5 (2.96%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (2.37%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (2.37%) ChatGPT
9 4 (2.37%) Google Gemini
9 4 (2.37%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.78%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (1.78%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.83%) Firewall
2 17 (10.06%) VPN
3 13 (7.69%) DNS
3 13 (7.69%) MQTT
3 13 (7.69%) WAN
4 11 (6.51%) LAN
5 9 (5.33%) Network Security
6 6 (3.55%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.96%) HTTP
8 3 (1.78%) Broadband
9 2 (1.18%) BGP
9 2 (1.18%) DHCP
10 1 (0.59%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.59%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (18.93%) MySQL
2 27 (15.98%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (10.65%) MongoDB
3 18 (10.65%) Relational Database
4 14 (8.28%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.33%) Pinecone
6 7 (4.14%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (4.14%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.55%) BigQuery
7 6 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.96%) Redis
9 4 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.37%) Looker
9 4 (2.37%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.59%) Big Data
10 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.59%) Flink
10 1 (0.59%) Power BI
10 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (28.40%) Git
2 13 (7.69%) GitLab
3 7 (4.14%) JIRA
4 6 (3.55%) JUnit
5 4 (2.37%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.37%) PHPUnit
5 4 (2.37%) Selenium
5 4 (2.37%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.78%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.78%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.78%) Eclipse RCP
6 3 (1.78%) Mockito
7 2 (1.18%) NUnit
8 1 (0.59%) Storybook
General
1 64 (37.87%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.75%) Finance
3 24 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (8.28%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.55%) Games
7 5 (2.96%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.37%) Law
8 4 (2.37%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.78%) Aviation
10 2 (1.18%) Legal
11 1 (0.59%) Advertising
11 1 (0.59%) Billing
11 1 (0.59%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.59%) Marketing
11 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 45 (26.63%) Senior
2 38 (22.49%) Software Engineer
3 28 (16.57%) Developer
4 18 (10.65%) Backend Developer
5 15 (8.88%) Architect
5 15 (8.88%) Senior Developer
6 14 (8.28%) Senior Backend Developer
7 11 (6.51%) Lead
8 10 (5.92%) Analyst
8 10 (5.92%) Data Engineer
9 9 (5.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (4.73%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 8 (4.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.73%) Python Engineer
10 8 (4.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.14%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (4.14%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 7 (4.14%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (4.14%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.83%) React
1 20 (11.83%) REST
2 16 (9.47%) Kafka
3 12 (7.10%) Spring
4 11 (6.51%) Spring Boot
5 9 (5.33%) gRPC
6 8 (4.73%) .NET
6 8 (4.73%) CSS
6 8 (4.73%) HTML
6 8 (4.73%) Node.js
6 8 (4.73%) RESTful
6 8 (4.73%) Web Services
7 7 (4.14%) Hibernate
7 7 (4.14%) pgvector
8 6 (3.55%) Protocol Buffers
9 5 (2.96%) Django
9 5 (2.96%) JPA
9 5 (2.96%) LAMP
9 5 (2.96%) Twisted
9 5 (2.96%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.61%) Product Ownership
2 18 (10.65%) Greenfield Project
3 15 (8.88%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (8.28%) Cloud Native
5 12 (7.10%) AI Agents
6 10 (5.92%) Onboarding
7 9 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (4.73%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (4.14%) Client/Server
9 7 (4.14%) Management Information System
9 7 (4.14%) Video Conferencing
10 6 (3.55%) Robotics
11 5 (2.96%) Public Cloud
11 5 (2.96%) Replication
12 4 (2.37%) Algorithms
12 4 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (2.37%) Mobile App
13 3 (1.78%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (1.78%) Life Science
13 3 (1.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 36 (21.30%) Linux
2 21 (12.43%) Windows
3 10 (5.92%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.59%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (36.69%) AI
2 61 (36.09%) CI/CD
3 59 (34.91%) Agile
4 57 (33.73%) Software Engineering
5 50 (29.59%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (24.85%) Containerisation
7 35 (20.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (20.12%) DevOps
9 33 (19.53%) Mentoring
10 31 (18.34%) Infrastructure as Code
10 31 (18.34%) Machine Learning
11 30 (17.75%) Code Quality
11 30 (17.75%) Test Automation
12 29 (17.16%) Computer Science
13 28 (16.57%) Observability
14 27 (15.98%) Microservices
15 23 (13.61%) LLM
16 22 (13.02%) Cybersecurity
17 20 (11.83%) Full-Stack Development
18 19 (11.24%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 69 (40.83%) Python
2 31 (18.34%) JavaScript
3 28 (16.57%) Java
4 26 (15.38%) SQL
5 23 (13.61%) TypeScript
6 21 (12.43%) Rust
7 18 (10.65%) PHP
8 14 (8.28%) C++
9 13 (7.69%) C#
10 11 (6.51%) C
11 4 (2.37%) Scala
11 4 (2.37%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.78%) Bash
12 3 (1.78%) Go
12 3 (1.78%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.18%) ABAP
14 1 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 55 (32.54%) Degree
2 40 (23.67%) Security Cleared
3 35 (20.71%) SC Cleared
4 20 (11.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.73%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.73%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.14%) CCNA
6 7 (4.14%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.37%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.78%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.59%) CISM
11 1 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.59%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.59%) GCIA
11 1 (0.59%) GCIH
11 1 (0.59%) GIAC
11 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.47%) QA
2 5 (2.96%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.37%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.78%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.18%) NIST
6 1 (0.59%) GDPR
6 1 (0.59%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.59%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (37.87%) Docker
2 14 (8.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 13 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.73%) KVM
5 7 (4.14%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.18%) Lustre
7 1 (0.59%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (33.14%) Kubernetes
2 37 (21.89%) Terraform
3 16 (9.47%) Ansible
4 11 (6.51%) Grafana
5 10 (5.92%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.14%) Puppet
7 6 (3.55%) Podman
8 5 (2.96%) Argo
9 3 (1.78%) Istio
9 3 (1.78%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.59%) CASB
10 1 (0.59%) Kibana
10 1 (0.59%) Packer
Vendors
1 54 (31.95%) Google
2 31 (18.34%) Microsoft
3 20 (11.83%) VMware
4 6 (3.55%) Citrix
5 5 (2.96%) NVIDIA
5 5 (2.96%) Oracle
6 4 (2.37%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.37%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.37%) Tenable
7 3 (1.78%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.18%) SAP
9 1 (0.59%) Carbon Black
9 1 (0.59%) Cisco
9 1 (0.59%) Confluent
9 1 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.59%) Foundry
9 1 (0.59%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.59%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.59%) Splunk
9 1 (0.59%) Typelevel