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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 125 164
Rank change year-on-year -53 +39 -26
Permanent jobs citing GCP 162 209 215
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.94% 2.34% 1.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.22% 8.90% 5.63%
Number of salaries quoted 115 68 119
10th Percentile £32,350 £46,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,875 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £80,625 £79,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,500 £96,750 £96,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +5.86%

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 3,843 2,347 3,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 22.26% 26.32% 27.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,779 1,426 2,625
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -3.51%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £83,750 £82,872
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -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 20 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 20 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 -54 72 £70,750 +17.92% 34
Hampshire -26 50 £62,500 -10.71% 16
Berkshire -59 27 £78,750 +5.00% 21
Buckinghamshire +5 24 £59,500 -0.83% 6
Surrey -4 21 £55,000 -24.14% 2
Oxfordshire -8 21 £95,000 +105.41% 8
East Sussex -15 6 £55,000 -51.11% 3
Kent -16 6 £34,500 -50.71%
West Sussex - 4 £80,000 - 6
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 4 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.47%) Confluence
2 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Lightworks
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.62%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 138 (85.19%) AWS
2 123 (75.93%) Azure
3 22 (13.58%) GitHub
4 15 (9.26%) Serverless
5 13 (8.02%) Anthropic Claude
6 7 (4.32%) Cloud Run
6 7 (4.32%) Firebase
6 7 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (3.09%) ChatGPT
8 5 (3.09%) Entra ID
8 5 (3.09%) Figma
8 5 (3.09%) Google Gemini
9 4 (2.47%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (2.47%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.85%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.49%) Firewall
2 14 (8.64%) VPN
3 13 (8.02%) DNS
4 12 (7.41%) MQTT
5 10 (6.17%) WAN
6 9 (5.56%) Network Security
7 8 (4.94%) LAN
8 6 (3.70%) TCP/IP
9 5 (3.09%) HTTP
10 2 (1.23%) BGP
10 2 (1.23%) Broadband
10 2 (1.23%) DHCP
11 1 (0.62%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.62%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (20.37%) MySQL
2 28 (17.28%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (11.73%) MongoDB
3 19 (11.73%) Relational Database
4 14 (8.64%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.56%) Pinecone
6 7 (4.32%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (4.32%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.70%) BigQuery
7 6 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.09%) Redis
9 4 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.47%) Looker
9 4 (2.47%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.62%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.62%) Flink
10 1 (0.62%) Power BI
10 1 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (29.63%) Git
2 12 (7.41%) GitLab
3 7 (4.32%) JIRA
4 6 (3.70%) JUnit
5 4 (2.47%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.47%) PHPUnit
5 4 (2.47%) Selenium
5 4 (2.47%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.85%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.85%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.85%) Eclipse RCP
6 3 (1.85%) Mockito
7 2 (1.23%) NUnit
8 1 (0.62%) Storybook
General
1 64 (39.51%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.52%) Finance
3 23 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.70%) Games
6 4 (2.47%) Law
6 4 (2.47%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.47%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.23%) Aviation
8 1 (0.62%) Advertising
8 1 (0.62%) Billing
8 1 (0.62%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.62%) Legal
8 1 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (27.16%) Senior
2 36 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 29 (17.90%) Developer
4 19 (11.73%) Backend Developer
5 15 (9.26%) Architect
5 15 (9.26%) Senior Developer
6 14 (8.64%) Senior Backend Developer
7 11 (6.79%) Lead
8 10 (6.17%) Analyst
9 9 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (5.56%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.32%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 7 (4.32%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (4.32%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 7 (4.32%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (4.32%) GCP Software Engineer
11 7 (4.32%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (22.22%) Terraform
2 21 (12.96%) REST
3 20 (12.35%) React
4 16 (9.88%) Kafka
5 13 (8.02%) Spring
6 12 (7.41%) Spring Boot
7 9 (5.56%) gRPC
7 9 (5.56%) RESTful
8 8 (4.94%) .NET
8 8 (4.94%) CSS
8 8 (4.94%) Hibernate
8 8 (4.94%) HTML
8 8 (4.94%) Node.js
8 8 (4.94%) Web Services
9 7 (4.32%) pgvector
10 6 (3.70%) JPA
10 6 (3.70%) Protocol Buffers
11 5 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (3.09%) Twisted
11 5 (3.09%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.58%) Product Ownership
2 18 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (8.64%) Cloud Native
3 14 (8.64%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (8.02%) AI Agents
5 10 (6.17%) Onboarding
6 9 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (4.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (4.32%) Management Information System
8 7 (4.32%) Video Conferencing
9 6 (3.70%) Robotics
10 5 (3.09%) Client/Server
10 5 (3.09%) Replication
11 4 (2.47%) Algorithms
11 4 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (2.47%) Mobile App
11 4 (2.47%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.85%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.99%) Linux
2 18 (11.11%) Windows
3 10 (6.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.62%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (38.27%) AI
2 60 (37.04%) CI/CD
3 58 (35.80%) Agile
4 56 (34.57%) Software Engineering
5 49 (30.25%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (25.31%) Containerisation
7 35 (21.60%) DevOps
8 32 (19.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (19.75%) Mentoring
9 31 (19.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (18.52%) Machine Learning
11 29 (17.90%) Code Quality
11 29 (17.90%) Test Automation
12 27 (16.67%) Microservices
12 27 (16.67%) Observability
13 26 (16.05%) Computer Science
14 23 (14.20%) LLM
15 20 (12.35%) Full-Stack Development
16 19 (11.73%) Analytics
16 19 (11.73%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 64 (39.51%) Python
2 31 (19.14%) JavaScript
3 29 (17.90%) Java
4 25 (15.43%) SQL
5 23 (14.20%) TypeScript
6 18 (11.11%) PHP
6 18 (11.11%) Rust
7 13 (8.02%) C#
8 12 (7.41%) C++
9 9 (5.56%) C
10 4 (2.47%) Scala
10 4 (2.47%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.85%) ABAP
11 3 (1.85%) Go
12 2 (1.23%) Bash
12 2 (1.23%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 51 (31.48%) Degree
2 38 (23.46%) Security Cleared
3 33 (20.37%) SC Cleared
4 17 (10.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.94%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.94%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.47%) CCNA
7 4 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.85%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.85%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.62%) CCNP
10 1 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.62%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.62%) GCIA
10 1 (0.62%) GIAC
10 1 (0.62%) MCSE
10 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.64%) QA
2 5 (3.09%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.47%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.85%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.23%) NIST
6 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (39.51%) Docker
2 10 (6.17%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.94%) Hyper-V
5 7 (4.32%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (3.70%) KVM
7 2 (1.23%) Lustre
8 1 (0.62%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (34.57%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.26%) Ansible
3 10 (6.17%) Grafana
4 9 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.32%) Puppet
6 6 (3.70%) Podman
7 5 (3.09%) Argo
8 3 (1.85%) Istio
8 3 (1.85%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.62%) Kibana
9 1 (0.62%) Packer
Vendors
1 50 (30.86%) Google
2 26 (16.05%) Microsoft
3 15 (9.26%) VMware
4 5 (3.09%) NVIDIA
4 5 (3.09%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.47%) Oracle
5 4 (2.47%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.47%) Tenable
6 3 (1.85%) Citrix
6 3 (1.85%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.85%) SAP
7 1 (0.62%) Carbon Black
7 1 (0.62%) Cisco
7 1 (0.62%) Confluent
7 1 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.62%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.62%) Infoblox
7 1 (0.62%) Splunk
7 1 (0.62%) Typelevel