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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 117 144
Rank change year-on-year -66 +27 -7
Permanent jobs citing GCP 156 215 227
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.89% 2.37% 1.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.08% 8.97% 6.03%
Number of salaries quoted 112 74 123
10th Percentile £32,875 £46,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,313 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £117,625 £96,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £87,283
% change year-on-year -6.25% -8.34% +9.10%

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 3,823 2,398 3,764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 21.75% 26.47% 27.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,804 1,454 2,460
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -2.14%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -2.44% -5.38%

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 29 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 29 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 -51 68 £72,500 +20.83% 61
Hampshire -30 50 £62,500 -10.71% 27
Berkshire -58 26 £85,000 +13.33% 39
Buckinghamshire +3 21 £60,000 - 8
Surrey +1 21 £55,000 -24.14% 9
Oxfordshire -6 21 £95,000 +123.53% 16
East Sussex -15 5 £55,000 -51.11% 3
West Sussex - 5 £105,000 - 10
Kent -20 4 £38,500 -57.81% 2
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 (2.56%) Confluence
2 3 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.28%) Lightworks
1 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.28%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 133 (85.26%) AWS
2 118 (75.64%) Azure
3 22 (14.10%) GitHub
4 15 (9.62%) Serverless
5 13 (8.33%) Anthropic Claude
6 7 (4.49%) Cloud Run
6 7 (4.49%) Firebase
6 7 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.49%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.21%) ChatGPT
8 5 (3.21%) Entra ID
8 5 (3.21%) Google Gemini
9 4 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (2.56%) Figma
9 4 (2.56%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.92%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.92%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.26%) Firewall
2 14 (8.97%) VPN
3 13 (8.33%) DNS
4 11 (7.05%) MQTT
5 9 (5.77%) Network Security
5 9 (5.77%) WAN
6 7 (4.49%) LAN
7 6 (3.85%) TCP/IP
8 5 (3.21%) HTTP
9 2 (1.28%) BGP
9 2 (1.28%) Broadband
9 2 (1.28%) DHCP
10 1 (0.64%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.64%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (21.15%) MySQL
2 24 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (12.18%) Relational Database
4 17 (10.90%) MongoDB
5 12 (7.69%) NoSQL
6 9 (5.77%) Pinecone
7 7 (4.49%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (3.85%) BigQuery
8 6 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.21%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.56%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.56%) Redis
11 3 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.92%) Looker
12 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.64%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.64%) Power BI
12 1 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (30.13%) Git
2 11 (7.05%) GitLab
3 6 (3.85%) JIRA
4 5 (3.21%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.21%) JUnit
5 4 (2.56%) PHPUnit
5 4 (2.56%) Selenium
5 4 (2.56%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.92%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.92%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.92%) Eclipse RCP
7 2 (1.28%) Mockito
7 2 (1.28%) NUnit
8 1 (0.64%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.64%) Storybook
General
1 59 (37.82%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.59%) Finance
3 21 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.97%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.56%) Games
6 4 (2.56%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.56%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.92%) Law
7 3 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.28%) Aviation
9 1 (0.64%) Advertising
9 1 (0.64%) Billing
9 1 (0.64%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Legal
9 1 (0.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 45 (28.85%) Senior
2 35 (22.44%) Software Engineer
3 29 (18.59%) Developer
4 19 (12.18%) Backend Developer
5 16 (10.26%) Architect
6 15 (9.62%) Senior Developer
7 14 (8.97%) Senior Backend Developer
8 11 (7.05%) Lead
9 9 (5.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (5.13%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Analyst
11 7 (4.49%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.49%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) GCP Software Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Python Engineer
12 6 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.85%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 6 (3.85%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (22.44%) Terraform
2 20 (12.82%) REST
3 19 (12.18%) React
4 14 (8.97%) Kafka
5 12 (7.69%) Spring
6 11 (7.05%) Spring Boot
7 9 (5.77%) gRPC
8 8 (5.13%) .NET
8 8 (5.13%) CSS
8 8 (5.13%) HTML
8 8 (5.13%) Node.js
8 8 (5.13%) RESTful
9 7 (4.49%) Hibernate
9 7 (4.49%) pgvector
10 6 (3.85%) Protocol Buffers
10 6 (3.85%) Web Services
11 5 (3.21%) JPA
11 5 (3.21%) LAMP
11 5 (3.21%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (2.56%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.18%) Product Ownership
2 18 (11.54%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (8.33%) AI Agents
5 12 (7.69%) Cloud Native
6 10 (6.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (5.13%) Onboarding
7 8 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (4.49%) Management Information System
9 6 (3.85%) Robotics
9 6 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (3.21%) Client/Server
10 5 (3.21%) Public Cloud
10 5 (3.21%) Replication
11 4 (2.56%) Algorithms
11 4 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (2.56%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (1.92%) Life Science
12 3 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 31 (19.87%) Linux
2 15 (9.62%) Windows
3 8 (5.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.64%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (39.10%) AI
2 60 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 56 (35.90%) Software Engineering
4 55 (35.26%) Agile
5 49 (31.41%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (23.72%) Containerisation
7 36 (23.08%) DevOps
8 33 (21.15%) Infrastructure as Code
9 31 (19.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (19.23%) Machine Learning
10 30 (19.23%) Mentoring
11 28 (17.95%) Code Quality
12 27 (17.31%) Observability
13 26 (16.67%) Computer Science
13 26 (16.67%) Test Automation
14 25 (16.03%) Microservices
15 23 (14.74%) LLM
16 19 (12.18%) Decision-Making
17 18 (11.54%) Analytics
17 18 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 59 (37.82%) Python
2 29 (18.59%) JavaScript
3 28 (17.95%) Java
4 23 (14.74%) SQL
5 21 (13.46%) TypeScript
6 18 (11.54%) PHP
7 17 (10.90%) Rust
8 13 (8.33%) C#
9 12 (7.69%) C++
10 9 (5.77%) C
11 4 (2.56%) Scala
11 4 (2.56%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.92%) ABAP
12 3 (1.92%) Go
13 2 (1.28%) Bash
13 2 (1.28%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.64%) R
Qualifications
1 49 (31.41%) Degree
2 35 (22.44%) Security Cleared
3 30 (19.23%) SC Cleared
4 18 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.13%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.49%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.92%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.92%) CCNA
8 3 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.92%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.64%) CCNP
10 1 (0.64%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.64%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.64%) GIAC
10 1 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.64%) MCSE
10 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.69%) QA
2 4 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.92%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.28%) NIST
5 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (37.18%) Docker
2 8 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.49%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.85%) KVM
4 6 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.28%) Firmware
5 2 (1.28%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 54 (34.62%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.62%) Ansible
3 9 (5.77%) Grafana
4 8 (5.13%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.49%) Puppet
6 6 (3.85%) Podman
7 5 (3.21%) Argo
8 3 (1.92%) Istio
8 3 (1.92%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.64%) Kibana
9 1 (0.64%) Packer
Vendors
1 46 (29.49%) Google
2 25 (16.03%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.97%) VMware
4 6 (3.85%) NVIDIA
5 5 (3.21%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.56%) Tenable
7 3 (1.92%) SAP
8 2 (1.28%) Citrix
8 2 (1.28%) Oracle
8 2 (1.28%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.28%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.64%) Carbon Black
9 1 (0.64%) Cisco
9 1 (0.64%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.64%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.64%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.64%) Splunk
9 1 (0.64%) Typelevel