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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 129 151
Rank change year-on-year -43 +22 -10
Permanent jobs citing GCP 164 209 216
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.95% 2.34% 1.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.26% 8.89% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 116 68 120
10th Percentile £32,375 £46,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,188 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +14.29% -18.33%
75th Percentile £79,688 £79,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £96,750 £96,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +5.61%

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 3,846 2,351 3,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 22.33% 26.32% 27.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,778 1,431 2,647
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,750
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 £82,500
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 19 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 19 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 -44 74 £69,125 +15.21% 49
Hampshire -18 50 £62,500 -10.71% 25
Berkshire -52 29 £72,500 -3.33% 27
Buckinghamshire +6 24 £59,500 -0.83% 10
Oxfordshire -1 21 £95,000 +105.41% 13
Surrey -3 21 £55,000 -24.14% 6
Kent -13 6 £34,500 -50.71%
East Sussex -16 6 £55,000 -51.11% 3
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 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.44%) Confluence
2 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.22%) Lightworks
1 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.61%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 140 (85.37%) AWS
2 125 (76.22%) Azure
3 22 (13.41%) GitHub
4 15 (9.15%) Serverless
5 13 (7.93%) Anthropic Claude
6 7 (4.27%) Cloud Run
6 7 (4.27%) Firebase
6 7 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (3.66%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (3.05%) ChatGPT
8 5 (3.05%) Entra ID
8 5 (3.05%) Figma
8 5 (3.05%) Google Gemini
9 4 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (2.44%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.83%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.83%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.37%) Firewall
2 14 (8.54%) VPN
3 13 (7.93%) DNS
4 12 (7.32%) MQTT
5 10 (6.10%) WAN
6 9 (5.49%) Network Security
7 8 (4.88%) LAN
8 6 (3.66%) TCP/IP
9 5 (3.05%) HTTP
10 2 (1.22%) BGP
10 2 (1.22%) Broadband
10 2 (1.22%) DHCP
11 1 (0.61%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.61%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (20.12%) MySQL
2 28 (17.07%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (11.59%) MongoDB
3 19 (11.59%) Relational Database
4 14 (8.54%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.49%) Pinecone
6 7 (4.27%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (4.27%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.66%) BigQuery
7 6 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.05%) Redis
9 4 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.44%) Looker
9 4 (2.44%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.61%) Big Data
10 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.61%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.61%) Flink
10 1 (0.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 48 (29.27%) Git
2 12 (7.32%) GitLab
3 7 (4.27%) JIRA
4 6 (3.66%) JUnit
5 4 (2.44%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.44%) PHPUnit
5 4 (2.44%) Selenium
5 4 (2.44%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.83%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.83%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.83%) Eclipse RCP
6 3 (1.83%) Mockito
7 2 (1.22%) NUnit
8 1 (0.61%) Storybook
General
1 64 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.29%) Finance
3 23 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.66%) Games
6 5 (3.05%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.44%) Law
7 4 (2.44%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.22%) Aviation
9 1 (0.61%) Advertising
9 1 (0.61%) Billing
9 1 (0.61%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Legal
9 1 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (26.83%) Senior
2 38 (23.17%) Software Engineer
3 29 (17.68%) Developer
4 19 (11.59%) Backend Developer
5 15 (9.15%) Architect
5 15 (9.15%) Senior Developer
6 14 (8.54%) Senior Backend Developer
7 11 (6.71%) Lead
8 10 (6.10%) Analyst
9 9 (5.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (5.49%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.88%) Python Engineer
10 8 (4.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.27%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 7 (4.27%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (4.27%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 7 (4.27%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (4.27%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.80%) REST
2 20 (12.20%) React
3 16 (9.76%) Kafka
4 13 (7.93%) Spring
5 12 (7.32%) Spring Boot
6 9 (5.49%) gRPC
6 9 (5.49%) RESTful
7 8 (4.88%) .NET
7 8 (4.88%) CSS
7 8 (4.88%) Hibernate
7 8 (4.88%) HTML
7 8 (4.88%) Node.js
7 8 (4.88%) Web Services
8 7 (4.27%) pgvector
9 6 (3.66%) JPA
9 6 (3.66%) Protocol Buffers
10 5 (3.05%) Django
10 5 (3.05%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (3.05%) Twisted
10 5 (3.05%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.41%) Product Ownership
2 18 (10.98%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (8.54%) Cloud Native
5 13 (7.93%) AI Agents
6 10 (6.10%) Onboarding
7 9 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (4.27%) Client/Server
9 7 (4.27%) Management Information System
9 7 (4.27%) Video Conferencing
10 6 (3.66%) Robotics
11 5 (3.05%) Replication
12 4 (2.44%) Algorithms
12 4 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (2.44%) Mobile App
12 4 (2.44%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.83%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 36 (21.95%) Linux
2 18 (10.98%) Windows
3 10 (6.10%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.61%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (37.80%) AI
2 60 (36.59%) CI/CD
3 58 (35.37%) Agile
3 58 (35.37%) Software Engineering
4 50 (30.49%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 35 (21.34%) DevOps
7 33 (20.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (19.51%) Mentoring
9 31 (18.90%) Code Quality
9 31 (18.90%) Test Automation
10 30 (18.29%) Machine Learning
11 28 (17.07%) Computer Science
12 27 (16.46%) Microservices
12 27 (16.46%) Observability
13 23 (14.02%) LLM
14 20 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
15 19 (11.59%) Analytics
15 19 (11.59%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 66 (40.24%) Python
2 31 (18.90%) JavaScript
3 29 (17.68%) Java
4 25 (15.24%) SQL
5 23 (14.02%) TypeScript
6 20 (12.20%) Rust
7 18 (10.98%) PHP
8 14 (8.54%) C++
9 13 (7.93%) C#
10 11 (6.71%) C
11 4 (2.44%) Scala
11 4 (2.44%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.83%) ABAP
12 3 (1.83%) Go
13 2 (1.22%) Bash
13 2 (1.22%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 53 (32.32%) Degree
2 38 (23.17%) Security Cleared
3 33 (20.12%) SC Cleared
4 19 (11.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.88%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.88%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.44%) CCNA
7 4 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.83%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.22%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.61%) CCNP
10 1 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.61%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.61%) GCIA
10 1 (0.61%) GIAC
10 1 (0.61%) MCSE
10 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.15%) QA
2 5 (3.05%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.83%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.22%) NIST
6 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (39.02%) Docker
2 11 (6.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (6.10%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.10%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.88%) KVM
5 7 (4.27%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.22%) Lustre
7 1 (0.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (34.15%) Kubernetes
2 36 (21.95%) Terraform
3 15 (9.15%) Ansible
4 10 (6.10%) Grafana
5 9 (5.49%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.27%) Puppet
7 6 (3.66%) Podman
8 5 (3.05%) Argo
9 3 (1.83%) Istio
9 3 (1.83%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.61%) Kibana
10 1 (0.61%) Packer
Vendors
1 50 (30.49%) Google
2 26 (15.85%) Microsoft
3 17 (10.37%) VMware
4 5 (3.05%) NVIDIA
4 5 (3.05%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.44%) Oracle
5 4 (2.44%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.44%) Tenable
6 3 (1.83%) Citrix
6 3 (1.83%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.83%) SAP
7 1 (0.61%) Carbon Black
7 1 (0.61%) Cisco
7 1 (0.61%) Confluent
7 1 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.61%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.61%) Infoblox
7 1 (0.61%) Splunk
7 1 (0.61%) Typelevel