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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 125 205
Rank change year-on-year -29 +80 -75
Permanent jobs citing GCP 116 203 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.09% 2.27% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.61% 6.93% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 87 125 77
10th Percentile £30,500 £25,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,250 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £103,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £143,750 £93,750 £85,400
England median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -8.82% +9.68% -3.13%

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 3,216 2,929 3,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.09% 32.75% 32.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,764 1,603 2,872
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £69,840 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 24 January 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 24 January 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 +9 58 £52,500 -12.50% 128
Berkshire +5 26 £70,000 - 90
Hampshire -25 26 £60,000 -7.69% 36
Buckinghamshire +17 21 £65,000 +1.96% 16
East Sussex +8 15 £112,500 +50.00% 25
Kent -8 11 £137,500 +77.42% 27
Oxfordshire -13 11 £28,500 -24.00% 22
Surrey -17 2 £85,000 -2.86% 30
Sussex - 2 £55,000 -
West Sussex +2 1 £60,000 -33.33% 21
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 5 (4.31%) IIS
2 4 (3.45%) nginx
3 2 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (86.21%) Azure
2 87 (75.00%) AWS
3 36 (31.03%) SaaS
4 21 (18.10%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (11.21%) GitHub
6 10 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (8.62%) Entra ID
7 9 (7.76%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (7.76%) Power Platform
8 6 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (5.17%) Serverless
9 5 (4.31%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.31%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (4.31%) dbt
9 5 (4.31%) Google Workspace
10 4 (3.45%) Fivetran
10 4 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 24 (20.69%) DNS
2 21 (18.10%) DHCP
3 16 (13.79%) Firewall
4 12 (10.34%) VPN
5 8 (6.90%) Network Security
6 7 (6.03%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.86%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.86%) LAN
7 1 (0.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (9.48%) MySQL
2 11 (9.48%) NoSQL
3 10 (8.62%) SQL Server
4 9 (7.76%) BigQuery
5 6 (5.17%) Power BI
6 5 (4.31%) DynamoDB
6 5 (4.31%) Looker
6 5 (4.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.45%) Tableau
8 2 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.86%) Big Data
9 1 (0.86%) GIS
9 1 (0.86%) Metadata
9 1 (0.86%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (8.62%) Git
2 6 (5.17%) GitLab
3 5 (4.31%) git-flow
4 4 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.86%) MLflow
General
1 49 (42.24%) Finance
2 46 (39.66%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.76%) Legal
4 8 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.03%) Law
5 7 (6.03%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.31%) Marketing
6 5 (4.31%) Retail
6 5 (4.31%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.86%) Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (31.90%) Developer
2 21 (18.10%) .NET Developer
2 21 (18.10%) .NET Software Developer
2 21 (18.10%) Engineering Manager
2 21 (18.10%) Senior
2 21 (18.10%) Software Developer
3 18 (15.52%) IT Engineer
4 17 (14.66%) Support Engineer
5 13 (11.21%) IT Support
5 13 (11.21%) IT Support Engineer
6 10 (8.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (8.62%) Senior Developer
7 9 (7.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (7.76%) Software Engineer
8 7 (6.03%) Analyst
8 7 (6.03%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Architect
9 6 (5.17%) PHP Developer
9 6 (5.17%) Security Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (32.76%) .NET
2 11 (9.48%) React
3 10 (8.62%) CSS
4 9 (7.76%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (6.90%) HTML
6 6 (5.17%) .NET Framework
6 6 (5.17%) Entity Framework
7 5 (4.31%) AWS CDK
7 5 (4.31%) Kafka
7 5 (4.31%) Material-UI
7 5 (4.31%) RESTful
7 5 (4.31%) WinForms
8 3 (2.59%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.59%) ASP.NET
8 3 (2.59%) Node.js
8 3 (2.59%) Web Services
9 2 (1.72%) NumPy
9 2 (1.72%) OAuth
9 2 (1.72%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.07%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.03%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.45%) Client/Server
4 4 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.72%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.72%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.86%) IoT
7 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.86%) Life Science
7 1 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (23.28%) Windows
2 21 (18.10%) Linux
3 10 (8.62%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (44.83%) Agile
2 34 (29.31%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (29.31%) Software Engineering
3 28 (24.14%) AI
4 27 (23.28%) Roadmaps
5 25 (21.55%) CI/CD
5 25 (21.55%) DevOps
6 23 (19.83%) Business Strategy
7 19 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (15.52%) Computer Science
8 18 (15.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (14.66%) Business Continuity
10 12 (10.34%) Collaborative Culture
10 12 (10.34%) Data Modelling
11 11 (9.48%) Analytics
11 11 (9.48%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (8.62%) Disaster Recovery
12 10 (8.62%) Mentoring
13 9 (7.76%) Microservices
13 9 (7.76%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 31 (26.72%) TypeScript
2 28 (24.14%) JavaScript
3 19 (16.38%) Python
3 19 (16.38%) SQL
4 16 (13.79%) C#
5 10 (8.62%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.17%) PHP
6 6 (5.17%) T-SQL
7 5 (4.31%) C++
8 4 (3.45%) C
8 4 (3.45%) Rust
9 3 (2.59%) Java
10 2 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.72%) Go
10 2 (1.72%) R
11 1 (0.86%) Bash
Qualifications
1 22 (18.97%) Degree
2 14 (12.07%) Security Cleared
3 13 (11.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (8.62%) SC Cleared
5 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (6.03%) A+ Certification
6 7 (6.03%) MCP
7 4 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.45%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.72%) CISSP
8 2 (1.72%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.86%) CISA
9 1 (0.86%) CRISC
9 1 (0.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.86%) MCSE
9 1 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.07%) QA
2 5 (4.31%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.45%) GDPR
4 3 (2.59%) NIST
5 2 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.86%) GRC
6 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.86%) NCSC
6 1 (0.86%) SLA
6 1 (0.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (18.10%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.76%) Docker
3 4 (3.45%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.45%) KVM
3 4 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (11.21%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.31%) Terraform
3 2 (1.72%) Ansible
3 2 (1.72%) Grafana
3 2 (1.72%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.86%) Argo
4 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (32.76%) Google
2 18 (15.52%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.76%) Dynatrace
4 7 (6.03%) Zoho
5 5 (4.31%) Atlassian
5 5 (4.31%) Sage
5 5 (4.31%) VMware
5 5 (4.31%) Xamarin
6 2 (1.72%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.72%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.72%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.72%) Talend
7 1 (0.86%) Foundry
7 1 (0.86%) Genesys
7 1 (0.86%) Informatica
7 1 (0.86%) Oracle
7 1 (0.86%) Palantir
7 1 (0.86%) Red Hat