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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 117 136
Rank change year-on-year -79 +19 +21
Permanent jobs citing GCP 149 216 248
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.79% 2.41% 1.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.01% 8.89% 6.96%
Number of salaries quoted 104 93 135
10th Percentile £33,625 £43,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £84,375 £96,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £143,750 £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 3,717 2,429 3,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 19.61% 27.10% 28.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,823 1,487 2,023
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £48,580 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.36% -11.67% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.69% +2.22%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -70 59 £73,750 +40.48% 117
Hampshire -35 45 £62,500 -10.71% 44
Surrey -4 23 £62,500 -13.79% 28
Oxfordshire -17 22 £95,000 +205.22% 23
Berkshire -72 19 £80,000 +4.92% 73
Buckinghamshire -3 18 £60,000 +14.29% 21
East Sussex -11 8 £55,000 -51.11% 14
West Sussex -16 5 £105,000 +75.00% 10
Kent -27 4 £42,500 -69.09% 20
Middlesex +17 1 - - 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 (2.68%) Confluence
2 2 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Lightworks
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.34%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 125 (83.89%) AWS
2 111 (74.50%) Azure
3 18 (12.08%) GitHub
4 15 (10.07%) Serverless
5 13 (8.72%) Anthropic Claude
6 7 (4.70%) Cloud Run
6 7 (4.70%) Firebase
6 7 (4.70%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.70%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (3.36%) ChatGPT
8 5 (3.36%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (3.36%) Entra ID
8 5 (3.36%) Google Gemini
8 5 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.36%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.68%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (2.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.01%) Azure AKS
10 3 (2.01%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.74%) Firewall
2 15 (10.07%) DNS
3 14 (9.40%) VPN
4 11 (7.38%) MQTT
5 9 (6.04%) Network Security
5 9 (6.04%) TCP/IP
6 5 (3.36%) HTTP
6 5 (3.36%) WAN
7 3 (2.01%) Internet
7 3 (2.01%) LAN
8 2 (1.34%) BGP
8 2 (1.34%) DHCP
9 1 (0.67%) 5G
9 1 (0.67%) DNSSEC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (18.12%) MySQL
2 16 (10.74%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (9.40%) Relational Database
4 10 (6.71%) MongoDB
5 9 (6.04%) Pinecone
6 7 (4.70%) Chroma
7 5 (3.36%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.36%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.68%) Redis
9 3 (2.01%) Looker
10 2 (1.34%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.34%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.34%) Power BI
11 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.67%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.67%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (30.20%) Git
2 11 (7.38%) GitLab
3 5 (3.36%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.36%) JIRA
4 4 (2.68%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.01%) Claude Code
5 3 (2.01%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.01%) Eclipse RCP
5 3 (2.01%) JUnit
5 3 (2.01%) PHPUnit
5 3 (2.01%) Selenium
6 2 (1.34%) NUnit
7 1 (0.67%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.67%) Mocha
7 1 (0.67%) Storybook
General
1 57 (38.26%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.45%) Finance
3 25 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.07%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.68%) Law
6 4 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.01%) French Language
7 3 (2.01%) Games
7 3 (2.01%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.01%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.34%) Aviation
8 2 (1.34%) Legal
8 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Advertising
9 1 (0.67%) Banking
9 1 (0.67%) Billing
9 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 43 (28.86%) Senior
2 27 (18.12%) Developer
3 26 (17.45%) Software Engineer
4 17 (11.41%) Backend Developer
5 13 (8.72%) Architect
5 13 (8.72%) Senior Developer
6 12 (8.05%) Senior Backend Developer
7 10 (6.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) Lead
8 9 (6.04%) Analyst
8 9 (6.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 9 (6.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.37%) Data Engineer
10 7 (4.70%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (4.70%) GCP Engineer
10 7 (4.70%) GCP Software Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) Python Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) Security Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (26.85%) Terraform
2 16 (10.74%) React
3 15 (10.07%) REST
4 14 (9.40%) Kafka
5 10 (6.71%) Spring
6 9 (6.04%) Node.js
6 9 (6.04%) Spring Boot
7 7 (4.70%) .NET
7 7 (4.70%) CSS
7 7 (4.70%) gRPC
7 7 (4.70%) HTML
7 7 (4.70%) pgvector
8 6 (4.03%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (4.03%) RESTful
9 5 (3.36%) Hibernate
9 5 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.68%) ASP.NET
10 4 (2.68%) Entity Framework
10 4 (2.68%) LAMP
10 4 (2.68%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.41%) Greenfield Project
2 14 (9.40%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.40%) Product Ownership
3 13 (8.72%) AI Agents
4 10 (6.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (5.37%) Onboarding
7 7 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (4.03%) Public Cloud
8 6 (4.03%) Robotics
9 4 (2.68%) Algorithms
9 4 (2.68%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.68%) Mobile App
10 3 (2.01%) Life Science
10 3 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (2.01%) Management Information System
10 3 (2.01%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (2.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (2.01%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 31 (20.81%) Linux
2 10 (6.71%) Windows
3 4 (2.68%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.67%) Debian
4 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (42.28%) CI/CD
2 61 (40.94%) AI
3 52 (34.90%) Agile
4 49 (32.89%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (31.54%) Software Engineering
6 40 (26.85%) DevOps
7 39 (26.17%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (22.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (22.15%) Mentoring
9 32 (21.48%) Containerisation
10 29 (19.46%) Machine Learning
11 27 (18.12%) Observability
12 24 (16.11%) LLM
13 23 (15.44%) Computer Science
14 21 (14.09%) Microservices
15 20 (13.42%) DevSecOps
16 19 (12.75%) Cybersecurity
17 18 (12.08%) Code Quality
17 18 (12.08%) Test Automation
18 17 (11.41%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 53 (35.57%) Python
2 26 (17.45%) JavaScript
3 24 (16.11%) Java
4 22 (14.77%) SQL
5 18 (12.08%) TypeScript
6 17 (11.41%) PHP
7 13 (8.72%) Rust
8 12 (8.05%) C#
9 8 (5.37%) C++
10 7 (4.70%) Bash
10 7 (4.70%) Shell Script
11 5 (3.36%) C
12 3 (2.01%) ABAP
13 2 (1.34%) Go
13 2 (1.34%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.34%) Scala
14 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (28.86%) Degree
2 38 (25.50%) Security Cleared
3 33 (22.15%) SC Cleared
4 13 (8.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.70%) Master's Degree
6 6 (4.03%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.03%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.68%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.68%) DBS Check
9 3 (2.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (2.01%) CCSP
9 3 (2.01%) CISSP
9 3 (2.01%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.34%) CCNA
10 2 (1.34%) CREST Certified
10 2 (1.34%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.67%) CCNP
11 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.70%) NIST
3 5 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.36%) QA
4 3 (2.01%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.01%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.67%) GDPR
5 1 (0.67%) IASME
5 1 (0.67%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (38.93%) Docker
2 5 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.34%) Firmware
4 2 (1.34%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.34%) KVM
4 2 (1.34%) Lustre
4 2 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (37.58%) Kubernetes
2 20 (13.42%) Ansible
3 9 (6.04%) Grafana
4 8 (5.37%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.70%) Puppet
6 6 (4.03%) Podman
7 5 (3.36%) Argo
8 4 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.01%) Istio
9 3 (2.01%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.67%) Kibana
10 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.67%) Packer
Vendors
1 48 (32.21%) Google
2 25 (16.78%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.03%) NVIDIA
3 6 (4.03%) VMware
4 5 (3.36%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.68%) Tenable
6 3 (2.01%) SAP
6 3 (2.01%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.34%) Oracle
8 1 (0.67%) Carbon Black
8 1 (0.67%) Cisco
8 1 (0.67%) Citrix
8 1 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.67%) Databricks
8 1 (0.67%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.67%) Infoblox
8 1 (0.67%) Splunk