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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 126 180
Rank change year-on-year -4 +54 -44
Permanent jobs citing GCP 163 208 97
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.58% 2.26% 1.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.08% 6.89% 3.69%
Number of salaries quoted 85 129 72
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,150 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £50,000 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £69,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -9.75% +10.80%
75th Percentile £118,750 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £143,750 £93,750 £90,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +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 3,210 3,017 2,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.03% 32.77% 33.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,723 1,637 2,162
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 2 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 2 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 +43 106 £44,250 -26.25% 31
Berkshire +52 76 £57,500 -4.17% 13
Hampshire -31 26 £62,500 -3.85% 11
Buckinghamshire +10 19 £60,000 -7.69% 12
East Sussex +19 15 £112,500 +50.00% 5
Kent -4 11 £137,500 +77.42% 3
Oxfordshire -5 11 £28,500 -49.57% 6
Surrey -18 2 £85,000 -2.86% 12
Sussex - 2 £55,000 - 1
West Sussex -1 1 £60,000 -33.33% 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 5 (3.07%) IIS
2 4 (2.45%) nginx
3 2 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 130 (79.75%) Azure
2 118 (72.39%) AWS
3 35 (21.47%) SaaS
4 20 (12.27%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (7.36%) GitHub
6 10 (6.13%) Entra ID
7 9 (5.52%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.91%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.07%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.07%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.07%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (3.07%) dbt
9 5 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.07%) Serverless
9 5 (3.07%) Vertex AI
10 4 (2.45%) Google Workspace
10 4 (2.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 23 (14.11%) DNS
2 21 (12.88%) DHCP
3 15 (9.20%) Firewall
4 12 (7.36%) VPN
5 8 (4.91%) Network Security
6 7 (4.29%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.23%) Wireless
8 1 (0.61%) LAN
8 1 (0.61%) VLAN
8 1 (0.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (19.02%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (17.79%) BigQuery
3 11 (6.75%) MySQL
3 11 (6.75%) NoSQL
4 9 (5.52%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.68%) Power BI
6 5 (3.07%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.07%) Looker
6 5 (3.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (2.45%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.45%) Tableau
8 3 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.23%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.61%) Big Data
10 1 (0.61%) Metadata
10 1 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (15.34%) Git
2 5 (3.07%) git-flow
2 5 (3.07%) GitLab
2 5 (3.07%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.23%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.23%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.61%) MLflow
General
1 62 (38.04%) Law
2 59 (36.20%) Social Skills
3 58 (35.58%) Marketing
4 47 (28.83%) Finance
5 13 (7.98%) Legal
6 7 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.07%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.07%) Retail
8 3 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.61%) Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 50 (30.67%) Developer
1 50 (30.67%) Senior
2 44 (26.99%) Architect
3 24 (14.72%) Senior Developer
4 22 (13.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 21 (12.88%) .NET Developer
5 21 (12.88%) .NET Software Developer
5 21 (12.88%) Data Architect
5 21 (12.88%) Engineering Manager
5 21 (12.88%) Software Developer
6 20 (12.27%) Cloud Architect
6 20 (12.27%) GCP Architect
6 20 (12.27%) Platform Architect
6 20 (12.27%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 19 (11.66%) Senior Architect
7 19 (11.66%) Senior Data Architect
8 18 (11.04%) IT Engineer
9 17 (10.43%) Support Engineer
10 14 (8.59%) Senior Web Developer
10 14 (8.59%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (21.47%) .NET
2 24 (14.72%) CSS
2 24 (14.72%) React
3 22 (13.50%) HTML
4 17 (10.43%) Node.js
4 17 (10.43%) RESTful
5 9 (5.52%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (3.68%) .NET Framework
6 6 (3.68%) Entity Framework
7 5 (3.07%) AWS CDK
7 5 (3.07%) Kafka
7 5 (3.07%) Material-UI
7 5 (3.07%) WinForms
8 2 (1.23%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.23%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.23%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (1.23%) Hugging Face
8 2 (1.23%) Pandas
8 2 (1.23%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (19.02%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.68%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.45%) AI Agents
3 4 (2.45%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.61%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.61%) IoT
6 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.61%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 27 (16.56%) Windows
2 18 (11.04%) Linux
3 11 (6.75%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.84%) Unix
5 2 (1.23%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (42.33%) Roadmaps
2 66 (40.49%) Agile
3 55 (33.74%) Continuous Improvement
4 49 (30.06%) AI
5 48 (29.45%) Mentoring
6 45 (27.61%) Data Science
7 41 (25.15%) Architectural Design
7 41 (25.15%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (23.93%) Strategic Roadmap
9 36 (22.09%) CI/CD
9 36 (22.09%) DevOps
10 31 (19.02%) Analytics
10 31 (19.02%) Data Modelling
11 29 (17.79%) Machine Learning
12 28 (17.18%) Software Engineering
13 27 (16.56%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (16.56%) ETL
14 26 (15.95%) Cloud Security
15 24 (14.72%) Full-Stack Development
16 23 (14.11%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 41 (25.15%) JavaScript
2 36 (22.09%) Python
3 30 (18.40%) TypeScript
4 22 (13.50%) Go
5 21 (12.88%) Java
6 19 (11.66%) SQL
7 13 (7.98%) C#
7 13 (7.98%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.68%) PHP
9 5 (3.07%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.84%) Bash
11 2 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.23%) R
12 1 (0.61%) C++
Qualifications
1 15 (9.20%) Degree
2 12 (7.36%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (5.52%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.29%) A+ Certification
4 7 (4.29%) MCP
5 3 (1.84%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.84%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.23%) CISSP
6 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.23%) MCSE
6 2 (1.23%) OSCP
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.61%) CISA
7 1 (0.61%) CRISC
7 1 (0.61%) GPEN
7 1 (0.61%) RHCE
7 1 (0.61%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (14.72%) Data Quality
2 22 (13.50%) QA
3 5 (3.07%) NIST
4 4 (2.45%) GDPR
5 2 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.61%) GRC
6 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.61%) NCSC
6 1 (0.61%) SLA
6 1 (0.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (13.50%) Docker
2 21 (12.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (28.83%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.07%) Terraform
3 3 (1.84%) Ansible
3 3 (1.84%) Grafana
3 3 (1.84%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.23%) Nmap
5 1 (0.61%) Argo
5 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (0.61%) SCCM
5 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 57 (34.97%) Google
2 17 (10.43%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.52%) Dynatrace
4 7 (4.29%) Zoho
5 5 (3.07%) Foundry
5 5 (3.07%) Sage
5 5 (3.07%) Xamarin
6 4 (2.45%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.23%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.23%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.23%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.23%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.23%) Talend
7 2 (1.23%) VMware
8 1 (0.61%) Citrix
8 1 (0.61%) Informatica
8 1 (0.61%) Palantir
8 1 (0.61%) SolarWinds