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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 118 156
Rank change year-on-year -45 +38 -27
Permanent jobs citing GCP 173 218 218
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.03% 2.51% 1.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.45% 9.56% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 121 72 120
10th Percentile £32,250 £39,225 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +9.70% -21.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £78,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,625 £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 3,889 2,281 3,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.26% 26.25% 28.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,750 1,413 2,762
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,800 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 5 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 5 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 -56 78 £65,000 +23.81% 53
Hampshire -21 51 £70,000 - 27
Berkshire -56 35 £72,500 -1.69% 27
Buckinghamshire 0 24 £59,500 -0.83% 9
Surrey -7 22 £55,000 -24.14% 5
Oxfordshire -9 19 £95,000 +123.53% 19
Kent -15 9 £34,500 -50.71% 6
East Sussex -6 8 £57,500 - 3
West Sussex - 2 £80,000 - 12
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 7 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.31%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 144 (83.24%) AWS
2 126 (72.83%) Azure
3 18 (10.40%) GitHub
4 15 (8.67%) Serverless
5 12 (6.94%) Anthropic Claude
6 10 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.05%) Cloud Run
7 7 (4.05%) Firebase
8 5 (2.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (2.89%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.89%) Figma
8 5 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.89%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (2.31%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 4 (2.31%) Prefect
10 3 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.73%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (1.73%) dbt
10 3 (1.73%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.73%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.14%) Firewall
2 16 (9.25%) VPN
3 14 (8.09%) DNS
3 14 (8.09%) MQTT
4 13 (7.51%) WAN
5 12 (6.94%) LAN
6 9 (5.20%) Network Security
7 6 (3.47%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.89%) HTTP
9 3 (1.73%) Broadband
10 2 (1.16%) DHCP
11 1 (0.58%) BGP
11 1 (0.58%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.58%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (18.50%) MySQL
2 29 (16.76%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (12.14%) MongoDB
4 18 (10.40%) Relational Database
5 17 (9.83%) NoSQL
6 9 (5.20%) Pinecone
7 8 (4.62%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (4.05%) Redis
8 7 (4.05%) SQL Server
9 6 (3.47%) BigQuery
9 6 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.47%) Looker
10 4 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.31%) Big Data
10 4 (2.31%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.73%) Flink
12 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.58%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.58%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 47 (27.17%) Git
2 13 (7.51%) GitLab
3 7 (4.05%) JIRA
4 6 (3.47%) JUnit
5 4 (2.31%) PHPUnit
5 4 (2.31%) Selenium
5 4 (2.31%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.73%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.73%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.73%) Eclipse RCP
6 3 (1.73%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.73%) Mockito
7 2 (1.16%) NUnit
8 1 (0.58%) Storybook
General
1 60 (34.68%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.76%) Finance
3 23 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (7.51%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.20%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.47%) Games
8 5 (2.89%) Law
9 4 (2.31%) Aviation
9 4 (2.31%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.73%) Legal
11 2 (1.16%) Banking
11 2 (1.16%) Retail
12 1 (0.58%) Advertising
12 1 (0.58%) Billing
12 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Marketing
12 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 44 (25.43%) Senior
2 40 (23.12%) Software Engineer
3 28 (16.18%) Developer
4 18 (10.40%) Backend Developer
5 15 (8.67%) Analyst
5 15 (8.67%) Senior Developer
6 14 (8.09%) Senior Backend Developer
7 13 (7.51%) Data Engineer
8 12 (6.94%) Architect
9 10 (5.78%) Lead
9 10 (5.78%) Python Engineer
10 9 (5.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 9 (5.20%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.05%) GCP Engineer
12 7 (4.05%) GCP Software Engineer
12 7 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (4.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (3.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.56%) REST
2 19 (10.98%) Kafka
2 19 (10.98%) React
3 10 (5.78%) Spring
3 10 (5.78%) Spring Boot
4 9 (5.20%) gRPC
5 8 (4.62%) Node.js
5 8 (4.62%) RESTful
5 8 (4.62%) Web Services
6 7 (4.05%) .NET
6 7 (4.05%) CSS
6 7 (4.05%) HTML
6 7 (4.05%) pgvector
7 6 (3.47%) Hibernate
7 6 (3.47%) Protocol Buffers
8 5 (2.89%) Django
8 5 (2.89%) JPA
8 5 (2.89%) LAMP
8 5 (2.89%) Twisted
8 5 (2.89%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.87%) Product Ownership
2 18 (10.40%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (10.40%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (9.25%) Cloud Native
4 12 (6.94%) AI Agents
5 11 (6.36%) Onboarding
5 11 (6.36%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (5.78%) Client/Server
7 9 (5.20%) Management Information System
8 7 (4.05%) Video Conferencing
9 6 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (3.47%) Robotics
10 5 (2.89%) Replication
11 4 (2.31%) Algorithms
11 4 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (2.31%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.73%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.73%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.73%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 38 (21.97%) Linux
2 22 (12.72%) Windows
3 11 (6.36%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.58%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (35.84%) AI
2 61 (35.26%) Agile
3 57 (32.95%) CI/CD
3 57 (32.95%) Software Engineering
4 51 (29.48%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (23.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (22.54%) Containerisation
7 34 (19.65%) Test Automation
8 33 (19.08%) Code Quality
8 33 (19.08%) Mentoring
9 31 (17.92%) Computer Science
9 31 (17.92%) DevOps
10 29 (16.76%) Machine Learning
11 27 (15.61%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (15.61%) Microservices
11 27 (15.61%) Observability
12 25 (14.45%) Cybersecurity
12 25 (14.45%) LLM
13 22 (12.72%) Analytics
14 20 (11.56%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 74 (42.77%) Python
2 31 (17.92%) JavaScript
3 27 (15.61%) SQL
4 26 (15.03%) Java
5 25 (14.45%) Rust
6 24 (13.87%) TypeScript
7 18 (10.40%) PHP
8 17 (9.83%) C++
9 14 (8.09%) C
10 12 (6.94%) C#
11 5 (2.89%) Scala
12 4 (2.31%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.73%) Bash
13 3 (1.73%) Go
13 3 (1.73%) PowerShell
14 2 (1.16%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.58%) ABAP
15 1 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 59 (34.10%) Degree
2 38 (21.97%) Security Cleared
3 33 (19.08%) SC Cleared
4 24 (13.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.20%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.05%) CCNA
6 7 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (4.05%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.89%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.16%) MCSE
9 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.16%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.58%) CCNP
10 1 (0.58%) CISM
10 1 (0.58%) CISSP
10 1 (0.58%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.83%) QA
2 8 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.47%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.31%) NIST
5 3 (1.73%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.58%) GDPR
7 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (37.57%) Docker
2 17 (9.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (9.25%) Hyper-V
4 13 (7.51%) Active Directory
5 11 (6.36%) KVM
6 6 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (31.21%) Kubernetes
2 36 (20.81%) Terraform
3 16 (9.25%) Ansible
4 12 (6.94%) Grafana
5 11 (6.36%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.05%) Puppet
7 6 (3.47%) Podman
8 3 (1.73%) Argo
8 3 (1.73%) Istio
8 3 (1.73%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.58%) CASB
9 1 (0.58%) Kibana
Vendors
1 54 (31.21%) Google
2 31 (17.92%) Microsoft
3 24 (13.87%) VMware
4 6 (3.47%) Citrix
4 6 (3.47%) Oracle
5 4 (2.31%) NVIDIA
5 4 (2.31%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.31%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.31%) Tenable
6 3 (1.73%) Confluent
6 3 (1.73%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.58%) Carbon Black
7 1 (0.58%) Cisco
7 1 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.58%) Foundry
7 1 (0.58%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.58%) Infoblox
7 1 (0.58%) SAP
7 1 (0.58%) Splunk
7 1 (0.58%) Typelevel