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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 120 201
Rank change year-on-year -49 +81 -96
Permanent jobs citing GCP 125 144 189
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.91% 2.13% 1.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.21% 6.75% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 75 95 96
10th Percentile £33,850 £25,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -0.83% -13.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,750 £74,063
90th Percentile £86,500 £78,750 £91,875
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 3,896 2,132 4,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.30% 31.55% 31.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,095 1,416 4,016
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,125 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 -4 69 £62,500 +4.17% 22
Berkshire +11 41 £66,250 +10.42% 11
Hampshire -28 31 £70,000 +7.69% 12
Buckinghamshire -3 20 £65,000 +8.33% 7
Surrey -26 9 £67,500 +4.65% 8
Oxfordshire -27 8 £28,500 -32.94% 4
Kent -35 8 £34,500 -46.92% 1
East Sussex -19 6 £60,000 -20.00% 5
Sussex - 1 £55,000 -
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 6 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.20%) nginx
4 1 (0.80%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.80%) Camunda
4 1 (0.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.80%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 101 (80.80%) AWS
2 98 (78.40%) Azure
3 18 (14.40%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (9.60%) GitHub
5 8 (6.40%) SaaS
6 7 (5.60%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.80%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (4.80%) Power Platform
8 5 (4.00%) dbt
8 5 (4.00%) Figma
8 5 (4.00%) Serverless
9 4 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.20%) Google Workspace
9 4 (3.20%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.40%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (2.40%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.80%) DNS
2 19 (15.20%) Firewall
3 16 (12.80%) VPN
4 13 (10.40%) DHCP
5 11 (8.80%) LAN
5 11 (8.80%) WAN
6 4 (3.20%) Broadband
6 4 (3.20%) MQTT
6 4 (3.20%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.60%) Network Security
8 1 (0.80%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.80%) Modbus
8 1 (0.80%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.00%) NoSQL
1 20 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (15.20%) MySQL
3 12 (9.60%) MongoDB
4 11 (8.80%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (8.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (6.40%) Relational Database
6 8 (6.40%) SQL Server
7 6 (4.80%) BigQuery
8 5 (4.00%) Looker
9 4 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (3.20%) Big Data
9 4 (3.20%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.40%) DynamoDB
10 3 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.40%) Flink
10 3 (2.40%) Power BI
10 3 (2.40%) Redis
11 2 (1.60%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (16.80%) Git
2 11 (8.80%) GitLab
3 4 (3.20%) JIRA
4 3 (2.40%) git-flow
4 3 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.40%) JUnit
4 3 (2.40%) Mockito
5 2 (1.60%) PHPUnit
5 2 (1.60%) Selenium
6 1 (0.80%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.00%) Finance
3 14 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (9.60%) Telecoms
6 9 (7.20%) Law
7 7 (5.60%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.00%) Legal
9 4 (3.20%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.40%) Aviation
10 3 (2.40%) Games
10 3 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.60%) Banking
11 2 (1.60%) Marketing
11 2 (1.60%) Retail
12 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (23.20%) Senior
2 20 (16.00%) Software Engineer
3 17 (13.60%) Developer
4 13 (10.40%) Support Engineer
5 11 (8.80%) Analyst
5 11 (8.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (8.80%) Senior Developer
6 10 (8.00%) Architect
6 10 (8.00%) IT Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Backend Developer
7 8 (6.40%) IT Support
7 8 (6.40%) IT Support Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Senior Backend Developer
8 7 (5.60%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (5.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (5.60%) Lead
9 6 (4.80%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.20%) React
2 12 (9.60%) .NET
3 11 (8.80%) Kafka
4 9 (7.20%) Web Services
5 8 (6.40%) CSS
5 8 (6.40%) REST
5 8 (6.40%) RESTful
6 7 (5.60%) HTML
6 7 (5.60%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (4.00%) Django
7 5 (4.00%) Twisted
7 5 (4.00%) WebSockets
8 4 (3.20%) .NET Core
8 4 (3.20%) Hibernate
8 4 (3.20%) Spring
9 3 (2.40%) AWS CDK
9 3 (2.40%) gRPC
9 3 (2.40%) Material-UI
9 3 (2.40%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.40%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.40%) Cloud Native
1 18 (14.40%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (12.00%) Product Ownership
3 13 (10.40%) Client/Server
4 9 (7.20%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (6.40%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.80%) Management Information System
7 5 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (3.20%) Replication
9 3 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.40%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.60%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.60%) Life Science
10 2 (1.60%) Over-the-Top Content
10 2 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.60%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.80%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 35 (28.00%) Linux
2 28 (22.40%) Windows
3 15 (12.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (32.00%) Agile
2 38 (30.40%) Continuous Improvement
3 33 (26.40%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (24.00%) CI/CD
4 30 (24.00%) Computer Science
5 27 (21.60%) Containerisation
5 27 (21.60%) Software Engineering
6 24 (19.20%) Test Automation
7 21 (16.80%) Code Quality
8 19 (15.20%) DevOps
8 19 (15.20%) Disaster Recovery
8 19 (15.20%) Microservices
9 18 (14.40%) AI
10 17 (13.60%) Collaborative Culture
10 17 (13.60%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (12.80%) Mentoring
12 15 (12.00%) Business Continuity
12 15 (12.00%) Data Science
13 14 (11.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 14 (11.20%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (36.80%) Python
2 18 (14.40%) Rust
3 16 (12.80%) SQL
3 16 (12.80%) TypeScript
4 14 (11.20%) C++
5 13 (10.40%) C
5 13 (10.40%) JavaScript
6 11 (8.80%) C#
6 11 (8.80%) Java
7 8 (6.40%) PHP
7 8 (6.40%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.20%) Scala
9 3 (2.40%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.60%) Bash
10 2 (1.60%) Go
10 2 (1.60%) R
10 2 (1.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (35.20%) Degree
2 21 (16.80%) Computer Science Degree
2 21 (16.80%) Security Cleared
3 19 (15.20%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.00%) CCNA
4 5 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.20%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.20%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.20%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.40%) A+ Certification
6 3 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.40%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (2.40%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.60%) CISSP
7 2 (1.60%) MCSE
7 2 (1.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (21.60%) QA
2 9 (7.20%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.20%) NIST
4 3 (2.40%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.40%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.60%) GDPR
5 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.80%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.80%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (24.80%) Docker
2 21 (16.80%) Active Directory
3 18 (14.40%) Hyper-V
3 18 (14.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (10.40%) KVM
5 5 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (20.80%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.80%) Terraform
3 6 (4.80%) Ansible
3 6 (4.80%) Grafana
3 6 (4.80%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.80%) Argo
4 1 (0.80%) CASB
4 1 (0.80%) Puppet
Vendors
1 42 (33.60%) Google
2 25 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 24 (19.20%) VMware
4 8 (6.40%) Oracle
5 6 (4.80%) Dynatrace
6 5 (4.00%) Citrix
6 5 (4.00%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.20%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.40%) Confluent
8 3 (2.40%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.60%) Foundry
9 2 (1.60%) Typelevel
10 1 (0.80%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.80%) Genesys
10 1 (0.80%) Informatica
10 1 (0.80%) Pega
10 1 (0.80%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.80%) Sage
10 1 (0.80%) Tenable
10 1 (0.80%) Zoho