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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 126 164
Rank change year-on-year +15 +38 -21
Permanent jobs citing GCP 188 232 113
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.00% 2.07% 1.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.30% 6.78% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 93 143 88
10th Percentile £30,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £50,000 £51,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.37% +17.60%
75th Percentile £115,000 £78,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £95,000 £91,625
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -

All Cloud 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 2,986 3,421 2,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.76% 30.50% 36.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,720 1,894 2,250
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,975 £29,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £58,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% +9.35% -6.96%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 +61 122 £42,500 -29.17% 36
Berkshire +72 95 £46,000 -35.44% 19
Hampshire -18 36 £70,000 +16.67% 19
Buckinghamshire +22 16 £52,500 -19.23% 7
East Sussex +27 14 £112,500 - 2
Kent -3 12 £137,500 +175.00% 3
Oxfordshire +7 11 £28,500 -40.00% 11
Sussex - 2 £55,000 - 2
West Sussex +2 1 £60,000 -33.33% 3
Surrey -13 1 £70,000 -20.00% 5
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 (2.66%) IIS
2 2 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 158 (84.04%) Azure
2 145 (77.13%) AWS
3 45 (23.94%) SaaS
4 20 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (8.51%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (8.51%) Vertex AI
6 15 (7.98%) Azure AI
7 10 (5.32%) Entra ID
7 10 (5.32%) GitHub
7 10 (5.32%) IaaS
7 10 (5.32%) OCI
7 10 (5.32%) PaaS
8 8 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.19%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.19%) Serverless
10 5 (2.66%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.66%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.66%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 23 (12.23%) DNS
2 21 (11.17%) DHCP
3 19 (10.11%) Firewall
4 14 (7.45%) VPN
5 8 (4.26%) Network Security
6 7 (3.72%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.13%) LAN
7 4 (2.13%) WAN
8 3 (1.60%) Wireless
9 1 (0.53%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (15.43%) BigQuery
1 29 (15.43%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (4.79%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.26%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.72%) MySQL
5 6 (3.19%) Power BI
6 5 (2.66%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.66%) Looker
6 5 (2.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.13%) Tableau
8 2 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.53%) Big Data
9 1 (0.53%) Metadata
9 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (11.70%) Git
2 5 (2.66%) git-flow
3 3 (1.60%) Burp Suite
3 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.60%) Metasploit
4 2 (1.06%) GitLab
5 1 (0.53%) JIRA
5 1 (0.53%) MLflow
General
1 76 (40.43%) Law
2 66 (35.11%) Social Skills
3 56 (29.79%) Marketing
4 50 (26.60%) Finance
5 31 (16.49%) Legal
6 11 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.66%) Retail
8 3 (1.60%) Advertising
8 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.53%) Banking
9 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 57 (30.32%) Senior
2 53 (28.19%) Architect
3 50 (26.60%) Developer
4 30 (15.96%) Cloud Architect
5 23 (12.23%) Full-Stack Developer
6 21 (11.17%) .NET Developer
6 21 (11.17%) .NET Software Developer
6 21 (11.17%) Data Architect
6 21 (11.17%) Engineering Manager
6 21 (11.17%) Platform Architect
6 21 (11.17%) Senior Developer
6 21 (11.17%) Software Developer
7 20 (10.64%) GCP Architect
7 20 (10.64%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 19 (10.11%) Senior Architect
8 19 (10.11%) Senior Data Architect
9 18 (9.57%) IT Engineer
10 17 (9.04%) Product Manager
10 17 (9.04%) Support Engineer
11 15 (7.98%) Product Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.62%) .NET
2 25 (13.30%) React
3 23 (12.23%) CSS
4 21 (11.17%) HTML
5 19 (10.11%) Node.js
6 16 (8.51%) RESTful
7 9 (4.79%) Hugging Face
8 8 (4.26%) TensorFlow
9 7 (3.72%) LangChain
9 7 (3.72%) PyTorch
10 6 (3.19%) .NET Framework
10 6 (3.19%) Kafka
10 6 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (2.66%) AWS CDK
11 5 (2.66%) Entity Framework
11 5 (2.66%) Material-UI
11 5 (2.66%) WinForms
12 2 (1.06%) Next.js
12 2 (1.06%) OAuth2
12 2 (1.06%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.98%) AI Agents
3 8 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.72%) Private Cloud
4 7 (3.72%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.60%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.53%) IoT
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.89%) Windows
2 17 (9.04%) Linux
3 12 (6.38%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.60%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.06%) Unix
6 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (46.28%) Roadmaps
2 79 (42.02%) Agile
3 77 (40.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 67 (35.64%) AI
5 61 (32.45%) Data Science
6 52 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (26.06%) Mentoring
8 45 (23.94%) Machine Learning
9 41 (21.81%) Generative AI
10 40 (21.28%) Architectural Design
11 39 (20.74%) Strategic Roadmap
12 36 (19.15%) Cloud Security
13 35 (18.62%) DevOps
14 34 (18.09%) CI/CD
15 32 (17.02%) Data Modelling
16 31 (16.49%) User Experience
17 29 (15.43%) Analytics
17 29 (15.43%) Software Engineering
18 26 (13.83%) ETL
19 25 (13.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 43 (22.87%) JavaScript
2 37 (19.68%) Python
3 29 (15.43%) TypeScript
4 22 (11.70%) Go
5 21 (11.17%) Java
6 19 (10.11%) PowerShell
6 19 (10.11%) SQL
7 11 (5.85%) C#
8 6 (3.19%) Bash
9 5 (2.66%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.60%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.06%) PHP
12 1 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (10.64%) Degree
2 15 (7.98%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (5.32%) DV Cleared
6 8 (4.26%) Master's Degree
6 8 (4.26%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.72%) A+ Certification
7 7 (3.72%) MCP
8 6 (3.19%) OSCP
9 5 (2.66%) CISSP
9 5 (2.66%) MCSE
10 4 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.60%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.60%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.60%) CEH
11 3 (1.60%) CISM
11 3 (1.60%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.53%) CRISC
12 1 (0.53%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.70%) Data Quality
2 20 (10.64%) QA
3 8 (4.26%) NIST
4 7 (3.72%) GDPR
5 6 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.60%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.06%) NCSC
8 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.53%) GRC
8 1 (0.53%) SLA
8 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (11.17%) Active Directory
1 21 (11.17%) Docker
2 6 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (21.81%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.79%) Grafana
2 9 (4.79%) Prometheus
3 8 (4.26%) Terraform
4 5 (2.66%) Ansible
5 3 (1.60%) Nmap
5 3 (1.60%) QRadar
6 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.53%) SCCM
6 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.53%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (34.57%) Google
2 22 (11.70%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.98%) Foundry
4 9 (4.79%) Dynatrace
4 9 (4.79%) OpenAI
5 7 (3.72%) Zoho
6 5 (2.66%) Sage
6 5 (2.66%) VMware
6 5 (2.66%) Xamarin
7 4 (2.13%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.13%) Cisco
8 3 (1.60%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.60%) Splunk
9 2 (1.06%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.06%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.06%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.06%) Talend
10 1 (0.53%) Citrix
10 1 (0.53%) Informatica
10 1 (0.53%) Red Hat