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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 132 183
Rank change year-on-year -43 +51 -61
Permanent jobs citing GCP 155 186 224
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.99% 2.18% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.10% 8.33% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 101 73 125
10th Percentile £32,250 £38,800 £41,732
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +11.11% -22.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,500 £96,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -8.54% -0.61% +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 3,776 2,234 4,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.12% 26.15% 29.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 1,393 3,812
10th Percentile £29,825 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -38 74 £62,500 +4.17% 29
Hampshire -30 43 £70,000 - 11
Berkshire -33 39 £70,000 -8.20% 13
Buckinghamshire -5 21 £59,500 -0.83% 4
Surrey -7 19 £55,000 -24.14% 4
Oxfordshire -7 14 £87,500 +105.88% 12
Kent -20 9 £34,500 -50.71% 5
East Sussex -7 7 £55,000 - 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 (4.52%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.58%) Confluence
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.65%) Camunda
Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 127 (81.94%) AWS
2 116 (74.84%) Azure
3 15 (9.68%) GitHub
4 13 (8.39%) Serverless
5 10 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (4.52%) Anthropic Claude
7 5 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (3.23%) Figma
8 4 (2.58%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 4 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.58%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (2.58%) Prefect
9 3 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.94%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.94%) Cloud Run
9 3 (1.94%) dbt
9 3 (1.94%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.94%) OCI
9 3 (1.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.90%) Firewall
2 15 (9.68%) VPN
3 14 (9.03%) DNS
3 14 (9.03%) MQTT
4 13 (8.39%) WAN
5 12 (7.74%) LAN
6 8 (5.16%) Network Security
7 6 (3.87%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.58%) Broadband
9 3 (1.94%) HTTP
10 2 (1.29%) DHCP
11 1 (0.65%) BGP
11 1 (0.65%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.65%) IP Telephony
11 1 (0.65%) Modbus
11 1 (0.65%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (14.84%) MySQL
3 20 (12.90%) MongoDB
4 17 (10.97%) NoSQL
5 14 (9.03%) Relational Database
6 8 (5.16%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (5.16%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.87%) BigQuery
7 6 (3.87%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.23%) Looker
8 5 (3.23%) Pinecone
8 5 (3.23%) Redis
9 4 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.58%) Big Data
9 4 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.58%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.94%) Flink
11 2 (1.29%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.65%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.65%) GIS
Development Applications
1 38 (24.52%) Git
2 17 (10.97%) GitLab
3 7 (4.52%) JIRA
4 6 (3.87%) JUnit
5 5 (3.23%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.94%) Mockito
7 2 (1.29%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.29%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.29%) Eclipse RCP
7 2 (1.29%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.29%) PHPUnit
7 2 (1.29%) Selenium
8 1 (0.65%) Storybook
General
1 53 (34.19%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.48%) Finance
3 21 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.39%) Telecoms
5 11 (7.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (7.10%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.87%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.58%) Law
8 3 (1.94%) Aviation
8 3 (1.94%) Games
8 3 (1.94%) Legal
8 3 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.29%) Banking
9 2 (1.29%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Advertising
10 1 (0.65%) Billing
10 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Marketing
10 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (21.29%) Senior
1 33 (21.29%) Software Engineer
2 22 (14.19%) Developer
3 14 (9.03%) Analyst
4 13 (8.39%) Architect
4 13 (8.39%) Data Engineer
5 12 (7.74%) Backend Developer
6 11 (7.10%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 9 (5.81%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.16%) Senior Backend Developer
9 7 (4.52%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (4.52%) Lead
10 6 (3.87%) Graduate
10 6 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.87%) Python Engineer
10 6 (3.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.87%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (3.87%) Support Engineer
11 5 (3.23%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 5 (3.23%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.90%) Kafka
2 17 (10.97%) REST
3 15 (9.68%) React
4 10 (6.45%) RESTful
5 9 (5.81%) gRPC
5 9 (5.81%) Spring Boot
5 9 (5.81%) Web Services
6 8 (5.16%) Spring
7 7 (4.52%) .NET
8 6 (3.87%) Protocol Buffers
9 5 (3.23%) Django
9 5 (3.23%) Hibernate
9 5 (3.23%) JPA
9 5 (3.23%) Node.js
9 5 (3.23%) Twisted
9 5 (3.23%) WebSockets
10 4 (2.58%) CSS
10 4 (2.58%) HTML
10 4 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.58%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.84%) Product Ownership
2 22 (14.19%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (8.39%) Client/Server
3 13 (8.39%) Cloud Native
4 11 (7.10%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (5.81%) Management Information System
5 9 (5.81%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (5.16%) Onboarding
7 7 (4.52%) AI Agents
7 7 (4.52%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (3.23%) Robotics
9 4 (2.58%) Algorithms
9 4 (2.58%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (2.58%) Life Science
9 4 (2.58%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.58%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (2.58%) Replication
10 3 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 40 (25.81%) Linux
2 22 (14.19%) Windows
3 11 (7.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (34.84%) Agile
2 52 (33.55%) AI
3 51 (32.90%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (31.61%) CI/CD
5 48 (30.97%) Software Engineering
6 45 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 40 (25.81%) Containerisation
8 33 (21.29%) Test Automation
9 31 (20.00%) Computer Science
10 30 (19.35%) Microservices
11 29 (18.71%) Machine Learning
12 28 (18.06%) Code Quality
13 27 (17.42%) DevOps
14 26 (16.77%) Cybersecurity
15 23 (14.84%) Analytics
15 23 (14.84%) Mentoring
16 22 (14.19%) Observability
17 21 (13.55%) Data Science
17 21 (13.55%) Decision-Making
18 20 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 69 (44.52%) Python
2 28 (18.06%) Rust
3 25 (16.13%) Java
4 24 (15.48%) JavaScript
5 23 (14.84%) SQL
6 19 (12.26%) C++
6 19 (12.26%) TypeScript
7 15 (9.68%) C
8 11 (7.10%) PHP
9 9 (5.81%) C#
10 6 (3.87%) Scala
11 3 (1.94%) Bash
11 3 (1.94%) Go
11 3 (1.94%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.94%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.29%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (36.77%) Degree
2 38 (24.52%) Security Cleared
3 32 (20.65%) SC Cleared
4 22 (14.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.16%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.52%) CCNA
6 7 (4.52%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.87%) DBS Check
7 6 (3.87%) DV Cleared
8 5 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.94%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.29%) MCSE
10 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.65%) CCNP
11 1 (0.65%) CISM
11 1 (0.65%) CISSP
11 1 (0.65%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.55%) QA
2 7 (4.52%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.23%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.94%) NIST
4 3 (1.94%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (34.84%) Docker
2 19 (12.26%) Hyper-V
2 19 (12.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (8.39%) KVM
4 11 (7.10%) Active Directory
5 5 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (28.39%) Kubernetes
2 31 (20.00%) Terraform
3 15 (9.68%) Ansible
4 12 (7.74%) Grafana
4 12 (7.74%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.52%) Puppet
6 4 (2.58%) Podman
7 2 (1.29%) Argo
7 2 (1.29%) Istio
7 2 (1.29%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.65%) CASB
8 1 (0.65%) Kibana
Vendors
1 52 (33.55%) Google
2 28 (18.06%) Microsoft
3 26 (16.77%) VMware
4 8 (5.16%) Oracle
5 6 (3.87%) Citrix
6 5 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.23%) Tenable
7 4 (2.58%) NVIDIA
7 4 (2.58%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.94%) Confluent
8 3 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.29%) Typelevel
10 1 (0.65%) Carbon Black
10 1 (0.65%) Cisco
10 1 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.65%) Foundry
10 1 (0.65%) Genesys
10 1 (0.65%) Infoblox
10 1 (0.65%) Pega
10 1 (0.65%) Splunk