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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 124 203
Rank change year-on-year -22 +79 -86
Permanent jobs citing GCP 134 184 138
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.18% 2.25% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.92% 6.74% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 94 120 86
10th Percentile £30,500 £25,750 £39,375
25th Percentile £50,313 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £95,000 £74,063 £75,250
90th Percentile £143,750 £85,125 £86,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -8.82% +9.68% -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 3,422 2,731 4,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.08% 33.41% 32.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,885 1,526 3,367
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,875 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +13 65 £61,250 +28.95% 35
Berkshire +16 33 £70,000 +16.67% 16
Hampshire -26 32 £66,250 +1.92% 8
Buckinghamshire +9 20 £65,000 +1.96% 12
East Sussex +11 16 £112,500 +50.00%
Kent -11 13 £137,500 +129.17% 9
Oxfordshire -16 12 £28,500 +3.64% 7
Surrey -18 4 £70,000 +8.53% 11
Sussex - 2 £55,000 -
West Sussex -8 1 £60,000 - 6
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 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.73%) IIS
2 4 (2.99%) nginx
3 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.75%) Camunda
Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 109 (81.34%) Azure
2 101 (75.37%) AWS
3 34 (25.37%) SaaS
4 23 (17.16%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (8.21%) GitHub
6 10 (7.46%) Entra ID
7 9 (6.72%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.22%) Power Platform
9 7 (5.22%) Serverless
10 5 (3.73%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (3.73%) dbt
10 5 (3.73%) Google Workspace
11 4 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.99%) Snowflake
12 2 (1.49%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 25 (18.66%) DNS
2 21 (15.67%) DHCP
3 19 (14.18%) Firewall
4 15 (11.19%) VPN
5 8 (5.97%) Network Security
6 7 (5.22%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.99%) LAN
7 4 (2.99%) WAN
8 3 (2.24%) MQTT
9 1 (0.75%) Broadband
9 1 (0.75%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.75%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.45%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.96%) MySQL
3 10 (7.46%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (6.72%) SQL Server
5 8 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.48%) BigQuery
7 5 (3.73%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (3.73%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.73%) Looker
7 5 (3.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (2.99%) Big Data
8 4 (2.99%) Power BI
9 3 (2.24%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.24%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.49%) Flink
10 2 (1.49%) Redis
10 2 (1.49%) Tableau
11 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.75%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 12 (8.96%) Git
2 11 (8.21%) GitLab
3 5 (3.73%) git-flow
4 4 (2.99%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.75%) MLflow
5 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (35.82%) Social Skills
2 46 (34.33%) Finance
3 11 (8.21%) Legal
4 10 (7.46%) Telecoms
5 9 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (5.97%) Law
7 6 (4.48%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.99%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.99%) Retail
9 3 (2.24%) Banking
9 3 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.49%) Aviation
10 2 (1.49%) Marketing
10 2 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (27.61%) Developer
2 23 (17.16%) Senior
3 21 (15.67%) .NET Developer
3 21 (15.67%) .NET Software Developer
3 21 (15.67%) Engineering Manager
3 21 (15.67%) Software Developer
4 19 (14.18%) IT Engineer
4 19 (14.18%) Support Engineer
5 14 (10.45%) IT Support
5 14 (10.45%) IT Support Engineer
6 12 (8.96%) Software Engineer
7 11 (8.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (6.72%) Analyst
8 9 (6.72%) Senior Developer
9 8 (5.97%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (5.22%) Architect
10 7 (5.22%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (4.48%) PHP Developer
11 6 (4.48%) Security Engineer
12 5 (3.73%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (28.36%) .NET
2 11 (8.21%) Kafka
3 10 (7.46%) CSS
3 10 (7.46%) React
4 9 (6.72%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (5.97%) HTML
6 6 (4.48%) .NET Framework
6 6 (4.48%) Entity Framework
7 5 (3.73%) AWS CDK
7 5 (3.73%) Material-UI
7 5 (3.73%) RESTful
7 5 (3.73%) WinForms
8 3 (2.24%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.24%) Node.js
8 3 (2.24%) Web Services
9 2 (1.49%) Ajax
9 2 (1.49%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.49%) OAuth
9 2 (1.49%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.49%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.69%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.21%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.72%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.22%) Client/Server
5 6 (4.48%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.24%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.49%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.49%) Life Science
8 2 (1.49%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.49%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.75%) IoT
9 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.75%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.75%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 30 (22.39%) Windows
2 25 (18.66%) Linux
3 11 (8.21%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (43.28%) Agile
2 39 (29.10%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (29.10%) Software Engineering
3 32 (23.88%) AI
4 30 (22.39%) CI/CD
4 30 (22.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 30 (22.39%) Roadmaps
5 25 (18.66%) Business Strategy
6 24 (17.91%) Computer Science
7 23 (17.16%) DevOps
8 21 (15.67%) Business Continuity
9 19 (14.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (11.19%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (10.45%) Containerisation
11 14 (10.45%) Data Modelling
11 14 (10.45%) Microservices
12 12 (8.96%) Analytics
12 12 (8.96%) Collaborative Culture
12 12 (8.96%) Scrum
13 11 (8.21%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 32 (23.88%) TypeScript
2 30 (22.39%) Python
3 29 (21.64%) JavaScript
4 19 (14.18%) SQL
5 16 (11.94%) C#
6 11 (8.21%) Rust
7 10 (7.46%) PowerShell
8 8 (5.97%) C++
9 7 (5.22%) C
10 6 (4.48%) PHP
10 6 (4.48%) T-SQL
11 5 (3.73%) Java
12 3 (2.24%) Go
13 2 (1.49%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.49%) R
13 2 (1.49%) Scala
14 1 (0.75%) Bash
Qualifications
1 32 (23.88%) Degree
2 19 (14.18%) Security Cleared
3 17 (12.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (11.19%) SC Cleared
5 9 (6.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (5.22%) A+ Certification
6 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 4 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.99%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.24%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.49%) CCNA
9 2 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.49%) CISSP
9 2 (1.49%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.49%) MCSE
9 2 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.75%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.18%) QA
2 8 (5.97%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.73%) NIST
4 4 (2.99%) GDPR
5 3 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.24%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.49%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.75%) GRC
7 1 (0.75%) NCSC
7 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (17.16%) Active Directory
2 16 (11.94%) Docker
3 9 (6.72%) Hyper-V
3 9 (6.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.22%) KVM
Systems Management
1 19 (14.18%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.21%) Terraform
3 6 (4.48%) Ansible
3 6 (4.48%) Grafana
3 6 (4.48%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.75%) Argo
4 1 (0.75%) Puppet
4 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (31.34%) Google
2 21 (15.67%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.21%) VMware
4 9 (6.72%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.73%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.73%) Sage
5 5 (3.73%) Xamarin
5 5 (3.73%) Zoho
6 4 (2.99%) Oracle
7 2 (1.49%) Citrix
7 2 (1.49%) Confluent
8 1 (0.75%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.75%) Genesys
8 1 (0.75%) Informatica
8 1 (0.75%) Palantir
8 1 (0.75%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.75%) Tenable
8 1 (0.75%) Typelevel
8 1 (0.75%) UiPath