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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 126 164
Rank change year-on-year -43 +38 -24
Permanent jobs citing GCP 168 206 216
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.98% 2.34% 1.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.35% 8.97% 5.58%
Number of salaries quoted 118 65 119
10th Percentile £32,250 £46,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £81,563 £76,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,000 £90,300 £96,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +5.86%

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 3,859 2,297 3,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 22.60% 26.08% 27.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,754 1,417 2,692
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £30,095
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -8.26% -5.22%
75th Percentile £74,950 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -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 14 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 14 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 74 £66,250 +10.42% 44
Hampshire -24 50 £70,000 - 27
Berkshire -61 30 £72,500 -3.33% 25
Buckinghamshire +10 23 £59,000 -1.67% 7
Surrey -6 22 £62,500 -13.79% 6
Oxfordshire -9 21 £95,000 +105.41% 14
Kent -17 9 £34,500 -50.71% 3
East Sussex -10 6 £55,000 -26.67% 1
West Sussex - 4 £80,000 - 7
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 6 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 141 (83.93%) AWS
2 127 (75.60%) Azure
3 19 (11.31%) GitHub
4 15 (8.93%) Serverless
5 12 (7.14%) Anthropic Claude
6 10 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.17%) Cloud Run
7 7 (4.17%) Firebase
8 6 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.98%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.98%) Figma
9 5 (2.98%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (2.38%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.79%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 3 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.79%) Google Gemini
11 3 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.90%) Firewall
2 17 (10.12%) VPN
3 13 (7.74%) DNS
3 13 (7.74%) MQTT
3 13 (7.74%) WAN
4 11 (6.55%) LAN
5 9 (5.36%) Network Security
6 6 (3.57%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.98%) HTTP
8 3 (1.79%) Broadband
9 2 (1.19%) BGP
9 2 (1.19%) DHCP
10 1 (0.60%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.60%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (18.45%) MySQL
2 26 (15.48%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (10.71%) MongoDB
4 17 (10.12%) Relational Database
5 14 (8.33%) NoSQL
6 9 (5.36%) Pinecone
7 7 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (4.17%) SQL Server
8 6 (3.57%) BigQuery
8 6 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.98%) Redis
10 4 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.38%) Looker
10 4 (2.38%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.19%) Big Data
12 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.60%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.60%) Flink
12 1 (0.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 47 (27.98%) Git
2 13 (7.74%) GitLab
3 7 (4.17%) JIRA
4 6 (3.57%) JUnit
5 4 (2.38%) PHPUnit
5 4 (2.38%) Selenium
5 4 (2.38%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.79%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.79%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.79%) Eclipse RCP
6 3 (1.79%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.79%) Mockito
7 2 (1.19%) NUnit
8 1 (0.60%) Storybook
General
1 62 (36.90%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.86%) Finance
3 23 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.57%) Games
5 6 (3.57%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.38%) Law
6 4 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.79%) Aviation
8 2 (1.19%) Legal
9 1 (0.60%) Advertising
9 1 (0.60%) Billing
9 1 (0.60%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Marketing
9 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 45 (26.79%) Senior
2 37 (22.02%) Software Engineer
3 28 (16.67%) Developer
4 18 (10.71%) Backend Developer
5 15 (8.93%) Architect
5 15 (8.93%) Senior Developer
6 14 (8.33%) Senior Backend Developer
7 11 (6.55%) Analyst
7 11 (6.55%) Lead
8 10 (5.95%) Data Engineer
9 9 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) Python Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.17%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (4.17%) GCP Software Engineer
12 6 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (3.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.90%) REST
2 19 (11.31%) React
3 16 (9.52%) Kafka
4 11 (6.55%) Spring
5 10 (5.95%) Spring Boot
6 9 (5.36%) gRPC
7 8 (4.76%) .NET
7 8 (4.76%) Node.js
7 8 (4.76%) RESTful
7 8 (4.76%) Web Services
8 7 (4.17%) CSS
8 7 (4.17%) Hibernate
8 7 (4.17%) HTML
8 7 (4.17%) pgvector
9 6 (3.57%) Protocol Buffers
10 5 (2.98%) Django
10 5 (2.98%) JPA
10 5 (2.98%) LAMP
10 5 (2.98%) Twisted
10 5 (2.98%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.69%) Product Ownership
2 18 (10.71%) Greenfield Project
3 15 (8.93%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (7.14%) AI Agents
5 9 (5.36%) Onboarding
5 9 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (4.17%) Client/Server
7 7 (4.17%) Management Information System
7 7 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (3.57%) Robotics
9 5 (2.98%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.98%) Replication
10 4 (2.38%) Algorithms
10 4 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (2.38%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 35 (20.83%) Linux
2 21 (12.50%) Windows
3 10 (5.95%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.60%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (36.31%) AI
2 60 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 58 (34.52%) Agile
4 55 (32.74%) Software Engineering
5 48 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 35 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (19.64%) DevOps
9 32 (19.05%) Mentoring
10 31 (18.45%) Infrastructure as Code
11 30 (17.86%) Code Quality
11 30 (17.86%) Machine Learning
12 29 (17.26%) Test Automation
13 28 (16.67%) Computer Science
13 28 (16.67%) Observability
14 27 (16.07%) Microservices
15 23 (13.69%) LLM
16 22 (13.10%) Cybersecurity
17 19 (11.31%) Analytics
17 19 (11.31%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 67 (39.88%) Python
2 29 (17.26%) JavaScript
3 27 (16.07%) Java
4 25 (14.88%) SQL
5 22 (13.10%) TypeScript
6 21 (12.50%) Rust
7 18 (10.71%) PHP
8 14 (8.33%) C++
9 13 (7.74%) C#
10 11 (6.55%) C
11 4 (2.38%) Scala
11 4 (2.38%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.79%) Bash
12 3 (1.79%) Go
12 3 (1.79%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.19%) ABAP
14 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 54 (32.14%) Degree
2 39 (23.21%) Security Cleared
3 34 (20.24%) SC Cleared
4 20 (11.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.76%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.17%) CCNA
6 7 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.38%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.79%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.19%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.60%) CCNP
11 1 (0.60%) CISM
11 1 (0.60%) CISSP
11 1 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.60%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.60%) MCSE
11 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.93%) QA
2 5 (2.98%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.38%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.19%) NIST
6 1 (0.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (37.50%) Docker
2 14 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (7.74%) Active Directory
3 13 (7.74%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.76%) KVM
5 7 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.19%) Lustre
7 1 (0.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 37 (22.02%) Terraform
3 16 (9.52%) Ansible
4 11 (6.55%) Grafana
5 10 (5.95%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.17%) Puppet
7 6 (3.57%) Podman
8 5 (2.98%) Argo
9 3 (1.79%) Istio
9 3 (1.79%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.60%) CASB
10 1 (0.60%) Kibana
10 1 (0.60%) Packer
Vendors
1 53 (31.55%) Google
2 30 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 20 (11.90%) VMware
4 6 (3.57%) Citrix
5 5 (2.98%) NVIDIA
5 5 (2.98%) Oracle
6 4 (2.38%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.38%) Tenable
7 3 (1.79%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.19%) SAP
9 1 (0.60%) Carbon Black
9 1 (0.60%) Cisco
9 1 (0.60%) Confluent
9 1 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.60%) Foundry
9 1 (0.60%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.60%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.60%) Splunk
9 1 (0.60%) Typelevel