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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 123 158
Rank change year-on-year +17 +35 -11
Permanent jobs citing GCP 195 226 129
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.23% 2.01% 1.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.58% 6.84% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 88 136 101
10th Percentile £30,500 £41,732 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -20.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £115,000 £78,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £95,000 £97,500
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 2,574 3,305 2,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 29.46% 29.34% 36.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,675 1,818 2,354
10th Percentile £27,750 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,438 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,425 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 8 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 8 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 +64 134 £42,500 -25.44% 432
Berkshire +69 108 £46,000 -35.44% 391
Hampshire -16 32 £70,000 +16.67% 31
Buckinghamshire +14 15 £52,500 -19.23% 16
East Sussex +22 13 £112,500 +136.84% 4
Kent +1 12 £137,500 +175.00% 5
Oxfordshire +6 11 £28,500 -35.36% 29
Sussex - 2 £55,000 - 3
West Sussex +2 1 £60,000 -17.15% 4
Surrey -7 1 £70,000 -20.00% 12
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 (3.59%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.56%) IIS
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 165 (84.62%) Azure
2 154 (78.97%) AWS
3 43 (22.05%) SaaS
4 20 (10.26%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (8.72%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (8.21%) Vertex AI
7 15 (7.69%) Azure AI
8 10 (5.13%) IaaS
8 10 (5.13%) OCI
8 10 (5.13%) PaaS
9 8 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.10%) GitHub
10 7 (3.59%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.59%) Snowflake
11 5 (2.56%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.56%) Serverless
12 4 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.05%) dbt
12 4 (2.05%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.26%) DNS
2 18 (9.23%) DHCP
2 18 (9.23%) Firewall
3 14 (7.18%) VPN
4 7 (3.59%) Network Security
4 7 (3.59%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.05%) LAN
5 4 (2.05%) WAN
6 3 (1.54%) Wireless
7 1 (0.51%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (18.97%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (14.36%) BigQuery
3 14 (7.18%) NoSQL
4 10 (5.13%) Data Lake
5 8 (4.10%) Big Data
5 8 (4.10%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.59%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.56%) Power BI
7 5 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (2.05%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.05%) Looker
8 4 (2.05%) MySQL
9 3 (1.54%) Metadata
9 3 (1.54%) Tableau
10 2 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (10.77%) Git
2 4 (2.05%) git-flow
3 3 (1.54%) Burp Suite
3 3 (1.54%) GitLab
3 3 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.54%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.51%) JIRA
4 1 (0.51%) MLflow
General
1 92 (47.18%) Law
2 79 (40.51%) Social Skills
3 56 (28.72%) Marketing
4 53 (27.18%) Finance
5 36 (18.46%) Legal
6 11 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.56%) Retail
8 3 (1.54%) Advertising
8 3 (1.54%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.51%) Banking
9 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 63 (32.31%) Senior
2 52 (26.67%) Architect
3 46 (23.59%) Developer
4 30 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
5 21 (10.77%) .NET Developer
5 21 (10.77%) .NET Software Developer
5 21 (10.77%) Data Architect
5 21 (10.77%) Engineering Manager
5 21 (10.77%) Platform Architect
5 21 (10.77%) Software Developer
6 20 (10.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 20 (10.26%) GCP Architect
6 20 (10.26%) Senior Developer
7 19 (9.74%) Senior Architect
7 19 (9.74%) Senior Data Architect
7 19 (9.74%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (8.72%) IT Engineer
8 17 (8.72%) Product Manager
9 16 (8.21%) Support Engineer
10 15 (7.69%) Product Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (16.92%) .NET
2 21 (10.77%) React
3 20 (10.26%) CSS
4 19 (9.74%) HTML
5 17 (8.72%) Node.js
6 15 (7.69%) Hugging Face
7 14 (7.18%) RESTful
7 14 (7.18%) TensorFlow
8 13 (6.67%) LangChain
8 13 (6.67%) PyTorch
9 12 (6.15%) Kafka
10 5 (2.56%) .NET Framework
10 5 (2.56%) Entity Framework
10 5 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.56%) WinForms
11 4 (2.05%) AWS CDK
11 4 (2.05%) Material-UI
12 2 (1.03%) Ajax
12 2 (1.03%) scikit-learn
12 2 (1.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (17.44%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.69%) AI Agents
3 8 (4.10%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.59%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.59%) Private Cloud
4 7 (3.59%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.05%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.51%) Hackathon
6 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.82%) Windows
2 14 (7.18%) Linux
3 10 (5.13%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.54%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.03%) Unix
6 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (46.67%) Roadmaps
2 83 (42.56%) Agile
3 81 (41.54%) Continuous Improvement
4 79 (40.51%) AI
5 74 (37.95%) Data Science
6 58 (29.74%) Machine Learning
7 50 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (25.13%) Mentoring
9 47 (24.10%) Generative AI
10 41 (21.03%) Cloud Security
11 40 (20.51%) DevOps
12 39 (20.00%) Analytics
12 39 (20.00%) Architectural Design
12 39 (20.00%) Data Modelling
12 39 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
13 38 (19.49%) CI/CD
14 34 (17.44%) ETL
15 31 (15.90%) Data Engineering
15 31 (15.90%) Data Governance
15 31 (15.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 41 (21.03%) JavaScript
2 40 (20.51%) Python
3 28 (14.36%) SQL
4 26 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 23 (11.79%) Go
6 21 (10.77%) Java
7 17 (8.72%) PowerShell
8 10 (5.13%) C#
9 7 (3.59%) Bash
10 5 (2.56%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.05%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (17.95%) Degree
2 25 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (10.77%) Master's Degree
4 15 (7.69%) Security Cleared
5 12 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (5.13%) DV Cleared
7 9 (4.62%) AWS Certification
7 9 (4.62%) Azure Certification
8 8 (4.10%) SC Cleared
9 7 (3.59%) A+ Certification
9 7 (3.59%) MCP
9 7 (3.59%) OSCP
10 5 (2.56%) CISSP
10 5 (2.56%) MCSE
11 4 (2.05%) CEH
11 4 (2.05%) CISM
11 4 (2.05%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (2.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.51%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 1 (0.51%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.31%) Data Quality
2 21 (10.77%) QA
3 15 (7.69%) GDPR
4 8 (4.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 8 (4.10%) NIST
5 7 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.05%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.54%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.51%) GRC
8 1 (0.51%) NCSC
8 1 (0.51%) SLA
8 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (10.26%) Docker
2 18 (9.23%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (21.54%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.72%) Grafana
2 17 (8.72%) Prometheus
3 10 (5.13%) Terraform
4 6 (3.08%) Ansible
5 4 (2.05%) QRadar
6 3 (1.54%) Nmap
7 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.51%) SCCM
7 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.51%) WSUS
Vendors
1 71 (36.41%) Google
2 22 (11.28%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.69%) Foundry
3 15 (7.69%) OpenAI
4 7 (3.59%) Dynatrace
4 7 (3.59%) Zoho
5 5 (2.56%) Cisco
5 5 (2.56%) Sage
5 5 (2.56%) VMware
5 5 (2.56%) Xamarin
6 4 (2.05%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.05%) Splunk
7 3 (1.54%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.03%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.03%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.03%) Talend
9 1 (0.51%) Citrix
9 1 (0.51%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.51%) SolarWinds