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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 147 195
Rank change year-on-year -23 +48 -88
Permanent jobs citing GCP 135 145 212
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.93% 1.90% 1.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.63% 7.45% 4.16%
Number of salaries quoted 84 69 112
10th Percentile £37,500 £28,150 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +7.44% -13.57%
75th Percentile £77,813 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,625 £83,750 £94,875
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% -

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 3,714 1,947 5,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.57% 25.45% 30.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,300 1,189 4,051
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,600 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -10.51%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,000 £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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -5 69 £68,750 +22.22% 31
Berkshire -8 41 £70,000 -9.68% 15
Hampshire -24 35 £66,250 +1.92% 22
Buckinghamshire +8 19 £65,000 +23.81% 7
Surrey -10 14 £55,000 -24.14% 5
Oxfordshire -19 9 £75,000 +76.47% 9
Kent -25 9 £34,500 -50.71% 2
East Sussex -12 7 £55,000 -26.67% 4
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 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.96%) Confluence
3 4 (2.96%) nginx
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.74%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 114 (84.44%) AWS
2 104 (77.04%) Azure
3 10 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (6.67%) Serverless
5 7 (5.19%) GitHub
6 5 (3.70%) Figma
7 4 (2.96%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 4 (2.96%) Prefect
8 3 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.22%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (2.22%) dbt
8 3 (2.22%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.22%) OCI
8 3 (2.22%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.22%) SaaS
8 3 (2.22%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.48%) Cloud Run
9 2 (1.48%) Firebase
9 2 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.07%) Firewall
2 17 (12.59%) VPN
3 13 (9.63%) DNS
4 12 (8.89%) LAN
4 12 (8.89%) WAN
5 11 (8.15%) MQTT
6 8 (5.93%) Network Security
7 4 (2.96%) Broadband
7 4 (2.96%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.48%) DHCP
8 2 (1.48%) HTTP
9 1 (0.74%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.74%) Modbus
9 1 (0.74%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.07%) NoSQL
1 19 (14.07%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (12.59%) MySQL
3 14 (10.37%) MongoDB
4 12 (8.89%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (5.93%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.44%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (4.44%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.70%) Looker
8 4 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.96%) Big Data
8 4 (2.96%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.22%) Flink
9 3 (2.22%) Redis
10 2 (1.48%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.48%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.74%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.74%) GIS
Development Applications
1 26 (19.26%) Git
2 18 (13.33%) GitLab
3 7 (5.19%) JIRA
4 5 (3.70%) JUnit
4 5 (3.70%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.22%) Mockito
6 2 (1.48%) PHPUnit
6 2 (1.48%) Selenium
General
1 44 (32.59%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.04%) Finance
3 15 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (9.63%) Telecoms
5 12 (8.89%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.93%) Law
7 4 (2.96%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.22%) Aviation
8 3 (2.22%) Games
8 3 (2.22%) Legal
8 3 (2.22%) Marketing
9 2 (1.48%) Banking
9 2 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.48%) Retail
10 1 (0.74%) Advertising
10 1 (0.74%) Billing
10 1 (0.74%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 26 (19.26%) Senior
3 15 (11.11%) Developer
4 13 (9.63%) Architect
5 12 (8.89%) Analyst
6 11 (8.15%) Data Engineer
6 11 (8.15%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 9 (6.67%) Lead
7 9 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.93%) Backend Developer
8 8 (5.93%) Senior Backend Developer
9 7 (5.19%) Support Engineer
10 6 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.44%) Python Engineer
10 6 (4.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (3.70%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 5 (3.70%) PHP Developer
11 5 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.37%) Kafka
2 10 (7.41%) React
2 10 (7.41%) REST
3 9 (6.67%) Web Services
4 8 (5.93%) gRPC
4 8 (5.93%) RESTful
5 7 (5.19%) .NET
6 5 (3.70%) Django
6 5 (3.70%) Protocol Buffers
6 5 (3.70%) Twisted
6 5 (3.70%) WebSockets
7 4 (2.96%) Hibernate
7 4 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (2.96%) React Native
7 4 (2.96%) Redux
7 4 (2.96%) Spring
8 3 (2.22%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.22%) JPA
8 3 (2.22%) LAMP
8 3 (2.22%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (12.59%) Product Ownership
3 15 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 14 (10.37%) Client/Server
5 10 (7.41%) Onboarding
6 9 (6.67%) Management Information System
7 7 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (4.44%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (3.70%) Cyber Defence
9 5 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (2.96%) Mobile App
10 4 (2.96%) Replication
11 3 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (2.22%) Low-Code
11 3 (2.22%) Public Cloud
11 3 (2.22%) Robotics
11 3 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (1.48%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (1.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (28.15%) Linux
2 19 (14.07%) Windows
3 9 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (34.07%) Continuous Improvement
2 42 (31.11%) Agile
3 40 (29.63%) Containerisation
4 38 (28.15%) CI/CD
5 36 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (26.67%) Software Engineering
6 35 (25.93%) AI
7 30 (22.22%) Computer Science
8 28 (20.74%) Test Automation
9 26 (19.26%) Microservices
10 25 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
11 23 (17.04%) Machine Learning
12 22 (16.30%) Code Quality
13 20 (14.81%) Analytics
13 20 (14.81%) DevOps
13 20 (14.81%) Mentoring
13 20 (14.81%) Observability
14 19 (14.07%) Data Science
14 19 (14.07%) Scrum
15 17 (12.59%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 62 (45.93%) Python
2 27 (20.00%) Rust
3 18 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 16 (11.85%) Java
4 16 (11.85%) SQL
5 15 (11.11%) C++
5 15 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 14 (10.37%) C
7 9 (6.67%) C#
7 9 (6.67%) PHP
8 6 (4.44%) Scala
9 3 (2.22%) Go
9 3 (2.22%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.48%) Bash
10 2 (1.48%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.48%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.74%) R
11 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (37.78%) Degree
2 36 (26.67%) Security Cleared
3 30 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 20 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.19%) CCNA
5 7 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.44%) DBS Check
6 6 (4.44%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.44%) Master's Degree
7 5 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.22%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.22%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.48%) MCSE
9 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.74%) CCNP
10 1 (0.74%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.30%) QA
2 9 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.96%) NIST
4 3 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.22%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.22%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.48%) GDPR
6 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (29.63%) Docker
2 20 (14.81%) Hyper-V
2 20 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (10.37%) KVM
4 10 (7.41%) Active Directory
5 5 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 19 (14.07%) Terraform
3 13 (9.63%) Ansible
4 10 (7.41%) Grafana
4 10 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.19%) Puppet
6 4 (2.96%) Podman
7 1 (0.74%) Argo
7 1 (0.74%) CASB
7 1 (0.74%) Kibana
Vendors
1 41 (30.37%) Google
2 26 (19.26%) VMware
3 25 (18.52%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.93%) Oracle
5 6 (4.44%) Citrix
6 5 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.70%) Tenable
7 4 (2.96%) NVIDIA
8 3 (2.22%) Confluent
8 3 (2.22%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.48%) Typelevel
10 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.74%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.74%) Carbon Black
10 1 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.74%) Foundry
10 1 (0.74%) Genesys
10 1 (0.74%) Pega
10 1 (0.74%) Splunk
10 1 (0.74%) UiPath