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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 131 152
Rank change year-on-year -35 +21 -20
Permanent jobs citing GCP 171 207 216
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.00% 2.35% 1.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.44% 9.00% 5.58%
Number of salaries quoted 120 66 119
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 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £79,688 £75,750 £83,125
90th Percentile £104,000 £90,250 £96,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +5.36%

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 3,855 2,300 3,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 22.61% 26.11% 28.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,750 1,421 2,697
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £30,030
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -7.41% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,748
England median annual salary £64,169 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.95% - -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 13 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 13 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 -53 76 £65,000 +8.33% 44
Hampshire -22 50 £70,000 - 28
Berkshire -57 31 £72,500 -3.33% 26
Buckinghamshire +6 24 £59,500 -0.83% 7
Surrey -9 22 £62,500 -13.79% 6
Oxfordshire -8 21 £95,000 +90.00% 13
Kent -18 9 £34,500 -50.71% 4
East Sussex -10 7 £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 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.58%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 144 (84.21%) AWS
2 129 (75.44%) Azure
3 19 (11.11%) GitHub
4 15 (8.77%) Serverless
5 12 (7.02%) Anthropic Claude
6 10 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.09%) Cloud Run
7 7 (4.09%) Firebase
8 6 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.92%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.92%) Figma
9 5 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (2.34%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (2.34%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.75%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 3 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.75%) Google Gemini
11 3 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.28%) Firewall
2 18 (10.53%) VPN
3 14 (8.19%) DNS
3 14 (8.19%) WAN
4 13 (7.60%) MQTT
5 12 (7.02%) LAN
6 9 (5.26%) Network Security
7 6 (3.51%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.92%) HTTP
9 3 (1.75%) Broadband
10 2 (1.17%) BGP
10 2 (1.17%) DHCP
11 1 (0.58%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.58%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (18.13%) MySQL
2 27 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 17 (9.94%) Relational Database
5 15 (8.77%) NoSQL
6 9 (5.26%) Pinecone
7 7 (4.09%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (4.09%) SQL Server
8 6 (3.51%) BigQuery
8 6 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (3.51%) Redis
9 5 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.92%) Looker
10 4 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.34%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.17%) Big Data
11 2 (1.17%) Flink
12 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.58%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.58%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 47 (27.49%) Git
2 13 (7.60%) GitLab
3 7 (4.09%) JIRA
4 6 (3.51%) JUnit
5 4 (2.34%) PHPUnit
5 4 (2.34%) Selenium
5 4 (2.34%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.75%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.75%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.75%) Eclipse RCP
6 3 (1.75%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.75%) Mockito
7 2 (1.17%) NUnit
8 1 (0.58%) Storybook
General
1 63 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.54%) Finance
3 23 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (8.19%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.51%) Games
5 6 (3.51%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.34%) Law
6 4 (2.34%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.75%) Aviation
8 2 (1.17%) Legal
9 1 (0.58%) Advertising
9 1 (0.58%) Billing
9 1 (0.58%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Marketing
9 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 46 (26.90%) Senior
2 38 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 28 (16.37%) Developer
4 18 (10.53%) Backend Developer
5 15 (8.77%) Architect
5 15 (8.77%) Senior Developer
6 14 (8.19%) Senior Backend Developer
7 11 (6.43%) Analyst
7 11 (6.43%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.43%) Lead
8 9 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 9 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.68%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (4.68%) Python Engineer
10 7 (4.09%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (4.09%) GCP Engineer
10 7 (4.09%) GCP Software Engineer
11 6 (3.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (3.51%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.70%) REST
2 19 (11.11%) React
3 17 (9.94%) Kafka
4 11 (6.43%) Spring
5 10 (5.85%) Spring Boot
6 9 (5.26%) gRPC
7 8 (4.68%) .NET
7 8 (4.68%) Node.js
7 8 (4.68%) RESTful
7 8 (4.68%) Web Services
8 7 (4.09%) CSS
8 7 (4.09%) Hibernate
8 7 (4.09%) HTML
8 7 (4.09%) pgvector
9 6 (3.51%) Protocol Buffers
10 5 (2.92%) Django
10 5 (2.92%) JPA
10 5 (2.92%) LAMP
10 5 (2.92%) Twisted
10 5 (2.92%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.45%) Product Ownership
2 18 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (9.36%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (8.77%) Cloud Native
5 12 (7.02%) AI Agents
6 9 (5.26%) Onboarding
6 9 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (4.68%) Client/Server
7 8 (4.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (4.09%) Management Information System
8 7 (4.09%) Video Conferencing
9 6 (3.51%) Robotics
10 5 (2.92%) Public Cloud
10 5 (2.92%) Replication
11 4 (2.34%) Algorithms
11 4 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (2.34%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (1.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 36 (21.05%) Linux
2 22 (12.87%) Windows
3 11 (6.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.58%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (36.26%) AI
2 60 (35.09%) CI/CD
3 59 (34.50%) Agile
4 56 (32.75%) Software Engineering
5 49 (28.65%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (24.56%) Containerisation
7 37 (21.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (19.30%) DevOps
8 33 (19.30%) Mentoring
9 31 (18.13%) Code Quality
9 31 (18.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 31 (18.13%) Machine Learning
9 31 (18.13%) Test Automation
10 29 (16.96%) Computer Science
10 29 (16.96%) Observability
11 27 (15.79%) Microservices
12 23 (13.45%) LLM
13 22 (12.87%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (11.70%) Analytics
15 19 (11.11%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 69 (40.35%) Python
2 30 (17.54%) JavaScript
3 27 (15.79%) Java
4 25 (14.62%) SQL
5 23 (13.45%) TypeScript
6 22 (12.87%) Rust
7 18 (10.53%) PHP
8 15 (8.77%) C++
9 13 (7.60%) C#
10 12 (7.02%) C
11 4 (2.34%) Scala
11 4 (2.34%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.75%) Bash
12 3 (1.75%) Go
12 3 (1.75%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.17%) ABAP
14 1 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 55 (32.16%) Degree
2 39 (22.81%) Security Cleared
3 34 (19.88%) SC Cleared
4 21 (12.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.68%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.68%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.09%) CCNA
6 7 (4.09%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.34%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.75%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.17%) MCSE
10 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.58%) CCNP
11 1 (0.58%) CISM
11 1 (0.58%) CISSP
11 1 (0.58%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.36%) QA
2 6 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.34%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.17%) NIST
6 1 (0.58%) GDPR
6 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.58%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (37.43%) Docker
2 15 (8.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (8.19%) Hyper-V
4 13 (7.60%) Active Directory
5 9 (5.26%) KVM
6 7 (4.09%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.17%) Lustre
8 1 (0.58%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 57 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 38 (22.22%) Terraform
3 16 (9.36%) Ansible
4 11 (6.43%) Grafana
5 10 (5.85%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.09%) Puppet
7 6 (3.51%) Podman
8 5 (2.92%) Argo
9 3 (1.75%) Istio
9 3 (1.75%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.58%) CASB
10 1 (0.58%) Kibana
10 1 (0.58%) Packer
Vendors
1 54 (31.58%) Google
2 31 (18.13%) Microsoft
3 22 (12.87%) VMware
4 6 (3.51%) Citrix
5 5 (2.92%) NVIDIA
5 5 (2.92%) Oracle
6 4 (2.34%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.34%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.34%) Tenable
7 3 (1.75%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.17%) Confluent
8 2 (1.17%) SAP
9 1 (0.58%) Carbon Black
9 1 (0.58%) Cisco
9 1 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.58%) Foundry
9 1 (0.58%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.58%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.58%) Splunk
9 1 (0.58%) Typelevel