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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 118 136
Rank change year-on-year -76 +18 +17
Permanent jobs citing GCP 149 220 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.79% 2.46% 1.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.95% 9.34% 6.83%
Number of salaries quoted 103 98 133
10th Percentile £33,250 £42,475 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £96,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £143,750 £96,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +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 3,769 2,356 3,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 19.95% 26.40% 28.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,839 1,479 2,074
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,531
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +0.15%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -78 58 £73,750 +40.48% 106
Hampshire -38 45 £62,500 -10.71% 32
Surrey -6 24 £55,000 -24.14% 25
Oxfordshire -14 22 £95,000 +181.48% 20
Berkshire -74 19 £87,500 +14.75% 69
Buckinghamshire -2 17 £60,000 +6.67% 17
East Sussex -17 8 £55,000 -51.11% 9
West Sussex -16 5 £105,000 +75.00% 7
Kent -39 4 £42,500 -69.09% 7
Middlesex +16 1 - - 2
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 4 (2.68%) Confluence
2 3 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Lightworks
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.34%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 125 (83.89%) AWS
2 111 (74.50%) Azure
3 18 (12.08%) GitHub
4 15 (10.07%) Serverless
5 13 (8.72%) Anthropic Claude
6 7 (4.70%) Cloud Run
6 7 (4.70%) Firebase
6 7 (4.70%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.70%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (3.36%) ChatGPT
8 5 (3.36%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (3.36%) Entra ID
8 5 (3.36%) Google Gemini
8 5 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.36%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.68%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (2.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.01%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.07%) Firewall
2 14 (9.40%) DNS
3 13 (8.72%) VPN
4 11 (7.38%) MQTT
5 9 (6.04%) Network Security
6 8 (5.37%) TCP/IP
7 5 (3.36%) HTTP
7 5 (3.36%) WAN
8 3 (2.01%) Internet
8 3 (2.01%) LAN
9 2 (1.34%) BGP
9 2 (1.34%) DHCP
10 1 (0.67%) 5G
10 1 (0.67%) Broadband
10 1 (0.67%) DNSSEC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.79%) MySQL
2 17 (11.41%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (10.07%) Relational Database
4 11 (7.38%) MongoDB
5 9 (6.04%) Pinecone
6 7 (4.70%) Chroma
7 6 (4.03%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.36%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.68%) Redis
10 3 (2.01%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.01%) Looker
11 2 (1.34%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.34%) Power BI
12 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.67%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.67%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (30.87%) Git
2 11 (7.38%) GitLab
3 5 (3.36%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.36%) JIRA
4 4 (2.68%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.01%) Claude Code
5 3 (2.01%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.01%) Eclipse RCP
5 3 (2.01%) JUnit
5 3 (2.01%) PHPUnit
5 3 (2.01%) Selenium
6 2 (1.34%) NUnit
7 1 (0.67%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.67%) Mocha
7 1 (0.67%) Storybook
General
1 57 (38.26%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (16.11%) Finance
4 14 (9.40%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.68%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.01%) French Language
7 3 (2.01%) Games
7 3 (2.01%) Law
7 3 (2.01%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.34%) Aviation
8 2 (1.34%) Legal
9 1 (0.67%) Advertising
9 1 (0.67%) Banking
9 1 (0.67%) Billing
9 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Marketing
9 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (28.19%) Senior
2 28 (18.79%) Developer
3 27 (18.12%) Software Engineer
4 18 (12.08%) Backend Developer
5 14 (9.40%) Architect
5 14 (9.40%) Senior Developer
6 13 (8.72%) Senior Backend Developer
7 10 (6.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) Lead
8 9 (6.04%) Analyst
8 9 (6.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 9 (6.04%) Data Engineer
9 8 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.70%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (4.70%) GCP Engineer
10 7 (4.70%) GCP Software Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) Graduate
11 6 (4.03%) Python Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (26.17%) Terraform
2 16 (10.74%) React
3 15 (10.07%) REST
4 14 (9.40%) Kafka
5 10 (6.71%) Spring
6 9 (6.04%) Node.js
6 9 (6.04%) Spring Boot
7 8 (5.37%) gRPC
8 7 (4.70%) .NET
8 7 (4.70%) CSS
8 7 (4.70%) HTML
8 7 (4.70%) pgvector
9 6 (4.03%) Protocol Buffers
9 6 (4.03%) RESTful
10 5 (3.36%) Hibernate
10 5 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (2.68%) ASP.NET
11 4 (2.68%) Entity Framework
11 4 (2.68%) LAMP
11 4 (2.68%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.41%) Greenfield Project
2 14 (9.40%) Product Ownership
3 13 (8.72%) AI Agents
3 13 (8.72%) Cloud Native
4 10 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (6.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (5.37%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (4.03%) Public Cloud
7 6 (4.03%) Robotics
8 4 (2.68%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.68%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.68%) Mobile App
9 3 (2.01%) Life Science
9 3 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.01%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.01%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (2.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (2.01%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 30 (20.13%) Linux
2 10 (6.71%) Windows
3 4 (2.68%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.67%) Debian
4 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (42.95%) CI/CD
2 62 (41.61%) AI
3 51 (34.23%) Agile
4 49 (32.89%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (32.21%) Software Engineering
6 39 (26.17%) DevOps
6 39 (26.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (22.15%) Containerisation
8 32 (21.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (21.48%) Mentoring
9 30 (20.13%) Machine Learning
10 27 (18.12%) Observability
11 24 (16.11%) Computer Science
11 24 (16.11%) LLM
12 23 (15.44%) Microservices
13 19 (12.75%) Cybersecurity
13 19 (12.75%) DevSecOps
14 18 (12.08%) Analytics
14 18 (12.08%) Decision-Making
14 18 (12.08%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 54 (36.24%) Python
2 26 (17.45%) JavaScript
3 25 (16.78%) Java
4 23 (15.44%) SQL
5 18 (12.08%) TypeScript
6 17 (11.41%) PHP
7 13 (8.72%) Rust
8 12 (8.05%) C#
9 8 (5.37%) C++
10 7 (4.70%) Shell Script
11 6 (4.03%) Bash
12 5 (3.36%) C
13 4 (2.68%) Scala
14 3 (2.01%) ABAP
14 3 (2.01%) Go
15 2 (1.34%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (28.86%) Degree
2 37 (24.83%) Security Cleared
3 32 (21.48%) SC Cleared
4 14 (9.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.37%) Master's Degree
6 6 (4.03%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.03%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.68%) DBS Check
8 3 (2.01%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.34%) CCNA
9 2 (1.34%) CCSP
9 2 (1.34%) CISSP
9 2 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.34%) CREST Certified
9 2 (1.34%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.67%) CCNP
10 1 (0.67%) GIAC
10 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.03%) NIST
3 5 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.36%) QA
4 4 (2.68%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.01%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.67%) GDPR
6 1 (0.67%) IASME
6 1 (0.67%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (38.93%) Docker
2 5 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.34%) Firmware
4 2 (1.34%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.34%) KVM
4 2 (1.34%) Lustre
4 2 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (36.91%) Kubernetes
2 19 (12.75%) Ansible
3 9 (6.04%) Grafana
4 8 (5.37%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.70%) Puppet
6 6 (4.03%) Podman
7 5 (3.36%) Argo
8 3 (2.01%) Istio
8 3 (2.01%) Kustomize
8 3 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.67%) Kibana
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.67%) Packer
Vendors
1 47 (31.54%) Google
2 25 (16.78%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.03%) NVIDIA
3 6 (4.03%) VMware
4 5 (3.36%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.68%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.68%) Tenable
6 3 (2.01%) SAP
7 2 (1.34%) Oracle
8 1 (0.67%) Carbon Black
8 1 (0.67%) Cisco
8 1 (0.67%) Citrix
8 1 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.67%) Databricks
8 1 (0.67%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.67%) Infoblox
8 1 (0.67%) Splunk
8 1 (0.67%) Typelevel