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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 138 186
Rank change year-on-year -30 +48 -64
Permanent jobs citing GCP 153 169 226
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.99% 2.02% 1.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.07% 7.71% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 98 74 127
10th Percentile £32,250 £38,825 £41,732
25th Percentile £47,813 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -23.33%
75th Percentile £75,956 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,125 £89,250 £96,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +3.13%

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 3,761 2,192 5,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.22% 26.15% 29.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,605 1,376 3,934
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £27,833
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -20 76 £62,500 +4.17% 34
Berkshire -24 41 £70,000 -8.20% 17
Hampshire -33 40 £70,000 - 13
Buckinghamshire -1 22 £60,000 - 5
Surrey -8 18 £55,000 -24.14% 7
Oxfordshire -14 13 £81,250 +91.18% 12
Kent -23 9 £34,500 -50.71% 7
East Sussex -4 7 £55,000 - 2
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 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.61%) Confluence
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.65%) Camunda
Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 127 (83.01%) AWS
2 117 (76.47%) Azure
3 13 (8.50%) GitHub
4 12 (7.84%) Serverless
5 11 (7.19%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.27%) Figma
7 4 (2.61%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.61%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 4 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.61%) Prefect
8 3 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.96%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (1.96%) dbt
8 3 (1.96%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.96%) OCI
8 3 (1.96%) SaaS
8 3 (1.96%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.31%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.07%) Firewall
2 15 (9.80%) VPN
3 14 (9.15%) DNS
3 14 (9.15%) MQTT
4 13 (8.50%) WAN
5 12 (7.84%) LAN
6 8 (5.23%) Network Security
7 6 (3.92%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.61%) Broadband
9 3 (1.96%) DHCP
9 3 (1.96%) HTTP
10 1 (0.65%) BGP
10 1 (0.65%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.65%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.65%) Modbus
10 1 (0.65%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (13.73%) MySQL
3 18 (11.76%) MongoDB
4 17 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 12 (7.84%) Relational Database
6 8 (5.23%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (5.23%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.92%) BigQuery
7 6 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.27%) Looker
8 5 (3.27%) Redis
9 4 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.61%) Big Data
9 4 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.61%) Pinecone
9 4 (2.61%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.96%) Flink
11 2 (1.31%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.65%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.65%) GIS
Development Applications
1 36 (23.53%) Git
2 17 (11.11%) GitLab
3 7 (4.58%) JIRA
4 6 (3.92%) JUnit
5 5 (3.27%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.96%) Mockito
7 2 (1.31%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.31%) Eclipse RCP
7 2 (1.31%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.31%) PHPUnit
7 2 (1.31%) Selenium
8 1 (0.65%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.65%) Storybook
General
1 54 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.34%) Finance
3 21 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.50%) Telecoms
5 12 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (7.19%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.92%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.27%) Law
9 4 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.96%) Aviation
10 3 (1.96%) Games
10 3 (1.96%) Legal
11 2 (1.31%) Banking
11 2 (1.31%) Retail
12 1 (0.65%) Advertising
12 1 (0.65%) Billing
12 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Marketing
12 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (21.57%) Software Engineer
2 32 (20.92%) Senior
3 19 (12.42%) Developer
4 14 (9.15%) Analyst
5 13 (8.50%) Architect
5 13 (8.50%) Data Engineer
6 11 (7.19%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 10 (6.54%) Backend Developer
8 8 (5.23%) Senior Developer
9 7 (4.58%) Lead
9 7 (4.58%) Senior Backend Developer
9 7 (4.58%) Support Engineer
10 6 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (3.92%) Graduate
10 6 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.92%) Python Engineer
10 6 (3.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (3.27%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 5 (3.27%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.42%) Kafka
2 15 (9.80%) REST
3 14 (9.15%) React
4 9 (5.88%) gRPC
4 9 (5.88%) RESTful
4 9 (5.88%) Web Services
5 8 (5.23%) Spring Boot
6 7 (4.58%) .NET
6 7 (4.58%) Spring
7 6 (3.92%) Protocol Buffers
8 5 (3.27%) Django
8 5 (3.27%) Twisted
8 5 (3.27%) WebSockets
9 4 (2.61%) CSS
9 4 (2.61%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.61%) HTML
9 4 (2.61%) JPA
9 4 (2.61%) Node.js
9 4 (2.61%) React Native
9 4 (2.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.38%) Distributed Systems
1 22 (14.38%) Product Ownership
2 14 (9.15%) Client/Server
3 13 (8.50%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 9 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (5.23%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.58%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.27%) Robotics
8 4 (2.61%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.61%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.61%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.61%) Life Science
8 4 (2.61%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.61%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (2.61%) Replication
9 3 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 42 (27.45%) Linux
2 23 (15.03%) Windows
3 11 (7.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (34.64%) Agile
2 51 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (32.03%) AI
4 47 (30.72%) CI/CD
5 46 (30.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 45 (29.41%) Software Engineering
7 40 (26.14%) Containerisation
8 33 (21.57%) Test Automation
9 32 (20.92%) Computer Science
10 29 (18.95%) Machine Learning
10 29 (18.95%) Microservices
11 27 (17.65%) Code Quality
12 26 (16.99%) Cybersecurity
13 25 (16.34%) DevOps
14 23 (15.03%) Analytics
14 23 (15.03%) Mentoring
15 21 (13.73%) Data Science
15 21 (13.73%) Observability
15 21 (13.73%) Scrum
16 20 (13.07%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 70 (45.75%) Python
2 29 (18.95%) Rust
3 24 (15.69%) Java
4 23 (15.03%) JavaScript
4 23 (15.03%) SQL
5 20 (13.07%) C++
6 18 (11.76%) TypeScript
7 16 (10.46%) C
8 9 (5.88%) C#
8 9 (5.88%) PHP
9 6 (3.92%) Scala
10 3 (1.96%) Bash
10 3 (1.96%) Go
10 3 (1.96%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.96%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.31%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (38.56%) Degree
2 39 (25.49%) Security Cleared
3 33 (21.57%) SC Cleared
4 23 (15.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.23%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.58%) CCNA
6 7 (4.58%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.92%) DBS Check
7 6 (3.92%) DV Cleared
8 5 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.96%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.31%) MCSE
10 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.65%) CCNP
11 1 (0.65%) CISM
11 1 (0.65%) CISSP
11 1 (0.65%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.38%) QA
2 7 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.61%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.96%) NIST
4 3 (1.96%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (32.68%) Docker
2 20 (13.07%) Hyper-V
2 20 (13.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (9.15%) KVM
4 12 (7.84%) Active Directory
5 5 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (26.14%) Kubernetes
2 28 (18.30%) Terraform
3 15 (9.80%) Ansible
4 11 (7.19%) Grafana
4 11 (7.19%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.58%) Puppet
6 4 (2.61%) Podman
7 1 (0.65%) Argo
7 1 (0.65%) CASB
7 1 (0.65%) Istio
7 1 (0.65%) Kibana
7 1 (0.65%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 50 (32.68%) Google
2 29 (18.95%) Microsoft
3 27 (17.65%) VMware
4 8 (5.23%) Oracle
5 6 (3.92%) Citrix
6 5 (3.27%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.27%) Tenable
7 4 (2.61%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.96%) Confluent
8 3 (1.96%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.31%) Typelevel
10 1 (0.65%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.65%) Carbon Black
10 1 (0.65%) Cisco
10 1 (0.65%) Foundry
10 1 (0.65%) Genesys
10 1 (0.65%) Infoblox
10 1 (0.65%) Pega
10 1 (0.65%) Splunk