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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 134 161
Rank change year-on-year +22 +27 -21
Permanent jobs citing GCP 209 220 137
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.32% 1.92% 1.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.31% 6.65% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 89 133 108
10th Percentile £30,500 £41,885 £47,125
25th Percentile £46,000 £50,000 £57,500
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 £81,250 £86,563
90th Percentile £143,750 £96,000 £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 2,515 3,310 2,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 27.93% 28.92% 36.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,575 1,869 2,379
10th Percentile £27,750 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £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 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% -2.37%

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 24 October 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 24 October 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 +54 146 £44,250 -23.04% 207
Berkshire +71 115 £61,750 -20.32% 182
Hampshire -13 32 £70,000 +16.67% 22
Buckinghamshire +9 19 £52,500 -19.23% 9
East Sussex +13 14 £112,500 +125.00% 2
Kent -9 13 £137,500 +175.00% 2
Oxfordshire +5 12 £28,500 -37.77% 19
Sussex - 2 £55,000 - 1
West Sussex +1 1 £60,000 -17.15% 1
Surrey -4 1 £70,000 -21.13% 6
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 9 (4.31%) Confluence
2 7 (3.35%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.39%) IIS
4 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 178 (85.17%) Azure
2 170 (81.34%) AWS
3 42 (20.10%) SaaS
4 18 (8.61%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (7.66%) Vertex AI
6 15 (7.18%) Azure AI
7 13 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (6.22%) Snowflake
8 10 (4.78%) IaaS
8 10 (4.78%) OCI
8 10 (4.78%) PaaS
9 8 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.83%) GitHub
10 6 (2.87%) Serverless
11 5 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.39%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.39%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.91%) dbt
12 4 (1.91%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.09%) Firewall
2 18 (8.61%) DNS
3 16 (7.66%) DHCP
4 14 (6.70%) VPN
5 9 (4.31%) Network Security
6 6 (2.87%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.91%) LAN
7 4 (1.91%) WAN
8 3 (1.44%) Wireless
9 2 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.96%) SMTP
10 1 (0.48%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (20.57%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (13.40%) BigQuery
3 16 (7.66%) Data Lake
3 16 (7.66%) SQL Server
4 14 (6.70%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.31%) Metadata
6 8 (3.83%) Big Data
7 7 (3.35%) Hadoop
8 5 (2.39%) Power BI
8 5 (2.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.91%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.91%) Looker
9 4 (1.91%) MySQL
10 3 (1.44%) Tableau
11 2 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (10.05%) Git
2 11 (5.26%) GitLab
3 9 (4.31%) JIRA
4 8 (3.83%) Bitbucket
4 8 (3.83%) Cucumber
4 8 (3.83%) Maven
4 8 (3.83%) Selenium
4 8 (3.83%) SonarQube
4 8 (3.83%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.91%) git-flow
6 3 (1.44%) Burp Suite
6 3 (1.44%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.44%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.48%) MLflow
General
1 98 (46.89%) Law
2 79 (37.80%) Social Skills
3 59 (28.23%) Finance
4 56 (26.79%) Marketing
5 36 (17.22%) Legal
6 11 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.31%) Banking
8 5 (2.39%) Retail
9 3 (1.44%) Advertising
9 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 69 (33.01%) Senior
2 53 (25.36%) Architect
3 46 (22.01%) Developer
4 30 (14.35%) Cloud Architect
5 21 (10.05%) .NET Developer
5 21 (10.05%) .NET Software Developer
5 21 (10.05%) Data Architect
5 21 (10.05%) Engineering Manager
5 21 (10.05%) Platform Architect
5 21 (10.05%) Software Developer
6 20 (9.57%) Full-Stack Developer
6 20 (9.57%) GCP Architect
6 20 (9.57%) Senior Developer
7 19 (9.09%) Senior Architect
7 19 (9.09%) Senior Data Architect
7 19 (9.09%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (8.13%) Lead
8 17 (8.13%) Product Manager
9 16 (7.66%) IT Engineer
9 16 (7.66%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (15.79%) .NET
2 29 (13.88%) React
3 28 (13.40%) CSS
4 27 (12.92%) HTML
5 21 (10.05%) Kafka
6 17 (8.13%) Node.js
7 15 (7.18%) Hugging Face
8 14 (6.70%) RESTful
8 14 (6.70%) TensorFlow
9 13 (6.22%) LangChain
9 13 (6.22%) PyTorch
10 9 (4.31%) Spring Boot
11 8 (3.83%) Hibernate
11 8 (3.83%) JPA
11 8 (3.83%) Redux
11 8 (3.83%) Spring
12 5 (2.39%) .NET Framework
12 5 (2.39%) Entity Framework
12 5 (2.39%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.39%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 36 (17.22%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.18%) AI Agents
2 15 (7.18%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.31%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.83%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.35%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.91%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.96%) Clustering
7 2 (0.96%) Hackathon
7 2 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.96%) PKI
8 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.48%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.00%) Windows
2 13 (6.22%) Linux
3 10 (4.78%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.44%) Kali Linux
5 2 (0.96%) Unix
6 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (44.02%) Agile
2 91 (43.54%) Roadmaps
3 89 (42.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 79 (37.80%) AI
5 74 (35.41%) Data Science
6 58 (27.75%) Machine Learning
7 50 (23.92%) Mentoring
8 48 (22.97%) CI/CD
8 48 (22.97%) DevOps
8 48 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (22.49%) Generative AI
10 46 (22.01%) Analytics
11 45 (21.53%) Data Modelling
12 42 (20.10%) Cloud Security
13 40 (19.14%) ETL
14 39 (18.66%) Architectural Design
14 39 (18.66%) Software Engineering
14 39 (18.66%) Strategic Roadmap
15 37 (17.70%) Data Engineering
15 37 (17.70%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 49 (23.44%) JavaScript
2 46 (22.01%) Python
3 43 (20.57%) SQL
4 30 (14.35%) Java
5 26 (12.44%) TypeScript
6 24 (11.48%) Go
7 17 (8.13%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.78%) C#
9 7 (3.35%) Bash
10 5 (2.39%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.91%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 42 (20.10%) Degree
2 26 (12.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (10.05%) Master's Degree
4 18 (8.61%) Security Cleared
5 12 (5.74%) DV Cleared
6 11 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (4.78%) AWS Certification
8 9 (4.31%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.83%) SC Cleared
10 7 (3.35%) OSCP
11 6 (2.87%) A+ Certification
11 6 (2.87%) MCP
12 5 (2.39%) CISSP
12 5 (2.39%) MCSE
13 4 (1.91%) CEH
13 4 (1.91%) CISM
13 4 (1.91%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.48%) CREST Certified
14 1 (0.48%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.75%) QA
2 30 (14.35%) Data Quality
3 16 (7.66%) GDPR
4 9 (4.31%) Accessibility
5 8 (3.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 8 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (3.83%) NIST
6 5 (2.39%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.48%) GRC
8 1 (0.48%) NCSC
8 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (14.83%) Docker
2 16 (7.66%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.44%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.96%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.96%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.96%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (25.84%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.09%) Grafana
2 19 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 11 (5.26%) Terraform
4 8 (3.83%) Ansible
5 4 (1.91%) QRadar
6 3 (1.44%) Nmap
7 2 (0.96%) Nagios
7 2 (0.96%) Puppet
7 2 (0.96%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.96%) vMotion
8 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.48%) SCCM
8 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.48%) WSUS
Vendors
1 72 (34.45%) Google
2 22 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.18%) Foundry
3 15 (7.18%) OpenAI
4 8 (3.83%) Solace
5 7 (3.35%) VMware
5 7 (3.35%) Zoho
6 5 (2.39%) Cisco
6 5 (2.39%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.39%) Sage
6 5 (2.39%) Xamarin
7 4 (1.91%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.91%) Splunk
8 3 (1.44%) Citrix
9 2 (0.96%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.96%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.96%) HP
9 2 (0.96%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.96%) Symantec
9 2 (0.96%) Talend