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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 129 183
Rank change year-on-year +12 +54 -50
Permanent jobs citing GCP 173 207 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.67% 2.18% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.28% 6.69% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 91 128 76
10th Percentile £30,500 £39,325 £42,500
25th Percentile £44,500 £50,000 £51,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £71,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -12.89% +14.80%
75th Percentile £88,125 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £143,750 £94,125 £88,750
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 3,275 3,096 2,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.59% 32.54% 35.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,783 1,714 2,104
10th Percentile £28,300 £32,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,500 £39,348
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 19 December 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 19 December 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 +49 113 £46,000 -23.33% 25
Berkshire +62 82 £51,750 -15.51% 9
Hampshire -27 29 £67,500 +3.85% 17
Buckinghamshire +11 20 £60,000 -7.69% 9
East Sussex +25 15 £112,500 +50.00% 3
Kent -2 12 £137,500 +59.42%
Oxfordshire -2 11 £28,500 -49.57% 8
Sussex - 2 £55,000 -
West Sussex 0 1 £60,000 -33.33%
Surrey -20 1 £85,000 -2.86% 9
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 5 (2.89%) IIS
2 3 (1.73%) nginx
3 2 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.58%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 141 (81.50%) Azure
2 128 (73.99%) AWS
3 35 (20.23%) SaaS
4 20 (11.56%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (6.94%) GitHub
6 10 (5.78%) Entra ID
6 10 (5.78%) Vertex AI
7 9 (5.20%) Azure AI
7 9 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.20%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (5.20%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.89%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.89%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (2.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.89%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (2.89%) dbt
8 5 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.89%) Serverless
9 4 (2.31%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 24 (13.87%) DNS
2 21 (12.14%) DHCP
3 20 (11.56%) Firewall
4 17 (9.83%) VPN
5 8 (4.62%) Network Security
6 7 (4.05%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.73%) LAN
7 3 (1.73%) WAN
7 3 (1.73%) Wireless
8 1 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (17.92%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (16.76%) BigQuery
3 10 (5.78%) MySQL
3 10 (5.78%) NoSQL
4 9 (5.20%) SQL Server
5 7 (4.05%) Power BI
6 5 (2.89%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.89%) Looker
6 5 (2.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (2.89%) Tableau
7 3 (1.73%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.58%) Big Data
9 1 (0.58%) Metadata
9 1 (0.58%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (14.45%) Git
2 5 (2.89%) git-flow
2 5 (2.89%) GitLab
2 5 (2.89%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.73%) Burp Suite
3 3 (1.73%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.58%) JIRA
4 1 (0.58%) MLflow
General
1 66 (38.15%) Law
2 63 (36.42%) Social Skills
3 57 (32.95%) Marketing
4 46 (26.59%) Finance
5 18 (10.40%) Legal
6 9 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.89%) Retail
8 4 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.31%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.58%) Banking
10 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 52 (30.06%) Senior
2 50 (28.90%) Developer
3 44 (25.43%) Architect
4 23 (13.29%) Senior Developer
5 22 (12.72%) Full-Stack Developer
6 21 (12.14%) .NET Developer
6 21 (12.14%) .NET Software Developer
6 21 (12.14%) Data Architect
6 21 (12.14%) Engineering Manager
6 21 (12.14%) Software Developer
7 20 (11.56%) Cloud Architect
7 20 (11.56%) GCP Architect
7 20 (11.56%) Platform Architect
7 20 (11.56%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 19 (10.98%) Senior Architect
8 19 (10.98%) Senior Data Architect
9 18 (10.40%) IT Engineer
10 17 (9.83%) Support Engineer
11 14 (8.09%) Senior Web Developer
11 14 (8.09%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (20.81%) .NET
2 24 (13.87%) CSS
2 24 (13.87%) React
3 22 (12.72%) HTML
4 18 (10.40%) Node.js
5 17 (9.83%) RESTful
6 8 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (3.47%) .NET Framework
7 6 (3.47%) Entity Framework
8 5 (2.89%) AWS CDK
8 5 (2.89%) Kafka
8 5 (2.89%) Material-UI
8 5 (2.89%) WinForms
9 2 (1.16%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.16%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.16%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.16%) Hugging Face
9 2 (1.16%) Pandas
9 2 (1.16%) scikit-learn
9 2 (1.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.34%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.20%) AI Agents
3 7 (4.05%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.31%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.73%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.58%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.58%) IoT
7 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.18%) Windows
2 19 (10.98%) Linux
3 12 (6.94%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.73%) Kali Linux
4 3 (1.73%) Unix
5 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (42.77%) Roadmaps
2 71 (41.04%) Agile
3 61 (35.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 54 (31.21%) AI
5 49 (28.32%) Data Science
6 47 (27.17%) Mentoring
7 44 (25.43%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (23.70%) Architectural Design
9 39 (22.54%) Strategic Roadmap
10 37 (21.39%) CI/CD
10 37 (21.39%) DevOps
11 33 (19.08%) Machine Learning
12 32 (18.50%) Data Modelling
13 31 (17.92%) Analytics
14 30 (17.34%) Cloud Security
15 29 (16.76%) Software Engineering
16 28 (16.18%) ETL
16 28 (16.18%) Generative AI
17 26 (15.03%) Data Pipeline
18 25 (14.45%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 42 (24.28%) JavaScript
2 39 (22.54%) Python
3 30 (17.34%) TypeScript
4 22 (12.72%) Go
5 21 (12.14%) Java
6 19 (10.98%) SQL
7 17 (9.83%) PowerShell
8 13 (7.51%) C#
9 7 (4.05%) Bash
10 5 (2.89%) PHP
10 5 (2.89%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.58%) C++
13 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (10.40%) Degree
2 11 (6.36%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (6.36%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.62%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.05%) A+ Certification
5 7 (4.05%) MCP
6 6 (3.47%) OSCP
7 5 (2.89%) CISSP
8 4 (2.31%) MCSE
9 3 (1.73%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.73%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.73%) CEH
9 3 (1.73%) CISM
9 3 (1.73%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.58%) CRISC
11 1 (0.58%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.29%) Data Quality
2 22 (12.72%) QA
3 9 (5.20%) NIST
4 8 (4.62%) GDPR
5 5 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.73%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.58%) GRC
8 1 (0.58%) NCSC
8 1 (0.58%) SLA
8 1 (0.58%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (12.72%) Docker
2 21 (12.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (26.59%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.89%) Terraform
3 3 (1.73%) Ansible
3 3 (1.73%) Grafana
3 3 (1.73%) Nmap
3 3 (1.73%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.73%) QRadar
4 1 (0.58%) Argo
4 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (0.58%) SCCM
4 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.58%) WSUS
Vendors
1 62 (35.84%) Google
2 22 (12.72%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.78%) Foundry
4 9 (5.20%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.05%) Zoho
6 5 (2.89%) Sage
6 5 (2.89%) Xamarin
7 4 (2.31%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.31%) Cisco
7 4 (2.31%) VMware
8 3 (1.73%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.73%) Splunk
9 2 (1.16%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.16%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.16%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.16%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.16%) Talend
10 1 (0.58%) Citrix
10 1 (0.58%) Informatica