GCP Jobs in the Thames Valley

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for GCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GCP over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 79 131
Rank change year-on-year -71 +52 -38
Permanent jobs citing GCP 94 234 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.35% 3.99% 2.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.73% 10.39% 6.77%
Number of salaries quoted 27 94 85
10th Percentile £32,000 £39,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £65,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
90th Percentile - £100,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +16.67%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

GCP is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,988 2,253 2,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.53% 38.43% 37.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,486 1,447 1,745
10th Percentile £30,188 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £92,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +1.82% +4.76%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Oxfordshire +14 41 £55,000 -12.00% 8
Buckinghamshire -12 29 £38,750 -49.18% 7
Berkshire -99 24 £80,000 +4.92% 10
GCP
South East

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.26%) nginx
2 1 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 78 (82.98%) AWS
2 74 (78.72%) Azure
3 25 (26.60%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (9.57%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (9.57%) SaaS
5 8 (8.51%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (7.45%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.26%) Amazon ELB
7 4 (4.26%) GitHub
7 4 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.26%) Snowflake
7 4 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.19%) Serverless
9 2 (2.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (1.06%) AWS CodeStar
10 1 (1.06%) Cloud Composer
10 1 (1.06%) OCI
10 1 (1.06%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.70%) Firewall
2 9 (9.57%) VPN
3 5 (5.32%) BGP
3 5 (5.32%) Reverse Proxy
3 5 (5.32%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.32%) VoIP
4 4 (4.26%) Asterisk PBX
4 4 (4.26%) MQTT
4 4 (4.26%) PBX
5 3 (3.19%) Network Security
6 2 (2.13%) MPLS
7 1 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.06%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (1.06%) DNS
7 1 (1.06%) EIGRP
7 1 (1.06%) Internet
7 1 (1.06%) IPsec
7 1 (1.06%) OSPF
7 1 (1.06%) Sourcefire
7 1 (1.06%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (57.45%) BigQuery
2 52 (55.32%) Looker
3 43 (45.74%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.32%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.26%) MySQL
5 4 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (3.19%) Big Data
6 3 (3.19%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.13%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) GitLab
2 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.06%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.06%) Terragrunt
General
1 54 (57.45%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (26.60%) Billing
3 14 (14.89%) Social Skills
4 11 (11.70%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (8.51%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.19%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Finance
8 1 (1.06%) Law
8 1 (1.06%) Marketing
8 1 (1.06%) Military
8 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (28.72%) Architect
1 27 (28.72%) Data Manager
1 27 (28.72%) Engineering Manager
2 16 (17.02%) Data Architect
3 15 (15.96%) Principal Engineer
4 14 (14.89%) Data Engineer
5 12 (12.77%) Principal Data Engineer
6 11 (11.70%) Cloud Architect
7 9 (9.57%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Senior
9 5 (5.32%) Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.26%) Full Stack Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Lead
10 4 (4.26%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Senior Full Stack Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.26%) Support Engineer
11 3 (3.19%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.32%) CSS
1 5 (5.32%) HTML
1 5 (5.32%) Node.js
2 4 (4.26%) GraphQL
2 4 (4.26%) gRPC
2 4 (4.26%) Knex.js
2 4 (4.26%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (4.26%) React
2 4 (4.26%) React Native
2 4 (4.26%) RESTful
2 4 (4.26%) Sequelize
3 1 (1.06%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.06%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.06%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 28 (29.79%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (26.60%) Product Ownership
3 8 (8.51%) Public Cloud
4 7 (7.45%) PKI
5 5 (5.32%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.32%) IoT
6 4 (4.26%) Data Centre
6 4 (4.26%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.26%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.06%) Educational Technology
8 1 (1.06%) Hackathon
8 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.06%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.06%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (60.64%) Data Engineering
2 55 (58.51%) Platform Engineering
2 55 (58.51%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (54.26%) DevOps
4 44 (46.81%) Data Modelling
4 44 (46.81%) ETL
5 43 (45.74%) Agile
6 37 (39.36%) Mentoring
7 33 (35.11%) Project Management
8 32 (34.04%) CI/CD
9 30 (31.91%) Scrum
10 24 (25.53%) Backlog Management
10 24 (25.53%) Business Strategy
10 24 (25.53%) Line Management
10 24 (25.53%) Product Backlog
11 20 (21.28%) Data Governance
12 19 (20.21%) Data Architecture
12 19 (20.21%) Data Integration
13 17 (18.09%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (17.02%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.09%) Python
2 8 (8.51%) SQL
3 6 (6.38%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.32%) Java
5 4 (4.26%) JSX
5 4 (4.26%) R
5 4 (4.26%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.19%) Scala
7 2 (2.13%) Go
8 1 (1.06%) Bash
8 1 (1.06%) C#
8 1 (1.06%) C++
8 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (9.57%) Degree
2 7 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.38%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.26%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.06%) CCNA
6 1 (1.06%) CCNP
6 1 (1.06%) CCSA
6 1 (1.06%) CCSE
6 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.06%) CISSP
6 1 (1.06%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.06%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (26.60%) GDPR
2 24 (25.53%) QA
3 19 (20.21%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (11.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.51%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.45%) Ansible
3 4 (4.26%) Terraform
4 1 (1.06%) Netcool
4 1 (1.06%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.06%) Puppet
4 1 (1.06%) Salt
Vendors
1 65 (69.15%) Google
2 12 (12.77%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.32%) Cisco
4 4 (4.26%) Juniper
5 3 (3.19%) VMware
6 2 (2.13%) Aruba
7 1 (1.06%) Acronis
7 1 (1.06%) Black Duck
7 1 (1.06%) Blue Coat
7 1 (1.06%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.06%) Databricks
7 1 (1.06%) F5
7 1 (1.06%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.06%) Kaspersky
7 1 (1.06%) Meraki
7 1 (1.06%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.06%) Rakuten
7 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.06%) TSYS
7 1 (1.06%) Veeam