Google Kubernetes Engine Jobs

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Google Kubernetes Engine skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 859 563 860
Rank change year-on-year -296 +297 -102
Permanent jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 37 466 383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.45% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 1.03% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24 131 83
10th Percentile - - £55,000
25th Percentile £61,180 £56,219 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -13.89% +12.50%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £111,250
90th Percentile £137,913 £106,250 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,724 £59,526 £68,750
% change year-on-year +25.53% -13.42% +5.97%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Google Kubernetes Engine is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Google Kubernetes Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Salary trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England -258 30 £80,000 - 16
UK excluding London -70 24 £74,724 +25.53% 11
Work from Home +24 22 £69,447 +1.36% 9
North of England +33 17 £69,447 +16.67% 3
North West +6 13 £69,447 +16.67% 2
London -163 12 £80,000 -8.57% 6
Yorkshire +82 4 - -
Scotland -69 3 £120,360 +102.20%
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
South East -7 1 - - 4

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (21.62%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 30 (81.08%) GCP
2 17 (45.95%) GitHub
3 10 (27.03%) Azure
4 8 (21.62%) Anthos
5 7 (18.92%) AWS
6 5 (13.51%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (13.51%) Azure AKS
6 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (13.51%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (10.81%) Amazon S3
7 4 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (10.81%) Cloud Composer
7 4 (10.81%) Cloud Functions
7 4 (10.81%) dbt
7 4 (10.81%) Snowflake
8 3 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (8.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 3 (8.11%) Datadog
8 3 (8.11%) Route 53
8 3 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (37.84%) Firewall
2 3 (8.11%) DNS
3 1 (2.70%) Internet
3 1 (2.70%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) BigQuery
2 6 (16.22%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (10.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (10.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (10.81%) Tableau
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 17 (45.95%) Jenkins
2 8 (21.62%) Spinnaker
3 6 (16.22%) Git
4 3 (8.11%) GitLab
4 3 (8.11%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (5.41%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.41%) Maven
5 2 (5.41%) Selenium
5 2 (5.41%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (54.05%) Finance
2 13 (35.14%) Banking
3 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
4 7 (18.92%) Retail
5 5 (13.51%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (10.81%) Law
6 4 (10.81%) Retail Banking
7 2 (5.41%) Health Technology
8 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Software Engineer
2 12 (32.43%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (27.03%) GCP Engineer
4 9 (24.32%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 8 (21.62%) GCP Software Engineer
5 8 (21.62%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 8 (21.62%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Lead
6 4 (10.81%) Test Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Development Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
9 1 (2.70%) Architect
9 1 (2.70%) Build Engineer
9 1 (2.70%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 1 (2.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.03%) Kafka
2 2 (5.41%) Node.js
2 2 (5.41%) React
3 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.70%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.81%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.70%) Hackathon
4 1 (2.70%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Linux
1 4 (10.81%) Unix
2 3 (8.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) Agile
2 17 (45.95%) DevOps
3 16 (43.24%) CI/CD
4 15 (40.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (37.84%) Software Engineering
6 10 (27.03%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (24.32%) Containerisation
8 8 (21.62%) Data Management
8 8 (21.62%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (18.92%) Data Science
9 7 (18.92%) Microservices
10 6 (16.22%) Analytics
10 6 (16.22%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (16.22%) Coaching
10 6 (16.22%) Computer Science
10 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
10 6 (16.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (13.51%) Data Engineering
11 5 (13.51%) Deployment Automation
11 5 (13.51%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) Python
2 12 (32.43%) Java
3 11 (29.73%) Bash
4 7 (18.92%) Go
4 7 (18.92%) PowerShell
5 4 (10.81%) SQL
5 4 (10.81%) T-SQL
6 3 (8.11%) Ruby
7 2 (5.41%) Haskell
7 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.41%) Scala
7 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.70%) C#
8 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Degree
2 5 (13.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.81%) AWS Certification
3 4 (10.81%) ISTQB
4 3 (8.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
4 3 (8.11%) Master's Degree
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (5.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (35.14%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) NFS
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (75.68%) Kubernetes
2 19 (51.35%) Terraform
3 6 (16.22%) Prometheus
4 3 (8.11%) Argo
4 3 (8.11%) Istio
5 2 (5.41%) Ansible
5 2 (5.41%) Grafana
5 2 (5.41%) Kibana
5 2 (5.41%) Kubeflow
5 2 (5.41%) Rundeck
6 1 (2.70%) Kiali
Vendors
1 20 (54.05%) Google
2 8 (21.62%) Confluent
3 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
4 5 (13.51%) LogicMonitor
4 5 (13.51%) PagerDuty
4 5 (13.51%) Splunk
5 2 (5.41%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.41%) New Relic
5 2 (5.41%) VMware
6 1 (2.70%) YouTube