Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 109 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.17% 0.18% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.43% 0.62% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £379 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £390 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile £511 - -
South East median daily rate £450 £390 £590
% change year-on-year +15.38% -33.90% -1.67%

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

Google Kubernetes Engine falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 462 487 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 39.29% 28.46% 28.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 330 377
10th Percentile £350 £375 £340
25th Percentile £413 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% - +12.75%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £663
90th Percentile £668 £663 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 10
10th Percentile - £19.59 £17.21
25th Percentile £14.75 £27.75 £19.13
Median hourly rate £18.87 £58.05 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.49% +28.99% +113.78%
75th Percentile £32.12 £61.06 £63.84
90th Percentile £44.08 £64.73 £72.72
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £40.50 £28.16
% change year-on-year -53.53% +43.82% +38.31%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in Berkshire

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Google Kubernetes Engine

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine in Berkshire over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in Berkshire

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading - 2 £450 -
Google Kubernetes Engine
South East

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Jinja
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) logstash
1 2 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google