Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.75% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £447 - -
25th Percentile £486 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £553 - -
90th Percentile £571 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £536 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 284 162 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.50% 31.89% 27.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 125 158
10th Percentile £296 £190 £250
25th Percentile £400 £381 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +5.50% -9.95%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £638 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £37.00 - £14.05
25th Percentile £55.00 £56.88 £15.53
Median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 £22.98
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% +155.71% +13.51%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.63 £26.50
90th Percentile - - £35.05
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £18.07 £21.23
% change year-on-year +88.15% -14.89% +4.87%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Google Kubernetes Engine relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Google Kubernetes Engine job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in Birmingham

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 4 (57.14%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) GCP Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Lead
1 4 (57.14%) Lead Data Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) GCP Data Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) GCP DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Real Time Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Apache Beam
1 4 (57.14%) Kafka
2 3 (42.86%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Clustering
2 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Observability
3 4 (57.14%) Change Data Capture
3 4 (57.14%) GitOps
3 4 (57.14%) Low Latency
3 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
4 3 (42.86%) Analytics
4 3 (42.86%) Auto-Scaling
4 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (42.86%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (42.86%) Dependency Management
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) RBAC
4 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) Secrets Management
4 3 (42.86%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Groovy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Grafana
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google