Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.46% - 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% - 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £495
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.85%
75th Percentile - - £518
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate - - £495
% change year-on-year - - -23.85%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 73 44 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 33.49% 26.67% 16.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 25 18
10th Percentile £331 £400 £149
25th Percentile £406 £425 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £503 £430
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +16.86% -14.00%
75th Percentile £586 £600 £513
90th Percentile £648 £620 £545
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £491 £525 £473
% change year-on-year -6.43% +11.11% -0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £19.51
25th Percentile £26.50 £15.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £16.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +68.75% -63.43% -
75th Percentile £27.50 £17.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £29.50 £20.98 £16.30
% change year-on-year +40.61% +28.71% +5.16%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Google Kubernetes Engine job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft