Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 38 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.27% - 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% - 1.28%
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 - - -
East of England median daily rate - - £400
% change year-on-year - - -38.46%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 91 88 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 24.27% 29.24% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 43 28
10th Percentile £324 £338 £189
25th Percentile £372 £425 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £525 £473
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +11.11% -0.53%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £613
90th Percentile £652 £650 £675
East of England median daily rate £500 £467 £475
% change year-on-year +7.18% -1.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 37
10th Percentile - £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.33 £14.48
Median hourly rate £29.50 £20.98 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +40.61% +28.71% +5.16%
75th Percentile £36.81 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £40.73 - £73.75
East of England median hourly rate £21.72 £21.46 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.19% +7.30% +17.65%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Google Kubernetes Engine job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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
Cambridge - 1 - - 1
Google Kubernetes Engine
East of England

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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