Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in Chester

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	28	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine	2	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester	1.07%	-	-
As % of the Cloud Services category	7.14%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	2	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£381	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£388	-	-
75^th Percentile	£394	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Cheshire median daily rate	£453	-	-

All Cloud Computing Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	28	23	11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester	14.97%	21.90%	14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted	9	12	9
10^th Percentile	£253	£190	£370
25^th Percentile	£280	£291	£513
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£388	£625	£550
Median % change year-on-year	-38.00%	+13.64%	+46.67%
75^th Percentile	£550	£688	£575
90^th Percentile	£590	£744	£590
Cheshire median daily rate	£450	£425	£465
% change year-on-year	+5.88%	-8.60%	+3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	1	0
Median hourly rate	-	£19.00	-
Cheshire median hourly rate	£17.50	£16.00	£24.18
% change year-on-year	+9.38%	-33.83%	+2.41%

Google Kubernetes Engine Top 11 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Google Kubernetes Engine also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Chester region with a requirement for Google Kubernetes Engine.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	100.0%	2
1	DevOps	100.0%	2
1	Dynatrace	100.0%	2
1	GCP	100.0%	2
1	Git	100.0%	2
1	GitHub	100.0%	2
1	Google	100.0%	2
1	Istio	100.0%	2
1	Jenkins	100.0%	2
1	Kubernetes	100.0%	2
1	Terraform	100.0%	2

Google Kubernetes Engine Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	GCP	100.0%	2
1	GitHub	100.0%	2