Google Kubernetes Engine Contracts in the City of London

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 - 174
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% - 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.40% - 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £513 - £458
25th Percentile £531 - £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.00%
75th Percentile £644 - £744
90th Percentile £678 - £853
Central London median daily rate £575 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -16.00%

All Cloud Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 758 853 1,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.17% 38.83% 38.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 606 942
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £669 £669 £713
90th Percentile £743 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the City of London

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the City of London

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the City of London

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Groovy
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Istio
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google