Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 11.27% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £475 £610 £650
% change year-on-year -22.13% -6.15% -10.34%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 45 24 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 63.38% 53.33% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 10
10th Percentile £301 £419 £461
25th Percentile £463 £472 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £743 £669 £709
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £18.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +297.46% - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +2.94% +25.93% -10.74%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Google Kubernetes Engine job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
Westminster - 3 £450 -
Google Kubernetes Engine
Central London

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Functions
2 4 (50.00%) Google App Engine
2 4 (50.00%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Internet
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Applications Support
2 4 (50.00%) Applications Support Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Operations
1 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
1 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (75.00%) Migration
1 6 (75.00%) Runbook
2 4 (50.00%) Technical Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (25.00%) Observability
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Google