Google Kubernetes Engine Contracts in England

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 458 500 510
Rank change year-on-year +42 +10 +38
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 27 42 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.11% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.35% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 26 116
10th Percentile £503 £431 £503
25th Percentile £558 £500 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £556 £675
Median % change year-on-year +10.56% -17.59% -3.57%
75th Percentile £725 £706 £716
90th Percentile - £738 £775
UK median daily rate £625 £581 £675
% change year-on-year +7.53% -13.89% -6.90%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in England

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine in England.

Daily rate trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in England

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in England

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +21 16 £700 +21.74% 24
North of England +16 2 £464 -10.72% 23
Yorkshire +5 2 £464 -10.72% 9
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 7
Google Kubernetes Engine
UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (25.93%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (74.07%) GCP
2 7 (25.93%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (22.22%) AWS
4 5 (18.52%) GitHub
5 4 (14.81%) Azure AKS
6 3 (11.11%) Cloud Run
6 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (7.41%) BigCommerce
7 2 (7.41%) CloudBees
7 2 (7.41%) Datadog
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.70%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (3.70%) Google App Engine
8 1 (3.70%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (29.63%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (25.93%) Big Data
2 7 (25.93%) Hadoop
3 4 (14.81%) Data Lake
4 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (7.41%) BigQuery
5 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
5 2 (7.41%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.11%) CircleCI
2 3 (11.11%) Git
2 3 (11.11%) Terragrunt
3 2 (7.41%) JMeter
General
1 11 (40.74%) Banking
2 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (22.22%) Finance
5 3 (11.11%) Retail
6 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Architect
3 6 (22.22%) GCP Architect
3 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Platform Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
6 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) GCP DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Applications Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Lead
7 1 (3.70%) QA Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Site Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (18.52%) GraphQL
3 3 (11.11%) Spring
4 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
4 2 (7.41%) gRPC
4 2 (7.41%) Node.js
4 2 (7.41%) Pyramid
4 2 (7.41%) React
4 2 (7.41%) REST
4 2 (7.41%) SOAP
4 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
4 2 (7.41%) VML
5 1 (3.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (11.11%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Linux
2 7 (25.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (85.19%) CI/CD
2 15 (55.56%) DevOps
3 13 (48.15%) Agile
3 13 (48.15%) Observability
3 13 (48.15%) Test Automation
4 11 (40.74%) Containerisation
5 10 (37.04%) Microservices
6 7 (25.93%) Analytics
6 7 (25.93%) Batch Processing
6 7 (25.93%) Migration
6 7 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (22.22%) Architectural Design
7 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (14.81%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
9 3 (11.11%) Cost Reduction
9 3 (11.11%) Domain-Driven Design
9 3 (11.11%) Event-Driven
9 3 (11.11%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) Python
2 11 (40.74%) Java
3 8 (29.63%) Go
4 3 (11.11%) C#
4 3 (11.11%) Groovy
4 3 (11.11%) Scala
4 3 (11.11%) SQL
5 2 (7.41%) Bash
5 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.41%) Kotlin
5 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
1 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (88.89%) Kubernetes
2 20 (74.07%) Terraform
3 10 (37.04%) Ansible
3 10 (37.04%) Grafana
4 7 (25.93%) Argo
5 2 (7.41%) Istio
5 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
5 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.41%) Puppet
5 2 (7.41%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Google
2 2 (7.41%) Adobe
2 2 (7.41%) New Relic
2 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
2 2 (7.41%) SAP
2 2 (7.41%) Sitecore