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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 508 520
Rank change year-on-year +69 +12 +30
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 29 41 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.11% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.32% 0.35% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 25 103
10th Percentile £503 £463 £508
25th Percentile £558 £500 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% -14.81% -3.57%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £706
90th Percentile - £738 £768
UK median daily rate £625 £588 £675
% change year-on-year +6.38% -12.96% -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 9,104 11,746 17,918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.17% 31.95% 36.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,347 8,476 13,111
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 £740 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.27% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 321 304
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.04 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -35.19% +50.70%
75th Percentile £37.81 £33.25 £65.81
90th Percentile £73.13 £65.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.98% -38.94% +55.90%

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 11 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 11 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 +20 18 £700 +21.74% 31
North of England +14 2 £464 -10.72% 23
Yorkshire +10 2 £464 -10.72% 9
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 5
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 (24.14%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (75.86%) GCP
2 7 (24.14%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (20.69%) AWS
4 5 (17.24%) GitHub
5 4 (13.79%) Azure AKS
6 3 (10.34%) Cloud Run
6 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.90%) BigCommerce
7 2 (6.90%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (6.90%) CloudBees
7 2 (6.90%) Datadog
7 2 (6.90%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.45%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.45%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) DSL
2 1 (3.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Big Data
1 8 (27.59%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (27.59%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (24.14%) Hadoop
3 5 (17.24%) Data Lake
4 3 (10.34%) BigQuery
4 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.90%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.34%) CircleCI
2 3 (10.34%) Git
2 3 (10.34%) Terragrunt
3 2 (6.90%) JMeter
4 1 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 11 (37.93%) Banking
2 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (20.69%) Finance
5 4 (13.79%) Retail
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Architect
3 6 (20.69%) GCP Architect
3 6 (20.69%) GCP Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) GCP DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Platform Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
5 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) GCP Data Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Lead
6 1 (3.45%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Site Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (17.24%) GraphQL
3 3 (10.34%) Spring
4 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.90%) gRPC
4 2 (6.90%) Node.js
4 2 (6.90%) Pyramid
4 2 (6.90%) React
4 2 (6.90%) REST
4 2 (6.90%) SOAP
4 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
4 2 (6.90%) VML
5 1 (3.45%) Kafka
5 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (10.34%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Linux
2 7 (24.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (86.21%) CI/CD
2 16 (55.17%) DevOps
3 14 (48.28%) Agile
4 13 (44.83%) Observability
4 13 (44.83%) Test Automation
5 12 (41.38%) Containerisation
6 10 (34.48%) Microservices
7 8 (27.59%) Analytics
7 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (24.14%) Batch Processing
8 7 (24.14%) Migration
8 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (20.69%) Architectural Design
10 4 (13.79%) Cost Optimisation
10 4 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (13.79%) Software Engineering
11 3 (10.34%) Change Management
11 3 (10.34%) Domain-Driven Design
11 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Architecture
11 3 (10.34%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Python
2 11 (37.93%) Java
3 9 (31.03%) Go
4 4 (13.79%) SQL
5 3 (10.34%) C#
5 3 (10.34%) Groovy
5 3 (10.34%) Scala
6 2 (6.90%) Bash
6 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.90%) Kotlin
6 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.45%) Degree
1 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (89.66%) Kubernetes
2 22 (75.86%) Terraform
3 10 (34.48%) Ansible
3 10 (34.48%) Grafana
4 7 (24.14%) Argo
5 2 (6.90%) Istio
5 2 (6.90%) Progress Chef
5 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.90%) Puppet
5 2 (6.90%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Google
2 2 (6.90%) Adobe
2 2 (6.90%) New Relic
2 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
2 2 (6.90%) SAP
2 2 (6.90%) Sitecore
3 1 (3.45%) Ab Initio