Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.24% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £475 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -23.52%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 114 73 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 13.78% 20.74% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 52 54
10th Percentile £296 £396 £297
25th Percentile £423 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £703 £675 £634
90th Percentile £775 £716 £709
East of England median daily rate £481 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.75% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 4
10th Percentile £17.38 - £15.19
25th Percentile £18.36 £16.95 £16.35
Median hourly rate £20.31 £22.97 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.59% +27.61% -72.52%
75th Percentile £23.05 £31.64 £20.19
90th Percentile £23.09 £35.35 £22.33
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £21.37 £16.30
% change year-on-year -1.73% +31.10% -10.68%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Google Kubernetes Engine job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Google Kubernetes Engine

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 8 April 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
Hatfield - 1 - -
Google Kubernetes Engine
East of England

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) GCP DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Argo
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google