Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.39% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.81% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £621 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £621 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 123 46 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 48.05% 40.71% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 38 34
10th Percentile £350 £331 £424
25th Percentile £358 £356 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £373 £495
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -24.75% -6.11%
75th Percentile £535 £495 £538
90th Percentile £630 £611 £582
Cheshire median daily rate £435 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +2.35% -10.53% -2.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £18.31 £24.18 £19.86
% change year-on-year -24.28% +21.75% -53.54%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat