Google Kubernetes Engine Contracts in London

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 358 389
Rank change year-on-year +20 +31 +24
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 18 33 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.19% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.49% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 85
10th Percentile £533 £443 £550
25th Percentile £563 £500 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -14.81% -10.00%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £725
90th Percentile - £758 £760
England median daily rate £615 £575 £675
% change year-on-year +6.96% -14.81% -3.57%

All Cloud Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,294 6,788 10,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.40% 38.46% 38.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,670 4,992 7,489
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £438 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £674 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £788
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 68 84
10th Percentile £22.58 £17.32 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £31.35 £25.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.92% -49.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.28 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £59.88 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £33.25
% change year-on-year +21.43% -36.84% +54.65%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in London

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in London

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in London

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Central London - 4 £575 - 1
Google Kubernetes Engine
England

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

Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (94.44%) GCP
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Azure AKS
3 2 (11.11%) BigCommerce
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Run
3 2 (11.11%) Datadog
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (5.56%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DSL
2 1 (5.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 2 (11.11%) OLTP
2 1 (5.56%) Big Data
2 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) CircleCI
2 2 (11.11%) JMeter
2 2 (11.11%) Terragrunt
3 1 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 6 (33.33%) Banking
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Architect
3 5 (27.78%) GCP Architect
4 3 (16.67%) GCP DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Platform Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Developer
6 1 (5.56%) GCP Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) GraphQL
2 3 (16.67%) Spring
3 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 2 (11.11%) gRPC
3 2 (11.11%) Node.js
3 2 (11.11%) Pyramid
3 2 (11.11%) React
3 2 (11.11%) REST
3 2 (11.11%) SOAP
3 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 2 (11.11%) VML
4 1 (5.56%) Kafka
4 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 4 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (16.67%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 13 (72.22%) DevOps
3 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (27.78%) Observability
4 5 (27.78%) Test Automation
5 4 (22.22%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 3 (16.67%) Architectural Design
6 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 3 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
6 3 (16.67%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
6 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (16.67%) Event-Driven
6 3 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (16.67%) Microservices
6 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) SOLID
7 2 (11.11%) B2B
7 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) Go
2 9 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (22.22%) SQL
4 3 (16.67%) C#
4 3 (16.67%) Scala
5 2 (11.11%) Bash
5 2 (11.11%) Groovy
6 1 (5.56%) Korn
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (72.22%) Terraform
3 3 (16.67%) Ansible
4 2 (11.11%) Istio
4 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
4 2 (11.11%) Puppet
4 2 (11.11%) Salt
5 1 (5.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (11.11%) Adobe
2 2 (11.11%) New Relic
2 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 2 (11.11%) SAP
2 2 (11.11%) Sitecore
3 1 (5.56%) Ab Initio