Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 133 144
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 +62
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.11% 0.074% 0.034%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% 0.26% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £489 -
25th Percentile £563 £489 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.47% -2.10% -
75th Percentile £588 £490 -
90th Percentile - £490 -
England median daily rate £575 £600 £606
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.03% -13.39%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 825 757 1,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 31.20% 27.85% 35.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 487 773
10th Percentile £296 £213 £211
25th Percentile £400 £358 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% +1.16% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £563
90th Percentile £663 £686 £688
England median daily rate £501 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 28
10th Percentile £18.85 £14.95 £12.53
25th Percentile - £17.40 £13.23
Median hourly rate £21.39 £33.54 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.23% +83.78% -1.35%
75th Percentile £34.98 £37.34 £29.06
90th Percentile £53.80 £55.00 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -23.79% - +53.49%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the Midlands

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 September 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
West Midlands -9 3 £575 +17.47% 1
Google Kubernetes Engine
England

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Datadog
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (100.00%) npm
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 3 (100.00%) Pulumi
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 3 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Gradle
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) Snyk
1 3 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 3 (100.00%) webpack
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Podman
1 3 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Puppet
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk