Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in Newport

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
South Wales > Newport

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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 1.52% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £475 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Newport

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 Newport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 17 20 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 25.76% 30.77% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 18
10th Percentile £393 £185 £120
25th Percentile £448 £214 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £365 £356
Median % change year-on-year +60.96% +2.46% -43.00%
75th Percentile £713 £584 £466
90th Percentile £720 £634 £556
South Wales median daily rate £405 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +1.25% -20.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £28.50 £12.66
25th Percentile - £31.88 £12.77
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £13.08
Median % change year-on-year - +186.70% -
75th Percentile - £41.25 £13.27
90th Percentile - - £13.31
South Wales median hourly rate £25.75 £25.00 £13.08
% change year-on-year +3.00% +91.13% -14.77%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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

Google Kubernetes Engine job vacancy trend in Newport

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Spanner
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google