Google Kubernetes Engine Contracts in the North of England

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Google Kubernetes Engine skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 179 - 242
Rank change year-on-year - - -60
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.10% - 0.055%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £619
25th Percentile £510 - £628
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £688
75th Percentile £590 - £734
90th Percentile £626 - £736
England median daily rate £575 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -14.81% -3.57% +27.27%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

Google Kubernetes Engine is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,407 2,143 2,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.53% 36.71% 34.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 1,596 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £300 £190
25th Percentile £375 £419 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £641 £688 £671
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 37 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.22 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £39.60 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -59.44% +111.93% -2.94%
75th Percentile £20.77 £65.00 £23.53
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the North of England

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the North of England

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the North of England

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Yorkshire - 5 £520 -
Google Kubernetes Engine
England

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (100.00%) nginx
2 3 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (60.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) CloudBees
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Anthos
2 2 (40.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (60.00%) ClickHouse
1 3 (60.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Site Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cassandra Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Beam
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
1 3 (60.00%) Keycloak
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (60.00%) Critical Thinking
3 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (60.00%) Open Source
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Go
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Groovy
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) Ruby
2 3 (60.00%) Scala
3 2 (40.00%) Bash
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
2 3 (60.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
3 2 (40.00%) Istio
3 2 (40.00%) Kiali
3 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
1 2 (40.00%) VMware