Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 166 196
Rank change year-on-year -5 +30 +51
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 13 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.024% 0.058%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.91% 0.077% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £405 - £463
25th Percentile £406 £625 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £650 £519
Median % change year-on-year -28.85% +25.30% -
75th Percentile £488 £675 £558
90th Percentile £510 - £579
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -11.11%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,436 1,304 1,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 36.27% 31.77% 34.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,026 838 1,315
10th Percentile £296 £300 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £634 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £532 £550
% change year-on-year -5.88% -3.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 68
10th Percentile £12.82 £12.00 £16.18
25th Percentile £15.50 £20.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £31.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% -8.82% +49.45%
75th Percentile £56.25 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.37 £71.50 £65.10
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.93 £33.00
% change year-on-year -25.88% +2.82% +50.00%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Google Kubernetes Engine

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 29 September 2025.

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 29 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
Yorkshire - 12 £436 -
North West -9 1 £475 -26.92% 3
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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) GCP
2 11 (84.62%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (76.92%) Azure AKS
4 9 (69.23%) AWS
5 8 (61.54%) Azure
5 8 (61.54%) Entra ID
5 8 (61.54%) SaaS
6 7 (53.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (23.08%) GitHub
9 2 (15.38%) CloudBees
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Business Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) GCP DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) SAML
2 7 (53.85%) JSON
2 7 (53.85%) OAuth
2 7 (53.85%) OpenID
3 6 (46.15%) OAuth2
4 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Cloud Native
2 6 (46.15%) Onboarding
3 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) DevOps
2 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (61.54%) GAP Analysis
3 8 (61.54%) RBAC
3 8 (61.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (61.54%) Workshop Facilitation
4 7 (53.85%) Identity Management
4 7 (53.85%) Privileged Identity Management
5 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
6 3 (23.08%) Agile
6 3 (23.08%) Scrum
7 2 (15.38%) Change Management
7 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
7 2 (15.38%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 2 (15.38%) OO
7 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
7 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
7 2 (15.38%) Static Application Security Testing
7 2 (15.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) Kotlin
2 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.69%) Groovy
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Kubernetes
2 9 (69.23%) Terraform
3 8 (61.54%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (15.38%) Grafana
4 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.69%) Istio
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Alibaba
2 4 (30.77%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft