Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in the North West

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 128 119 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.047% 0.042% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.14% 0.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% - -
75th Percentile £488 £675 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -11.11%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 725 714 1,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.74% 30.09% 36.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 449 776
10th Percentile £313 £313 £265
25th Percentile £375 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -2.50%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £651 £674
England median daily rate £500 £532 £550
% change year-on-year -5.88% -3.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 59
10th Percentile £12.82 £17.44 £15.95
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.49 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £46.18 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year -59.14% +16.62% +40.18%
75th Percentile £52.50 £70.19 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.77 £74.20 £70.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the North West

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester -8 1 £475 -26.92% 2
Google Kubernetes Engine
England

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google