Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in Reading

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.80% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £379 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile £511 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £390 -
% change year-on-year +15.38% - -

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 250 360 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 42.59% 32.49% 32.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 248 277
10th Percentile £369 £384 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £605 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.16% +5.22% +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £664 £670 £717
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -10.87% - +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 3
10th Percentile - £31.63 £24.17
25th Percentile £14.75 £47.03 £35.17
Median hourly rate £15.50 £60.83 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.52% +10.60% +126.80%
75th Percentile £16.25 £63.81 £67.85
90th Percentile £31.70 £67.21 £74.65
Berkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £58.05 £45.00
% change year-on-year -67.49% +28.99% +113.78%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in Reading

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine in Reading over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in Reading

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Jinja
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) logstash
1 2 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google