Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 - 52
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.51% - 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.20% - 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £520 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile £560 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £540 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 332 68 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 42.51% 27.31% 24.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 44 74
10th Percentile £314 £413 £333
25th Percentile £413 £466 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £610
90th Percentile £613 £693 £685
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £523 £561
% change year-on-year -7.75% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £20.00

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Google Kubernetes Engine job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

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

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Run
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (25.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Virtualisation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JWT
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (50.00%) OpenID
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) SAML
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) RBAC
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Secrets Management
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Workflow
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Information Security
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Go
2 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Argo
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Podman
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) Okta
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) NetApp
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Ping Identity
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) VMware