Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in the South East

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 180 212
Rank change year-on-year +20 +32 +57
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 4 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.12% 0.11% 0.018%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% 0.42% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £379 - -
25th Percentile £403 - £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £390 £590
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -33.90% +2.61%
75th Percentile £491 - £635
90th Percentile £511 £516 -
England median daily rate £575 £600 £606
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.03% -13.39%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,058 1,184 1,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.64% 25.95% 28.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 814 1,151
10th Percentile £204 £282 £206
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -2.38% +2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £650 £671 £700
England median daily rate £501 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 21 52
10th Percentile £13.70 £18.50 £16.31
25th Percentile £14.75 £20.75 £19.63
Median hourly rate £18.82 £42.50 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -55.72% +55.96% +30.63%
75th Percentile £28.50 £60.60 £62.03
90th Percentile £45.45 £64.73 £74.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -23.79% - +53.49%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the South East

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Google Kubernetes Engine

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine in the South East over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the South East

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 21 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
Thames Valley +11 4 £450 +15.38% 1
Berkshire +17 2 £450 +15.38% 1
Buckinghamshire - 2 - -
Google Kubernetes Engine
England

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Jinja
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Korn
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) logstash
2 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) Ab Initio