Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 12 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.22% - 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.73% - 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £329 - -
25th Percentile £459 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £650
75th Percentile £571 - -
90th Percentile £591 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 - £650

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 439 99 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 44.61% 31.83% 24.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 79 73
10th Percentile £325 £344 £188
25th Percentile £413 £450 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% +16.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £546 £608 £587
90th Percentile £625 £655 £630
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £485 £475
% change year-on-year -0.62% +2.11% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.50
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.00%
75th Percentile - - £14.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £36.91 £15.00
% change year-on-year +53.10% +146.03% -65.32%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Google Kubernetes Engine job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in South Yorkshire

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 March 2026. 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
Sheffield - 12 £520 - 1
Google Kubernetes Engine
Yorkshire

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 11 (91.67%) GCP
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Run
4 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) Git
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) GCP DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Applications Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Architect
6 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Lead
6 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
6 1 (8.33%) Senior
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Virtualisation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Node.js
1 4 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (25.00%) JWT
2 3 (25.00%) OAuth
2 3 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 3 (25.00%) OpenID
2 3 (25.00%) RESTful
2 3 (25.00%) SAML
3 2 (16.67%) Middleware
4 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (66.67%) Containerisation
5 7 (58.33%) Secrets Management
6 6 (50.00%) Observability
6 6 (50.00%) RBAC
6 6 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (41.67%) DevSecOps
8 4 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
8 4 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (33.33%) Dependency Management
8 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
8 4 (33.33%) Microservices
8 4 (33.33%) SBOM
8 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
8 4 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
9 3 (25.00%) Agile
9 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 3 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Go
2 4 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) HIPAA
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
2 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Terraform
2 10 (83.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (33.33%) Grafana
3 4 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (16.67%) Ansible
5 1 (8.33%) Argo
5 1 (8.33%) Istio
5 1 (8.33%) Kustomize
5 1 (8.33%) Podman
5 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Google
2 4 (33.33%) Okta
3 2 (16.67%) Ping Identity
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) F5
4 1 (8.33%) NetApp
4 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (8.33%) VMware