Google Kubernetes Engine Contracts in the Thames Valley

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 140 144
Rank change year-on-year +38 +4 +19
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.14% 0.038% 0.036%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -3.70%
South East median daily rate - £600 £620
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -4.62%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 493 723 853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.54% 27.70% 30.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 500 624
10th Percentile £264 £274 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £539
Median % change year-on-year - -7.19% +7.75%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £662 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 32 21
10th Percentile £17.20 £16.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £27.11 £20.11 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +70.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.23 £56.50
90th Percentile £76.18 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £29.00 £23.22 £24.00
% change year-on-year +24.92% -3.27% +14.29%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the Thames Valley

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the Thames Valley

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
Buckinghamshire - 2 - - 1
Google Kubernetes Engine
South East

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Korn
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 2 (100.00%) Google