Google Kubernetes Engine Contracts in the UK excluding London

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Google Kubernetes Engine skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 438 472
Rank change year-on-year +54 +34 -70
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 7 18 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.075% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.13% 0.22% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 28
10th Percentile £444 £425 £588
25th Percentile £510 £500 £641
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £523 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% -19.54% +30.00%
75th Percentile £600 £643 £738
90th Percentile £630 £650 £800
UK median daily rate £588 £675 £725
% change year-on-year -12.96% -6.90% +20.83%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Google Kubernetes Engine is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,436 8,022 9,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.31% 33.32% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,946 7,260
10th Percentile £213 £240 £206
25th Percentile £375 £408 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £669
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 231 290
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.24
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.69 £15.04
Median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £25.00
90th Percentile £60.42 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -6.30%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Google Kubernetes Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK excluding London

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK excluding London

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK excluding London

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Yorkshire - 5 £520 -
North of England - 5 £520 - 2
South East +16 1 £600 -3.23% 4
East of England -1 1 £400 -22.85% 1
Google Kubernetes Engine
UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (71.43%) nginx
2 3 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (42.86%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) CloudBees
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (28.57%) Anthos
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
3 2 (28.57%) Datadog
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (42.86%) ClickHouse
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) Spinnaker
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Site Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Cassandra Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Database Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Beam
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
1 3 (42.86%) Keycloak
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (42.86%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (42.86%) Design Patterns
4 3 (42.86%) Open Source
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
4 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
5 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Go
2 4 (57.14%) Groovy
3 3 (42.86%) Bash
3 3 (42.86%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) Ruby
3 3 (42.86%) Scala
4 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 3 (42.86%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Ansible
2 4 (57.14%) Grafana
2 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
4 2 (28.57%) Istio
4 2 (28.57%) Kiali
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
1 2 (28.57%) VMware