Google Kubernetes Engine Contracts in the UK excluding London

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 378 436
Rank change year-on-year +47 +58 +33
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 4 6 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.029% 0.064%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.099% 0.11% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 11
10th Percentile £457 - £425
25th Percentile £459 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £560 £523
Median % change year-on-year -17.10% +7.07% -19.54%
75th Percentile £468 £613 £643
90th Percentile £468 £635 £650
UK median daily rate £625 £588 £675
% change year-on-year +6.38% -12.96% -6.90%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,053 5,249 7,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.71% 25.78% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,838 3,725 5,766
10th Percentile £235 £213 £250
25th Percentile £382 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 259 230
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.80 £15.00 £16.31
Median hourly rate £21.34 £17.72 £24.81
Median % change year-on-year +20.40% -28.58% +26.42%
75th Percentile £32.58 £26.50 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £65.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.69% -38.94% +56.25%

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
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 14 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
North of England +17 2 £464 -10.72% 21
Yorkshire +9 2 £464 -10.72% 8
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 5
Scotland - 1 - - 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (50.00%) CloudBees
3 2 (50.00%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Run
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Google App Engine
4 1 (25.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Architectural Design
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (75.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Change Management
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (50.00%) OO
3 2 (50.00%) Product Backlog
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk