Google Kubernetes Engine Contracts

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 537 571
Rank change year-on-year +4 +34 -49
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 49 175 297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.29% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.35% 0.79% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 130 203
10th Percentile £424 £500 £575
25th Percentile £500 £585 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% -6.90% +20.83%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £800
90th Percentile £734 £775 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £523 £650
% change year-on-year -0.57% -19.54% +30.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,070 22,200 34,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.24% 36.90% 38.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,997 16,035 25,035
10th Percentile £300 £325 £355
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.20% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 358 431
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £34.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.95% +59.99% -4.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £76.60 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £24.31 £18.75
% change year-on-year -27.13% +29.65% -3.85%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Google Kubernetes Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 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
England +18 40 £556 -17.59% 23
London +15 30 £581 -13.89% 11
Work from Home +61 15 £650 -7.14% 13
UK excluding London +47 8 £520 -0.57% 12
North of England - 5 £520 - 3
Yorkshire - 5 £520 -
East of England +6 2 £400 -22.85% 1
South East +9 1 £600 -3.23% 3

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (14.29%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (10.20%) nginx
3 3 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (6.12%) Apache Spark
3 3 (6.12%) Jupyter
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 45 (91.84%) GCP
2 12 (24.49%) GitHub
3 10 (20.41%) Cloud Functions
4 7 (14.29%) AWS
4 7 (14.29%) Azure
5 4 (8.16%) Azure AKS
5 4 (8.16%) Cloud Run
5 4 (8.16%) CloudBees
5 4 (8.16%) Datadog
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (6.12%) Anthos
6 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.12%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.12%) Firewall
2 2 (4.08%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (2.04%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.69%) BigQuery
2 12 (24.49%) Relational Database
3 8 (16.33%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 7 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 7 (14.29%) RDBMS
5 5 (10.20%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (6.12%) Big Data
6 3 (6.12%) Bigtable
6 3 (6.12%) ClickHouse
6 3 (6.12%) DynamoDB
6 3 (6.12%) Hadoop
6 3 (6.12%) HBase
6 3 (6.12%) Sqoop
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (4.08%) Data Lake
7 2 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (4.08%) Looker
7 2 (4.08%) PolyBase
Development Applications
1 19 (38.78%) Jenkins
2 10 (20.41%) GitLab
3 2 (4.08%) Git
3 2 (4.08%) Liquibase
3 2 (4.08%) Terragrunt
4 1 (2.04%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.04%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.04%) Spinnaker
General
1 10 (20.41%) Finance
1 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.16%) Banking
2 4 (8.16%) Investment Banking
3 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.08%) Legal
3 2 (4.08%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.04%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (22.45%) GCP Engineer
2 11 (22.45%) Senior
3 10 (20.41%) Architect
4 8 (16.33%) GCP DevOps
4 8 (16.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) Developer
5 6 (12.24%) GCP Architect
5 6 (12.24%) Java Architect
5 6 (12.24%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Python Developer
6 5 (10.20%) Security Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Senior Security Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Data Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Java Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Python/Django Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Senior Java Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Site Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) Django
1 7 (14.29%) Kafka
1 7 (14.29%) OAuth
1 7 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 5 (10.20%) CSS
2 5 (10.20%) HTML
2 5 (10.20%) React
3 3 (6.12%) Apache Beam
3 3 (6.12%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (6.12%) Keycloak
4 2 (4.08%) Apache Avro
5 1 (2.04%) Bazel
5 1 (2.04%) EDI
5 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.24%) Algorithms
2 6 (12.24%) Data Structures
3 4 (8.16%) Public Cloud
3 4 (8.16%) Reference Data
3 4 (8.16%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.12%) Equities
5 2 (4.08%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (4.08%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.08%) Mainframe
5 2 (4.08%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.37%) Linux
2 5 (10.20%) Unix
3 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (61.22%) DevOps
2 24 (48.98%) CI/CD
3 14 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 14 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (24.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (24.49%) Microservices
5 10 (20.41%) Agile
6 7 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 7 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 7 (14.29%) Open Source
6 7 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (14.29%) Workflow
7 6 (12.24%) Data Science
8 5 (10.20%) Configuration Management
8 5 (10.20%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (10.20%) Incident Response
8 5 (10.20%) Machine Learning
8 5 (10.20%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (10.20%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 23 (46.94%) Python
2 17 (34.69%) Java
3 14 (28.57%) Go
4 9 (18.37%) JavaScript
4 9 (18.37%) SQL
5 8 (16.33%) Bash
6 7 (14.29%) Groovy
7 5 (10.20%) Scala
7 5 (10.20%) Shell Script
8 4 (8.16%) Ruby
9 2 (4.08%) U-SQL
10 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) GDPR
1 2 (4.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (20.41%) Docker
2 3 (6.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 32 (65.31%) Kubernetes
2 27 (55.10%) Terraform
3 8 (16.33%) Ansible
4 6 (12.24%) Grafana
5 4 (8.16%) Prometheus
6 3 (6.12%) Istio
7 2 (4.08%) Ambari
7 2 (4.08%) Kiali
7 2 (4.08%) Oozie
8 1 (2.04%) Argo
8 1 (2.04%) CASB
8 1 (2.04%) HP Fortify
8 1 (2.04%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 22 (44.90%) Google
2 7 (14.29%) Oracle
3 4 (8.16%) Splunk
4 3 (6.12%) VMware
5 2 (4.08%) Databricks
6 1 (2.04%) Dataiku
6 1 (2.04%) Informatica
6 1 (2.04%) New Relic
6 1 (2.04%) Talend
6 1 (2.04%) webMethods