Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in West London

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.65% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.72% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 - -
London median daily rate £560 £589 £600
% change year-on-year -4.88% -1.88% -11.11%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 174 98 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 37.66% 36.30% 44.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 79 104
10th Percentile £278 £246 £300
25th Percentile £400 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £483
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -11.92% -16.09%
75th Percentile £638 £507 £588
90th Percentile £738 £558 £650
London median daily rate £540 £531 £550
% change year-on-year +1.77% -3.52% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £33.02 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £38.96 £23.80
Median hourly rate £27.50 £44.75 £27.20
Median % change year-on-year -38.55% +64.55% -67.04%
75th Percentile £28.75 £49.38 £32.63
90th Percentile - £52.75 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
% change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -49.55%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Google Kubernetes Engine job vacancy trend in West London

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Google Kubernetes Engine

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Hounslow - 3 £360 -
Google Kubernetes Engine
London

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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 3 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Datadog
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Manager
2 2 (66.67%) Site Manager
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Manager
3 1 (33.33%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Go
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) New Relic
1 2 (66.67%) VMware