Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 112 119
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 +59
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.16% 0.10% 0.048%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% 0.36% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £489 -
25th Percentile £563 £489 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.47% -2.10% -
75th Percentile £588 £490 -
90th Percentile - £490 -
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -14.29%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 593 550 728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.39% 28.74% 35.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 369 525
10th Percentile £264 £213 £208
25th Percentile £413 £353 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £489 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +2.95% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £600
90th Percentile £686 £686 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 4
10th Percentile £31.94 £15.83 £17.58
25th Percentile £34.16 £23.55 £17.69
Median hourly rate £35.49 £33.74 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% +82.35% +8.82%
75th Percentile £52.69 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £59.44 £55.50 £19.60
England median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the West Midlands

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Worcestershire - 3 £575 - 1
Google Kubernetes Engine
England

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Datadog
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (100.00%) npm
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 3 (100.00%) Pulumi
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 3 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Gradle
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) Snyk
1 3 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 3 (100.00%) webpack
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Podman
1 3 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Puppet
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk