Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.22% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £409 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

All Cloud Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 395 347 379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 43.65% 46.02% 31.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 229 273
10th Percentile £318 £346 £281
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £665
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 1
10th Percentile - £20.67 -
25th Percentile £14.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £20.88 £41.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.09% -33.87% +175.56%
75th Percentile £71.56 £99.32 -
90th Percentile £148.63 £102.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +37.50% -11.11%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Google Kubernetes Engine job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
Leeds - 2 £425 - 2
Halifax - 1 - -
Google Kubernetes Engine
Yorkshire

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Apigee
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Stackdriver
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Spinnaker
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) Google