Google Kubernetes Engine Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 330 404
Rank change year-on-year +38 +74 +30
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 12 15 73
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.098% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.27% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 60
10th Percentile £466 £481 £500
25th Percentile £534 £512 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £601 £725 £747
90th Percentile £638 £734 £778
UK median daily rate £625 £581 £675
% change year-on-year +7.53% -13.89% -6.90%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Google Kubernetes Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Google Kubernetes Engine trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Google Kubernetes Engine daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Google Kubernetes Engine daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (75.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) GCP
2 3 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 2 (16.67%) CloudBees
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Run
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (8.33%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) Big Data
1 9 (75.00%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (75.00%) Hadoop
2 7 (58.33%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (33.33%) Data Lake
4 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (16.67%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) OpenTelemetry
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Linux
1 9 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (83.33%) Agile
2 10 (83.33%) Observability
3 9 (75.00%) Migration
4 7 (58.33%) Analytics
4 7 (58.33%) Batch Processing
4 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
4 7 (58.33%) Microservices
4 7 (58.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (58.33%) Test Automation
5 4 (33.33%) DevOps
6 3 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
7 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
7 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
7 2 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (16.67%) Product Backlog
7 2 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
1 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) Kotlin
3 1 (8.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (91.67%) Grafana
3 10 (83.33%) Ansible
3 10 (83.33%) Terraform
4 9 (75.00%) Argo
5 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk