Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 - 110
Rank change year-on-year - - +37
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 12 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.72% - 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% - 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £405 - £463
25th Percentile £406 - £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 - £519
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.54%
75th Percentile £473 - £558
90th Percentile £521 - £579
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -11.11%

All Cloud Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 651 514 658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.94% 35.99% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 348 483
10th Percentile £235 £296 £233
25th Percentile £369 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £613
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £43.63 £15.58 £19.10
25th Percentile £69.69 £20.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £113.75 £21.00 £22.51
Median % change year-on-year +441.67% -6.71% +0.04%
75th Percentile £157.19 £28.75 £44.50
90th Percentile £182.88 - £55.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Google Kubernetes Engine job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in Yorkshire

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
South Yorkshire - 11 £436 -
West Yorkshire - 1 - - 3
Google Kubernetes Engine
England

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 12 (100.00%) GCP
2 11 (91.67%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (83.33%) Azure AKS
4 9 (75.00%) AWS
5 8 (66.67%) Azure
5 8 (66.67%) Entra ID
5 8 (66.67%) SaaS
6 7 (58.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (25.00%) GitHub
9 2 (16.67%) CloudBees
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Git
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Business Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) GCP DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) SAML
2 7 (58.33%) JSON
2 7 (58.33%) OAuth
2 7 (58.33%) OpenID
3 6 (50.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (50.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) DevOps
2 9 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (66.67%) GAP Analysis
3 8 (66.67%) RBAC
3 8 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
4 7 (58.33%) Identity Management
4 7 (58.33%) Privileged Identity Management
5 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 2 (16.67%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
6 2 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
6 2 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (16.67%) OO
6 2 (16.67%) Product Backlog
6 2 (16.67%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) Kotlin
2 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (8.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (75.00%) Terraform
3 8 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (16.67%) Grafana
4 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (8.33%) Istio
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Alibaba
2 3 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft