Google Kubernetes Engine Job Trends in Merseyside

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.088% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.37% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - -
75th Percentile £73,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £66,250 £78,810 £80,000
% change year-on-year -15.94% -1.49% +18.94%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Merseyside

Google Kubernetes Engine falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 269 114 420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 23.76% 25.22% 33.73%
Number of salaries quoted 185 77 345
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £31,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year - -7.22% +7.78%
75th Percentile £73,750 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £71,250 £90,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool - 1 £72,500 -
Google Kubernetes Engine
North West

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform