Google Kubernetes Engine Job Trends

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 654 727 655
Rank change year-on-year +73 -72 -22
Permanent jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 12 28 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.041% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.076% 0.13% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 69
10th Percentile £61,000 - £58,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £65,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £172,500 £92,500 £91,250
90th Percentile - £110,000 £113,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +26.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,705 22,155 23,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.80% 32.41% 42.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10,601 13,460 19,740
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Google Kubernetes Engine job vacancy trend in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Google Kubernetes Engine

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Top 7 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 26 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +68 10 £126,250 +68.33% 54
London +56 7 £165,000 +65.00% 32
UK excluding London +46 5 £65,000 -13.33% 37
Work from Home +54 4 £165,000 +120.00% 24
South East +16 2 £62,500 -16.67% 21
Wales +13 2 £70,000 -
South West - 1 £87,500 - 3

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) GCP
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (41.67%) Azure
4 4 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (25.00%) GitHub
5 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) Cloud Run
6 2 (16.67%) IaaS
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (8.33%) SaaS
7 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Apache Ignite
1 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) GCP Architect
3 1 (8.33%) GCP Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) React
2 3 (25.00%) Kafka
2 3 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (25.00%) Spring
2 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (16.67%) FastAPI
3 2 (16.67%) pytest
4 1 (8.33%) Jest
4 1 (8.33%) Next.js
4 1 (8.33%) Node.js
4 1 (8.33%) Playwright
4 1 (8.33%) RESTful
4 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
4 1 (8.33%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (16.67%) Genomics
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
4 4 (33.33%) AI
4 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven
4 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 3 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (25.00%) Fintech
5 3 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Coaching
6 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (16.67%) SIEM
6 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) NCSC
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (75.00%) Terraform
3 2 (16.67%) Grafana
3 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (8.33%) Argo
4 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Google
2 3 (25.00%) Solace
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk