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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 656 728 652
Rank change year-on-year +72 -76 +45
Permanent jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 14 23 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.027% 0.034% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.079% 0.10% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 10 4 68
10th Percentile £62,000 £69,250 £57,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £81,376 £80,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% +1.09% +11.03%
75th Percentile £153,125 £95,333 £91,934
90th Percentile £172,500 £98,133 £137,913
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £81,376 £75,000
% change year-on-year -20.12% +8.50% +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 17,695 22,064 22,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.58% 32.54% 42.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11,262 13,313 19,111
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,750
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 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 +90 12 £88,750 +9.06% 68
London +49 9 £165,000 +97.01% 48
Work from Home +83 6 £165,000 +93.54% 32
UK excluding London +90 5 £65,000 -20.12% 26
Wales +11 2 £70,000 - 1
South East - 2 £62,500 - 9
South West - 1 £87,500 - 8

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 (21.43%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) GCP
2 8 (57.14%) AWS
3 7 (50.00%) Azure
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (21.43%) GitHub
5 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (21.43%) SaaS
5 3 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) Cloud Run
6 2 (14.29%) IaaS
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (7.14%) Anthos
7 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (7.14%) Serverless
7 1 (7.14%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Apache Ignite
1 3 (21.43%) BigQuery
1 3 (21.43%) MongoDB
2 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) CircleCI
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Financial Institution
3 2 (14.29%) Law
3 2 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Lead
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) GCP Architect
5 1 (7.14%) GCP Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) GCP DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Security Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) React
2 3 (21.43%) Kafka
2 3 (21.43%) Node.js
2 3 (21.43%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (21.43%) Spring
2 3 (21.43%) Spring Boot
3 2 (14.29%) FastAPI
3 2 (14.29%) pytest
3 2 (14.29%) React Native
4 1 (7.14%) Jest
4 1 (7.14%) Next.js
4 1 (7.14%) Playwright
4 1 (7.14%) RESTful
4 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
4 1 (7.14%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Cloud Native
2 4 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (14.29%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (14.29%) Genomics
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Android
1 2 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) Event-Driven
2 6 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) AI
4 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 3 (21.43%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
5 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (21.43%) Fintech
5 3 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (21.43%) Microservices
5 3 (21.43%) Natural Language Processing
5 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (14.29%) Coaching
6 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
2 1 (7.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (78.57%) Terraform
3 3 (21.43%) Argo
4 2 (14.29%) Grafana
4 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Google
2 3 (21.43%) Solace
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk