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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 751 643 759
Rank change year-on-year -108 +116 -101
Permanent jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 59 11 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.050% 0.022% 0.038%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.22% 0.071% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 35 8 7
10th Percentile £54,750 £61,000 -
25th Percentile £63,125 £64,375 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £81,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £78,125 £172,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,500 - £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% -

All Cloud Computing 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 26,716 15,535 23,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.69% 31.28% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 18,334 10,393 14,373
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,354 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.51% +1.60%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 8 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Top 10 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 8 October 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
England -89 44 £72,500 -42.57% 86
UK excluding London -86 31 £70,000 +7.69% 26
Work from Home -19 26 £65,500 -60.30% 43
London -47 23 £95,000 -42.42% 68
North West - 11 £72,500 - 7
North of England - 11 £72,500 - 14
Wales -67 10 £70,000 - 1
South West -66 5 £67,500 -22.86%
South East -47 4 £57,500 -8.00% 2
East of England - 1 £72,500 -

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (96.61%) GCP
2 22 (37.29%) Azure
3 21 (35.59%) AWS
4 15 (25.42%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (25.42%) SaaS
5 14 (23.73%) Azure AKS
5 14 (23.73%) Google Compute Engine
6 13 (22.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 9 (15.25%) GitHub
7 9 (15.25%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (13.56%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (10.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (8.47%) Cloud Functions
10 5 (8.47%) Google Workspace
11 3 (5.08%) OpenShift
12 2 (3.39%) Cloud Run
12 2 (3.39%) Vertex AI
13 1 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (1.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.64%) Firewall
2 10 (16.95%) BGP
2 10 (16.95%) TCP/IP
2 10 (16.95%) VPN
3 8 (13.56%) Network Security
4 5 (8.47%) DNS
4 5 (8.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.42%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (16.95%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (6.78%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.78%) MySQL
3 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.08%) BigQuery
4 3 (5.08%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.39%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (1.69%) Data Hub
6 1 (1.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (23.73%) Jenkins
2 10 (16.95%) TeamCity
3 9 (15.25%) GitLab
4 6 (10.17%) Git
5 3 (5.08%) Bitbucket
General
1 28 (47.46%) Finance
2 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.64%) Banking
4 10 (16.95%) Back Office
4 10 (16.95%) Financial Institution
5 9 (15.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (8.47%) Law
6 5 (8.47%) Retail
7 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (40.68%) Senior
2 19 (32.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (27.12%) GCP Engineer
3 16 (27.12%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (22.03%) Architect
5 12 (20.34%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (20.34%) Senior DevOps
5 12 (20.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 11 (18.64%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 11 (18.64%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 8 (13.56%) Cloud Architect
7 8 (13.56%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 8 (13.56%) Security Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) GCP Architect
9 5 (8.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Senior Cloud Architect
10 3 (5.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (79.66%) Terraform
2 8 (13.56%) RESTful
3 5 (8.47%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (3.39%) Kafka
4 2 (3.39%) REST
5 1 (1.69%) .NET
5 1 (1.69%) eBPF
5 1 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.69%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.69%) LangChain
5 1 (1.69%) Loki
5 1 (1.69%) Micronaut
5 1 (1.69%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (1.69%) SAP Basis
5 1 (1.69%) Spring
5 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (55.93%) Cloud Native
2 12 (20.34%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (16.95%) Blog
3 10 (16.95%) Security Posture
4 7 (11.86%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (8.47%) Management Information System
6 3 (5.08%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (5.08%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (5.08%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.39%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.69%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.69%) IoT
8 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.56%) Linux
2 1 (1.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (88.14%) CI/CD
2 40 (67.80%) DevOps
2 40 (67.80%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (44.07%) Platform Engineering
4 20 (33.90%) Observability
5 19 (32.20%) Containerisation
6 16 (27.12%) Fintech
6 16 (27.12%) Identity Access Management
6 16 (27.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 15 (25.42%) Cloud Security
8 13 (22.03%) Microservices
9 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (20.34%) Software Engineering
10 10 (16.95%) Disruptive Innovation
10 10 (16.95%) Immutable Infrastructure
10 10 (16.95%) Mentoring
10 10 (16.95%) SOA
11 9 (15.25%) AI
11 9 (15.25%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (13.56%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 31 (52.54%) Python
2 21 (35.59%) Go
3 17 (28.81%) Java
4 15 (25.42%) SQL
5 14 (23.73%) Bash
6 3 (5.08%) PHP
7 1 (1.69%) Bicep
7 1 (1.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 5 (8.47%) CCSP
2 5 (8.47%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (8.47%) CISM
2 5 (8.47%) CISSP
2 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.78%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (27.12%) PCI DSS
2 13 (22.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (22.03%) SOC 2
3 5 (8.47%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (18.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (94.92%) Kubernetes
2 22 (37.29%) Grafana
3 17 (28.81%) Prometheus
4 10 (16.95%) Istio
5 6 (10.17%) Cilium
6 5 (8.47%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (6.78%) Ansible
7 4 (6.78%) Argo
8 3 (5.08%) Kustomize
8 3 (5.08%) linkerd
8 3 (5.08%) Progress Chef
8 3 (5.08%) Puppet
8 3 (5.08%) Rancher
9 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.69%) Packer
10 1 (1.69%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 50 (84.75%) Google
2 9 (15.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.69%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.69%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.69%) OpenText
3 1 (1.69%) SAP
3 1 (1.69%) TIBCO