Google Kubernetes Engine Jobs

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months leading up to 11 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 756 660 647
Rank change year-on-year -96 -13 +241
Permanent jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 17 76 475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.15% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.076% 0.34% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3 66 94
10th Percentile - £56,250 -
25th Percentile £76,727 £61,180 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £80,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.57% +1.59% -7.35%
75th Percentile £96,889 £91,934 £100,375
90th Percentile £98,756 £137,913 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,253 £70,576 £59,526
% change year-on-year +20.80% +18.56% -15.57%

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 22,262 22,497 52,653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.05% 43.04% 43.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12,903 17,604 35,424
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,351 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% +4.76%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Google Kubernetes Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Salary trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 11 December 2024.

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 11 December 2024. 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 -85 14 £85,253 +6.57% 30
London -24 12 £100,000 +21.21% 18
Work from Home -21 11 £85,253 +6.57% 12
UK excluding London -104 5 £85,253 +20.80% 13
Wales - 3 - - 1
Yorkshire +11 2 £85,253 +2.01% 2
North of England -54 2 £85,253 +22.76% 6

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Pulsar
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) GCP
2 6 (35.29%) CloudAMQP
3 5 (29.41%) AWS
4 4 (23.53%) SaaS
5 3 (17.65%) Google Compute Engine
5 3 (17.65%) Google Workspace
5 3 (17.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (11.76%) Anthos
6 2 (11.76%) Apigee
6 2 (11.76%) Azure
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (5.88%) Datadog
7 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.88%) GitHub
7 1 (5.88%) IaaS
7 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
7 1 (5.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) VPN
2 3 (17.65%) BGP
2 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
2 3 (17.65%) VLAN
3 2 (11.76%) Firewall
4 1 (5.88%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) MongoDB
2 6 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (5.88%) Big Data
4 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.88%) Bigtable
4 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.88%) Flink
4 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.88%) HBase
4 1 (5.88%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) JUnit
2 2 (11.76%) Maven
2 2 (11.76%) SonarQube
2 2 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (64.71%) Banking
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Retail
3 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Back Office
4 3 (17.65%) Financial Institution
4 3 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (17.65%) Law
5 2 (11.76%) Games
6 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.88%) iGaming
6 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Cloud Engineer
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
1 6 (35.29%) Python Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Customer Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Big Data Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (17.65%) RESTful
3 2 (11.76%) Hibernate
3 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Algorithms
1 6 (35.29%) Data Structures
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 4 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (17.65%) Blog
3 3 (17.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (11.76%) Mobile Games
4 2 (11.76%) Online Games
5 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (5.88%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Unix
3 1 (5.88%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Software Engineering
2 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
3 8 (47.06%) Event-Driven
3 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (47.06%) Microservices
4 7 (41.18%) Customer Service
5 6 (35.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (35.29%) Computer Science
5 6 (35.29%) Concurrent Programming
5 6 (35.29%) Data Science
5 6 (35.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 6 (35.29%) Fintech
6 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (23.53%) DevOps
7 4 (23.53%) Observability
8 3 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (17.65%) Immutable Infrastructure
8 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
8 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Java
2 12 (70.59%) Python
3 10 (58.82%) Go
4 9 (52.94%) SQL
5 7 (41.18%) C#
6 6 (35.29%) C
6 6 (35.29%) C++
6 6 (35.29%) Rust
7 2 (11.76%) Bash
8 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
8 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 1 (5.88%) Scala
8 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (35.29%) Degree
1 6 (35.29%) Master's Degree
2 4 (23.53%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (17.65%) PCI DSS
1 3 (17.65%) SOC 2
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Flume
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (76.47%) Kubernetes
2 5 (29.41%) Terraform
3 3 (17.65%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (11.76%) Istio
5 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (5.88%) Ansible
5 1 (5.88%) Argo
5 1 (5.88%) Rancher
5 1 (5.88%) yum
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Google
2 3 (17.65%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.88%) Informatica
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.88%) Talend