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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 735 651 797
Rank change year-on-year -84 +146 -86
Permanent jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 43 23 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.042% 0.047% 0.044%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.15% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 34 20 17
10th Percentile £54,125 £66,125 £65,000
25th Percentile £58,125 £72,899 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £78,810 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% -1.49% +1.59%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,751 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,975 £95,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,000 £78,810 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.91% -1.49% +16.76%

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 27,748 15,912 28,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.11% 32.25% 32.40%
Number of salaries quoted 18,137 11,067 20,788
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,500 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £84,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% -4.55%

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 30 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Top 11 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 30 July 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 -77 34 £72,500 -8.01% 47
UK excluding London -69 30 £71,000 -9.91% 24
North of England -30 14 £72,500 -8.01% 13
North West +7 13 £72,500 -8.01% 6
Work from Home -40 13 £60,000 -23.87% 26
London -29 12 £85,000 +10.53% 28
Wales - 8 £70,000 - 1
South West -62 4 £67,500 -14.35% 4
South East -32 3 £57,500 -11.54% 3
Yorkshire -33 1 £90,000 +20.21% 7
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 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (95.35%) GCP
2 15 (34.88%) Azure
3 13 (30.23%) AWS
4 7 (16.28%) Azure AKS
5 6 (13.95%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (13.95%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (13.95%) Cloud Functions
5 6 (13.95%) Google Compute Engine
6 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (9.30%) Cloud Run
6 4 (9.30%) GitHub
6 4 (9.30%) SaaS
6 4 (9.30%) Vertex AI
7 3 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.65%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (2.33%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.28%) Firewall
2 3 (6.98%) DNS
2 3 (6.98%) Network Security
3 2 (4.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) BigQuery
2 4 (9.30%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.65%) Cloud Spanner
3 2 (4.65%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.65%) MySQL
3 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.33%) Data Hub
4 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 11 (25.58%) Jenkins
2 8 (18.60%) GitLab
3 5 (11.63%) Git
4 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (20.93%) Finance
2 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (37.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (34.88%) Platform Engineer
3 14 (32.56%) Senior
4 10 (23.26%) Senior DevOps
4 10 (23.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 9 (20.93%) GCP Engineer
5 9 (20.93%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 8 (18.60%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 6 (13.95%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (13.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 5 (11.63%) Architect
9 3 (6.98%) Cloud Consultant
9 3 (6.98%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 3 (6.98%) Consultant
9 3 (6.98%) Java Engineer
9 3 (6.98%) Security Engineer
10 2 (4.65%) GCP Architect
10 2 (4.65%) GCP DevOps
10 2 (4.65%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 2 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) RESTful
2 1 (2.33%) JWT
2 1 (2.33%) Kafka
2 1 (2.33%) Keycloak
2 1 (2.33%) Micronaut
2 1 (2.33%) OAuth
2 1 (2.33%) REST
2 1 (2.33%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.33%) SAP Basis
2 1 (2.33%) Spring
2 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (48.84%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.98%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (6.98%) Public Cloud
2 3 (6.98%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.33%) IoT
3 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (76.74%) CI/CD
2 31 (72.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (69.77%) DevOps
4 20 (46.51%) Platform Engineering
5 18 (41.86%) Containerisation
6 13 (30.23%) Observability
7 12 (27.91%) Software Engineering
8 10 (23.26%) AI
8 10 (23.26%) Mentoring
9 9 (20.93%) Agile
9 9 (20.93%) Cloud Security
10 8 (18.60%) Machine Learning
11 7 (16.28%) GitOps
11 7 (16.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (13.95%) Collaborative Engineering
12 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (13.95%) Technical Leadership
13 5 (11.63%) Collaborative Culture
13 5 (11.63%) Data Engineering
13 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 16 (37.21%) Python
2 9 (20.93%) Go
3 7 (16.28%) Bash
3 7 (16.28%) Java
4 4 (9.30%) SQL
5 3 (6.98%) PHP
6 1 (2.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.33%) CCSP
3 1 (2.33%) CEH
3 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.33%) CISM
3 1 (2.33%) CISSP
3 1 (2.33%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) GIAC
3 1 (2.33%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) PCI DSS
2 4 (9.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (9.30%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (23.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.33%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (93.02%) Kubernetes
2 31 (72.09%) Terraform
3 11 (25.58%) Grafana
3 11 (25.58%) Prometheus
4 9 (20.93%) Istio
5 4 (9.30%) Argo
5 4 (9.30%) Progress Chef
6 3 (6.98%) Ansible
6 3 (6.98%) Kustomize
6 3 (6.98%) linkerd
6 3 (6.98%) Puppet
7 2 (4.65%) Rancher
8 1 (2.33%) Cilium
8 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (76.74%) Google
2 1 (2.33%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (2.33%) Guidewire
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.33%) OpenText
2 1 (2.33%) SAP
2 1 (2.33%) Splunk
2 1 (2.33%) TIBCO