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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 756 649 751
Rank change year-on-year -107 +102 -72
Permanent jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 54 11 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.046% 0.022% 0.042%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.19% 0.071% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 36 10 9
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 -
25th Percentile £64,688 £63,125 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £73,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.73% -4.84% -3.13%
75th Percentile £80,625 £150,625 £85,420
90th Percentile £97,500 £172,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +8.46% -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 27,750 15,551 24,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.72% 31.57% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 18,777 10,563 15,175
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -88 42 £72,500 - 93
UK excluding London -97 33 £70,500 +8.46% 38
London -42 19 £95,000 -42.42% 67
Work from Home -30 18 £65,500 -60.30% 58
North of England - 13 £72,500 - 16
North West - 12 £72,500 - 7
Wales -68 10 £70,000 - 1
South West - 5 £67,500 - 1
South East -53 4 £57,500 -8.00% 9
East of England - 1 £72,500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £90,000 - 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (98.15%) GCP
2 23 (42.59%) Azure
3 15 (27.78%) AWS
4 14 (25.93%) Azure AKS
5 11 (20.37%) GitHub
6 9 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (14.81%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (12.96%) Google Compute Engine
8 7 (12.96%) SaaS
9 6 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (9.26%) Cloud Functions
11 3 (5.56%) OpenShift
12 2 (3.70%) Cloud Run
12 2 (3.70%) Google Workspace
12 2 (3.70%) Vertex AI
13 1 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.96%) Firewall
2 5 (9.26%) DNS
3 4 (7.41%) Network Security
4 3 (5.56%) BGP
4 3 (5.56%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.56%) VPN
5 2 (3.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.26%) NoSQL
3 4 (7.41%) BigQuery
4 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.56%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.56%) MySQL
5 2 (3.70%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (1.85%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 18 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 10 (18.52%) GitLab
3 6 (11.11%) Git
4 3 (5.56%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (38.89%) Finance
2 9 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.81%) Banking
4 5 (9.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.56%) Back Office
5 3 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.70%) Law
6 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.70%) Retail
7 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (38.89%) Senior
2 20 (37.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (27.78%) Platform Engineer
4 14 (25.93%) Senior DevOps
4 14 (25.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 13 (24.07%) Architect
6 12 (22.22%) GCP Engineer
7 11 (20.37%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 10 (18.52%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 9 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (14.81%) Cloud Architect
11 6 (11.11%) GCP Architect
12 5 (9.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 4 (7.41%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 4 (7.41%) Security Engineer
14 3 (5.56%) Java Engineer
14 3 (5.56%) Senior Architect
14 3 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Architect
15 2 (3.70%) GCP DevOps
15 2 (3.70%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (77.78%) Terraform
2 5 (9.26%) RESTful
3 2 (3.70%) Kafka
3 2 (3.70%) Keycloak
3 2 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.85%) eBPF
4 1 (1.85%) LangChain
4 1 (1.85%) Loki
4 1 (1.85%) Micronaut
4 1 (1.85%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (1.85%) REST
4 1 (1.85%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.85%) Spring
4 1 (1.85%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (53.70%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.96%) Enterprise Cloud
3 6 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.56%) Blog
4 3 (5.56%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (5.56%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.85%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.85%) IoT
6 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 40 (74.07%) DevOps
3 38 (70.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (46.30%) Platform Engineering
5 23 (42.59%) Containerisation
6 16 (29.63%) Observability
7 13 (24.07%) Software Engineering
8 12 (22.22%) Cloud Security
9 10 (18.52%) Agile
9 10 (18.52%) Mentoring
10 9 (16.67%) AI
10 9 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
10 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (16.67%) Microservices
11 8 (14.81%) Fintech
11 8 (14.81%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (14.81%) Test Automation
12 7 (12.96%) GitOps
12 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 26 (48.15%) Python
2 14 (25.93%) Go
3 11 (20.37%) Java
4 10 (18.52%) Bash
5 8 (14.81%) SQL
6 3 (5.56%) PHP
7 1 (1.85%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.85%) CCSP
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.85%) CISM
4 1 (1.85%) CISSP
4 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 6 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (11.11%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.85%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (20.37%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 50 (92.59%) Kubernetes
2 15 (27.78%) Grafana
3 14 (25.93%) Prometheus
4 12 (22.22%) Istio
5 4 (7.41%) Argo
6 3 (5.56%) Ansible
6 3 (5.56%) Cilium
6 3 (5.56%) Kustomize
6 3 (5.56%) linkerd
6 3 (5.56%) Progress Chef
6 3 (5.56%) Puppet
6 3 (5.56%) Rancher
7 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (83.33%) Google
2 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.85%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.85%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.85%) OpenText
3 1 (1.85%) SAP
3 1 (1.85%) TIBCO