Google Kubernetes Engine Jobs

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Google Kubernetes Engine skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 875 575 730
Rank change year-on-year -300 +155 +25
Permanent jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 39 447 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.43% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 1.01% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 25 120 78
10th Percentile - - £55,000
25th Percentile £61,180 £56,219 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,566 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% -6.19% +4.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £109,063
90th Percentile £119,748 £106,875 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £59,526 £68,750
% change year-on-year +26.00% -13.42% +5.97%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Google Kubernetes Engine is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,320 44,215 75,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.85% 42.74% 48.20%
Number of salaries quoted 26,705 29,050 41,939
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,988 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,600 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Top 13 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 5 May 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 -253 33 £80,000 - 23
UK excluding London -86 25 £75,000 +26.00% 11
Work from Home +9 23 £75,000 +9.47% 14
North of England +30 17 £69,447 +8.48% 4
London -158 13 £80,000 -8.57% 12
North West +8 12 £69,447 +16.67% 2
Yorkshire +75 4 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
South East -10 2 £75,000 -3.23% 2
Scotland -68 2 £120,360 +102.20%
West Midlands +17 1 £75,000 - 1
Midlands +13 1 £75,000 - 1
North East -7 1 £75,000 - 1

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 7 (17.95%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 32 (82.05%) GCP
2 16 (41.03%) GitHub
3 12 (30.77%) Azure
4 9 (23.08%) AWS
5 8 (20.51%) Anthos
6 6 (15.38%) Azure AKS
7 5 (12.82%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (10.26%) Amazon S3
8 4 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (10.26%) Cloud Composer
8 4 (10.26%) Cloud Functions
8 4 (10.26%) dbt
8 4 (10.26%) Snowflake
9 3 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (7.69%) Datadog
9 3 (7.69%) Route 53
9 3 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (33.33%) Firewall
2 3 (7.69%) DNS
3 1 (2.56%) Internet
3 1 (2.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) BigQuery
2 6 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (10.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (10.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (10.26%) Tableau
4 3 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 15 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 7 (17.95%) Spinnaker
3 6 (15.38%) Git
3 6 (15.38%) GitLab
4 3 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.13%) Maven
5 2 (5.13%) Selenium
5 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (48.72%) Finance
2 12 (30.77%) Banking
3 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
4 6 (15.38%) Retail
5 5 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (10.26%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (10.26%) Law
6 4 (10.26%) Retail Banking
7 2 (5.13%) Health Technology
8 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (30.77%) Software Engineer
2 11 (28.21%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (23.08%) GCP Engineer
4 8 (20.51%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 8 (20.51%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 8 (20.51%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) GCP Software Engineer
6 6 (15.38%) Lead
7 5 (12.82%) Data Engineer
7 5 (12.82%) Senior
8 4 (10.26%) Test Engineer
9 3 (7.69%) Development Engineer
9 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (7.69%) Lead Data Engineer
9 3 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
10 2 (5.13%) Architect
10 2 (5.13%) Cloud Architect
10 2 (5.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 2 (5.13%) Lead Software Engineer
10 2 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) Kafka
2 2 (5.13%) Node.js
2 2 (5.13%) React
3 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.56%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.56%) Hackathon
4 1 (2.56%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Linux
1 4 (10.26%) Unix
2 3 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (51.28%) DevOps
2 19 (48.72%) Agile
3 18 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 16 (41.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (38.46%) Software Engineering
6 12 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (28.21%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (23.08%) Analytics
8 9 (23.08%) Containerisation
9 8 (20.51%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (20.51%) Data Engineering
9 8 (20.51%) Mentoring
10 7 (17.95%) Data Management
10 7 (17.95%) Microservices
11 6 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (15.38%) Coaching
11 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
11 6 (15.38%) Data Science
11 6 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 5 (12.82%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (46.15%) Python
2 11 (28.21%) Bash
2 11 (28.21%) Java
3 7 (17.95%) Go
3 7 (17.95%) PowerShell
4 4 (10.26%) SQL
4 4 (10.26%) T-SQL
5 3 (7.69%) Ruby
6 2 (5.13%) Haskell
6 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.13%) Scala
6 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.56%) C#
7 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) Degree
2 5 (12.82%) AWS Certification
2 5 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.26%) ISTQB
4 3 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 3 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (5.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (35.90%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) NFS
2 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (74.36%) Kubernetes
2 22 (56.41%) Terraform
3 6 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 5 (12.82%) Ansible
5 3 (7.69%) Argo
5 3 (7.69%) Istio
6 2 (5.13%) Grafana
6 2 (5.13%) Kibana
6 2 (5.13%) Kubeflow
6 2 (5.13%) Rundeck
7 1 (2.56%) Kiali
Vendors
1 19 (48.72%) Google
2 7 (17.95%) Confluent
2 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.82%) LogicMonitor
3 5 (12.82%) PagerDuty
3 5 (12.82%) Splunk
4 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.13%) New Relic
4 2 (5.13%) VMware
5 1 (2.56%) Databricks
5 1 (2.56%) YouTube