Google Kubernetes Engine Contracts in England

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Google Kubernetes Engine skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 519 548
Rank change year-on-year +30 +29 -64
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 42 127 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.26% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% 0.72% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 102 158
10th Percentile £466 £506 £575
25th Percentile £500 £595 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% -3.57% +19.15%
75th Percentile £706 £725 £800
90th Percentile £738 £738 £814
UK median daily rate £594 £675 £725
% change year-on-year -12.04% -6.90% +20.83%

All Cloud Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,675 17,684 27,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.07% 36.49% 38.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,429 12,966 20,152
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £417 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 288 339
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.88 £18.44 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.37 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.04% +50.70% +2.14%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.81 £49.08
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in England

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine in England.

Daily rate trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in England

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in England

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +31 34 £581 -13.89% 13
Yorkshire - 5 £520 - 1
North of England - 5 £520 - 3
South East +20 1 £600 -3.23% 2
Google Kubernetes Engine
UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (16.67%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (11.90%) nginx
3 3 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 3 (7.14%) Jupyter
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (2.38%) CMS
4 1 (2.38%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 40 (95.24%) GCP
2 11 (26.19%) GitHub
3 9 (21.43%) Cloud Functions
4 6 (14.29%) Azure
5 5 (11.90%) AWS
6 4 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (9.52%) Cloud Run
6 4 (9.52%) CloudBees
7 3 (7.14%) Anthos
7 3 (7.14%) Azure AKS
7 3 (7.14%) Datadog
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.76%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (4.76%) Google App Engine
8 2 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) Firewall
2 2 (4.76%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (2.38%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (42.86%) BigQuery
2 12 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 8 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 7 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 7 (16.67%) RDBMS
5 5 (11.90%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (7.14%) Big Data
6 3 (7.14%) Bigtable
6 3 (7.14%) ClickHouse
6 3 (7.14%) DynamoDB
6 3 (7.14%) Hadoop
6 3 (7.14%) HBase
6 3 (7.14%) Sqoop
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
7 2 (4.76%) IBM BigInsights
7 2 (4.76%) Looker
7 2 (4.76%) Parquet
7 2 (4.76%) PolyBase
Development Applications
1 15 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 8 (19.05%) GitLab
3 2 (4.76%) Git
3 2 (4.76%) Liquibase
3 2 (4.76%) Terragrunt
4 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.38%) Spinnaker
General
1 10 (23.81%) Finance
1 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.52%) Banking
2 4 (9.52%) Investment Banking
3 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Legal
3 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.38%) Advertising
4 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Architect
3 9 (21.43%) GCP Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) GCP Architect
4 6 (14.29%) GCP DevOps
4 6 (14.29%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Java Architect
4 6 (14.29%) Senior
5 5 (11.90%) Data Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Python Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Java Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Senior Java Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Django Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Lead
7 3 (7.14%) Python/Django Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) GCP Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Lead Python Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) Kafka
1 7 (16.67%) OAuth
1 7 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 6 (14.29%) Django
3 5 (11.90%) CSS
3 5 (11.90%) HTML
3 5 (11.90%) React
4 3 (7.14%) Apache Beam
4 3 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (7.14%) Keycloak
5 2 (4.76%) Apache Avro
6 1 (2.38%) Bazel
6 1 (2.38%) EDI
6 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 6 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) Equities
2 4 (9.52%) Public Cloud
2 4 (9.52%) Reference Data
3 3 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.38%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (21.43%) Linux
2 4 (9.52%) Unix
3 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (61.90%) DevOps
2 20 (47.62%) CI/CD
3 15 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 13 (30.95%) Microservices
5 10 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (16.67%) Agile
7 7 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 7 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 7 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (16.67%) Workflow
8 6 (14.29%) Data Science
9 5 (11.90%) Configuration Management
9 5 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (11.90%) Machine Learning
9 5 (11.90%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (11.90%) Software Architecture
10 4 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (9.52%) Migration
10 4 (9.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (45.24%) Python
2 18 (42.86%) Java
3 9 (21.43%) Go
3 9 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 9 (21.43%) SQL
4 5 (11.90%) Bash
4 5 (11.90%) Groovy
4 5 (11.90%) Scala
4 5 (11.90%) Shell Script
5 4 (9.52%) Ruby
6 2 (4.76%) U-SQL
7 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 27 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 23 (54.76%) Terraform
3 9 (21.43%) Ansible
4 6 (14.29%) Grafana
5 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
6 3 (7.14%) Istio
7 2 (4.76%) Ambari
7 2 (4.76%) Kiali
7 2 (4.76%) Oozie
8 1 (2.38%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 22 (52.38%) Google
2 7 (16.67%) Oracle
3 4 (9.52%) Splunk
4 2 (4.76%) Databricks
4 2 (4.76%) VMware
5 1 (2.38%) Dataiku
5 1 (2.38%) Informatica
5 1 (2.38%) New Relic
5 1 (2.38%) Talend
5 1 (2.38%) webMethods