Google Kubernetes Engine Contracts in the Thames Valley

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 149 161
Rank change year-on-year +18 +12 -20
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 1 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.038% 0.035% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.14% 0.12% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £523
25th Percentile - - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +35.00%
75th Percentile - - £731
90th Percentile - - £735
South East median daily rate £600 £620 £650
% change year-on-year -3.23% -4.62% +30.00%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 735 852 1,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.83% 29.75% 30.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 617 869
10th Percentile £282 £313 £192
25th Percentile £413 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £608 £630 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 15
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.15 £14.51
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £58.00 £26.58 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.21% +26.57% -0.24%
75th Percentile £60.83 £58.50 £39.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £75.24
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% +30.95% -2.44%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the Thames Valley

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the Thames Valley

Google Kubernetes Engine
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Oxfordshire - 1 £600 -
Google Kubernetes Engine
South East

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Spinnaker
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform