Google Kubernetes Engine Contracts with Work from Home Options

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 395 426
Rank change year-on-year +65 +31 -55
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 15 62 203
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.25% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% 0.64% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 49 151
10th Percentile £481 £498 £575
25th Percentile £512 £575 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +10.48%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £800
90th Percentile £734 £775 £813
UK median daily rate £594 £675 £725
% change year-on-year -12.04% -6.90% +20.83%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,399 9,677 18,392
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.73% 39.46% 41.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,901 7,194 13,748
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £738 £745 £734
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 130 168
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% +2.07%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.19 £75.00 £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
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Google Kubernetes Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Google Kubernetes Engine trend for jobs with a WFH option

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Google Kubernetes Engine daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Google Kubernetes Engine daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (6.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) GCP
2 2 (13.33%) Datadog
3 1 (6.67%) Anthos
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Reverse Proxy
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) GitLab
1 7 (46.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) CircleCI
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
1 5 (33.33%) Python Developer
1 5 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Senior
1 5 (33.33%) Senior Security Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Django Developer
3 3 (20.00%) GCP DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Python/Django Developer
4 2 (13.33%) GCP Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Lead Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead Python Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Site Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Django
2 5 (33.33%) CSS
2 5 (33.33%) HTML
2 5 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 5 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 4 (26.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 5 (33.33%) Data Science
3 5 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 5 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) Software Architecture
4 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (26.67%) Open Source
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 2 (13.33%) Incident Response
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
7 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
7 1 (6.67%) Network Design
7 1 (6.67%) OO
7 1 (6.67%) Penetration Testing
7 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) Go
3 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) Bash
4 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Argo
3 1 (6.67%) CASB
3 1 (6.67%) HP Fortify
3 1 (6.67%) Istio
3 1 (6.67%) Kiali
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk