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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 881 610 757
Rank change year-on-year -271 +147 +42
Permanent jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 41 352 584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.38% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.88% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 21 118 71
10th Percentile £61,180 - £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,219 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,188 £100,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £106,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £76,250 £59,526 £66,250
% change year-on-year +28.10% -10.15% -13.57%

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 36,452 40,083 83,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.61% 43.06% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 27,130 27,066 41,503
10th Percentile £30,140 £34,182 £33,916
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +2.40% +6.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £98,750
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 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Top 12 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 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -243 37 £80,000 +6.67% 11
UK excluding London -105 20 £76,250 +28.10% 4
London -175 20 £81,615 -3.98% 7
Work from Home -15 17 £75,000 +9.47% 6
North of England +4 13 £80,000 +16.76% 2
North West -19 8 £80,000 +18.94% 2
Yorkshire +54 4 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
South East -5 2 £75,000 -3.23%
West Midlands -12 2 £76,250 +1.67% 2
Midlands -34 2 £76,250 +1.67% 2
North East -15 1 £75,000 -

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 4 (9.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.44%) nginx
2 1 (2.44%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 33 (80.49%) GCP
2 18 (43.90%) Azure
3 16 (39.02%) AWS
4 12 (29.27%) Azure AKS
5 11 (26.83%) GitHub
6 8 (19.51%) Anthos
7 5 (12.20%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (9.76%) Amazon S3
8 4 (9.76%) Cloud Composer
8 4 (9.76%) Cloud Functions
8 4 (9.76%) dbt
8 4 (9.76%) Snowflake
9 3 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (7.32%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (7.32%) Datadog
9 3 (7.32%) Route 53
9 3 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.95%) Firewall
2 3 (7.32%) DNS
3 1 (2.44%) Internet
3 1 (2.44%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) BigQuery
1 6 (14.63%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (12.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
3 4 (9.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (9.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (9.76%) Tableau
4 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.44%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.44%) Big Data
5 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.44%) HBase
5 1 (2.44%) Metadata
5 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.44%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.44%) PowerCenter
5 1 (2.44%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) Jenkins
2 6 (14.63%) Git
2 6 (14.63%) GitLab
3 3 (7.32%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (7.32%) Selenium
3 3 (7.32%) Spinnaker
4 2 (4.88%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.88%) Maven
4 2 (4.88%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (43.90%) Finance
2 15 (36.59%) Social Skills
3 11 (26.83%) Banking
4 10 (24.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (17.07%) Retail Banking
6 6 (14.63%) Retail
7 4 (9.76%) Law
8 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (2.44%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 8 (19.51%) Architect
1 8 (19.51%) Kubernetes Engineer
1 8 (19.51%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Cloud Architect
2 7 (17.07%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Lead
3 6 (14.63%) Software Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) GCP Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Senior
5 4 (9.76%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Data Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Test Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Development Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) GCP Software Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) Kafka
2 2 (4.88%) Node.js
2 2 (4.88%) React
3 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.44%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.83%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.44%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.44%) Hackathon
3 1 (2.44%) IoT
3 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.76%) Linux
1 4 (9.76%) Unix
2 3 (7.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (60.98%) DevOps
2 20 (48.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (43.90%) Agile
4 15 (36.59%) CI/CD
5 11 (26.83%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (24.39%) Analytics
6 10 (24.39%) Cloud Security
6 10 (24.39%) Coaching
7 9 (21.95%) Containerisation
7 9 (21.95%) Software Engineering
8 8 (19.51%) Business Development
8 8 (19.51%) Data Engineering
8 8 (19.51%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (19.51%) GitOps
8 8 (19.51%) Microservices
9 7 (17.07%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (17.07%) Asset Management
9 7 (17.07%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (17.07%) Storage Management
9 7 (17.07%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 17 (41.46%) Python
2 11 (26.83%) Bash
3 7 (17.07%) Go
3 7 (17.07%) Java
3 7 (17.07%) PowerShell
4 4 (9.76%) SQL
4 4 (9.76%) T-SQL
5 3 (7.32%) Ruby
6 2 (4.88%) Haskell
6 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.88%) Scala
6 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.88%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.44%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (24.39%) AWS Certification
2 5 (12.20%) Degree
3 4 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (9.76%) ISTQB
4 3 (7.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (7.32%) Azure Certification
4 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.88%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) NIST
2 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (51.22%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) NFS
2 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (65.85%) Terraform
2 26 (63.41%) Kubernetes
3 8 (19.51%) Prometheus
4 6 (14.63%) Ansible
5 3 (7.32%) Argo
5 3 (7.32%) Grafana
5 3 (7.32%) Istio
6 2 (4.88%) Kibana
6 2 (4.88%) Rundeck
7 1 (2.44%) Kiali
7 1 (2.44%) Kubeflow
7 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (43.90%) Google
2 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
3 6 (14.63%) Splunk
4 5 (12.20%) LogicMonitor
4 5 (12.20%) PagerDuty
5 3 (7.32%) Confluent
5 3 (7.32%) New Relic
6 2 (4.88%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.88%) VMware
7 1 (2.44%) Ab Initio
7 1 (2.44%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.44%) Databricks
7 1 (2.44%) Informatica
7 1 (2.44%) YouTube