Google Kubernetes Engine Contracts

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 550 557
Rank change year-on-year +20 +7 -32
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 54 148 300
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% 0.73% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 112 202
10th Percentile £469 £500 £525
25th Percentile £500 £575 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -6.90% +18.85%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £800
90th Percentile £730 £738 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £519 £650
% change year-on-year +8.00% -20.23% +30.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Google Kubernetes Engine falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,152 20,251 33,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.46% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,986 14,657 24,479
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 327 381
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £69.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.48 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
% change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England 0 45 £600 -11.11% 11
London +11 37 £600 -11.11% 7
Work from Home +69 15 £650 -7.14% 6
UK excluding London +17 6 £560 +8.00% 4
North of England +21 5 £520 -11.49% 2
Yorkshire +18 5 £520 -11.49%
South East +14 1 £600 -3.23%

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 (12.96%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (9.26%) nginx
3 3 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.56%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.85%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (1.85%) CMS
4 1 (1.85%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 50 (92.59%) GCP
2 11 (20.37%) GitHub
3 9 (16.67%) Cloud Functions
4 5 (9.26%) AWS
4 5 (9.26%) Azure
4 5 (9.26%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (9.26%) Cloud Run
5 4 (7.41%) CloudBees
5 4 (7.41%) Datadog
6 3 (5.56%) Anthos
6 3 (5.56%) Azure AKS
6 3 (5.56%) Cloud Composer
6 3 (5.56%) Google App Engine
6 3 (5.56%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.85%) Apigee
8 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) Firewall
2 2 (3.70%) DNS
2 2 (3.70%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (35.19%) BigQuery
2 14 (25.93%) Relational Database
3 9 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (12.96%) RDBMS
5 6 (11.11%) MongoDB
5 6 (11.11%) NoSQL
6 5 (9.26%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (5.56%) ClickHouse
7 3 (5.56%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.70%) Big Data
8 2 (3.70%) Bigtable
8 2 (3.70%) DynamoDB
8 2 (3.70%) HBase
8 2 (3.70%) KDB
8 2 (3.70%) Looker
8 2 (3.70%) Sqoop
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.85%) PolyBase
Development Applications
1 15 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 10 (18.52%) GitLab
3 2 (3.70%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.85%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.85%) Git
4 1 (1.85%) Liquibase
4 1 (1.85%) Spinnaker
General
1 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 12 (22.22%) Finance
3 5 (9.26%) Banking
3 5 (9.26%) Investment Banking
4 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Advertising
5 1 (1.85%) Legal
5 1 (1.85%) Retail
5 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) DevOps Engineer
1 14 (25.93%) GCP Engineer
2 13 (24.07%) Senior
3 8 (14.81%) Architect
4 7 (12.96%) GCP DevOps
4 7 (12.96%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Developer
5 6 (11.11%) Java Architect
5 6 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) GCP Architect
6 5 (9.26%) Python Developer
6 5 (9.26%) Security Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Senior Security Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Java Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Senior Java Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Django Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.96%) Django
1 7 (12.96%) Kafka
1 7 (12.96%) OAuth
1 7 (12.96%) Spring Boot
2 5 (9.26%) CSS
2 5 (9.26%) HTML
2 5 (9.26%) React
3 3 (5.56%) Apache Beam
3 3 (5.56%) Keycloak
4 2 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (3.70%) Bazel
5 1 (1.85%) Apache Avro
5 1 (1.85%) EDI
5 1 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.37%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.96%) Algorithms
2 7 (12.96%) Data Structures
3 5 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (9.26%) Public Cloud
3 5 (9.26%) Reference Data
4 4 (7.41%) Equities
4 4 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.70%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (3.70%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.70%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.52%) Linux
2 5 (9.26%) Unix
3 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (55.56%) DevOps
2 20 (37.04%) CI/CD
3 16 (29.63%) Containerisation
4 15 (27.78%) Microservices
4 15 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (14.81%) Agile
6 8 (14.81%) Computer Science
6 8 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (12.96%) Data Modelling
7 7 (12.96%) Open Source
7 7 (12.96%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (12.96%) Workflow
8 6 (11.11%) Cloud Security
8 6 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (11.11%) Data Science
8 6 (11.11%) Migration
9 5 (9.26%) Configuration Management
9 5 (9.26%) Software Architecture
9 5 (9.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (40.74%) Python
2 20 (37.04%) Java
3 16 (29.63%) Go
4 9 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 8 (14.81%) SQL
6 6 (11.11%) Bash
7 5 (9.26%) Groovy
7 5 (9.26%) Scala
7 5 (9.26%) Shell Script
8 4 (7.41%) Ruby
9 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.85%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (18.52%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 36 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 28 (51.85%) Terraform
3 8 (14.81%) Ansible
4 6 (11.11%) Grafana
4 6 (11.11%) Istio
5 4 (7.41%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.56%) Argo
7 2 (3.70%) Kiali
8 1 (1.85%) Ambari
8 1 (1.85%) CASB
8 1 (1.85%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.85%) Oozie
8 1 (1.85%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 27 (50.00%) Google
2 7 (12.96%) Oracle
3 3 (5.56%) Splunk
3 3 (5.56%) VMware
4 1 (1.85%) Databricks
4 1 (1.85%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.85%) Informatica
4 1 (1.85%) New Relic
4 1 (1.85%) Talend
4 1 (1.85%) webMethods