Kustomize Contract Job Trends in the South East

Kustomize
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Kustomize skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 177 208
Rank change year-on-year +11 +31 +58
Contract jobs citing Kustomize 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.11% 0.046% 0.018%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.74% 0.32% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £460 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.40% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £562 - -
90th Percentile £570 - -
England median daily rate £485 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -22.40% +13.64% -13.73%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

Kustomize falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 544 623 712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.24% 14.42% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 460 490
10th Percentile £252 £277 £206
25th Percentile £380 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £638
90th Percentile £619 £688 £715
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 25
10th Percentile £18.87 £26.90 £22.79
25th Percentile £19.00 £31.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £36.17 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.04% -34.25% +14.86%
75th Percentile £76.00 £45.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.02 £54.80 £76.53
England median hourly rate £34.00 £38.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -10.53% -27.62% +119.57%

Kustomize
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kustomize relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Kustomize job vacancy trend in the South East

Kustomize
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Kustomize.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Kustomize

Kustomize
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kustomize in the South East over the 6 months to 11 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kustomize in the South East

Kustomize
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kustomize within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 October 2025. 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
Thames Valley +13 4 £510 -18.40% 4
Berkshire - 4 £510 - 4
Kustomize
England

Kustomize
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) OpenShift
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Argo
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (100.00%) VMware