Karpenter Contract Job Trends

Karpenter
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Karpenter skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 583 528 599
Rank change year-on-year -55 +71 -
Contract jobs citing Karpenter 7 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.019% 0.018% 0.002%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.12% 0.12% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £622 £563 -
25th Percentile £629 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £658 £638 -
90th Percentile £661 £645 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £575 -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Karpenter 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,900 4,935 5,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.95% 14.82% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,033 3,179 4,141
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £502
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.84% -4.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 65 162
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.33 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.25 £21.05 £22.19
Median hourly rate £47.50 £24.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +96.44% -47.64% +34.83%
75th Percentile £64.50 £50.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.20 £74.26 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.25 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +111.95% -47.64% +37.85%

Karpenter
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Karpenter relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Karpenter job vacancy trend in the UK

Karpenter
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Karpenter.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Karpenter

Karpenter
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Karpenter within the UK over the 6 months to 30 December 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
London -15 6 £640 +2.40% 7
England -46 6 £640 +2.40% 9
Work from Home -5 2 - - 5
UK excluding London -55 1 - - 3
Scotland - 1 - -

Karpenter
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon S3
2 6 (85.71%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (85.71%) GCP
2 6 (85.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (42.86%) Apigee
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Fargate
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (42.86%) Route 53
3 3 (42.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) GitLab
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) Terragrunt
3 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (42.86%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (85.71%) Observability
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Auto-Scaling
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Generative AI
3 3 (42.86%) GitOps
3 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
3 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
5 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Argo
2 3 (42.86%) Grafana
2 3 (42.86%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
1 3 (42.86%) Splunk