Kustomize Contracts

Kustomize
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Kustomize skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kustomize over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 579 648
Rank change year-on-year +68 +69 +193
Contract jobs citing Kustomize 9 3 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.007% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.20% 0.058% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 60
10th Percentile £404 £423 £511
25th Percentile - £438 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £775
Median % change year-on-year - -38.71% +19.23%
75th Percentile - £488 £843
90th Percentile - - £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - £712

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,597 5,137 9,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.70% 11.79% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,150 3,667 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £258 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £19.51 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £69.88 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

Kustomize
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kustomize as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kustomize in the UK

Kustomize
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kustomize.

Daily rate trend for Kustomize in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kustomize within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +62 8 £475 - 8
London +40 5 £356 -25.05% 6
North West - 3 £475 - 1
UK excluding London - 3 £475 - 4
North of England - 3 £475 - 1

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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 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (22.22%) Akamai
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 2 (22.22%) Datadog
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (11.11%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Hive
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Iceberg
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 1 (11.11%) Parquet
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Presto
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) Poetry
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Lead
3 3 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Dask
1 1 (11.11%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (11.11%) React
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (55.56%) Configuration Management
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Deployment
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (44.44%) Analytics
4 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (44.44%) Digital Twin
4 4 (44.44%) Load Balancing
4 4 (44.44%) Visualisation
5 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Agile
6 2 (22.22%) GitOps
6 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
7 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) Istio
3 3 (33.33%) Ansible
3 3 (33.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Splunk