Hybrid/Remote Karpenter Contract Job Trends

Karpenter
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Karpenter skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 313 373
Rank change year-on-year -9 +60 -
Contract jobs citing Karpenter 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.020% 0.009% 0.006%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.12% 0.061% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
UK median daily rate £640 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +2.40% -3.85% -

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Karpenter falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,684 1,648 2,347
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 16.55% 14.13% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 1,079 1,729
10th Percentile £358 £363 £359
25th Percentile £425 £433 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.05% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 11 48
10th Percentile £29.60 £12.18 £20.65
25th Percentile £34.50 £25.75 £37.74
Median hourly rate £54.50 £27.25 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -56.57% +11.56%
75th Percentile £68.50 £61.25 £77.67
90th Percentile £95.60 £65.00 £83.25
UK median hourly rate £40.73 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +53.68% -42.62% +34.83%

Karpenter
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Karpenter and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Karpenter job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Karpenter
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Karpenter.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Karpenter

Karpenter
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Apigee
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Route 53
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk