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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Karpenter 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.037% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £537 - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 - -
75th Percentile £543 - -
90th Percentile £547 - -
UK median daily rate £539 - -

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 1,974 1,582 1,665
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.52% 15.73% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,387 1,055 1,188
10th Percentile £375 £363 £360
25th Percentile £447 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £675 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +4.22% -4.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 19 5
10th Percentile £31.25 £29.80 £40.95
25th Percentile £51.25 £44.75 £48.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.50 £56.50
UK median hourly rate £63.31 £36.00 £35.08
% change year-on-year +75.85% +2.62% -37.63%

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 5 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft