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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 - 352
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Karpenter 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.026% - 0.012%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.17% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £605
25th Percentile - - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £625
75th Percentile - - £638
90th Percentile - - £645
UK median daily rate £640 £619 £625
% change year-on-year +3.43% -1.00% -

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 1,742 1,582 1,752
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.11% 15.50% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,240 1,121 1,312
10th Percentile £360 £375 £360
25th Percentile £425 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +2.10% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £788 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 29
10th Percentile £35.73 £13.49 £23.15
25th Percentile £47.50 £25.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £66.50 £26.88 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +147.44% -52.43% -14.39%
75th Percentile £79.63 £63.69 £72.50
90th Percentile £111.80 £68.38 £78.29
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +115.69% -21.54% -37.66%

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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Apigee
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Route 53
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk