Hybrid/Remote Kustomize Contract Job Trends

Kustomize
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Kustomize skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 316 407
Rank change year-on-year +5 +91 +169
Contract jobs citing Kustomize 4 4 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.040% 0.033% 0.005%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.24% 0.24% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £456 £524 -
25th Percentile £466 £561 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £606 £495
Median % change year-on-year -18.76% +22.47% -23.85%
75th Percentile £531 £625 £518
90th Percentile £547 - -
UK median daily rate £493 £606 £495
% change year-on-year -18.76% +22.47% -23.85%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Kustomize 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 1,693 1,647 2,745
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 16.85% 13.69% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,094 2,061
10th Percentile £358 £360 £363
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £743
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 46
10th Percentile £29.30 £36.60 £25.71
25th Percentile £33.00 £37.13 £49.38
Median hourly rate £56.75 £38.00 £66.13
Median % change year-on-year +49.34% -42.54% +29.67%
75th Percentile £67.00 £50.63 £78.00
90th Percentile £106.55 £57.75 £83.75
UK median hourly rate £29.25 £35.08 £50.00
% change year-on-year -16.63% -29.84% +100.00%

Kustomize
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Kustomize job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Kustomize
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Kustomize
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 (75.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Loki
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 1 (25.00%) Compliance Audit
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Database Security
3 1 (25.00%) DDoS Mitigation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (75.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (75.00%) Argo
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk