Hybrid/Remote rkt Contract Job Trends

CoreOS rkt Container Runtime for Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring rkt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing rkt 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.010% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.060% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - - -

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

rkt 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 1,677 1,682 2,487
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 16.47% 13.86% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,097 1,846
10th Percentile £358 £362 £360
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £679 £749 £729
UK median daily rate £512 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.57% -3.31% -5.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 47
10th Percentile £29.40 £13.49 £20.45
25th Percentile £33.00 £26.00 £37.44
Median hourly rate £54.50 £32.38 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.34% -48.61% +14.55%
75th Percentile £67.00 £60.63 £77.84
90th Percentile £103.40 £64.75 £83.50
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +25.93% -41.53% +44.31%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

rkt job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

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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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GoCD
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Asynchronous Programming
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Garbage Collection
1 1 (100.00%) Green IT
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) R
1 1 (100.00%) Rust
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace