Kustomize Job Trends

Kustomize
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Kustomize skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 688 725
Rank change year-on-year +47 +37 +278
Permanent jobs citing Kustomize 14 14 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.023% 0.026% 0.025%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.33% 0.24% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - £74,500
25th Percentile - - £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £82,500
75th Percentile - - £83,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £82,500

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Kustomize falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,203 5,894 7,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.89% 11.05% 13.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,948 3,588 6,293
10th Percentile £31,500 £38,123 £35,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -4.35%

Kustomize
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kustomize relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Kustomize job vacancy trend in the UK

Kustomize
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Kustomize.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Kustomize

Kustomize
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kustomize within the UK over the 6 months to 17 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +71 14 - - 6
England +70 14 - - 6
London +61 10 - - 1
UK excluding London +33 3 - - 4
Midlands +19 2 - - 1
West Midlands +30 1 - -
South West - 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 1

Kustomize
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 13 (92.86%) AWS
1 13 (92.86%) Pulumi
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (92.86%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (92.86%) NoSQL
1 13 (92.86%) RDBMS
1 13 (92.86%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 13 (92.86%) Jaeger
General
1 13 (92.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Lead
2 6 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Team Leader
4 3 (21.43%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) CloudOps Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 2 (14.29%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Lead Systems Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (92.86%) Elastic Stack
1 13 (92.86%) OpenTelemetry
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) Linux
1 13 (92.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (92.86%) Agile
2 13 (92.86%) Budget Control
2 13 (92.86%) Containerisation
2 13 (92.86%) Continuous Integration
2 13 (92.86%) Cost Optimisation
2 13 (92.86%) GitOps
2 13 (92.86%) High Availability
2 13 (92.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (92.86%) Mentoring
2 13 (92.86%) Performance Optimisation
2 13 (92.86%) Product Management
2 13 (92.86%) Resource Management
2 13 (92.86%) Roadmaps
2 13 (92.86%) Task Automation
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (7.14%) AI
4 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
4 1 (7.14%) LLM
4 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (92.86%) Bash
2 13 (92.86%) Go
2 13 (92.86%) Java
2 13 (92.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (92.86%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 13 (92.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Argo
1 14 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (92.86%) Ansible
2 13 (92.86%) Prometheus
2 13 (92.86%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Google