Hybrid/Remote Kustomize Job Trends

Kustomize
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Kustomize skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 417 581
Rank change year-on-year +24 +164 +27
Permanent jobs citing Kustomize 24 4 2
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.12% 0.026% 0.006%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.49% 0.20% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 - -
75th Percentile £85,000 - -
90th Percentile £89,375 - -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +45.45% -8.33% -4.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,611 2,036 3,715
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.11% 13.30% 10.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,130 1,174 2,824
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,350 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,103
% change year-on-year -3.70% +10.47% -9.48%

Kustomize
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Kustomize job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Kustomize
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kustomize.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kustomize

Kustomize
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kustomize over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Kustomize salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (75.00%) AWS
1 18 (75.00%) Pulumi
2 6 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (75.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (75.00%) NoSQL
1 18 (75.00%) RDBMS
1 18 (75.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (75.00%) Jaeger
General
1 18 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (75.00%) Lead
2 9 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (37.50%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Site Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Team Leader
4 5 (20.83%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) CloudOps Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 3 (12.50%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) Lead Systems Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (75.00%) Elastic Stack
1 18 (75.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (25.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Hackathon
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (75.00%) Linux
1 18 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) GitOps
1 24 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 23 (95.83%) Mentoring
3 22 (91.67%) Agile
4 18 (75.00%) Budget Control
4 18 (75.00%) Containerisation
4 18 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
4 18 (75.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 18 (75.00%) DevOps
4 18 (75.00%) High Availability
4 18 (75.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 18 (75.00%) Product Management
4 18 (75.00%) Resource Management
4 18 (75.00%) Roadmaps
4 18 (75.00%) Task Automation
5 6 (25.00%) Observability
5 6 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
6 5 (20.83%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) Bash
1 24 (100.00%) Python
2 18 (75.00%) Go
2 18 (75.00%) Java
2 18 (75.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (75.00%) AWS Certification
2 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 18 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (100.00%) Argo
1 24 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 24 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 18 (75.00%) Ansible
2 18 (75.00%) Terraform
3 6 (25.00%) Grafana
4 5 (20.83%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) Google
2 6 (25.00%) Red Hat