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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

kubernetes

4,241 live US technical postings name kubernetes in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 4,241 postings naming kubernetes that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer51.9%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer26.1%
  3. 3Security Engineer5.2%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer4.3%
  5. 5Backend Engineer3%
  6. 6Data Engineer3%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer2.7%
  8. 8AI Engineer2.5%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where kubernetes is named
n = 2,675
10th
$135k
25th
$160k
Median
$192k
75th
$220k
90th
$255k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote14%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA13%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA9.4%
  4. 4New York, NY7.9%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4.1%
  6. 6Washington, DC3.8%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.9%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.7%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.