Job market reports · Skill · August 2026
kubernetes
1,975 live US technical postings name kubernetes in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.
Which roles ask for it
Share of the 1,975 postings naming kubernetes that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer49.6%
- 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer29%
- 3Security Engineer4.8%
- 4Full-Stack Engineer4.4%
- 5Machine Learning Engineer3.2%
- 6Backend Engineer2.9%
- 7Data Engineer2.4%
- 8AI Engineer2.3%
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.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1San Francisco, CA17.3%
- 2Remote16.4%
- 3New York, NY9.7%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA8.6%
- 5Seattle, WA3.8%
- 6Washington, DC3.6%
- 7Boston, MA2.5%
- 8Austin, TX2%
How we counted
457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.