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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

kubernetes

4,136 live US technical postings name kubernetes in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 4,136 postings naming kubernetes that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer52.4%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer26%
  3. 3Security Engineer5%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer4.4%
  5. 5Data Engineer3%
  6. 6Backend Engineer2.9%
  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 = 2,630
10th
$140k
25th
$165k
Median
$191k
75th
$220k
90th
$255k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote14%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA13.6%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA9.7%
  4. 4New York, NY8.3%
  5. 5Seattle, WA3.8%
  6. 6Washington, DC3.3%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.8%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA1.9%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.