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Companies using Kubernetes_

As of 4 November 2026, 14,382 companies name Kubernetes in their own job postings; it leaves no trace on websites or in DNS.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Largest market
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Companies with 51+ staff
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Top industry
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Team that names it most
Software engineering · 56,966 postings
Hiring on it, last 30 days
10,450 companies
Most often alongside
Docker · 12,038 companies
14,382companies show Kubernetes, all sources
0on their website or in DNS records
14,382name it in their own job postings
77,042postings naming Kubernetes, last 90 days
02 — Two ways we see a tool

Where Kubernetes shows up

Each population is counted on its own. We never add them up without saying so, because they answer different questions.

Website and DNS footprint0

Companies whose own pages load Kubernetes's scripts or embeds, or whose domain's mail and hosting records (SPF, DKIM, MX, CNAME) point at Kubernetes. From our crawl of 41.5M company websites and the DNS sweep behind it. Reach: the tool is in the building.

Job postings14,382

Companies whose own postings say the team works in Kubernetes. Read hourly from ~70 applicant tracking systems, with the function, a quote and a date. Intent: the team that runs it is hiring.

Both0

Companies in the footprint whose postings also name Kubernetes. The rest of the posting population (14,382) runs Kubernetes without a public trace on the site or in DNS, which is where job data earns its place.

03 — Who uses it

Companies on Kubernetes

Companies with 201+ employees and high-confidence evidence in their own postings; job boards and portals left out.

Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances et de la Souveraineté industrielle, énergétique et numériqueGovernment agencies & ministries · Paris 12, France10,001+ employeesVU Venture PartnersVenture capital firms · San Francisco, United States201-500 employeesGlobus MedicalMedical device manufacturers · San Diego, United States1001-5000 employeesInPostCourier & express delivery · Kraków, Poland1001-5000 employeesMultiBank GroupForex cfd brokers · United States501-1000 employeesChronopostCourier & express delivery · Paris, France1001-5000 employeesKaluzaEnergy utility software · United States201-500 employeesSemtechSemiconductor manufacturers · Camarillo, United States1001-5000 employeesThe University of Texas at AustinUniversities · Austin, United States10,001+ employeesSoleraAutomotive dealer software · Solana, United States5001-10000 employeesZHAW - Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte WissenschaftenUniversities · Winterthur, Switzerland1001-5000 employeesUniversity of Arkansas at Pine BluffUniversities · Pine Bluff, United States501-1000 employeesGovernment Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech Singapore)Government agencies & ministries · Singapore1001-5000 employeesICU MedicalMedical device manufacturers · United States5001-10000 employeesHF MarketsForex cfd brokers · Cape Town, United Kingdom201-500 employeesAnaquaIp trademark patent firms · United States501-1000 employeesKalmbach FeedsAnimal feed manufacturers · Upper Sandusky, United States501-1000 employeesPolitiePolice & law enforcement · Netherlands10,001+ employeesCLAASAgricultural machinery manufacturers · Harsewinkel, Germany1001-5000 employeesSiFiveSemiconductor manufacturers · San Mateo, United States501-1000 employees
14,382 companies show Kubernetes; 0 of them have over 1,000 employees.

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06 — Job-posting evidence

Who runs Kubernetes inside the company

The 14,382 companies whose postings name Kubernetes: by country, size and the function of the role. The second number in the function table is companies.

Postings by function
postings · companies
Software engineering
56,966 · 12,361
IT operations & business systems
14,016 · 5,008
Data & AI
12,464 · 4,030
Engineering (non-software)
1,681 · 804
Sales
1,468 · 470
Product, program & project management
1,200 · 584
Customer service & success
815 · 376
Unclassified
269 · 138
Quality, safety & environment
156 · 100
Marketing & communications
154 · 78
Posting companies by country
companiesshare
United States
7,72954%
Germany
1,0097%
United Kingdom
9987%
India
4883%
France
4603%
Canada
3012%
Netherlands
2722%
Sweden
2131%
Brazil
2081%
Switzerland
1911%
Australia
1741%
Poland
1661%
Posting companies by size
companiesshare
Self-employed
5344%
2-10 employees
1,65412%
11-50 employees
2,85220%
51-200 employees
3,34423%
201-500 employees
1,91413%
501-1000 employees
1,1778%
1001-5000 employees
1,56711%
5001-10000 employees
4243%
10,001+ employees
9166%
Hiring on it right now
postings
Postings, last 30 days
56,238
Postings, last 90 days
77,042
All open postings
99,983

10,450 companies opened a role that names Kubernetes in the last 30 days. A hiring team that names its tools is the moment to write to the person who owns the stack.

07 — Named alongside

What Kubernetes teams also ask for

Tools named in the same postings as Kubernetes. Office software is left out.

08 — container orchestration

Kubernetes against the rest of its category

Ranked by companies naming each tool in postings. Whole category →

Cite this

Quote the sentence with the date and the link. The numbers change daily; the link always shows the current ones.

14,382 companies name Kubernetes in their own job postings; it leaves no trace on websites or in DNS, so the posting layer is the whole picture. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/tools/kubernetes)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • Website codeScripts, tags and embeds found on the company's own pages in our crawl of 41.5M sites. A tool counts once per company.
  • DNS recordsSPF includes, DKIM selectors, MX and CNAME records of the company's domain that point at Kubernetes or another vendor. Swept in cycles; dedicated mail-provider and hosting facets open once coverage passes 80% per country.
  • Job postingsRead hourly from the applicant tracking systems behind company career sites. A tool counts when the employer's own text names it as the team's system; candidate wish-lists and apply boilerplate are excluded. Confidence low, medium or high per company.
  • Sending infrastructureCold-e-mail sending domains are look-alike domains on a provider's infrastructure (DNS records, certificate logs) that redirect to the company. Absence is not evidence: only companies with a found sending domain are counted.
  • CompaniesCountry, size and industry come from the company profile we build from its website; headcount from LinkedIn where known, otherwise estimated. Job boards, portals and aggregators are kept out of lists.
FAQ

Kubernetes data: questions

How many companies use Kubernetes?

14,382 as of 4 November 2026: 0 carry Kubernetes on their website or in their DNS records and 14,382 name it in their own job postings; 0 show up in both. We keep the two counts apart because they measure different things.

What does "website or DNS" mean?

Our crawler finds Kubernetes's scripts, embeds and tags on the company's own pages, and our DNS sweep reads the domain's mail and hosting records (SPF includes, DKIM selectors, MX, CNAMEs) that point at Kubernetes. Either one puts the company in the footprint. The sweep is still running, so this number grows week by week.

Why is the job-posting number so much smaller?

A posting only names a tool when the team that will use it is hiring and chooses to say so. That makes it a smaller but stronger signal: it tells you which team runs Kubernetes, with a quote and a date. The footprint tells you reach.

How fresh is this?

Career sites are read hourly, websites are re-crawled on a rolling schedule and DNS is re-swept in cycles. The date at the top is when these counts were computed.

Can I get the list?

Yes. The first 20 are on this page; the full 14,382 with verified e-mails and a weekly feed of new Kubernetes users is in the product. Counting is free.

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