GitOps Contracts in the South East

GitOps
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for GitOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GitOps over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 224 258
Rank change year-on-year +41 +34 -49
Contract jobs citing GitOps 17 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.31% 0.034% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.038% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 1
10th Percentile £338 £706 -
25th Percentile £377 £707 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £728 £725
Median % change year-on-year -33.54% +0.34% -
75th Percentile £500 £751 £738
90th Percentile - £753 -
England median daily rate £500 £775 £650
% change year-on-year -35.48% +19.23% +25.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

GitOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,689 5,214 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.87% 89.45% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,619 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 218 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.37 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.85 £62.59
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing GitOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for GitOps in the South East

GitOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitOps in the South East.

Daily rate trend for GitOps in the South East

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitOps in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitOps in the South East

GitOps
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitOps within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley - 16 £485 - 3
Berkshire - 15 £485 - 2
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 1
Surrey - 1 £460 - 1
GitOps
England

GitOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) OpenShift
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) MinIO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (41.18%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Artifactory
1 4 (23.53%) Bitbucket
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
General
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Advertising
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Site Engineer
1 11 (64.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Junior
3 1 (5.88%) Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Kafka
2 4 (23.53%) YAML
3 1 (5.88%) Django
3 1 (5.88%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 10 (58.82%) DevOps
2 10 (58.82%) ITSM
2 10 (58.82%) Task Automation
3 8 (47.06%) Agile
3 8 (47.06%) Microservices
4 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
5 6 (35.29%) Change Management
5 6 (35.29%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (35.29%) Incident Response
5 6 (35.29%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
6 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (5.88%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Java
1 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (94.12%) SC Cleared
1 16 (94.12%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Grafana
2 11 (64.71%) Istio
3 9 (52.94%) Kubernetes
4 8 (47.06%) Prometheus
5 7 (41.18%) Argo
5 7 (41.18%) Kibana
6 1 (5.88%) Puppet
6 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) VMware
2 4 (23.53%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft