GitOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

GitOps
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 403 467
Rank change year-on-year +67 +64 -26
Contract jobs citing GitOps 46 49 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.21% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.23% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 43 31
10th Percentile £368 £565 £519
25th Percentile £415 £600 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £667 £625
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +6.72% -
75th Percentile £500 £768 £738
90th Percentile £535 £845 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £730 £650
% change year-on-year -31.51% +12.31% +15.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £46.18 £40.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% - -
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £40.50 -
% change year-on-year +14.02% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,192 21,035 27,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.42% 89.50% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,233 14,534 19,060
10th Percentile £250 £256 £237
25th Percentile £379 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,280 1,365
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.43 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.55
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GitOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GitOps in the UK excluding London

GitOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitOps in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GitOps in the UK excluding London

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitOps in the UK excluding London

GitOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitOps in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GitOps in the UK excluding London

GitOps
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitOps within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
South East +30 17 £482 -33.97% 9
Scotland +42 13 £453 -31.88%
North of England +16 11 £448 -42.26% 3
North East +4 7 - -
North West +29 6 £448 - 3
South West +14 4 £500 -16.67%
East of England +7 1 £375 -26.83%
GitOps
UK

GitOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (21.74%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 28 (60.87%) AWS
2 27 (58.70%) Azure
3 19 (41.30%) OpenShift
4 10 (21.74%) Snowflake
5 6 (13.04%) GCP
6 4 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (8.70%) PaaS
7 3 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.52%) Route 53
7 3 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (4.35%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.35%) GitHub
8 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.17%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (2.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) VPN
2 1 (2.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (19.57%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.35%) MySQL
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.17%) MariaDB
5 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (19.57%) Git
2 6 (13.04%) Bitbucket
3 4 (8.70%) Artifactory
4 3 (6.52%) JIRA
5 2 (4.35%) GitLab
5 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.35%) Snyk
5 2 (4.35%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.35%) Terragrunt
6 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.35%) Banking
3 1 (2.17%) Advertising
3 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Site Engineer
1 13 (28.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 10 (21.74%) Platform Engineer
3 9 (19.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) Lead
7 5 (10.87%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Senior
9 3 (6.52%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Data Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Python Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) Java Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) Kafka
2 7 (15.22%) PyTorch
2 7 (15.22%) TensorFlow
3 4 (8.70%) YAML
4 2 (4.35%) .NET
4 2 (4.35%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.35%) ModSecurity
5 1 (2.17%) Akka
5 1 (2.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.91%) Cloud Native
2 10 (21.74%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.35%) PKI
3 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (84.78%) DevOps
2 18 (39.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 15 (32.61%) Agile
3 15 (32.61%) Software Engineering
4 13 (28.26%) Platform Engineering
5 12 (26.09%) Computer Science
5 12 (26.09%) ITSM
5 12 (26.09%) Task Automation
6 11 (23.91%) Microservices
7 10 (21.74%) Data Engineering
7 10 (21.74%) Data Pipeline
7 10 (21.74%) DataOps
7 10 (21.74%) Machine Learning
7 10 (21.74%) MLOps
8 9 (19.57%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (19.57%) Containerisation
9 8 (17.39%) Change Management
9 8 (17.39%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (17.39%) Incident Response
9 8 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 22 (47.83%) Python
2 13 (28.26%) Java
3 11 (23.91%) Scala
4 3 (6.52%) Bicep
4 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.35%) Bash
6 1 (2.17%) Elixir
6 1 (2.17%) Go
6 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (67.39%) SC Cleared
1 31 (67.39%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.35%) Degree
2 2 (4.35%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.17%) MCSE
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) Docker
2 3 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (80.43%) Kubernetes
2 17 (36.96%) Terraform
3 16 (34.78%) Grafana
4 14 (30.43%) Istio
5 12 (26.09%) Argo
5 12 (26.09%) Prometheus
6 9 (19.57%) Kibana
7 2 (4.35%) Ansible
7 2 (4.35%) OPNET
7 2 (4.35%) PowerCLI
8 1 (2.17%) FreeIPA
8 1 (2.17%) Icinga
8 1 (2.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 10 (21.74%) Databricks
3 9 (19.57%) VMware
4 4 (8.70%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.52%) Google
6 2 (4.35%) Atlassian
6 2 (4.35%) Cisco
7 1 (2.17%) Oracle
7 1 (2.17%) Splunk
7 1 (2.17%) Typelevel