GitOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 496 574 773
Rank change year-on-year +78 +199 -113
Contract jobs citing GitOps 98 142 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.24% 0.092%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.26% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 126 55
10th Percentile £363 £500 £496
25th Percentile £413 £600 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £737 £625
Median % change year-on-year -32.13% +17.88% +12.11%
75th Percentile £550 £820 £694
90th Percentile £622 £850 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £665 £600
% change year-on-year -30.83% +10.83% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.18 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitOps in the UK

GitOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GitOps in the UK

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitOps over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitOps in the UK

GitOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitOps.

Hourly rate trend for GitOps in the UK

GitOps
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 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
England +76 76 £500 -35.48% 24
UK excluding London +63 46 £460 -30.83% 8
London +62 42 £543 -30.00% 17
Work from Home +104 28 £525 -21.29% 9
South East +35 17 £484 -33.54% 4
Scotland +27 13 £453 -31.36%
North of England +27 12 £448 -42.26% 2
North East +12 7 - -
North West - 6 £448 - 2
South West +11 3 £500 -16.67%
Yorkshire +23 1 £525 +5.00%
East of England +9 1 £375 -28.57%

GitOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (11.22%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.08%) Confluence
3 2 (2.04%) nginx
4 1 (1.02%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 76 (77.55%) AWS
2 36 (36.73%) GCP
3 32 (32.65%) Azure
4 21 (21.43%) OpenShift
5 12 (12.24%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (12.24%) Snowflake
6 10 (10.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 9 (9.18%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (9.18%) Amazon S3
8 7 (7.14%) Route 53
9 5 (5.10%) GitHub
10 4 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (3.06%) IaaS
11 3 (3.06%) PaaS
12 2 (2.04%) Azure AKS
12 2 (2.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 1 (1.02%) AWS KMS
13 1 (1.02%) dbt
13 1 (1.02%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 27 (27.55%) HTTP
2 5 (5.10%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.06%) DNS
3 3 (3.06%) Firewall
3 3 (3.06%) VPN
4 2 (2.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (25.51%) Apache Cassandra
2 12 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (8.16%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (8.16%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.06%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.04%) MySQL
6 1 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.02%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.02%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (16.33%) Git
2 8 (8.16%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.14%) GitLab
4 5 (5.10%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.08%) Artifactory
5 4 (4.08%) JIRA
6 2 (2.04%) JUnit
6 2 (2.04%) Snyk
6 2 (2.04%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.04%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (8.16%) Finance
2 5 (5.10%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.06%) Banking
3 3 (3.06%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.02%) Advertising
4 1 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.02%) Law
Job Titles
1 29 (29.59%) Developer
2 26 (26.53%) Scala Developer
3 19 (19.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (13.27%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (12.24%) Site Engineer
5 12 (12.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (9.18%) Senior
8 8 (8.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) Architect
10 6 (6.12%) Lead
11 5 (5.10%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (4.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 3 (3.06%) Cloud Architect
13 3 (3.06%) Data Engineer
13 3 (3.06%) Kubernetes Consultant
13 3 (3.06%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 3 (3.06%) Python Engineer
13 3 (3.06%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (36.73%) Kafka
2 28 (28.57%) RESTful
3 27 (27.55%) Akka
4 7 (7.14%) PyTorch
4 7 (7.14%) TensorFlow
5 4 (4.08%) YAML
6 3 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (3.06%) React
6 3 (3.06%) REST
7 2 (2.04%) Hibernate
7 2 (2.04%) JPA
7 2 (2.04%) LDAP
7 2 (2.04%) Loki
7 2 (2.04%) Spring
7 2 (2.04%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.04%) Spring Security
8 1 (1.02%) .NET
8 1 (1.02%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.02%) Django
8 1 (1.02%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.24%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (11.22%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.08%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.08%) PKI
4 3 (3.06%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.04%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.02%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.16%) Linux
2 3 (3.06%) Windows
3 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (89.80%) DevOps
2 41 (41.84%) Agile
3 39 (39.80%) Microservices
4 33 (33.67%) Machine Learning
5 29 (29.59%) TDD
6 27 (27.55%) Pair Programming
7 25 (25.51%) Personalization
8 23 (23.47%) Clean Code
9 17 (17.35%) Coaching
9 17 (17.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 16 (16.33%) Containerisation
10 16 (16.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (16.33%) Platform Engineering
11 15 (15.31%) CI/CD
11 15 (15.31%) Software Engineering
12 13 (13.27%) Computer Science
13 12 (12.24%) Data Engineering
13 12 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
14 11 (11.22%) DataOps
14 11 (11.22%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 38 (38.78%) Scala
2 27 (27.55%) Python
3 17 (17.35%) Java
4 8 (8.16%) Bash
5 4 (4.08%) Bicep
5 4 (4.08%) Perl
5 4 (4.08%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.04%) Go
6 2 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.04%) Ruby
6 2 (2.04%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.02%) C#
7 1 (1.02%) Elixir
7 1 (1.02%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (36.73%) SC Cleared
1 36 (36.73%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.04%) Degree
3 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.02%) MCSE
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (34.69%) Docker
2 2 (2.04%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.04%) Squid
2 2 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.02%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 82 (83.67%) Kubernetes
2 37 (37.76%) Terraform
3 22 (22.45%) Grafana
4 15 (15.31%) Istio
4 15 (15.31%) Prometheus
5 13 (13.27%) Argo
6 8 (8.16%) Kibana
7 6 (6.12%) Ansible
8 2 (2.04%) HAProxy
8 2 (2.04%) Packer
8 2 (2.04%) Puppet
9 1 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.02%) FreeIPA
9 1 (1.02%) Icinga
9 1 (1.02%) OPNET
9 1 (1.02%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.02%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (18.37%) Typelevel
2 12 (12.24%) Databricks
3 10 (10.20%) Microsoft
4 9 (9.18%) VMware
5 8 (8.16%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.08%) Google
7 3 (3.06%) Cisco
8 2 (2.04%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.04%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.02%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.02%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.02%) Oracle
9 1 (1.02%) Ping Identity
9 1 (1.02%) Splunk