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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 553 756
Rank change year-on-year +84 +203 -65
Contract jobs citing GitOps 107 135 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.24% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.27% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 119 69
10th Percentile £368 £500 £500
25th Percentile £433 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £730 £650
Median % change year-on-year -31.51% +12.31% +15.04%
75th Percentile £575 £800 £738
90th Percentile £621 £850 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £667 £650
% change year-on-year -31.03% +2.62% +44.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £46.18 £43.34 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.55% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £43.34 -
% change year-on-year +6.55% - -

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 36,593 50,587 79,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.80% 89.68% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,580 35,017 55,732
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,483 1,675 1,881
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.78 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £37.30 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +45.25% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

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 25 May 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 11 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 25 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
England +65 86 £500 -33.33% 22
UK excluding London +56 48 £460 -31.03% 9
London +53 47 £550 -26.67% 13
Work from Home +103 31 £525 -21.29% 10
South East +30 22 £484 -34.22% 6
Scotland +25 11 £453 -31.88%
North of England +26 10 £448 -42.26% 2
North East +4 7 - -
South West +13 6 £563 -4.26% 1
North West +27 5 £448 - 2
East of England +9 1 £375 -25.00%

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 (10.28%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.54%) Confluence
3 2 (1.87%) nginx
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 81 (75.70%) AWS
2 38 (35.51%) GCP
3 33 (30.84%) Azure
4 28 (26.17%) OpenShift
5 14 (13.08%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (11.21%) Snowflake
7 10 (9.35%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (9.35%) Amazon S3
7 10 (9.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (8.41%) GitHub
9 7 (6.54%) Route 53
10 6 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (5.61%) PaaS
11 3 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.80%) IaaS
11 3 (2.80%) Slack
12 2 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.87%) AWS KMS
12 2 (1.87%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (28.97%) HTTP
2 5 (4.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.74%) VPN
4 3 (2.80%) Firewall
5 2 (1.87%) Network Security
6 1 (0.93%) DNS
6 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.93%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (24.30%) Apache Cassandra
2 16 (14.95%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (12.15%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (7.48%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.80%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 18 (16.82%) Git
2 10 (9.35%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.61%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.67%) GitLab
4 5 (4.67%) JIRA
5 4 (3.74%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.80%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.87%) JUnit
7 2 (1.87%) Snyk
7 2 (1.87%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (6.54%) Finance
2 6 (5.61%) Public Sector
3 4 (3.74%) Social Skills
4 2 (1.87%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.87%) Banking
5 1 (0.93%) Advertising
5 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.93%) Law
Job Titles
1 32 (29.91%) Developer
2 29 (27.10%) Scala Developer
3 17 (15.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (15.89%) Site Engineer
3 17 (15.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 11 (10.28%) AWS Engineer
4 11 (10.28%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (10.28%) Senior
5 8 (7.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 8 (7.48%) Snowflake Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Architect
6 7 (6.54%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Lead
8 5 (4.67%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.80%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (2.80%) Cloud Architect
10 3 (2.80%) Consultant
10 3 (2.80%) DevOps Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (42.99%) Kafka
2 32 (29.91%) RESTful
3 31 (28.97%) Akka
4 7 (6.54%) PyTorch
4 7 (6.54%) TensorFlow
5 4 (3.74%) Loki
5 4 (3.74%) YAML
6 3 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.80%) React
6 3 (2.80%) REST
7 2 (1.87%) .NET
7 2 (1.87%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.87%) Fluent Bit
7 2 (1.87%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.87%) JPA
7 2 (1.87%) ModSecurity
7 2 (1.87%) Spring
7 2 (1.87%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.87%) Spring Security
8 1 (0.93%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.02%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.21%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.67%) PKI
4 3 (2.80%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.87%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.41%) Linux
2 5 (4.67%) Windows
3 2 (1.87%) Unix
4 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (91.59%) DevOps
2 49 (45.79%) Agile
3 46 (42.99%) Microservices
4 35 (32.71%) Machine Learning
5 33 (30.84%) TDD
6 31 (28.97%) Pair Programming
7 26 (24.30%) Personalization
8 24 (22.43%) Clean Code
9 23 (21.50%) Containerisation
10 21 (19.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 20 (18.69%) Software Engineering
12 19 (17.76%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (16.82%) CI/CD
14 17 (15.89%) Coaching
15 16 (14.95%) ITSM
15 16 (14.95%) Task Automation
16 14 (13.08%) Computer Science
16 14 (13.08%) Platform Engineering
17 12 (11.21%) Data Engineering
17 12 (11.21%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 42 (39.25%) Scala
2 31 (28.97%) Python
3 16 (14.95%) Java
4 8 (7.48%) Bash
5 7 (6.54%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.80%) Bicep
6 3 (2.80%) Perl
6 3 (2.80%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.93%) C#
7 1 (0.93%) Go
7 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.93%) SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (41.12%) Security Cleared
2 42 (39.25%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.80%) Degree
3 3 (2.80%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.87%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (32.71%) Docker
2 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.87%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.87%) Squid
2 2 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.87%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 92 (85.98%) Kubernetes
2 38 (35.51%) Terraform
3 29 (27.10%) Grafana
4 22 (20.56%) Prometheus
5 21 (19.63%) Argo
6 20 (18.69%) Istio
7 13 (12.15%) Kibana
8 11 (10.28%) Ansible
9 4 (3.74%) Kustomize
10 3 (2.80%) Packer
11 2 (1.87%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.87%) OPNET
11 2 (1.87%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (17.76%) Typelevel
2 14 (13.08%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.21%) Databricks
4 8 (7.48%) Red Hat
4 8 (7.48%) VMware
5 4 (3.74%) Cisco
5 4 (3.74%) Google
6 2 (1.87%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.87%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.87%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.93%) Confluent
7 1 (0.93%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle
7 1 (0.93%) Ping Identity