GitOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GitOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 842 801 944
Rank change year-on-year -41 +143 -80
Permanent jobs citing GitOps 54 169 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.17% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 43 116 72
10th Percentile £57,150 £61,180 £51,250
25th Percentile £68,718 £66,963 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £88,480 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.24% +10.60% +14.29%
75th Percentile £84,493 £117,236 £100,000
90th Percentile £102,250 - £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £88,480 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.24% +68.53% -41.67%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GitOps.

Salary trend for GitOps in the UK

GitOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitOps over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for GitOps in the UK

GitOps
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitOps within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +2 46 £75,000 -15.24% 23
UK excluding London -62 26 £70,576 -20.24% 8
Work from Home -13 21 £70,000 -25.57% 13
London +90 20 £92,500 +2.78% 16
South West -7 11 £70,576 -5.90%
South East +29 6 £52,500 -23.64% 4
Midlands +12 5 £86,485 +15.31%
West Midlands - 5 £86,485 -
North West +2 4 £65,000 -36.12% 2
North of England -6 4 £65,000 -30.89% 2

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 4 (7.41%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 32 (59.26%) AWS
2 27 (50.00%) Azure
3 25 (46.30%) Amazon EKS
4 21 (38.89%) AWS Lambda
4 21 (38.89%) Serverless
5 15 (27.78%) GCP
6 14 (25.93%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (24.07%) Amazon S3
7 13 (24.07%) GitHub
7 13 (24.07%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (20.37%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (5.56%) Azure API Management
11 3 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (5.56%) Cloudflare
12 2 (3.70%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.93%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (22.22%) DynamoDB
3 7 (12.96%) SQL Server
4 4 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (7.41%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.56%) Redis
6 1 (1.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (48.15%) Git
2 15 (27.78%) Jenkins
3 11 (20.37%) git-flow
4 8 (14.81%) CircleCI
4 8 (14.81%) GitLab
5 5 (9.26%) Maven
5 5 (9.26%) Selenium
5 5 (9.26%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
General
1 21 (38.89%) Finance
2 20 (37.04%) Social Skills
3 13 (24.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (22.22%) Law
4 12 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 6 (11.11%) Banking
5 6 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (9.26%) Telecoms
7 4 (7.41%) Police
8 1 (1.85%) Advertising
8 1 (1.85%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (64.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (37.04%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
4 5 (9.26%) Architect
4 5 (9.26%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Consultant
4 5 (9.26%) Technical Consultant
5 4 (7.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Head of Test
6 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.70%) DevOps Manager
7 2 (3.70%) Senior
8 1 (1.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 1 (1.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 1 (1.85%) Lead
8 1 (1.85%) Lead DevOps
8 1 (1.85%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.52%) .NET
2 8 (14.81%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (14.81%) Node.js
3 7 (12.96%) React
4 6 (11.11%) .NET Framework
5 5 (9.26%) YAML
6 4 (7.41%) ASP.NET
6 4 (7.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 3 (5.56%) Next.js
7 3 (5.56%) REST
7 3 (5.56%) RESTful
8 1 (1.85%) AWS CDK
8 1 (1.85%) Middleware
8 1 (1.85%) Spring
8 1 (1.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.07%) Virtual Team
2 8 (14.81%) Management Information System
2 8 (14.81%) Onboarding
3 5 (9.26%) Mobile App
3 5 (9.26%) Private Cloud
3 5 (9.26%) Public Cloud
4 4 (7.41%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.37%) Linux
2 1 (1.85%) CentOS
2 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (70.37%) CI/CD
3 34 (62.96%) Agile
4 25 (46.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (38.89%) DevSecOps
5 21 (38.89%) Test Automation
6 18 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (31.48%) Containerisation
8 16 (29.63%) Project Delivery
9 13 (24.07%) Collaborative Working
9 13 (24.07%) Configuration Management
9 13 (24.07%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (24.07%) Deployment Automation
9 13 (24.07%) Mentoring
10 12 (22.22%) Secrets Management
11 11 (20.37%) Software Engineering
11 11 (20.37%) Technical Architecture
12 10 (18.52%) Continuous Delivery
13 8 (14.81%) Availability Management
13 8 (14.81%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 25 (46.30%) Python
2 17 (31.48%) Go
2 17 (31.48%) JavaScript
3 10 (18.52%) C#
4 9 (16.67%) Bash
5 8 (14.81%) Shell Script
6 6 (11.11%) Java
6 6 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 6 (11.11%) SQL
7 4 (7.41%) VB
8 3 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 20 (37.04%) AWS Certification
2 9 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 9 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 8 (14.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (9.26%) Degree
4 5 (9.26%) PCI QSA
5 4 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (14.81%) PCI DSS
2 5 (9.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (9.26%) GRC
3 4 (7.41%) QA
4 3 (5.56%) ISO 9000
5 1 (1.85%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (40.74%) Docker
2 8 (14.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 35 (64.81%) Terraform
2 29 (53.70%) Kubernetes
3 13 (24.07%) Ansible
4 6 (11.11%) Argo
5 5 (9.26%) Progress Chef
5 5 (9.26%) Puppet
6 2 (3.70%) Istio
7 1 (1.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) Google
1 8 (14.81%) McAfee
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.56%) Veeam
4 1 (1.85%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.85%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.85%) VMware