GitOps Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

GitOps
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring GitOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 - 120
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitOps 5 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.32% - 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% - 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £375 - £477
25th Percentile £385 - £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 - £497
75th Percentile £518 - £500
90th Percentile £597 - -
South East median daily rate £433 - £493
% change year-on-year - - -21.12%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

GitOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,370 1,195 1,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.49% 92.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 936 646 1,003
10th Percentile £293 £300 £210
25th Percentile £401 £401 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £595 £625 £606
90th Percentile £650 £663 £679
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £505
% change year-on-year -0.10% -0.89% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 38 97
10th Percentile £16.39 £28.18 £20.49
25th Percentile £20.79 £49.97 £42.50
Median hourly rate £58.75 £61.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% +0.81% -5.68%
75th Percentile £95.00 £65.62 £70.50
90th Percentile £106.00 £79.86 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £25.08 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.28% -5.26% +5.56%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

GitOps job vacancy trend in Berkshire

GitOps
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing GitOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing GitOps

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitOps in Berkshire over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitOps in Berkshire

GitOps
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitOps within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 9 February 2026. 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
Wokingham - 4 £394 - 1
Reading - 1 £475 -
GitOps
South East

GitOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Observability
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) FinOps
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (20.00%) RBAC
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Argo
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Kustomize
1 4 (80.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) VMware