GitOps Contract Job Trends in Bristol

GitOps
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring GitOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 64 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing GitOps 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.15% 0.43% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.47% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £640 - -
25th Percentile £645 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £672 - -
75th Percentile £701 - -
90th Percentile £706 - -
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +5.00% -20.00% +6.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,017 635 774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 76.18% 91.90% 82.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 329 427
10th Percentile £325 £235 £262
25th Percentile £425 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.98% -10.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £715
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 109 172
10th Percentile £19.33 £12.82 £43.75
25th Percentile £45.00 £18.51 £60.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -57.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.00 £74.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £79.80
South West median hourly rate £58.92 £25.15 £66.26
% change year-on-year +134.25% -62.04% +3.30%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

GitOps job vacancy trend in Bristol

GitOps
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing GitOps

GitOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (50.00%) NX-OS
1 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Loki
1 1 (50.00%) ModSecurity
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow