GitOps Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

GitOps
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring GitOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 53 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing GitOps 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.30% 0.23% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.25% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £651 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £651 - -
75th Percentile £652 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £651 - £513
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £75.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +62.41% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 585 403 452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.50% 92.86% 88.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 244 298
10th Percentile £310 £291 £265
25th Percentile £358 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £474 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% -5.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £558
90th Percentile £675 £639 £611
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 31 34
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.47 £24.09 £17.29
Median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £25.14
Median % change year-on-year -29.69% +29.30% +29.50%
75th Percentile £42.25 £81.75 £39.50
90th Percentile £86.00 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £31.64 £26.00
% change year-on-year +42.23% +21.69% -30.67%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

GitOps job vacancy trend in Cheshire

GitOps
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitOps within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Knutsford -28 2 £651 - 2
GitOps
North West

GitOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Integration Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Argo
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) linkerd
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk