GitOps Contracts in the City of London

GitOps
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring GitOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 126 169
Rank change year-on-year +15 +43 +18
Contract jobs citing GitOps 8 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.46% 0.046% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.050% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 8
10th Percentile £356 - £686
25th Percentile £406 - £697
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £800 £737
Median % change year-on-year -45.84% +8.59% +13.35%
75th Percentile £455 - £805
90th Percentile £490 - £820
Central London median daily rate £433 £800 £737
% change year-on-year -45.84% +8.59% +13.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing GitOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for GitOps in the City of London

GitOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitOps in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for GitOps in the City of London

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitOps in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitOps in the City of London

GitOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Azure AKS
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jaeger
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 3 (37.50%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) Bootstrap
3 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) Loki
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) OpenID
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) API Management
3 3 (37.50%) Chaos Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (37.50%) ITSM
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) Observability
3 3 (37.50%) Service Management
3 3 (37.50%) Service-Level Objective
3 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (25.00%) Coaching
4 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Bicep
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (37.50%) Grafana
3 3 (37.50%) Terraform
4 2 (25.00%) Ansible
5 1 (12.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Confluent
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft