GitOps Contracts in England

GitOps
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 428 467 536
Rank change year-on-year +39 +69 +204
Contract jobs citing GitOps 57 75 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.23% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 49 107
10th Percentile £383 £338 £500
25th Percentile £406 £409 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £775
Median % change year-on-year - -35.48% +19.23%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £831
90th Percentile £750 £601 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £737
% change year-on-year - -32.13% +17.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 £46.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.93% - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £46.18 -
% change year-on-year +29.93% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GitOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GitOps in England

GitOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitOps in England.

Daily rate trend for GitOps in England

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for GitOps in England

GitOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitOps in England.

Hourly rate trend for GitOps in England

GitOps
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitOps within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +38 42 £500 -7.83% 42
South West +51 8 £619 +23.80% 2
East of England +32 3 £400 +6.67% 3
South East +31 1 - - 10
North West +12 1 - - 8
North of England +8 1 - - 9
GitOps
UK

GitOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (3.51%) Apache
1 2 (3.51%) Camunda
2 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 17 (29.82%) AWS
1 17 (29.82%) Azure
2 13 (22.81%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (21.05%) Azure AKS
4 8 (14.04%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (10.53%) GitHub
6 4 (7.02%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (7.02%) Serverless
7 3 (5.26%) Azure Functions
7 3 (5.26%) GCP
7 3 (5.26%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.51%) SaaS
9 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.75%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 1 (1.75%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.75%) Pulumi
9 1 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.28%) Firewall
2 3 (5.26%) DNS
3 1 (1.75%) Network Security
3 1 (1.75%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) GIS
1 2 (3.51%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.51%) MySQL
1 2 (3.51%) Redis
2 1 (1.75%) Big Data
2 1 (1.75%) ClickHouse
2 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (14.04%) Jenkins
2 7 (12.28%) GitLab
3 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.75%) Git
3 1 (1.75%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.75%) JIRA
3 1 (1.75%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (19.30%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.79%) Finance
3 6 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.77%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Banking
5 3 (5.26%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Legal
6 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (24.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (22.81%) Platform Engineer
3 10 (17.54%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Senior
5 5 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Administrator
6 4 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Site Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) DevOps Administrator
7 3 (5.26%) Linux Administrator
7 3 (5.26%) Linux DevOps Administrator
7 3 (5.26%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 2 (3.51%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.54%) .NET
2 7 (12.28%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (10.53%) Kafka
4 5 (8.77%) JSON
5 3 (5.26%) Keycloak
5 3 (5.26%) Loki
6 2 (3.51%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.51%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.51%) HTML
6 2 (3.51%) OAuth
6 2 (3.51%) OpenID
6 2 (3.51%) Spring
6 2 (3.51%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.51%) XML
7 1 (1.75%) Bootstrap
7 1 (1.75%) Node.js
7 1 (1.75%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.75%) RESTful
7 1 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (29.82%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.26%) Hedge funds
2 3 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.51%) PKI
3 2 (3.51%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (31.58%) Linux
2 3 (5.26%) SUSE
3 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (66.67%) DevOps
1 38 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 29 (50.88%) CI/CD
3 17 (29.82%) Containerisation
4 13 (22.81%) High Availability
4 13 (22.81%) Platform Engineering
5 11 (19.30%) Microservices
5 11 (19.30%) Observability
6 9 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
7 7 (12.28%) Agile
7 7 (12.28%) Mentoring
7 7 (12.28%) Service Management
7 7 (12.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (10.53%) Analytics
8 6 (10.53%) ITSM
8 6 (10.53%) RBAC
9 5 (8.77%) Chaos Engineering
9 5 (8.77%) Log Analytics
9 5 (8.77%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 17 (29.82%) Python
2 10 (17.54%) Bicep
3 8 (14.04%) Bash
3 8 (14.04%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.77%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (8.77%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.26%) Go
5 3 (5.26%) Java
5 3 (5.26%) Perl
6 1 (1.75%) C#
6 1 (1.75%) Rust
6 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.02%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.51%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.51%) Degree
5 1 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 8 (14.04%) Docker
2 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 49 (85.96%) Kubernetes
2 40 (70.18%) Terraform
3 24 (42.11%) Ansible
4 16 (28.07%) Prometheus
5 15 (26.32%) Grafana
6 9 (15.79%) Rancher
7 8 (14.04%) Argo
8 3 (5.26%) Consul
9 2 (3.51%) Istio
10 1 (1.75%) Cilium
10 1 (1.75%) Kustomize
10 1 (1.75%) Nessus
10 1 (1.75%) Packer
10 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (8.77%) VMware
2 4 (7.02%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.51%) IBM
4 2 (3.51%) SAP
5 1 (1.75%) Confluent
5 1 (1.75%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.75%) Qualys