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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 418 449 524
Rank change year-on-year +31 +75 +201
Contract jobs citing GitOps 53 84 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.27% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 55 106
10th Percentile £400 £348 £500
25th Percentile £440 £434 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £750
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -33.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £750 £574 £820
90th Percentile - £618 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £730
% change year-on-year +5.00% -31.51% +12.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.75
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year - +14.02% -
75th Percentile - - £43.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £46.18 £40.50
% change year-on-year - +14.02% -

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 22,169 31,438 43,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.25% 86.37% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,471 20,622 30,640
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 2,250 1,536
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.96 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 20 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 20 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 +44 39 £525 -4.55% 67
South West +44 8 £619 +10.04% 5
East of England +28 3 £400 +6.67%
South East +23 1 - - 25
North West +10 1 - - 14
North of England +5 1 - - 15
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 (3.77%) Apache
1 2 (3.77%) Camunda
2 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.89%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 15 (28.30%) AWS
1 15 (28.30%) Azure
2 10 (18.87%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (16.98%) Azure AKS
4 6 (11.32%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (11.32%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (11.32%) GitHub
5 4 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (7.55%) Serverless
6 3 (5.66%) GCP
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.77%) IaaS
7 2 (3.77%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.77%) SaaS
8 1 (1.89%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.89%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.43%) Firewall
2 3 (5.66%) DNS
3 1 (1.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) GIS
1 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.77%) MySQL
1 2 (3.77%) Redis
2 1 (1.89%) Big Data
2 1 (1.89%) ClickHouse
2 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.43%) GitLab
3 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.89%) Git
3 1 (1.89%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.89%) JIRA
3 1 (1.89%) Terragrunt
General
1 12 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.21%) Finance
3 5 (9.43%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.66%) Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.89%) Legal
6 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Retail
6 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (26.42%) Platform Engineer
2 12 (22.64%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 11 (20.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Administrator
5 4 (7.55%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Developer
5 4 (7.55%) Senior
5 4 (7.55%) Site Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) DevOps Administrator
6 3 (5.66%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (5.66%) Linux DevOps Administrator
6 3 (5.66%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 2 (3.77%) Architect
7 2 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Lead
7 2 (3.77%) Operations Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.09%) .NET
2 7 (13.21%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (11.32%) Kafka
4 5 (9.43%) JSON
5 3 (5.66%) Loki
6 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.77%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.77%) HTML
6 2 (3.77%) Keycloak
6 2 (3.77%) Spring
6 2 (3.77%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.77%) XML
7 1 (1.89%) ADO
7 1 (1.89%) Bootstrap
7 1 (1.89%) Node.js
7 1 (1.89%) OAuth
7 1 (1.89%) OpenID
7 1 (1.89%) RESTful
7 1 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (35.85%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.66%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.77%) PKI
3 2 (3.77%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (39.62%) Linux
2 3 (5.66%) SUSE
3 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.89%) VMS
3 1 (1.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (77.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 34 (64.15%) DevOps
3 23 (43.40%) CI/CD
4 18 (33.96%) Containerisation
5 16 (30.19%) High Availability
6 14 (26.42%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (22.64%) Observability
8 11 (20.75%) Microservices
9 9 (16.98%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (13.21%) Agile
10 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (13.21%) Mentoring
10 7 (13.21%) Service Management
10 7 (13.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (11.32%) Analytics
11 6 (11.32%) ITSM
12 5 (9.43%) API Management
12 5 (9.43%) Chaos Engineering
12 5 (9.43%) Log Analytics
12 5 (9.43%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.74%) Python
2 8 (15.09%) Bash
2 8 (15.09%) JavaScript
3 6 (11.32%) Bicep
4 5 (9.43%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (5.66%) Go
5 3 (5.66%) Java
5 3 (5.66%) Perl
5 3 (5.66%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.89%) C#
6 1 (1.89%) Rust
6 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.55%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.77%) Degree
5 1 (1.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 8 (15.09%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (86.79%) Kubernetes
2 42 (79.25%) Terraform
3 26 (49.06%) Ansible
4 16 (30.19%) Prometheus
5 15 (28.30%) Grafana
6 12 (22.64%) Rancher
7 7 (13.21%) Argo
8 3 (5.66%) Consul
9 2 (3.77%) Istio
10 1 (1.89%) Cilium
10 1 (1.89%) Kustomize
10 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.89%) Nessus
10 1 (1.89%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (9.43%) VMware
2 4 (7.55%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.77%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.77%) SAP
5 1 (1.89%) Confluent
5 1 (1.89%) IBM
5 1 (1.89%) Qualys