GitOps Contract Job Trends in Leeds

GitOps
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring GitOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 - 70
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitOps 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.39% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £345 - -
25th Percentile £394 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £625
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - £625

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 678 438 808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.05% 89.39% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 269 527
10th Percentile £313 £269 £281
25th Percentile £404 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 10
10th Percentile - £16.15 £11.11
25th Percentile £14.25 £19.37 £11.85
Median hourly rate £15.25 £37.50 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -59.33% +199.28% -78.49%
75th Percentile £40.06 £41.50 £15.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £100.39 £25.97
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £30.16 £15.12
% change year-on-year -37.42% +99.50% -56.88%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

GitOps job vacancy trend in Leeds

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitOps in Leeds over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitOps in Leeds

GitOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Anthos
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Product Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Principle of Least Privilege
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Go
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Istio
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Infoblox