GitOps Contracts in London

GitOps
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 347 398
Rank change year-on-year +45 +51 +160
Contract jobs citing GitOps 39 49 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.32% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.32% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 31 73
10th Percentile £406 £363 £500
25th Percentile £455 £494 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year - -26.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £750 £591 £820
90th Percentile - £638 £850
England median daily rate £537 £500 £750
% change year-on-year +7.30% -33.33% +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,178 15,459 23,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 88.48% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,507 11,105 16,762
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 316 266
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.72 £18.25
25th Percentile £23.78 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.81 £28.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% -29.34% +12.29%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.10 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for GitOps in London

GitOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for GitOps in London

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitOps in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitOps in London

GitOps
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitOps within the London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Central London +13 6 £455 -43.19% 3
South London +4 2 £474 -9.76%
GitOps
England

GitOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (5.13%) Apache
1 2 (5.13%) Camunda
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (33.33%) Azure
2 10 (25.64%) AWS
3 9 (23.08%) Azure AKS
3 9 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (12.82%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (12.82%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (12.82%) GCP
4 5 (12.82%) GitHub
5 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (7.69%) Serverless
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.56%) IaaS
8 1 (2.56%) PaaS
8 1 (2.56%) SaaS
8 1 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) GIS
1 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.13%) MySQL
1 2 (5.13%) Redis
2 1 (2.56%) Big Data
2 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.26%) GitLab
3 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.56%) Git
3 1 (2.56%) Jaeger
3 1 (2.56%) JIRA
3 1 (2.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Finance
2 5 (12.82%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Banking
3 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
5 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 11 (28.21%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 9 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Senior
5 3 (7.69%) Site Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (5.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) .NET
2 6 (15.38%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (12.82%) JSON
4 4 (10.26%) Kafka
5 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.13%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (5.13%) HTML
5 2 (5.13%) Keycloak
5 2 (5.13%) Loki
5 2 (5.13%) Spring
5 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.13%) XML
6 1 (2.56%) ADO
6 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.56%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.56%) OAuth
6 1 (2.56%) React
6 1 (2.56%) RESTful
6 1 (2.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (48.72%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.13%) PKI
3 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (41.03%) Linux
2 3 (7.69%) SUSE
3 1 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (84.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 25 (64.10%) DevOps
3 17 (43.59%) CI/CD
4 15 (38.46%) Platform Engineering
5 12 (30.77%) High Availability
6 10 (25.64%) Containerisation
6 10 (25.64%) Observability
7 9 (23.08%) Microservices
8 8 (20.51%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (17.95%) Mentoring
10 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (15.38%) ITSM
10 6 (15.38%) Service Management
10 6 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (12.82%) Agile
11 5 (12.82%) Analytics
11 5 (12.82%) API Management
11 5 (12.82%) Chaos Engineering
11 5 (12.82%) Log Analytics
12 4 (10.26%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (41.03%) Python
2 8 (20.51%) JavaScript
3 6 (15.38%) Bicep
4 5 (12.82%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (10.26%) Bash
6 2 (5.13%) Go
6 2 (5.13%) Java
7 1 (2.56%) C#
7 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.56%) Rust
7 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.13%) Degree
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 36 (92.31%) Kubernetes
2 30 (76.92%) Terraform
3 17 (43.59%) Ansible
4 12 (30.77%) Rancher
5 9 (23.08%) Argo
5 9 (23.08%) Grafana
5 9 (23.08%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.13%) Istio
7 1 (2.56%) Cilium
7 1 (2.56%) Kustomize
7 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.13%) Google
3 2 (5.13%) SAP
4 1 (2.56%) Confluent