GitOps Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

GitOps
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring GitOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 145 -
Rank change year-on-year -42 - -
Contract jobs citing GitOps 8 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.17% 0.079% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.090% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £439 - -
25th Percentile £459 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 - -
75th Percentile £548 - -
90th Percentile £645 - -
England median daily rate £558 £608 £525
% change year-on-year -8.23% +15.71% -16.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,897 2,226 2,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.18% 87.43% 81.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,286 1,441 1,454
10th Percentile £306 £235 £255
25th Percentile £406 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.57% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £569 £612
90th Percentile £671 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 173 88
10th Percentile £13.14 £12.62 £12.75
25th Percentile £15.06 £17.87 £14.70
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.39 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% +9.78% -29.15%
75th Percentile £42.00 £27.21 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £51.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

GitOps job vacancy trend in the Midlands

GitOps
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GitOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GitOps

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitOps in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitOps in the Midlands

GitOps
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitOps within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 August 2026. 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
West Midlands - 8 £479 - 3
GitOps
England

GitOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Azure AKS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
1 5 (62.50%) GitHub
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (37.50%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) BGP
1 1 (12.50%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (12.50%) NX-OS
1 1 (12.50%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Maven
2 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 2 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
1 4 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps Architect
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) JSON
2 3 (37.50%) YAML
3 2 (25.00%) Node.js
3 2 (25.00%) SLSA
4 1 (12.50%) ADO
4 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
4 1 (12.50%) Loki
4 1 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
4 5 (62.50%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
5 4 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (50.00%) RBAC
5 4 (50.00%) Release Management
5 4 (50.00%) Software Delivery
6 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
6 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
6 3 (37.50%) Identity Management
7 2 (25.00%) AI
7 2 (25.00%) Attestation
7 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (25.00%) Release Automation
7 2 (25.00%) SBOM
7 2 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Groovy
2 2 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Argo
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Sonatype
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) New Relic
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow