GitOps Contract Job Trends in the North of England

GitOps
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring GitOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 161 166
Rank change year-on-year -26 +5 +74
Contract jobs citing GitOps 16 4 25
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.34% 0.11% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.13% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile £372 - £494
25th Percentile £396 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 - £544
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.22%
75th Percentile £563 - £569
90th Percentile £584 - £597
England median daily rate £604 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -27.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 19
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £46.18
England median hourly rate - £46.18 £46.18

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,181 3,087 4,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.47% 86.76% 88.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,776 1,756 2,724
10th Percentile £215 £263 £291
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £667 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 151 189
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.68
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.16 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.00 £27.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £68.79 £67.50 £62.35
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

GitOps job vacancy trend in the North of England

GitOps
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GitOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GitOps

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitOps in the North of England over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitOps in the North of England

GitOps
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GitOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GitOps

GitOps
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
North East 0 8 £556 -
Yorkshire - 8 £420 - 4
GitOps
England

GitOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (62.50%) OpenShift
2 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) GCP
3 6 (37.50%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (6.25%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) MySQL
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (93.75%) Jenkins
2 6 (37.50%) GitLab
2 6 (37.50%) JIRA
2 6 (37.50%) Postman
2 6 (37.50%) Selenium
3 5 (31.25%) Cucumber
3 5 (31.25%) REST Assured
3 5 (31.25%) TestRail
4 1 (6.25%) Git
4 1 (6.25%) JUnit
4 1 (6.25%) Maven
4 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
4 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
4 1 (6.25%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Lead
2 4 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Subject Matter Expert
3 2 (12.50%) Test Leader
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Virtualisation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) Keycloak
2 6 (37.50%) LDAP
2 6 (37.50%) OpenID
2 6 (37.50%) REST
2 6 (37.50%) SailPoint
3 5 (31.25%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 10 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (56.25%) Migration
4 8 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
4 8 (50.00%) Validation
5 7 (43.75%) DevOps
5 7 (43.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (37.50%) API Testing
6 6 (37.50%) Data Ingestion
6 6 (37.50%) ETL
6 6 (37.50%) Scenario Testing
6 6 (37.50%) Test Automation
6 6 (37.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 5 (31.25%) BDD
7 5 (31.25%) Manual Testing
7 5 (31.25%) Operational Acceptance Testing
7 5 (31.25%) System Integration Testing
7 5 (31.25%) TDD
7 5 (31.25%) Test Scripting
7 5 (31.25%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) Python
2 9 (56.25%) Bash
3 6 (37.50%) Java
4 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
4 5 (31.25%) PHP
4 5 (31.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
1 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
1 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Ansible
1 10 (62.50%) Argo
1 10 (62.50%) Terraform
2 9 (56.25%) Kubernetes
3 8 (50.00%) Istio
4 1 (6.25%) Podman
4 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Red Hat
2 6 (37.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) F5
3 1 (6.25%) NetApp
3 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
3 1 (6.25%) VMware