GitOps Contract Job Trends in the North West

GitOps
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring GitOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 121 129
Rank change year-on-year -26 +8 -
Contract jobs citing GitOps 3 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.11% 0.048% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.054% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £582 - £479
25th Percentile £608 - £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £651 - £513
75th Percentile £652 - £534
90th Percentile - - £536
England median daily rate £513 £455 £519
% change year-on-year +12.76% -12.43% -33.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +62.41% -
England median hourly rate - £67.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +46.17% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,415 1,836 2,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.34% 89.00% 87.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,554 1,113 1,579
10th Percentile £215 £275 £304
25th Percentile £358 £385 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £572 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 106 232
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.07 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.93 £23.11 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.00 £31.64 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.23% +21.69% -30.67%
75th Percentile £63.50 £55.76 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.30 £79.04 £55.01
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.23
% change year-on-year -18.57% +2.25% -2.20%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

GitOps job vacancy trend in the North West

GitOps
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

GitOps
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

GitOps
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 February 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
Cheshire -21 2 £651 - 2
Manchester - 1 £580 - 4
GitOps
England

GitOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (66.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) NGFW
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Integration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) API Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Secrets Management
2 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Bicep
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Argo
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Istio
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) linkerd
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Splunk