GitOps Contract Job Trends in the South East

GitOps
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring GitOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 168 199
Rank change year-on-year -10 +31 +64
Contract jobs citing GitOps 3 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.073% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% 0.20% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile £418 £431 -
25th Percentile £420 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £466 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -25.44% -
75th Percentile £500 £490 £663
90th Percentile £511 £513 -
England median daily rate £600 £500 £544
% change year-on-year +20.00% -8.05% -25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,607 3,525 4,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 87.23% 85.91% 89.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,285 2,159 3,050
10th Percentile £221 £253 £214
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £524
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.24% +2.29%
75th Percentile £591 £625 £619
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 162 246
10th Percentile £14.71 £16.48 £16.45
25th Percentile £16.83 £27.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £56.75 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.23% +7.07% +21.84%
75th Percentile £41.00 £70.00 £66.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.43 £45.00
% change year-on-year -29.01% -21.27% +23.29%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

GitOps job vacancy trend in the South East

GitOps
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing GitOps

GitOps
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitOps within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 November 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
Thames Valley +4 1 £475 -3.65%
Hampshire -2 1 £433 -3.89% 1
Berkshire -6 1 £475 -3.65%
Surrey - 1 - -
GitOps
England

GitOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) gRPC
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Keycloak
1 1 (33.33%) Loki
1 1 (33.33%) Next.js
1 1 (33.33%) NgRx
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) Redux
1 1 (33.33%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 1 (33.33%) SBOM
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Server-Driven UI
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) SOLID
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Argo
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Istio
3 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
3 1 (33.33%) linkerd
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk