GitOps Contract Job Trends in the South West

GitOps
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring GitOps skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 131 147
Rank change year-on-year +19 +16 -
Contract jobs citing GitOps 3 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.15% 0.26% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.32% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £615 £545
25th Percentile - £619 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile - £631 £613
90th Percentile - £635 £625
England median daily rate £610 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +16.19% -10.64% -12.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,783 2,219 2,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.37% 83.74% 87.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,031 1,323 1,948
10th Percentile £220 £271 £310
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £706 £701 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 214 254
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.18 £20.08
25th Percentile £18.51 £48.50 £41.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +7.14% +9.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing GitOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for GitOps in the South West

GitOps
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

GitOps
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Bristol - 2 - -
Wiltshire +6 1 £500 -20.00%
GitOps
England

GitOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Linux DevOps Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) Nessus
3 1 (33.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware