GitOps Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

GitOps
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 82 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitOps 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.04% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £372 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - -
75th Percentile £482 - -
90th Percentile £508 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £420 - £563
% change year-on-year - - +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 734 298 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.08% 92.55% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 171 257
10th Percentile £316 £213 £380
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £538 £599 £625
90th Percentile £635 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.25
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.31
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +52.54%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £29.38
90th Percentile - £21.05 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +11.78% +5.58% -0.30%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

GitOps job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitOps in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitOps in South Yorkshire

GitOps
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield - 8 £420 - 4
GitOps
Yorkshire

GitOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) GCP
2 6 (75.00%) SaaS
3 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (12.50%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) MySQL
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Jenkins
2 6 (75.00%) GitLab
2 6 (75.00%) JIRA
2 6 (75.00%) Postman
2 6 (75.00%) Selenium
3 5 (62.50%) Cucumber
3 5 (62.50%) REST Assured
3 5 (62.50%) TestRail
4 1 (12.50%) Git
4 1 (12.50%) JUnit
4 1 (12.50%) Maven
4 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
4 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
4 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Lead
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Test Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) LDAP
1 6 (75.00%) OpenID
1 6 (75.00%) REST
1 6 (75.00%) SailPoint
2 5 (62.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) DevOps
1 7 (87.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (75.00%) API Testing
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Data Ingestion
2 6 (75.00%) ETL
2 6 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (75.00%) Scenario Testing
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) BDD
3 5 (62.50%) Manual Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 5 (62.50%) System Integration Testing
3 5 (62.50%) TDD
3 5 (62.50%) Test Scripting
3 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Process Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 5 (62.50%) PHP
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
1 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Argo
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Podman
2 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) NetApp
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) VMware