GitOps Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

GitOps
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring GitOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 - 134
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitOps 5 0 13
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.22% - 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% - 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £375 - £477
25th Percentile £385 - £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 - £497
75th Percentile £518 - £500
90th Percentile £597 - -
South East median daily rate £433 - £493
% change year-on-year - - -21.12%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,912 1,531 2,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.13% 92.06% 89.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,276 884 1,496
10th Percentile £269 £255 £213
25th Percentile £393 £402 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £505
% change year-on-year -0.10% -0.89% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 44 153
10th Percentile £15.62 £26.08 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £45.31 £20.17
Median hourly rate £25.24 £61.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.96% +29.46% +63.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.62 £63.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £76.68 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £25.08 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.28% -5.26% +5.56%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

GitOps job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

GitOps
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing GitOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing GitOps

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitOps in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitOps in the Thames Valley

GitOps
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitOps within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 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
Berkshire - 5 £403 - 1
GitOps
South East

GitOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Observability
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) FinOps
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (20.00%) RBAC
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Argo
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Kustomize
1 4 (80.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) VMware