GitOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

GitOps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GitOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 354 414
Rank change year-on-year +32 +60 +62
Contract jobs citing GitOps 14 45 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.22% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.26% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 33 43
10th Percentile £395 £368 £565
25th Percentile £420 £415 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £460 £665
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -30.83% +10.83%
75th Percentile £629 £500 £765
90th Percentile £649 £538 £845
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £737
% change year-on-year - -32.13% +17.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £46.18 -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £46.18 -
% change year-on-year +29.93% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GitOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GitOps in the UK excluding London

GitOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitOps in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GitOps in the UK excluding London

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitOps in the UK excluding London

GitOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitOps in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GitOps in the UK excluding London

GitOps
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitOps within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South West +51 8 £619 +23.80% 2
East of England +32 3 £400 +6.67% 3
South East +31 1 - - 10
North West +12 1 - - 8
North of England +8 1 - - 9
Wales - 1 £586 -
GitOps
UK

GitOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (7.14%) IaaS
2 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
2 3 (21.43%) DNS
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (7.14%) Banking
1 1 (7.14%) Finance
1 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) Linux DevOps Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Architect
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) Loki
2 1 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Blockchain
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) DevOps
1 11 (78.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 4 (28.57%) High Availability
3 4 (28.57%) Observability
3 4 (28.57%) Security Hardening
3 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) Architectural Design
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Microservices
6 1 (7.14%) Customer Analytics
6 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning
6 1 (7.14%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Bash
1 3 (21.43%) Perl
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) CSSLP
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Terraform
2 12 (85.71%) Kubernetes
3 9 (64.29%) Ansible
4 8 (57.14%) Prometheus
5 7 (50.00%) Grafana
6 3 (21.43%) Consul
7 1 (7.14%) Argo
7 1 (7.14%) Nagios
7 1 (7.14%) Nessus
7 1 (7.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat