GitOps Contracts

GitOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 444 484 576
Rank change year-on-year +40 +92 +197
Contract jobs citing GitOps 76 98 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.26% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 66 126
10th Percentile £375 £363 £500
25th Percentile £406 £413 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £737
Median % change year-on-year - -32.13% +17.88%
75th Percentile £647 £550 £820
90th Percentile £750 £622 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £460 £665
% change year-on-year +15.22% -30.83% +10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 £46.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.93% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £46.18 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitOps in the UK

GitOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitOps.

Daily rate trend for GitOps in the UK

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for GitOps in the UK

GitOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitOps.

Hourly rate trend for GitOps in the UK

GitOps
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 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
England +39 57 £500 - 60
London +38 42 £500 -7.83% 42
Work from Home +38 26 £463 -11.76% 44
UK excluding London +32 14 £530 +15.22% 28
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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.89%) Apache
1 6 (7.89%) Camunda
2 4 (5.26%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.32%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.32%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (34.21%) AWS
2 19 (25.00%) Azure
3 14 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (17.11%) Azure AKS
5 10 (13.16%) GitHub
6 9 (11.84%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (7.89%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (6.58%) Serverless
10 4 (5.26%) Azure Functions
10 4 (5.26%) GCP
11 3 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (3.95%) OpenShift
12 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (2.63%) SaaS
13 1 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudTrail
13 1 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.53%) Firewall
2 5 (6.58%) OpenLDAP
3 4 (5.26%) DNS
4 1 (1.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.89%) GIS
1 6 (7.89%) MongoDB
1 6 (7.89%) MySQL
2 4 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.26%) Redis
3 1 (1.32%) Big Data
3 1 (1.32%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.32%) ClickHouse
3 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (14.47%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.84%) GitLab
3 5 (6.58%) JUnit
4 3 (3.95%) Git
5 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.32%) Gradle
5 1 (1.32%) Jaeger
5 1 (1.32%) JIRA
5 1 (1.32%) Liquibase
5 1 (1.32%) Mockito
5 1 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.32%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.47%) Finance
3 10 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.58%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.95%) Banking
5 3 (3.95%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Legal
6 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (28.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (21.05%) Senior
3 15 (19.74%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 14 (18.42%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (14.47%) Developer
6 9 (11.84%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (9.21%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (9.21%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (9.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (9.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Site Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) Administrator
10 4 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Senior Technical Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) Technical Engineer
11 3 (3.95%) AWS Developer
11 3 (3.95%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.16%) .NET
1 10 (13.16%) Keycloak
2 9 (11.84%) Kafka
3 7 (9.21%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (9.21%) Spring
3 7 (9.21%) Spring Boot
4 6 (7.89%) AngularJS
4 6 (7.89%) Apache NiFi
4 6 (7.89%) HTML
4 6 (7.89%) JSON
4 6 (7.89%) OAuth
4 6 (7.89%) OpenID
4 6 (7.89%) React
5 5 (6.58%) LDAP
5 5 (6.58%) OAuth2
5 5 (6.58%) SAML
5 5 (6.58%) XML
6 3 (3.95%) Hibernate
6 3 (3.95%) REST
6 3 (3.95%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (28.95%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.26%) PKI
3 3 (3.95%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.63%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (36.84%) Linux
2 5 (6.58%) SUSE
3 2 (2.63%) Windows
4 1 (1.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (72.37%) DevOps
2 46 (60.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (48.68%) CI/CD
4 26 (34.21%) Containerisation
5 18 (23.68%) High Availability
5 18 (23.68%) Microservices
6 15 (19.74%) Observability
6 15 (19.74%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (15.79%) Agile
7 12 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (14.47%) Infrastructure Automation
8 11 (14.47%) RBAC
9 10 (13.16%) Mentoring
9 10 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (11.84%) Secrets Management
10 9 (11.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (10.53%) Analytics
12 7 (9.21%) ITSM
12 7 (9.21%) Service Management
13 6 (7.89%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 20 (26.32%) Python
2 12 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 11 (14.47%) Bash
3 11 (14.47%) Bicep
4 8 (10.53%) Java
5 6 (7.89%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.58%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (3.95%) Go
7 3 (3.95%) Perl
7 3 (3.95%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.63%) JSX
9 1 (1.32%) C#
9 1 (1.32%) Rust
9 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.32%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (27.63%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.47%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.58%) Degree
4 4 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.95%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.32%) CSSLP
7 1 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 16 (21.05%) Docker
2 6 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.58%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 66 (86.84%) Kubernetes
2 51 (67.11%) Terraform
3 31 (40.79%) Ansible
4 18 (23.68%) Prometheus
5 16 (21.05%) Grafana
6 12 (15.79%) Argo
7 9 (11.84%) Rancher
8 5 (6.58%) Istio
8 5 (6.58%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (3.95%) Consul
10 2 (2.63%) Kustomize
11 1 (1.32%) Cilium
11 1 (1.32%) Nagios
11 1 (1.32%) Nessus
11 1 (1.32%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (6.58%) ServiceNow
1 5 (6.58%) VMware
2 4 (5.26%) SAP
3 3 (3.95%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.63%) IBM
4 2 (2.63%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.32%) Confluent
5 1 (1.32%) Google
5 1 (1.32%) Qualys