GitOps Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

GitOps
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring GitOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - 77
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitOps 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.32% - 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% - 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £345 - -
25th Percentile £394 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £625
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £461 - £563
% change year-on-year - - +12.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 800 511 1,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.21% 89.02% 89.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 311 656
10th Percentile £290 £263 £281
25th Percentile £401 £367 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £600
90th Percentile £660 £675 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 18 26
10th Percentile £13.65 £15.38 £11.43
25th Percentile £14.25 £18.12 £12.53
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.16 £15.12
Median % change year-on-year -37.42% +99.50% -56.88%
75th Percentile £26.23 £40.81 £22.55
90th Percentile £74.00 £98.25 £53.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +11.78% +45.16% +45.81%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

GitOps job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitOps in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitOps in West Yorkshire

GitOps
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Leeds - 3 £500 - 4
GitOps
Yorkshire

GitOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Anthos
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Product Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Principle of Least Privilege
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Go
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Istio
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Infoblox