GitOps Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

GitOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 278 316 427
Rank change year-on-year +38 +111 +152
Contract jobs citing GitOps 26 29 50
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.19% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.22% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 23 40
10th Percentile £365 £418 £511
25th Percentile £390 £453 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £667
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -21.29% +8.90%
75th Percentile £603 £594 £778
90th Percentile £661 £659 £846
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £737
% change year-on-year - -32.13% +17.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £46.18 -
% change year-on-year +29.93% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

GitOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing GitOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GitOps trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

GitOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing GitOps.

GitOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

GitOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GitOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (7.69%) Apache
1 2 (7.69%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (3.85%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) Azure AKS
2 7 (26.92%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (19.23%) AWS
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (15.38%) Serverless
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Functions
5 3 (11.54%) GitHub
6 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Firewall
1 4 (15.38%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) GIS
1 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 2 (7.69%) MySQL
1 2 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Jaeger
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (3.85%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Legal
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Senior
2 7 (26.92%) Senior DevOps
2 7 (26.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) SAP Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Lead
7 1 (3.85%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) Keycloak
2 5 (19.23%) OAuth
2 5 (19.23%) OpenID
3 4 (15.38%) Kafka
3 4 (15.38%) LDAP
3 4 (15.38%) OAuth2
3 4 (15.38%) SAML
4 3 (11.54%) .NET
5 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 2 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (7.69%) HTML
5 2 (7.69%) JSON
5 2 (7.69%) Spring
5 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
5 2 (7.69%) XML
6 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (3.85%) Loki
6 1 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.69%) PKI
3 1 (3.85%) Blockchain
3 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Linux
2 4 (15.38%) SUSE
3 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) DevOps
2 14 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 13 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
4 7 (26.92%) RBAC
4 7 (26.92%) Secrets Management
5 6 (23.08%) Agile
5 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (19.23%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (19.23%) Microservices
7 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
7 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (15.38%) Storage Management
8 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (11.54%) Mentoring
8 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
9 2 (7.69%) Analytics
9 2 (7.69%) High Availability
9 2 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) Bicep
2 5 (19.23%) Bash
2 5 (19.23%) Python
3 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 3 (11.54%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (15.38%) Degree
3 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 25 (96.15%) Kubernetes
2 15 (57.69%) Terraform
3 11 (42.31%) Ansible
4 6 (23.08%) Argo
5 4 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (11.54%) Grafana
6 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
7 2 (7.69%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) SAP
2 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.85%) Confluent
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.85%) VMware