GitOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

GitOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for GitOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GitOps over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 416 570
Rank change year-on-year +108 +154 -97
Contract jobs citing GitOps 29 51 55
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.20% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.22% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 41 45
10th Percentile £418 £525 £478
25th Percentile £453 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £667 £625
Median % change year-on-year -21.29% +6.72% +9.65%
75th Percentile £594 £775 £688
90th Percentile £659 £846 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £737 £625
% change year-on-year -32.13% +17.88% +12.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

GitOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,316 22,957 40,627
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,913 16,228 29,490
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £626
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 528 539
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.93 £13.70
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.13
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.56
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

GitOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GitOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

GitOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing GitOps over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

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 5 (17.24%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.90%) nginx
3 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (86.21%) AWS
2 11 (37.93%) Azure
3 9 (31.03%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (20.69%) GCP
5 5 (17.24%) Snowflake
5 5 (17.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (13.79%) GitHub
6 4 (13.79%) OpenShift
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (10.34%) IaaS
8 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
8 2 (6.90%) Azure AKS
8 2 (6.90%) PaaS
8 2 (6.90%) Route 53
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (3.45%) Datadog
9 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) TCP/IP
2 3 (10.34%) Firewall
2 3 (10.34%) HTTP
3 2 (6.90%) Network Security
3 2 (6.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (10.34%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.45%) MariaDB
2 1 (3.45%) MySQL
2 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) GitLab
2 4 (13.79%) Git
3 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.90%) Snyk
4 2 (6.90%) SonarQube
4 2 (6.90%) Terragrunt
5 1 (3.45%) JIRA
5 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Finance
2 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Banking
3 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Consultant
5 3 (10.34%) Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Network Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Scala Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Scala Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) Kafka
2 3 (10.34%) Akka
2 3 (10.34%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (10.34%) RESTful
3 1 (3.45%) JWT
3 1 (3.45%) LDAP
3 1 (3.45%) OAuth
3 1 (3.45%) OpenID
3 1 (3.45%) React
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.34%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (10.34%) PKI
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Linux
2 3 (10.34%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (89.66%) DevOps
2 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (34.48%) Platform Engineering
4 9 (31.03%) Agile
4 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
5 7 (24.14%) Containerisation
5 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
7 5 (17.24%) Data Engineering
7 5 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (17.24%) DataOps
7 5 (17.24%) Microservices
7 5 (17.24%) MLOps
8 4 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (13.79%) Fintech
8 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
8 4 (13.79%) Open Source
9 3 (10.34%) Analytics
9 3 (10.34%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) Python
2 8 (27.59%) Java
2 8 (27.59%) Scala
3 5 (17.24%) Bash
4 3 (10.34%) Bicep
4 3 (10.34%) Perl
4 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.45%) C#
5 1 (3.45%) Go
5 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) SC Cleared
1 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (13.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (37.93%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.90%) Squid
3 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (72.41%) Terraform
2 20 (68.97%) Kubernetes
3 6 (20.69%) Argo
4 5 (17.24%) Ansible
5 3 (10.34%) Grafana
5 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.90%) HAProxy
6 2 (6.90%) Istio
7 1 (3.45%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (3.45%) FreeIPA
7 1 (3.45%) Icinga
7 1 (3.45%) Kibana
7 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Databricks
2 3 (10.34%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.90%) Cisco
3 2 (6.90%) Fortinet
3 2 (6.90%) Palo Alto
3 2 (6.90%) VMware
4 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.45%) Ping Identity
4 1 (3.45%) Splunk
4 1 (3.45%) Typelevel