GitOps Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

GitOps
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring GitOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 - 103
Rank change year-on-year - - +33
Contract jobs citing GitOps 8 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.43% - 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% - 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - £526
25th Percentile £372 - £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £482 - £583
90th Percentile £508 - £608
England median daily rate £604 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -27.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,662 987 1,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.12% 85.98% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 589 1,015
10th Percentile £251 £237 £300
25th Percentile £384 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £573 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 29 25
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.06 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +11.78% +5.58% -0.30%
75th Percentile £43.59 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £57.33 £64.33 £38.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

GitOps job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

GitOps
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing GitOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing GitOps

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitOps in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitOps in Yorkshire

GitOps
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 December 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 Yorkshire - 8 £420 - 4
GitOps
England

GitOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) GCP
2 6 (75.00%) SaaS
3 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (12.50%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) MySQL
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Jenkins
2 6 (75.00%) GitLab
2 6 (75.00%) JIRA
2 6 (75.00%) Postman
2 6 (75.00%) Selenium
3 5 (62.50%) Cucumber
3 5 (62.50%) REST Assured
3 5 (62.50%) TestRail
4 1 (12.50%) Git
4 1 (12.50%) JUnit
4 1 (12.50%) Maven
4 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
4 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
4 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Lead
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Test Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) LDAP
1 6 (75.00%) OpenID
1 6 (75.00%) REST
1 6 (75.00%) SailPoint
2 5 (62.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) DevOps
1 7 (87.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (75.00%) API Testing
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Data Ingestion
2 6 (75.00%) ETL
2 6 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (75.00%) Scenario Testing
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) BDD
3 5 (62.50%) Manual Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 5 (62.50%) System Integration Testing
3 5 (62.50%) TDD
3 5 (62.50%) Test Scripting
3 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Process Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 5 (62.50%) PHP
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
1 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Argo
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Podman
2 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) NetApp
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) VMware