GitOps Job Trends in the South West

GitOps
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring GitOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 - 219
Rank change year-on-year - - +72
Permanent jobs citing GitOps 3 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.084% - 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% - 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,500 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.20%
75th Percentile £52,500 - £47,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £65,000 £90,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -27.78% +38.46% -28.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

GitOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,913 5,119 4,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 81.83% 76.35% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,832 2,885 3,341
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.32% +1.33%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

GitOps job vacancy trend in the South West

GitOps
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing GitOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing GitOps

GitOps
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitOps within the South West region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol - 2 £50,000 - 2
Devon - 1 - -
GitOps
England

GitOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jaeger
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 1 (33.33%) Culture Change
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) FinOps
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Bicep
3 1 (33.33%) Go
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Argo
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
3 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google