GitOps Job Trends in the UK excluding London

GitOps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GitOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 555 548
Rank change year-on-year +63 -7 +146
Permanent jobs citing GitOps 17 11 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.040% 0.031% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.034% 0.082%
Number of salaries quoted 15 7 21
10th Percentile £53,000 £47,500 -
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% +19.23% -30.89%
75th Percentile £78,750 £96,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £112,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £100,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +42.86% -15.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

GitOps job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

GitOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing GitOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing GitOps

GitOps
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for GitOps in the UK excluding London

GitOps
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitOps within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +15 9 £65,000 +18.18% 14
North West +25 8 £66,250 +20.45%
Midlands - 4 £77,500 - 2
West Midlands - 3 £77,500 -
South West - 2 £50,000 - 2
South East +31 1 £82,500 +4.76% 5
Yorkshire - 1 £55,000 - 14
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 £75,000 -
GitOps
UK

GitOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) Pulumi
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.88%) Anthos
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (5.88%) PaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) HTTP
1 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.76%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
1 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
1 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) Visual Studio
3 2 (11.76%) Jaeger
3 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.88%) git-flow
4 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Military
3 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Senior
2 7 (41.18%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) C++ Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Senior C++ Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Lead
6 2 (11.76%) Team Leader
7 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Team Leader
7 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) .NET
1 3 (17.65%) QML
1 3 (17.65%) Qt
1 3 (17.65%) STL
2 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (11.76%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (11.76%) WCF
3 1 (5.88%) Node.js
3 1 (5.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Linux
2 8 (47.06%) Windows
3 3 (17.65%) Unix
3 3 (17.65%) VMS
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (52.94%) Agile
2 9 (52.94%) Platform Engineering
3 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
3 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
5 6 (35.29%) Microservices
6 5 (29.41%) Cloud Security
7 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
7 4 (23.53%) Migration
7 4 (23.53%) Security Hardening
8 3 (17.65%) Cost Optimisation
8 3 (17.65%) Multithreading
8 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
9 2 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
9 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
9 2 (11.76%) Observability
9 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (11.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Bash
3 3 (17.65%) C#
3 3 (17.65%) C++
3 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) Go
4 2 (11.76%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) Bicep
5 1 (5.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) AWS Certification
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
2 4 (23.53%) VMware NSX
2 4 (23.53%) vSphere
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (82.35%) Terraform
2 13 (76.47%) Kubernetes
3 11 (64.71%) Ansible
4 5 (29.41%) Argo
4 5 (29.41%) Prometheus
5 3 (17.65%) Grafana
6 2 (11.76%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) VMware
2 3 (17.65%) Google