GitOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GitOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GitOps over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 836 828 934
Rank change year-on-year -8 +106 -64
Permanent jobs citing GitOps 52 167 308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.052% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.17% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 41 115 69
10th Percentile £56,750 £61,180 £51,250
25th Percentile £68,718 £67,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £88,480 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.24% +10.60% +18.52%
75th Percentile £86,485 £117,236 £100,000
90th Percentile £103,750 - £110,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £88,480 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.24% +68.53% -41.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitOps in the UK

GitOps
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GitOps.

Salary trend for GitOps in the UK

GitOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitOps over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GitOps in the UK

GitOps
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitOps within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
England -31 45 £75,000 -15.24% 51
UK excluding London -86 24 £70,576 -20.24% 14
London +84 21 £92,500 +2.78% 32
Work from Home -36 20 £70,000 -25.57% 30
South West -31 11 £70,576 -5.90% 1
South East +15 5 £52,500 -16.00% 9
Midlands +8 5 £86,485 +15.31% 1
West Midlands - 5 £86,485 -
North West -5 3 £65,000 -36.12% 3
North of England -17 3 £65,000 -30.89% 3

GitOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (5.77%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 31 (59.62%) AWS
2 26 (50.00%) Azure
3 24 (46.15%) Amazon EKS
4 20 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (38.46%) Serverless
5 15 (28.85%) GCP
6 14 (26.92%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (25.00%) Amazon S3
8 12 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (23.08%) GitHub
8 12 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (5.77%) Azure AKS
10 3 (5.77%) Azure API Management
10 3 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (5.77%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (5.77%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (5.77%) Cloudflare
10 3 (5.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.92%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (23.08%) DynamoDB
3 7 (13.46%) SQL Server
4 4 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.77%) Redis
6 1 (1.92%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (48.08%) Git
2 12 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 10 (19.23%) git-flow
4 7 (13.46%) CircleCI
4 7 (13.46%) GitLab
5 5 (9.62%) Maven
5 5 (9.62%) Selenium
5 5 (9.62%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
General
1 22 (42.31%) Finance
2 21 (40.38%) Social Skills
3 14 (26.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (23.08%) Law
5 11 (21.15%) Public Sector
6 7 (13.46%) Banking
7 6 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (9.62%) Telecoms
9 4 (7.69%) Police
10 2 (3.85%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.92%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 33 (63.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (36.54%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) Architect
3 6 (11.54%) AWS DevOps
4 5 (9.62%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Consultant
4 5 (9.62%) Technical Consultant
5 4 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Head of Test
6 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.85%) DevOps Manager
8 1 (1.92%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Architect
8 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Senior
8 1 (1.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.23%) .NET
2 8 (15.38%) Node.js
3 7 (13.46%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (13.46%) React
4 6 (11.54%) .NET Framework
5 5 (9.62%) YAML
6 4 (7.69%) ASP.NET
6 4 (7.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 3 (5.77%) Next.js
7 3 (5.77%) REST
7 3 (5.77%) RESTful
8 1 (1.92%) AWS CDK
8 1 (1.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Virtual Team
2 7 (13.46%) Management Information System
2 7 (13.46%) Onboarding
3 5 (9.62%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.62%) Mobile App
3 5 (9.62%) Private Cloud
3 5 (9.62%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.77%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.23%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) CentOS
2 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (67.31%) CI/CD
3 33 (63.46%) Agile
4 24 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (40.38%) DevSecOps
5 21 (40.38%) Test Automation
6 18 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (30.77%) Containerisation
7 16 (30.77%) Project Delivery
8 13 (25.00%) Mentoring
9 12 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
9 12 (23.08%) Configuration Management
9 12 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
9 12 (23.08%) Secrets Management
10 10 (19.23%) Software Engineering
10 10 (19.23%) Technical Architecture
11 9 (17.31%) Cloud Security
11 9 (17.31%) Continuous Delivery
12 8 (15.38%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 25 (48.08%) Python
2 17 (32.69%) Go
2 17 (32.69%) JavaScript
3 10 (19.23%) C#
4 9 (17.31%) Bash
5 7 (13.46%) Shell Script
6 6 (11.54%) PowerShell
7 5 (9.62%) Java
7 5 (9.62%) SQL
8 4 (7.69%) VB
9 3 (5.77%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 21 (40.38%) AWS Certification
2 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 8 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 7 (13.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (9.62%) Degree
4 5 (9.62%) PCI QSA
5 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (15.38%) PCI DSS
2 5 (9.62%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (9.62%) GRC
3 4 (7.69%) QA
4 3 (5.77%) ISO 9000
5 2 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (42.31%) Docker
2 7 (13.46%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.77%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 34 (65.38%) Terraform
2 28 (53.85%) Kubernetes
3 12 (23.08%) Ansible
4 6 (11.54%) Argo
5 5 (9.62%) Progress Chef
5 5 (9.62%) Puppet
6 2 (3.85%) Istio
7 1 (1.92%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (13.46%) Google
1 7 (13.46%) McAfee
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.77%) Veeam
4 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.92%) VMware