GitOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring GitOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GitOps over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 843 813
Rank change year-on-year +366 -30 +104
Permanent jobs citing GitOps 250 51 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.051% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.060% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 13 39 117
10th Percentile £76,750 £55,150 £61,180
25th Percentile £97,500 £65,609 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £117,500 £70,576 £88,480
Median % change year-on-year +66.49% -20.24% +10.60%
75th Percentile £120,000 £86,485 £117,236
90th Percentile £138,000 £103,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £91,250 £70,576 £88,480
% change year-on-year +29.29% -20.24% +68.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,728 84,924 96,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.83% 85.58% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,848 59,902 56,809
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,010 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,415 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GitOps in the UK

GitOps
Top 14 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 12 May 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
England +339 248 £117,500 +56.67% 73
Work from Home +314 219 £135,000 +92.86% 56
London +181 88 £120,000 +26.32% 51
UK excluding London +216 78 £91,250 +29.29% 38
South East +123 31 £105,000 +100.00% 17
East of England - 26 - -
South West +105 10 - - 5
North of England +65 6 £55,000 -15.38% 12
North West +4 5 £55,000 -15.38% 11
Midlands +69 4 - - 3
West Midlands +58 2 - - 3
East Midlands - 2 - -
North East - 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 - -

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 1 (0.40%) Alfresco
1 1 (0.40%) Apache
1 1 (0.40%) Camunda
1 1 (0.40%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 241 (96.40%) AWS
2 216 (86.40%) Pulumi
3 11 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
3 11 (4.40%) Azure
4 7 (2.80%) GitHub
5 6 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (2.00%) GCP
6 5 (2.00%) SaaS
7 3 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.20%) Datadog
7 3 (1.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (0.80%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (0.80%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (0.80%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (0.80%) Azure AKS
8 2 (0.80%) Cloud Run
8 2 (0.80%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 215 (86.00%) Broadband
2 4 (1.60%) Firewall
3 2 (0.80%) VPN
3 2 (0.80%) WAN
4 1 (0.40%) DNS
4 1 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (86.00%) NoSQL
1 215 (86.00%) RDBMS
1 215 (86.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.20%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.40%) MySQL
3 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 215 (86.00%) Jaeger
2 12 (4.80%) GitLab
3 2 (0.80%) Git
3 2 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.40%) Gradle
4 1 (0.40%) Maven
4 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 215 (86.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (5.60%) Social Skills
3 11 (4.40%) Finance
4 10 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.20%) Banking
Job Titles
1 225 (90.00%) Lead
2 218 (87.20%) Team Leader
3 10 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (2.80%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (2.40%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (2.40%) Lead DevOps
6 5 (2.00%) Analyst
7 4 (1.60%) Architect
7 4 (1.60%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (1.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.80%) Azure Architect
9 2 (0.80%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (0.80%) Cloud Architect
9 2 (0.80%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (0.80%) Network Architect
9 2 (0.80%) Security Architect
9 2 (0.80%) Senior
9 2 (0.80%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (0.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (86.40%) Elastic Stack
2 215 (86.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (1.60%) AWS CDK
4 2 (0.80%) Node.js
4 2 (0.80%) React
5 1 (0.40%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.40%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.40%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.40%) HTML
5 1 (0.40%) JPA
5 1 (0.40%) Loki
5 1 (0.40%) Next.js
5 1 (0.40%) NumPy
5 1 (0.40%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.40%) Pandas
5 1 (0.40%) REST
5 1 (0.40%) Spring
5 1 (0.40%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.80%) Cloud Native
2 2 (0.80%) Data Centre
2 2 (0.80%) Public Cloud
2 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
3 1 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.40%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 219 (87.60%) Linux
2 215 (86.00%) Unix
3 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (96.80%) DevOps
2 233 (93.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 232 (92.80%) Agile
4 227 (90.80%) Containerisation
5 225 (90.00%) Mentoring
6 220 (88.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 218 (87.20%) Continuous Integration
8 217 (86.80%) High Availability
9 216 (86.40%) Product Management
10 215 (86.00%) Budget Control
10 215 (86.00%) Cost Optimisation
10 215 (86.00%) Resource Management
10 215 (86.00%) Roadmaps
10 215 (86.00%) Task Automation
11 22 (8.80%) CI/CD
12 11 (4.40%) Customer Experience
12 11 (4.40%) Microservices
12 11 (4.40%) Observability
13 10 (4.00%) Systems Thinking
14 9 (3.60%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 224 (89.60%) Bash
2 222 (88.80%) Python
3 217 (86.80%) Java
4 216 (86.40%) Go
4 216 (86.40%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.40%) Rust
7 1 (0.40%) SQL
Qualifications
1 220 (88.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
2 3 (1.20%) Degree
2 3 (1.20%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.80%) CCNP
3 2 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (0.80%) CISSP
4 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (1.60%) PCI DSS
1 4 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 229 (91.60%) Docker
2 2 (0.80%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 243 (97.20%) Terraform
2 239 (95.60%) Kubernetes
3 227 (90.80%) Ansible
4 222 (88.80%) Argo
5 221 (88.40%) Prometheus
6 215 (86.00%) Kustomize
7 8 (3.20%) Grafana
8 6 (2.40%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.40%) Istio
9 1 (0.40%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.40%) Packer
Vendors
1 218 (87.20%) Google
2 1 (0.40%) Splunk