GitOps Contracts in England

GitOps
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GitOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GitOps over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 453 532 729
Rank change year-on-year +79 +197 -103
Contract jobs citing GitOps 84 115 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.24% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.27% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 105 31
10th Percentile £348 £500 £450
25th Percentile £434 £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £574 £820 £688
90th Percentile £618 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £730 £650
% change year-on-year -31.51% +12.31% +15.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £46.18 £40.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% - -
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £40.50 -
% change year-on-year +14.02% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,491 43,355 63,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.40% 90.10% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,622 30,435 45,445
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,535 1,743
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GitOps in England

GitOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitOps in England.

Daily rate trend for GitOps in England

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitOps in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitOps in England

GitOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitOps in England.

Hourly rate trend for GitOps in England

GitOps
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitOps within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +47 45 £550 -26.67% 20
South East +32 21 £485 -33.56% 8
North of England +22 11 £448 -42.26% 1
North East +7 7 - -
North West +22 6 £448 - 1
South West +2 6 £563 -4.26%
East of England +9 1 £375 -26.83%
GitOps
UK

GitOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (2.38%) nginx
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 60 (71.43%) AWS
2 35 (41.67%) GCP
3 24 (28.57%) Azure
3 24 (28.57%) OpenShift
4 8 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (9.52%) Amazon S3
5 7 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (8.33%) Route 53
5 7 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (7.14%) PaaS
7 5 (5.95%) GitHub
8 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.38%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.38%) Slack
10 2 (2.38%) Snowflake
11 1 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.19%) AWS CloudTrail
11 1 (1.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 28 (33.33%) HTTP
2 4 (4.76%) VPN
3 3 (3.57%) Firewall
4 2 (2.38%) Network Security
4 2 (2.38%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.19%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (28.57%) Apache Cassandra
2 14 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 15 (17.86%) Git
2 8 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.14%) Bitbucket
4 4 (4.76%) Artifactory
4 4 (4.76%) GitLab
4 4 (4.76%) JIRA
5 2 (2.38%) JUnit
5 2 (2.38%) Snyk
5 2 (2.38%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (8.33%) Finance
2 5 (5.95%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.19%) Advertising
3 1 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.19%) Banking
3 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
3 1 (1.19%) Law
Job Titles
1 29 (34.52%) Developer
2 26 (30.95%) Scala Developer
3 16 (19.05%) Site Engineer
3 16 (19.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 14 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (13.10%) Senior
6 6 (7.14%) Lead
7 5 (5.95%) Architect
7 5 (5.95%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (5.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) Automation Architect
9 2 (2.38%) AWS Architect
9 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) Office Automation Architect
9 2 (2.38%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (48.81%) Kafka
2 29 (34.52%) RESTful
3 28 (33.33%) Akka
4 7 (8.33%) PyTorch
4 7 (8.33%) TensorFlow
5 4 (4.76%) Loki
5 4 (4.76%) YAML
6 3 (3.57%) React
6 3 (3.57%) REST
7 2 (2.38%) .NET
7 2 (2.38%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.38%) Fluent Bit
7 2 (2.38%) Hibernate
7 2 (2.38%) JPA
7 2 (2.38%) ModSecurity
7 2 (2.38%) Spring
7 2 (2.38%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.38%) Spring Security
8 1 (1.19%) LDAP
8 1 (1.19%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.95%) PKI
3 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.38%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.38%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.76%) Linux
2 2 (2.38%) Windows
3 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (90.48%) DevOps
2 43 (51.19%) Agile
3 42 (50.00%) Microservices
4 33 (39.29%) Machine Learning
5 30 (35.71%) TDD
6 28 (33.33%) Pair Programming
7 24 (28.57%) Personalization
8 22 (26.19%) Clean Code
9 21 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 18 (21.43%) Containerisation
10 18 (21.43%) Software Engineering
11 16 (19.05%) Coaching
12 15 (17.86%) Task Automation
13 14 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (16.67%) ITSM
14 13 (15.48%) CI/CD
15 10 (11.90%) Performance Tuning
16 9 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence
16 9 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
16 9 (10.71%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.52%) Scala
2 17 (20.24%) Python
3 7 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 6 (7.14%) Bash
5 5 (5.95%) Java
6 4 (4.76%) Bicep
7 3 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.19%) C#
8 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 40 (47.62%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.57%) Degree
4 2 (2.38%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.38%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.19%) MCSE
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (23.81%) Docker
2 2 (2.38%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.38%) Squid
2 2 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.38%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 70 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 27 (32.14%) Grafana
3 20 (23.81%) Prometheus
3 20 (23.81%) Terraform
4 18 (21.43%) Istio
5 16 (19.05%) Argo
6 12 (14.29%) Kibana
7 6 (7.14%) Ansible
8 2 (2.38%) HAProxy
8 2 (2.38%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.38%) OPNET
8 2 (2.38%) Packer
8 2 (2.38%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (22.62%) Typelevel
2 13 (15.48%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.52%) VMware
4 4 (4.76%) Cisco
4 4 (4.76%) Google
4 4 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.38%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.38%) Databricks
5 2 (2.38%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.38%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.19%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.19%) Ping Identity