GitOps Contracts in the Thames Valley

GitOps
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 153 166
Rank change year-on-year +42 +13 -
Contract jobs citing GitOps 21 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.79% 0.069% 0.056%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.076% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 0
10th Percentile £338 - -
25th Percentile £458 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £556 - -
South East median daily rate £484 £730 £725
% change year-on-year -33.77% +0.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,269 2,615 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.82% 90.80% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,246 1,775 2,188
10th Percentile £213 £313 £237
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +3.59% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +0.99% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 70 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.30 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +200.23% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £72.69 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -17.81%

GitOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing GitOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for GitOps in the Thames Valley

GitOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitOps in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for GitOps in the Thames Valley

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitOps in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitOps in the Thames Valley

GitOps
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitOps within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Berkshire +10 19 £482 -3.60%
Buckinghamshire - 2 £625 - 1
GitOps
South East

GitOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 6 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) PaaS
3 2 (9.52%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) Elasticsearch
1 11 (52.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Artifactory
1 4 (19.05%) Bitbucket
2 2 (9.52%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.76%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Site Engineer
1 15 (71.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Junior
3 2 (9.52%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (52.38%) Kafka
2 4 (19.05%) YAML
3 2 (9.52%) Fluent Bit
3 2 (9.52%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 14 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 16 (76.19%) DevOps
3 15 (71.43%) ITSM
3 15 (71.43%) Task Automation
4 14 (66.67%) Containerisation
5 12 (57.14%) Microservices
6 10 (47.62%) Agile
6 10 (47.62%) Change Management
6 10 (47.62%) Collaborative Working
6 10 (47.62%) Incident Response
6 10 (47.62%) Performance Tuning
6 10 (47.62%) Software Engineering
7 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
7 2 (9.52%) Configuration Management
7 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (9.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) Bash
2 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (90.48%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (80.95%) Grafana
2 15 (71.43%) Istio
3 14 (66.67%) Kubernetes
4 13 (61.90%) Argo
4 13 (61.90%) Prometheus
5 11 (52.38%) Kibana
6 2 (9.52%) Ansible
6 2 (9.52%) Kustomize
6 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
2 4 (19.05%) VMware