GitOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

GitOps
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 336 398 462
Rank change year-on-year +62 +64 -16
Contract jobs citing GitOps 49 48 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.23% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 42 34
10th Percentile £376 £564 £519
25th Percentile £429 £600 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £666 £625
Median % change year-on-year -30.93% +6.56% -
75th Percentile £500 £760 £722
90th Percentile £581 £846 £775
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GitOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GitOps in the UK excluding London

GitOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitOps in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GitOps in the UK excluding London

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for GitOps in the UK excluding London

GitOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitOps in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GitOps in the UK excluding London

GitOps
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitOps within the UK excluding London 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
South East +32 21 £485 -33.56% 8
Scotland +39 12 £453 -31.88%
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 the UK excluding London 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 10 (20.41%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.12%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 29 (59.18%) AWS
1 29 (59.18%) Azure
2 23 (46.94%) OpenShift
3 10 (20.41%) Snowflake
4 6 (12.24%) GCP
4 6 (12.24%) PaaS
5 3 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (6.12%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.12%) Route 53
5 3 (6.12%) Slack
5 3 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (4.08%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.08%) GitHub
6 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) VPN
2 1 (2.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.49%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (22.45%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Git
2 6 (12.24%) Bitbucket
3 4 (8.16%) Artifactory
3 4 (8.16%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.12%) JIRA
5 2 (4.08%) GitLab
5 2 (4.08%) Snyk
5 2 (4.08%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.04%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.08%) Banking
3 1 (2.04%) Advertising
3 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) Site Engineer
1 15 (30.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 11 (22.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (16.33%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Lead
6 6 (12.24%) Senior
7 5 (10.20%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (8.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Data Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Python Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.49%) Kafka
2 7 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 7 (14.29%) TensorFlow
3 4 (8.16%) YAML
4 2 (4.08%) .NET
4 2 (4.08%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.08%) Fluent Bit
4 2 (4.08%) Loki
4 2 (4.08%) ModSecurity
5 1 (2.04%) Akka
5 1 (2.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.53%) Cloud Native
2 10 (20.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.08%) PKI
3 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.08%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.20%) Linux
2 2 (4.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (85.71%) DevOps
2 20 (40.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 16 (32.65%) Agile
3 16 (32.65%) Software Engineering
4 15 (30.61%) Task Automation
5 14 (28.57%) ITSM
6 13 (26.53%) Containerisation
7 12 (24.49%) Computer Science
7 12 (24.49%) Microservices
7 12 (24.49%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (20.41%) Data Engineering
8 10 (20.41%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (20.41%) DataOps
8 10 (20.41%) Machine Learning
8 10 (20.41%) MLOps
9 9 (18.37%) Artificial Intelligence
9 9 (18.37%) Change Management
9 9 (18.37%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (18.37%) Incident Response
9 9 (18.37%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 24 (48.98%) Python
2 12 (24.49%) Java
3 11 (22.45%) Scala
4 5 (10.20%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.16%) Bash
6 3 (6.12%) Bicep
7 1 (2.04%) Elixir
7 1 (2.04%) Go
7 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 33 (67.35%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) Degree
3 2 (4.08%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.04%) MCSE
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 15 (30.61%) Docker
2 3 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.08%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 41 (83.67%) Kubernetes
2 20 (40.82%) Grafana
3 18 (36.73%) Terraform
4 16 (32.65%) Argo
4 16 (32.65%) Istio
4 16 (32.65%) Prometheus
5 11 (22.45%) Kibana
6 4 (8.16%) Ansible
7 2 (4.08%) Kustomize
7 2 (4.08%) OPNET
7 2 (4.08%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 13 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 10 (20.41%) Databricks
3 9 (18.37%) VMware
4 4 (8.16%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.12%) Google
6 2 (4.08%) Atlassian
6 2 (4.08%) Cisco
7 1 (2.04%) Oracle
7 1 (2.04%) Typelevel