GitOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 493 559 776
Rank change year-on-year +66 +217 -99
Contract jobs citing GitOps 97 144 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.24% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.27% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 128 57
10th Percentile £363 £509 £489
25th Percentile £413 £600 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £737 £625
Median % change year-on-year -32.13% +17.88% +13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £820 £688
90th Percentile £625 £850 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £457 £666 £600
% change year-on-year -31.46% +11.00% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.18 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 - -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GitOps in the UK

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitOps over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitOps in the UK

GitOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for GitOps in the UK

GitOps
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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
England +81 74 £500 -35.48% 30
UK excluding London +49 44 £457 -31.46% 14
London +48 42 £543 -30.00% 16
Work from Home +103 29 £525 -21.29% 9
South East +29 16 £484 -33.77% 9
Scotland +29 13 £453 -31.88%
North of England +24 11 £448 -42.26% 2
North East +9 7 - -
North West - 6 £448 - 2
South West +15 3 £500 -16.67% 1
East of England +16 1 £375 -28.57%

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 11 (11.34%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.12%) Confluence
3 2 (2.06%) nginx
4 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 75 (77.32%) AWS
2 36 (37.11%) GCP
3 32 (32.99%) Azure
4 20 (20.62%) OpenShift
5 12 (12.37%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (12.37%) Snowflake
6 10 (10.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 9 (9.28%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (8.25%) Amazon S3
9 7 (7.22%) Route 53
10 5 (5.15%) GitHub
11 4 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (3.09%) IaaS
12 3 (3.09%) PaaS
13 2 (2.06%) Azure AKS
13 2 (2.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 1 (1.03%) Amazon EMR
14 1 (1.03%) Datadog
14 1 (1.03%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 27 (27.84%) HTTP
2 5 (5.15%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.09%) DNS
3 3 (3.09%) Firewall
3 3 (3.09%) VPN
4 2 (2.06%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (25.77%) Apache Cassandra
2 11 (11.34%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (8.25%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (8.25%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.09%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.06%) MySQL
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.03%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (16.49%) Git
2 9 (9.28%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.19%) GitLab
4 5 (5.15%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.12%) Artifactory
5 4 (4.12%) JIRA
6 2 (2.06%) JUnit
6 2 (2.06%) Snyk
6 2 (2.06%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.06%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (7.22%) Finance
2 4 (4.12%) Public Sector
2 4 (4.12%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.09%) Banking
4 1 (1.03%) Advertising
4 1 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.03%) Law
Job Titles
1 29 (29.90%) Developer
2 26 (26.80%) Scala Developer
3 18 (18.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (13.40%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (12.37%) Site Engineer
5 12 (12.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 10 (10.31%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (9.28%) Senior
8 8 (8.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (7.22%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Architect
10 6 (6.19%) Lead
11 5 (5.15%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (4.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 3 (3.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 3 (3.09%) Data Engineer
13 3 (3.09%) Kubernetes Consultant
13 3 (3.09%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 3 (3.09%) Python Engineer
13 3 (3.09%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (37.11%) Kafka
2 28 (28.87%) RESTful
3 27 (27.84%) Akka
4 7 (7.22%) PyTorch
4 7 (7.22%) TensorFlow
5 4 (4.12%) YAML
6 3 (3.09%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (3.09%) React
6 3 (3.09%) REST
7 2 (2.06%) Hibernate
7 2 (2.06%) JPA
7 2 (2.06%) Loki
7 2 (2.06%) Spring
7 2 (2.06%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.06%) Spring Security
8 1 (1.03%) .NET
8 1 (1.03%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.03%) LDAP
8 1 (1.03%) OAuth
8 1 (1.03%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.37%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (10.31%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.12%) PKI
4 3 (3.09%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.09%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.19%) Linux
2 3 (3.09%) Windows
3 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (90.72%) DevOps
2 41 (42.27%) Agile
3 38 (39.18%) Microservices
4 33 (34.02%) Machine Learning
5 29 (29.90%) TDD
6 27 (27.84%) Pair Programming
7 25 (25.77%) Personalization
8 23 (23.71%) Clean Code
9 17 (17.53%) Coaching
9 17 (17.53%) Containerisation
9 17 (17.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 16 (16.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (16.49%) Platform Engineering
11 15 (15.46%) CI/CD
11 15 (15.46%) Software Engineering
12 13 (13.40%) Computer Science
13 12 (12.37%) Data Engineering
13 12 (12.37%) Data Pipeline
14 11 (11.34%) DataOps
14 11 (11.34%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 38 (39.18%) Scala
2 27 (27.84%) Python
3 17 (17.53%) Java
4 8 (8.25%) Bash
5 5 (5.15%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.12%) Bicep
7 3 (3.09%) Perl
8 2 (2.06%) Go
8 2 (2.06%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.06%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.03%) C#
9 1 (1.03%) Elixir
9 1 (1.03%) Ruby
9 1 (1.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (37.11%) SC Cleared
1 36 (37.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.06%) Degree
3 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.03%) MCSE
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (32.99%) Docker
2 2 (2.06%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.06%) Squid
2 2 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 80 (82.47%) Kubernetes
2 36 (37.11%) Terraform
3 21 (21.65%) Grafana
4 15 (15.46%) Istio
5 14 (14.43%) Prometheus
6 13 (13.40%) Argo
7 8 (8.25%) Kibana
8 7 (7.22%) Ansible
9 2 (2.06%) HAProxy
9 2 (2.06%) Packer
10 1 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.03%) FreeIPA
10 1 (1.03%) Icinga
10 1 (1.03%) OPNET
10 1 (1.03%) PowerCLI
10 1 (1.03%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (18.56%) Typelevel
2 12 (12.37%) Databricks
3 10 (10.31%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.25%) VMware
5 7 (7.22%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.12%) Google
7 3 (3.09%) Cisco
8 2 (2.06%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.06%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.03%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.03%) Oracle
9 1 (1.03%) Ping Identity
9 1 (1.03%) Splunk