GitOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

GitOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 406 555
Rank change year-on-year +91 +149 -69
Contract jobs citing GitOps 30 48 57
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.19% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.22% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 39 45
10th Percentile £424 £523 £483
25th Percentile £453 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £667 £625
Median % change year-on-year -21.29% +6.72% +10.62%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £688
90th Percentile £651 £846 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £730 £650
% change year-on-year -31.51% +12.31% +15.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

GitOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GitOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

GitOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitOps.

GitOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GitOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GitOps over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

GitOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GitOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.67%) nginx
3 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (83.33%) AWS
2 13 (43.33%) Azure
3 8 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (23.33%) OpenShift
5 6 (20.00%) GCP
6 5 (16.67%) Snowflake
6 5 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (13.33%) GitHub
7 4 (13.33%) PaaS
8 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (10.00%) IaaS
8 3 (10.00%) Slack
9 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
9 2 (6.67%) Azure AKS
9 2 (6.67%) Route 53
10 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 3 (10.00%) Firewall
2 3 (10.00%) HTTP
3 2 (6.67%) Network Security
3 2 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Git
1 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (13.33%) GitLab
3 2 (6.67%) Snyk
3 2 (6.67%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.33%) JIRA
4 1 (3.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) AWS Engineer
1 7 (23.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 7 (23.33%) Senior
2 6 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Scala Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) Kafka
2 3 (10.00%) Akka
2 3 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (10.00%) RESTful
3 2 (6.67%) Fluent Bit
3 2 (6.67%) Loki
4 1 (3.33%) JWT
4 1 (3.33%) LDAP
4 1 (3.33%) OAuth
4 1 (3.33%) OpenID
4 1 (3.33%) React
4 1 (3.33%) REST
4 1 (3.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.00%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (10.00%) PKI
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Linux
2 5 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (93.33%) DevOps
2 12 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (33.33%) Agile
3 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 10 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 8 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 5 (16.67%) Data Engineering
7 5 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (16.67%) DataOps
7 5 (16.67%) Microservices
7 5 (16.67%) MLOps
8 4 (13.33%) Configuration Management
8 4 (13.33%) Fintech
8 4 (13.33%) Open Source
9 3 (10.00%) Build Automation
9 3 (10.00%) ITSM
9 3 (10.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 12 (40.00%) Python
2 8 (26.67%) Scala
3 7 (23.33%) Bash
3 7 (23.33%) Java
4 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 3 (10.00%) Bicep
5 3 (10.00%) Perl
6 1 (3.33%) C#
6 1 (3.33%) Go
6 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (13.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (43.33%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.67%) Squid
3 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (76.67%) Kubernetes
2 21 (70.00%) Terraform
3 9 (30.00%) Argo
4 7 (23.33%) Ansible
5 6 (20.00%) Grafana
5 6 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 3 (10.00%) Istio
7 2 (6.67%) HAProxy
7 2 (6.67%) Kibana
7 2 (6.67%) Kustomize
8 1 (3.33%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Databricks
2 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.67%) Cisco
3 2 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 2 (6.67%) Palo Alto
3 2 (6.67%) VMware
4 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.33%) Ping Identity
4 1 (3.33%) Typelevel