GitOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GitOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 839 808 929
Rank change year-on-year -31 +121 -59
Permanent jobs citing GitOps 51 169 318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.18% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 38 117 64
10th Percentile £54,350 £61,180 £51,250
25th Percentile £64,055 £65,351 £58,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,788 £88,480 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.74% +10.60% +14.29%
75th Percentile £86,485 £117,236 £100,000
90th Percentile £103,750 - £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £88,480 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.24% +68.53% -41.67%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GitOps.

Salary trend for GitOps in the UK

GitOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitOps over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GitOps in the UK

GitOps
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitOps within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -21 46 £75,000 -15.24% 28
UK excluding London -108 24 £70,576 -20.24% 9
London +71 22 £95,000 - 20
Work from Home -34 18 £67,500 -28.23% 13
South West -32 11 £70,576 -5.90%
South East 0 5 £52,500 -16.00% 8
Midlands -5 5 £86,485 +15.31%
West Midlands - 5 £86,485 -
North West -7 3 £65,000 -30.39% 1
North of England -7 3 £65,000 -30.89% 1

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 2 (3.92%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 31 (60.78%) AWS
2 25 (49.02%) Azure
3 22 (43.14%) Amazon EKS
4 18 (35.29%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (35.29%) Serverless
5 15 (29.41%) GCP
6 14 (27.45%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (25.49%) Amazon S3
8 12 (23.53%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (19.61%) GitHub
9 10 (19.61%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (9.80%) Azure AKS
11 5 (9.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (3.92%) Azure API Management
13 2 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (3.92%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (3.92%) Cloudflare
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (27.45%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (23.53%) DynamoDB
3 6 (11.76%) SQL Server
4 4 (7.84%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (7.84%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.92%) Redis
6 1 (1.96%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (45.10%) Git
2 10 (19.61%) Jenkins
3 8 (15.69%) git-flow
4 5 (9.80%) CircleCI
4 5 (9.80%) GitLab
4 5 (9.80%) Maven
4 5 (9.80%) Selenium
4 5 (9.80%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.96%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
General
1 24 (47.06%) Finance
2 23 (45.10%) Social Skills
3 16 (31.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (23.53%) Law
5 9 (17.65%) Banking
5 9 (17.65%) Public Sector
6 6 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (9.80%) Telecoms
8 4 (7.84%) Police
8 4 (7.84%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.96%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 31 (60.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (13.73%) Architect
4 6 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (9.80%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Consultant
5 5 (9.80%) Technical Consultant
6 4 (7.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (7.84%) Head of Test
7 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) DevOps Manager
8 2 (3.92%) Technical Architect
9 1 (1.96%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Architect
9 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Senior
9 1 (1.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.65%) .NET
2 7 (13.73%) Node.js
3 6 (11.76%) React
4 5 (9.80%) .NET Framework
4 5 (9.80%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (9.80%) YAML
5 4 (7.84%) ASP.NET
5 4 (7.84%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 2 (3.92%) Next.js
6 2 (3.92%) REST
6 2 (3.92%) RESTful
7 1 (1.96%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.96%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.61%) Virtual Team
2 6 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.80%) Management Information System
3 5 (9.80%) Mobile App
3 5 (9.80%) Onboarding
3 5 (9.80%) Private Cloud
3 5 (9.80%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.69%) Linux
2 1 (1.96%) CentOS
2 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) DevOps
2 33 (64.71%) Agile
2 33 (64.71%) CI/CD
3 24 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (41.18%) Test Automation
5 20 (39.22%) DevSecOps
6 18 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (31.37%) Project Delivery
8 13 (25.49%) Containerisation
8 13 (25.49%) Mentoring
9 12 (23.53%) Configuration Management
9 12 (23.53%) Secrets Management
10 11 (21.57%) Cloud Security
11 10 (19.61%) Collaborative Working
11 10 (19.61%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (19.61%) Deployment Automation
12 7 (13.73%) BDD
12 7 (13.73%) Continuous Delivery
12 7 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (13.73%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 24 (47.06%) Python
2 17 (33.33%) Go
3 16 (31.37%) JavaScript
4 9 (17.65%) C#
5 8 (15.69%) Bash
6 5 (9.80%) Java
6 5 (9.80%) PowerShell
6 5 (9.80%) Shell Script
6 5 (9.80%) SQL
7 4 (7.84%) VB
8 2 (3.92%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 23 (45.10%) AWS Certification
2 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 5 (9.80%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (9.80%) Degree
3 5 (9.80%) PCI QSA
4 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.92%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (13.73%) PCI DSS
2 5 (9.80%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (9.80%) GRC
3 4 (7.84%) NIST
3 4 (7.84%) QA
4 2 (3.92%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 22 (43.14%) Docker
2 5 (9.80%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 34 (66.67%) Terraform
2 25 (49.02%) Kubernetes
3 10 (19.61%) Ansible
4 6 (11.76%) Argo
5 5 (9.80%) Progress Chef
5 5 (9.80%) Puppet
6 2 (3.92%) Istio
7 1 (1.96%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (9.80%) Google
1 5 (9.80%) McAfee
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.88%) Veeam
3 1 (1.96%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.96%) VMware