GitOps Contracts

GitOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring GitOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitOps over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 462 565 743
Rank change year-on-year +103 +178 -47
Contract jobs citing GitOps 123 132 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.27% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 120 74
10th Percentile £379 £500 £496
25th Percentile £440 £588 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +11.54% +14.04%
75th Percentile £575 £800 £738
90th Percentile £625 £850 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -29.23% - +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £46.18 £43.34 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.55% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £43.34 -
% change year-on-year +6.55% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

GitOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 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 12 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
England +72 101 £500 -32.43% 30
London +63 56 £550 -26.67% 22
UK excluding London +30 54 £460 -29.23% 3
Work from Home +101 35 £500 -24.81% 22
South East +27 23 £485 -33.10% 1
North of England +12 13 £448 -42.26% 1
Scotland +47 11 £453 -31.98%
North East +2 9 - -
South West +4 8 £563 -4.26% 1
North West +19 7 £448 -28.40% 1
East of England +5 1 £375 -25.00%

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 (8.94%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (8.13%) Confluence
3 3 (2.44%) nginx
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 92 (74.80%) AWS
2 45 (36.59%) GCP
3 38 (30.89%) Azure
4 32 (26.02%) OpenShift
5 16 (13.01%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (9.76%) GitHub
6 12 (9.76%) Snowflake
7 11 (8.94%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (8.94%) Amazon S3
8 10 (8.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (6.50%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (6.50%) PaaS
10 7 (5.69%) Route 53
11 4 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.44%) AWS KMS
12 3 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (2.44%) IaaS
12 3 (2.44%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 35 (28.46%) HTTP
2 6 (4.88%) VPN
3 5 (4.07%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.44%) Firewall
5 2 (1.63%) DNS
5 2 (1.63%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.63%) Network Security
5 2 (1.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (23.58%) Apache Cassandra
2 19 (15.45%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (12.20%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (6.50%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.25%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 23 (18.70%) Git
2 13 (10.57%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.50%) Bitbucket
4 7 (5.69%) JIRA
5 4 (3.25%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.25%) GitLab
6 3 (2.44%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.63%) JUnit
7 2 (1.63%) Snyk
7 2 (1.63%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.81%) PVCS
General
1 9 (7.32%) Finance
2 8 (6.50%) Public Sector
3 5 (4.07%) Social Skills
4 2 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.63%) Banking
4 2 (1.63%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.81%) Advertising
5 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.81%) Law
Job Titles
1 36 (29.27%) Developer
2 33 (26.83%) Scala Developer
3 19 (15.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (15.45%) Site Engineer
3 19 (15.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 14 (11.38%) Senior
5 12 (9.76%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (9.76%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (7.32%) Architect
7 8 (6.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) Lead
7 8 (6.50%) Snowflake Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (4.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (4.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (44.72%) Kafka
2 36 (29.27%) RESTful
3 35 (28.46%) Akka
4 9 (7.32%) PyTorch
4 9 (7.32%) TensorFlow
5 4 (3.25%) .NET
5 4 (3.25%) .NET Framework
5 4 (3.25%) Loki
5 4 (3.25%) ModSecurity
5 4 (3.25%) YAML
6 3 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.44%) React
6 3 (2.44%) REST
7 2 (1.63%) Bazel
7 2 (1.63%) Fluent Bit
7 2 (1.63%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.63%) JPA
7 2 (1.63%) Spring
7 2 (1.63%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.63%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.57%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.69%) PKI
4 4 (3.25%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.25%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.25%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.44%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.63%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.63%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.63%) Replication
7 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.38%) Linux
2 5 (4.07%) Windows
3 4 (3.25%) Unix
4 2 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (90.24%) DevOps
2 55 (44.72%) Agile
3 52 (42.28%) Microservices
4 42 (34.15%) Machine Learning
5 37 (30.08%) TDD
6 35 (28.46%) Pair Programming
7 29 (23.58%) Personalization
8 27 (21.95%) Clean Code
9 26 (21.14%) Containerisation
10 25 (20.33%) Software Engineering
11 23 (18.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (18.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 21 (17.07%) CI/CD
13 19 (15.45%) ITSM
14 18 (14.63%) Coaching
14 18 (14.63%) Task Automation
15 17 (13.82%) Computer Science
16 15 (12.20%) Platform Engineering
17 14 (11.38%) Infrastructure Automation
18 13 (10.57%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 46 (37.40%) Scala
2 37 (30.08%) Python
3 16 (13.01%) Java
4 9 (7.32%) Bash
4 9 (7.32%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.07%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.44%) Bicep
6 3 (2.44%) Perl
7 2 (1.63%) Go
7 2 (1.63%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.81%) C#
8 1 (0.81%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.81%) SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (41.46%) Security Cleared
2 49 (39.84%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.07%) Degree
4 4 (3.25%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.88%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (31.71%) Docker
2 4 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.25%) VMware NSX
3 3 (2.44%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.63%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.63%) Squid
Systems Management
1 107 (86.99%) Kubernetes
2 45 (36.59%) Terraform
3 32 (26.02%) Grafana
4 25 (20.33%) Prometheus
5 24 (19.51%) Istio
6 23 (18.70%) Argo
7 15 (12.20%) Ansible
7 15 (12.20%) Kibana
8 5 (4.07%) Packer
9 4 (3.25%) Kustomize
9 4 (3.25%) OPNET
9 4 (3.25%) PowerCLI
10 2 (1.63%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.81%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (17.07%) Typelevel
2 18 (14.63%) Microsoft
3 12 (9.76%) Databricks
4 10 (8.13%) VMware
5 9 (7.32%) Red Hat
6 7 (5.69%) Google
7 6 (4.88%) Cisco
8 4 (3.25%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.63%) Confluent
9 2 (1.63%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.63%) Oracle
9 2 (1.63%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.81%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.81%) Ping Identity