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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 856 824 919
Rank change year-on-year -32 +95 -26
Permanent jobs citing GitOps 49 122 355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.13% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.13% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 34 91 69
10th Percentile £51,150 £61,180 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +1.59%
75th Percentile £86,485 £117,236 £100,000
90th Percentile £101,500 - £106,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £75,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.90% +42.86% -43.24%

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 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 2 June 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 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -3 45 £75,000 -6.25% 20
London +87 23 £92,500 +4.23% 13
UK excluding London -90 22 £70,576 -5.90% 6
Work from Home -19 16 £65,000 -13.33% 11
South West -32 9 £75,000 - 1
Midlands -7 5 £86,485 +15.31% 1
South East -16 5 £52,500 -16.00% 2
West Midlands - 5 £86,485 - 1
North of England -4 3 £65,000 -28.78% 1
North West -20 3 £65,000 -23.53% 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 (4.08%) CMS
2 1 (2.04%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 32 (65.31%) AWS
2 24 (48.98%) Azure
3 21 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
4 17 (34.69%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (34.69%) Serverless
5 14 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (28.57%) GCP
6 13 (26.53%) Amazon S3
7 11 (22.45%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (14.29%) Azure AKS
8 7 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (14.29%) GitHub
8 7 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (4.08%) Azure API Management
10 2 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (4.08%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (4.08%) Cloudflare
10 2 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (22.45%) DynamoDB
3 6 (12.24%) SQL Server
4 4 (8.16%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (8.16%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.08%) Redis
6 1 (2.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 20 (40.82%) Git
2 8 (16.33%) Jenkins
3 7 (14.29%) git-flow
4 4 (8.16%) CircleCI
4 4 (8.16%) GitLab
5 3 (6.12%) Maven
5 3 (6.12%) Selenium
5 3 (6.12%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.04%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
General
1 23 (46.94%) Finance
1 23 (46.94%) Social Skills
2 17 (34.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (22.45%) Law
4 9 (18.37%) Banking
5 8 (16.33%) Public Sector
6 6 (12.24%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (12.24%) Retail Banking
7 5 (10.20%) Telecoms
8 4 (8.16%) Police
9 1 (2.04%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 28 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (30.61%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (16.33%) Architect
4 6 (12.24%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (10.20%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (10.20%) Consultant
5 5 (10.20%) Technical Consultant
6 4 (8.16%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Head of Test
7 3 (6.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) DevOps Manager
8 2 (4.08%) Senior
8 2 (4.08%) Technical Architect
9 1 (2.04%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Platform Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Site Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.37%) .NET
2 7 (14.29%) Node.js
3 6 (12.24%) React
4 5 (10.20%) .NET Framework
4 5 (10.20%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (10.20%) YAML
5 4 (8.16%) ASP.NET
5 4 (8.16%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 2 (4.08%) Next.js
6 2 (4.08%) REST
6 2 (4.08%) RESTful
7 1 (2.04%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.04%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 5 (10.20%) Mobile App
4 4 (8.16%) Management Information System
4 4 (8.16%) Onboarding
5 3 (6.12%) Private Cloud
5 3 (6.12%) Public Cloud
6 2 (4.08%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.04%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Linux
2 1 (2.04%) CentOS
2 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (65.31%) CI/CD
3 30 (61.22%) Agile
4 24 (48.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (42.86%) DevSecOps
6 18 (36.73%) Test Automation
7 17 (34.69%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (30.61%) Project Delivery
9 12 (24.49%) Containerisation
9 12 (24.49%) Mentoring
10 11 (22.45%) Cloud Security
10 11 (22.45%) Configuration Management
10 11 (22.45%) Secrets Management
11 9 (18.37%) Asset Management
12 8 (16.33%) Use Case
13 7 (14.29%) Coaching
13 7 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
13 7 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
13 7 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (48.98%) Python
2 14 (28.57%) Go
2 14 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 9 (18.37%) C#
4 7 (14.29%) Bash
5 6 (12.24%) PowerShell
6 5 (10.20%) SQL
7 4 (8.16%) Shell Script
7 4 (8.16%) VB
8 3 (6.12%) Java
9 2 (4.08%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (48.98%) AWS Certification
2 5 (10.20%) Degree
2 5 (10.20%) PCI QSA
2 5 (10.20%) SC Cleared
2 5 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.08%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 6 (12.24%) NIST
3 5 (10.20%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (10.20%) GRC
4 4 (8.16%) QA
5 2 (4.08%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 21 (42.86%) Docker
2 4 (8.16%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.12%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (67.35%) Terraform
2 23 (46.94%) Kubernetes
3 8 (16.33%) Ansible
4 4 (8.16%) Argo
5 3 (6.12%) Progress Chef
5 3 (6.12%) Puppet
6 2 (4.08%) Grafana
6 2 (4.08%) Istio
7 1 (2.04%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.04%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (8.16%) Google
1 4 (8.16%) McAfee
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.12%) Veeam
3 2 (4.08%) VMware
4 1 (2.04%) Red Hat