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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 401 566
Rank change year-on-year +96 +165 -69
Contract jobs citing GitOps 34 50 58
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.21% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.23% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 43 45
10th Percentile £426 £525 £431
25th Percentile £453 £581 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £665 £625
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +6.40% +10.62%
75th Percentile £598 £763 £688
90th Percentile £649 £798 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £725 £650
% change year-on-year -31.03% +11.54% +14.04%

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 12,810 21,394 40,150
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.31% 89.63% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,622 15,186 29,240
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 497 521
10th Percentile £14.90 £18.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £23.75 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +68.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £59.00
90th Percentile £74.40 £78.30 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

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 9 June 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 (14.71%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.88%) Confluence
2 2 (5.88%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 28 (82.35%) AWS
2 14 (41.18%) Azure
3 9 (26.47%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (20.59%) GitHub
4 7 (20.59%) OpenShift
5 6 (17.65%) GCP
5 6 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (14.71%) Snowflake
6 5 (14.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (11.76%) PaaS
8 3 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
8 3 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (8.82%) IaaS
8 3 (8.82%) Slack
9 2 (5.88%) AWS Control Tower
9 2 (5.88%) Azure AKS
9 2 (5.88%) Route 53
10 1 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) TCP/IP
2 3 (8.82%) Firewall
2 3 (8.82%) HTTP
3 2 (5.88%) Network Security
3 2 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (8.82%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Git
1 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.76%) GitLab
3 2 (5.88%) Snyk
3 2 (5.88%) SonarQube
3 2 (5.88%) Terragrunt
4 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
1 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Finance
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Banking
3 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Senior
2 9 (26.47%) AWS Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Senior DevOps
4 5 (14.71%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Snowflake Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (8.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Consultant
6 3 (8.82%) Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes Consultant
7 2 (5.88%) Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Network Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) Kafka
2 3 (8.82%) Akka
2 3 (8.82%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (8.82%) RESTful
3 2 (5.88%) Fluent Bit
3 2 (5.88%) Loki
4 1 (2.94%) JWT
4 1 (2.94%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (2.94%) LDAP
4 1 (2.94%) OAuth
4 1 (2.94%) OpenID
4 1 (2.94%) React
4 1 (2.94%) REST
4 1 (2.94%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.82%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (8.82%) PKI
3 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Linux
2 5 (14.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (94.12%) DevOps
2 13 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (32.35%) CI/CD
4 10 (29.41%) Agile
4 10 (29.41%) Containerisation
4 10 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
5 8 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (14.71%) Computer Science
7 5 (14.71%) Data Engineering
7 5 (14.71%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (14.71%) DataOps
7 5 (14.71%) Mentoring
7 5 (14.71%) Microservices
7 5 (14.71%) MLOps
8 4 (11.76%) Configuration Management
8 4 (11.76%) Fintech
8 4 (11.76%) ITSM
8 4 (11.76%) Open Source
8 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) Python
2 8 (23.53%) Scala
3 7 (20.59%) Bash
3 7 (20.59%) Java
4 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
5 3 (8.82%) Bicep
5 3 (8.82%) Perl
6 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.94%) C#
7 1 (2.94%) Go
7 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (11.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (41.18%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.88%) Squid
3 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (76.47%) Kubernetes
2 24 (70.59%) Terraform
3 9 (26.47%) Argo
4 8 (23.53%) Ansible
5 6 (17.65%) Grafana
5 6 (17.65%) Prometheus
6 3 (8.82%) Istio
6 3 (8.82%) Kustomize
7 2 (5.88%) HAProxy
7 2 (5.88%) Kibana
8 1 (2.94%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Databricks
2 3 (8.82%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco
3 2 (5.88%) Fortinet
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle
3 2 (5.88%) Palo Alto
3 2 (5.88%) VMware
4 1 (2.94%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.94%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.94%) Typelevel