Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

gitops

298 live US technical postings name gitops in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 298 postings naming gitops that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer57.7%
  2. 2Software Engineer31.9%
  3. 3Security Engineer5%
  4. 4Data Engineer2.3%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer1%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where gitops is named
n = 180
10th
$145k
25th
$170k
Median
$193k
75th
$216k
90th
$256k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote21.1%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA9.4%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA8.4%
  4. 4New York, NY5.4%
  5. 5Seattle, WA5%
  6. 6Washington, DC3.4%
  7. 7Boston, MA3%
  8. 8Austin, TX2%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.