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GitOps salary: $208K median

The median advertised GitOps salary is $208K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $178K to $240K: counted from 185 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $100 an hour or $17,292 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $290K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.

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$208Kmedian advertised salary
$178K – $240Kmiddle half of roles
$214Kaverage advertised salary
185roles counted

GitOps salary by level

Lead roles advertise a median of $244K, 27% more than senior roles ($193K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.

LevelMedian salaryMiddle halfRoles
Senior$193K$178K–$218K81
Lead and above$244K$220K–$290K36
No level in the title$197K$165K–$240K68

GitOps salary by location

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area$236K74
🇺🇸California$220K101
🇺🇸New York, NY$212K23
🇺🇸Seattle, WA$212K17
🇺🇸United States$208K176

Skills that pay more for GitOps roles

SkillMedian with itAbove the medianPostings
Machine Learning$240K+$33K18
Istio$230K+$22K25
LLM$224K+$16K38
Rust$222K+$14K41
IAM$222K+$14K32

Top-paying companies

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
OpenAI$399K4
Anthropic$342K3
Lambda$321K4
Roblox$280K4
Together AI$268K4
EarnIn$254K3
Baseten$248K3
LangChain$220K5
Docker$217K4
CoreWeave$212K6
Anduril Industries$194K16
True Anomaly$194K8
Elastic$193K4
Very Good Security$191K8
SpaceX$185K3
xAI$177K4
RapidFort, Inc.$165K3
Span.app$150K3

Highest-paying open GitOps roles

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Questions about GitOps pay

What is the average GitOps salary?
$214K a year on average and $208K at the median, across 185 open GitOps postings at companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
What is the typical range?
The middle half of the postings offer $178K to $240K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
Which companies advertise the highest GitOps pay?
OpenAI ($399K), Anthropic ($342K), Lambda ($321K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
Is a gitops a high-paying job?
The median GitOps posting advertises $208K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 19% above the middle of the market.
How much can you earn as a gitops?
A tenth of the postings offer $290K a year or more; the highest open GitOps role advertises up to $490K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
What is the GitOps salary per hour and per month?
The median of $208K a year is about $100 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $17,292 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $85 to $115 an hour.
Which skills pay more for GitOps roles?
Postings that ask for Machine Learning (+$33K, 18 postings), Istio (+$22K, 25 postings), LLM (+$16K, 38 postings) advertise more than the $208K median of all GitOps postings with pay.
Where do these figures come from?
From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.

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