GitLab Contracts in England

GitLab
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GitLab skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GitLab over the 6 months to 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 237 160
Rank change year-on-year +23 -77 +116
Contract jobs citing GitLab 408 504 1,243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.10% 1.07% 1.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.40% 7.52% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 327 840
10th Percentile £363 £435 £463
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.66% -1.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £716 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 6
10th Percentile £57.65 - £42.24
25th Percentile £61.88 - £44.79
Median hourly rate £74.44 £39.60 £51.88
Median % change year-on-year +87.98% -23.66% +31.33%
75th Percentile £76.25 - £56.69
90th Percentile £77.50 - £59.06
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £51.88
% change year-on-year +76.77% -23.66% +17.23%

All Development Application Skills
England

GitLab is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,342 6,705 12,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.75% 14.28% 17.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,928 4,785 8,971
10th Percentile £350 £369 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 194 179
10th Percentile £31.71 £46.20 £38.20
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +23.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £84.26 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +6.63%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in England

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in England.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in England

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in England over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in England

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in England.

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in England

GitLab
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitLab in England over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GitLab in England

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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
London +6 212 £573 -4.58% 65
South East +56 68 £593 +0.42% 13
North of England +17 68 £550 -8.33% 16
North West 0 39 £545 -9.17% 12
Yorkshire +29 23 £574 +9.29% 2
South West +6 19 £543 +24.00% 24
Midlands +3 14 £449 -16.85% 15
East Midlands +16 9 £449 - 7
North East +7 6 £430 -28.33% 2
West Midlands -7 5 £388 -28.24% 8
East of England +3 4 £250 -61.54% 9
GitLab
UK

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 60 (14.71%) Confluence
2 26 (6.37%) Apache
3 12 (2.94%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (2.45%) nginx
6 4 (0.98%) Luigi
7 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.74%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.49%) IIS
8 2 (0.49%) Traefik
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.25%) SAS
9 1 (0.25%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.25%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) CPLEX
1 1 (0.25%) InfoPath
1 1 (0.25%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.49%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.49%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.49%) Front Arena
2 2 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.49%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 193 (47.30%) AWS
2 133 (32.60%) Azure
3 90 (22.06%) GitHub
4 59 (14.46%) GCP
5 48 (11.76%) Serverless
6 47 (11.52%) Amazon S3
7 45 (11.03%) Amazon EC2
8 38 (9.31%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (8.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 29 (7.11%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (5.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (5.39%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (4.41%) Amazon SQS
14 18 (4.41%) OpenShift
14 18 (4.41%) Route 53
15 16 (3.92%) Power Platform
16 15 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
17 14 (3.43%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.39%) VPN
2 21 (5.15%) DNS
3 20 (4.90%) Firewall
4 18 (4.41%) HTTP
5 12 (2.94%) TCP/IP
6 9 (2.21%) BGP
6 9 (2.21%) Ethernet VPN
6 9 (2.21%) MPLS
7 8 (1.96%) Radio Access Network
8 5 (1.23%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.98%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.74%) BIG-IP
10 3 (0.74%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (0.74%) Internet
10 3 (0.74%) SNMP
10 3 (0.74%) SSL
11 2 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.49%) SAN
12 1 (0.25%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 28 (6.86%) SQL Server
4 27 (6.62%) MongoDB
5 23 (5.64%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (5.64%) MySQL
6 18 (4.41%) Relational Database
7 17 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (3.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (3.19%) Power BI
10 9 (2.21%) RDBMS
11 7 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (1.72%) Redis
11 7 (1.72%) Triplestore
12 6 (1.47%) Couchbase
13 5 (1.23%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.49%) Apache Hive
14 2 (0.49%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.49%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 174 (42.65%) Jenkins
2 94 (23.04%) JIRA
3 73 (17.89%) Git
4 37 (9.07%) Cucumber
5 26 (6.37%) Selenium
5 26 (6.37%) SonarQube
6 21 (5.15%) Cypress.io
7 19 (4.66%) JUnit
8 17 (4.17%) CircleCI
8 17 (4.17%) Travis CI
9 16 (3.92%) Artifactory
10 15 (3.68%) Mockito
10 15 (3.68%) Postman
11 14 (3.43%) JMeter
11 14 (3.43%) REST Assured
12 13 (3.19%) Appium
12 13 (3.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 11 (2.70%) Robot Framework
14 10 (2.45%) Maven
15 9 (2.21%) webpack
General
1 100 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 63 (15.44%) Finance
3 56 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (8.58%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.62%) Banking
6 15 (3.68%) Front Office
7 13 (3.19%) Law
8 8 (1.96%) Police
9 7 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.23%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.74%) Retail
12 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.49%) Legal
12 2 (0.49%) Marketing
12 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.25%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.25%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 131 (32.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (19.36%) Developer
3 45 (11.03%) Senior
4 30 (7.35%) AWS DevOps
5 28 (6.86%) AWS Engineer
5 28 (6.86%) Java Developer
6 25 (6.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 24 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
8 22 (5.39%) Lead
9 20 (4.90%) Senior Developer
10 18 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
10 18 (4.41%) Tester
11 17 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (3.92%) Senior Java Developer
13 14 (3.43%) Software Engineer
14 13 (3.19%) Architect
14 13 (3.19%) Senior DevOps
15 12 (2.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 12 (2.94%) Data Engineer
15 12 (2.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (13.24%) REST
2 36 (8.82%) React
3 31 (7.60%) Node.js
4 26 (6.37%) Elastic Stack
5 25 (6.13%) Spring Boot
6 24 (5.88%) Kafka
7 22 (5.39%) YAML
8 19 (4.66%) HTML
8 19 (4.66%) JSON
9 16 (3.92%) CSS
9 16 (3.92%) Spring
9 16 (3.92%) WebdriverIO
10 15 (3.68%) ARM Templates
11 14 (3.43%) Apache NiFi
11 14 (3.43%) Java EE
11 14 (3.43%) SOAP
12 13 (3.19%) Middleware
13 12 (2.94%) GraphQL
13 12 (2.94%) Redux
14 11 (2.70%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.35%) Linux Command Line
2 19 (4.66%) Public Cloud
3 16 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 12 (2.94%) Clustering
4 12 (2.94%) Credit Derivative
5 10 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.21%) Replication
7 8 (1.96%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.47%) PKI
10 5 (1.23%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.23%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.98%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.98%) Grid Computing
11 4 (0.98%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.98%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.74%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 144 (35.29%) Linux
2 41 (10.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 33 (8.09%) Windows
4 28 (6.86%) Unix
5 13 (3.19%) Windows Server
6 11 (2.70%) VMS
7 8 (1.96%) CentOS
8 4 (0.98%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.98%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.25%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.25%) Solaris
9 1 (0.25%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 260 (63.73%) DevOps
3 151 (37.01%) Agile
4 138 (33.82%) Containerisation
5 127 (31.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 88 (21.57%) Test Automation
7 84 (20.59%) Continuous Integration
8 74 (18.14%) Scrum
9 60 (14.71%) Configuration Management
10 58 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
11 56 (13.73%) Software Engineering
12 53 (12.99%) Microservices
13 43 (10.54%) Platform Engineering
14 31 (7.60%) Computer Science
14 31 (7.60%) DevSecOps
14 31 (7.60%) Full Stack Development
15 30 (7.35%) SDLC
15 30 (7.35%) Task Automation
16 26 (6.37%) Kanban
16 26 (6.37%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 156 (38.24%) Python
2 82 (20.10%) Java
3 74 (18.14%) Bash
4 68 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 66 (16.18%) JavaScript
6 50 (12.25%) SQL
7 34 (8.33%) Go
8 32 (7.84%) C#
9 21 (5.15%) Shell Script
10 11 (2.70%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.96%) Ruby
12 7 (1.72%) Bicep
12 7 (1.72%) Groovy
12 7 (1.72%) SPARQL
13 5 (1.23%) Perl
13 5 (1.23%) PHP
14 4 (0.98%) C++
14 4 (0.98%) Scala
15 3 (0.74%) ActionScript
15 3 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 162 (39.71%) Security Cleared
2 135 (33.09%) SC Cleared
3 38 (9.31%) DV Cleared
4 32 (7.84%) Degree
5 23 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.45%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.21%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.25%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.25%) HNC
11 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.25%) RHCE
11 1 (0.25%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (12.99%) QA
2 4 (0.98%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.49%) NCSC
3 2 (0.49%) NIST
4 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.25%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.25%) MISRA
4 1 (0.25%) MISRA C
System Software
1 155 (37.99%) Docker
2 23 (5.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (4.41%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (3.92%) vSphere
5 11 (2.70%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.96%) Active Directory
7 2 (0.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.49%) NFS
7 2 (0.49%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.25%) Ceph
8 1 (0.25%) HDFS
8 1 (0.25%) LXC
Systems Management
1 211 (51.72%) Terraform
2 195 (47.79%) Kubernetes
3 157 (38.48%) Ansible
4 45 (11.03%) Grafana
4 45 (11.03%) Prometheus
5 30 (7.35%) Puppet
6 25 (6.13%) Docker Swarm
7 22 (5.39%) Progress Chef
8 19 (4.66%) Packer
9 16 (3.92%) Podman
10 13 (3.19%) Kibana
11 12 (2.94%) Red Hat Satellite
12 9 (2.21%) logstash
13 8 (1.96%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 8 (1.96%) Rancher
13 8 (1.96%) vRealize
14 7 (1.72%) Graylog
14 7 (1.72%) Istio
14 7 (1.72%) SCCM
15 6 (1.47%) SCOM
Vendors
1 47 (11.52%) Microsoft
2 46 (11.27%) Oracle
3 40 (9.80%) VMware
4 33 (8.09%) Splunk
5 31 (7.60%) Red Hat
6 22 (5.39%) Google
7 10 (2.45%) Atlassian
8 9 (2.21%) SolarWinds
9 8 (1.96%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.72%) PagerDuty
11 6 (1.47%) Checkmarx
11 6 (1.47%) Veracode
12 5 (1.23%) Arqiva
12 5 (1.23%) Databricks
12 5 (1.23%) IBM
12 5 (1.23%) Veritas
13 4 (0.98%) Confluent
13 4 (0.98%) Palo Alto
14 3 (0.74%) BigPanda
14 3 (0.74%) F5