GitLab Contracts in the North of England

GitLab
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 120 113
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 +18
Contract jobs citing GitLab 77 99 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.64% 1.73% 2.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.81% 12.60% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 76 109
10th Percentile £456 £506 £431
25th Percentile £498 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +11.11% +16.13%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £694 £688 £688
England median daily rate £575 £575 £586
% change year-on-year - -1.92% +17.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £40.14 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £40.95 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £42.30 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.84% - -
75th Percentile £61.25 £43.65 -
90th Percentile - £44.46 -
England median hourly rate £74.44 £42.30 £51.88
% change year-on-year +75.98% -18.46% +15.28%

All Development Application Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 487 786 1,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 10.38% 13.77% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 602 836
10th Percentile £368 £358 £361
25th Percentile £417 £438 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £578 £625 £575
90th Percentile £645 £700 £650
England median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 19
10th Percentile £38.38 £37.80 £37.10
25th Percentile £45.88 £42.01 £38.68
Median hourly rate £53.09 £51.00 £44.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% +14.15% +31.41%
75th Percentile £74.17 £56.10 £54.23
90th Percentile £80.82 £61.54 £61.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +9.31%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the North of England

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the North of England

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the North of England

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in the North of England

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
North West -5 50 £600 - 11
Yorkshire +35 22 £573 -11.92% 8
North East +11 5 £430 -21.82% 3
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 10 (12.99%) Confluence
2 3 (3.90%) nginx
3 2 (2.60%) Traefik
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 65 (84.42%) AWS
2 23 (29.87%) Azure
3 22 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
4 21 (27.27%) Amazon S3
5 19 (24.68%) GitHub
5 19 (24.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 12 (15.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (15.58%) Route 53
7 11 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (14.29%) GCP
8 10 (12.99%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (11.69%) Serverless
10 8 (10.39%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (10.39%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (7.79%) Apigee
11 6 (7.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (7.79%) Kong
12 4 (5.19%) Amazon ELB
12 4 (5.19%) AWS KMS
12 4 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.99%) DNS
2 8 (10.39%) TCP/IP
3 7 (9.09%) Firewall
4 6 (7.79%) HTTP
4 6 (7.79%) VPN
5 1 (1.30%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.08%) MongoDB
2 16 (20.78%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (7.79%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (6.49%) MySQL
5 4 (5.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (5.19%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.90%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.90%) Redis
7 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 28 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 22 (28.57%) Git
3 10 (12.99%) JIRA
4 8 (10.39%) webpack
5 7 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (9.09%) Travis CI
6 6 (7.79%) CircleCI
6 6 (7.79%) Cucumber
6 6 (7.79%) SonarQube
7 5 (6.49%) Bitbucket
7 5 (6.49%) JUnit
7 5 (6.49%) Selenium
8 4 (5.19%) AppScan
8 4 (5.19%) Burp Suite
8 4 (5.19%) Maven
9 2 (2.60%) Appium
9 2 (2.60%) Gradle
9 2 (2.60%) Mockito
10 1 (1.30%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.30%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (12.99%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.69%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.49%) Finance
5 3 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Retail
7 1 (1.30%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 30 (38.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (15.58%) Developer
3 10 (12.99%) Senior
4 9 (11.69%) Lead
4 9 (11.69%) Software Engineer
5 8 (10.39%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (10.39%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.79%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (7.79%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Site Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Node.js Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Technical Leader
9 3 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Operations Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Security Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (33.77%) Node.js
2 18 (23.38%) RESTful
3 11 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (11.69%) React
5 8 (10.39%) Express.js
5 8 (10.39%) JSON
5 8 (10.39%) Redux
5 8 (10.39%) YAML
6 6 (7.79%) XML
7 5 (6.49%) Spring
7 5 (6.49%) Spring Boot
8 4 (5.19%) pytest
9 3 (3.90%) SAML
9 3 (3.90%) WebdriverIO
10 2 (2.60%) cloud-init
10 2 (2.60%) Jest
10 2 (2.60%) OAuth
10 2 (2.60%) REST
10 2 (2.60%) Web Services
10 2 (2.60%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Data Structures
1 6 (7.79%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (6.49%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.60%) Clustering
5 2 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.60%) PKI
5 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.30%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.30%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (28.57%) Linux
2 8 (10.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (7.79%) CentOS
3 6 (7.79%) Unix
4 2 (2.60%) Alpine Linux
4 2 (2.60%) Windows
5 1 (1.30%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (83.12%) CI/CD
2 45 (58.44%) DevOps
3 40 (51.95%) Agile
4 34 (44.16%) Containerisation
5 22 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (27.27%) Microservices
7 20 (25.97%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (23.38%) Design Patterns
9 16 (20.78%) Scrum
10 14 (18.18%) API Development
10 14 (18.18%) Test Automation
11 13 (16.88%) Software Engineering
12 12 (15.58%) Configuration Management
13 11 (14.29%) Project Management
14 10 (12.99%) Full Stack Development
14 10 (12.99%) QA Automation
15 9 (11.69%) Continuous Deployment
15 9 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
16 8 (10.39%) Front End Development
16 8 (10.39%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (42.86%) Python
2 20 (25.97%) Bash
3 12 (15.58%) PowerShell
4 11 (14.29%) Java
5 6 (7.79%) Go
5 6 (7.79%) Ruby
6 3 (3.90%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.30%) Scala
7 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (37.66%) Security Cleared
2 21 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.90%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (27.27%) QA
2 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.60%) NCSC
2 2 (2.60%) NIST
2 2 (2.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (40.26%) Docker
2 3 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (72.73%) Terraform
2 42 (54.55%) Kubernetes
3 25 (32.47%) Ansible
4 20 (25.97%) Prometheus
5 17 (22.08%) Grafana
5 17 (22.08%) Puppet
6 11 (14.29%) Progress Chef
7 9 (11.69%) Docker Swarm
8 8 (10.39%) Kibana
9 7 (9.09%) Packer
10 6 (7.79%) logstash
11 4 (5.19%) Graylog
11 4 (5.19%) HP Fortify
11 4 (5.19%) Nessus
11 4 (5.19%) Rancher
11 4 (5.19%) WebInspect
12 3 (3.90%) Istio
13 2 (2.60%) linkerd
13 2 (2.60%) Podman
13 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (16.88%) Splunk
2 6 (7.79%) PagerDuty
3 4 (5.19%) Checkmarx
3 4 (5.19%) Veracode
4 3 (3.90%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.90%) VMware
5 2 (2.60%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.60%) Oracle
5 2 (2.60%) Perfecto Mobile
6 1 (1.30%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.30%) Zscaler