GitLab Contracts in the North West

GitLab
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 71 94
Rank change year-on-year -16 +23 +4
Contract jobs citing GitLab 50 92 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.81% 2.86% 2.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.61% 21.85% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 68 67
10th Percentile £450 £496 £417
25th Percentile £500 £536 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +9.09% +23.60%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £638
90th Percentile £694 £691 £688
England median daily rate £575 £575 £585
% change year-on-year - -1.71% +17.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £40.68 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £42.30 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.44 £45.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year +65.42% -9.09% +16.47%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 301 421 583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 10.89% 13.10% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 325 457
10th Percentile £375 £325 £350
25th Percentile £430 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £594
90th Percentile £673 £654 £650
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 19
10th Percentile £40.52 £38.16 £37.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £42.81 £38.68
Median hourly rate £52.94 £49.88 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% +17.35% +25.00%
75th Percentile £74.63 £53.44 £49.09
90th Percentile £81.45 £56.38 £61.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.18 £50.50
% change year-on-year +6.25% +21.14% +6.38%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the North West

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the North West

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the North West

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in the North West

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Manchester -1 43 £588 -6.93% 8
Lancashire -1 5 £625 +2.04%
Cheshire +5 1 - -
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (8.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) nginx
2 2 (4.00%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 41 (82.00%) AWS
2 17 (34.00%) Amazon EC2
2 17 (34.00%) Amazon S3
3 14 (28.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 10 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (18.00%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (16.00%) Amazon ECR
6 8 (16.00%) Azure
6 8 (16.00%) Route 53
6 8 (16.00%) Serverless
7 7 (14.00%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (10.00%) GitHub
10 4 (8.00%) GCP
11 3 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (6.00%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (4.00%) Azure Storage
12 2 (4.00%) BrowserStack
12 2 (4.00%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) DNS
2 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.00%) MongoDB
2 9 (18.00%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (6.00%) NoSQL
5 3 (6.00%) Redis
6 1 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.00%) MySQL
6 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (26.00%) Git
2 10 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (16.00%) webpack
4 5 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 5 (10.00%) JIRA
5 4 (8.00%) Bitbucket
5 4 (8.00%) JUnit
5 4 (8.00%) Selenium
6 3 (6.00%) Maven
7 2 (4.00%) Appium
7 2 (4.00%) Mockito
8 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.00%) GoCD
8 1 (2.00%) Gradle
8 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.00%) TestCafe
8 1 (2.00%) Travis CI
8 1 (2.00%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (18.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.00%) Finance
4 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Retail
5 1 (2.00%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (22.00%) Developer
3 10 (20.00%) Senior
4 9 (18.00%) Software Engineer
5 7 (14.00%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (14.00%) Java Developer
5 7 (14.00%) Lead
6 6 (12.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Node.js Developer
7 4 (8.00%) Technical Leader
8 3 (6.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) QA Automation Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) QA Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (50.00%) Node.js
2 17 (34.00%) RESTful
3 8 (16.00%) Express.js
3 8 (16.00%) React
3 8 (16.00%) Redux
4 4 (8.00%) pytest
4 4 (8.00%) Spring
4 4 (8.00%) Spring Boot
5 3 (6.00%) WebdriverIO
6 2 (4.00%) cloud-init
6 2 (4.00%) Kafka
6 2 (4.00%) SAML
6 2 (4.00%) WireMock
6 2 (4.00%) YAML
7 1 (2.00%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (2.00%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.00%) AWS SAM
7 1 (2.00%) JMS
7 1 (2.00%) JSON
7 1 (2.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.00%) Clustering
2 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.00%) PKI
2 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.00%) Linux
2 4 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.00%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (4.00%) CentOS
4 1 (2.00%) Unix
4 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 26 (52.00%) Agile
3 21 (42.00%) Containerisation
3 21 (42.00%) DevOps
3 21 (42.00%) Microservices
4 18 (36.00%) Design Patterns
5 13 (26.00%) Test Automation
6 12 (24.00%) Software Engineering
7 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (20.00%) QA Automation
8 9 (18.00%) Full Stack Development
9 8 (16.00%) API Development
9 8 (16.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 8 (16.00%) Customer Engagement
9 8 (16.00%) End-to-End Testing
9 8 (16.00%) ETL
9 8 (16.00%) Front End Development
10 7 (14.00%) Configuration Management
11 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Management
12 5 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.00%) Python
2 9 (18.00%) Java
3 6 (12.00%) Bash
4 5 (10.00%) Go
4 5 (10.00%) Ruby
5 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.00%) C
6 1 (2.00%) C++
6 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (38.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (6.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.00%) NCSC
2 2 (4.00%) NIST
2 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (32.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (68.00%) Terraform
2 24 (48.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (20.00%) Ansible
4 5 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (8.00%) Grafana
6 2 (4.00%) Consul
6 2 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (4.00%) Graphite
6 2 (4.00%) HAProxy
6 2 (4.00%) Istio
6 2 (4.00%) linkerd
6 2 (4.00%) Packer
6 2 (4.00%) Podman
6 2 (4.00%) Puppet
6 2 (4.00%) ZABBIX
7 1 (2.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (6.00%) PagerDuty
2 2 (4.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (4.00%) Perfecto Mobile
2 2 (4.00%) Splunk
2 2 (4.00%) VMware
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft