GitLab Contracts in the Thames Valley

GitLab
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 108 124 156
Rank change year-on-year +16 +32 -49
Contract jobs citing GitLab 34 26 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.27% 0.89% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.23% 7.95% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 5
10th Percentile £585 £420 £394
25th Percentile £619 £481 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year +19.27% +3.81% +38.16%
75th Percentile £688 £620 £633
90th Percentile £720 £623 £737
South East median daily rate £593 £590 £613
% change year-on-year +0.42% -3.67% +47.59%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 257 327 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.60% 11.13% 10.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 219 267
10th Percentile £328 £363 £333
25th Percentile £422 £427 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +11.58% +11.76%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £575
90th Percentile £688 £701 £650
South East median daily rate £538 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 3
10th Percentile - £53.13 £55.35
25th Percentile £46.25 £55.94 £58.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.25 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -6.49% +31.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.94 £67.25
90th Percentile - £68.38 £67.85
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £56.24 £55.00
% change year-on-year +11.14% +2.25% +19.57%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the Thames Valley

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the Thames Valley

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the Thames Valley

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in the Thames Valley

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +7 29 £663 +21.56% 3
Oxfordshire 0 5 £600 - 1
GitLab
South East

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 11 (32.35%) Apache
1 11 (32.35%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.88%) Confluence
2 2 (5.88%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) AWS
2 14 (41.18%) Azure
3 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.94%) Azure AKS
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.94%) GCP
4 1 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (2.94%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 11 (32.35%) BGP
1 11 (32.35%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (32.35%) MPLS
1 11 (32.35%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (32.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (41.18%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (38.24%) MongoDB
3 11 (32.35%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 26 (76.47%) JIRA
2 14 (41.18%) Jenkins
3 13 (38.24%) Cucumber
3 13 (38.24%) Selenium
4 12 (35.29%) REST Assured
4 12 (35.29%) SonarQube
5 11 (32.35%) Robot Framework
5 11 (32.35%) TestRail
6 1 (2.94%) Spinnaker
General
1 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 13 (38.24%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (26.47%) Law
4 8 (23.53%) Police
5 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Network Engineer
1 10 (29.41%) Test Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Senior
3 6 (17.65%) Java Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Java Software Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Administrator
4 5 (14.71%) Senior Java Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Java Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (8.82%) Architect
6 3 (8.82%) IT Administrator
6 3 (8.82%) Java Technical Architect
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (70.59%) REST
2 13 (38.24%) Java EE
3 12 (35.29%) ARM Templates
4 11 (32.35%) NETCONF
4 11 (32.35%) RESTCONF
4 11 (32.35%) SOAP
4 11 (32.35%) YANG
5 3 (8.82%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.94%) Django
6 1 (2.94%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.88%) Unix
3 2 (5.88%) VMS
4 1 (2.94%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (76.47%) Containerisation
1 26 (76.47%) Test Automation
2 15 (44.12%) Configuration Management
2 15 (44.12%) Continuous Integration
2 15 (44.12%) DevOps
2 15 (44.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 13 (38.24%) Agile
4 13 (38.24%) Decision-Making
4 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (38.24%) Software Architecture
4 13 (38.24%) Software Engineering
4 13 (38.24%) Technical Leadership
5 11 (32.35%) Integration Testing
5 11 (32.35%) Performance Testing
5 11 (32.35%) Regression Testing
5 11 (32.35%) Scrum
5 11 (32.35%) Security Testing
5 11 (32.35%) Unit Testing
5 11 (32.35%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) Java
1 13 (38.24%) Python
2 11 (32.35%) SQL
3 2 (5.88%) Bash
3 2 (5.88%) Go
3 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (47.06%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) HNC
System Software
1 25 (73.53%) Docker
2 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.88%) vSphere
4 1 (2.94%) NFS
Systems Management
1 18 (52.94%) Kubernetes
2 17 (50.00%) Ansible
2 17 (50.00%) Terraform
3 12 (35.29%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (35.29%) Podman
4 2 (5.88%) Grafana
4 2 (5.88%) Kibana
4 2 (5.88%) Packer
4 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.88%) Rancher
4 2 (5.88%) vRealize
5 1 (2.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) VMware
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle
2 2 (5.88%) Red Hat
2 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow