GitLab Contracts in the UK excluding London

GitLab
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 198 210 190
Rank change year-on-year +12 -20 +52
Contract jobs citing GitLab 202 275 411
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.98% 1.17% 1.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.09% 8.30% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 205 269
10th Percentile £424 £463 £427
25th Percentile £465 £500 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% - +13.68%
75th Percentile £631 £619 £638
90th Percentile £691 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £558 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -3.04% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile £57.38 £40.68 £20.75
25th Percentile £62.19 £42.30 £28.88
Median hourly rate £74.44 £45.00 £46.20
Median % change year-on-year +65.42% -2.60% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76.74 £49.38 £51.88
90th Percentile £77.50 £52.00 £55.55
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £39.60 £47.85
% change year-on-year +72.27% -17.24% +6.33%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,222 3,314 4,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.83% 14.10% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 2,344 3,209
10th Percentile £350 £350 £362
25th Percentile £413 £420 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.42%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 177 104
10th Percentile £40.94 £45.75 £37.55
25th Percentile £55.75 £52.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +12.33% +21.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £81.75 £78.00 £68.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the UK excluding London

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the UK excluding London

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the UK excluding London

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in the UK excluding London

GitLab
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitLab in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GitLab in the UK excluding London

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the UK excluding London 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 of England +11 77 £575 -4.17% 22
South East +41 68 £598 +3.46% 26
North West -5 50 £600 - 11
Yorkshire +35 22 £573 -11.92% 8
Scotland +28 21 £463 -7.50%
South West +14 15 £550 +25.71% 14
Wales +24 10 £545 +11.79% 1
North East +11 5 £430 -21.82% 3
East of England +1 5 £250 -56.52% 9
Midlands -29 5 £475 -12.04% 13
West Midlands -32 4 £388 -28.24% 8
East Midlands +17 1 £520 - 5
Northern Ireland +3 1 £640 -1.54% 2
GitLab
UK

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 23 (11.39%) Confluence
2 16 (7.92%) Apache
3 12 (5.94%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.49%) CMS
4 3 (1.49%) nginx
5 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.99%) Traefik
6 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.50%) SAS
6 1 (0.50%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.50%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) InfoPath
1 1 (0.50%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (3.47%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 120 (59.41%) AWS
2 52 (25.74%) Azure
3 49 (24.26%) GitHub
4 35 (17.33%) Amazon S3
5 31 (15.35%) Amazon EC2
6 24 (11.88%) Serverless
7 22 (10.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (10.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 21 (10.40%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (7.92%) GCP
9 16 (7.92%) Route 53
10 15 (7.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (7.43%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (6.44%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (5.45%) AWS CodePipeline
12 11 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (4.95%) Amazon ECR
13 10 (4.95%) OpenShift
14 9 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (3.96%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.42%) VPN
2 12 (5.94%) DNS
3 11 (5.45%) BGP
3 11 (5.45%) Ethernet VPN
3 11 (5.45%) MPLS
3 11 (5.45%) Radio Access Network
4 10 (4.95%) Firewall
5 8 (3.96%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.47%) HTTP
7 3 (1.49%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.99%) SAN
9 1 (0.50%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.50%) Internet
9 1 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.50%) Network Security
9 1 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (21.78%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (19.80%) MongoDB
3 22 (10.89%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (10.89%) NoSQL
4 19 (9.41%) MySQL
4 19 (9.41%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.94%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (5.45%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.97%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (2.97%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.48%) Couchbase
10 3 (1.49%) InfluxDB
10 3 (1.49%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.49%) Redis
11 2 (0.99%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.99%) DB2
11 2 (0.99%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.99%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 67 (33.17%) Jenkins
2 54 (26.73%) JIRA
3 41 (20.30%) Git
4 22 (10.89%) SonarQube
5 20 (9.90%) Cucumber
5 20 (9.90%) Selenium
6 13 (6.44%) REST Assured
7 12 (5.94%) Cypress.io
7 12 (5.94%) Robot Framework
8 11 (5.45%) Artifactory
8 11 (5.45%) TestRail
9 10 (4.95%) Travis CI
10 8 (3.96%) Bitbucket
10 8 (3.96%) CircleCI
10 8 (3.96%) webpack
11 7 (3.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (3.47%) Postman
12 6 (2.97%) JUnit
13 5 (2.48%) AppScan
13 5 (2.48%) Burp Suite
General
1 34 (16.83%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.90%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.94%) Law
5 10 (4.95%) Finance
6 8 (3.96%) Police
7 5 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.99%) Banking
8 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.50%) Aviation
9 1 (0.50%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Legal
9 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.50%) Marketing
9 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Retail
9 1 (0.50%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 53 (26.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (19.80%) Developer
3 29 (14.36%) Senior
4 18 (8.91%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (8.91%) Software Engineer
5 15 (7.43%) Java Developer
6 14 (6.93%) AWS DevOps
7 13 (6.44%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (5.94%) Lead
8 12 (5.94%) Test Engineer
9 11 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (4.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.95%) Network Engineer
11 9 (4.46%) Data Engineer
12 8 (3.96%) Platform Specialist
12 8 (3.96%) Senior Developer
13 7 (3.47%) Architect
13 7 (3.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 7 (3.47%) Linux Engineer
14 6 (2.97%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (23.76%) REST
2 29 (14.36%) Node.js
3 22 (10.89%) React
4 19 (9.41%) RESTful
5 17 (8.42%) Elastic Stack
6 15 (7.43%) AWS CDK
7 14 (6.93%) JSON
8 13 (6.44%) Java EE
8 13 (6.44%) SOAP
9 12 (5.94%) ARM Templates
10 11 (5.45%) NETCONF
10 11 (5.45%) RESTCONF
10 11 (5.45%) YANG
11 10 (4.95%) Redux
12 8 (3.96%) Express.js
12 8 (3.96%) XML
12 8 (3.96%) YAML
13 7 (3.47%) Laravel
13 7 (3.47%) Spring
14 6 (2.97%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.91%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (5.45%) Clustering
2 11 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.46%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.96%) Replication
5 7 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.97%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.49%) PKI
8 3 (1.49%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.49%) Smart Meter
9 2 (0.99%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.99%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.50%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.50%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 68 (33.66%) Linux
2 26 (12.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (7.92%) Unix
4 14 (6.93%) Windows
5 10 (4.95%) Ubuntu
6 9 (4.46%) VMS
7 8 (3.96%) CentOS
8 4 (1.98%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.99%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.50%) Solaris
10 1 (0.50%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (65.84%) CI/CD
2 107 (52.97%) Agile
3 99 (49.01%) DevOps
4 78 (38.61%) Containerisation
5 67 (33.17%) Test Automation
6 55 (27.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 53 (26.24%) Continuous Integration
8 50 (24.75%) Scrum
9 36 (17.82%) Software Engineering
10 31 (15.35%) Configuration Management
11 28 (13.86%) Microservices
11 28 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (11.88%) Full Stack Development
13 22 (10.89%) Kanban
13 22 (10.89%) Workflow
14 21 (10.40%) Migration
15 19 (9.41%) Project Management
16 18 (8.91%) Design Patterns
17 17 (8.42%) Platform Engineering
17 17 (8.42%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 89 (44.06%) Python
2 46 (22.77%) Bash
3 39 (19.31%) Java
4 30 (14.85%) SQL
5 26 (12.87%) PowerShell
6 19 (9.41%) JavaScript
7 17 (8.42%) Go
8 10 (4.95%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.47%) PHP
10 6 (2.97%) Groovy
10 6 (2.97%) Ruby
11 5 (2.48%) C#
12 4 (1.98%) C++
13 3 (1.49%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.49%) Scala
14 2 (0.99%) Bicep
14 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.50%) HiveQL
15 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.50%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 83 (41.09%) Security Cleared
2 63 (31.19%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.44%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.95%) Degree
5 8 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.98%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.50%) HNC
7 1 (0.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (16.34%) QA
2 4 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.99%) NCSC
3 2 (0.99%) NIST
3 2 (0.99%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.50%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.50%) MISRA
4 1 (0.50%) MISRA C
System Software
1 81 (40.10%) Docker
2 15 (7.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (7.43%) vSphere
3 7 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.97%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.48%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.99%) LXC
6 2 (0.99%) NFS
6 2 (0.99%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 104 (51.49%) Terraform
2 97 (48.02%) Kubernetes
3 79 (39.11%) Ansible
4 27 (13.37%) Grafana
5 24 (11.88%) Prometheus
6 21 (10.40%) Docker Swarm
7 18 (8.91%) Puppet
8 16 (7.92%) Packer
9 14 (6.93%) Kibana
9 14 (6.93%) Podman
10 12 (5.94%) Progress Chef
11 8 (3.96%) vRealize
12 7 (3.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 7 (3.47%) Rancher
13 6 (2.97%) logstash
13 6 (2.97%) Nessus
14 5 (2.48%) Graylog
14 5 (2.48%) HP Fortify
14 5 (2.48%) WebInspect
15 3 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (13.86%) VMware
2 18 (8.91%) Oracle
2 18 (8.91%) Red Hat
3 17 (8.42%) Splunk
4 11 (5.45%) Microsoft
5 9 (4.46%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.97%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.97%) PagerDuty
7 5 (2.48%) Arqiva
7 5 (2.48%) Checkmarx
7 5 (2.48%) Veracode
7 5 (2.48%) Veritas
8 4 (1.98%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.98%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.49%) Confluent
9 3 (1.49%) Pega
10 2 (0.99%) Dell
10 2 (0.99%) Greenplum
10 2 (0.99%) Informatica
10 2 (0.99%) Palo Alto