GitLab
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 232 171
Rank change year-on-year +14 -61 +65
Contract jobs citing GitLab 465 690 1,510
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.09% 1.20% 1.71%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.07% 8.06% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 457 1,030
10th Percentile £387 £452 £450
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £661
90th Percentile £738 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £540 £540
% change year-on-year +1.85% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 7
10th Percentile £40.00 £38.32 £30.50
25th Percentile £52.00 £38.80 £40.11
Median hourly rate £68.22 £39.60 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.27% -20.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75.21 - £55.88
90th Percentile £77.50 - £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.44 £39.60 £47.85
% change year-on-year +87.98% -17.24% +6.33%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,129 8,565 15,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.02% 14.86% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,435 6,035 11,220
10th Percentile £354 £384 £400
25th Percentile £425 £461 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 236 216
10th Percentile £32.10 £44.62 £38.54
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.04 £82.50 £76.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitLab over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 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
England +7 394 £574 -2.75% 163
UK excluding London +16 203 £550 +1.85% 86
London +2 196 £575 -5.43% 67
Work from Home +10 170 £563 -4.26% 84
North of England +10 79 £575 -4.17% 28
South East +48 66 £598 +3.46% 26
North West +2 50 £600 - 19
Yorkshire +29 24 £574 -0.22% 7
South West +8 19 £533 +12.21% 16
Scotland +23 18 £461 -7.75% 2
Wales +21 10 £545 +3.81%
East of England +10 5 £250 -56.52% 8
North East +7 5 £430 -21.82% 2
Midlands -22 5 £475 -12.04% 12
West Midlands -24 4 £388 -28.24% 8
East Midlands +16 1 £520 - 4
Northern Ireland +4 1 £640 -1.54% 1

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 58 (12.47%) Confluence
2 25 (5.38%) Apache
3 15 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.58%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.94%) nginx
6 6 (1.29%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.86%) Luigi
8 2 (0.43%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.43%) Traefik
9 1 (0.22%) CMS
9 1 (0.22%) IIS
9 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.22%) SAS
9 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.86%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.22%) InfoPath
2 1 (0.22%) Simulink
2 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.72%) Salesforce CRM
2 7 (1.51%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.43%) Advent Geneva
4 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.43%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 234 (50.32%) AWS
2 150 (32.26%) Azure
3 106 (22.80%) GitHub
4 66 (14.19%) GCP
5 62 (13.33%) Serverless
6 59 (12.69%) Amazon S3
7 51 (10.97%) Amazon EC2
8 41 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
9 40 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (7.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 35 (7.53%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (7.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 31 (6.67%) OpenShift
13 25 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
14 23 (4.95%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (4.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (4.30%) Route 53
17 19 (4.09%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (3.66%) Amazon ECR
19 16 (3.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.16%) VPN
2 20 (4.30%) DNS
3 17 (3.66%) Firewall
3 17 (3.66%) HTTP
4 12 (2.58%) BGP
4 12 (2.58%) Ethernet VPN
4 12 (2.58%) MPLS
5 11 (2.37%) Radio Access Network
5 11 (2.37%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.08%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.86%) Internet
7 4 (0.86%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.86%) SSL
8 3 (0.65%) BIG-IP
8 3 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (0.65%) SNMP
9 2 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.43%) SAN
10 1 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (15.27%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (9.68%) MongoDB
3 36 (7.74%) NoSQL
4 30 (6.45%) MySQL
5 29 (6.24%) SQL Server
6 27 (5.81%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (5.16%) Relational Database
8 20 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (2.80%) Power BI
11 11 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.94%) RDBMS
13 7 (1.51%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (1.51%) Redis
14 6 (1.29%) Couchbase
14 6 (1.29%) Hadoop
14 6 (1.29%) Oracle Database
14 6 (1.29%) Triplestore
15 4 (0.86%) DynamoDB
16 3 (0.65%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 183 (39.35%) Jenkins
2 102 (21.94%) JIRA
3 92 (19.78%) Git
4 42 (9.03%) Cucumber
5 34 (7.31%) Selenium
6 26 (5.59%) Cypress.io
6 26 (5.59%) SonarQube
7 24 (5.16%) JUnit
8 20 (4.30%) Artifactory
9 19 (4.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 18 (3.87%) CircleCI
10 18 (3.87%) REST Assured
11 17 (3.66%) Postman
11 17 (3.66%) Robot Framework
11 17 (3.66%) Travis CI
12 15 (3.23%) Maven
13 14 (3.01%) JMeter
13 14 (3.01%) Mockito
14 13 (2.80%) Gradle
15 12 (2.58%) Bitbucket
General
1 112 (24.09%) Social Skills
2 71 (15.27%) Finance
3 61 (13.12%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.17%) Public Sector
5 29 (6.24%) Banking
6 18 (3.87%) Law
7 15 (3.23%) Front Office
8 10 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.72%) Police
10 7 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.29%) Marketing
11 6 (1.29%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.08%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.65%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.65%) Legal
14 2 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.43%) Retail
15 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 144 (30.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 111 (23.87%) Developer
3 55 (11.83%) Senior
4 38 (8.17%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (7.53%) AWS DevOps
6 32 (6.88%) Java Developer
7 30 (6.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 26 (5.59%) Lead
9 25 (5.38%) Azure Engineer
10 23 (4.95%) Senior Developer
10 23 (4.95%) Software Engineer
11 22 (4.73%) Platform Engineer
12 21 (4.52%) Data Engineer
13 19 (4.09%) Cloud Engineer
14 17 (3.66%) Senior Java Developer
15 15 (3.23%) Test Engineer
16 14 (3.01%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 14 (3.01%) Full Stack Developer
16 14 (3.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 14 (3.01%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (15.48%) REST
2 51 (10.97%) Node.js
3 45 (9.68%) React
4 31 (6.67%) JSON
5 27 (5.81%) RESTful
5 27 (5.81%) Spring Boot
6 25 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
6 25 (5.38%) YAML
7 24 (5.16%) SOAP
8 22 (4.73%) Kafka
9 21 (4.52%) HTML
9 21 (4.52%) Spring
9 21 (4.52%) XML
10 19 (4.09%) CSS
11 16 (3.44%) ARM Templates
11 16 (3.44%) AWS CDK
12 14 (3.01%) WebdriverIO
13 13 (2.80%) Java EE
13 13 (2.80%) Redux
14 12 (2.58%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.95%) Linux Command Line
2 19 (4.09%) Public Cloud
3 18 (3.87%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.66%) Data Structures
5 12 (2.58%) Clustering
5 12 (2.58%) Credit Derivative
6 10 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.94%) Replication
8 7 (1.51%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.51%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.51%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.29%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.29%) PKI
10 5 (1.08%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.08%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 145 (31.18%) Linux
2 35 (7.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 32 (6.88%) Windows
4 30 (6.45%) Unix
5 12 (2.58%) Windows Server
6 10 (2.15%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.15%) VMS
7 8 (1.72%) CentOS
8 4 (0.86%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.22%) Solaris
9 1 (0.22%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (69.03%) CI/CD
2 281 (60.43%) DevOps
3 209 (44.95%) Agile
4 137 (29.46%) Containerisation
5 128 (27.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 111 (23.87%) Test Automation
7 88 (18.92%) Continuous Integration
8 80 (17.20%) Scrum
9 71 (15.27%) Microservices
10 65 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
11 63 (13.55%) Software Engineering
12 61 (13.12%) Configuration Management
13 46 (9.89%) Platform Engineering
14 42 (9.03%) Computer Science
15 38 (8.17%) Full Stack Development
16 35 (7.53%) Task Automation
17 34 (7.31%) Kanban
17 34 (7.31%) SDLC
18 32 (6.88%) DevSecOps
19 30 (6.45%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 191 (41.08%) Python
2 90 (19.35%) Bash
3 88 (18.92%) Java
4 75 (16.13%) JavaScript
5 67 (14.41%) PowerShell
6 64 (13.76%) SQL
7 41 (8.82%) Go
8 33 (7.10%) C#
9 19 (4.09%) Shell Script
10 16 (3.44%) Perl
11 14 (3.01%) TypeScript
12 12 (2.58%) Ruby
13 10 (2.15%) PHP
14 9 (1.94%) Apex Code
14 9 (1.94%) Groovy
15 7 (1.51%) Bicep
15 7 (1.51%) SOQL
16 6 (1.29%) PL/SQL
16 6 (1.29%) SPARQL
17 5 (1.08%) C++
Qualifications
1 164 (35.27%) Security Cleared
2 137 (29.46%) SC Cleared
3 47 (10.11%) Degree
4 35 (7.53%) DV Cleared
5 32 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.15%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.43%) SANS
12 1 (0.22%) CISSP
12 1 (0.22%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.22%) HNC
12 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (12.04%) QA
2 5 (1.08%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.86%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.86%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.43%) NCSC
4 2 (0.43%) NIST
4 2 (0.43%) WCAG
5 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.22%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.22%) MISRA
5 1 (0.22%) MISRA C
System Software
1 160 (34.41%) Docker
2 19 (4.09%) vSphere
3 18 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.94%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.08%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.08%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.65%) NFS
6 3 (0.65%) vCloud
7 2 (0.43%) LXC
8 1 (0.22%) Ceph
8 1 (0.22%) HDFS
8 1 (0.22%) Postfix
8 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 224 (48.17%) Terraform
2 203 (43.66%) Kubernetes
3 149 (32.04%) Ansible
4 47 (10.11%) Grafana
5 44 (9.46%) Prometheus
6 34 (7.31%) Puppet
7 26 (5.59%) Docker Swarm
8 25 (5.38%) Progress Chef
9 21 (4.52%) Kibana
10 19 (4.09%) Packer
11 15 (3.23%) Podman
12 9 (1.94%) logstash
13 8 (1.72%) Graylog
13 8 (1.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 8 (1.72%) vRealize
14 7 (1.51%) HP Fortify
14 7 (1.51%) Nagios
14 7 (1.51%) Nessus
14 7 (1.51%) Rancher
15 6 (1.29%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 56 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 50 (10.75%) Oracle
3 40 (8.60%) VMware
4 36 (7.74%) Splunk
5 22 (4.73%) Google
6 21 (4.52%) Red Hat
7 13 (2.80%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.15%) Atlassian
9 9 (1.94%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.51%) Checkmarx
10 7 (1.51%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.51%) Veracode
11 6 (1.29%) IBM
11 6 (1.29%) PagerDuty
11 6 (1.29%) SAP
11 6 (1.29%) Talend
12 5 (1.08%) Arqiva
12 5 (1.08%) Databricks
12 5 (1.08%) Veritas
13 4 (0.86%) Palo Alto