GitLab Contracts with Work from Home Options

GitLab
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 184 194 149
Rank change year-on-year +10 -45 +39
Contract jobs citing GitLab 170 320 780
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.14% 1.28% 1.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.48% 8.45% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 223 566
10th Percentile £405 £450 £427
25th Percentile £475 £503 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £650
90th Percentile £765 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £558 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -3.04% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile - £38.32 £23.93
25th Percentile - £38.80 £28.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £39.60 £37.88
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +4.55% -15.83%
75th Percentile £50.63 - £48.31
90th Percentile £57.00 - £53.83
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £39.60 £49.50
% change year-on-year +72.27% -20.00% +10.00%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,794 3,788 8,265
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.05% 15.16% 18.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 2,715 5,960
10th Percentile £360 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% +3.81% +8.25%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 109 109
10th Percentile £26.12 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £45.06 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year - +21.50% +18.89%
75th Percentile £90.00 £71.28 £65.00
90th Percentile - £85.17 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%

GitLab
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GitLab trend for jobs with a WFH option

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitLab.

GitLab daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GitLab over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

GitLab daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GitLab
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitLab.

GitLab hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

GitLab
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GitLab over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

GitLab hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (13.53%) Confluence
2 5 (2.94%) Apache
3 4 (2.35%) Luigi
4 2 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.18%) nginx
4 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.59%) CMS
5 1 (0.59%) IIS
5 1 (0.59%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) CPLEX
1 1 (0.59%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.35%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 85 (50.00%) AWS
2 60 (35.29%) Azure
3 39 (22.94%) GitHub
4 27 (15.88%) GCP
5 21 (12.35%) Serverless
6 19 (11.18%) Amazon S3
7 18 (10.59%) OpenShift
8 17 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (8.82%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (6.47%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (5.29%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (4.71%) Route 53
15 7 (4.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (4.12%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.71%) Firewall
1 8 (4.71%) HTTP
2 6 (3.53%) DNS
3 5 (2.94%) VPN
4 3 (1.76%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (1.76%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.18%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.18%) Internet
5 2 (1.18%) SNMP
5 2 (1.18%) SSL
6 1 (0.59%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.59%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.59%) Network Security
6 1 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.59%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.94%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.06%) NoSQL
3 10 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (4.71%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.71%) MySQL
4 8 (4.71%) SQL Server
5 7 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (2.94%) Couchbase
7 4 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.35%) Power BI
7 4 (2.35%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.76%) Apache Hive
8 3 (1.76%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.76%) InfluxDB
8 3 (1.76%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.76%) Triplestore
9 2 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.18%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 82 (48.24%) Jenkins
2 42 (24.71%) Git
3 39 (22.94%) JIRA
4 24 (14.12%) Cucumber
5 15 (8.82%) JUnit
5 15 (8.82%) Selenium
6 12 (7.06%) Cypress.io
6 12 (7.06%) Mockito
7 11 (6.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (6.47%) REST Assured
7 11 (6.47%) SonarQube
8 9 (5.29%) Artifactory
8 9 (5.29%) Gradle
9 8 (4.71%) Postman
10 7 (4.12%) Maven
11 6 (3.53%) Bitbucket
11 6 (3.53%) JMeter
11 6 (3.53%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (3.53%) Travis CI
11 6 (3.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 38 (22.35%) Finance
3 24 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.65%) Banking
4 13 (7.65%) Front Office
5 12 (7.06%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.88%) Law
7 7 (4.12%) Police
8 3 (1.76%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.76%) Marketing
8 3 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.59%) French Language
10 1 (0.59%) Retail
10 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (31.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 48 (28.24%) Developer
3 39 (22.94%) Senior
4 19 (11.18%) Senior Developer
5 18 (10.59%) Java Developer
6 17 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (8.82%) Senior Java Developer
8 14 (8.24%) AWS DevOps
8 14 (8.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (7.06%) Software Engineer
10 11 (6.47%) Lead
11 10 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (5.29%) Data Engineer
13 8 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (4.71%) Python Developer
13 8 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
14 7 (4.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 7 (4.12%) Tester
15 6 (3.53%) Java Engineer
15 6 (3.53%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (17.06%) REST
2 21 (12.35%) Node.js
2 21 (12.35%) React
3 17 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 13 (7.65%) CSS
4 13 (7.65%) HTML
4 13 (7.65%) JSON
4 13 (7.65%) YAML
5 10 (5.88%) Kafka
5 10 (5.88%) XML
6 9 (5.29%) ARM Templates
7 8 (4.71%) Java EE
7 8 (4.71%) RESTful
8 7 (4.12%) Django
8 7 (4.12%) SOAP
9 6 (3.53%) AWS CDK
9 6 (3.53%) jQuery
9 6 (3.53%) Lightning Web Components
9 6 (3.53%) Middleware
9 6 (3.53%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.06%) Credit Derivative
2 10 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 9 (5.29%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.71%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.53%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.53%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.35%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.18%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.59%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.59%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.59%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.59%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (24.12%) Linux
2 10 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.71%) Unix
4 5 (2.94%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.94%) Windows
5 4 (2.35%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.18%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 106 (62.35%) DevOps
3 78 (45.88%) Agile
4 51 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 49 (28.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (25.88%) Containerisation
7 42 (24.71%) Continuous Integration
8 30 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (14.71%) Microservices
9 25 (14.71%) SDLC
9 25 (14.71%) Software Engineering
10 22 (12.94%) Scrum
11 20 (11.76%) Computer Science
12 18 (10.59%) Configuration Management
13 17 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
14 16 (9.41%) Kanban
15 15 (8.82%) Continuous Deployment
15 15 (8.82%) Platform Engineering
16 14 (8.24%) Software Architecture
16 14 (8.24%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 66 (38.82%) Python
2 38 (22.35%) JavaScript
3 37 (21.76%) Java
4 27 (15.88%) Bash
5 21 (12.35%) SQL
6 20 (11.76%) Go
7 10 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 9 (5.29%) Perl
9 8 (4.71%) C#
9 8 (4.71%) TypeScript
10 7 (4.12%) Bicep
11 6 (3.53%) Apex Code
11 6 (3.53%) Groovy
12 5 (2.94%) Ruby
13 4 (2.35%) PHP
13 4 (2.35%) Scala
13 4 (2.35%) Shell Script
13 4 (2.35%) SOQL
14 3 (1.76%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.76%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 44 (25.88%) Security Cleared
2 39 (22.94%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.59%) Degree
4 11 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.59%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (1.76%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.18%) WCAG
4 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.59%) NIST
4 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 59 (34.71%) Docker
2 5 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.76%) vCloud
3 3 (1.76%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.76%) vSphere
4 2 (1.18%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.18%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.59%) HDFS
5 1 (0.59%) Postfix
5 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 87 (51.18%) Kubernetes
2 69 (40.59%) Terraform
3 43 (25.29%) Ansible
4 15 (8.82%) Grafana
5 12 (7.06%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (7.06%) Prometheus
5 12 (7.06%) Puppet
6 11 (6.47%) Kibana
7 10 (5.88%) Progress Chef
8 8 (4.71%) Podman
9 3 (1.76%) Argo
9 3 (1.76%) Autotask
9 3 (1.76%) logstash
9 3 (1.76%) Nagios
10 2 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.18%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.18%) Salt
11 1 (0.59%) CASB
11 1 (0.59%) Istio
11 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.06%) Oracle
2 12 (7.06%) VMware
3 11 (6.47%) Splunk
4 9 (5.29%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.12%) Google
6 6 (3.53%) Atlassian
6 6 (3.53%) IBM
7 4 (2.35%) Confluent
7 4 (2.35%) Informatica
7 4 (2.35%) TOWER Software
8 3 (1.76%) Arista
8 3 (1.76%) BMC
8 3 (1.76%) Cisco
8 3 (1.76%) Databricks
8 3 (1.76%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.76%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.76%) Remedy
8 3 (1.76%) SAP
9 2 (1.18%) Zscaler