GitLab Contracts in Berkshire

GitLab
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring GitLab skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitLab over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 95 98
Rank change year-on-year +22 +3 +26
Contract jobs citing GitLab 20 29 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.71% 1.46% 0.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.99% 14.29% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 10
10th Percentile - £583 £420
25th Percentile £500 £641 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £663 £545
Median % change year-on-year -24.45% +21.56% -4.39%
75th Percentile £501 £688 £620
90th Percentile - £721 £623
South East median daily rate £525 £593 £590
% change year-on-year -11.35% +0.42% -4.07%

All Development Application Skills
Berkshire

GitLab falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 143 203 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.19% 10.23% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 125 158
10th Percentile £400 £333 £363
25th Percentile £476 £425 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% +12.00% +13.51%
75th Percentile £595 £650 £618
90th Percentile £638 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £50.20 - -
25th Percentile £53.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.50 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.87%
75th Percentile £72.00 - -
90th Percentile £76.80 - -
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £56.24
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.14% +2.25%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in Berkshire

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for GitLab in Berkshire

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in Berkshire

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +16 12 - - 5
Bracknell +20 3 - - 1
GitLab
South East

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) AWS
1 14 (70.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub
3 2 (10.00%) Miro
3 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) Azure AI
4 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) BGP
1 3 (15.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (10.00%) IPv6
2 2 (10.00%) OSPF
2 2 (10.00%) SAN
2 2 (10.00%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (10.00%) TACACS
2 2 (10.00%) VSAN
3 1 (5.00%) MPLS
3 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (80.00%) JIRA
2 14 (70.00%) Jenkins
3 13 (65.00%) Cucumber
3 13 (65.00%) REST Assured
3 13 (65.00%) Selenium
4 9 (45.00%) SonarQube
5 2 (10.00%) DBeaver
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (40.00%) Law
4 4 (20.00%) Police
5 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Java Engineer
1 9 (45.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (45.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) DBA
3 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 1 (5.00%) SQL DBA
4 1 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (70.00%) REST
2 13 (65.00%) Java EE
3 9 (45.00%) ARM Templates
4 3 (15.00%) YAML
5 1 (5.00%) JSON
5 1 (5.00%) NETCONF
5 1 (5.00%) PyTorch
5 1 (5.00%) RESTCONF
5 1 (5.00%) scikit-learn
5 1 (5.00%) SOAP
5 1 (5.00%) TensorFlow
5 1 (5.00%) XML
5 1 (5.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) CentOS
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) DevOps
2 14 (70.00%) Configuration Management
2 14 (70.00%) Continuous Integration
2 14 (70.00%) Test Automation
3 13 (65.00%) Software Architecture
3 13 (65.00%) Software Engineering
3 13 (65.00%) Technical Leadership
4 12 (60.00%) Containerisation
5 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (45.00%) Decision-Making
7 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
9 4 (20.00%) Agile
10 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 3 (15.00%) Migration
11 2 (10.00%) Database Migration
11 2 (10.00%) High Availability
11 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
11 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
11 2 (10.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 12 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (50.00%) Ansible
2 10 (50.00%) Terraform
3 9 (45.00%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (45.00%) Podman
4 2 (10.00%) Argo
5 1 (5.00%) Grafana
5 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco
1 3 (15.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) Dell
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat