GitLab Contracts in Birmingham

GitLab
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 47 66 73
Rank change year-on-year +19 +7 +16
Contract jobs citing GitLab 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.57% 0.13% 0.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.12% 1.75% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £523
25th Percentile - - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.52%
75th Percentile - - £613
90th Percentile - - £628
West Midlands median daily rate £531 £388 £540
% change year-on-year +37.03% -28.24% +6.40%

All Development Application Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 49 57 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.39% 7.37% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 45 68
10th Percentile £425 £259 £371
25th Percentile £463 £260 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £648 £475 £700
90th Percentile £689 £525 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £450 £538
% change year-on-year +11.11% -16.36% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £55.00 £31.69
Median hourly rate - £55.63 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year - +66.62% -
75th Percentile - £56.25 £35.08
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £57.50 £56.25 £33.39
% change year-on-year +2.22% +68.49% -14.40%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in Birmingham

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for GitLab in Birmingham

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JMeter
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) TestNG
2 2 (66.67%) Travis CI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CEH
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kibana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (33.33%) logstash
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) QRadar
2 1 (33.33%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco