GitLab Contract Job Trends in Blackpool

GitLab
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Blackpool requiring GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - 5
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing GitLab 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Blackpool 13.79% - 20.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 80.00% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - £559
25th Percentile £563 - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.04%
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £575 £575 £625
% change year-on-year - -8.00% +2.04%

All Development Application Skills
Blackpool

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 Blackpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool 17.24% 60.00% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - £559
25th Percentile £563 - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 - -
90th Percentile £638 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £575 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +13.64%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitLab relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool.

GitLab job vacancy trend in Blackpool

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in Blackpool

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing GitLab.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing GitLab

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) OCI
2 3 (75.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) BrowserStack
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) BGP
1 3 (75.00%) BIG-IP
1 3 (75.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) OSPF
1 3 (75.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (75.00%) VXLAN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
1 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (75.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Gatling
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) Serenity BDD
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Network Design
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Build Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Component Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Arista
1 3 (75.00%) Aruba
1 3 (75.00%) F5
1 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk