GitLab Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

GitLab
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring GitLab skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 22 27
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing GitLab 16 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 9.30% 1.23% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 45.71% 8.70% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £235 - -
25th Percentile £344 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -21.88%
75th Percentile £544 - £525
90th Percentile £575 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -17.97%

All Development Application Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 35 23 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 20.35% 14.20% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 22
10th Percentile £239 £356 £396
25th Percentile £438 £506 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +22.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £572 £638 £525
90th Percentile £608 - £620
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £488 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% +97.18%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £26.71 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -53.55% +9.52% +97.18%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in Cambridge

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing GitLab

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in Cambridge over the 6 months to 2 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in Cambridge

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 5 (31.25%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (31.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (25.00%) Slack
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) DNS
2 4 (25.00%) iSCSI
2 4 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) JIRA
1 8 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Administrator
2 5 (31.25%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (25.00%) Consultant
3 4 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 4 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (18.75%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) CentOS
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Containerisation
1 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (50.00%) ITSM
3 7 (43.75%) DevOps
3 7 (43.75%) Migration
4 6 (37.50%) Computer Science
4 6 (37.50%) Dashboard Development
4 6 (37.50%) Observability
4 6 (37.50%) RBAC
5 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
6 3 (18.75%) Data Science
7 2 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
7 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
7 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
1 8 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
1 5 (31.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Terraform
2 8 (50.00%) Ansible
3 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
4 6 (37.50%) Prometheus
5 4 (25.00%) Grafana
5 4 (25.00%) Progress Chef
5 4 (25.00%) Puppet
5 4 (25.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 6 (37.50%) Dynatrace
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (31.25%) VMware
4 1 (6.25%) IBM