GitLab Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

GitLab
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring GitLab skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 22 33
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +14
Contract jobs citing GitLab 2 12 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.01% 5.24% 0.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.14% 24.49% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 2
10th Percentile - £450 £651
25th Percentile - £483 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £525 £663
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -20.75% +12.29%
75th Percentile - £547 £678
90th Percentile - £551 £684
South Wales median daily rate £375 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -28.57% -12.50% +1.69%

All Development Application Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 28 49 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 14.07% 21.40% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 40 18
10th Percentile £217 £204 £413
25th Percentile £304 £409 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.37% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £441 £544 £622
90th Percentile £525 £551 £661
South Wales median daily rate £310 £503 £575
% change year-on-year -38.36% -12.61% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
South Wales median hourly rate - £20.24 £26.00
% change year-on-year - -22.17% -

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in Cardiff

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing GitLab

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Zephyr
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle