GitLab Contract Job Trends in Dorset

GitLab
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitLab 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 2.04% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 28.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
South West median daily rate £600 £570 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% +8.57% +5.00%

All Development Application Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 7 19 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 7.14% 16.67% 15.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 26
10th Percentile - £318 £416
25th Percentile £270 £391 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £488 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -22.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £600 £506 £638
90th Percentile £645 - £650
South West median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 14
Median hourly rate - - £56.49
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in Dorset

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing GitLab

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Bournemouth - 1 - -
GitLab
South West

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Code Climate
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI