GitLab Contracts in the East of England

GitLab
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 15 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 108 116
Rank change year-on-year +36 +8 -20
Contract jobs citing GitLab 22 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.78% 0.16% 0.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.03% 2.04% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £235 - £490
25th Percentile £338 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.52%
75th Percentile £500 - £656
90th Percentile £520 - £668
England median daily rate £501 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.00% -4.35% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £63.25 - -
25th Percentile £65.50 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £74.22 £59.80
% change year-on-year -9.73% +24.11% +10.23%

All Development Application Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 122 147 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.88% 7.96% 15.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 46 165
10th Percentile £225 £348 £307
25th Percentile £350 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £480 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.54% -2.50%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £588
90th Percentile £600 £641 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 59 63
10th Percentile £47.84 £47.40 £53.75
25th Percentile £62.56 £56.88 £54.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £67.00 £66.25 £86.15
90th Percentile £78.50 £70.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.08% +4.00% +13.64%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the East of England

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the East of England

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the East of England

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
Cambridgeshire - 11 £350 - 13
Hertfordshire - 9 £450 - 20
Bedfordshire -4 2 £500 - 2
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (22.73%) OpenStack
2 2 (9.09%) Anypoint
2 2 (9.09%) Mule
3 1 (4.55%) Confluence
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.55%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (31.82%) npm
4 5 (22.73%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.55%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) DNS
2 4 (18.18%) iSCSI
2 4 (18.18%) SAN
3 1 (4.55%) Network Security
3 1 (4.55%) Skype
3 1 (4.55%) VSAN
3 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (72.73%) JIRA
2 8 (36.36%) TeamCity
3 7 (31.82%) Artifactory
3 7 (31.82%) Visual Studio
4 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.55%) Selenium
5 1 (4.55%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.55%) Law
3 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Administrator
2 5 (22.73%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Administrator
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Administrator
6 1 (4.55%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Development Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) .NET
1 7 (31.82%) .NET Framework
1 7 (31.82%) AngularJS
1 7 (31.82%) CSS
1 7 (31.82%) HTML
1 7 (31.82%) Node.js
1 7 (31.82%) React
1 7 (31.82%) Svelte
1 7 (31.82%) Vue
2 2 (9.09%) JWT
2 2 (9.09%) Kafka
2 2 (9.09%) MUnit
2 2 (9.09%) OAuth
2 2 (9.09%) REST
2 2 (9.09%) SOAP
2 2 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Algorithms
1 7 (31.82%) Data Structures
1 7 (31.82%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (22.73%) Data Centre
3 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.55%) Blackberry
4 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.55%) PKI
4 1 (4.55%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 11 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) CentOS
2 4 (18.18%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Containerisation
2 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 13 (59.09%) Computer Science
3 10 (45.45%) Agile
4 8 (36.36%) ITSM
5 7 (31.82%) Design Patterns
5 7 (31.82%) DevOps
5 7 (31.82%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (31.82%) Microservices
5 7 (31.82%) OOP
5 7 (31.82%) SDLC
5 7 (31.82%) Software Testing
5 7 (31.82%) TDD
6 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (18.18%) Migration
8 3 (13.64%) Data Science
8 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
9 2 (9.09%) API Design
9 2 (9.09%) API Development
9 2 (9.09%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Python
1 8 (36.36%) Shell Script
2 7 (31.82%) C#
2 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
2 7 (31.82%) TypeScript
3 6 (27.27%) C++
4 3 (13.64%) Java
5 2 (9.09%) DataWeave
6 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Degree
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Docker
2 6 (27.27%) Active Directory
3 5 (22.73%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 9 (40.91%) Ansible
3 6 (27.27%) Terraform
4 5 (22.73%) Puppet
5 4 (18.18%) Progress Chef
5 4 (18.18%) Salt
6 2 (9.09%) CloudHub
7 1 (4.55%) SCOM
7 1 (4.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) ServiceNow
2 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 6 (27.27%) VMware
3 2 (9.09%) MuleSoft
3 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.55%) HP
4 1 (4.55%) IBM
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat