GitLab Contracts in Edinburgh

GitLab
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 58 94
Rank change year-on-year +10 +36 +11
Contract jobs citing GitLab 19 14 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.04% 1.72% 1.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.27% 10.45% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 15
10th Percentile £392 £416 £457
25th Percentile £416 £441 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -2.06% -16.38%
75th Percentile £482 £503 £507
90th Percentile £538 £520 £527
Scotland median daily rate £438 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -5.41% -7.50% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Development Application Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 110 134 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 17.60% 16.44% 24.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 101 264
10th Percentile £344 £363 £403
25th Percentile £413 £415 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £483 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.68% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £523
90th Percentile £588 £634 £557
Scotland median daily rate £463 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £27.80 -
25th Percentile - £30.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -33.33% -1.87%
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £39.92 £40.94 £60.55
% change year-on-year -2.50% -32.39% +15.33%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in Edinburgh

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in Edinburgh

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in Edinburgh

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (26.32%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) AWS
2 10 (52.63%) Amazon S3
3 7 (36.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (31.58%) AWS CodePipeline
4 6 (31.58%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (31.58%) OpenShift
4 6 (31.58%) Serverless
5 4 (21.05%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (21.05%) GCP
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (15.79%) Azure
6 3 (15.79%) Snowflake
7 2 (10.53%) GitHub
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (5.26%) CloudFront
8 1 (5.26%) PaaS
8 1 (5.26%) Route 53
8 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
1 1 (5.26%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (47.37%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (15.79%) Apache Hive
3 3 (15.79%) Hadoop
4 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
4 2 (10.53%) PowerCenter
4 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.26%) Big Data
5 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.26%) DB2
5 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (5.26%) GIS
5 1 (5.26%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.26%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.26%) HP UFT
3 1 (5.26%) JMeter
3 1 (5.26%) REST Assured
3 1 (5.26%) Selenium
3 1 (5.26%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (31.58%) Banking
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Data Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Test Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Environment Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Test Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Test Automation Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) AWS CDK
2 5 (26.32%) REST
3 3 (15.79%) PostGIS
4 2 (10.53%) .NET
4 2 (10.53%) Kafka
4 2 (10.53%) PySpark
5 1 (5.26%) Loki
5 1 (5.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
1 11 (57.89%) Test Automation
2 9 (47.37%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) Data Integration
3 7 (36.84%) Data Migration
3 7 (36.84%) Data Transformation
3 7 (36.84%) Migration
4 5 (26.32%) ETL
4 5 (26.32%) TDD
5 4 (21.05%) Kanban
5 4 (21.05%) Scrum
5 4 (21.05%) Unit Testing
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (15.79%) Data Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
6 3 (15.79%) High Availability
6 3 (15.79%) Inclusive Design
6 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) SQL
2 11 (57.89%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) Java
4 2 (10.53%) Groovy
4 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
4 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.26%) Bash
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) OCP
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Grafana
2 2 (10.53%) Ansible
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Kibana
3 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Informatica
2 4 (21.05%) Splunk
3 3 (15.79%) IBM
3 3 (15.79%) StreamSets
4 2 (10.53%) Confluent
4 2 (10.53%) Google
4 2 (10.53%) Teradata
5 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle
5 1 (5.26%) TSYS