GitLab Contracts in England

GitLab
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GitLab skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GitLab over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 227 163
Rank change year-on-year +21 -64 +96
Contract jobs citing GitLab 402 567 1,218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.10% 1.18% 1.73%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.43% 8.05% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 371 830
10th Percentile £363 £448 £450
25th Percentile £475 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -1.71% +17.00%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £671
90th Percentile £743 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £558 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -3.04% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £57.38 - £40.11
25th Percentile £62.19 - £44.79
Median hourly rate £74.44 £39.60 £51.88
Median % change year-on-year +87.98% -23.66% +22.06%
75th Percentile £76.74 - £56.69
90th Percentile £77.50 - £59.06
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £39.60 £49.50
% change year-on-year +72.27% -20.00% +10.00%

All Development Application Skills
England

GitLab is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,264 7,044 12,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.70% 14.64% 18.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,915 5,004 9,021
10th Percentile £353 £375 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 201 182
10th Percentile £31.84 £42.81 £38.43
25th Percentile £54.38 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.51
90th Percentile £78.68 £84.80 £76.96
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +15.38%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in England

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GitLab in England

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in England

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in England.

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in England

GitLab
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitLab in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GitLab in England

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
London -3 200 £575 -4.17% 68
North of England +15 80 £575 -4.17% 28
South East +43 65 £598 +3.46% 22
North West -6 51 £600 - 19
Yorkshire +23 24 £574 +4.32% 6
South West 0 20 £533 +12.21% 15
Midlands -12 8 £378 -29.95% 17
North East +11 5 £430 -21.82% 3
East of England +6 5 £250 -56.52% 7
East Midlands +14 4 £378 - 5
West Midlands -19 4 £388 -28.24% 12
GitLab
UK

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 58 (14.43%) Confluence
2 26 (6.47%) Apache
3 13 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.99%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.99%) nginx
6 4 (1.00%) Luigi
7 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.75%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.50%) Traefik
9 1 (0.25%) IIS
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.25%) SAS
9 1 (0.25%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) CPLEX
1 1 (0.25%) InfoPath
1 1 (0.25%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (1.74%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.50%) Advent Geneva
3 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.50%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 195 (48.51%) AWS
2 132 (32.84%) Azure
3 87 (21.64%) GitHub
4 54 (13.43%) GCP
5 47 (11.69%) Serverless
6 45 (11.19%) Amazon S3
7 42 (10.45%) Amazon EC2
8 38 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (8.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 27 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (6.47%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (5.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 19 (4.73%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (4.48%) Route 53
15 17 (4.23%) OpenShift
16 16 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
16 16 (3.98%) Power Platform
17 14 (3.48%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.72%) VPN
2 20 (4.98%) DNS
3 18 (4.48%) HTTP
4 17 (4.23%) Firewall
5 11 (2.74%) BGP
5 11 (2.74%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (2.74%) MPLS
5 11 (2.74%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.49%) Radio Access Network
7 5 (1.24%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (1.00%) Internet
8 4 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.75%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (0.75%) SNMP
9 3 (0.75%) SSL
10 2 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.50%) SAN
11 1 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (14.43%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (10.70%) MongoDB
3 36 (8.96%) NoSQL
4 28 (6.97%) SQL Server
5 23 (5.72%) Elasticsearch
6 21 (5.22%) MySQL
7 15 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (3.73%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.23%) Power BI
9 8 (1.99%) RDBMS
10 7 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
10 7 (1.74%) Redis
10 7 (1.74%) Triplestore
11 6 (1.49%) Couchbase
12 5 (1.24%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.50%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.50%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.50%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 161 (40.05%) Jenkins
2 94 (23.38%) JIRA
3 74 (18.41%) Git
4 39 (9.70%) Cucumber
5 28 (6.97%) Selenium
6 25 (6.22%) SonarQube
7 22 (5.47%) JUnit
8 20 (4.98%) Cypress.io
9 17 (4.23%) Travis CI
10 16 (3.98%) JMeter
10 16 (3.98%) REST Assured
11 15 (3.73%) CircleCI
12 14 (3.48%) Artifactory
12 14 (3.48%) Mockito
12 14 (3.48%) Postman
13 13 (3.23%) Appium
13 13 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 13 (3.23%) Robot Framework
14 12 (2.99%) Maven
15 11 (2.74%) TestRail
General
1 95 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 59 (14.68%) Finance
3 57 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.71%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.72%) Banking
6 15 (3.73%) Front Office
6 15 (3.73%) Law
7 8 (1.99%) Police
8 7 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.00%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.75%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.75%) Marketing
12 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.50%) Legal
12 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.50%) Retail
13 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 126 (31.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 87 (21.64%) Developer
3 49 (12.19%) Senior
4 31 (7.71%) Java Developer
5 28 (6.97%) AWS DevOps
6 26 (6.47%) AWS Engineer
7 25 (6.22%) Azure Engineer
8 23 (5.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 22 (5.47%) Lead
10 21 (5.22%) Software Engineer
11 20 (4.98%) Senior Developer
12 18 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
13 17 (4.23%) Senior Java Developer
14 16 (3.98%) Platform Engineer
15 14 (3.48%) Tester
16 13 (3.23%) Architect
16 13 (3.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 13 (3.23%) Test Engineer
17 12 (2.99%) Data Engineer
17 12 (2.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (14.18%) REST
2 46 (11.44%) Node.js
3 37 (9.20%) React
4 25 (6.22%) Spring Boot
5 23 (5.72%) Elastic Stack
5 23 (5.72%) RESTful
6 22 (5.47%) Kafka
6 22 (5.47%) YAML
7 20 (4.98%) JSON
8 19 (4.73%) HTML
9 18 (4.48%) SOAP
10 17 (4.23%) Spring
11 16 (3.98%) CSS
11 16 (3.98%) WebdriverIO
12 15 (3.73%) ARM Templates
13 14 (3.48%) Middleware
14 13 (3.23%) Java EE
14 13 (3.23%) Redux
15 12 (2.99%) Apache NiFi
15 12 (2.99%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.72%) Linux Command Line
2 17 (4.23%) Data Structures
2 17 (4.23%) Public Cloud
3 12 (2.99%) Clustering
3 12 (2.99%) Credit Derivative
4 10 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.24%) Replication
6 7 (1.74%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.74%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.49%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.49%) PKI
8 5 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.24%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.24%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.00%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.00%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.75%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.75%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 131 (32.59%) Linux
2 29 (7.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 29 (7.21%) Windows
3 27 (6.72%) Unix
4 12 (2.99%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.49%) VMS
6 8 (1.99%) CentOS
7 4 (1.00%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (1.00%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.25%) Solaris
8 1 (0.25%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (68.66%) CI/CD
2 243 (60.45%) DevOps
3 160 (39.80%) Agile
4 129 (32.09%) Containerisation
5 115 (28.61%) Infrastructure as Code
6 84 (20.90%) Test Automation
7 79 (19.65%) Continuous Integration
8 71 (17.66%) Scrum
9 64 (15.92%) Microservices
10 62 (15.42%) Software Engineering
11 57 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
12 56 (13.93%) Configuration Management
13 44 (10.95%) Platform Engineering
14 31 (7.71%) Full Stack Development
15 30 (7.46%) SDLC
16 29 (7.21%) Computer Science
16 29 (7.21%) DevSecOps
17 28 (6.97%) Task Automation
18 27 (6.72%) Workflow
19 26 (6.47%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 153 (38.06%) Python
2 80 (19.90%) Java
3 73 (18.16%) Bash
4 68 (16.92%) JavaScript
5 65 (16.17%) PowerShell
6 48 (11.94%) SQL
7 31 (7.71%) Go
8 30 (7.46%) C#
9 15 (3.73%) Shell Script
10 11 (2.74%) TypeScript
11 7 (1.74%) Bicep
11 7 (1.74%) Ruby
11 7 (1.74%) SPARQL
12 5 (1.24%) Perl
13 4 (1.00%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.00%) C++
13 4 (1.00%) Scala
14 3 (0.75%) ActionScript
14 3 (0.75%) PHP
14 3 (0.75%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 156 (38.81%) Security Cleared
2 129 (32.09%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.46%) DV Cleared
4 31 (7.71%) Degree
5 20 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.49%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.25%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.25%) HNC
11 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.94%) QA
2 4 (1.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.50%) NCSC
3 2 (0.50%) NIST
4 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.25%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.25%) MISRA
4 1 (0.25%) MISRA C
System Software
1 144 (35.82%) Docker
2 18 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
2 18 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (3.98%) vSphere
4 8 (1.99%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.24%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.75%) NFS
7 2 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.50%) LXC
7 2 (0.50%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.25%) Ceph
8 1 (0.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 211 (52.49%) Terraform
2 185 (46.02%) Kubernetes
3 137 (34.08%) Ansible
4 42 (10.45%) Prometheus
5 39 (9.70%) Grafana
6 28 (6.97%) Puppet
7 25 (6.22%) Docker Swarm
8 20 (4.98%) Progress Chef
9 19 (4.73%) Packer
10 15 (3.73%) Kibana
10 15 (3.73%) Podman
11 9 (2.24%) logstash
12 8 (1.99%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 8 (1.99%) vRealize
13 7 (1.74%) Graylog
13 7 (1.74%) Rancher
14 6 (1.49%) Istio
14 6 (1.49%) Nagios
14 6 (1.49%) Nessus
15 5 (1.24%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 47 (11.69%) Microsoft
1 47 (11.69%) Oracle
2 37 (9.20%) VMware
3 35 (8.71%) Splunk
4 21 (5.22%) Red Hat
5 19 (4.73%) Google
6 9 (2.24%) SolarWinds
7 8 (1.99%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.74%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.49%) Checkmarx
9 6 (1.49%) PagerDuty
9 6 (1.49%) Veracode
10 5 (1.24%) Arqiva
10 5 (1.24%) IBM
10 5 (1.24%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.24%) Veritas
11 4 (1.00%) Databricks
11 4 (1.00%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.75%) BigPanda
12 3 (0.75%) Confluent