GitLab Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

GitLab
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 77 81
Rank change year-on-year +18 +4 +23
Contract jobs citing GitLab 17 14 16
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.65% 1.17% 1.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.59% 10.37% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 14
10th Percentile £450 £439 £436
25th Percentile £475 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.60% -6.48% -16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £526 £517
90th Percentile - £555 £711
South East median daily rate £513 £468 £580
% change year-on-year +9.60% -19.38% -3.33%

All Development Application Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 135 135 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 13.09% 11.30% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 80 137
10th Percentile £376 £356 £412
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +0.93% -1.82%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £600
90th Percentile £616 £626 £652
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £538
% change year-on-year - -11.63% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 19
10th Percentile £49.25 £60.14 £51.25
25th Percentile - £64.38 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £69.38
90th Percentile £56.05 £74.13 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £58.50 £66.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.36% +14.78% -11.54%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in Hampshire

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing GitLab

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in Hampshire over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in Hampshire

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 23 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
Farnborough - 6 £513 - 2
Basingstoke +2 5 £600 +4.35% 1
Andover - 3 £450 -
GitLab
South East

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 6 (35.29%) GitHub
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon ECR
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (17.65%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.88%) Azure
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Git
1 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) Artifactory
2 3 (17.65%) Maven
General
1 3 (17.65%) Aerospace
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Architect
1 5 (29.41%) Automation Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Java Architect
1 5 (29.41%) Java Solutions Architect
1 5 (29.41%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (17.65%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Project Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Project Leader
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Kafka Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (17.65%) Kafka
2 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
2 3 (17.65%) Swagger
3 2 (11.76%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
2 6 (35.29%) DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) Impact Analysis
3 5 (29.41%) Service Delivery
4 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
4 4 (23.53%) Observability
5 3 (17.65%) Analytics
5 3 (17.65%) API Integration
5 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (17.65%) Data Analytics
5 3 (17.65%) Immutable Infrastructure
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (17.65%) Systems Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) API Development
6 2 (11.76%) High Availability
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
6 2 (11.76%) Software Delivery
7 1 (5.88%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
2 5 (29.41%) Python
3 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 4 (23.53%) SQL
4 3 (17.65%) Bash
4 3 (17.65%) Go
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (70.59%) SC Cleared
3 9 (52.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Def Stans
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 7 (41.18%) Grafana
2 7 (41.18%) Prometheus
3 6 (35.29%) Terraform
4 4 (23.53%) Rundeck
5 3 (17.65%) Ansible
5 3 (17.65%) Proxmox
5 3 (17.65%) Salt
5 3 (17.65%) Sysdig
6 2 (11.76%) vRealize
7 1 (5.88%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) VMware