GitLab Contracts in the North of England

GitLab
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 114 116
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 +15
Contract jobs citing GitLab 79 96 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.69% 1.68% 2.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.12% 12.40% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 73 109
10th Percentile £456 £488 £431
25th Percentile £500 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +18.60%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £694 £675 £688
England median daily rate £574 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -0.22% -2.13% +17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £39.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +51.52% - -
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.44 £39.60 £51.88
% change year-on-year +87.98% -23.66% +15.28%

All Development Application Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 490 774 1,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 10.48% 13.56% 15.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 591 836
10th Percentile £371 £350 £361
25th Percentile £418 £434 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.73%
75th Percentile £582 £625 £578
90th Percentile £645 £700 £650
England median daily rate £532 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 33
10th Percentile £38.38 £37.80 £38.34
25th Percentile £45.88 £41.20 £44.68
Median hourly rate £53.09 £52.13 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.84% -13.12% +76.47%
75th Percentile £74.17 £56.19 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.82 £62.57 £80.30
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +10.62%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the North of England

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the North of England

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the North of England

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in the North of England

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West -3 50 £600 - 12
Yorkshire +29 24 £575 - 6
North East +10 5 £430 -21.82% 1
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 12 (15.19%) Confluence
2 3 (3.80%) nginx
3 2 (2.53%) Traefik
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 67 (84.81%) AWS
2 25 (31.65%) Azure
3 22 (27.85%) Amazon EC2
4 21 (26.58%) Amazon S3
4 21 (26.58%) GitHub
5 19 (24.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 13 (16.46%) GCP
7 12 (15.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (15.19%) Route 53
8 11 (13.92%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (12.66%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (11.39%) Serverless
11 8 (10.13%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (10.13%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (10.13%) Kong
12 6 (7.59%) Apigee
12 6 (7.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (5.06%) Amazon ELB
13 4 (5.06%) AWS KMS
13 4 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.19%) DNS
2 10 (12.66%) TCP/IP
3 9 (11.39%) Firewall
4 8 (10.13%) HTTP
4 8 (10.13%) VPN
5 3 (3.80%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (2.53%) BIG-IP
6 2 (2.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (2.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (22.78%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (21.52%) MongoDB
3 6 (7.59%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.33%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (6.33%) MySQL
5 4 (5.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (5.06%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.80%) Redis
7 1 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 30 (37.97%) Jenkins
2 24 (30.38%) Git
3 12 (15.19%) JIRA
4 9 (11.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (11.39%) Travis CI
5 8 (10.13%) CircleCI
5 8 (10.13%) webpack
6 6 (7.59%) Cucumber
6 6 (7.59%) SonarQube
7 5 (6.33%) Bitbucket
7 5 (6.33%) JUnit
7 5 (6.33%) Selenium
8 4 (5.06%) AppScan
8 4 (5.06%) Burp Suite
8 4 (5.06%) Maven
9 2 (2.53%) Appium
9 2 (2.53%) Gradle
9 2 (2.53%) Mockito
10 1 (1.27%) Liquibase
10 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (15.19%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.39%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.33%) Finance
5 3 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Banking
7 1 (1.27%) Retail
7 1 (1.27%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 32 (40.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (15.19%) Developer
3 10 (12.66%) Senior
4 9 (11.39%) Lead
4 9 (11.39%) Software Engineer
5 8 (10.13%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (10.13%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (10.13%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.59%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Site Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Node.js Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Technical Leader
9 3 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Operations Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Security Engineer
10 2 (2.53%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (32.91%) Node.js
2 18 (22.78%) RESTful
3 13 (16.46%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (12.66%) JSON
4 10 (12.66%) YAML
5 9 (11.39%) React
6 8 (10.13%) Express.js
6 8 (10.13%) Redux
6 8 (10.13%) XML
7 5 (6.33%) Spring
7 5 (6.33%) Spring Boot
8 4 (5.06%) pytest
9 3 (3.80%) SAML
9 3 (3.80%) WebdriverIO
10 2 (2.53%) Jest
10 2 (2.53%) Kafka
10 2 (2.53%) OAuth
10 2 (2.53%) REST
10 2 (2.53%) Web Services
10 2 (2.53%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.13%) Data Structures
2 6 (7.59%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (6.33%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.53%) Clustering
6 2 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.53%) PKI
6 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.27%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.27%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (27.85%) Linux
2 8 (10.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (7.59%) CentOS
3 6 (7.59%) Unix
4 2 (2.53%) Alpine Linux
4 2 (2.53%) Windows
5 1 (1.27%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (83.54%) CI/CD
2 47 (59.49%) DevOps
3 42 (53.16%) Agile
4 36 (45.57%) Containerisation
5 24 (30.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (27.85%) Continuous Integration
7 21 (26.58%) Microservices
8 18 (22.78%) Design Patterns
8 18 (22.78%) Scrum
9 14 (17.72%) API Development
9 14 (17.72%) Test Automation
10 13 (16.46%) Project Management
10 13 (16.46%) Software Engineering
11 12 (15.19%) Configuration Management
12 11 (13.92%) Continuous Deployment
12 11 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (12.66%) Full Stack Development
13 10 (12.66%) QA Automation
13 10 (12.66%) Task Automation
14 9 (11.39%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 35 (44.30%) Python
2 22 (27.85%) Bash
3 14 (17.72%) PowerShell
4 11 (13.92%) Java
5 6 (7.59%) Go
5 6 (7.59%) Ruby
6 3 (3.80%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.53%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.27%) Scala
8 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (36.71%) Security Cleared
2 21 (26.58%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.80%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (29.11%) QA
2 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.53%) NCSC
2 2 (2.53%) NIST
2 2 (2.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (41.77%) Docker
2 3 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 58 (73.42%) Terraform
2 44 (55.70%) Kubernetes
3 27 (34.18%) Ansible
4 22 (27.85%) Prometheus
5 19 (24.05%) Grafana
5 19 (24.05%) Puppet
6 13 (16.46%) Progress Chef
7 11 (13.92%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (12.66%) Kibana
9 8 (10.13%) logstash
10 7 (8.86%) Packer
11 4 (5.06%) Graylog
11 4 (5.06%) HP Fortify
11 4 (5.06%) Nessus
11 4 (5.06%) Rancher
11 4 (5.06%) WebInspect
12 3 (3.80%) Istio
13 2 (2.53%) Graphite
13 2 (2.53%) Podman
13 2 (2.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (18.99%) Splunk
2 6 (7.59%) PagerDuty
3 4 (5.06%) Checkmarx
3 4 (5.06%) Veracode
4 3 (3.80%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.80%) VMware
5 2 (2.53%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.53%) F5
5 2 (2.53%) Oracle
5 2 (2.53%) Perfecto Mobile
6 1 (1.27%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.27%) Zscaler