GitLab Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

GitLab
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing GitLab 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 2.47% 0.68% -
As % of the Development Applications category 12.28% 5.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £393 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £397 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.38% - -
75th Percentile £402 - -
90th Percentile £402 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £400 £332 -
% change year-on-year +20.57% - -

All Development Application Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 57 20 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 20.14% 13.70% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 17 5
10th Percentile £304 £340 £250
25th Percentile £332 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 £356 £388
Median % change year-on-year +2.18% -8.13% +1.31%
75th Percentile £423 £438 £406
90th Percentile £464 £440 £453
East Midlands median daily rate £402 £453 £440
% change year-on-year -11.31% +3.01% -7.37%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing GitLab

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 3 February 2026. 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
Northampton -19 7 £397 +11.38% 1
GitLab
East Midlands

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) GitHub
1 7 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Aerospike
2 5 (71.43%) DynamoDB
2 5 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (71.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) JUnit
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Architect
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Database Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Database Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Kafka
1 7 (100.00%) Node.js
2 6 (85.71%) pytest
3 4 (57.14%) Jest
4 2 (28.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 7 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) Backtesting
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 7 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (85.71%) Clean Code
2 6 (85.71%) Code Quality
2 6 (85.71%) Data Protection
2 6 (85.71%) Deployment Automation
2 6 (85.71%) Integration Testing
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) Unit Testing
3 5 (71.43%) Microservices
3 5 (71.43%) Migration
4 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
5 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
6 2 (28.57%) Analytics
6 2 (28.57%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Databricks