GitLab Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

GitLab
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 29 27
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing GitLab 6 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 2.50% 1.13% 0.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.00% 14.29% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £474 -
25th Percentile - £483 £635
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £519 £640
Median % change year-on-year - -18.95% +6.67%
75th Percentile - £558 £645
90th Percentile - £568 -
UK median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%

All Development Application Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 20 14 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 8.33% 7.91% 8.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 10
10th Percentile £313 £224 £448
25th Percentile £381 £303 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £325 £625
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -48.00% +26.26%
75th Percentile £419 £464 £638
90th Percentile £500 £581 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £57.86 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing GitLab.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing GitLab

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
County Antrim -3 6 - - 6
GitLab
UK

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Azure AKS
3 3 (50.00%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (16.67%) GIS
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
1 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) AWS DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (16.67%) Pandas
2 1 (16.67%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) Polars
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
3 4 (66.67%) GitOps
4 3 (50.00%) B2B
5 1 (16.67%) AI
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) BDD
5 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
5 1 (16.67%) ETL
5 1 (16.67%) Load Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Argo
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Fujitsu