GitLab Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

GitLab
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing GitLab 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.44% - 1.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.50% - 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £304
25th Percentile £850 - £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 - £500
75th Percentile £950 - £550
90th Percentile - - £580
South East median daily rate £541 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +6.86% -3.52% -11.21%

All Development Application Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 16 13 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 3.52% 9.15% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 5
10th Percentile £434 £458 £283
25th Percentile £500 £517 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £675 - £500
90th Percentile £950 - £560
South East median daily rate £500 £491 £513
% change year-on-year +1.83% -4.20% -4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 1
10th Percentile £48.13 £71.60 -
25th Percentile - £72.50 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £89.63 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.06% +460.19% -71.30%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% -16.03% +13.91%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing GitLab

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
Oxford - 2 £900 -
GitLab
South East

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MLflow
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LangChain
1 2 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI