GitLab Contracts in Reading

GitLab
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring GitLab skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitLab over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 64 71
Rank change year-on-year +16 +7 +22
Contract jobs citing GitLab 12 27 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.01% 2.27% 1.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.79% 18.49% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 14 9
10th Percentile - £583 £460
25th Percentile - £641 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £663 £565
Median % change year-on-year - +17.26% -23.39%
75th Percentile - £688 £623
90th Percentile - £721 -
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £663 £545
% change year-on-year -24.45% +21.56% -4.39%

All Development Application Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 87 146 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.57% 12.25% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 96 103
10th Percentile £409 £419 £400
25th Percentile £477 £501 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +15.57% +17.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £623
90th Percentile - £688 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -14.97% +12.00% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.87%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in Reading

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in Reading.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in Reading

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in Reading

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 10 (83.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure AI
3 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) BGP
1 1 (8.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (8.33%) MPLS
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) Jenkins
1 11 (91.67%) JIRA
2 10 (83.33%) Cucumber
2 10 (83.33%) REST Assured
2 10 (83.33%) Selenium
3 6 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Law
4 4 (33.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Java Engineer
1 9 (75.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) REST
2 10 (83.33%) Java EE
3 6 (50.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (8.33%) JSON
4 1 (8.33%) NETCONF
4 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
4 1 (8.33%) RESTCONF
4 1 (8.33%) scikit-learn
4 1 (8.33%) SOAP
4 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
4 1 (8.33%) XML
4 1 (8.33%) YAML
4 1 (8.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) CentOS
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Continuous Integration
1 11 (91.67%) DevOps
1 11 (91.67%) Test Automation
2 10 (83.33%) Configuration Management
2 10 (83.33%) Software Architecture
2 10 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 10 (83.33%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (66.67%) Containerisation
4 6 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Scrum
7 1 (8.33%) Edge Computing
7 1 (8.33%) Integration Testing
7 1 (8.33%) MLOps
7 1 (8.33%) Performance Testing
7 1 (8.33%) Security Testing
7 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (50.00%) Ansible
2 6 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
2 6 (50.00%) Podman
2 6 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco