GitLab Contract Job Trends in Reading

GitLab
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring GitLab skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 78 75
Rank change year-on-year +32 -3 +19
Contract jobs citing GitLab 18 11 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.15% 1.00% 1.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.35% 7.75% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 8
10th Percentile £460 £558 £591
25th Percentile £475 £625 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £691
90th Percentile £718 - £700
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £525 £675
% change year-on-year -4.67% -22.22% +8.43%

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 71 142 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 12.41% 12.91% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 88 103
10th Percentile £358 £403 £402
25th Percentile £413 £511 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.61% -1.25% +33.33%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £638
90th Percentile £613 £675 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £570
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.89% +25.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £100.00 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £66.75 £62.25 -
% change year-on-year +7.24% - -

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
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing GitLab

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in Reading over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in Reading

GitLab
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing GitLab.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing GitLab

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 (5.56%) Appian
1 1 (5.56%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) AWS
1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) GitHub
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Datadog
4 1 (5.56%) Stackdriver
4 1 (5.56%) Tricentis Tosca
4 1 (5.56%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) BGP
2 1 (5.56%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (77.78%) Jenkins
2 11 (61.11%) Cucumber
2 11 (61.11%) JIRA
2 11 (61.11%) Selenium
3 10 (55.56%) REST Assured
4 7 (38.89%) SonarQube
5 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.56%) MLflow
5 1 (5.56%) Mocha
5 1 (5.56%) Robot Framework
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Law
4 4 (22.22%) Police
5 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 9 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Head of Development
4 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) REST
2 10 (55.56%) Java EE
3 6 (33.33%) ARM Templates
4 2 (11.11%) JSON
4 2 (11.11%) NETCONF
4 2 (11.11%) XML
4 2 (11.11%) YAML
4 2 (11.11%) YANG
5 1 (5.56%) Fastify
5 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.56%) Jinja
5 1 (5.56%) Node.js
5 1 (5.56%) OAuth
5 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
5 1 (5.56%) OpenAPI
5 1 (5.56%) OpenID
5 1 (5.56%) RESTCONF
5 1 (5.56%) RESTful
5 1 (5.56%) Swagger
5 1 (5.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) CentOS
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) DevOps
2 11 (61.11%) Technical Leadership
3 10 (55.56%) Configuration Management
3 10 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (55.56%) Software Architecture
3 10 (55.56%) Software Engineering
3 10 (55.56%) Test Automation
4 9 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
5 7 (38.89%) Decision-Making
6 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (16.67%) Agile
7 3 (16.67%) Microservices
8 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
8 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
8 2 (11.11%) Migration
8 2 (11.11%) Scrum
8 2 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Java
2 5 (27.78%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) SC Cleared
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.56%) CCNA
2 1 (5.56%) CCNP
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) JNCIP
2 1 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) NIST
2 1 (5.56%) EU AI Act
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 12 (66.67%) Terraform
2 10 (55.56%) Ansible
3 6 (33.33%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (33.33%) Podman
4 1 (5.56%) Grafana
4 1 (5.56%) Kubeflow
4 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) IBM
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.56%) Splunk
2 1 (5.56%) Veracode