GitLab Contracts in Scotland

GitLab
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 88 107 131
Rank change year-on-year +19 +24 -3
Contract jobs citing GitLab 28 22 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.72% 0.99% 1.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.86% 5.29% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 25
10th Percentile £348 £410 £463
25th Percentile £408 £441 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -7.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £506 £514 £600
90th Percentile £540 £534 -
UK median daily rate £528 £551 £575
% change year-on-year -4.26% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £82.96 £68.22 £45.00
% change year-on-year +21.61% +51.60% -5.96%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 316 416 569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.45% 18.76% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 261 439
10th Percentile £313 £375 £393
25th Percentile £400 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £588 £538
90th Percentile £575 £644 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 5
10th Percentile £23.77 £35.00 £54.36
25th Percentile £29.81 £37.97 £59.03
Median hourly rate £39.92 £40.94 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -32.39% +15.33%
75th Percentile £49.98 - £66.56
90th Percentile £55.99 - £67.88
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in Scotland

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for GitLab in Scotland

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in Scotland

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in Scotland

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh +10 19 £460 -3.16% 5
Glasgow +6 7 £402 -12.80% 6
GitLab
UK

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (21.43%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (64.29%) AWS
2 14 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 12 (42.86%) Serverless
4 10 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (32.14%) AWS CodePipeline
5 9 (32.14%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (25.00%) Azure
6 7 (25.00%) OpenShift
7 5 (17.86%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (17.86%) GitHub
8 4 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (14.29%) GCP
8 4 (14.29%) Snowflake
9 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (10.71%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (10.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (10.71%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (7.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DNS
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) Data Warehouse
1 11 (39.29%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (14.29%) DB2
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (10.71%) Apache Hive
4 3 (10.71%) Hadoop
5 2 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 2 (7.14%) PowerCenter
5 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.57%) Big Data
6 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.57%) GIS
6 1 (3.57%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.71%) JUnit
2 3 (10.71%) Mockito
3 2 (7.14%) JIRA
3 2 (7.14%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.57%) Git
4 1 (3.57%) HP UFT
4 1 (3.57%) JMeter
4 1 (3.57%) REST Assured
4 1 (3.57%) Selenium
4 1 (3.57%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (32.14%) Banking
2 8 (28.57%) Finance
3 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Data Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Test Specialist
5 1 (3.57%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Developer
5 1 (3.57%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Lead
5 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior
5 1 (3.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Test Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Test Automation Specialist
5 1 (3.57%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) AWS CDK
2 6 (21.43%) REST
3 3 (10.71%) Hibernate
3 3 (10.71%) PostGIS
3 3 (10.71%) Spring
3 3 (10.71%) Spring Boot
3 3 (10.71%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (7.14%) .NET
4 2 (7.14%) Kafka
4 2 (7.14%) PySpark
4 2 (7.14%) React
5 1 (3.57%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (3.57%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (3.57%) Loki
5 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.57%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) CI/CD
2 16 (57.14%) DevOps
3 15 (53.57%) Agile
3 15 (53.57%) Test Automation
4 9 (32.14%) Data Migration
4 9 (32.14%) Migration
5 8 (28.57%) Data Integration
5 8 (28.57%) Data Transformation
6 6 (21.43%) ETL
6 6 (21.43%) Kanban
6 6 (21.43%) Scrum
7 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (17.86%) TDD
8 4 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (14.29%) Data Engineering
8 4 (14.29%) Human-Centred Design
8 4 (14.29%) Inclusive Design
8 4 (14.29%) Microservices
8 4 (14.29%) Unit Testing
9 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 17 (60.71%) SQL
2 15 (53.57%) Python
3 6 (21.43%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) Bash
4 2 (7.14%) Groovy
4 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.14%) T-SQL
4 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.57%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.57%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
1 1 (3.57%) OCP
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Grafana
2 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.71%) Ansible
3 3 (10.71%) Terraform
4 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.57%) Kibana
5 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Informatica
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle
2 4 (14.29%) Splunk
3 3 (10.71%) IBM
3 3 (10.71%) StreamSets
4 2 (7.14%) Confluent
4 2 (7.14%) Google
4 2 (7.14%) Teradata
5 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.57%) Imperva
5 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.57%) TSYS