Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 19 January 2019

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for GitLab skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GitLab over the 6 months to 19 January 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

GitLab
England > South East
6 months to
19 Jan 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank 318 292 348
Rank change year-on-year -26 +56 +42
Contract jobs citing GitLab 64 80 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 0.40% 0.48% 0.032%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.03% 2.77% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 23 5
South East median daily rate £600 £475 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +26.32% +18.75% +3.23%
England median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
South East median hourly rate - - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 - -

GitLab is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for development application skills.

All Development Application Skills
South East
Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,150 2,887 2,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 19.83% 17.50% 14.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,924 1,763 1,385
South East median daily rate £450 £438 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +2.86% +9.38% +6.67%
10th Percentile £320 £310 £300
90th Percentile £575 £580 £538
England median daily rate £488 £470 £430
% change year-on-year +3.72% +9.30% +4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 79 64
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £45.00 £41.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year - +9.76% -6.82%
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.00 £33.25
90th Percentile £59.13 £63.25 £54.60
England median hourly rate £42.75 £43.50 £41.00
% change year-on-year -1.72% +6.10% +2.50%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing GitLab as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the South East

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing GitLab in the South East.

Contractor daily rate trend for GitLab in the South East

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing GitLab in the South East over the 6 months to 19 January 2019.

Contractor daily rate histogram for GitLab in the South East

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 January 2019. 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
Job
Vacancies
Thames Valley -24 33 £600 +33.70% 5
Berkshire +13 15 £550 +46.67% 3
Surrey -5 15 £450 -1.10% 4
Buckinghamshire -24 14 £360 -10.00%
Hampshire -8 11 £613 +28.95% 7
Oxfordshire +26 4 £600 -6.25% 2
Kent - 2 - - 1
East Sussex - 2 £375 -
West Sussex - 1 - -
GitLab
England

For the 6 months to 19 January 2019, IT contractor jobs citing GitLab also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region with a requirement for GitLab.

1 38 (59.38%) Agile Software Development
2 34 (53.13%) Docker
3 32 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 31 (48.44%) DevOps
5 29 (45.31%) Git (software)
6 26 (40.63%) Ansible
7 24 (37.50%) Microsoft Azure
8 22 (34.38%) Amazon AWS
8 22 (34.38%) Continuous Integration
8 22 (34.38%) Scrum
8 22 (34.38%) Kubernetes
9 21 (32.81%) GitHub
10 20 (31.25%) Test Automation
11 19 (29.69%) Microsoft
11 19 (29.69%) Python
11 19 (29.69%) Confluence
12 17 (26.56%) Linux
12 17 (26.56%) Configuration Management
13 16 (25.00%) JIRA
14 15 (23.44%) Java
15 13 (20.31%) Selenium
16 12 (18.75%) Open Source
16 12 (18.75%) Cucumber
16 12 (18.75%) SonarQube
17 11 (17.19%) Visual Studio Team System
17 11 (17.19%) TDD
18 10 (15.63%) Kanban
18 10 (15.63%) PaaS
18 10 (15.63%) Mobile App
18 10 (15.63%) Terraform

GitLab
Co-occurring IT Skills in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (29.69%) Confluence
2 3 (4.69%) CMS
2 3 (4.69%) Drupal
2 3 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (4.69%) OpenStack
2 3 (4.69%) WordPress
3 2 (3.13%) nginx
3 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.13%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.56%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.56%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.56%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.69%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 24 (37.50%) Microsoft Azure
2 22 (34.38%) Amazon AWS
3 21 (32.81%) GitHub
4 10 (15.63%) PaaS
5 6 (9.38%) BrowserStack
5 6 (9.38%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (7.81%) Google Cloud Platform
6 5 (7.81%) Serverless
7 4 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (6.25%) Office 365
8 3 (4.69%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.69%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (4.69%) Slack
8 3 (4.69%) Trello
9 2 (3.13%) Apigee
9 2 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.13%) OpenShift
9 2 (3.13%) SaaS
9 2 (3.13%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) Internet
1 4 (6.25%) Network Security
2 2 (3.13%) Firewall
2 2 (3.13%) HTTP
3 1 (1.56%) DNS
3 1 (1.56%) DSL
3 1 (1.56%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.56%) SAN
3 1 (1.56%) SMTP
3 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.06%) MongoDB
2 8 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (9.38%) MySQL
3 6 (9.38%) Relational Database
4 5 (7.81%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (7.81%) MariaDB
5 3 (4.69%) Redis
6 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.13%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon DynamoDB
7 1 (1.56%) Big Data
7 1 (1.56%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.56%) DB2
7 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.56%) HBase
7 1 (1.56%) MS Access
7 1 (1.56%) NuoDB
7 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (1.56%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 29 (45.31%) Git (software)
3 16 (25.00%) JIRA
4 13 (20.31%) Selenium
5 12 (18.75%) Cucumber
5 12 (18.75%) SonarQube
6 11 (17.19%) Visual Studio Team System
7 7 (10.94%) WebDriver
8 6 (9.38%) JMeter
8 6 (9.38%) JUnit
8 6 (9.38%) SoapUI
9 5 (7.81%) Maven
9 5 (7.81%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (6.25%) CircleCI
11 3 (4.69%) Artifactory
11 3 (4.69%) Subversion
12 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
12 2 (3.13%) git-flow
12 2 (3.13%) Vagrant
12 2 (3.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (10.94%) Finance
2 4 (6.25%) Aerospace
2 4 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 2 (3.13%) Banking
3 2 (3.13%) Games
3 2 (3.13%) Law
4 1 (1.56%) Advertising
4 1 (1.56%) Billing
4 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 20 (31.25%) Developer
2 15 (23.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Android Developer
4 6 (9.38%) Architect
4 6 (9.38%) Automation Tester
4 6 (9.38%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (9.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) DevOps Specialist
4 6 (9.38%) Tester
5 5 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Cloud Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (7.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Cloud Specialist
6 4 (6.25%) Information Security Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes Specialist
6 4 (6.25%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.50%) CSS
1 8 (12.50%) Gherkin
1 8 (12.50%) REST
2 6 (9.38%) Kafka
3 5 (7.81%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (7.81%) JSON
3 5 (7.81%) Node.js
3 5 (7.81%) Vue.js
3 5 (7.81%) YAML
4 4 (6.25%) CSS3
4 4 (6.25%) OAuth
4 4 (6.25%) OAuth2
4 4 (6.25%) SAML
4 4 (6.25%) Spring
4 4 (6.25%) Web Services
5 3 (4.69%) LAMP
5 3 (4.69%) SOAP
5 3 (4.69%) Symfony
5 3 (4.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 3 (4.69%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (6.25%) PKI
3 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.69%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.69%) User Experience
4 2 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.13%) PMI
5 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.56%) Linux
2 7 (10.94%) Windows
3 6 (9.38%) Android
4 4 (6.25%) Ubuntu
5 2 (3.13%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.13%) VMS
6 1 (1.56%) CentOS
6 1 (1.56%) CoreOS
6 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.56%) Solaris
6 1 (1.56%) Unix
6 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (59.38%) Agile Software Development
2 31 (48.44%) DevOps
3 22 (34.38%) Continuous Integration
3 22 (34.38%) Scrum
4 20 (31.25%) Test Automation
5 17 (26.56%) Configuration Management
6 12 (18.75%) Open Source
7 11 (17.19%) TDD
8 10 (15.63%) Kanban
9 9 (14.06%) BDD
9 9 (14.06%) Microservices
10 8 (12.50%) Performance Testing
10 8 (12.50%) User Stories
11 7 (10.94%) Continuous Delivery
11 7 (10.94%) Defect Management
11 7 (10.94%) Release Management
11 7 (10.94%) Waterfall
12 6 (9.38%) Android Development
12 6 (9.38%) Software Delivery
12 6 (9.38%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 19 (29.69%) Python
2 15 (23.44%) Java
3 9 (14.06%) JavaScript
4 7 (10.94%) Go
4 7 (10.94%) Ruby
5 5 (7.81%) SQL
6 4 (6.25%) PHP
7 3 (4.69%) Perl
8 2 (3.13%) Apple Swift
8 2 (3.13%) ES6
9 1 (1.56%) Bash Shell
9 1 (1.56%) C#
9 1 (1.56%) Groovy
9 1 (1.56%) Java 8
9 1 (1.56%) VB
9 1 (1.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (14.06%) Degree
1 9 (14.06%) SC Cleared
1 9 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.25%) CEH
2 4 (6.25%) CISM
2 4 (6.25%) CISSP
2 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.13%) PMI Certification
3 2 (3.13%) PMP
4 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.38%) GDPR
2 4 (6.25%) QA
3 1 (1.56%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (53.13%) Docker
2 4 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (3.13%) GlusterFS
3 2 (3.13%) KVM
3 2 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.13%) VirtualBox
4 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.56%) Ceph
4 1 (1.56%) etcd
4 1 (1.56%) flannel
4 1 (1.56%) HDFS
4 1 (1.56%) SkyDNS
4 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (40.63%) Ansible
2 22 (34.38%) Kubernetes
3 10 (15.63%) Terraform
4 9 (14.06%) Puppet
5 5 (7.81%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.25%) Opscode Chef
7 3 (4.69%) Kibana
7 3 (4.69%) logstash
8 2 (3.13%) Sysdig
9 1 (1.56%) Galera Cluster
9 1 (1.56%) Grafana
9 1 (1.56%) Graphite
9 1 (1.56%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.56%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (1.56%) Mesos
9 1 (1.56%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (1.56%) rkt
Vendors
1 19 (29.69%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.06%) Atlassian
3 6 (9.38%) Splunk
4 5 (7.81%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.69%) Oracle
5 3 (4.69%) Red Hat
5 3 (4.69%) SaltStack
6 2 (3.13%) Mirantis
6 2 (3.13%) VMware
7 1 (1.56%) Fujitsu
7 1 (1.56%) Google
7 1 (1.56%) IBM
7 1 (1.56%) SAP