GitLab Contract Job Trends in the South West

GitLab
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 100 132
Rank change year-on-year +8 +32 +18
Contract jobs citing GitLab 41 21 21
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.79% 0.95% 0.68%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.78% 7.47% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 12 20
10th Percentile £411 £463 £400
25th Percentile £456 £585 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +27.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £734 £564
90th Percentile £675 - £645
England median daily rate £525 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -6.87% +2.50% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
Median hourly rate £89.00 £74.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.27% -7.50% -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -9.46% -7.50% +20.75%

All Development Application Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 348 281 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.18% 12.69% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 150 262
10th Percentile £363 £397 £400
25th Percentile £450 £466 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - -
75th Percentile £647 £649 £638
90th Percentile £738 £714 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 58
10th Percentile £15.66 £61.25 £47.89
25th Percentile £20.82 £62.81 £51.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £73.75 £73.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £74.72 £80.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in the South West

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing GitLab.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing GitLab

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the South West over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the South West

GitLab
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing GitLab.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing GitLab

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Bristol +6 17 £500 -20.00% 15
Wiltshire -8 11 £600 +13.74% 12
Gloucestershire -4 7 £600 -16.96% 9
Dorset - 5 £538 - 3
Somerset - 1 £450 - 2
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (17.07%) Apache
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) CMS
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (51.22%) AWS
2 8 (19.51%) Azure
3 7 (17.07%) GitHub
4 6 (14.63%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (12.20%) OpenShift
6 4 (9.76%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (9.76%) Amazon S3
6 4 (9.76%) GCP
6 4 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.88%) Serverless
8 2 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
9 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.88%) DNS
2 2 (4.88%) Firewall
2 2 (4.88%) Network Security
2 2 (4.88%) SSL
2 2 (4.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.44%) Big Data
2 1 (2.44%) CockroachDB
2 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.44%) Power BI
2 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (58.54%) Jenkins
2 12 (29.27%) Git
3 9 (21.95%) Artifactory
4 5 (12.20%) SonarQube
5 4 (9.76%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (7.32%) JIRA
7 2 (4.88%) Maven
8 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.44%) CircleCI
8 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.44%) JUnit
8 1 (2.44%) Mocha
8 1 (2.44%) Postman
8 1 (2.44%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.44%) SoapUI
8 1 (2.44%) TestNG
General
1 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.07%) Finance
3 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.32%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.88%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Electronics
6 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.44%) Marketing
6 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Senior
4 4 (9.76%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Administrator
6 2 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Security Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Architect
7 1 (2.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (2.44%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Ruby Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (24.39%) REST
2 9 (21.95%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (17.07%) Apache NiFi
4 5 (12.20%) Node.js
5 3 (7.32%) Express.js
5 3 (7.32%) RESTful
6 2 (4.88%) .NET
6 2 (4.88%) Kafka
6 2 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (4.88%) React
7 1 (2.44%) Bootstrap
7 1 (2.44%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (2.44%) JAX-RS
7 1 (2.44%) Jest
7 1 (2.44%) LESS
7 1 (2.44%) ModSecurity
7 1 (2.44%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.44%) pytest
7 1 (2.44%) Sass
7 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
1 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
1 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.44%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.44%) Data Fabric
2 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.44%) PKI
2 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (34.15%) Windows
2 13 (31.71%) Linux
3 3 (7.32%) Unix
3 3 (7.32%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.44%) Android
4 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (87.80%) CI/CD
2 30 (73.17%) DevOps
3 16 (39.02%) Containerisation
3 16 (39.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (26.83%) Agile
5 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (21.95%) DevSecOps
6 9 (21.95%) Workflow
7 8 (19.51%) User Experience
8 7 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (17.07%) Software Engineering
9 6 (14.63%) Microservices
9 6 (14.63%) Task Automation
9 6 (14.63%) Test Automation
10 5 (12.20%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (12.20%) Deployment Automation
10 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (12.20%) Migration
10 5 (12.20%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (12.20%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) Python
2 15 (36.59%) PowerShell
3 13 (31.71%) Bash
4 7 (17.07%) Java
5 6 (14.63%) JavaScript
5 6 (14.63%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.32%) C
6 3 (7.32%) C#
7 1 (2.44%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.44%) Objective-C
7 1 (2.44%) Ruby
7 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.44%) SQL
7 1 (2.44%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (70.73%) Security Cleared
2 17 (41.46%) SC Cleared
3 14 (34.15%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (7.32%) Degree
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.44%) CISSP
6 1 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.44%) GIAC
6 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.88%) NCSC
3 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.44%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.44%) NIST
3 1 (2.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (46.34%) Docker
2 4 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (63.41%) Terraform
2 24 (58.54%) Ansible
3 19 (46.34%) Kubernetes
4 14 (34.15%) Grafana
4 14 (34.15%) Prometheus
5 4 (9.76%) Packer
5 4 (9.76%) Podman
5 4 (9.76%) Puppet
6 3 (7.32%) Proxmox
7 2 (4.88%) Rancher
8 1 (2.44%) Argo
8 1 (2.44%) Nagios
8 1 (2.44%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) Red Hat
2 4 (9.76%) Splunk
2 4 (9.76%) VMware
3 2 (4.88%) CheckPoint
3 2 (4.88%) F5
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.88%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle
4 1 (2.44%) SAP
4 1 (2.44%) TOWER Software