GitLab Contracts in the South West

GitLab
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 138 142
Rank change year-on-year +48 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing GitLab 24 16 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.40% 0.49% 0.62%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.11% 4.36% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 16
10th Percentile £327 £475 £341
25th Percentile £432 £499 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £533 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.88% +21.83% -15.87%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £488
90th Percentile £662 £688 £516
England median daily rate £523 £563 £593
% change year-on-year -7.11% -5.06% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £82.96 £74.44 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.45% - -
England median hourly rate £82.96 £74.44 £39.60
% change year-on-year +11.45% +87.98% -27.00%

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 183 367 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.65% 11.31% 12.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 216 302
10th Percentile £385 £425 £375
25th Percentile £456 £475 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £562 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% +7.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £607
90th Percentile £685 £700 £699
England median daily rate £500 £527 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -4.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 61 44
10th Percentile £56.50 £56.49 £51.21
25th Percentile £65.31 £65.00 £54.69
Median hourly rate £71.25 £70.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +13.82% +11.82%
75th Percentile £76.88 - £72.25
90th Percentile £83.04 £77.50 £79.40
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +23.00%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the South West

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the South West.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the South West

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the South West over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the South West

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in the South West

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 1 June 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 +22 11 £450 -15.57% 56
Gloucestershire +16 5 £695 +26.36% 113
Wiltshire +39 3 £600 +26.32% 43
Dorset - 3 £428 - 41
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) Camunda
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (8.33%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) BrowserStack
5 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.17%) Pulumi
5 1 (4.17%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.17%) Flink
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (20.83%) Bitbucket
3 2 (8.33%) Git
4 1 (4.17%) Appium
4 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.17%) Code Climate
4 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.17%) JIRA
4 1 (4.17%) Selenium
4 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Electronics
4 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
3 4 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Automation Tester
4 2 (8.33%) Backend Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) Software Tester
4 2 (8.33%) Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Junior
5 1 (4.17%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (12.50%) Spring
2 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 2 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (8.33%) React
3 2 (8.33%) REST
4 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.17%) Hugging Face
4 1 (4.17%) Kafka
4 1 (4.17%) Keycloak
4 1 (4.17%) Playwright
4 1 (4.17%) RESTful
4 1 (4.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 14 (58.33%) Linux
2 5 (20.83%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) CentOS
3 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 13 (54.17%) Containerisation
3 9 (37.50%) DevOps
4 5 (20.83%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
5 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Task Automation
7 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (8.33%) Configuration Management
7 2 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
7 2 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (8.33%) ITIL
7 2 (8.33%) ITSM
7 2 (8.33%) Performance Management
7 2 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
7 2 (8.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) Java
3 4 (16.67%) Bash
4 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) Ruby
5 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 9 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 11 (45.83%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Ansible
1 11 (45.83%) Kubernetes
2 9 (37.50%) Puppet
3 5 (20.83%) Terraform
4 2 (8.33%) Automic
4 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) Atlassian
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.17%) Citrix
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.17%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk
3 1 (4.17%) VMware