GitLab Contracts in the South East

GitLab
England > South East

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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 174 217
Rank change year-on-year +50 +43 -50
Contract jobs citing GitLab 68 37 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.24% 0.65% 0.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.83% 5.02% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 18 25
10th Percentile £383 £455 £500
25th Percentile £519 £483 £598
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £578 £615
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% -6.10% +46.43%
75th Percentile £672 £632 £688
90th Percentile £720 £665 £756
England median daily rate £575 £575 £586
% change year-on-year - -1.92% +17.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - £43.23
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £46.20
75th Percentile £77.50 - £49.18
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.44 £42.30 £51.88
% change year-on-year +75.98% -18.46% +15.28%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 530 737 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 9.67% 12.95% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 484 643
10th Percentile £318 £377 £356
25th Percentile £400 £462 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £698 £675
England median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 37 25
10th Percentile £39.60 £22.16 £41.20
25th Percentile £51.81 £50.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £56.24 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.14% +2.25% +14.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.52
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +9.31%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion 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

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

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the South East

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the South East over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the South East

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend 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 7 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley +15 32 £650 +19.27% 12
Berkshire -1 28 £663 +21.56% 4
Hampshire +15 19 £595 -0.83% 14
West Sussex - 12 £575 -
Oxfordshire +5 4 £600 - 4
Middlesex +3 2 - -
Surrey - 1 £450 - 1
Sussex - 1 £350 -
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (16.18%) Apache
1 11 (16.18%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (14.71%) Confluence
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 27 (39.71%) AWS
2 20 (29.41%) Azure
3 15 (22.06%) GitHub
4 6 (8.82%) IaaS
5 5 (7.35%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.94%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (2.94%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.94%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.94%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.94%) Route 53
7 2 (2.94%) Serverless
7 2 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.18%) BGP
1 11 (16.18%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (16.18%) MPLS
1 11 (16.18%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (16.18%) VPN
2 3 (4.41%) Firewall
2 3 (4.41%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (2.94%) DNS
3 2 (2.94%) SAN
4 1 (1.47%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.47%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.47%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (44.12%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (29.41%) MongoDB
3 16 (23.53%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.35%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (7.35%) Couchbase
4 5 (7.35%) MySQL
4 5 (7.35%) RDBMS
4 5 (7.35%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 36 (52.94%) JIRA
2 21 (30.88%) Jenkins
3 15 (22.06%) Git
4 14 (20.59%) Selenium
5 13 (19.12%) Cucumber
5 13 (19.12%) SonarQube
6 12 (17.65%) REST Assured
7 11 (16.18%) Robot Framework
7 11 (16.18%) TestRail
8 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.94%) VersionOne
9 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.47%) JUnit
9 1 (1.47%) MagicDraw
9 1 (1.47%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (1.47%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.47%) Spinnaker
9 1 (1.47%) TestNG
9 1 (1.47%) Travis CI
General
1 16 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.06%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.24%) Law
4 8 (11.76%) Police
5 1 (1.47%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.47%) Aviation
5 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (20.59%) Senior
2 11 (16.18%) Developer
3 10 (14.71%) Network Engineer
3 10 (14.71%) Test Engineer
4 9 (13.24%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) Platform Specialist
6 7 (10.29%) Linux Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Software Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Database Specialist
7 6 (8.82%) Java Developer
7 6 (8.82%) Java Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Developer
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Administrator
9 4 (5.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (45.59%) REST
2 13 (19.12%) Java EE
3 12 (17.65%) ARM Templates
4 11 (16.18%) NETCONF
4 11 (16.18%) RESTCONF
4 11 (16.18%) SOAP
4 11 (16.18%) YANG
5 5 (7.35%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (7.35%) React
6 3 (4.41%) Node.js
6 3 (4.41%) OAuth
6 3 (4.41%) OpenID
7 2 (2.94%) CSS
7 2 (2.94%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.94%) HTML
7 2 (2.94%) Keycloak
7 2 (2.94%) LDAP
7 2 (2.94%) Redux
7 2 (2.94%) SAML
7 2 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.06%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (13.24%) Clustering
3 8 (11.76%) Replication
4 3 (4.41%) Smart Meter
5 2 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.94%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.47%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 22 (32.35%) Linux
2 11 (16.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (13.24%) VMS
4 7 (10.29%) Unix
5 4 (5.88%) Windows
6 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.47%) Solaris
7 1 (1.47%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.47%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (51.47%) Agile
2 34 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 33 (48.53%) Containerisation
4 27 (39.71%) CI/CD
5 24 (35.29%) Continuous Integration
6 23 (33.82%) Scrum
7 21 (30.88%) DevOps
7 21 (30.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (27.94%) Software Engineering
9 16 (23.53%) Configuration Management
10 15 (22.06%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (22.06%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (19.12%) Decision-Making
11 13 (19.12%) Software Architecture
12 12 (17.65%) Integration Testing
12 12 (17.65%) Unit Testing
12 12 (17.65%) Workflow
13 11 (16.18%) Performance Testing
13 11 (16.18%) Regression Testing
13 11 (16.18%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (33.82%) Python
2 15 (22.06%) Java
2 15 (22.06%) SQL
3 14 (20.59%) Bash
4 8 (11.76%) Go
5 5 (7.35%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.35%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.41%) C++
6 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.94%) C#
7 2 (2.94%) Scala
8 1 (1.47%) Assembly Language
8 1 (1.47%) C
8 1 (1.47%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 40 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 36 (52.94%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.41%) Degree
4 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.47%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) IEC 61508
1 1 (1.47%) MISRA
1 1 (1.47%) MISRA C
System Software
1 30 (44.12%) Docker
2 15 (22.06%) vSphere
3 12 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (7.35%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (5.88%) Active Directory
6 2 (2.94%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.94%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.47%) NFS
Systems Management
1 35 (51.47%) Ansible
1 35 (51.47%) Kubernetes
2 31 (45.59%) Terraform
3 12 (17.65%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (17.65%) Podman
4 9 (13.24%) Packer
5 8 (11.76%) vRealize
6 7 (10.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (4.41%) Rancher
8 2 (2.94%) VxRail
9 1 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.47%) Grafana
9 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (1.47%) Nessus
9 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.47%) SCCM
9 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (30.88%) VMware
2 14 (20.59%) Oracle
3 12 (17.65%) Red Hat
4 9 (13.24%) SolarWinds
5 5 (7.35%) Arqiva
5 5 (7.35%) Veritas
6 3 (4.41%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.94%) Dell
7 2 (2.94%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.94%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.47%) EMC