GitLab Contract Job Trends in Southampton

GitLab
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitLab 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 2.67% - 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.74% - 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £459 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £720 - -
75th Percentile £730 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £633 £520
% change year-on-year -17.06% +21.73% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Development Application Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 23 12 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 12.30% 10.53% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 5 4
10th Percentile £256 - £378
25th Percentile £425 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £507
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -30.97% -20.47%
75th Percentile £590 £394 £609
90th Percentile £730 £450 £609
Hampshire median daily rate £506 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -1.36% -6.68% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £66.50
25th Percentile - - £68.75
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - £79.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.11 £60.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -20.48% -3.20% +4.17%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in Southampton

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing GitLab.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing GitLab

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in Southampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in Southampton over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in Southampton

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) CMake
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GoogleTest
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) NUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) WinForms Developer
2 1 (20.00%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) WinForms
1 2 (40.00%) WPF
2 1 (20.00%) Flask
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (20.00%) pytest
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (20.00%) GitOps
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) SysML
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Argo
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Rancher
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) VMware