GitLab Contracts in the Thames Valley

GitLab
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 112 125
Rank change year-on-year +35 +13 +31
Contract jobs citing GitLab 25 33 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.65% 1.23% 0.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.12% 12.74% 8.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 10
10th Percentile £286 £585 £420
25th Percentile £413 £619 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £650 £545
Median % change year-on-year -25.92% +19.27% -4.39%
75th Percentile £501 £688 £620
90th Percentile £501 £720 £623
South East median daily rate £525 £593 £590
% change year-on-year -11.35% +0.42% -4.07%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 177 259 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.71% 9.64% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 158 212
10th Percentile £359 £329 £363
25th Percentile £452 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.04% +12.37%
75th Percentile £589 £650 £629
90th Percentile £638 £688 £723
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 2
10th Percentile £26.28 - £53.13
25th Percentile £34.43 £46.25 £55.94
Median hourly rate £48.00 £55.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% -10.20% -6.49%
75th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £65.94
90th Percentile £73.60 - £68.38
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £56.24
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.14% +2.25%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the Thames Valley

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the Thames Valley

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the Thames Valley

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in the Thames Valley

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +22 20 £501 -24.45% 8
Buckinghamshire - 5 £425 - 7
GitLab
South East

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (8.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (68.00%) AWS
1 17 (68.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) GCP
3 5 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (8.00%) Miro
4 2 (8.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.00%) Azure AI
5 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) BGP
1 3 (12.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (8.00%) DNS
2 2 (8.00%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (8.00%) IPv6
2 2 (8.00%) OSPF
2 2 (8.00%) SAN
2 2 (8.00%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (8.00%) TACACS
2 2 (8.00%) VSAN
3 1 (4.00%) MPLS
3 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (16.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (16.00%) MySQL
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.00%) Big Data
4 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (64.00%) JIRA
2 14 (56.00%) Jenkins
3 13 (52.00%) Cucumber
3 13 (52.00%) REST Assured
3 13 (52.00%) Selenium
4 9 (36.00%) SonarQube
5 3 (12.00%) Git
6 2 (8.00%) DBeaver
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (32.00%) Law
4 4 (16.00%) Police
5 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Java Engineer
1 9 (36.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (36.00%) Software Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Python Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) DBA
5 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 1 (4.00%) SQL DBA
6 1 (4.00%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (56.00%) REST
2 13 (52.00%) Java EE
3 9 (36.00%) ARM Templates
4 3 (12.00%) Django
4 3 (12.00%) FastAPI
4 3 (12.00%) Flask
4 3 (12.00%) RESTful
4 3 (12.00%) YAML
5 1 (4.00%) JSON
5 1 (4.00%) NETCONF
5 1 (4.00%) PyTorch
5 1 (4.00%) RESTCONF
5 1 (4.00%) scikit-learn
5 1 (4.00%) SOAP
5 1 (4.00%) TensorFlow
5 1 (4.00%) XML
5 1 (4.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Windows
3 1 (4.00%) CentOS
3 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) DevOps
2 16 (64.00%) Configuration Management
3 14 (56.00%) Continuous Integration
3 14 (56.00%) Test Automation
4 13 (52.00%) Software Architecture
4 13 (52.00%) Software Engineering
4 13 (52.00%) Technical Leadership
5 12 (48.00%) Containerisation
6 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (36.00%) Decision-Making
7 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (16.00%) Agile
10 3 (12.00%) Asynchronous Programming
10 3 (12.00%) Microservices
10 3 (12.00%) Migration
10 3 (12.00%) Multithreading
11 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Management
11 2 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Java
2 6 (24.00%) Python
3 4 (16.00%) SQL
4 1 (4.00%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 12 (48.00%) Ansible
1 12 (48.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (40.00%) Terraform
3 9 (36.00%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (36.00%) Podman
4 2 (8.00%) Argo
5 1 (4.00%) Grafana
5 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Cisco
1 3 (12.00%) Google
2 2 (8.00%) Dell
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (8.00%) VMware