GitLab Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

GitLab
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring GitLab skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 97 130
Rank change year-on-year +7 +33 +36
Contract jobs citing GitLab 28 28 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.68% 1.24% 0.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.56% 11.11% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 8
10th Percentile £319 £390 £544
25th Percentile £463 £506 £574
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £604
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -0.62% +9.77%
75th Percentile £501 £663 £653
90th Percentile £620 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £507 £575 £591
% change year-on-year -11.91% -2.75% -1.46%

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 180 252 286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.82% 11.16% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 164 190
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £625
90th Percentile £600 £674 £699
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £545
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.96% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 3
10th Percentile £47.99 £37.25 £23.25
25th Percentile £63.56 £60.12 £33.75
Median hourly rate £76.00 £65.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.03% +24.76% -18.52%
75th Percentile £87.97 £84.00 £56.63
90th Percentile £89.63 £95.00 £58.35
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £58.25
% change year-on-year -15.38% +11.59% -7.36%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing GitLab.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing GitLab

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 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the Thames Valley

GitLab
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing GitLab.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing GitLab

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 September 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 +5 22 £501 -19.92% 14
Buckinghamshire +8 6 £375 -40.08%
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 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.57%) Appian
1 1 (3.57%) Confluence
1 1 (3.57%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 19 (67.86%) Azure
2 18 (64.29%) AWS
3 10 (35.71%) GitHub
4 7 (25.00%) GCP
5 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.57%) Datadog
6 1 (3.57%) dbt
6 1 (3.57%) SaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.57%) Stackdriver
6 1 (3.57%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (3.57%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) BGP
1 3 (10.71%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (7.14%) DNS
2 2 (7.14%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (7.14%) HTTP
2 2 (7.14%) IPv6
2 2 (7.14%) OSPF
2 2 (7.14%) SAN
2 2 (7.14%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (7.14%) TACACS
2 2 (7.14%) VSAN
3 1 (3.57%) MPLS
3 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) MongoDB
1 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (14.29%) MySQL
3 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (60.71%) Jenkins
2 16 (57.14%) JIRA
3 14 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 14 (50.00%) Selenium
4 13 (46.43%) REST Assured
5 10 (35.71%) SonarQube
6 4 (14.29%) Git
7 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.57%) MLflow
7 1 (3.57%) Mocha
7 1 (3.57%) Robot Framework
General
1 14 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (28.57%) Law
4 5 (17.86%) Telecoms
5 4 (14.29%) Police
6 2 (7.14%) Finance
6 2 (7.14%) Retail
7 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Java Engineer
1 9 (32.14%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (32.14%) Software Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) GCP DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Automation Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) JIRA Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (50.00%) REST
2 13 (46.43%) Java EE
3 9 (32.14%) ARM Templates
4 4 (14.29%) RESTful
4 4 (14.29%) YAML
5 3 (10.71%) Django
5 3 (10.71%) FastAPI
5 3 (10.71%) Flask
6 2 (7.14%) JSON
6 2 (7.14%) NETCONF
6 2 (7.14%) Web Services
6 2 (7.14%) XML
6 2 (7.14%) YANG
7 1 (3.57%) Jinja
7 1 (3.57%) OAuth
7 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
7 1 (3.57%) OpenID
7 1 (3.57%) SOAP
7 1 (3.57%) Swagger
7 1 (3.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) CentOS
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (78.57%) DevOps
2 15 (53.57%) Configuration Management
3 14 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 14 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 13 (46.43%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (46.43%) Software Architecture
4 13 (46.43%) Software Engineering
4 13 (46.43%) Test Automation
5 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
6 10 (35.71%) Decision-Making
6 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (21.43%) Microservices
8 4 (14.29%) Agile
8 4 (14.29%) Asynchronous Programming
9 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (10.71%) Multithreading
10 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
10 2 (7.14%) Data Integration
10 2 (7.14%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) Java
2 9 (32.14%) Python
3 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.14%) Korn
3 2 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) SC Cleared
1 13 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) EU AI Act
1 1 (3.57%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (53.57%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 16 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 16 (57.14%) Terraform
2 12 (42.86%) Ansible
3 9 (32.14%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (32.14%) Podman
4 2 (7.14%) Argo
5 1 (3.57%) Grafana
5 1 (3.57%) Kubeflow
5 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Cisco
2 3 (10.71%) Google
2 3 (10.71%) Red Hat
3 2 (7.14%) Ab Initio
3 2 (7.14%) Dell
4 1 (3.57%) IBM
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) Veracode