GitLab Contracts in Tyne and Wear

GitLab
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 18 27 41
Rank change year-on-year +9 +14 -12
Contract jobs citing GitLab 19 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 7.79% 2.06% 3.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.78% 33.33% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 8
10th Percentile £456 £334 £523
25th Percentile £466 £370 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £430 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -21.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £590 £490 £675
90th Percentile £635 £526 £683
North East median daily rate £525 £430 £550
% change year-on-year +22.09% -21.82% -8.33%

All Development Application Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 49 15 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.08% 6.17% 35.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 8 104
10th Percentile £335 £391 £476
25th Percentile £378 £444 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -14.22% -
75th Percentile £564 £549 £700
90th Percentile £626 £588 £775
North East median daily rate £475 £533 £575
% change year-on-year -10.80% -7.39% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 - -
North East median hourly rate £52.00 £46.18 £49.00
% change year-on-year +12.60% -5.76% -11.71%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in Tyne and Wear

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in Tyne and Wear

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in Tyne and Wear

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +5 19 £525 +22.09% 4
GitLab
North East

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 5 (26.32%) nginx
2 2 (10.53%) Jupyter
2 2 (10.53%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 16 (84.21%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) Kong
3 5 (26.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
5 2 (10.53%) Serverless
5 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.26%) AWS CodeCommit
6 1 (5.26%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) SSL
2 2 (10.53%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) SMS
2 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) MongoDB
2 4 (21.05%) MySQL
2 4 (21.05%) NoSQL
2 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
3 2 (10.53%) Metadata
3 2 (10.53%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Jenkins
2 4 (21.05%) Artifactory
2 4 (21.05%) Git
2 4 (21.05%) gulp
2 4 (21.05%) Maven
2 4 (21.05%) SonarQube
2 4 (21.05%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (15.79%) Selenium
General
1 13 (68.42%) Public Sector
2 4 (21.05%) Electronics
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Manufacturing
2 4 (21.05%) Marketing
2 4 (21.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Senior
2 6 (31.58%) Senior DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Lead
4 4 (21.05%) Lead DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) DevOps Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) Kafka
2 6 (31.58%) Spring
2 6 (31.58%) Spring Boot
3 4 (21.05%) AngularJS
3 4 (21.05%) Apache CXF
3 4 (21.05%) Dropwizard
3 4 (21.05%) Express.js
3 4 (21.05%) Hibernate
3 4 (21.05%) JAX-RS
3 4 (21.05%) MEAN Stack
3 4 (21.05%) MERN Stack
3 4 (21.05%) Mongoose
3 4 (21.05%) Node.js
3 4 (21.05%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (21.05%) React
3 4 (21.05%) Sequelize
4 3 (15.79%) pytest
4 3 (15.79%) REST
4 3 (15.79%) SOAP
5 2 (10.53%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (10.53%) CentOS
3 2 (10.53%) Unix
4 1 (5.26%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) DevOps
2 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
3 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (26.32%) Microservices
5 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (21.05%) Digital Marketing
5 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven
5 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (21.05%) Open Source
5 4 (21.05%) Operational Stability
5 4 (21.05%) Programme Management
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (10.53%) Data Integration
7 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
7 2 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (10.53%) Identity Management
7 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (10.53%) Mobile Device Management
7 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) Java
3 4 (21.05%) Bash
3 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
3 4 (21.05%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) Go
5 1 (5.26%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (68.42%) Security Cleared
2 10 (52.63%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
3 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (94.74%) Terraform
2 13 (68.42%) Kubernetes
3 7 (36.84%) Grafana
3 7 (36.84%) Prometheus
4 3 (15.79%) Packer
5 2 (10.53%) Ansible
5 2 (10.53%) Consul
5 2 (10.53%) HAProxy
5 2 (10.53%) Istio
5 2 (10.53%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (10.53%) linkerd
5 2 (10.53%) Rancher
5 2 (10.53%) ZABBIX
6 1 (5.26%) Kibana
6 1 (5.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) Apple
2 2 (10.53%) Databricks
2 2 (10.53%) ESET
2 2 (10.53%) Okta
2 2 (10.53%) Splunk