GitLab Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

GitLab
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring GitLab skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 14 23
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 +7
Contract jobs citing GitLab 11 14 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 5.09% 8.38% 3.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.45% 36.84% 25.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 2
10th Percentile £376 £334 £483
25th Percentile £406 £370 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £430 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% -16.10% -21.15%
75th Percentile £478 £490 £531
90th Percentile £575 £526 £543
North East median daily rate £465 £430 £513
% change year-on-year +8.14% -16.10% -16.33%

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 38 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 22.69% 22.75% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 17 14
10th Percentile £367 £325 £352
25th Percentile £439 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £470 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -8.29% -6.82%
75th Percentile £555 £560 £719
90th Percentile £581 £605 £828
North East median daily rate £480 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +1.59% -5.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £37.60 - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £44.00 - -
75th Percentile £48.00 - -
90th Percentile £50.40 - -
North East median hourly rate £44.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.72% - -16.79%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing GitLab.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing GitLab

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 2 September 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 2 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -10 11 £445 +3.49% 6
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 3 (27.27%) Documentum
2 2 (18.18%) FileNet
3 1 (9.09%) CMS
3 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (27.27%) Kong
2 3 (27.27%) Serverless
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
1 3 (27.27%) MySQL
1 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
1 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
1 4 (36.36%) SonarQube
1 4 (36.36%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (27.27%) Artifactory
2 3 (27.27%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) gulp
2 3 (27.27%) Maven
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Developer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Documentum Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Tester
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Node.js
2 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
2 3 (27.27%) Apache CXF
2 3 (27.27%) Dropwizard
2 3 (27.27%) Express.js
2 3 (27.27%) Hibernate
2 3 (27.27%) JAX-RS
2 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 3 (27.27%) MEAN Stack
2 3 (27.27%) MERN Stack
2 3 (27.27%) Mongoose
2 3 (27.27%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (27.27%) React
2 3 (27.27%) Sequelize
2 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Content Management
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
3 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) Microservices
3 3 (27.27%) Open Source
3 3 (27.27%) Operational Stability
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
4 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Scrum
4 1 (9.09%) Software Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Validation
4 1 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) Bash
3 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 3 (27.27%) Rust
4 3 (27.27%) SQL
5 1 (9.09%) Go
5 1 (9.09%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Terraform
2 5 (45.45%) Ansible
3 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
4 2 (18.18%) Grafana
5 1 (9.09%) Packer
5 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) OpenText