GitLab Contracts in the UK excluding London

GitLab
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 198 210
Rank change year-on-year +51 +12 -20
Contract jobs citing GitLab 229 207 257
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.77% 1.02% 1.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.88% 9.26% 8.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 145 185
10th Percentile £344 £417 £434
25th Percentile £432 £465 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -
75th Percentile £550 £625 £614
90th Percentile £653 £689 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £558 £575
% change year-on-year -5.83% -3.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
Median hourly rate £82.96 £74.44 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +11.45% +87.98% -17.24%
UK median hourly rate £88.98 £68.22 £39.60
% change year-on-year +30.43% +72.27% -20.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,778 2,236 3,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.74% 11.03% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,180 1,460 2,251
10th Percentile £321 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £613 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 177 167
10th Percentile £24.17 £40.94 £45.61
25th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +5.69% +11.82%
75th Percentile £74.38 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.59 £79.50 £78.80
UK median hourly rate £58.88 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -9.42% +5.69% +17.14%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the UK excluding London

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the UK excluding London

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the UK excluding London

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in the UK excluding London

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
North of England +28 100 £500 -13.04% 162
North West +18 54 £500 -16.67% 87
South East +13 35 £501 -16.23% 141
Scotland +19 31 £435 -5.95% 31
Yorkshire +23 30 £538 -6.32% 57
Midlands +36 29 £493 +30.20% 69
West Midlands +24 24 £525 +35.48% 37
South West +43 21 £460 -13.70% 119
North East +9 19 £515 +19.77% 18
East of England +32 11 £450 +80.00% 61
East Midlands +11 5 £311 -17.78% 29
Northern Ireland -4 1 £500 -21.88% 14
Wales -7 1 £425 -22.02% 11
GitLab
UK

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (10.48%) Confluence
2 11 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.06%) Apache
4 5 (2.18%) WebLogic
5 4 (1.75%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (1.31%) Documentum
6 3 (1.31%) FileNet
7 2 (0.87%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.87%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.87%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.44%) Mule
8 1 (0.44%) nginx
8 1 (0.44%) SAS
8 1 (0.44%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 139 (60.70%) AWS
2 54 (23.58%) Azure
3 29 (12.66%) GCP
4 28 (12.23%) GitHub
5 24 (10.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (9.17%) Serverless
7 20 (8.73%) Amazon S3
8 16 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (5.68%) OpenShift
11 10 (4.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (4.37%) AWS CodePipeline
12 9 (3.93%) Kong
13 8 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (3.06%) Apigee
15 6 (2.62%) Amazon SQS
16 5 (2.18%) Amazon EMR
16 5 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.99%) DNS
2 9 (3.93%) Firewall
2 9 (3.93%) SAN
3 5 (2.18%) HTTP
4 4 (1.75%) DHCP
4 4 (1.75%) NAS
4 4 (1.75%) Network Security
4 4 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.31%) DMZ
5 3 (1.31%) iSCSI
5 3 (1.31%) VSAN
6 2 (0.87%) BGP
6 2 (0.87%) Calico
6 2 (0.87%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.87%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.87%) IPv6
6 2 (0.87%) OSPF
6 2 (0.87%) SMS
6 2 (0.87%) TACACS
6 2 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.41%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (9.17%) MongoDB
3 14 (6.11%) NoSQL
4 13 (5.68%) MySQL
5 12 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.06%) Data Lake
7 7 (3.06%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.18%) Oracle Database
8 5 (2.18%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.75%) DB2
9 4 (1.75%) GIS
9 4 (1.75%) ObjectStore
10 3 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.31%) Metadata
11 2 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.87%) Metadata Repository
11 2 (0.87%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 100 (43.67%) Jenkins
2 54 (23.58%) JIRA
3 39 (17.03%) Git
4 35 (15.28%) Selenium
5 26 (11.35%) Maven
6 23 (10.04%) Cucumber
7 22 (9.61%) REST Assured
8 21 (9.17%) Bitbucket
9 17 (7.42%) SonarQube
10 15 (6.55%) JUnit
11 12 (5.24%) Mockito
12 11 (4.80%) Postman
13 10 (4.37%) Cypress.io
13 10 (4.37%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (3.49%) Eclipse
14 8 (3.49%) JMeter
14 8 (3.49%) TeamCity
14 8 (3.49%) TestNG
15 7 (3.06%) Artifactory
15 7 (3.06%) Gradle
General
1 58 (25.33%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.03%) Public Sector
3 29 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.61%) Finance
5 16 (6.99%) Banking
6 13 (5.68%) Telecoms
7 10 (4.37%) Electronics
7 10 (4.37%) Manufacturing
7 10 (4.37%) Marketing
8 8 (3.49%) Law
9 4 (1.75%) Police
10 3 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.31%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.31%) Military
10 3 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Retail
12 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (23.14%) Developer
1 53 (23.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (16.16%) Senior
3 21 (9.17%) Software Engineer
4 17 (7.42%) Data Engineer
4 17 (7.42%) Java Developer
4 17 (7.42%) Lead
5 15 (6.55%) AWS Engineer
5 15 (6.55%) Senior DevOps
6 14 (6.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 13 (5.68%) Java Engineer
8 10 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (4.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 9 (3.93%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (3.93%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (3.93%) Test Engineer
10 8 (3.49%) Lead DevOps
10 8 (3.49%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.49%) Senior Developer
11 7 (3.06%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.54%) React
1 31 (13.54%) REST
2 27 (11.79%) Kafka
3 26 (11.35%) Spring Boot
4 23 (10.04%) Spring
5 19 (8.30%) RESTful
6 17 (7.42%) AngularJS
7 15 (6.55%) Java EE
8 14 (6.11%) Node.js
9 12 (5.24%) Hibernate
9 12 (5.24%) Playwright
10 11 (4.80%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (4.37%) ARM Templates
11 10 (4.37%) AWS CDK
12 8 (3.49%) cloud-init
12 8 (3.49%) Swagger
13 7 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (3.06%) HTML
13 7 (3.06%) JAX-RS
13 7 (3.06%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.37%) Cloud Native
1 10 (4.37%) PKI
2 8 (3.49%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.18%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.31%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.31%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.31%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.87%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.44%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.44%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 64 (27.95%) Linux
2 19 (8.30%) Windows
3 18 (7.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (6.11%) Unix
5 12 (5.24%) CentOS
6 10 (4.37%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.31%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.87%) Android
8 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.44%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (56.77%) CI/CD
2 119 (51.97%) DevOps
3 86 (37.55%) Agile
4 72 (31.44%) Test Automation
5 56 (24.45%) Containerisation
6 51 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (20.52%) Microservices
8 46 (20.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 41 (17.90%) Software Engineering
10 38 (16.59%) Continuous Integration
11 35 (15.28%) Migration
12 28 (12.23%) Scrum
13 26 (11.35%) Configuration Management
14 22 (9.61%) Technical Leadership
15 19 (8.30%) TDD
16 17 (7.42%) Full-Stack Development
17 16 (6.99%) Decision-Making
17 16 (6.99%) Infrastructure Automation
18 14 (6.11%) Continuous Improvement
18 14 (6.11%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 96 (41.92%) Python
2 81 (35.37%) Java
3 57 (24.89%) SQL
4 38 (16.59%) JavaScript
5 29 (12.66%) Bash
6 18 (7.86%) Shell Script
7 17 (7.42%) PowerShell
7 17 (7.42%) TypeScript
8 11 (4.80%) Go
9 6 (2.62%) C++
10 4 (1.75%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.31%) C#
11 3 (1.31%) Rust
12 2 (0.87%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.87%) XPath
13 1 (0.44%) Groovy
13 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.44%) PHP
13 1 (0.44%) Ruby
13 1 (0.44%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 88 (38.43%) Security Cleared
2 73 (31.88%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.68%) Degree
4 9 (3.93%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.49%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.62%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.31%) CEH
8 3 (1.31%) CISSP
9 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.87%) CCNA
9 2 (0.87%) CCNP
9 2 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.44%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.99%) QA
2 9 (3.93%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.18%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.18%) WCAG
4 3 (1.31%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.31%) NCSC
5 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.44%) COBIT
6 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.44%) GDPR
6 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.44%) NIST
6 1 (0.44%) SLA
6 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 73 (31.88%) Docker
2 17 (7.42%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.18%) vSphere
5 4 (1.75%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.75%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.87%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 85 (37.12%) Terraform
2 83 (36.24%) Kubernetes
3 63 (27.51%) Ansible
4 24 (10.48%) Grafana
5 19 (8.30%) Prometheus
6 15 (6.55%) Puppet
7 10 (4.37%) Packer
7 10 (4.37%) Podman
8 9 (3.93%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (3.06%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.75%) Dell DRAC
10 4 (1.75%) Istio
10 4 (1.75%) Kibana
10 4 (1.75%) Rancher
10 4 (1.75%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.75%) vRealize
11 3 (1.31%) Opsview
12 2 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.87%) Salt
12 2 (0.87%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (8.73%) Google
1 20 (8.73%) Oracle
2 14 (6.11%) Atlassian
3 13 (5.68%) VMware
4 11 (4.80%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.80%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.37%) SAP
5 10 (4.37%) Splunk
6 8 (3.49%) IBM
7 6 (2.62%) Dell
7 6 (2.62%) Intel
7 6 (2.62%) PagerDuty
7 6 (2.62%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.75%) Informatica
9 3 (1.31%) Cisco
9 3 (1.31%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.31%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.31%) Infoblox
9 3 (1.31%) Veracode
10 2 (0.87%) MuleSoft