GitLab Contract Job Trends in Wales

GitLab
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring GitLab skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 36 44
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 +23
Contract jobs citing GitLab 2 12 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.56% 2.82% 3.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.44% 20.00% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 13
10th Percentile - £450 -
25th Percentile - £483 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -12.50% +1.69%
75th Percentile - £547 -
90th Percentile - £551 £640
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.36% -1.23% -6.98%

All Development Application Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 45 60 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 12.57% 14.12% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 45 48
10th Percentile £252 £209 £345
25th Percentile £268 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £503 £531
Median % change year-on-year -18.66% -5.41% -6.80%
75th Percentile £488 £544 £619
90th Percentile - £551 £691
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £20.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - -22.17% -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in Wales

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing GitLab.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing GitLab

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Wales region over the 6 months to 21 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
South Wales -1 2 £375 -28.57% 3
GitLab
UK

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Zephyr
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle