GitLab Contracts in the West Midlands

GitLab
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 105 107
Rank change year-on-year +25 +2 -29
Contract jobs citing GitLab 28 6 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.81% 0.29% 0.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.21% 2.86% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 4 20
10th Percentile £356 - £480
25th Percentile £455 £275 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £388 £540
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% -28.24% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £503 £543
90th Percentile £627 £531 £578
England median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.73 £74.22 £59.80
% change year-on-year -2.01% +24.11% +10.23%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 212 210 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.71% 10.17% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 154 183
10th Percentile £380 £260 £314
25th Percentile £425 £358 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -14.29% +6.06%
75th Percentile £537 £538 £600
90th Percentile £624 £591 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 1
10th Percentile - £10.50 -
25th Percentile - £43.88 £31.69
Median hourly rate - £56.88 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year - +70.36% -
75th Percentile - £58.75 £35.08
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +16.28%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the West Midlands

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the West Midlands

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the West Midlands

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in the West Midlands

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 July 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
Shropshire - 15 £525 -
Birmingham +19 7 £500 - 16
Worcestershire +6 4 £550 +15.79% 4
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (21.43%) Confluence
2 3 (10.71%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) AWS
2 13 (46.43%) Azure
3 7 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.71%) GCP
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (7.14%) GitHub
5 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (3.57%) DNS
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 3 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Jenkins
2 7 (25.00%) JIRA
3 6 (21.43%) Git
4 4 (14.29%) JUnit
5 3 (10.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (10.71%) Bitbucket
5 3 (10.71%) JMeter
5 3 (10.71%) Postman
5 3 (10.71%) REST Assured
5 3 (10.71%) Selenium
5 3 (10.71%) TestNG
5 3 (10.71%) Travis CI
6 2 (7.14%) Maven
7 1 (3.57%) ClearCase
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Financial Institution
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Tester
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Software Tester
6 1 (3.57%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) Kafka
1 5 (17.86%) Spring
2 4 (14.29%) Gherkin
3 2 (7.14%) Apache Camel
3 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.57%) Quarkus
4 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.57%) Web Services
4 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) PKI
2 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (14.29%) Unix
2 4 (14.29%) Windows
3 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) CI/CD
2 16 (57.14%) DevOps
3 11 (39.29%) Agile
3 11 (39.29%) Test Automation
4 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 7 (25.00%) Software Delivery
7 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (21.43%) Microservices
8 5 (17.86%) Containerisation
8 5 (17.86%) SDLC
9 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
9 4 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
9 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (14.29%) Performance Testing
9 4 (14.29%) Regression Testing
9 4 (14.29%) Test Scripting
10 3 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (10.71%) Security Testing
10 3 (10.71%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) Java
2 6 (21.43%) Bash
2 6 (21.43%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) SQL
4 3 (10.71%) PL/SQL
4 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
5 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.57%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) Security Cleared
2 13 (46.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (14.29%) Degree
3 4 (14.29%) ISTQB
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Certification
4 3 (10.71%) CEH
4 3 (10.71%) CISSP
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.57%) NCSC
2 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (46.43%) Ansible
2 12 (42.86%) Terraform
3 10 (35.71%) Kubernetes
4 3 (10.71%) Kibana
4 3 (10.71%) Opsview
4 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.14%) Grafana
5 2 (7.14%) Puppet
6 1 (3.57%) FortiGate
6 1 (3.57%) logstash
6 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.57%) QRadar
6 1 (3.57%) Rancher
6 1 (3.57%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Atlassian
1 3 (10.71%) IBM
1 3 (10.71%) PagerDuty
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco
3 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.57%) KANA
3 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.57%) Splunk