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 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 77 106 71
Rank change year-on-year +29 -35 +24
Contract jobs citing GitLab 20 5 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.49% 0.26% 2.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.11% 2.38% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 63
10th Percentile - - £480
25th Percentile £455 £275 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £388 £540
Median % change year-on-year +37.03% -28.24% +6.40%
75th Percentile £569 £503 -
90th Percentile £636 £531 £593
England median daily rate £530 £574 £590
% change year-on-year -7.63% -2.75% +0.85%

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 180 210 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.38% 10.79% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 149 248
10th Percentile £399 £260 £361
25th Percentile £449 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -16.36% +9.80%
75th Percentile £548 £536 £590
90th Percentile £648 £556 £700
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 1
10th Percentile - £10.50 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.88 £31.69
Median hourly rate £57.50 £56.25 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +68.49% -14.40%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 £35.08
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

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 1 May 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 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
Shropshire - 15 £525 - 1
Birmingham +19 3 £550 - 8
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 8 (40.00%) Confluence
2 2 (10.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (5.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) AWS
2 9 (45.00%) Azure
3 6 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) JIRA
2 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (20.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (15.00%) Git
4 3 (15.00%) JMeter
4 3 (15.00%) Postman
4 3 (15.00%) REST Assured
4 3 (15.00%) Selenium
4 3 (15.00%) TestNG
4 3 (15.00%) Travis CI
5 2 (10.00%) Maven
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Tester
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Apache Camel
2 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) Quarkus
2 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.00%) Spring
2 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Unix
3 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) DevOps
2 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (45.00%) Agile
4 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 7 (35.00%) Software Delivery
5 7 (35.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (20.00%) Data Transformation
7 3 (15.00%) API Testing
7 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (15.00%) Cost Reduction
7 3 (15.00%) Data Ingestion
7 3 (15.00%) Process Improvement
7 3 (15.00%) Regression Testing
7 3 (15.00%) SIEM
7 3 (15.00%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (15.00%) Sprint Retrospective
7 3 (15.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) Bash
2 4 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 4 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) CEH
2 3 (15.00%) CISSP
2 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Ansible
1 9 (45.00%) Terraform
2 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.00%) Kibana
3 3 (15.00%) Opsview
4 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.00%) FortiGate
5 1 (5.00%) Grafana
5 1 (5.00%) logstash
5 1 (5.00%) QRadar
5 1 (5.00%) Rancher
5 1 (5.00%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 4 (20.00%) IBM
3 3 (15.00%) PagerDuty
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) Talend