GitLab Contracts in the West Midlands

GitLab
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for GitLab skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GitLab over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 72 89
Rank change year-on-year -40 +17 +23
Contract jobs citing GitLab 4 66 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.21% 2.80% 2.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.97% 19.94% 15.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 59 53
10th Percentile - £480 £406
25th Percentile £275 £513 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £540 £515
Median % change year-on-year -28.24% +4.85% +3.00%
75th Percentile £503 - £540
90th Percentile £531 £598 £610
England median daily rate £575 £575 £586
% change year-on-year - -1.92% +17.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.00
Median hourly rate - - £39.00
75th Percentile - - £41.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.44 £42.30 £51.88
% change year-on-year +75.98% -18.46% +22.06%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

GitLab is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 203 331 546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.48% 14.06% 15.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 241 383
10th Percentile £260 £358 £380
25th Percentile £358 £448 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £490
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +9.80% +22.50%
75th Percentile £536 £600 £545
90th Percentile £550 £700 £625
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 1
10th Percentile £10.50 - -
25th Percentile £32.75 £31.69 £37.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £33.39 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.49% -14.40% +95.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £35.08 £41.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +13.88%

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 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 6 May 2024. 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
Coventry +9 3 £300 -37.50% 1
Worcestershire +6 1 £475 -24.00%
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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) Impala
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) Pentaho
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Travis CI
3 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Data Virtualisation
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (25.00%) HiveQL
4 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Confluent
2 1 (25.00%) Denodo
2 1 (25.00%) Informatica
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Talend