GitLab Contracts with Work from Home Options

GitLab
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 183 151
Rank change year-on-year +8 -32 +32
Contract jobs citing GitLab 174 332 775
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.15% 1.32% 1.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.69% 8.68% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 234 564
10th Percentile £405 £450 £428
25th Percentile £478 £503 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £666 £650 £650
90th Percentile £795 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £558 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -3.04% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile - £38.32 £23.93
25th Percentile - £38.80 £28.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £39.60 £37.88
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +4.55% -15.83%
75th Percentile £50.63 - £48.31
90th Percentile £57.00 - £53.83
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £39.60 £49.50
% change year-on-year +72.27% -20.00% +10.00%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,795 3,827 8,162
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.91% 15.25% 18.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,284 2,742 5,889
10th Percentile £360 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +3.38% +8.81%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 108 100
10th Percentile £26.24 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £46.75 £52.38 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.00 £70.32 £60.54
90th Percentile - £83.19 £67.05
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +18.27% +15.56%

GitLab
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GitLab trend for jobs with a WFH option

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitLab.

GitLab daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GitLab over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

GitLab daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GitLab
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitLab.

GitLab hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

GitLab
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GitLab over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

GitLab hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 22 (12.64%) Confluence
2 4 (2.30%) Luigi
3 2 (1.15%) Apache
3 2 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.15%) CMS
3 2 (1.15%) nginx
3 2 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.57%) IIS
4 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) CPLEX
1 1 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 85 (48.85%) AWS
2 58 (33.33%) Azure
3 37 (21.26%) GitHub
4 26 (14.94%) GCP
5 22 (12.64%) Serverless
6 20 (11.49%) Amazon S3
7 18 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (9.77%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (9.20%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (8.62%) OpenShift
11 14 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (6.32%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (5.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (5.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (5.17%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (4.60%) Route 53
16 7 (4.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (4.02%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.02%) Firewall
2 5 (2.87%) DNS
3 4 (2.30%) HTTP
3 4 (2.30%) VPN
4 3 (1.72%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.15%) Internet
5 2 (1.15%) SNMP
5 2 (1.15%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.57%) Network Security
6 1 (0.57%) SSL
6 1 (0.57%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.64%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 9 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (4.60%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.60%) MySQL
4 8 (4.60%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.87%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (2.87%) Couchbase
6 4 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.30%) Power BI
6 4 (2.30%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.72%) Apache Hive
7 3 (1.72%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.72%) InfluxDB
7 3 (1.72%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.15%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 85 (48.85%) Jenkins
2 42 (24.14%) Git
3 38 (21.84%) JIRA
4 25 (14.37%) Cucumber
5 16 (9.20%) JUnit
6 15 (8.62%) Selenium
7 13 (7.47%) Cypress.io
7 13 (7.47%) Mockito
8 11 (6.32%) REST Assured
8 11 (6.32%) SonarQube
9 10 (5.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (5.17%) Artifactory
10 9 (5.17%) Gradle
11 8 (4.60%) Postman
12 7 (4.02%) Maven
13 6 (3.45%) Bitbucket
13 6 (3.45%) JMeter
13 6 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
14 5 (2.87%) Appium
General
1 52 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.99%) Finance
3 23 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.05%) Banking
4 14 (8.05%) Front Office
5 13 (7.47%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.75%) Law
7 7 (4.02%) Police
8 3 (1.72%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.72%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.72%) Marketing
8 3 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.15%) Retail
10 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) French Language
10 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (29.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 50 (28.74%) Developer
3 40 (22.99%) Senior
4 20 (11.49%) Senior Developer
5 19 (10.92%) Java Developer
6 18 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
7 16 (9.20%) Senior Java Developer
8 15 (8.62%) AWS DevOps
8 15 (8.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 13 (7.47%) Lead
10 12 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (6.90%) Software Engineer
11 10 (5.75%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (5.17%) Data Engineer
13 8 (4.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 8 (4.60%) Python Developer
13 8 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
14 7 (4.02%) Tester
15 6 (3.45%) Java Engineer
15 6 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.94%) REST
2 21 (12.07%) Node.js
2 21 (12.07%) React
3 18 (10.34%) Spring Boot
4 13 (7.47%) JSON
5 12 (6.90%) YAML
6 10 (5.75%) ARM Templates
6 10 (5.75%) CSS
6 10 (5.75%) HTML
7 9 (5.17%) XML
8 8 (4.60%) Java EE
8 8 (4.60%) RESTful
9 7 (4.02%) Django
9 7 (4.02%) Kafka
9 7 (4.02%) SOAP
10 6 (3.45%) AWS CDK
10 6 (3.45%) jQuery
10 6 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
10 6 (3.45%) Middleware
10 6 (3.45%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.90%) Credit Derivative
2 10 (5.75%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.60%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.60%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.87%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.87%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.30%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.15%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.15%) Life Science
7 2 (1.15%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.57%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.57%) Derivative
8 1 (0.57%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.57%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.57%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (22.99%) Linux
2 11 (6.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.60%) Unix
4 6 (3.45%) Windows
5 5 (2.87%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.87%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.15%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (69.54%) CI/CD
2 108 (62.07%) DevOps
3 78 (44.83%) Agile
4 52 (29.89%) Test Automation
5 48 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 41 (23.56%) Containerisation
6 41 (23.56%) Continuous Integration
7 29 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (14.94%) Microservices
8 26 (14.94%) SDLC
9 25 (14.37%) Software Engineering
10 21 (12.07%) Scrum
11 20 (11.49%) Computer Science
12 19 (10.92%) Configuration Management
13 17 (9.77%) Full Stack Development
13 17 (9.77%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (9.20%) Kanban
15 14 (8.05%) Continuous Deployment
15 14 (8.05%) Software Architecture
16 13 (7.47%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 68 (39.08%) Python
2 39 (22.41%) Java
3 36 (20.69%) JavaScript
4 28 (16.09%) Bash
5 21 (12.07%) Go
5 21 (12.07%) SQL
6 10 (5.75%) Perl
6 10 (5.75%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.60%) C#
7 8 (4.60%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.02%) Bicep
9 6 (3.45%) Apex Code
9 6 (3.45%) Groovy
9 6 (3.45%) Ruby
10 4 (2.30%) PHP
10 4 (2.30%) Scala
10 4 (2.30%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.30%) SOQL
11 3 (1.72%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.15%) C
Qualifications
1 46 (26.44%) Security Cleared
2 41 (23.56%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.34%) Degree
4 11 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.30%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.57%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.20%) QA
2 3 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.15%) WCAG
4 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.57%) NIST
4 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (32.76%) Docker
2 5 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.72%) vCloud
3 3 (1.72%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.72%) vSphere
4 2 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.15%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.57%) HDFS
5 1 (0.57%) Postfix
5 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 85 (48.85%) Kubernetes
2 73 (41.95%) Terraform
3 45 (25.86%) Ansible
4 14 (8.05%) Grafana
5 12 (6.90%) Puppet
6 11 (6.32%) Docker Swarm
6 11 (6.32%) Prometheus
7 10 (5.75%) Kibana
8 9 (5.17%) Progress Chef
9 8 (4.60%) Podman
10 3 (1.72%) Argo
10 3 (1.72%) Autotask
10 3 (1.72%) Nagios
11 2 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.15%) HP Fortify
11 2 (1.15%) logstash
11 2 (1.15%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (1.15%) Salt
11 2 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.57%) Graylog
Vendors
1 17 (9.77%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.90%) Oracle
2 12 (6.90%) VMware
3 10 (5.75%) Splunk
4 9 (5.17%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.02%) Google
5 7 (4.02%) IBM
6 6 (3.45%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.87%) TOWER Software
8 4 (2.30%) Confluent
8 4 (2.30%) Informatica
8 4 (2.30%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.72%) Arista
9 3 (1.72%) BMC
9 3 (1.72%) Cisco
9 3 (1.72%) Databricks
9 3 (1.72%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.72%) Remedy
9 3 (1.72%) SAP
10 2 (1.15%) Sun