GitLab Contracts in Scotland

GitLab
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 128 126
Rank change year-on-year +21 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing GitLab 18 32 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.84% 1.18% 1.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.65% 6.06% 6.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 24
10th Percentile £405 £463 £476
25th Percentile £424 £468 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £569
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -12.09% +17.88%
75th Percentile £514 £546 £607
90th Percentile £528 £600 £738
UK median daily rate £558 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -3.04% - +15.00%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 387 528 624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.99% 19.53% 18.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 401 444
10th Percentile £363 £388 £363
25th Percentile £417 £415 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £577 £538 £550
90th Percentile £641 £613 £617
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 7
10th Percentile £34.10 £59.49 £32.40
25th Percentile - £60.17 £45.00
Median hourly rate £40.94 £62.46 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +14.61% +36.25%
75th Percentile - £67.11 £56.63
90th Percentile - £68.09 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in Scotland

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in Scotland

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in Scotland

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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
Edinburgh +27 12 £475 -2.56% 1
Glasgow +4 3 £400 -33.33% 2
Lanarkshire - 1 £460 -
GitLab
UK

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (83.33%) AWS
2 14 (77.78%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (61.11%) Amazon S3
3 11 (61.11%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (61.11%) Serverless
4 9 (50.00%) OpenShift
5 8 (44.44%) AWS CodePipeline
6 6 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 5 (27.78%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (27.78%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (5.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (5.56%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (16.67%) InfluxDB
4 2 (11.11%) DB2
4 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (5.56%) Apache Hive
5 1 (5.56%) GIS
5 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 6 (33.33%) Artifactory
3 2 (11.11%) CircleCI
4 1 (5.56%) JIRA
4 1 (5.56%) Liquibase
4 1 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (38.89%) Public Sector
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (11.11%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Data Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 6 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (27.78%) AWS DevOps
4 5 (27.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Lead
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Python Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Python Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (77.78%) AWS CDK
2 8 (44.44%) REST
3 4 (22.22%) PostGIS
4 3 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (11.11%) Spring
6 1 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
1 6 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 2 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 14 (77.78%) DevOps
3 13 (72.22%) Agile
4 9 (50.00%) Scrum
5 7 (38.89%) Kanban
5 7 (38.89%) Test Automation
6 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 6 (33.33%) Data Integration
6 6 (33.33%) Data Transformation
6 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (22.22%) Migration
7 4 (22.22%) Observability
7 4 (22.22%) Software Delivery
8 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (16.67%) Data Migration
8 3 (16.67%) Inclusive Design
8 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
9 2 (11.11%) Refactoring
9 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
9 2 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) SQL
3 7 (38.89%) Bash
4 6 (33.33%) Groovy
5 3 (16.67%) Java
5 3 (16.67%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Grafana
2 6 (33.33%) Ansible
2 6 (33.33%) Kibana
2 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Greenplum
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Confluent
2 1 (5.56%) IBM
2 1 (5.56%) Informatica
2 1 (5.56%) StreamSets