GitLab Contracts in the Thames Valley

GitLab
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 122 167
Rank change year-on-year +25 +45 -20
Contract jobs citing GitLab 33 20 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.54% 0.75% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.83% 7.91% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 14
10th Percentile - £547 £506
25th Percentile £390 £575 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 £535
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +16.82% +1.90%
75th Percentile £628 £688 £634
90th Percentile £656 £700 £649
South East median daily rate £468 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -19.38% -3.33% +9.09%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 279 253 460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.04% 9.52% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 175 348
10th Percentile £350 £350 £360
25th Percentile £406 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% +15.56%
75th Percentile £638 £615 £625
90th Percentile £667 £638 £675
South East median daily rate £475 £530 £536
% change year-on-year -10.38% -1.17% +12.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £54.49 £20.48 £61.41
25th Percentile £55.87 £26.81 £62.40
Median hourly rate £57.62 £38.25 £64.43
Median % change year-on-year +50.63% -40.63% +6.50%
75th Percentile £72.00 £49.31 £66.08
90th Percentile £93.00 £55.43 £66.85
South East median hourly rate £65.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.91% -11.54% +14.04%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the Thames Valley

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the Thames Valley

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the Thames Valley

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in the Thames Valley

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Berkshire +20 26 £425 -37.04% 2
Buckinghamshire +11 5 £638 +10.87% 1
Oxfordshire +10 2 £380 - 2
GitLab
South East

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (12.12%) Confluence
2 2 (6.06%) Apache
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.03%) nginx
3 1 (3.03%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) AWS
2 7 (21.21%) Azure
3 5 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (15.15%) GCP
4 4 (12.12%) Google Compute Engine
4 4 (12.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.06%) Serverless
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (3.03%) Azure AI
7 1 (3.03%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.03%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 14 (42.42%) VPN
2 12 (36.36%) MPLS
3 10 (30.30%) BGP
4 9 (27.27%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (9.09%) HTTP
6 2 (6.06%) 5G
6 2 (6.06%) FTP
6 2 (6.06%) LTE
6 2 (6.06%) SMTP
6 2 (6.06%) SNMP
6 2 (6.06%) VoIP
6 2 (6.06%) Wireless
6 2 (6.06%) Wireshark
7 1 (3.03%) DHCP
7 1 (3.03%) DNS
7 1 (3.03%) Firewall
7 1 (3.03%) IPsec
7 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
7 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (39.39%) NoSQL
2 9 (27.27%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Big Data
4 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.03%) MariaDB
4 1 (3.03%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (39.39%) Jenkins
1 13 (39.39%) JIRA
2 6 (18.18%) Git
3 3 (9.09%) Cypress.io
3 3 (9.09%) Selenium
4 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket
4 2 (6.06%) Gradle
4 2 (6.06%) IntelliJ
4 2 (6.06%) Maven
4 2 (6.06%) Robot Framework
5 1 (3.03%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.03%) JUnit
5 1 (3.03%) Subversion
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.03%) Back Office
3 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Tester
2 7 (21.21%) Automation Tester
2 7 (21.21%) Senior
3 5 (15.15%) Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Applications Developer
4 4 (12.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) GCP Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Java Applications Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Java Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Network Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Senior Applications Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Senior Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Senior Java Applications Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Automation Test Expert
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (30.30%) REST
2 9 (27.27%) NETCONF
2 9 (27.27%) RESTCONF
2 9 (27.27%) SOAP
2 9 (27.27%) YANG
3 7 (21.21%) Gherkin
4 5 (15.15%) RESTful
4 5 (15.15%) Spring
4 5 (15.15%) Spring Boot
5 3 (9.09%) JSON
5 3 (9.09%) XML
6 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (6.06%) Node.js
6 2 (6.06%) YAML
7 1 (3.03%) Hibernate
7 1 (3.03%) JPA
7 1 (3.03%) Keycloak
7 1 (3.03%) PyTorch
7 1 (3.03%) scikit-learn
7 1 (3.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Renewable Energy
1 2 (6.06%) Wiki
2 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.03%) IoT
2 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (48.48%) Linux
2 10 (30.30%) Unix
3 9 (27.27%) CentOS
4 2 (6.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 17 (51.52%) Agile
2 17 (51.52%) Containerisation
2 17 (51.52%) Test Automation
3 11 (33.33%) DevOps
3 11 (33.33%) Scrum
4 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (27.27%) Workflow
6 8 (24.24%) BDD
7 7 (21.21%) Network Virtualisation
7 7 (21.21%) Test Strategy
8 6 (18.18%) Microservices
9 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (15.15%) TDD
10 4 (12.12%) Business Development
10 4 (12.12%) Migration
10 4 (12.12%) Security Testing
10 4 (12.12%) Test Scripting
11 3 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (54.55%) Python
2 17 (51.52%) SQL
3 9 (27.27%) Java
4 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.06%) Go
5 2 (6.06%) Groovy
6 1 (3.03%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (27.27%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (45.45%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 8 (24.24%) Terraform
3 7 (21.21%) Ansible
4 3 (9.09%) Rancher
5 1 (3.03%) Grafana
5 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Cisco
2 5 (15.15%) Google
3 3 (9.09%) VMware
4 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.03%) F5
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft