GitLab Contracts

GitLab
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 217 243 162
Rank change year-on-year +26 -81 +84
Contract jobs citing GitLab 467 609 1,534
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 1.09% 1.75%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.06% 7.54% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 395 1,047
10th Percentile £400 £450 £458
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £580
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +1.29% +16.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £540 £540
% change year-on-year - - +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 5
10th Percentile £40.00 £38.48 £45.74
25th Percentile £56.00 £39.20 £49.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year +76.77% -27.00% +22.60%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 - £59.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.44 £39.60 £51.88
% change year-on-year +87.98% -23.66% +31.33%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,155 8,073 15,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.40% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,455 5,696 11,047
10th Percentile £351 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £457 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 226 201
10th Percentile £26.77 £44.82 £38.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +8.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitLab over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +27 403 £563 -5.06% 152
London +30 212 £573 -5.99% 70
UK excluding London +21 197 £540 - 81
Work from Home +22 165 £575 -2.13% 73
North of England +19 68 £550 -8.33% 17
South East +40 67 £593 +0.42% 14
North West +2 38 £545 -9.17% 14
Yorkshire +30 24 £575 +9.52% 1
Scotland +25 18 £463 -7.50% 4
South West +1 16 £533 +21.83% 19
Midlands +2 12 £449 -16.85% 14
Wales +17 10 £545 -0.91%
East Midlands +16 7 £449 - 6
North East +9 6 £430 -28.33% 2
East of England +2 5 £250 -61.54% 9
West Midlands -11 5 £388 -28.24% 8
Northern Ireland -1 1 £640 -1.54% 4

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 64 (13.70%) Confluence
2 27 (5.78%) Apache
3 12 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.57%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.14%) nginx
5 6 (1.28%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.86%) Luigi
7 3 (0.64%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.43%) IIS
8 2 (0.43%) Traefik
9 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.21%) SAS
9 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.21%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (1.07%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.21%) InfoPath
2 1 (0.21%) Simulink
2 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.43%) Advent Geneva
4 2 (0.43%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.43%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.43%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 234 (50.11%) AWS
2 151 (32.33%) Azure
3 107 (22.91%) GitHub
4 73 (15.63%) GCP
5 63 (13.49%) Serverless
6 61 (13.06%) Amazon S3
7 54 (11.56%) Amazon EC2
8 43 (9.21%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (8.78%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (8.14%) Amazon EKS
11 37 (7.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 36 (7.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 33 (7.07%) OpenShift
14 27 (5.78%) Amazon ECS
15 23 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 22 (4.71%) Amazon SQS
16 22 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (4.28%) Route 53
18 17 (3.64%) Amazon ECR
18 17 (3.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.71%) DNS
1 22 (4.71%) VPN
2 20 (4.28%) Firewall
3 18 (3.85%) HTTP
4 12 (2.57%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.93%) BGP
5 9 (1.93%) Ethernet VPN
5 9 (1.93%) MPLS
6 8 (1.71%) Radio Access Network
7 5 (1.07%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.86%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.86%) SNMP
8 4 (0.86%) SSL
9 3 (0.64%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (0.64%) Internet
10 2 (0.43%) SAN
11 1 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (14.56%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (7.28%) NoSQL
3 32 (6.85%) MySQL
4 30 (6.42%) SQL Server
5 29 (6.21%) Elasticsearch
6 28 (6.00%) MongoDB
7 27 (5.78%) Relational Database
8 22 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (3.00%) Power BI
11 10 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (2.14%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.50%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (1.50%) Redis
12 7 (1.50%) Triplestore
13 6 (1.28%) Couchbase
13 6 (1.28%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.28%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.86%) DynamoDB
15 3 (0.64%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 199 (42.61%) Jenkins
2 102 (21.84%) JIRA
3 90 (19.27%) Git
4 40 (8.57%) Cucumber
5 33 (7.07%) Selenium
6 30 (6.42%) Cypress.io
7 26 (5.57%) SonarQube
8 23 (4.93%) Artifactory
9 22 (4.71%) Postman
10 21 (4.50%) JUnit
11 20 (4.28%) CircleCI
12 19 (4.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 17 (3.64%) Travis CI
14 16 (3.43%) JMeter
14 16 (3.43%) REST Assured
15 15 (3.21%) Mockito
15 15 (3.21%) Robot Framework
16 14 (3.00%) Appium
17 12 (2.57%) Bitbucket
17 12 (2.57%) Maven
General
1 114 (24.41%) Social Skills
2 72 (15.42%) Finance
3 61 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (8.78%) Public Sector
5 35 (7.49%) Banking
6 15 (3.21%) Front Office
6 15 (3.21%) Law
7 9 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.71%) Police
9 5 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.07%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.86%) Marketing
11 3 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.64%) Legal
11 3 (0.64%) Retail
12 2 (0.43%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.21%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.21%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.21%) French Language
Job Titles
1 149 (31.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 101 (21.63%) Developer
3 50 (10.71%) Senior
4 40 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (7.92%) AWS DevOps
6 32 (6.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 29 (6.21%) Java Developer
8 25 (5.35%) Azure Engineer
8 25 (5.35%) Lead
9 23 (4.93%) Platform Engineer
9 23 (4.93%) Senior Developer
10 20 (4.28%) Data Engineer
11 19 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
12 17 (3.64%) Tester
13 16 (3.43%) Senior Java Developer
13 16 (3.43%) Software Engineer
14 14 (3.00%) Architect
14 14 (3.00%) Full Stack Developer
14 14 (3.00%) Senior DevOps
14 14 (3.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (14.56%) REST
2 44 (9.42%) React
3 36 (7.71%) Node.js
4 28 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
5 27 (5.78%) JSON
5 27 (5.78%) Spring Boot
6 25 (5.35%) Kafka
6 25 (5.35%) YAML
7 23 (4.93%) HTML
8 20 (4.28%) CSS
8 20 (4.28%) Spring
9 19 (4.07%) SOAP
10 18 (3.85%) XML
11 17 (3.64%) WebdriverIO
12 16 (3.43%) ARM Templates
12 16 (3.43%) AWS CDK
13 15 (3.21%) Middleware
14 14 (3.00%) Apache NiFi
14 14 (3.00%) Java EE
15 13 (2.78%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.00%) Linux Command Line
2 21 (4.50%) Public Cloud
3 18 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.43%) Data Structures
5 12 (2.57%) Clustering
5 12 (2.57%) Credit Derivative
6 10 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.93%) Replication
8 7 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.50%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.50%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.28%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.28%) PKI
10 5 (1.07%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.07%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.86%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 160 (34.26%) Linux
2 43 (9.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 36 (7.71%) Windows
4 32 (6.85%) Unix
5 14 (3.00%) Windows Server
6 11 (2.36%) VMS
7 10 (2.14%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.71%) CentOS
9 4 (0.86%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.21%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.21%) Solaris
10 1 (0.21%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (67.67%) CI/CD
2 300 (64.24%) DevOps
3 194 (41.54%) Agile
4 147 (31.48%) Containerisation
5 139 (29.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 108 (23.13%) Test Automation
7 94 (20.13%) Continuous Integration
8 82 (17.56%) Scrum
9 67 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
10 65 (13.92%) Configuration Management
11 64 (13.70%) Software Engineering
12 59 (12.63%) Microservices
13 45 (9.64%) Computer Science
13 45 (9.64%) Platform Engineering
14 38 (8.14%) Full Stack Development
15 36 (7.71%) Task Automation
16 35 (7.49%) Kanban
17 33 (7.07%) DevSecOps
17 33 (7.07%) SDLC
18 30 (6.42%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 194 (41.54%) Python
2 89 (19.06%) Bash
3 85 (18.20%) Java
4 73 (15.63%) JavaScript
5 71 (15.20%) PowerShell
6 65 (13.92%) SQL
7 45 (9.64%) Go
8 32 (6.85%) C#
9 23 (4.93%) Shell Script
10 15 (3.21%) Perl
11 14 (3.00%) TypeScript
12 13 (2.78%) Groovy
13 12 (2.57%) PHP
13 12 (2.57%) Ruby
14 7 (1.50%) Bicep
14 7 (1.50%) SPARQL
15 6 (1.28%) PL/SQL
16 5 (1.07%) Apex Code
16 5 (1.07%) C++
17 4 (0.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 167 (35.76%) Security Cleared
2 141 (30.19%) SC Cleared
3 48 (10.28%) Degree
4 36 (7.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (7.71%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.14%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.93%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.43%) SANS
10 1 (0.21%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.21%) HNC
10 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.21%) RHCE
10 1 (0.21%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.85%) QA
2 5 (1.07%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.86%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.86%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.43%) NCSC
4 2 (0.43%) NIST
4 2 (0.43%) WCAG
5 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.21%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.21%) MISRA
5 1 (0.21%) MISRA C
System Software
1 169 (36.19%) Docker
2 23 (4.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (4.07%) vSphere
4 18 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.93%) Active Directory
5 9 (1.93%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.07%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.64%) vCloud
8 2 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.43%) LXC
8 2 (0.43%) NFS
9 1 (0.21%) Ceph
9 1 (0.21%) HDFS
9 1 (0.21%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 223 (47.75%) Terraform
2 214 (45.82%) Kubernetes
3 164 (35.12%) Ansible
4 54 (11.56%) Grafana
5 47 (10.06%) Prometheus
6 35 (7.49%) Puppet
7 27 (5.78%) Progress Chef
8 26 (5.57%) Docker Swarm
9 19 (4.07%) Kibana
9 19 (4.07%) Packer
10 15 (3.21%) Podman
11 9 (1.93%) logstash
11 9 (1.93%) Red Hat Satellite
12 8 (1.71%) Graylog
12 8 (1.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 8 (1.71%) Rancher
12 8 (1.71%) vRealize
13 7 (1.50%) HP Fortify
13 7 (1.50%) Nessus
14 6 (1.28%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 56 (11.99%) Microsoft
2 51 (10.92%) Oracle
3 42 (8.99%) VMware
4 36 (7.71%) Splunk
5 28 (6.00%) Red Hat
6 27 (5.78%) Google
7 12 (2.57%) Atlassian
8 9 (1.93%) SolarWinds
9 8 (1.71%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.71%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.50%) Checkmarx
10 7 (1.50%) PagerDuty
10 7 (1.50%) Veracode
11 6 (1.28%) IBM
11 6 (1.28%) Talend
12 5 (1.07%) Arqiva
12 5 (1.07%) Confluent
12 5 (1.07%) Databricks
12 5 (1.07%) SAP
12 5 (1.07%) Veritas