GitLab Contracts in the North West

GitLab
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 97 85
Rank change year-on-year -1 -12 +15
Contract jobs citing GitLab 37 54 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.33% 1.79% 2.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.94% 16.07% 17.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 40 76
10th Percentile £450 £483 £463
25th Percentile £485 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £578
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.90% +42.59%
75th Percentile £694 £650 £650
90th Percentile - £676 £688
England median daily rate £563 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -4.26% -2.08% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £39.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +51.52% - -
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.22 £59.80 £51.88
% change year-on-year +24.11% +15.28% +31.33%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 286 336 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 10.24% 11.16% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 256 459
10th Percentile £361 £325 £363
25th Percentile £418 £422 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £567 £600 £618
90th Percentile £650 £656 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 24
10th Percentile £37.55 £37.79 £45.96
25th Percentile £39.63 £38.25 £63.24
Median hourly rate £46.69 £49.16 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% -32.20% +126.56%
75th Percentile £69.69 £55.32 £77.50
90th Percentile £80.45 £57.41 £81.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +23.00% -

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the North West

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the North West

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the North West

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in the North West

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester +5 34 £550 -8.33% 8
Lancashire -3 1 £540 -10.00%
Cheshire -4 1 £475 -25.78% 2
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (13.51%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) nginx
3 1 (2.70%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 27 (72.97%) AWS
2 17 (45.95%) Amazon S3
3 16 (43.24%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (35.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (27.03%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (24.32%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (24.32%) Azure
7 8 (21.62%) Amazon ECR
7 8 (21.62%) Route 53
7 8 (21.62%) Serverless
8 7 (18.92%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (16.22%) GitHub
10 4 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (8.11%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (8.11%) GCP
12 2 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (5.41%) Azure Storage
12 2 (5.41%) BrowserStack
12 2 (5.41%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) DNS
2 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (13.51%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
4 3 (8.11%) Redis
5 1 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.70%) MySQL
5 1 (2.70%) Power BI
5 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (37.84%) Git
2 8 (21.62%) Jenkins
2 8 (21.62%) webpack
3 5 (13.51%) Cucumber
3 5 (13.51%) JIRA
4 4 (10.81%) Bitbucket
4 4 (10.81%) JUnit
4 4 (10.81%) Selenium
5 3 (8.11%) Maven
5 3 (8.11%) Mockito
6 2 (5.41%) Appium
6 2 (5.41%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.70%) GoCD
7 1 (2.70%) Gradle
7 1 (2.70%) Liquibase
7 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.70%) TestCafe
7 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
7 1 (2.70%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
2 4 (10.81%) Finance
2 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Banking
3 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Retail
4 1 (2.70%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) AWS DevOps
2 7 (18.92%) Lead
3 5 (13.51%) Developer
3 5 (13.51%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Java Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Technical Leader
5 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (8.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) QA Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) QA Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (32.43%) Node.js
2 8 (21.62%) Express.js
2 8 (21.62%) React
2 8 (21.62%) Redux
3 4 (10.81%) pytest
3 4 (10.81%) Spring
3 4 (10.81%) Spring Boot
4 3 (8.11%) Kafka
4 3 (8.11%) WebdriverIO
5 2 (5.41%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (5.41%) JSON
5 2 (5.41%) SAML
5 2 (5.41%) WireMock
5 2 (5.41%) YAML
6 1 (2.70%) HTML
6 1 (2.70%) Jest
6 1 (2.70%) JMS
6 1 (2.70%) jOOQ
6 1 (2.70%) REST
6 1 (2.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.41%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Clustering
3 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.70%) PKI
3 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Linux
2 4 (10.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.41%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (5.41%) Unix
4 1 (2.70%) CentOS
4 1 (2.70%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (78.38%) CI/CD
2 23 (62.16%) DevOps
3 21 (56.76%) Containerisation
4 16 (43.24%) Agile
5 14 (37.84%) Test Automation
6 11 (29.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (27.03%) QA Automation
8 9 (24.32%) Full Stack Development
9 8 (21.62%) API Development
9 8 (21.62%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 8 (21.62%) Customer Engagement
9 8 (21.62%) End-to-End Testing
9 8 (21.62%) ETL
9 8 (21.62%) Front End Development
10 7 (18.92%) Microservices
11 6 (16.22%) Configuration Management
11 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Management
12 5 (13.51%) Migration
12 5 (13.51%) Scrum
13 4 (10.81%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (45.95%) Python
2 7 (18.92%) Bash
3 6 (16.22%) Java
4 5 (13.51%) Ruby
5 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
6 3 (8.11%) Go
7 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.41%) SQL
8 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 12 (32.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) AWS Certification
3 3 (8.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.03%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.41%) NIST
2 2 (5.41%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (48.65%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (62.16%) Kubernetes
2 20 (54.05%) Terraform
3 11 (29.73%) Ansible
4 4 (10.81%) Grafana
4 4 (10.81%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.41%) Istio
5 2 (5.41%) Podman
6 1 (2.70%) Consul
6 1 (2.70%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (2.70%) Graphite
6 1 (2.70%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.70%) Kibana
6 1 (2.70%) linkerd
6 1 (2.70%) Packer
6 1 (2.70%) Puppet
6 1 (2.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (5.41%) Atlassian
1 2 (5.41%) PagerDuty
1 2 (5.41%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle
2 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.70%) Splunk
2 1 (2.70%) VMware