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 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 121 156
Rank change year-on-year +12 +35 -30
Contract jobs citing GitLab 26 26 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.98% 0.89% 0.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.19% 8.20% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 13
10th Percentile £572 £481 £504
25th Percentile £600 £549 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £584 £520
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% +12.26% +32.48%
75th Percentile £688 £623 £650
90th Percentile £719 - £745
South East median daily rate £595 £596 £615
% change year-on-year -0.21% -3.05% +46.43%

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 283 317 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.64% 10.85% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 212 286
10th Percentile £325 £351 £350
25th Percentile £409 £423 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £486
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +9.00% +14.41%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £706 £650
South East median daily rate £525 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 2
10th Percentile - £23.25 £61.41
25th Percentile £46.25 £33.75 £62.40
Median hourly rate £61.75 £52.50 £64.43
Median % change year-on-year +17.61% -18.52% +28.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.88 £66.08
90th Percentile £82.80 £66.75 £66.85
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +6.67%

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 27 June 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 27 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
Berkshire +5 22 £663 +9.73% 3
Oxfordshire 0 4 £430 - 1
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 5 (19.23%) Apache
2 4 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (15.38%) Confluence
3 1 (3.85%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 18 (69.23%) AWS
2 15 (57.69%) Azure
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
3 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.85%) GCP
3 1 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) BGP
1 4 (15.38%) Ethernet VPN
1 4 (15.38%) MPLS
1 4 (15.38%) Radio Access Network
1 4 (15.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (23.08%) MongoDB
3 4 (15.38%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.85%) MariaDB
5 1 (3.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (80.77%) JIRA
2 15 (57.69%) Jenkins
3 14 (53.85%) Cucumber
3 14 (53.85%) Selenium
4 12 (46.15%) REST Assured
4 12 (46.15%) SonarQube
5 4 (15.38%) Robot Framework
5 4 (15.38%) TestRail
6 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.85%) Git
6 1 (3.85%) JUnit
6 1 (3.85%) Spinnaker
6 1 (3.85%) Subversion
General
1 15 (57.69%) Social Skills
2 13 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (34.62%) Law
4 8 (30.77%) Police
5 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Back Office
6 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Senior
2 6 (23.08%) Java Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Java Software Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Senior Java Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Java Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Administrator
5 3 (11.54%) Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Java Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Java Technical Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Network Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Technical Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (69.23%) REST
2 13 (50.00%) Java EE
3 12 (46.15%) ARM Templates
4 4 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (15.38%) NETCONF
4 4 (15.38%) RESTCONF
4 4 (15.38%) SOAP
4 4 (15.38%) YANG
5 1 (3.85%) ADO
5 1 (3.85%) JSON
5 1 (3.85%) RESTful
5 1 (3.85%) Web Services
5 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Unix
3 2 (7.69%) VMS
4 1 (3.85%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) Test Automation
2 19 (73.08%) Containerisation
3 17 (65.38%) DevOps
4 16 (61.54%) Configuration Management
4 16 (61.54%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (50.00%) Decision-Making
6 13 (50.00%) Software Architecture
6 13 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
7 12 (46.15%) Software Engineering
8 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
9 8 (30.77%) Agile
10 5 (19.23%) Regression Testing
10 5 (19.23%) Scrum
10 5 (19.23%) Security Testing
11 4 (15.38%) Integration Testing
11 4 (15.38%) Performance Testing
11 4 (15.38%) Unit Testing
11 4 (15.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (23.08%) Python
3 5 (19.23%) SQL
4 3 (11.54%) Go
5 2 (7.69%) Bash
5 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 15 (57.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 18 (69.23%) Docker
2 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (7.69%) vSphere
4 1 (3.85%) NFS
Systems Management
1 18 (69.23%) Ansible
1 18 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 17 (65.38%) Terraform
3 12 (46.15%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (46.15%) Podman
4 3 (11.54%) Rancher
5 2 (7.69%) Packer
5 2 (7.69%) vRealize
6 1 (3.85%) Grafana
6 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) VMware
2 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat