GitLab Contracts in the UK excluding London

GitLab
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 210 246 181
Rank change year-on-year +36 -65 +65
Contract jobs citing GitLab 197 217 432
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.94% 0.95% 1.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.75% 7.07% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 151 282
10th Percentile £416 £453 £448
25th Percentile £463 £481 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.68%
75th Percentile £643 £608 £638
90th Percentile £689 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £581 £580
% change year-on-year -5.38% +0.22% +16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 5
10th Percentile £57.65 - £42.04
25th Percentile £61.88 - £43.23
Median hourly rate £74.44 £39.60 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.98% -20.00% +25.32%
75th Percentile £76.25 - £54.25
90th Percentile £77.50 - £56.20
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £51.88
% change year-on-year +76.77% -23.66% +17.23%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,252 3,071 4,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.80% 13.40% 14.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,450 2,142 3,168
10th Percentile £350 £337 £360
25th Percentile £413 £415 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.73%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £583
90th Percentile £660 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 166 110
10th Percentile £40.00 £48.13 £41.41
25th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £67.84
90th Percentile £78.00 £79.00 £76.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +6.63%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the UK excluding London

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the UK excluding London

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the UK excluding London

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in the UK excluding London

GitLab
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitLab in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GitLab in the UK excluding London

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +26 68 £550 -8.33% 17
South East +39 67 £593 +0.42% 15
North West -3 38 £545 -9.17% 13
Yorkshire +33 24 £575 +9.52% 2
Scotland +29 18 £463 -7.50% 4
South West +5 16 £533 +21.83% 21
Midlands +4 12 £449 -16.85% 14
Wales +17 10 £545 -0.91%
East Midlands +14 7 £449 - 6
North East +9 6 £430 -28.33% 2
East of England +5 5 £250 -61.54% 9
West Midlands -10 5 £388 -28.24% 8
Northern Ireland 0 1 £640 -1.54% 4
GitLab
UK

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 27 (13.71%) Confluence
2 20 (10.15%) Apache
3 8 (4.06%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.52%) nginx
5 2 (1.02%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.02%) Traefik
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.51%) SAS
6 1 (0.51%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.51%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) InfoPath
1 1 (0.51%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (3.55%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 115 (58.38%) AWS
2 61 (30.96%) Azure
3 54 (27.41%) GitHub
4 35 (17.77%) Amazon S3
5 31 (15.74%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (11.68%) Serverless
7 22 (11.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (11.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 21 (10.66%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (9.64%) GCP
10 16 (8.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (8.12%) Route 53
11 15 (7.61%) OpenShift
12 14 (7.11%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (6.60%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (5.58%) AWS CodePipeline
14 11 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (5.08%) Amazon ECR
15 10 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (4.57%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.12%) VPN
2 15 (7.61%) DNS
3 14 (7.11%) HTTP
4 13 (6.60%) Firewall
5 11 (5.58%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.55%) BGP
6 7 (3.55%) Ethernet VPN
6 7 (3.55%) MPLS
6 7 (3.55%) Radio Access Network
7 4 (2.03%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.52%) BIG-IP
8 3 (1.52%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (1.52%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (1.52%) SSL
9 2 (1.02%) SAN
10 1 (0.51%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.51%) Network Security
10 1 (0.51%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (20.30%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (13.71%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (11.17%) MongoDB
4 19 (9.64%) MySQL
4 19 (9.64%) Relational Database
5 17 (8.63%) NoSQL
6 14 (7.11%) SQL Server
7 12 (6.09%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (3.55%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (3.05%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (3.05%) RDBMS
10 5 (2.54%) Couchbase
10 5 (2.54%) Triplestore
11 3 (1.52%) InfluxDB
11 3 (1.52%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.52%) Power BI
11 3 (1.52%) Redis
12 2 (1.02%) Apache Hive
12 2 (1.02%) DB2
Development Applications
1 70 (35.53%) Jenkins
2 50 (25.38%) JIRA
3 44 (22.34%) Git
4 22 (11.17%) SonarQube
5 20 (10.15%) Cucumber
5 20 (10.15%) Selenium
6 13 (6.60%) REST Assured
6 13 (6.60%) Travis CI
7 12 (6.09%) Artifactory
8 11 (5.58%) CircleCI
9 10 (5.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (4.57%) Cypress.io
11 8 (4.06%) Bitbucket
11 8 (4.06%) Robot Framework
11 8 (4.06%) webpack
12 7 (3.55%) Postman
12 7 (3.55%) TestRail
13 6 (3.05%) JUnit
14 5 (2.54%) AppScan
14 5 (2.54%) Burp Suite
General
1 37 (18.78%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (10.66%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.58%) Law
5 9 (4.57%) Finance
6 8 (4.06%) Police
7 6 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.03%) Banking
9 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.51%) Aviation
10 1 (0.51%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Legal
10 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Retail
10 1 (0.51%) Retail Finance
10 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (33.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (13.71%) Developer
3 24 (12.18%) Senior
4 17 (8.63%) Platform Engineer
5 14 (7.11%) AWS DevOps
6 13 (6.60%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (6.09%) Java Developer
8 10 (5.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.57%) Data Engineer
9 9 (4.57%) Lead
9 9 (4.57%) Software Engineer
9 9 (4.57%) Systems Administrator
10 8 (4.06%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (4.06%) Platform Specialist
10 8 (4.06%) Test Engineer
11 7 (3.55%) Architect
11 7 (3.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.55%) Linux Engineer
11 7 (3.55%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.05%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (24.87%) REST
2 22 (11.17%) React
3 21 (10.66%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (8.12%) Node.js
5 15 (7.61%) AWS CDK
6 13 (6.60%) Java EE
7 12 (6.09%) ARM Templates
7 12 (6.09%) JSON
7 12 (6.09%) Kafka
8 11 (5.58%) Apache NiFi
8 11 (5.58%) YAML
9 10 (5.08%) Redux
10 9 (4.57%) PostGIS
10 9 (4.57%) XML
11 8 (4.06%) Express.js
11 8 (4.06%) HTML
11 8 (4.06%) SOAP
12 7 (3.55%) CSS
12 7 (3.55%) GraphQL
12 7 (3.55%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.68%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (5.58%) Clustering
2 11 (5.58%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.57%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.57%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.06%) Replication
5 7 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.52%) Grid Computing
8 3 (1.52%) PKI
8 3 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.52%) Smart Meter
9 2 (1.02%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.02%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.02%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 84 (42.64%) Linux
2 33 (16.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (10.15%) Windows
4 17 (8.63%) Unix
5 10 (5.08%) Ubuntu
6 9 (4.57%) VMS
6 9 (4.57%) Windows Server
7 8 (4.06%) CentOS
8 2 (1.02%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.51%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.51%) Solaris
9 1 (0.51%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (62.44%) CI/CD
2 112 (56.85%) DevOps
3 91 (46.19%) Agile
4 83 (42.13%) Containerisation
5 62 (31.47%) Test Automation
6 61 (30.96%) Infrastructure as Code
7 57 (28.93%) Continuous Integration
8 49 (24.87%) Scrum
9 32 (16.24%) Configuration Management
10 30 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (14.72%) Software Engineering
12 24 (12.18%) Full Stack Development
12 24 (12.18%) Task Automation
13 22 (11.17%) Kanban
13 22 (11.17%) Workflow
14 21 (10.66%) Migration
14 21 (10.66%) Project Management
15 18 (9.14%) Decision-Making
16 17 (8.63%) Technical Leadership
17 16 (8.12%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 91 (46.19%) Python
2 49 (24.87%) Bash
3 33 (16.75%) Java
3 33 (16.75%) PowerShell
4 28 (14.21%) SQL
5 20 (10.15%) JavaScript
6 18 (9.14%) Go
7 14 (7.11%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.55%) PHP
9 6 (3.05%) Groovy
9 6 (3.05%) Ruby
10 5 (2.54%) SPARQL
11 4 (2.03%) C#
11 4 (2.03%) C++
12 3 (1.52%) ActionScript
12 3 (1.52%) Scala
13 2 (1.02%) Bicep
13 2 (1.02%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.51%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 88 (44.67%) Security Cleared
2 71 (36.04%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.11%) DV Cleared
4 10 (5.08%) Degree
5 9 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.03%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.51%) HNC
8 1 (0.51%) RHCE
8 1 (0.51%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.51%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (18.78%) QA
2 3 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.02%) NCSC
3 2 (1.02%) NIST
3 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.51%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.51%) MISRA
4 1 (0.51%) MISRA C
System Software
1 90 (45.69%) Docker
2 19 (9.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (7.61%) vSphere
4 9 (4.57%) Hyper-V
5 8 (4.06%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.54%) Active Directory
7 2 (1.02%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (1.02%) LXC
7 2 (1.02%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.51%) HDFS
8 1 (0.51%) NFS
Systems Management
1 108 (54.82%) Kubernetes
2 97 (49.24%) Terraform
3 91 (46.19%) Ansible
4 31 (15.74%) Grafana
5 28 (14.21%) Prometheus
6 24 (12.18%) Docker Swarm
7 21 (10.66%) Puppet
8 17 (8.63%) Kibana
9 16 (8.12%) Packer
10 15 (7.61%) Progress Chef
11 14 (7.11%) Podman
12 9 (4.57%) logstash
12 9 (4.57%) Red Hat Satellite
13 8 (4.06%) Rancher
13 8 (4.06%) vRealize
14 7 (3.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 6 (3.05%) Nessus
15 6 (3.05%) SCCM
16 5 (2.54%) SCOM
16 5 (2.54%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 31 (15.74%) VMware
2 26 (13.20%) Red Hat
3 20 (10.15%) Splunk
4 19 (9.64%) Oracle
5 16 (8.12%) Microsoft
6 9 (4.57%) SolarWinds
7 7 (3.55%) PagerDuty
8 6 (3.05%) Atlassian
9 5 (2.54%) Arqiva
9 5 (2.54%) Checkmarx
9 5 (2.54%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.54%) Veracode
9 5 (2.54%) Veritas
10 4 (2.03%) Confluent
11 3 (1.52%) F5
12 2 (1.02%) Dell
12 2 (1.02%) Greenplum
12 2 (1.02%) Informatica
12 2 (1.02%) Palo Alto
12 2 (1.02%) Perfecto Mobile