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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 217 222 169
Rank change year-on-year +5 -53 +66
Contract jobs citing GitLab 460 677 1,517
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 1.18% 1.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.98% 8.03% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 441 1,038
10th Percentile £375 £450 £450
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £540 £540
% change year-on-year +1.85% - +14.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 7
10th Percentile £40.00 £38.48 £30.50
25th Percentile £52.00 £39.20 £40.11
Median hourly rate £68.22 £39.60 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.27% -20.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75.21 - £55.88
90th Percentile £77.50 - £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.44 £39.60 £47.85
% change year-on-year +87.98% -17.24% +6.33%

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 5,125 8,436 15,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.05% 14.73% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 5,951 11,155
10th Percentile £353 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £458 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.83%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 231 207
10th Percentile £32.48 £42.81 £37.15
25th Percentile £46.50 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +14.13%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.89 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.30 £82.50 £76.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +19.57%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +11 389 £564 -4.25% 193
London +18 202 £574 -5.63% 85
UK excluding London -1 192 £550 +1.85% 115
Work from Home +6 171 £560 -5.08% 111
South East +48 65 £598 +3.46% 35
North of England +7 65 £550 -8.33% 33
North West -19 36 £550 -8.33% 21
Yorkshire +29 24 £574 +4.32% 6
South West +7 20 £533 +12.21% 16
Scotland +26 18 £463 -7.50% 4
Wales +20 10 £545 -0.91% 1
Midlands -25 8 £378 -29.95% 20
North East +10 5 £430 -21.82% 6
East of England +7 5 £250 -56.52% 10
East Midlands +18 4 £378 - 5
West Midlands -23 4 £388 -28.24% 15
Northern Ireland 0 1 £640 -1.54% 1

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 62 (13.48%) Confluence
2 27 (5.87%) Apache
3 14 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (2.39%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.96%) nginx
6 6 (1.30%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.87%) Luigi
8 3 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.43%) Traefik
10 1 (0.22%) IIS
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.22%) SAS
10 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.22%) InfoPath
2 1 (0.22%) Simulink
2 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.74%) Salesforce CRM
2 7 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.43%) Advent Geneva
4 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.43%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 221 (48.04%) AWS
2 149 (32.39%) Azure
3 106 (23.04%) GitHub
4 70 (15.22%) GCP
5 61 (13.26%) Serverless
6 59 (12.83%) Amazon S3
7 51 (11.09%) Amazon EC2
8 41 (8.91%) AWS Lambda
9 40 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (7.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 35 (7.61%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (7.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 32 (6.96%) OpenShift
13 25 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
14 23 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (4.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 21 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (4.35%) Route 53
18 17 (3.70%) Amazon ECR
19 16 (3.48%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.00%) VPN
2 21 (4.57%) DNS
3 18 (3.91%) HTTP
4 17 (3.70%) Firewall
5 11 (2.39%) BGP
5 11 (2.39%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (2.39%) MPLS
5 11 (2.39%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.17%) Radio Access Network
7 5 (1.09%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.87%) Internet
8 4 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.87%) SNMP
8 4 (0.87%) SSL
9 3 (0.65%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 2 (0.43%) SAN
11 1 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (7.61%) NoSQL
3 31 (6.74%) MySQL
3 31 (6.74%) SQL Server
4 29 (6.30%) Elasticsearch
4 29 (6.30%) MongoDB
5 25 (5.43%) Relational Database
6 20 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (3.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (2.83%) Power BI
9 11 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.96%) RDBMS
11 7 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (1.52%) Redis
11 7 (1.52%) Triplestore
12 6 (1.30%) Couchbase
12 6 (1.30%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.30%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.87%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.65%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 191 (41.52%) Jenkins
2 103 (22.39%) JIRA
3 92 (20.00%) Git
4 42 (9.13%) Cucumber
5 34 (7.39%) Selenium
6 30 (6.52%) Cypress.io
7 26 (5.65%) SonarQube
8 24 (5.22%) JUnit
9 22 (4.78%) Postman
10 21 (4.57%) Artifactory
11 19 (4.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 18 (3.91%) CircleCI
12 18 (3.91%) JMeter
12 18 (3.91%) REST Assured
13 17 (3.70%) Travis CI
14 16 (3.48%) Robot Framework
15 14 (3.04%) Appium
15 14 (3.04%) Maven
15 14 (3.04%) Mockito
16 12 (2.61%) Gradle
General
1 114 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 71 (15.43%) Finance
3 62 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.61%) Public Sector
5 30 (6.52%) Banking
6 17 (3.70%) Law
7 15 (3.26%) Front Office
8 9 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.74%) Police
10 7 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.30%) Marketing
11 6 (1.30%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.65%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.65%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.65%) Legal
13 2 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.43%) Retail
14 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 145 (31.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 103 (22.39%) Developer
3 48 (10.43%) Senior
4 38 (8.26%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (7.61%) AWS DevOps
6 30 (6.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 28 (6.09%) Java Developer
8 25 (5.43%) Azure Engineer
8 25 (5.43%) Lead
9 22 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
10 21 (4.57%) Data Engineer
10 21 (4.57%) Senior Developer
11 18 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
12 16 (3.48%) Tester
13 15 (3.26%) Full Stack Developer
13 15 (3.26%) Senior Java Developer
13 15 (3.26%) Software Engineer
13 15 (3.26%) Test Engineer
14 14 (3.04%) Architect
14 14 (3.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (15.43%) REST
2 46 (10.00%) React
3 37 (8.04%) Node.js
4 30 (6.52%) JSON
5 27 (5.87%) Spring Boot
6 25 (5.43%) Elastic Stack
6 25 (5.43%) YAML
7 23 (5.00%) HTML
7 23 (5.00%) Kafka
7 23 (5.00%) SOAP
8 21 (4.57%) Spring
8 21 (4.57%) XML
9 20 (4.35%) CSS
10 17 (3.70%) WebdriverIO
11 16 (3.48%) ARM Templates
11 16 (3.48%) AWS CDK
11 16 (3.48%) Middleware
12 13 (2.83%) Java EE
12 13 (2.83%) Redux
13 12 (2.61%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
2 21 (4.57%) Public Cloud
3 19 (4.13%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 12 (2.61%) Clustering
5 12 (2.61%) Credit Derivative
6 10 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.96%) Replication
8 7 (1.52%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.52%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.30%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.30%) PKI
10 5 (1.09%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.09%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 149 (32.39%) Linux
2 35 (7.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 32 (6.96%) Windows
4 31 (6.74%) Unix
5 14 (3.04%) Windows Server
6 10 (2.17%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.17%) VMS
7 8 (1.74%) CentOS
8 4 (0.87%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.22%) Solaris
9 1 (0.22%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (68.26%) CI/CD
2 286 (62.17%) DevOps
3 201 (43.70%) Agile
4 141 (30.65%) Containerisation
5 133 (28.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 113 (24.57%) Test Automation
7 92 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
8 83 (18.04%) Scrum
9 67 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
10 61 (13.26%) Configuration Management
11 60 (13.04%) Software Engineering
12 57 (12.39%) Microservices
13 46 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
14 43 (9.35%) Computer Science
15 39 (8.48%) Full Stack Development
16 35 (7.61%) Kanban
16 35 (7.61%) Task Automation
17 34 (7.39%) SDLC
18 33 (7.17%) DevSecOps
19 31 (6.74%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 192 (41.74%) Python
2 89 (19.35%) Bash
3 84 (18.26%) Java
4 79 (17.17%) JavaScript
5 67 (14.57%) PowerShell
6 65 (14.13%) SQL
7 42 (9.13%) Go
8 33 (7.17%) C#
9 19 (4.13%) Shell Script
10 15 (3.26%) Perl
11 14 (3.04%) TypeScript
12 11 (2.39%) PHP
12 11 (2.39%) Ruby
13 9 (1.96%) Apex Code
13 9 (1.96%) Groovy
14 7 (1.52%) Bicep
14 7 (1.52%) SOQL
14 7 (1.52%) SPARQL
15 6 (1.30%) PL/SQL
16 5 (1.09%) C++
Qualifications
1 161 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 138 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 47 (10.22%) Degree
4 35 (7.61%) DV Cleared
5 33 (7.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.96%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.52%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.43%) SANS
12 1 (0.22%) CISSP
12 1 (0.22%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.22%) HNC
12 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (13.04%) QA
2 5 (1.09%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.87%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.87%) 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 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.22%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.22%) MISRA
5 1 (0.22%) MISRA C
System Software
1 162 (35.22%) Docker
2 19 (4.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (4.13%) vSphere
3 17 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.96%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.09%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.65%) NFS
6 3 (0.65%) vCloud
7 2 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.43%) LXC
8 1 (0.22%) Ceph
8 1 (0.22%) HDFS
8 1 (0.22%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 213 (46.30%) Terraform
2 206 (44.78%) Kubernetes
3 150 (32.61%) Ansible
4 50 (10.87%) Grafana
5 46 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 33 (7.17%) Puppet
7 26 (5.65%) Docker Swarm
8 25 (5.43%) Progress Chef
9 21 (4.57%) Kibana
10 19 (4.13%) Packer
11 15 (3.26%) Podman
12 9 (1.96%) logstash
13 8 (1.74%) Graylog
13 8 (1.74%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 8 (1.74%) vRealize
14 7 (1.52%) HP Fortify
14 7 (1.52%) Nagios
14 7 (1.52%) Nessus
14 7 (1.52%) Rancher
15 6 (1.30%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 56 (12.17%) Microsoft
2 51 (11.09%) Oracle
3 41 (8.91%) VMware
4 38 (8.26%) Splunk
5 24 (5.22%) Google
6 21 (4.57%) Red Hat
7 13 (2.83%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.17%) Atlassian
9 9 (1.96%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.52%) Checkmarx
10 7 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.52%) Veracode
11 6 (1.30%) IBM
11 6 (1.30%) PagerDuty
11 6 (1.30%) SAP
11 6 (1.30%) Talend
12 5 (1.09%) Arqiva
12 5 (1.09%) Databricks
12 5 (1.09%) Veritas
13 4 (0.87%) Confluent