GitLab Contract Job Trends in England

GitLab
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 147 213
Rank change year-on-year +9 +66 +28
Contract jobs citing GitLab 796 462 396
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.92% 1.94% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.94% 13.99% 9.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 291 291
10th Percentile £400 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% -5.06%
75th Percentile £581 £601 £653
90th Percentile £669 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 1 7
10th Percentile £42.13 - £57.65
25th Percentile £52.50 - £61.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +11.45% +87.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £76.25
90th Percentile £77.00 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £70.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% +18.51% +76.77%

All Development Application Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,995 3,302 4,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.03% 13.87% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,286 2,244 2,903
10th Percentile £350 £342 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 60 199
10th Percentile £35.50 £27.35 £31.71
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.88 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.13 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.27% -7.50% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.30 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.80% -11.35% +5.69%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitLab relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

GitLab job vacancy trend in England

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GitLab.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GitLab

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in England over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in England

GitLab
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GitLab.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GitLab

GitLab
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitLab in England over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for GitLab in England

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the England region over the 6 months to 26 May 2026. 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
London -15 320 £525 -0.94% 54
North of England -2 192 £500 - 61
Midlands +13 120 £463 -6.09% 21
West Midlands +12 108 £463 -11.90% 14
North West +6 96 £513 +2.50% 29
Yorkshire -21 67 £500 -4.76% 11
South East -34 67 £550 +9.89% 32
South West +6 58 £500 +8.70% 14
North East -1 43 £450 -14.29% 21
East of England -13 34 £483 +7.22% 8
East Midlands -22 12 £436 +40.19% 7
GitLab
UK

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 66 (8.29%) Confluence
2 34 (4.27%) SAS
3 28 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (3.14%) Apache
5 23 (2.89%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.38%) Jupyter
7 9 (1.13%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.88%) CICS
9 5 (0.63%) nginx
9 5 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.38%) Camunda
10 3 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.25%) CMS
11 2 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 475 (59.67%) AWS
2 252 (31.66%) GitHub
3 243 (30.53%) Azure
4 176 (22.11%) GitHub Actions
5 140 (17.59%) GCP
6 114 (14.32%) Amazon S3
7 111 (13.94%) Serverless
8 96 (12.06%) AWS Lambda
9 93 (11.68%) Amazon EKS
10 83 (10.43%) Amazon EC2
11 82 (10.30%) Azure DevOps
12 78 (9.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 65 (8.17%) AWS CloudFormation
14 60 (7.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 58 (7.29%) OpenShift
16 38 (4.77%) Amazon ECS
17 30 (3.77%) Amazon SQS
18 26 (3.27%) Azure AKS
18 26 (3.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 25 (3.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.53%) Firewall
2 28 (3.52%) DNS
3 20 (2.51%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.39%) BGP
4 19 (2.39%) WAN
5 18 (2.26%) OSPF
6 17 (2.14%) BIG-IP
6 17 (2.14%) Ethernet VPN
6 17 (2.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 17 (2.14%) Network Security
6 17 (2.14%) SD-WAN
6 17 (2.14%) VXLAN
7 14 (1.76%) VPN
8 13 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (1.26%) HTTP
10 9 (1.13%) WLAN
11 6 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.50%) SAN
12 4 (0.50%) SSL
13 3 (0.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.05%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (6.78%) MongoDB
3 42 (5.28%) Relational Database
4 36 (4.52%) NoSQL
5 33 (4.15%) DynamoDB
6 32 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
7 30 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
8 28 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 27 (3.39%) MySQL
10 25 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (3.14%) Redis
11 24 (3.02%) Power BI
12 23 (2.89%) Pentaho
13 22 (2.76%) SQL Server
14 20 (2.51%) Data Lake
15 17 (2.14%) Big Data
16 16 (2.01%) Oracle Database
17 14 (1.76%) DocumentDB
18 12 (1.51%) BigQuery
19 10 (1.26%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 341 (42.84%) Jenkins
2 180 (22.61%) Git
3 111 (13.94%) JIRA
4 69 (8.67%) Selenium
5 59 (7.41%) JUnit
6 37 (4.65%) Cucumber
7 34 (4.27%) Gradle
8 33 (4.15%) REST Assured
9 32 (4.02%) Artifactory
10 31 (3.89%) Postman
11 26 (3.27%) Bitbucket
12 23 (2.89%) JMeter
12 23 (2.89%) Mockito
13 22 (2.76%) CircleCI
14 21 (2.64%) Gatling
14 21 (2.64%) SonarQube
15 15 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
16 13 (1.63%) IntelliJ
16 13 (1.63%) Maven
16 13 (1.63%) WebDriver
General
1 163 (20.48%) Social Skills
2 141 (17.71%) Public Sector
3 87 (10.93%) Finance
4 60 (7.54%) Banking
5 36 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.63%) Military
8 12 (1.51%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.01%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.01%) Law
9 8 (1.01%) Retail
10 7 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.88%) Legal
11 6 (0.75%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.50%) Police
12 4 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.38%) Local Government
14 2 (0.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 163 (20.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 133 (16.71%) Developer
3 129 (16.21%) Senior
4 72 (9.05%) AWS Engineer
4 72 (9.05%) Data Engineer
5 59 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 56 (7.04%) Lead
7 48 (6.03%) AWS DevOps
8 44 (5.53%) Architect
9 43 (5.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 41 (5.15%) Java Developer
11 38 (4.77%) Cloud Engineer
12 32 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
12 32 (4.02%) Test Engineer
13 27 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 27 (3.39%) Senior DevOps
14 26 (3.27%) Full-Stack Developer
14 26 (3.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 22 (2.76%) GCP Engineer
15 22 (2.76%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (14.45%) Kafka
2 112 (14.07%) Spring
3 101 (12.69%) Spring Boot
4 96 (12.06%) REST
5 63 (7.91%) RESTful
6 55 (6.91%) Node.js
7 54 (6.78%) React
8 40 (5.03%) Playwright
9 36 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
10 35 (4.40%) OpenTelemetry
11 33 (4.15%) PySpark
12 29 (3.64%) LDAP
12 29 (3.64%) YAML
13 25 (3.14%) OAuth
14 23 (2.89%) JSON
14 23 (2.89%) RabbitMQ
15 22 (2.76%) AngularJS
15 22 (2.76%) OpenID
15 22 (2.76%) SOAP
16 21 (2.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 130 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 47 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.53%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.65%) Data Centre
5 27 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.88%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.63%) Private Cloud
10 12 (1.51%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.51%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
12 10 (1.26%) NHS
13 9 (1.13%) Mainframe
14 8 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (0.88%) DataPower
16 6 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
16 6 (0.75%) Online Banking
16 6 (0.75%) PKI
17 5 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 134 (16.83%) Linux
2 43 (5.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 40 (5.03%) Unix
3 40 (5.03%) Windows
4 15 (1.88%) CentOS
5 9 (1.13%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.13%) zOS
6 6 (0.75%) VMS
7 5 (0.63%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.50%) Debian
8 4 (0.50%) Rocky
9 3 (0.38%) Android
9 3 (0.38%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.13%) AIX
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 627 (78.77%) CI/CD
2 442 (55.53%) DevOps
3 298 (37.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 266 (33.42%) Agile
5 256 (32.16%) Containerisation
6 234 (29.40%) Test Automation
7 152 (19.10%) Microservices
8 148 (18.59%) Observability
9 131 (16.46%) Software Engineering
10 105 (13.19%) Scrum
11 104 (13.07%) Platform Engineering
12 101 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 100 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
14 84 (10.55%) ETL
15 82 (10.30%) DevSecOps
16 69 (8.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 68 (8.54%) Migration
18 64 (8.04%) AI
18 64 (8.04%) TDD
19 63 (7.91%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 302 (37.94%) Python
2 215 (27.01%) Java
3 188 (23.62%) SQL
4 116 (14.57%) Bash
5 77 (9.67%) JavaScript
6 60 (7.54%) PowerShell
7 58 (7.29%) TypeScript
8 39 (4.90%) Shell Script
9 36 (4.52%) Go
10 34 (4.27%) C#
11 21 (2.64%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.14%) Bicep
12 17 (2.14%) Kotlin
13 15 (1.88%) C++
14 11 (1.38%) MATLAB
14 11 (1.38%) Scala
15 8 (1.01%) Ruby
16 7 (0.88%) C
17 6 (0.75%) JCL
17 6 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 360 (45.23%) Security Cleared
2 297 (37.31%) SC Cleared
3 37 (4.65%) Degree
4 35 (4.40%) DV Cleared
5 29 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (2.64%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.38%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.26%) ISTQB
9 10 (1.26%) SAFe Agilist
10 8 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.38%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.25%) CCNP
14 2 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (10.05%) QA
2 38 (4.77%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.76%) SLA
4 21 (2.64%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.63%) GDPR
6 12 (1.51%) WCAG
7 11 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.26%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.63%) FATCA
9 5 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.63%) NCSC
9 5 (0.63%) NIST
10 4 (0.50%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.13%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 320 (40.20%) Docker
2 22 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.75%) Squid
6 4 (0.50%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.50%) HDFS
7 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.25%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) iptables
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.13%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 356 (44.72%) Terraform
2 345 (43.34%) Kubernetes
3 183 (22.99%) Ansible
4 163 (20.48%) Grafana
5 135 (16.96%) Prometheus
6 48 (6.03%) Argo
7 29 (3.64%) Puppet
8 21 (2.64%) Istio
9 17 (2.14%) Podman
10 16 (2.01%) Progress Chef
11 14 (1.76%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.38%) Check_MK
13 10 (1.26%) Kibana
14 9 (1.13%) linkerd
14 9 (1.13%) Packer
15 6 (0.75%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.50%) Rancher
16 4 (0.50%) Salt
16 4 (0.50%) Suricata
Vendors
1 92 (11.56%) Oracle
2 61 (7.66%) Splunk
3 53 (6.66%) Microsoft
4 46 (5.78%) Red Hat
5 43 (5.40%) Talend
6 38 (4.77%) Google
7 35 (4.40%) ServiceNow
8 34 (4.27%) VMware
9 32 (4.02%) Informatica
10 28 (3.52%) Databricks
11 23 (2.89%) Denodo
11 23 (2.89%) Dynatrace
12 19 (2.39%) F5
13 18 (2.26%) Arista
13 18 (2.26%) Palo Alto
13 18 (2.26%) Salesforce
14 16 (2.01%) Aruba
15 10 (1.26%) Veracode
16 8 (1.01%) IBM
17 6 (0.75%) AppDynamics