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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 145 220
Rank change year-on-year +8 +75 +30
Contract jobs citing GitLab 835 492 413
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.92% 1.96% 1.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.21% 13.76% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 308 298
10th Percentile £371 £358 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £553
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% -6.81% -5.87%
75th Percentile £588 £589 £656
90th Percentile £688 £671 £750
UK median daily rate £492 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -5.38% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 1 7
10th Percentile £52.50 - £61.40
25th Percentile £60.25 - £68.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -21.65% +11.45% +24.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £76.25
90th Percentile £75.00 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £74.00
% change year-on-year -15.01% +3.35% +86.87%

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 5,150 3,576 4,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.85% 14.28% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,337 2,430 3,000
10th Percentile £350 £337 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 75 234
10th Percentile £28.53 £27.68 £32.10
25th Percentile £56.25 £49.00 £51.56
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +4.00%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +5 355 £525 - 42
North of England -17 188 £453 -4.63% 30
Midlands +25 135 £459 -8.20% 14
West Midlands +21 125 £463 -11.90% 11
North West -24 85 £500 +6.50% 15
South East -33 66 £550 +9.89% 24
North East +6 64 £400 -13.98% 9
Yorkshire -32 54 £540 +5.37% 6
South West -8 53 £500 -13.04% 18
East of England -4 38 £483 +7.22% 14
East Midlands -14 10 £436 +61.48% 3
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 87 (10.42%) Confluence
2 51 (6.11%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (5.15%) Apache Spark
4 40 (4.79%) Apache
5 36 (4.31%) SAS
6 27 (3.23%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.84%) CICS
8 6 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.60%) Camunda
10 4 (0.48%) nginx
10 4 (0.48%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.24%) CMS
12 2 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 534 (63.95%) AWS
2 259 (31.02%) GitHub
3 248 (29.70%) Azure
4 184 (22.04%) GitHub Actions
5 130 (15.57%) Amazon S3
5 130 (15.57%) GCP
6 123 (14.73%) Serverless
7 110 (13.17%) AWS Lambda
8 103 (12.34%) Amazon EKS
9 95 (11.38%) Azure DevOps
10 92 (11.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 92 (11.02%) Amazon EC2
11 64 (7.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 59 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
13 44 (5.27%) Amazon ECS
14 43 (5.15%) OpenShift
15 33 (3.95%) Amazon SQS
15 33 (3.95%) Power Platform
16 27 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
16 27 (3.23%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.91%) Firewall
2 21 (2.51%) BGP
2 21 (2.51%) Network Security
2 21 (2.51%) WAN
3 20 (2.40%) DNS
3 20 (2.40%) OSPF
4 19 (2.28%) BIG-IP
4 19 (2.28%) Ethernet VPN
4 19 (2.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 19 (2.28%) SD-WAN
4 19 (2.28%) VXLAN
5 15 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 15 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (1.44%) VPN
7 11 (1.32%) WLAN
8 8 (0.96%) HTTP
9 6 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.48%) MQTT
10 4 (0.48%) SAN
10 4 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (7.66%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (6.83%) MongoDB
3 45 (5.39%) Relational Database
4 41 (4.91%) Amazon Athena
4 41 (4.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 38 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 36 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
7 34 (4.07%) NoSQL
8 33 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
9 30 (3.59%) Power BI
10 29 (3.47%) Pentaho
11 24 (2.87%) MySQL
11 24 (2.87%) SQL Server
12 23 (2.75%) Oracle Database
13 21 (2.51%) Data Lake
14 20 (2.40%) Big Data
14 20 (2.40%) Redis
15 15 (1.80%) DocumentDB
16 13 (1.56%) RDBMS
17 10 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 355 (42.51%) Jenkins
2 193 (23.11%) Git
3 120 (14.37%) JIRA
4 73 (8.74%) Selenium
5 67 (8.02%) JUnit
6 42 (5.03%) Cucumber
7 31 (3.71%) SonarQube
8 30 (3.59%) Artifactory
8 30 (3.59%) Bitbucket
8 30 (3.59%) Mockito
9 29 (3.47%) Gradle
9 29 (3.47%) REST Assured
10 28 (3.35%) JMeter
10 28 (3.35%) Postman
11 23 (2.75%) Gatling
11 23 (2.75%) WebDriver
12 19 (2.28%) Maven
13 15 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
14 13 (1.56%) CircleCI
14 13 (1.56%) Snyk
General
1 168 (20.12%) Social Skills
2 159 (19.04%) Public Sector
3 90 (10.78%) Finance
4 64 (7.66%) Banking
5 44 (5.27%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.04%) Military
8 14 (1.68%) Law
9 12 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.32%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.08%) Legal
12 7 (0.84%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.84%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.60%) Police
14 4 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.48%) Publishing
15 3 (0.36%) Retail
16 2 (0.24%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 187 (22.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 146 (17.49%) Senior
3 124 (14.85%) Developer
4 95 (11.38%) AWS Engineer
5 85 (10.18%) Data Engineer
6 69 (8.26%) AWS DevOps
7 62 (7.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 55 (6.59%) Lead
9 49 (5.87%) Software Engineer
10 41 (4.91%) Java Developer
11 39 (4.67%) Test Engineer
12 37 (4.43%) Cloud Engineer
13 36 (4.31%) Architect
14 35 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
15 33 (3.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 31 (3.71%) Senior DevOps
17 30 (3.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 26 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
19 23 (2.75%) Tester
20 21 (2.51%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (13.89%) Kafka
2 102 (12.22%) Spring
3 91 (10.90%) REST
3 91 (10.90%) Spring Boot
4 69 (8.26%) RESTful
5 51 (6.11%) React
6 45 (5.39%) PySpark
7 42 (5.03%) Playwright
8 41 (4.91%) Node.js
9 34 (4.07%) YAML
10 30 (3.59%) Elastic Stack
11 26 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
12 25 (2.99%) AWS CDK
13 24 (2.87%) JSON
13 24 (2.87%) WireMock
14 23 (2.75%) OAuth
14 23 (2.75%) SOAP
15 22 (2.63%) LDAP
16 21 (2.51%) Keycloak
16 21 (2.51%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 157 (18.80%) Cloud Native
2 62 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (5.75%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 26 (3.11%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (2.16%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (2.16%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.68%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.56%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.56%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.08%) NHS
12 8 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.96%) Mainframe
12 8 (0.96%) Private Cloud
13 7 (0.84%) DataPower
13 7 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 157 (18.80%) Linux
2 44 (5.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 38 (4.55%) Unix
4 37 (4.43%) Windows
5 15 (1.80%) CentOS
6 9 (1.08%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.96%) zOS
8 4 (0.48%) AIX
8 4 (0.48%) Debian
8 4 (0.48%) Rocky
8 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.36%) VMS
10 2 (0.24%) Android
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 674 (80.72%) CI/CD
2 482 (57.72%) DevOps
3 338 (40.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 306 (36.65%) Agile
5 273 (32.69%) Containerisation
6 263 (31.50%) Test Automation
7 165 (19.76%) Microservices
8 137 (16.41%) Observability
9 124 (14.85%) Software Engineering
10 123 (14.73%) Scrum
11 114 (13.65%) Platform Engineering
12 112 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
13 108 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 91 (10.90%) AI
15 85 (10.18%) DevSecOps
16 84 (10.06%) ETL
17 74 (8.86%) Event-Driven
18 69 (8.26%) Data Engineering
18 69 (8.26%) Migration
19 67 (8.02%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 334 (40.00%) Python
2 212 (25.39%) Java
3 193 (23.11%) SQL
4 120 (14.37%) Bash
5 69 (8.26%) JavaScript
6 58 (6.95%) TypeScript
7 49 (5.87%) PowerShell
8 46 (5.51%) C#
9 35 (4.19%) Shell Script
10 33 (3.95%) Go
11 16 (1.92%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.80%) Bicep
13 13 (1.56%) C++
14 11 (1.32%) MATLAB
15 10 (1.20%) Scala
16 8 (0.96%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.96%) Ruby
17 6 (0.72%) JCL
18 5 (0.60%) C
18 5 (0.60%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 408 (48.86%) Security Cleared
2 347 (41.56%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.27%) DV Cleared
4 40 (4.79%) Degree
5 39 (4.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (4.19%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 13 (1.56%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.32%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (1.08%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.48%) CISSP
13 4 (0.48%) GIAC
14 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.36%) CSSLP
14 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.24%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (10.06%) QA
2 34 (4.07%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.95%) Data Quality
4 17 (2.04%) SLA
5 10 (1.20%) WCAG
6 9 (1.08%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.96%) GDPR
7 8 (0.96%) NIST
8 7 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.60%) FATCA
10 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
11 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
11 1 (0.12%) NCSC
11 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 349 (41.80%) Docker
2 29 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (0.60%) Squid
6 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.48%) HDFS
7 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 394 (47.19%) Terraform
2 352 (42.16%) Kubernetes
3 182 (21.80%) Ansible
4 149 (17.84%) Grafana
5 134 (16.05%) Prometheus
6 41 (4.91%) Argo
7 31 (3.71%) Puppet
8 16 (1.92%) Podman
9 14 (1.68%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.68%) Red Hat Satellite
10 12 (1.44%) Istio
11 11 (1.32%) Check_MK
12 9 (1.08%) Packer
13 7 (0.84%) Kibana
13 7 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.72%) Salt
15 5 (0.60%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.60%) linkerd
15 5 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
16 4 (0.48%) Suricata
Vendors
1 92 (11.02%) Oracle
2 55 (6.59%) Microsoft
3 49 (5.87%) Talend
4 46 (5.51%) Splunk
5 44 (5.27%) Informatica
6 38 (4.55%) Google
7 32 (3.83%) Red Hat
8 29 (3.47%) VMware
9 27 (3.23%) Databricks
10 24 (2.87%) ServiceNow
11 23 (2.75%) Denodo
12 21 (2.51%) F5
13 20 (2.40%) Dynatrace
13 20 (2.40%) Palo Alto
14 18 (2.16%) Arista
14 18 (2.16%) Aruba
14 18 (2.16%) Salesforce
15 15 (1.80%) Trend Micro
16 14 (1.68%) Veracode
17 12 (1.44%) IBM