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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 134 236
Rank change year-on-year +17 +102 -45
Contract jobs citing GitLab 796 509 374
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.29% 1.97% 0.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.42% 14.70% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 334 284
10th Percentile £385 £364 £413
25th Percentile £431 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £555 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% -1.29% -5.46%
75th Percentile £580 £656 £675
90th Percentile £675 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £551
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.09% -8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 2
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.33 £60.13
25th Percentile £52.50 £70.83 £62.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 £79.72 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.01% +18.10% +10.20%
75th Percentile £65.00 £89.38 £73.44
90th Percentile £80.65 £92.75 £75.88
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £79.72 £60.00
% change year-on-year -31.01% +32.87% +14.29%

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 4,848 3,463 4,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.94% 13.39% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,328 2,199 3,090
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -5.89% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £633 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 59 202
10th Percentile £39.00 £41.50 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.62 £48.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.19
90th Percentile £82.85 £80.00 £88.31
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 22 February 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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -8 324 £525 -8.70% 78
North of England +6 237 £488 -5.34% 40
North West +9 112 £435 -8.42% 20
Midlands +24 104 £492 +3.20% 21
West Midlands +7 94 £500 +3.52% 18
Yorkshire -3 93 £500 -21.57% 13
South East -15 51 £500 -13.04% 60
South West +4 47 £525 -16.00% 20
North East -11 39 £500 -3.85% 7
East of England -11 19 £478 -3.19% 18
East Midlands -20 10 £401 +28.94% 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 56 (7.04%) Confluence
2 32 (4.02%) SAS
3 24 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.14%) Apache
5 16 (2.01%) OpenStack
6 12 (1.51%) Apache Spark
7 9 (1.13%) nginx
8 5 (0.63%) Appian
9 3 (0.38%) CMS
9 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.13%) CICS
11 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) Documentum
11 1 (0.13%) FileNet
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Actimize
3 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.13%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 474 (59.55%) AWS
2 212 (26.63%) GitHub
3 208 (26.13%) Azure
4 160 (20.10%) GCP
5 133 (16.71%) GitHub Actions
6 115 (14.45%) Serverless
7 99 (12.44%) Amazon S3
8 82 (10.30%) Amazon EC2
8 82 (10.30%) OpenShift
9 81 (10.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 81 (10.18%) Amazon EKS
10 80 (10.05%) AWS Lambda
11 72 (9.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 61 (7.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 58 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
14 49 (6.16%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (3.27%) Datadog
16 22 (2.76%) Entra ID
17 21 (2.64%) Azure AKS
18 19 (2.39%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (6.16%) Firewall
2 41 (5.15%) DNS
3 37 (4.65%) VPN
4 31 (3.89%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.51%) Network Security
6 14 (1.76%) SSL
7 6 (0.75%) WAN
8 5 (0.63%) Multicast
8 5 (0.63%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.50%) HTTP
9 4 (0.50%) SAN
9 4 (0.50%) VSAN
10 3 (0.38%) BGP
10 3 (0.38%) DHCP
10 3 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.38%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.38%) NAS
10 3 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.38%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.25%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (11.18%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (8.04%) MongoDB
2 64 (8.04%) NoSQL
3 42 (5.28%) Amazon RDS
4 25 (3.14%) Relational Database
5 23 (2.89%) DynamoDB
5 23 (2.89%) MySQL
6 20 (2.51%) Data Lake
6 20 (2.51%) Redis
7 19 (2.39%) SQL Server
8 18 (2.26%) Big Data
9 15 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (1.76%) Oracle Database
10 14 (1.76%) Power BI
11 13 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (1.38%) DocumentDB
13 10 (1.26%) Spark SQL
14 9 (1.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 8 (1.01%) Aerospike
15 8 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 396 (49.75%) Jenkins
2 188 (23.62%) Git
3 113 (14.20%) JIRA
4 84 (10.55%) Selenium
5 72 (9.05%) JUnit
6 51 (6.41%) Cucumber
7 37 (4.65%) Postman
8 31 (3.89%) Artifactory
8 31 (3.89%) Maven
9 29 (3.64%) SonarQube
10 27 (3.39%) REST Assured
11 26 (3.27%) CircleCI
11 26 (3.27%) JMeter
12 25 (3.14%) Cypress.io
13 24 (3.02%) Gatling
13 24 (3.02%) Gradle
14 23 (2.89%) Bitbucket
14 23 (2.89%) Liquibase
15 21 (2.64%) Mockito
15 21 (2.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 231 (29.02%) Social Skills
2 127 (15.95%) Finance
3 124 (15.58%) Public Sector
4 91 (11.43%) Banking
5 53 (6.66%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.02%) Financial Institution
7 20 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.88%) Military
9 14 (1.76%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.38%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.13%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.01%) Retail
13 5 (0.63%) Games
13 5 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.50%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.38%) Law
15 3 (0.38%) Local Government
15 3 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 179 (22.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 158 (19.85%) Developer
3 122 (15.33%) Senior
4 74 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
5 64 (8.04%) Lead
6 58 (7.29%) AWS DevOps
7 54 (6.78%) Software Engineer
8 47 (5.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 46 (5.78%) Java Developer
10 45 (5.65%) Cloud Engineer
11 42 (5.28%) Architect
12 41 (5.15%) Test Engineer
13 40 (5.03%) Data Engineer
14 38 (4.77%) Senior DevOps
14 38 (4.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 31 (3.89%) GCP Engineer
16 29 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
17 27 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
18 23 (2.89%) Java Engineer
19 22 (2.76%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (17.84%) REST
2 115 (14.45%) Kafka
3 111 (13.94%) Spring
4 101 (12.69%) Spring Boot
5 88 (11.06%) Elastic Stack
6 80 (10.05%) RESTful
7 77 (9.67%) Node.js
8 61 (7.66%) React
9 53 (6.66%) Playwright
10 35 (4.40%) pytest
11 34 (4.27%) HTML
12 31 (3.89%) OpenTelemetry
12 31 (3.89%) RabbitMQ
13 28 (3.52%) YAML
14 27 (3.39%) OpenID
15 26 (3.27%) Jest
15 26 (3.27%) JSON
16 25 (3.14%) AngularJS
16 25 (3.14%) LDAP
17 23 (2.89%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 126 (15.83%) Cloud Native
2 68 (8.54%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (5.78%) Public Cloud
4 42 (5.28%) Product Ownership
5 24 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 15 (1.88%) Data Centre
7 14 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (1.76%) Private Cloud
8 11 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.13%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.01%) PKI
11 8 (1.01%) Security Posture
12 7 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (0.88%) Mainframe
12 7 (0.88%) NHS
12 7 (0.88%) Synthetic Data
12 7 (0.88%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 163 (20.48%) Linux
2 50 (6.28%) Windows
3 26 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (3.02%) Unix
5 13 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.26%) Apple iOS
6 10 (1.26%) CentOS
7 9 (1.13%) Android
8 8 (1.01%) VMS
9 5 (0.63%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.38%) Solaris
10 3 (0.38%) zOS
11 2 (0.25%) Debian
11 2 (0.25%) Rocky
12 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 632 (79.40%) CI/CD
2 489 (61.43%) DevOps
3 298 (37.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 296 (37.19%) Agile
5 273 (34.30%) Containerisation
6 240 (30.15%) Test Automation
7 177 (22.24%) Microservices
8 155 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
9 136 (17.09%) Observability
10 121 (15.20%) Software Engineering
11 92 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 84 (10.55%) Scrum
13 82 (10.30%) Analytics
14 72 (9.05%) DevSecOps
15 68 (8.54%) Test Strategy
16 67 (8.42%) TDD
17 66 (8.29%) Platform Engineering
18 65 (8.17%) Infrastructure Automation
19 62 (7.79%) Data Pipeline
20 61 (7.66%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 355 (44.60%) Python
2 239 (30.03%) Java
3 137 (17.21%) SQL
4 132 (16.58%) Bash
5 100 (12.56%) JavaScript
6 77 (9.67%) Go
7 70 (8.79%) TypeScript
8 68 (8.54%) PowerShell
9 40 (5.03%) Shell Script
10 16 (2.01%) C#
10 16 (2.01%) Kotlin
11 11 (1.38%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.38%) Ruby
12 8 (1.01%) Bicep
13 7 (0.88%) C++
13 7 (0.88%) Groovy
13 7 (0.88%) Korn
13 7 (0.88%) MATLAB
13 7 (0.88%) Scala
14 6 (0.75%) C
Qualifications
1 303 (38.07%) Security Cleared
2 241 (30.28%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.04%) Degree
4 52 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.77%) AWS Certification
5 30 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 29 (3.64%) Master's Degree
7 25 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.13%) CISSP
11 8 (1.01%) CISM
12 7 (0.88%) OCA
12 7 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (0.75%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.50%) ISTQB
16 3 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (13.32%) QA
2 49 (6.16%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.64%) WCAG
4 18 (2.26%) GDPR
5 14 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.76%) NIST
5 14 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 14 (1.76%) SLA
6 11 (1.38%) NCSC
7 10 (1.26%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.50%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.25%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 353 (44.35%) Docker
2 21 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.50%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 4 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.38%) vSphere
6 2 (0.25%) HDFS
7 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) Squid
7 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 414 (52.01%) Kubernetes
2 378 (47.49%) Terraform
3 210 (26.38%) Ansible
4 196 (24.62%) Grafana
5 152 (19.10%) Prometheus
6 38 (4.77%) Argo
7 19 (2.39%) Podman
8 18 (2.26%) Puppet
9 17 (2.14%) Istio
9 17 (2.14%) Kibana
9 17 (2.14%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.76%) Packer
11 10 (1.26%) Fluentd
12 9 (1.13%) Red Hat Satellite
13 7 (0.88%) Check_MK
13 7 (0.88%) Karpenter
13 7 (0.88%) Sysdig
14 6 (0.75%) linkerd
14 6 (0.75%) Nagios
15 5 (0.63%) Rancher
Vendors
1 95 (11.93%) Splunk
2 61 (7.66%) Microsoft
3 57 (7.16%) Oracle
4 46 (5.78%) Red Hat
5 45 (5.65%) Google
6 32 (4.02%) VMware
7 29 (3.64%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.39%) Dynatrace
9 18 (2.26%) Databricks
10 15 (1.88%) F5
10 15 (1.88%) Palo Alto
10 15 (1.88%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.76%) Atlassian
11 14 (1.76%) CheckPoint
11 14 (1.76%) Veracode
12 13 (1.63%) Cisco
13 11 (1.38%) IBM
14 10 (1.26%) Cribl.io
14 10 (1.26%) Informatica
15 9 (1.13%) Talend