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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 137 168
Rank change year-on-year 0 +31 +84
Contract jobs citing GitLab 932 565 492
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.00% 2.03% 1.50%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.57% 13.56% 11.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 391 339
10th Percentile £381 £375 £348
25th Percentile £432 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £604 £614 £650
90th Percentile £696 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 7 7
10th Percentile - £61.55 £70.40
25th Percentile £65.00 £63.63 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.72
90th Percentile £95.00 - £80.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +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 5,305 4,167 4,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.40% 14.96% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,350 2,883 2,799
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £417 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £631
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 95 169
10th Percentile £24.19 £42.35 £37.39
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.88 £54.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.60 £77.50 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +11 389 £521 -3.02% 342
North of England -32 187 £475 -2.56% 128
Midlands +41 152 £471 -12.74% 53
West Midlands +45 143 £475 -13.64% 44
South East -35 83 £550 +9.89% 68
North East -3 79 £413 -17.50% 27
North West -35 79 £550 +19.63% 80
South West -7 64 £550 -8.33% 88
East of England -23 41 £450 -7.69% 37
Yorkshire -57 40 £550 +10.00% 21
East Midlands -8 9 £405 +50.00% 9
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 85 (9.12%) Confluence
2 61 (6.55%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (6.55%) Apache Spark
3 47 (5.04%) Apache
4 30 (3.22%) Jupyter
5 23 (2.47%) SAS
6 13 (1.39%) Camunda
7 6 (0.64%) nginx
8 5 (0.54%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.43%) CICS
10 3 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.21%) Traefik
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.11%) CMS
12 1 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 612 (65.67%) AWS
2 309 (33.15%) Azure
3 295 (31.65%) GitHub
4 203 (21.78%) GitHub Actions
5 149 (15.99%) Azure DevOps
5 149 (15.99%) GCP
6 117 (12.55%) Amazon S3
7 115 (12.34%) Serverless
8 113 (12.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 113 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
9 106 (11.37%) AWS Lambda
10 87 (9.33%) Amazon EC2
11 58 (6.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 55 (5.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 53 (5.69%) OpenShift
14 51 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
15 43 (4.61%) Amazon SQS
16 40 (4.29%) Amazon EMR
17 37 (3.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 35 (3.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.94%) Firewall
2 35 (3.76%) DNS
3 30 (3.22%) BGP
3 30 (3.22%) Ethernet VPN
3 30 (3.22%) VXLAN
4 29 (3.11%) Network Security
5 26 (2.79%) Wi-Fi
6 25 (2.68%) TCP/IP
7 22 (2.36%) WAN
8 21 (2.25%) SD-WAN
9 20 (2.15%) OSPF
10 19 (2.04%) BIG-IP
10 19 (2.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 13 (1.39%) VPN
12 12 (1.29%) 5G
13 11 (1.18%) Broadband
13 11 (1.18%) IPv4
13 11 (1.18%) IPv6
13 11 (1.18%) NX-OS
13 11 (1.18%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (9.01%) MongoDB
2 76 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 43 (4.61%) Amazon Athena
5 42 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
6 38 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
7 37 (3.97%) NoSQL
8 36 (3.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 34 (3.65%) Oracle Database
10 33 (3.54%) DynamoDB
10 33 (3.54%) SQL Server
11 32 (3.43%) Data Lake
12 31 (3.33%) Redis
13 29 (3.11%) MySQL
14 28 (3.00%) Power BI
15 27 (2.90%) Pentaho
16 26 (2.79%) RDBMS
17 22 (2.36%) Big Data
18 15 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
19 13 (1.39%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 366 (39.27%) Jenkins
2 259 (27.79%) Git
3 120 (12.88%) JIRA
4 87 (9.33%) JUnit
5 80 (8.58%) Selenium
6 59 (6.33%) SonarQube
7 58 (6.22%) Cucumber
8 53 (5.69%) Maven
9 41 (4.40%) Gatling
9 41 (4.40%) Mockito
10 38 (4.08%) Gradle
11 33 (3.54%) Bitbucket
12 29 (3.11%) REST Assured
13 27 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
14 26 (2.79%) Artifactory
15 17 (1.82%) JMeter
15 17 (1.82%) WebDriver
16 15 (1.61%) Cypress.io
16 15 (1.61%) Postman
16 15 (1.61%) Snyk
General
1 183 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 168 (18.03%) Public Sector
3 101 (10.84%) Finance
4 67 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (7.08%) Banking
6 22 (2.36%) Military
6 22 (2.36%) Telecoms
7 20 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.39%) Law
10 11 (1.18%) Aerospace
11 9 (0.97%) Legal
12 6 (0.64%) Back Office
13 5 (0.54%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.54%) Police
13 5 (0.54%) Publishing
14 4 (0.43%) Local Government
14 4 (0.43%) Retail
15 3 (0.32%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 198 (21.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 163 (17.49%) Senior
3 157 (16.85%) Developer
4 101 (10.84%) AWS Engineer
5 76 (8.15%) Data Engineer
6 65 (6.97%) AWS DevOps
7 58 (6.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 58 (6.22%) Lead
8 49 (5.26%) Software Engineer
9 47 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
9 47 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 47 (5.04%) Java Developer
10 46 (4.94%) Architect
11 44 (4.72%) Test Engineer
12 38 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
13 37 (3.97%) Software Developer
14 34 (3.65%) Full-Stack Developer
15 33 (3.54%) Java Engineer
16 29 (3.11%) Senior DevOps
17 28 (3.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 468 (50.21%) Terraform
2 143 (15.34%) Kafka
3 128 (13.73%) Spring
4 112 (12.02%) Spring Boot
5 108 (11.59%) REST
6 70 (7.51%) React
7 67 (7.19%) Playwright
8 61 (6.55%) RESTful
9 50 (5.36%) JSON
10 49 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
11 42 (4.51%) PySpark
12 39 (4.18%) Node.js
13 38 (4.08%) HTML
14 37 (3.97%) JPA
15 33 (3.54%) CSS
15 33 (3.54%) YAML
16 32 (3.43%) OpenAPI
17 28 (3.00%) .NET
17 28 (3.00%) WireMock
18 27 (2.90%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 185 (19.85%) Cloud Native
2 55 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.18%) Data Centre
5 36 (3.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 33 (3.54%) Data Structures
7 28 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (2.68%) Onboarding
9 18 (1.93%) AI Agents
10 17 (1.82%) Algorithms
11 15 (1.61%) Public Cloud
12 14 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
13 13 (1.39%) PKI
14 12 (1.29%) Mainframe
14 12 (1.29%) Private Cloud
15 11 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.18%) Replication
16 10 (1.07%) Security Posture
17 9 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
18 7 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 197 (21.14%) Linux
2 45 (4.83%) Windows
3 43 (4.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 41 (4.40%) Unix
5 17 (1.82%) CentOS
6 15 (1.61%) Ubuntu
7 13 (1.39%) VMS
8 12 (1.29%) AIX
9 11 (1.18%) zOS
10 10 (1.07%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.21%) Debian
11 2 (0.21%) Rocky
11 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.11%) Android
12 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 779 (83.58%) CI/CD
2 546 (58.58%) DevOps
3 445 (47.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 358 (38.41%) Agile
5 331 (35.52%) Containerisation
6 294 (31.55%) Test Automation
7 188 (20.17%) Microservices
8 174 (18.67%) Scrum
9 170 (18.24%) Observability
10 157 (16.85%) Software Engineering
11 136 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 128 (13.73%) Platform Engineering
13 125 (13.41%) AI
13 125 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
14 101 (10.84%) Deployment Automation
15 99 (10.62%) DevSecOps
16 96 (10.30%) Migration
17 94 (10.09%) Event-Driven
17 94 (10.09%) Stakeholder Management
18 93 (9.98%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 411 (44.10%) Python
2 247 (26.50%) Java
3 216 (23.18%) SQL
4 161 (17.27%) Bash
5 89 (9.55%) JavaScript
6 77 (8.26%) PowerShell
7 68 (7.30%) C#
8 52 (5.58%) TypeScript
9 40 (4.29%) Go
10 39 (4.18%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.72%) Bicep
12 15 (1.61%) C++
12 15 (1.61%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.29%) Groovy
14 9 (0.97%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.86%) Scala
16 6 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.64%) R
17 5 (0.54%) Cypher
17 5 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 439 (47.10%) Security Cleared
2 342 (36.70%) SC Cleared
3 82 (8.80%) DV Cleared
4 70 (7.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 52 (5.58%) Degree
6 46 (4.94%) AWS Certification
7 39 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 15 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (1.50%) CISSP
10 13 (1.39%) Azure Certification
11 12 (1.29%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.86%) SAFe Agilist
13 6 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.54%) GCFA
14 5 (0.54%) GCIH
15 4 (0.43%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (13.63%) QA
2 49 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 30 (3.22%) Data Quality
4 29 (3.11%) WCAG
5 17 (1.82%) NIST
6 13 (1.39%) GDPR
6 13 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.07%) NCSC
8 9 (0.97%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.75%) SLA
11 6 (0.64%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.54%) FATCA
13 3 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.11%) GRC
14 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
14 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.11%) OpenSCAP
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 402 (43.13%) Docker
2 23 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.25%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.39%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.97%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.54%) Squid
8 3 (0.32%) Firmware
8 3 (0.32%) HDFS
8 3 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.32%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.11%) iptables
10 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 420 (45.06%) Kubernetes
2 246 (26.39%) Ansible
3 151 (16.20%) Grafana
4 132 (14.16%) Prometheus
5 42 (4.51%) Argo
6 38 (4.08%) Puppet
7 26 (2.79%) Progress Chef
8 24 (2.58%) Kibana
9 13 (1.39%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.39%) Oracle RMAN
10 12 (1.29%) Istio
11 11 (1.18%) Packer
12 10 (1.07%) Podman
12 10 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.75%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.54%) CASB
14 5 (0.54%) Cilium
14 5 (0.54%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.43%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 105 (11.27%) Oracle
2 69 (7.40%) Microsoft
3 65 (6.97%) Google
4 52 (5.58%) Splunk
5 44 (4.72%) Talend
6 43 (4.61%) VMware
7 39 (4.18%) Informatica
8 33 (3.54%) Dynatrace
9 26 (2.79%) Databricks
9 26 (2.79%) Red Hat
10 24 (2.58%) IBM
10 24 (2.58%) ServiceNow
11 21 (2.25%) Palo Alto
12 20 (2.15%) F5
13 19 (2.04%) Denodo
14 18 (1.93%) Arista
14 18 (1.93%) Aruba
15 16 (1.72%) Trend Micro
16 14 (1.50%) Cisco
16 14 (1.50%) Veracode