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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 145 220
Rank change year-on-year +4 +75 +39
Contract jobs citing GitLab 834 495 411
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.91% 1.94% 1.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.10% 13.69% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 311 293
10th Percentile £371 £358 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £551
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -5.67% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £656
90th Percentile £688 £669 £748
UK median daily rate £495 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -5.71% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 1 8
10th Percentile £52.50 - £62.30
25th Percentile £62.19 - £70.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £82.96 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year -21.65% +11.78% +24.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 - £75.63
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 5,179 3,616 4,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.83% 14.18% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,342 2,458 3,012
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £413 £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 £732
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 76 234
10th Percentile £27.64 £28.18 £33.02
25th Percentile £56.94 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -7 353 £525 - 44
North of England -3 193 £453 -5.63% 33
Midlands +21 134 £463 -7.50% 15
West Midlands +25 126 £463 -11.90% 12
North West -18 87 £500 +5.26% 15
North East +6 67 £400 -13.98% 12
South East -40 65 £550 +9.89% 25
Yorkshire -31 55 £540 +5.37% 6
South West -5 54 £500 -13.04% 19
East of England -5 35 £480 +1.11% 13
East Midlands -15 8 £459 +69.81% 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 88 (10.55%) Confluence
2 51 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (5.16%) Apache Spark
4 40 (4.80%) Apache
5 36 (4.32%) SAS
6 27 (3.24%) 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
1 540 (64.75%) AWS
2 258 (30.94%) GitHub
3 247 (29.62%) Azure
4 182 (21.82%) GitHub Actions
5 130 (15.59%) Amazon S3
5 130 (15.59%) GCP
6 123 (14.75%) Serverless
7 110 (13.19%) AWS Lambda
8 102 (12.23%) Amazon EKS
9 96 (11.51%) Azure DevOps
10 92 (11.03%) Amazon EC2
11 91 (10.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 64 (7.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 60 (7.19%) AWS CloudFormation
14 43 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
15 42 (5.04%) OpenShift
16 33 (3.96%) Amazon SQS
17 31 (3.72%) Power Platform
18 29 (3.48%) Amazon EMR
18 29 (3.48%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.92%) Firewall
2 21 (2.52%) BGP
2 21 (2.52%) Network Security
2 21 (2.52%) 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%) SSL
11 3 (0.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (7.07%) MongoDB
3 46 (5.52%) Relational Database
4 41 (4.92%) Amazon Athena
4 41 (4.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 37 (4.44%) DynamoDB
6 36 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
7 33 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (3.96%) NoSQL
8 29 (3.48%) Pentaho
9 28 (3.36%) Power BI
10 26 (3.12%) Oracle Database
11 24 (2.88%) SQL Server
12 23 (2.76%) MySQL
13 20 (2.40%) Big Data
14 19 (2.28%) Data Lake
15 18 (2.16%) Redis
16 16 (1.92%) RDBMS
17 15 (1.80%) DocumentDB
18 10 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 351 (42.09%) Jenkins
2 192 (23.02%) Git
3 121 (14.51%) JIRA
4 72 (8.63%) Selenium
5 65 (7.79%) JUnit
6 41 (4.92%) Cucumber
7 31 (3.72%) SonarQube
8 30 (3.60%) Artifactory
8 30 (3.60%) Bitbucket
8 30 (3.60%) Mockito
9 29 (3.48%) REST Assured
10 28 (3.36%) Gradle
10 28 (3.36%) JMeter
10 28 (3.36%) Postman
11 25 (3.00%) Gatling
12 23 (2.76%) WebDriver
13 19 (2.28%) Maven
14 14 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
15 13 (1.56%) CircleCI
15 13 (1.56%) Serenity BDD
General
1 164 (19.66%) Social Skills
2 160 (19.18%) Public Sector
3 89 (10.67%) Finance
4 63 (7.55%) Banking
5 44 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.04%) Military
8 14 (1.68%) Law
9 12 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.08%) Legal
11 8 (0.96%) Aerospace
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
1 186 (22.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 147 (17.63%) Senior
3 124 (14.87%) Developer
4 96 (11.51%) AWS Engineer
5 86 (10.31%) Data Engineer
6 69 (8.27%) AWS DevOps
7 62 (7.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 56 (6.71%) Lead
9 48 (5.76%) Software Engineer
10 41 (4.92%) Java Developer
11 39 (4.68%) Test Engineer
12 37 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
13 36 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 36 (4.32%) Platform Engineer
14 35 (4.20%) Architect
15 30 (3.60%) Senior DevOps
16 29 (3.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 26 (3.12%) Full-Stack Developer
18 23 (2.76%) Tester
19 22 (2.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (13.67%) Kafka
2 102 (12.23%) Spring
3 91 (10.91%) REST
3 91 (10.91%) Spring Boot
4 68 (8.15%) RESTful
5 51 (6.12%) React
6 45 (5.40%) PySpark
7 44 (5.28%) Playwright
8 40 (4.80%) Node.js
9 34 (4.08%) YAML
10 29 (3.48%) Elastic Stack
11 26 (3.12%) RabbitMQ
12 25 (3.00%) AWS CDK
12 25 (3.00%) JSON
13 24 (2.88%) WireMock
14 23 (2.76%) OAuth
14 23 (2.76%) SOAP
15 21 (2.52%) Keycloak
16 20 (2.40%) pytest
16 20 (2.40%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 158 (18.94%) Cloud Native
2 61 (7.31%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (5.76%) Product Ownership
4 35 (4.20%) Data Centre
5 26 (3.12%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (2.40%) Public Cloud
9 18 (2.16%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.80%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.68%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.20%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.08%) NHS
14 8 (0.96%) Mainframe
14 8 (0.96%) Private Cloud
15 7 (0.84%) DataPower
15 7 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
16 6 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
16 6 (0.72%) Online Banking
16 6 (0.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 159 (19.06%) Linux
2 41 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 38 (4.56%) Unix
3 38 (4.56%) Windows
4 12 (1.44%) CentOS
5 9 (1.08%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.96%) zOS
7 7 (0.84%) AIX
8 5 (0.60%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.48%) Debian
9 4 (0.48%) Rocky
10 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.36%) VMS
11 2 (0.24%) Android
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 674 (80.82%) CI/CD
2 483 (57.91%) DevOps
3 343 (41.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 302 (36.21%) Agile
5 275 (32.97%) Containerisation
6 262 (31.41%) Test Automation
7 162 (19.42%) Microservices
8 137 (16.43%) Observability
9 123 (14.75%) Scrum
9 123 (14.75%) Software Engineering
10 115 (13.79%) Platform Engineering
11 111 (13.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 110 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
13 91 (10.91%) AI
14 85 (10.19%) ETL
15 84 (10.07%) DevSecOps
16 77 (9.23%) Event-Driven
17 72 (8.63%) Migration
18 69 (8.27%) Data Engineering
19 66 (7.91%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 336 (40.29%) Python
2 209 (25.06%) Java
3 192 (23.02%) SQL
4 122 (14.63%) Bash
5 68 (8.15%) JavaScript
6 60 (7.19%) TypeScript
7 50 (6.00%) PowerShell
8 47 (5.64%) C#
9 33 (3.96%) Go
10 32 (3.84%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.92%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.80%) Bicep
13 13 (1.56%) C++
14 10 (1.20%) Scala
15 8 (0.96%) MATLAB
16 7 (0.84%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.84%) Ruby
17 6 (0.72%) Cypher
17 6 (0.72%) JCL
18 5 (0.60%) C
Qualifications
1 407 (48.80%) Security Cleared
2 346 (41.49%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.28%) DV Cleared
4 40 (4.80%) Degree
5 39 (4.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (4.20%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.60%) 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 (10.07%) QA
2 33 (3.96%) Accessibility
2 33 (3.96%) Data Quality
3 14 (1.68%) SLA
4 10 (1.20%) WCAG
5 9 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.96%) NIST
7 7 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.72%) GDPR
9 5 (0.60%) FATCA
9 5 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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
1 348 (41.73%) Docker
2 26 (3.12%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.96%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.60%) Squid
7 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 4 (0.48%) HDFS
8 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.12%) iptables
10 1 (0.12%) vSphere
10 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 401 (48.08%) Terraform
2 353 (42.33%) Kubernetes
3 183 (21.94%) Ansible
4 149 (17.87%) Grafana
5 132 (15.83%) Prometheus
6 42 (5.04%) Argo
7 31 (3.72%) Puppet
8 14 (1.68%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.56%) Podman
10 12 (1.44%) Istio
11 11 (1.32%) Red Hat Satellite
12 9 (1.08%) Packer
13 8 (0.96%) Check_MK
13 8 (0.96%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.96%) Oracle RMAN
14 7 (0.84%) Kibana
14 7 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.72%) Salt
16 5 (0.60%) linkerd
17 4 (0.48%) Suricata
Vendors
1 95 (11.39%) Oracle
2 53 (6.35%) Microsoft
3 49 (5.88%) Talend
4 46 (5.52%) Informatica
5 45 (5.40%) Splunk
6 39 (4.68%) Google
7 29 (3.48%) Red Hat
8 26 (3.12%) Databricks
8 26 (3.12%) VMware
9 24 (2.88%) ServiceNow
10 23 (2.76%) Denodo
11 21 (2.52%) F5
12 20 (2.40%) Palo Alto
13 18 (2.16%) Arista
13 18 (2.16%) Aruba
13 18 (2.16%) Dynatrace
13 18 (2.16%) Salesforce
14 15 (1.80%) Trend Micro
15 14 (1.68%) Veracode
16 12 (1.44%) IBM