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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 137 240
Rank change year-on-year +16 +103 -49
Contract jobs citing GitLab 792 512 366
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.28% 1.98% 0.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.36% 14.73% 8.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 337 278
10th Percentile £381 £366 £413
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -5.46%
75th Percentile £578 £656 £675
90th Percentile £675 £735 £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 4,842 3,477 4,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.95% 13.42% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,319 2,197 3,042
10th Percentile £340 £334 £363
25th Percentile £407 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -5.68% -7.35%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £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 137 60 208
10th Percentile £33.92 £27.38 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.11 £49.62
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 £75.25
90th Percentile £81.70 £80.00 £88.75
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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -9 328 £525 -9.48% 77
North of England +3 234 £487 -5.39% 34
North West +8 113 £433 -8.84% 17
Midlands +7 96 £500 +4.82% 21
Yorkshire +4 91 £500 -21.57% 13
West Midlands +5 87 £512 +6.00% 18
South West +10 48 £523 -16.40% 19
South East -20 48 £500 -13.04% 61
North East -8 37 £488 -6.25% 4
East of England -8 22 £485 -1.77% 17
East Midlands -19 9 £400 +28.62% 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 (7.07%) Confluence
2 28 (3.54%) SAS
3 24 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.15%) Apache
5 16 (2.02%) OpenStack
6 11 (1.39%) Apache Spark
7 9 (1.14%) nginx
8 6 (0.76%) 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 (59.85%) AWS
2 215 (27.15%) GitHub
3 204 (25.76%) Azure
4 159 (20.08%) GCP
5 136 (17.17%) GitHub Actions
6 116 (14.65%) Serverless
7 99 (12.50%) Amazon S3
8 85 (10.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 83 (10.48%) Amazon EC2
10 81 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
11 80 (10.10%) Amazon EKS
12 78 (9.85%) OpenShift
13 74 (9.34%) AWS CloudFormation
14 63 (7.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 55 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
16 50 (6.31%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (3.28%) Datadog
18 22 (2.78%) Entra ID
19 20 (2.53%) Azure AKS
20 18 (2.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 49 (6.19%) Firewall
2 42 (5.30%) DNS
3 38 (4.80%) VPN
4 31 (3.91%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.53%) Network Security
6 14 (1.77%) SSL
7 6 (0.76%) WAN
8 5 (0.63%) Multicast
8 5 (0.63%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.51%) BGP
9 4 (0.51%) HTTP
9 4 (0.51%) SAN
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%) VSAN
10 3 (0.38%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.25%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (11.24%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 65 (8.21%) NoSQL
4 44 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
5 25 (3.16%) Relational Database
6 24 (3.03%) DynamoDB
7 23 (2.90%) MySQL
8 20 (2.53%) Data Lake
8 20 (2.53%) Redis
9 18 (2.27%) Big Data
9 18 (2.27%) SQL Server
10 16 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.77%) Power BI
12 13 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
12 13 (1.64%) Oracle Database
13 11 (1.39%) DocumentDB
14 10 (1.26%) Spark SQL
15 8 (1.01%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.01%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 392 (49.49%) Jenkins
2 181 (22.85%) Git
3 116 (14.65%) JIRA
4 81 (10.23%) Selenium
5 68 (8.59%) JUnit
6 52 (6.57%) Cucumber
7 37 (4.67%) Postman
8 31 (3.91%) Artifactory
8 31 (3.91%) Maven
9 30 (3.79%) SonarQube
10 27 (3.41%) CircleCI
10 27 (3.41%) REST Assured
11 26 (3.28%) JMeter
12 25 (3.16%) Cypress.io
13 24 (3.03%) Gatling
13 24 (3.03%) Gradle
14 23 (2.90%) Bitbucket
15 22 (2.78%) Liquibase
16 21 (2.65%) Mockito
16 21 (2.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 228 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 128 (16.16%) Public Sector
3 124 (15.66%) Finance
4 90 (11.36%) Banking
5 53 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.03%) Financial Institution
7 20 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (2.02%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.77%) Military
10 11 (1.39%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.14%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.01%) Retail
14 5 (0.63%) Games
14 5 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.51%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.38%) Law
16 3 (0.38%) Local Government
16 3 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 179 (22.60%) DevOps Engineer
2 158 (19.95%) Developer
3 119 (15.03%) Senior
4 73 (9.22%) AWS Engineer
5 66 (8.33%) Lead
6 59 (7.45%) AWS DevOps
7 54 (6.82%) Software Engineer
8 48 (6.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 46 (5.81%) Java Developer
10 44 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
11 41 (5.18%) Architect
11 41 (5.18%) Test Engineer
12 36 (4.55%) Data Engineer
13 35 (4.42%) Senior DevOps
13 35 (4.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 30 (3.79%) GCP Engineer
15 29 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
16 27 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
17 24 (3.03%) Java Engineer
18 22 (2.78%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (17.68%) REST
2 117 (14.77%) Kafka
3 113 (14.27%) Spring
4 103 (13.01%) Spring Boot
5 85 (10.73%) Elastic Stack
6 81 (10.23%) RESTful
7 76 (9.60%) Node.js
8 61 (7.70%) React
9 53 (6.69%) Playwright
10 34 (4.29%) HTML
11 31 (3.91%) OpenTelemetry
11 31 (3.91%) RabbitMQ
12 30 (3.79%) pytest
13 28 (3.54%) JSON
13 28 (3.54%) OpenID
13 28 (3.54%) YAML
14 26 (3.28%) Jest
15 25 (3.16%) AngularJS
15 25 (3.16%) LDAP
16 23 (2.90%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 124 (15.66%) Cloud Native
2 69 (8.71%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.68%) Public Cloud
4 42 (5.30%) Product Ownership
5 23 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 15 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 14 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (1.77%) Private Cloud
8 11 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (1.26%) PKI
10 9 (1.14%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.01%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.01%) Synthetic Data
12 7 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (0.88%) Mainframe
12 7 (0.88%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 162 (20.45%) Linux
2 50 (6.31%) Windows
3 27 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (3.16%) Unix
5 13 (1.64%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.39%) CentOS
7 10 (1.26%) Apple iOS
8 9 (1.14%) Android
9 8 (1.01%) VMS
10 5 (0.63%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.38%) Solaris
11 3 (0.38%) zOS
12 2 (0.25%) Debian
12 2 (0.25%) Rocky
13 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 635 (80.18%) CI/CD
2 485 (61.24%) DevOps
3 301 (38.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 291 (36.74%) Agile
5 272 (34.34%) Containerisation
6 233 (29.42%) Test Automation
7 181 (22.85%) Microservices
8 155 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
9 137 (17.30%) Observability
10 123 (15.53%) Software Engineering
11 93 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 78 (9.85%) Scrum
13 77 (9.72%) Analytics
14 74 (9.34%) DevSecOps
15 67 (8.46%) TDD
16 65 (8.21%) Platform Engineering
17 64 (8.08%) Test Strategy
18 63 (7.95%) Infrastructure Automation
19 61 (7.70%) Root Cause Analysis
20 60 (7.58%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 357 (45.08%) Python
2 242 (30.56%) Java
3 134 (16.92%) SQL
4 130 (16.41%) Bash
5 100 (12.63%) JavaScript
6 77 (9.72%) Go
7 70 (8.84%) TypeScript
8 67 (8.46%) PowerShell
9 42 (5.30%) Shell Script
10 17 (2.15%) C#
11 16 (2.02%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.52%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.39%) Ruby
14 8 (1.01%) Bicep
15 7 (0.88%) C
15 7 (0.88%) C++
15 7 (0.88%) Groovy
15 7 (0.88%) Korn
15 7 (0.88%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 295 (37.25%) Security Cleared
2 233 (29.42%) SC Cleared
3 55 (6.94%) Degree
4 51 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.79%) AWS Certification
6 29 (3.66%) Master's Degree
7 28 (3.54%) DV Cleared
8 25 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (1.14%) CISSP
12 8 (1.01%) CISM
12 8 (1.01%) OCA
12 8 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (0.76%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.51%) ISTQB
16 3 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (13.64%) QA
2 49 (6.19%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.65%) WCAG
4 19 (2.40%) GDPR
5 14 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.77%) NIST
5 14 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 14 (1.77%) SLA
6 12 (1.52%) NCSC
7 9 (1.14%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.51%) 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 (44.57%) Docker
2 21 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 4 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.38%) vSphere
7 2 (0.25%) HDFS
8 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) Squid
8 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 415 (52.40%) Kubernetes
2 378 (47.73%) Terraform
3 208 (26.26%) Ansible
4 198 (25.00%) Grafana
5 154 (19.44%) Prometheus
6 38 (4.80%) Argo
7 20 (2.53%) Podman
8 18 (2.27%) Puppet
9 17 (2.15%) Istio
9 17 (2.15%) Kibana
9 17 (2.15%) Progress Chef
10 12 (1.52%) Packer
11 10 (1.26%) Fluentd
12 9 (1.14%) Red Hat Satellite
13 7 (0.88%) Check_MK
13 7 (0.88%) Karpenter
13 7 (0.88%) Sysdig
14 6 (0.76%) linkerd
14 6 (0.76%) Nagios
15 5 (0.63%) Rancher
Vendors
1 95 (11.99%) Splunk
2 62 (7.83%) Microsoft
3 57 (7.20%) Oracle
4 47 (5.93%) Red Hat
5 44 (5.56%) Google
6 31 (3.91%) VMware
7 26 (3.28%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.27%) Dynatrace
9 16 (2.02%) Databricks
10 15 (1.89%) CheckPoint
10 15 (1.89%) Cisco
10 15 (1.89%) F5
10 15 (1.89%) Palo Alto
10 15 (1.89%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.89%) Veracode
11 14 (1.77%) Atlassian
12 11 (1.39%) IBM
13 10 (1.26%) Cribl.io
14 7 (0.88%) Informatica
15 6 (0.76%) Talend