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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 141 254
Rank change year-on-year +18 +113 -80
Contract jobs citing GitLab 700 555 360
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.26% 1.83% 0.93%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.94% 13.81% 7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 370 281
10th Percentile £363 £363 £413
25th Percentile £430 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +2.50% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £638
90th Percentile £675 £730 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 1
10th Percentile £61.60 £68.40 -
25th Percentile £64.56 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% -7.50% +20.75%
75th Percentile - £80.97 -
90th Percentile £73.60 £90.50 -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.46% +5.71% +27.27%

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 4,684 4,020 4,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.13% 13.26% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,277 2,521 3,424
10th Percentile £330 £345 £375
25th Percentile £408 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £645
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 101 214
10th Percentile £39.00 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.36 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 -11 274 £525 -12.50% 92
North of England -1 191 £485 +6.72% 92
Yorkshire -5 84 £500 +20.63% 41
Midlands +27 82 £525 +10.06% 50
West Midlands +35 77 £530 +8.17% 28
North West +4 76 £402 -19.60% 41
South East -17 53 £513 +6.20% 98
South West +8 41 £550 -13.73% 59
North East -3 33 £515 - 10
East of England +8 30 £475 +40.74% 42
East Midlands -17 5 £336 +9.27% 20
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 60 (8.57%) Confluence
2 29 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (3.57%) SAS
4 12 (1.71%) Apache
4 12 (1.71%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.57%) OpenStack
6 7 (1.00%) Appian
7 5 (0.71%) nginx
8 4 (0.57%) CMS
8 4 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.43%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.43%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.29%) Mule
10 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Actimize
2 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.14%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 422 (60.29%) AWS
2 185 (26.43%) Azure
3 184 (26.29%) GitHub
4 143 (20.43%) GCP
5 104 (14.86%) GitHub Actions
6 93 (13.29%) Serverless
7 80 (11.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 80 (11.43%) Amazon S3
8 69 (9.86%) Amazon EC2
9 68 (9.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 64 (9.14%) Azure DevOps
11 59 (8.43%) OpenShift
12 57 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
13 55 (7.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 51 (7.29%) Amazon EKS
15 48 (6.86%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (3.86%) Datadog
17 20 (2.86%) Azure AKS
18 19 (2.71%) Amazon ELB
19 18 (2.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 51 (7.29%) Firewall
2 43 (6.14%) DNS
3 41 (5.86%) VPN
4 29 (4.14%) TCP/IP
5 22 (3.14%) Network Security
6 19 (2.71%) SSL
7 7 (1.00%) BGP
8 5 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
8 5 (0.71%) OpenLDAP
8 5 (0.71%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.71%) WAN
9 4 (0.57%) MPLS
9 4 (0.57%) SAN
9 4 (0.57%) VXLAN
10 3 (0.43%) DHCP
10 3 (0.43%) Multicast
10 3 (0.43%) NAS
10 3 (0.43%) OSPF
10 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.29%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
2 68 (9.71%) MongoDB
3 66 (9.43%) NoSQL
4 43 (6.14%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (2.71%) SQL Server
6 18 (2.57%) Data Lake
7 15 (2.14%) Big Data
8 13 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (1.71%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.57%) MySQL
10 11 (1.57%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 10 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (1.43%) Oracle Database
11 10 (1.43%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.29%) Redis
13 6 (0.86%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.86%) Power BI
13 6 (0.86%) SAS Visual Analytics
14 5 (0.71%) Couchbase
15 4 (0.57%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 350 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 161 (23.00%) Git
3 114 (16.29%) JIRA
4 61 (8.71%) Selenium
5 59 (8.43%) JUnit
6 44 (6.29%) Cucumber
7 43 (6.14%) Maven
8 40 (5.71%) SonarQube
9 36 (5.14%) Artifactory
10 28 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
11 27 (3.86%) Bitbucket
12 26 (3.71%) Cypress.io
12 26 (3.71%) Liquibase
13 19 (2.71%) Gradle
14 17 (2.43%) Mockito
14 17 (2.43%) Postman
15 16 (2.29%) CircleCI
16 14 (2.00%) JMeter
17 13 (1.86%) TeamCity
18 12 (1.71%) Gatling
General
1 206 (29.43%) Social Skills
2 108 (15.43%) Finance
3 93 (13.29%) Public Sector
4 80 (11.43%) Banking
5 48 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (4.14%) Financial Institution
7 21 (3.00%) Telecoms
8 14 (2.00%) Military
9 12 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (1.57%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.14%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.00%) Games
13 6 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.57%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.43%) Front Office
15 3 (0.43%) Marketing
16 2 (0.29%) Aeronautics
16 2 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
17 1 (0.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 155 (22.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 143 (20.43%) Developer
3 110 (15.71%) Senior
4 79 (11.29%) AWS Engineer
5 54 (7.71%) AWS DevOps
6 53 (7.57%) Java Developer
7 52 (7.43%) Lead
8 42 (6.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 42 (6.00%) Software Engineer
9 37 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
10 33 (4.71%) Senior DevOps
10 33 (4.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 31 (4.43%) Automation Engineer
12 28 (4.00%) Test Engineer
13 26 (3.71%) Data Engineer
13 26 (3.71%) GCP Engineer
14 24 (3.43%) Architect
15 23 (3.29%) Full-Stack Developer
15 23 (3.29%) Senior Developer
16 22 (3.14%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (16.29%) REST
2 100 (14.29%) Kafka
3 80 (11.43%) Elastic Stack
4 76 (10.86%) RESTful
5 75 (10.71%) Node.js
6 67 (9.57%) Spring Boot
7 63 (9.00%) Spring
8 55 (7.86%) React
9 42 (6.00%) HTML
10 32 (4.57%) Playwright
11 29 (4.14%) JSON
12 28 (4.00%) CSS
12 28 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
13 26 (3.71%) pytest
14 23 (3.29%) AngularJS
15 20 (2.86%) Jest
16 18 (2.57%) .NET
16 18 (2.57%) Vue
17 15 (2.14%) YAML
18 14 (2.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 93 (13.29%) Cloud Native
2 66 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.71%) Public Cloud
4 36 (5.14%) Product Ownership
5 17 (2.43%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (1.71%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.71%) Synthetic Data
9 11 (1.57%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.57%) PKI
10 9 (1.29%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.29%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (1.14%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.14%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 153 (21.86%) Linux
2 43 (6.14%) Windows
3 27 (3.86%) Unix
4 18 (2.57%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (1.57%) Android
7 10 (1.43%) CentOS
8 9 (1.29%) Apple iOS
9 7 (1.00%) VMS
10 5 (0.71%) Solaris
11 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.29%) zOS
12 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 556 (79.43%) CI/CD
2 456 (65.14%) DevOps
3 294 (42.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 268 (38.29%) Agile
5 264 (37.71%) Containerisation
6 185 (26.43%) Test Automation
7 176 (25.14%) Microservices
8 147 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
9 102 (14.57%) Software Engineering
10 88 (12.57%) Infrastructure Automation
11 86 (12.29%) Observability
12 80 (11.43%) Scrum
13 77 (11.00%) Migration
14 76 (10.86%) Computer Science
14 76 (10.86%) High Availability
15 66 (9.43%) DevSecOps
16 63 (9.00%) TDD
17 62 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
18 59 (8.43%) Continuous Integration
18 59 (8.43%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 349 (49.86%) Python
2 183 (26.14%) Java
3 139 (19.86%) Bash
4 106 (15.14%) SQL
5 89 (12.71%) Go
5 89 (12.71%) JavaScript
6 63 (9.00%) PowerShell
7 59 (8.43%) TypeScript
8 32 (4.57%) Shell Script
9 26 (3.71%) C#
10 10 (1.43%) C++
11 9 (1.29%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.14%) Groovy
13 7 (1.00%) Perl
14 6 (0.86%) C
14 6 (0.86%) Korn
14 6 (0.86%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.86%) Ruby
14 6 (0.86%) Rust
15 4 (0.57%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 259 (37.00%) Security Cleared
2 203 (29.00%) SC Cleared
3 66 (9.43%) Degree
4 59 (8.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (6.14%) AWS Certification
6 40 (5.71%) DV Cleared
7 34 (4.86%) Master's Degree
8 25 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.71%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.43%) CISSP
13 9 (1.29%) OCA
13 9 (1.29%) Oracle Certification
14 8 (1.14%) CISM
15 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
16 4 (0.57%) CCNP
16 4 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
17 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (14.71%) QA
2 24 (3.43%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.14%) GDPR
4 13 (1.86%) WCAG
5 12 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.71%) NCSC
5 12 (1.71%) NIST
6 6 (0.86%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.43%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.43%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.43%) SLA
8 2 (0.29%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.14%) MiFID
9 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 313 (44.71%) Docker
2 20 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.57%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.57%) vSphere
6 1 (0.14%) HDFS
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 364 (52.00%) Terraform
2 361 (51.57%) Kubernetes
3 224 (32.00%) Ansible
4 160 (22.86%) Grafana
5 133 (19.00%) Prometheus
6 30 (4.29%) Puppet
7 26 (3.71%) Argo
8 20 (2.86%) Progress Chef
9 18 (2.57%) Packer
10 12 (1.71%) Podman
11 10 (1.43%) Fluentd
11 10 (1.43%) NetBackup
12 9 (1.29%) Istio
12 9 (1.29%) Kibana
13 8 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (1.00%) Sysdig
15 6 (0.86%) Proxmox
15 6 (0.86%) Rancher
15 6 (0.86%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.71%) Salt
Vendors
1 96 (13.71%) Splunk
2 60 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 46 (6.57%) Oracle
4 42 (6.00%) Google
5 31 (4.43%) Red Hat
6 28 (4.00%) VMware
7 22 (3.14%) F5
8 21 (3.00%) Palo Alto
9 20 (2.86%) CheckPoint
10 19 (2.71%) Dynatrace
11 17 (2.43%) Atlassian
11 17 (2.43%) Cisco
12 14 (2.00%) Veracode
13 13 (1.86%) IBM
14 12 (1.71%) Databricks
15 11 (1.57%) ServiceNow
15 11 (1.57%) Veritas
16 10 (1.43%) Commvault
16 10 (1.43%) Cribl.io
17 8 (1.14%) Okta