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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 141 227
Rank change year-on-year -3 +86 -29
Contract jobs citing GitLab 746 489 391
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.88% 1.99% 1.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.86% 14.55% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 321 286
10th Percentile £385 £368 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -2.54%
75th Percentile £577 £638 £670
90th Percentile £675 £725 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £556
% change year-on-year -5.12% -5.26% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 3 6
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.59 £57.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £62.19
Median hourly rate £60.25 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -27.37% +11.45% +65.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £76.74
90th Percentile £77.95 £92.59 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £82.96 £68.22
% change year-on-year -26.47% +21.61% +51.60%

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 5,019 3,360 4,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.64% 13.67% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,358 2,260 2,927
10th Percentile £338 £341 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.10% -3.18%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 61 171
10th Percentile £39.53 £27.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.00 £51.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +6.25%
75th Percentile £75.88 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -9 326 £525 -2.78% 83
North of England -19 168 £488 -7.14% 45
Midlands +2 95 £469 -1.68% 17
North West -8 90 £475 -5.00% 18
West Midlands -4 82 £472 -3.67% 9
South East -33 60 £525 -0.05% 50
Yorkshire -23 59 £500 -13.04% 6
South West +8 56 £520 +13.79% 28
North East -15 27 £450 -12.62% 21
East of England -8 23 £477 +5.89% 25
East Midlands -24 13 £402 +38.38% 8
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 52 (6.97%) Confluence
2 27 (3.62%) SAS
3 23 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.41%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.14%) Apache
6 13 (1.74%) OpenStack
7 10 (1.34%) nginx
8 5 (0.67%) CICS
9 3 (0.40%) Camunda
9 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.27%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Actimize
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 442 (59.25%) AWS
2 235 (31.50%) GitHub
3 220 (29.49%) Azure
4 152 (20.38%) GitHub Actions
5 130 (17.43%) GCP
6 111 (14.88%) Serverless
7 106 (14.21%) Amazon S3
8 97 (13.00%) AWS Lambda
9 90 (12.06%) Amazon EKS
10 77 (10.32%) Amazon EC2
11 70 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
12 67 (8.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 67 (8.98%) AWS CloudFormation
13 65 (8.71%) OpenShift
14 54 (7.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 39 (5.23%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (2.95%) Amazon SQS
17 21 (2.82%) Azure AKS
17 21 (2.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 19 (2.55%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.42%) Firewall
2 25 (3.35%) DNS
3 18 (2.41%) VPN
4 17 (2.28%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.61%) Network Security
6 10 (1.34%) HTTP
7 6 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.54%) BGP
8 4 (0.54%) Multicast
8 4 (0.54%) SAN
8 4 (0.54%) SSL
9 3 (0.40%) NAS
9 3 (0.40%) OSPF
9 3 (0.40%) VSAN
9 3 (0.40%) WAN
10 2 (0.27%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.27%) DHCP
10 2 (0.27%) IPv6
10 2 (0.27%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.27%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (10.46%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (6.57%) MongoDB
3 41 (5.50%) NoSQL
4 34 (4.56%) Relational Database
5 33 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
6 32 (4.29%) DynamoDB
7 28 (3.75%) MySQL
8 24 (3.22%) Redis
9 22 (2.95%) Amazon Athena
10 21 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (2.68%) SQL Server
12 18 (2.41%) Big Data
12 18 (2.41%) Data Lake
13 16 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (2.14%) Power BI
14 15 (2.01%) Pentaho
15 11 (1.47%) DocumentDB
16 10 (1.34%) Amazon QuickSight
16 10 (1.34%) Spark SQL
17 9 (1.21%) Aerospike
Development Applications
1 344 (46.11%) Jenkins
2 170 (22.79%) Git
3 105 (14.08%) JIRA
4 66 (8.85%) Selenium
5 63 (8.45%) JUnit
6 42 (5.63%) Cucumber
7 33 (4.42%) Postman
8 29 (3.89%) Bitbucket
9 27 (3.62%) JMeter
9 27 (3.62%) REST Assured
10 26 (3.49%) CircleCI
11 23 (3.08%) Mockito
12 22 (2.95%) Artifactory
13 21 (2.82%) Gradle
14 20 (2.68%) SonarQube
15 17 (2.28%) Gatling
16 16 (2.14%) Maven
16 16 (2.14%) Sonatype Nexus
17 13 (1.74%) Cypress.io
17 13 (1.74%) IntelliJ
General
1 186 (24.93%) Social Skills
2 122 (16.35%) Public Sector
3 96 (12.87%) Finance
4 65 (8.71%) Banking
5 41 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.47%) Military
8 10 (1.34%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.07%) Retail
10 7 (0.94%) Financial Institution
10 7 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.94%) Investment Banking
10 7 (0.94%) Law
11 6 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.80%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.54%) Legal
12 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.40%) Marketing
13 3 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 155 (20.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 129 (17.29%) Developer
3 101 (13.54%) Senior
4 68 (9.12%) AWS Engineer
5 60 (8.04%) Data Engineer
6 59 (7.91%) Lead
7 57 (7.64%) AWS DevOps
8 56 (7.51%) Software Engineer
9 49 (6.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 42 (5.63%) Architect
10 42 (5.63%) Java Developer
11 32 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
12 31 (4.16%) Cloud Engineer
12 31 (4.16%) Test Engineer
13 27 (3.62%) Senior DevOps
13 27 (3.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 24 (3.22%) Full-Stack Developer
15 23 (3.08%) Java Engineer
16 20 (2.68%) Administrator
17 18 (2.41%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (15.01%) Spring
2 110 (14.75%) Kafka
3 96 (12.87%) Spring Boot
4 90 (12.06%) REST
5 66 (8.85%) Node.js
6 60 (8.04%) RESTful
7 57 (7.64%) React
8 44 (5.90%) Elastic Stack
9 41 (5.50%) Playwright
10 33 (4.42%) OpenTelemetry
11 30 (4.02%) YAML
12 28 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
13 27 (3.62%) LDAP
14 26 (3.49%) AngularJS
14 26 (3.49%) PySpark
15 25 (3.35%) Jest
15 25 (3.35%) OpenID
16 23 (3.08%) OAuth
16 23 (3.08%) pytest
17 22 (2.95%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 107 (14.34%) Cloud Native
2 49 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.90%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.41%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.28%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.47%) Mainframe
8 11 (1.47%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.47%) Private Cloud
9 10 (1.34%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.21%) DataPower
10 9 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
10 9 (1.21%) NHS
11 8 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.94%) Synthetic Data
13 6 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 137 (18.36%) Linux
2 48 (6.43%) Windows
3 33 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 30 (4.02%) Unix
5 10 (1.34%) CentOS
6 8 (1.07%) Android
6 8 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.07%) VMS
6 8 (1.07%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.94%) zOS
8 6 (0.80%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.40%) Debian
9 3 (0.40%) Rocky
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.13%) AIX
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 583 (78.15%) CI/CD
2 410 (54.96%) DevOps
3 259 (34.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 257 (34.45%) Agile
5 243 (32.57%) Containerisation
6 218 (29.22%) Test Automation
7 146 (19.57%) Microservices
8 137 (18.36%) Observability
9 124 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
10 111 (14.88%) Software Engineering
11 95 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 94 (12.60%) Scrum
13 90 (12.06%) Platform Engineering
14 70 (9.38%) ETL
15 68 (9.12%) DevSecOps
16 66 (8.85%) TDD
17 64 (8.58%) Analytics
18 59 (7.91%) AI
18 59 (7.91%) Migration
19 56 (7.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 290 (38.87%) Python
2 224 (30.03%) Java
3 164 (21.98%) SQL
4 119 (15.95%) Bash
5 82 (10.99%) JavaScript
6 65 (8.71%) PowerShell
6 65 (8.71%) TypeScript
7 39 (5.23%) Shell Script
8 38 (5.09%) Go
9 27 (3.62%) C#
10 19 (2.55%) Kotlin
11 18 (2.41%) Bicep
12 14 (1.88%) C++
12 14 (1.88%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.47%) Scala
14 10 (1.34%) Ruby
15 9 (1.21%) MATLAB
16 8 (1.07%) C
17 7 (0.94%) Groovy
17 7 (0.94%) PHP
Qualifications
1 310 (41.55%) Security Cleared
2 256 (34.32%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.83%) Degree
4 31 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (4.02%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (3.35%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.01%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (0.94%) CISSP
11 6 (0.80%) CISM
11 6 (0.80%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.80%) OCA
11 6 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.54%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
13 3 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (12.33%) QA
2 36 (4.83%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.41%) GDPR
4 18 (2.41%) SLA
5 14 (1.88%) WCAG
6 13 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.47%) NIST
8 7 (0.94%) NCSC
9 6 (0.80%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.67%) FATCA
11 4 (0.54%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.27%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.13%) GRC
13 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.13%) MiFID
13 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 315 (42.23%) Docker
2 24 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.67%) HDFS
6 4 (0.54%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.27%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) iptables
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.13%) Squid
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 365 (48.93%) Kubernetes
2 317 (42.49%) Terraform
3 160 (21.45%) Grafana
4 159 (21.31%) Ansible
5 135 (18.10%) Prometheus
6 52 (6.97%) Argo
7 24 (3.22%) Puppet
8 22 (2.95%) Istio
9 16 (2.14%) Progress Chef
10 15 (2.01%) Podman
11 13 (1.74%) Kibana
12 12 (1.61%) Red Hat Satellite
13 9 (1.21%) Check_MK
13 9 (1.21%) linkerd
13 9 (1.21%) Packer
14 7 (0.94%) Fluentd
15 6 (0.80%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.80%) Nagios
15 6 (0.80%) Rancher
15 6 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 76 (10.19%) Oracle
2 65 (8.71%) Splunk
3 56 (7.51%) Microsoft
4 42 (5.63%) Red Hat
5 37 (4.96%) Google
6 33 (4.42%) VMware
7 31 (4.16%) ServiceNow
8 25 (3.35%) Databricks
8 25 (3.35%) Talend
9 23 (3.08%) Informatica
10 18 (2.41%) Salesforce
11 15 (2.01%) Dynatrace
12 13 (1.74%) IBM
13 11 (1.47%) Veracode
14 8 (1.07%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.94%) AppDynamics
15 7 (0.94%) Denodo
16 6 (0.80%) Cribl.io
17 5 (0.67%) Cisco
17 5 (0.67%) Fortinet