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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 143 220
Rank change year-on-year +10 +77 +2
Contract jobs citing GitLab 783 460 398
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.91% 1.90% 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.68% 13.77% 9.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 295 292
10th Percentile £388 £380 £363
25th Percentile £430 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.30% -2.55%
75th Percentile £580 £619 £650
90th Percentile £670 £695 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £558
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.83% -3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 2 6
10th Percentile £43.42 £84.16 £57.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £85.97 £62.19
Median hourly rate £62.50 £88.98 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -29.76% +19.53% +87.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £91.99 £76.74
90th Percentile £80.65 £93.80 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £88.98 £68.22
% change year-on-year -29.76% +30.43% +72.27%

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 4,995 3,340 4,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.18% 13.77% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,293 2,255 2,887
10th Percentile £343 £340 £352
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £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 221 63 192
10th Percentile £37.25 £27.59 £31.84
25th Percentile £59.25 £49.00 £54.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £79.13
UK median hourly rate £66.75 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.25% -7.69% +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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -7 323 £525 -0.94% 78
North of England -6 186 £500 -1.48% 75
Midlands +10 117 £469 -10.67% 29
West Midlands +9 102 £469 -11.68% 18
North West +1 96 £500 - 31
Yorkshire -22 64 £500 -6.98% 24
South West -3 57 £500 +8.70% 20
South East -48 56 £550 +4.71% 38
North East -3 37 £450 -13.46% 20
East of England -8 31 £480 +8.23% 10
East Midlands -15 15 £414 +32.96% 11
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 58 (7.41%) Confluence
2 29 (3.70%) SAS
3 23 (2.94%) Apache
4 22 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.81%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.66%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.02%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.64%) CICS
7 5 (0.64%) nginx
8 3 (0.38%) Camunda
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) 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
2 1 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 463 (59.13%) AWS
2 250 (31.93%) GitHub
3 239 (30.52%) Azure
4 175 (22.35%) GitHub Actions
5 135 (17.24%) GCP
6 114 (14.56%) Amazon S3
7 112 (14.30%) Serverless
8 101 (12.90%) Amazon EKS
9 99 (12.64%) AWS Lambda
10 84 (10.73%) Amazon EC2
11 80 (10.22%) Azure DevOps
12 79 (10.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 72 (9.20%) AWS CloudFormation
14 61 (7.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 57 (7.28%) OpenShift
16 44 (5.62%) Amazon ECS
17 27 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
18 26 (3.32%) Azure AKS
19 25 (3.19%) Power Platform
20 23 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.11%) Firewall
2 27 (3.45%) DNS
3 21 (2.68%) TCP/IP
4 16 (2.04%) BGP
4 16 (2.04%) Network Security
5 15 (1.92%) OSPF
5 15 (1.92%) VPN
6 14 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
6 14 (1.79%) VXLAN
6 14 (1.79%) WAN
7 12 (1.53%) BIG-IP
7 12 (1.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 12 (1.53%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.28%) HTTP
9 9 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
10 6 (0.77%) WLAN
11 4 (0.51%) Multicast
11 4 (0.51%) SAN
11 4 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (6.51%) MongoDB
3 45 (5.75%) Relational Database
4 34 (4.34%) DynamoDB
4 34 (4.34%) NoSQL
5 33 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
6 28 (3.58%) MySQL
7 27 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
7 27 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 26 (3.32%) Redis
9 24 (3.07%) Power BI
10 23 (2.94%) Pentaho
11 22 (2.81%) SQL Server
12 21 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
13 20 (2.55%) Data Lake
14 18 (2.30%) Big Data
15 16 (2.04%) Oracle Database
16 13 (1.66%) DocumentDB
17 10 (1.28%) BigQuery
17 10 (1.28%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 349 (44.57%) Jenkins
2 179 (22.86%) Git
3 107 (13.67%) JIRA
4 68 (8.68%) Selenium
5 61 (7.79%) JUnit
6 40 (5.11%) Cucumber
7 31 (3.96%) Gradle
7 31 (3.96%) Postman
7 31 (3.96%) REST Assured
8 28 (3.58%) Artifactory
9 27 (3.45%) JMeter
10 26 (3.32%) Bitbucket
11 25 (3.19%) CircleCI
12 23 (2.94%) Mockito
13 22 (2.81%) Gatling
14 19 (2.43%) SonarQube
15 16 (2.04%) Maven
16 13 (1.66%) IntelliJ
17 12 (1.53%) Cypress.io
17 12 (1.53%) WebDriver
General
1 168 (21.46%) Social Skills
2 140 (17.88%) Public Sector
3 91 (11.62%) Finance
4 58 (7.41%) Banking
5 42 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.66%) Military
8 11 (1.40%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.02%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.02%) Law
9 8 (1.02%) Retail
10 7 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.77%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.64%) Legal
13 4 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.51%) Police
13 4 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 158 (20.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 137 (17.50%) Developer
3 127 (16.22%) Senior
4 69 (8.81%) AWS Engineer
5 67 (8.56%) Data Engineer
6 59 (7.54%) Software Engineer
7 58 (7.41%) Lead
8 47 (6.00%) Architect
8 47 (6.00%) AWS DevOps
8 47 (6.00%) Java Developer
9 41 (5.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 35 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
10 35 (4.47%) Test Engineer
11 30 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
12 27 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
13 26 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
13 26 (3.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 22 (2.81%) Java Engineer
15 21 (2.68%) Administrator
15 21 (2.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (15.33%) Kafka
1 120 (15.33%) Spring
2 107 (13.67%) Spring Boot
3 95 (12.13%) REST
4 65 (8.30%) RESTful
5 62 (7.92%) Node.js
6 56 (7.15%) React
7 40 (5.11%) Playwright
8 37 (4.73%) Elastic Stack
9 34 (4.34%) OpenTelemetry
10 30 (3.83%) RabbitMQ
11 29 (3.70%) LDAP
11 29 (3.70%) YAML
12 27 (3.45%) PySpark
13 25 (3.19%) AngularJS
14 24 (3.07%) Jest
14 24 (3.07%) OAuth
15 22 (2.81%) OpenID
15 22 (2.81%) pytest
16 21 (2.68%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 130 (16.60%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (6.26%) Product Ownership
4 32 (4.09%) Data Centre
5 24 (3.07%) Onboarding
6 20 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.17%) Public Cloud
8 12 (1.53%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.53%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.53%) Private Cloud
9 11 (1.40%) NHS
10 9 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
10 9 (1.15%) Mainframe
11 8 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.89%) DataPower
13 6 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.77%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.77%) PKI
14 5 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 135 (17.24%) Linux
2 45 (5.75%) Windows
3 42 (5.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (4.09%) Unix
5 14 (1.79%) CentOS
6 9 (1.15%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.02%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.02%) VMS
8 7 (0.89%) Android
8 7 (0.89%) zOS
9 6 (0.77%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.51%) Debian
10 4 (0.51%) Rocky
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.13%) AIX
12 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 622 (79.44%) CI/CD
2 433 (55.30%) DevOps
3 285 (36.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 271 (34.61%) Agile
5 259 (33.08%) Containerisation
6 237 (30.27%) Test Automation
7 160 (20.43%) Microservices
8 148 (18.90%) Observability
9 127 (16.22%) Software Engineering
10 122 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
11 106 (13.54%) Scrum
12 101 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 98 (12.52%) Platform Engineering
14 80 (10.22%) ETL
15 78 (9.96%) DevSecOps
16 68 (8.68%) TDD
17 65 (8.30%) Migration
17 65 (8.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 63 (8.05%) Analytics
19 61 (7.79%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 293 (37.42%) Python
2 229 (29.25%) Java
3 169 (21.58%) SQL
4 119 (15.20%) Bash
5 85 (10.86%) JavaScript
6 67 (8.56%) TypeScript
7 62 (7.92%) PowerShell
8 39 (4.98%) Go
8 39 (4.98%) Shell Script
9 33 (4.21%) C#
10 19 (2.43%) Bicep
10 19 (2.43%) Kotlin
11 16 (2.04%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.92%) C++
13 12 (1.53%) Scala
14 11 (1.40%) MATLAB
15 8 (1.02%) C
15 8 (1.02%) Ruby
16 7 (0.89%) PHP
17 6 (0.77%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 343 (43.81%) Security Cleared
2 281 (35.89%) SC Cleared
3 38 (4.85%) Degree
4 32 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 26 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (3.19%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.66%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.28%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.89%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.38%) Master's Degree
16 2 (0.26%) CCNP
16 2 (0.26%) CSSLP
16 2 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (11.11%) QA
2 41 (5.24%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.68%) SLA
4 19 (2.43%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.79%) GDPR
6 12 (1.53%) WCAG
7 11 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (1.15%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.77%) NCSC
10 5 (0.64%) FATCA
10 5 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.64%) NIST
11 4 (0.51%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.26%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.13%) MiFID
13 1 (0.13%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 331 (42.27%) Docker
2 24 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.77%) Squid
6 5 (0.64%) HDFS
7 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.26%) vSphere
10 1 (0.13%) iptables
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.13%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 352 (44.96%) Kubernetes
2 344 (43.93%) Terraform
3 180 (22.99%) Ansible
4 165 (21.07%) Grafana
5 132 (16.86%) Prometheus
6 51 (6.51%) Argo
7 27 (3.45%) Puppet
8 19 (2.43%) Istio
9 17 (2.17%) Progress Chef
10 15 (1.92%) Podman
11 14 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.40%) Check_MK
12 11 (1.40%) Kibana
13 9 (1.15%) linkerd
14 7 (0.89%) Packer
15 6 (0.77%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.64%) Nagios
16 5 (0.64%) Rancher
17 4 (0.51%) Suricata
Vendors
1 83 (10.60%) Oracle
2 60 (7.66%) Splunk
3 56 (7.15%) Microsoft
4 44 (5.62%) Red Hat
5 37 (4.73%) Google
6 35 (4.47%) Talend
7 34 (4.34%) VMware
8 33 (4.21%) ServiceNow
9 29 (3.70%) Informatica
10 26 (3.32%) Databricks
11 21 (2.68%) Dynatrace
12 18 (2.30%) Denodo
12 18 (2.30%) Salesforce
13 15 (1.92%) Arista
14 14 (1.79%) F5
15 13 (1.66%) Palo Alto
16 11 (1.40%) Aruba
17 10 (1.28%) IBM
17 10 (1.28%) Veracode
18 6 (0.77%) AppDynamics