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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 132 240
Rank change year-on-year +15 +108 -48
Contract jobs citing GitLab 790 514 372
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.33% 1.98% 0.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.53% 14.70% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 333 284
10th Percentile £381 £370 £413
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £565 £561
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% +0.67% -5.27%
75th Percentile £580 £663 £675
90th Percentile £684 £737 £746
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.35% -6.30%
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 4,778 3,497 4,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.10% 13.49% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,301 2,181 3,103
10th Percentile £340 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -5.14% -6.96%
75th Percentile £594 £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 132 57 199
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.00 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.70 £49.24
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £75.89
90th Percentile £81.10 £76.75 £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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -12 319 £525 -10.52% 76
North of England +13 242 £488 -7.14% 41
North West +14 117 £431 -13.80% 28
Yorkshire +5 94 £513 -19.61% 11
Midlands +11 92 £503 +5.45% 10
West Midlands +11 83 £525 +7.36% 7
South East -27 53 £500 -13.04% 57
South West +8 47 £523 -16.40% 20
North East -6 38 £488 -6.25% 2
East of England -5 22 £485 +3.47% 10
East Midlands -17 9 £400 +20.57% 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 54 (6.84%) Confluence
2 26 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (3.29%) SAS
3 17 (2.15%) OpenStack
4 14 (1.77%) Apache
5 10 (1.27%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.01%) nginx
7 7 (0.89%) Appian
8 3 (0.38%) CMS
8 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
10 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Documentum
10 1 (0.13%) FileNet
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
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
1 471 (59.62%) AWS
2 213 (26.96%) GitHub
3 201 (25.44%) Azure
4 156 (19.75%) GCP
5 135 (17.09%) GitHub Actions
6 112 (14.18%) Serverless
7 95 (12.03%) Amazon S3
8 84 (10.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 80 (10.13%) Amazon EC2
10 79 (10.00%) OpenShift
11 78 (9.87%) AWS Lambda
12 75 (9.49%) Amazon EKS
13 71 (8.99%) AWS CloudFormation
14 60 (7.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 54 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
16 48 (6.08%) Amazon ECS
17 28 (3.54%) Datadog
18 22 (2.78%) Entra ID
19 20 (2.53%) Azure AKS
20 18 (2.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 50 (6.33%) Firewall
2 41 (5.19%) DNS
3 39 (4.94%) VPN
4 31 (3.92%) TCP/IP
5 21 (2.66%) Network Security
6 15 (1.90%) 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%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (10.89%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (8.23%) MongoDB
3 64 (8.10%) NoSQL
4 44 (5.57%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (3.04%) DynamoDB
5 24 (3.04%) Relational Database
6 23 (2.91%) MySQL
7 22 (2.78%) Data Lake
8 20 (2.53%) Redis
9 18 (2.28%) SQL Server
10 17 (2.15%) Big Data
11 16 (2.03%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (1.77%) Oracle Database
13 12 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.39%) DocumentDB
14 11 (1.39%) Power BI
15 8 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.01%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 7 (0.89%) Aerospike
16 7 (0.89%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 388 (49.11%) Jenkins
2 176 (22.28%) Git
3 115 (14.56%) JIRA
4 77 (9.75%) Selenium
5 63 (7.97%) JUnit
6 49 (6.20%) Cucumber
7 36 (4.56%) Postman
8 32 (4.05%) Maven
9 30 (3.80%) Artifactory
9 30 (3.80%) SonarQube
10 27 (3.42%) CircleCI
11 26 (3.29%) REST Assured
12 25 (3.16%) Cypress.io
12 25 (3.16%) Gradle
13 24 (3.04%) JMeter
14 22 (2.78%) Gatling
14 22 (2.78%) Liquibase
15 21 (2.66%) Sonatype Nexus
16 20 (2.53%) Mockito
17 19 (2.41%) Bitbucket
General
1 218 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 125 (15.82%) Public Sector
3 123 (15.57%) Finance
4 91 (11.52%) Banking
5 54 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.16%) Financial Institution
7 20 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.15%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.77%) Military
10 10 (1.27%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.14%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.01%) Retail
13 6 (0.76%) Games
14 4 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.51%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.38%) Law
15 3 (0.38%) Local Government
15 3 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 181 (22.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 162 (20.51%) Developer
3 120 (15.19%) Senior
4 77 (9.75%) AWS Engineer
5 66 (8.35%) Lead
6 62 (7.85%) AWS DevOps
7 51 (6.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 51 (6.46%) Software Engineer
8 46 (5.82%) Java Developer
9 43 (5.44%) Cloud Engineer
10 40 (5.06%) Architect
10 40 (5.06%) Test Engineer
11 38 (4.81%) Senior DevOps
11 38 (4.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 32 (4.05%) Data Engineer
13 29 (3.67%) GCP Engineer
14 28 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
14 28 (3.54%) Platform Engineer
15 26 (3.29%) Automation Engineer
16 24 (3.04%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (17.59%) REST
2 115 (14.56%) Kafka
3 108 (13.67%) Spring
4 103 (13.04%) Spring Boot
5 86 (10.89%) Elastic Stack
6 83 (10.51%) RESTful
7 77 (9.75%) Node.js
8 58 (7.34%) React
9 50 (6.33%) Playwright
10 34 (4.30%) OpenTelemetry
11 33 (4.18%) HTML
12 30 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
13 29 (3.67%) JSON
13 29 (3.67%) pytest
14 28 (3.54%) OpenID
14 28 (3.54%) YAML
15 26 (3.29%) Jest
16 25 (3.16%) LDAP
17 24 (3.04%) AngularJS
18 21 (2.66%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 122 (15.44%) Cloud Native
2 68 (8.61%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (5.82%) Public Cloud
4 43 (5.44%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.66%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.90%) Private Cloud
8 14 (1.77%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.27%) PKI
11 9 (1.14%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.14%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.14%) Synthetic Data
12 7 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (0.89%) Mainframe
12 7 (0.89%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 167 (21.14%) Linux
2 52 (6.58%) Windows
3 24 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 24 (3.04%) Unix
4 13 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.39%) CentOS
6 9 (1.14%) Android
6 9 (1.14%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.01%) VMS
8 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.38%) Solaris
9 3 (0.38%) zOS
10 1 (0.13%) Debian
10 1 (0.13%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 634 (80.25%) CI/CD
2 489 (61.90%) DevOps
3 297 (37.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 278 (35.19%) Agile
5 275 (34.81%) Containerisation
6 229 (28.99%) Test Automation
7 178 (22.53%) Microservices
8 158 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 138 (17.47%) Observability
10 119 (15.06%) Software Engineering
11 87 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 79 (10.00%) Scrum
13 77 (9.75%) DevSecOps
14 75 (9.49%) Analytics
15 67 (8.48%) Infrastructure Automation
16 63 (7.97%) Platform Engineering
16 63 (7.97%) TDD
17 61 (7.72%) Root Cause Analysis
18 60 (7.59%) High Availability
18 60 (7.59%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 355 (44.94%) Python
2 242 (30.63%) Java
3 141 (17.85%) Bash
4 131 (16.58%) SQL
5 103 (13.04%) JavaScript
6 84 (10.63%) Go
7 70 (8.86%) PowerShell
8 69 (8.73%) TypeScript
9 40 (5.06%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.28%) C#
11 16 (2.03%) Kotlin
12 13 (1.65%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.39%) Ruby
14 8 (1.01%) Bicep
15 7 (0.89%) C++
15 7 (0.89%) Groovy
15 7 (0.89%) Korn
15 7 (0.89%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.89%) Rust
16 6 (0.76%) C
Qualifications
1 291 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 228 (28.86%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.58%) Degree
4 47 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (4.05%) DV Cleared
6 30 (3.80%) AWS Certification
7 29 (3.67%) Master's Degree
8 23 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (1.14%) CISSP
11 9 (1.14%) OCA
11 9 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (1.01%) CISM
13 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.63%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.51%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (13.54%) QA
2 46 (5.82%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.41%) GDPR
3 19 (2.41%) WCAG
4 14 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.77%) NIST
4 14 (1.77%) SLA
5 13 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 12 (1.52%) NCSC
7 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.51%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.51%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.25%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.13%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 352 (44.56%) Docker
2 21 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
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
1 413 (52.28%) Kubernetes
2 372 (47.09%) Terraform
3 213 (26.96%) Ansible
4 201 (25.44%) Grafana
5 157 (19.87%) Prometheus
6 38 (4.81%) Argo
7 20 (2.53%) Podman
8 18 (2.28%) Istio
8 18 (2.28%) Puppet
9 17 (2.15%) Kibana
9 17 (2.15%) Progress Chef
10 12 (1.52%) Packer
11 10 (1.27%) Fluentd
12 9 (1.14%) Red Hat Satellite
13 7 (0.89%) Check_MK
13 7 (0.89%) Karpenter
13 7 (0.89%) linkerd
13 7 (0.89%) Sysdig
14 6 (0.76%) Proxmox
14 6 (0.76%) Rancher
Vendors
1 96 (12.15%) Splunk
2 60 (7.59%) Microsoft
3 56 (7.09%) Oracle
4 50 (6.33%) Red Hat
5 43 (5.44%) Google
6 36 (4.56%) VMware
7 26 (3.29%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.41%) Dynatrace
9 16 (2.03%) CheckPoint
9 16 (2.03%) Cisco
9 16 (2.03%) Databricks
9 16 (2.03%) F5
9 16 (2.03%) Palo Alto
9 16 (2.03%) Veracode
10 14 (1.77%) Atlassian
10 14 (1.77%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.27%) Cribl.io
11 10 (1.27%) IBM
12 7 (0.89%) Veritas
13 6 (0.76%) Commvault