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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 137 175
Rank change year-on-year -7 +38 +77
Contract jobs citing GitLab 908 565 467
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.96% 2.03% 1.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.09% 13.67% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 387 323
10th Percentile £382 £375 £350
25th Percentile £432 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 7 6
10th Percentile - £61.55 £69.50
25th Percentile £65.00 £63.63 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.44
90th Percentile £95.00 - £74.72
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +86.87%

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 5,314 4,134 4,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.45% 14.89% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,371 2,857 2,803
10th Percentile £355 £325 £353
25th Percentile £417 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £634
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 96 168
10th Percentile £35.00 £44.63 £37.31
25th Percentile £52.29 £54.94 £54.27
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £81.50 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +4 389 £513 -3.30% 347
North of England -40 180 £475 -1.04% 118
Midlands +24 140 £473 -12.50% 44
West Midlands +26 132 £475 -13.64% 35
South East -32 82 £546 +9.14% 62
North East +6 76 £413 -11.29% 31
North West -31 75 £569 +21.32% 61
South West -15 66 £550 -8.33% 83
Yorkshire -68 40 £550 +10.00% 26
East of England -22 38 £450 -7.69% 44
East Midlands -5 8 £414 +53.15% 9
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 83 (9.14%) Confluence
2 60 (6.61%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (6.61%) Apache Spark
3 48 (5.29%) Apache
4 30 (3.30%) Jupyter
5 23 (2.53%) SAS
6 12 (1.32%) Camunda
7 5 (0.55%) nginx
7 5 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.44%) CICS
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.22%) Traefik
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 592 (65.20%) AWS
2 308 (33.92%) Azure
3 301 (33.15%) GitHub
4 214 (23.57%) GitHub Actions
5 154 (16.96%) Azure DevOps
6 152 (16.74%) GCP
7 113 (12.44%) Amazon S3
8 112 (12.33%) Serverless
9 109 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 108 (11.89%) Amazon EKS
11 103 (11.34%) AWS Lambda
12 85 (9.36%) Amazon EC2
13 58 (6.39%) AWS CloudFormation
14 56 (6.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 49 (5.40%) OpenShift
16 46 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
17 39 (4.30%) Amazon EMR
17 39 (4.30%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (3.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 35 (3.85%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.07%) Firewall
2 34 (3.74%) DNS
3 29 (3.19%) BGP
3 29 (3.19%) Ethernet VPN
3 29 (3.19%) Network Security
3 29 (3.19%) VXLAN
4 24 (2.64%) TCP/IP
5 22 (2.42%) WAN
6 21 (2.31%) SD-WAN
6 21 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
7 20 (2.20%) OSPF
8 19 (2.09%) BIG-IP
8 19 (2.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 13 (1.43%) VPN
10 11 (1.21%) HTTP
10 11 (1.21%) WLAN
11 10 (1.10%) NX-OS
12 9 (0.99%) 5G
13 8 (0.88%) 4G
13 8 (0.88%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (8.48%) MongoDB
2 75 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (5.51%) Relational Database
4 43 (4.74%) Amazon Athena
5 41 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
6 37 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
7 36 (3.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 36 (3.96%) NoSQL
8 34 (3.74%) Oracle Database
9 33 (3.63%) DynamoDB
10 32 (3.52%) SQL Server
11 29 (3.19%) Data Lake
11 29 (3.19%) MySQL
11 29 (3.19%) Redis
12 28 (3.08%) Power BI
13 27 (2.97%) Pentaho
14 26 (2.86%) RDBMS
15 24 (2.64%) Big Data
16 13 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
16 13 (1.43%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 369 (40.64%) Jenkins
2 240 (26.43%) Git
3 115 (12.67%) JIRA
4 75 (8.26%) JUnit
5 72 (7.93%) Selenium
6 53 (5.84%) SonarQube
7 48 (5.29%) Cucumber
8 46 (5.07%) Maven
9 36 (3.96%) Gradle
10 35 (3.85%) Mockito
11 34 (3.74%) Bitbucket
12 33 (3.63%) Gatling
13 28 (3.08%) REST Assured
14 26 (2.86%) Artifactory
15 25 (2.75%) Sonatype Nexus
16 18 (1.98%) JMeter
16 18 (1.98%) WebDriver
17 15 (1.65%) Cypress.io
17 15 (1.65%) Postman
17 15 (1.65%) Snyk
General
1 178 (19.60%) Social Skills
2 162 (17.84%) Public Sector
3 101 (11.12%) Finance
4 65 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (7.16%) Banking
5 22 (2.42%) Military
6 18 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.65%) Telecoms
8 14 (1.54%) Law
9 11 (1.21%) Aerospace
10 9 (0.99%) Legal
11 6 (0.66%) Back Office
11 6 (0.66%) Police
12 5 (0.55%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.44%) Local Government
13 4 (0.44%) Marketing
13 4 (0.44%) Publishing
13 4 (0.44%) Retail
14 3 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 198 (21.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 163 (17.95%) Senior
3 152 (16.74%) Developer
4 99 (10.90%) AWS Engineer
5 79 (8.70%) Data Engineer
6 62 (6.83%) AWS DevOps
7 58 (6.39%) Lead
8 55 (6.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 51 (5.62%) Software Engineer
10 49 (5.40%) Cloud Engineer
11 45 (4.96%) Java Developer
12 44 (4.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 41 (4.52%) Architect
13 41 (4.52%) Test Engineer
14 35 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
14 35 (3.85%) Software Developer
15 33 (3.63%) Full-Stack Developer
16 29 (3.19%) Java Engineer
17 28 (3.08%) Senior DevOps
18 27 (2.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 460 (50.66%) Terraform
2 138 (15.20%) Kafka
3 119 (13.11%) Spring
4 107 (11.78%) Spring Boot
5 104 (11.45%) REST
6 67 (7.38%) React
7 62 (6.83%) RESTful
8 59 (6.50%) Playwright
9 49 (5.40%) RabbitMQ
10 46 (5.07%) JSON
11 44 (4.85%) PySpark
12 40 (4.41%) Node.js
13 37 (4.07%) HTML
14 36 (3.96%) YAML
15 32 (3.52%) CSS
16 30 (3.30%) JPA
17 27 (2.97%) .NET
18 26 (2.86%) OAuth
19 25 (2.75%) Keycloak
20 24 (2.64%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 186 (20.48%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.28%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.18%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.19%) Data Centre
5 36 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 30 (3.30%) Data Structures
7 26 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (2.64%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.87%) AI Agents
9 17 (1.87%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.65%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.32%) Mainframe
11 12 (1.32%) PKI
12 11 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.21%) Private Cloud
13 10 (1.10%) Security Posture
14 9 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (0.88%) Replication
16 7 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 188 (20.70%) Linux
2 44 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 44 (4.85%) Windows
3 41 (4.52%) Unix
4 15 (1.65%) CentOS
4 15 (1.65%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.32%) AIX
6 11 (1.21%) zOS
7 10 (1.10%) VMS
7 10 (1.10%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.33%) Debian
8 3 (0.33%) Rocky
9 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Android
10 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 766 (84.36%) CI/CD
2 547 (60.24%) DevOps
3 439 (48.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 347 (38.22%) Agile
5 323 (35.57%) Containerisation
6 279 (30.73%) Test Automation
7 183 (20.15%) Microservices
8 164 (18.06%) Observability
9 162 (17.84%) Scrum
10 157 (17.29%) Software Engineering
11 133 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 132 (14.54%) Platform Engineering
13 124 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
14 120 (13.22%) AI
15 102 (11.23%) DevSecOps
16 95 (10.46%) Deployment Automation
17 94 (10.35%) Event-Driven
18 93 (10.24%) Migration
19 92 (10.13%) Mentoring
20 89 (9.80%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 406 (44.71%) Python
2 232 (25.55%) Java
3 211 (23.24%) SQL
4 164 (18.06%) Bash
5 86 (9.47%) JavaScript
6 83 (9.14%) PowerShell
7 67 (7.38%) C#
8 52 (5.73%) TypeScript
9 41 (4.52%) Go
10 33 (3.63%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.09%) Bicep
12 15 (1.65%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.54%) C++
14 11 (1.21%) Groovy
15 9 (0.99%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.77%) Scala
17 6 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.66%) R
18 5 (0.55%) Cypher
18 5 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 437 (48.13%) Security Cleared
2 343 (37.78%) SC Cleared
3 80 (8.81%) DV Cleared
4 56 (6.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 51 (5.62%) Degree
6 45 (4.96%) AWS Certification
7 39 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.98%) Azure Certification
9 16 (1.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 15 (1.65%) CISSP
11 14 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (1.32%) ISTQB
13 9 (0.99%) SAFe Agilist
14 8 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 5 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.55%) GCFA
16 5 (0.55%) GCIH
17 4 (0.44%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (13.11%) QA
2 43 (4.74%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.74%) Data Quality
4 23 (2.53%) WCAG
5 15 (1.65%) NIST
6 13 (1.43%) GDPR
7 12 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.10%) NCSC
9 9 (0.99%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.77%) SLA
12 6 (0.66%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.55%) FATCA
14 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.11%) GRC
15 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
15 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.11%) OpenSCAP
15 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 387 (42.62%) Docker
2 22 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.20%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.43%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.88%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.55%) Squid
8 3 (0.33%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.22%) HDFS
9 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.11%) Firmware
10 1 (0.11%) iptables
10 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 409 (45.04%) Kubernetes
2 245 (26.98%) Ansible
3 147 (16.19%) Grafana
4 128 (14.10%) Prometheus
5 41 (4.52%) Argo
5 41 (4.52%) Puppet
6 30 (3.30%) Progress Chef
7 16 (1.76%) Kibana
8 13 (1.43%) Data Guard
8 13 (1.43%) Oracle RMAN
9 11 (1.21%) Istio
9 11 (1.21%) Packer
10 10 (1.10%) Podman
10 10 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.77%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.55%) CASB
12 5 (0.55%) Cilium
12 5 (0.55%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (0.44%) HP Fortify
13 4 (0.44%) Salt
Vendors
1 102 (11.23%) Oracle
2 67 (7.38%) Microsoft
3 64 (7.05%) Google
4 48 (5.29%) Splunk
5 44 (4.85%) Talend
6 41 (4.52%) VMware
7 40 (4.41%) Informatica
8 31 (3.41%) Databricks
9 30 (3.30%) Dynatrace
10 28 (3.08%) Red Hat
11 23 (2.53%) IBM
11 23 (2.53%) ServiceNow
12 21 (2.31%) Palo Alto
13 20 (2.20%) F5
14 19 (2.09%) Denodo
15 18 (1.98%) Arista
15 18 (1.98%) Aruba
16 16 (1.76%) Trend Micro
17 14 (1.54%) Veracode
18 13 (1.43%) Cisco