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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 136 164
Rank change year-on-year -3 +28 +98
Contract jobs citing GitLab 942 565 495
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.02% 2.02% 1.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.79% 13.46% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 392 341
10th Percentile £381 £369 £350
25th Percentile £433 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £603 £605 £650
90th Percentile £700 £699 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 7 7
10th Percentile - £61.55 £70.40
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 - £74.72
90th Percentile £95.00 - £80.00
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 5,296 4,198 4,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 15.03% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,350 2,905 2,797
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £416 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £631
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 238 94 169
10th Percentile £24.19 £42.33 £37.39
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.81 £54.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.17 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.23 £76.75 £74.00
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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +16 396 £521 -1.65% 337
North of England -37 187 £500 +4.17% 125
Midlands +46 156 £475 -12.04% 50
West Midlands +43 147 £475 -13.64% 42
South East -34 84 £550 +9.89% 69
North East -3 79 £413 -17.50% 27
North West -27 78 £560 +28.62% 79
South West -13 61 £550 -8.33% 85
East of England -24 41 £450 -7.69% 37
Yorkshire -62 41 £550 +10.00% 19
East Midlands -12 9 £405 +50.00% 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 85 (9.02%) Confluence
2 61 (6.48%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (6.48%) Apache Spark
3 47 (4.99%) Apache
4 30 (3.18%) Jupyter
5 23 (2.44%) SAS
6 12 (1.27%) Camunda
7 6 (0.64%) nginx
8 5 (0.53%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.32%) CICS
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.21%) Traefik
10 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.11%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.42%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 619 (65.71%) AWS
2 308 (32.70%) Azure
3 294 (31.21%) GitHub
4 203 (21.55%) GitHub Actions
5 150 (15.92%) GCP
6 148 (15.71%) Azure DevOps
7 118 (12.53%) Amazon S3
8 116 (12.31%) Serverless
9 114 (12.10%) Amazon EKS
10 113 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 105 (11.15%) AWS Lambda
12 88 (9.34%) Amazon EC2
13 57 (6.05%) AWS CloudFormation
14 55 (5.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 52 (5.52%) OpenShift
16 51 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
17 44 (4.67%) Amazon SQS
18 40 (4.25%) Amazon EMR
19 37 (3.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 35 (3.72%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.88%) Firewall
2 35 (3.72%) DNS
3 30 (3.18%) BGP
3 30 (3.18%) Ethernet VPN
3 30 (3.18%) VXLAN
4 29 (3.08%) Network Security
5 26 (2.76%) Wi-Fi
6 25 (2.65%) TCP/IP
7 22 (2.34%) WAN
8 21 (2.23%) SD-WAN
9 20 (2.12%) OSPF
10 19 (2.02%) BIG-IP
10 19 (2.02%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 13 (1.38%) VPN
12 12 (1.27%) 5G
13 11 (1.17%) 4G
13 11 (1.17%) Broadband
13 11 (1.17%) IPv4
13 11 (1.17%) NX-OS
13 11 (1.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (9.13%) MongoDB
2 78 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (5.10%) Relational Database
4 43 (4.56%) Amazon Athena
5 42 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
6 41 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 38 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
8 36 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 34 (3.61%) Oracle Database
10 32 (3.40%) Data Lake
10 32 (3.40%) DynamoDB
10 32 (3.40%) SQL Server
11 31 (3.29%) Redis
12 29 (3.08%) MySQL
13 28 (2.97%) Power BI
14 27 (2.87%) Pentaho
15 26 (2.76%) RDBMS
16 22 (2.34%) Big Data
17 15 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
18 13 (1.38%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 371 (39.38%) Jenkins
2 260 (27.60%) Git
3 120 (12.74%) JIRA
4 86 (9.13%) JUnit
5 81 (8.60%) Selenium
6 60 (6.37%) Cucumber
7 58 (6.16%) SonarQube
8 53 (5.63%) Maven
9 42 (4.46%) Gatling
10 41 (4.35%) Mockito
11 38 (4.03%) Gradle
12 32 (3.40%) Bitbucket
13 30 (3.18%) REST Assured
14 27 (2.87%) Artifactory
14 27 (2.87%) Sonatype Nexus
15 18 (1.91%) Cypress.io
15 18 (1.91%) JMeter
16 17 (1.80%) WebDriver
17 16 (1.70%) Postman
18 14 (1.49%) Snyk
General
1 188 (19.96%) Social Skills
2 170 (18.05%) Public Sector
3 103 (10.93%) Finance
4 68 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (6.90%) Banking
6 23 (2.44%) Military
7 22 (2.34%) Telecoms
8 20 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.38%) Law
11 11 (1.17%) Aerospace
12 9 (0.96%) Legal
13 6 (0.64%) Back Office
13 6 (0.64%) Police
14 5 (0.53%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.53%) Publishing
15 4 (0.42%) Front Office
15 4 (0.42%) Local Government
15 4 (0.42%) Retail
16 3 (0.32%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 198 (21.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 167 (17.73%) Senior
3 161 (17.09%) Developer
4 101 (10.72%) AWS Engineer
5 76 (8.07%) Data Engineer
6 65 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
7 59 (6.26%) Lead
8 58 (6.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 50 (5.31%) Software Engineer
10 47 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
10 47 (4.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 47 (4.99%) Java Developer
11 46 (4.88%) Architect
11 46 (4.88%) Test Engineer
12 38 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
13 37 (3.93%) Java Engineer
13 37 (3.93%) Software Developer
14 36 (3.82%) Full-Stack Developer
15 29 (3.08%) Senior DevOps
16 28 (2.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 470 (49.89%) Terraform
2 144 (15.29%) Kafka
3 133 (14.12%) Spring
4 115 (12.21%) Spring Boot
5 112 (11.89%) REST
6 74 (7.86%) React
7 70 (7.43%) Playwright
8 62 (6.58%) RESTful
9 52 (5.52%) JSON
10 50 (5.31%) RabbitMQ
11 42 (4.46%) PySpark
12 40 (4.25%) Node.js
13 37 (3.93%) HTML
14 36 (3.82%) JPA
15 33 (3.50%) CSS
15 33 (3.50%) YAML
16 32 (3.40%) OpenAPI
17 31 (3.29%) .NET
18 28 (2.97%) OAuth
18 28 (2.97%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 190 (20.17%) Cloud Native
2 60 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (4.78%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.14%) Data Centre
5 36 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 33 (3.50%) Data Structures
7 26 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (2.76%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.91%) AI Agents
9 17 (1.80%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.70%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
12 13 (1.38%) PKI
13 12 (1.27%) Private Cloud
14 11 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.17%) Mainframe
14 11 (1.17%) Replication
15 10 (1.06%) Security Posture
16 9 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
17 7 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 199 (21.13%) Linux
2 46 (4.88%) Windows
3 43 (4.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (4.46%) Unix
5 17 (1.80%) CentOS
6 15 (1.59%) Ubuntu
7 13 (1.38%) VMS
8 12 (1.27%) AIX
9 10 (1.06%) Windows Server
9 10 (1.06%) zOS
10 2 (0.21%) Debian
10 2 (0.21%) Rocky
10 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Android
11 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (83.86%) CI/CD
2 548 (58.17%) DevOps
3 447 (47.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 366 (38.85%) Agile
5 333 (35.35%) Containerisation
6 296 (31.42%) Test Automation
7 195 (20.70%) Microservices
8 179 (19.00%) Scrum
9 174 (18.47%) Observability
10 161 (17.09%) Software Engineering
11 141 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 131 (13.91%) Platform Engineering
13 127 (13.48%) AI
14 125 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
15 102 (10.83%) Deployment Automation
16 99 (10.51%) DevSecOps
17 98 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
18 96 (10.19%) Event-Driven
19 95 (10.08%) Mentoring
19 95 (10.08%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 416 (44.16%) Python
2 254 (26.96%) Java
3 218 (23.14%) SQL
4 159 (16.88%) Bash
5 94 (9.98%) JavaScript
6 77 (8.17%) PowerShell
7 70 (7.43%) C#
8 53 (5.63%) TypeScript
9 41 (4.35%) Go
10 38 (4.03%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.70%) Bicep
12 15 (1.59%) C++
12 15 (1.59%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.27%) Groovy
14 9 (0.96%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.85%) Scala
16 6 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.64%) R
17 5 (0.53%) Cypher
17 5 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 440 (46.71%) Security Cleared
2 342 (36.31%) SC Cleared
3 84 (8.92%) DV Cleared
4 74 (7.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 52 (5.52%) Degree
6 48 (5.10%) AWS Certification
7 40 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 15 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 14 (1.49%) CISSP
11 13 (1.38%) Azure Certification
11 13 (1.38%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.85%) SAFe Agilist
13 6 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.53%) GCFA
14 5 (0.53%) GCIH
15 4 (0.42%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (13.80%) QA
2 50 (5.31%) Accessibility
3 30 (3.18%) Data Quality
4 29 (3.08%) WCAG
5 17 (1.80%) NIST
6 13 (1.38%) GDPR
6 13 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.06%) NCSC
8 9 (0.96%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.85%) SLA
10 6 (0.64%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.53%) FATCA
12 3 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.11%) GRC
13 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 408 (43.31%) Docker
2 23 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.23%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.38%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.96%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.53%) Squid
8 3 (0.32%) Firmware
8 3 (0.32%) HDFS
8 3 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.32%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.11%) iptables
10 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 424 (45.01%) Kubernetes
2 246 (26.11%) Ansible
3 153 (16.24%) Grafana
4 133 (14.12%) Prometheus
5 41 (4.35%) Argo
6 38 (4.03%) Puppet
7 26 (2.76%) Kibana
7 26 (2.76%) Progress Chef
8 13 (1.38%) Data Guard
8 13 (1.38%) Oracle RMAN
9 12 (1.27%) Istio
9 12 (1.27%) Packer
10 10 (1.06%) Podman
10 10 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.74%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.53%) CASB
12 5 (0.53%) Cilium
12 5 (0.53%) HP Fortify
12 5 (0.53%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (0.42%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 108 (11.46%) Oracle
2 69 (7.32%) Microsoft
3 65 (6.90%) Google
4 54 (5.73%) Splunk
5 44 (4.67%) Talend
6 43 (4.56%) VMware
7 39 (4.14%) Informatica
8 33 (3.50%) Dynatrace
9 26 (2.76%) Databricks
9 26 (2.76%) Red Hat
10 24 (2.55%) IBM
10 24 (2.55%) ServiceNow
11 21 (2.23%) Palo Alto
12 20 (2.12%) F5
13 19 (2.02%) Denodo
14 18 (1.91%) Arista
14 18 (1.91%) Aruba
15 16 (1.70%) Trend Micro
16 14 (1.49%) Cisco
16 14 (1.49%) Veracode