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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 136 241
Rank change year-on-year +12 +105 -67
Contract jobs citing GitLab 739 525 366
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.35% 1.91% 1.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.81% 14.44% 8.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 351 286
10th Percentile £380 £363 £413
25th Percentile £447 £436 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £568 £551
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% +3.18% -4.26%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £638
90th Percentile £675 £734 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 5 1
10th Percentile - £65.60 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £74.00 £58.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £74.44 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.04% +24.07% -9.43%
75th Percentile £67.00 £87.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £79.30 £92.00 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £74.44 £60.00
% change year-on-year -16.04% +24.07% +9.09%

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 4,673 3,636 4,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.85% 13.23% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,235 2,271 3,114
10th Percentile £333 £333 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 65 194
10th Percentile £39.91 £46.18 £42.25
25th Percentile £54.75 £54.00 £48.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.20 £75.85 £90.00
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 4 January 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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -3 289 £525 -12.50% 80
North of England +9 208 £488 -2.50% 94
Yorkshire +5 91 £500 +5.26% 50
North West -1 88 £420 -16.00% 37
Midlands +25 87 £525 +10.06% 55
West Midlands +19 79 £525 +7.36% 31
South East -11 58 £500 - 89
South West +20 44 £525 -27.34% 55
East of England +10 33 £478 +27.47% 50
North East -11 33 £508 -3.33% 7
East Midlands -18 8 £400 +30.08% 21
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 55 (7.44%) Confluence
2 29 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (3.38%) SAS
4 15 (2.03%) Apache
5 14 (1.89%) OpenStack
6 12 (1.62%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.95%) Appian
8 6 (0.81%) nginx
9 4 (0.54%) CMS
9 4 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.41%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.41%) Hyperledger
11 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.14%) CICS
12 1 (0.14%) Documentum
12 1 (0.14%) FileNet
12 1 (0.14%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.14%) Actimize
3 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.14%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.14%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 439 (59.40%) AWS
2 203 (27.47%) GitHub
3 201 (27.20%) Azure
4 161 (21.79%) GCP
5 128 (17.32%) GitHub Actions
6 102 (13.80%) Serverless
7 90 (12.18%) Amazon S3
8 89 (12.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 75 (10.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 74 (10.01%) Amazon EC2
11 70 (9.47%) OpenShift
12 68 (9.20%) AWS Lambda
13 65 (8.80%) Amazon EKS
14 60 (8.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 58 (7.85%) Azure DevOps
16 47 (6.36%) Amazon ECS
17 31 (4.19%) Datadog
18 23 (3.11%) Amazon ELB
18 23 (3.11%) Azure AKS
19 22 (2.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 53 (7.17%) Firewall
2 49 (6.63%) DNS
3 40 (5.41%) VPN
4 33 (4.47%) TCP/IP
5 22 (2.98%) Network Security
6 20 (2.71%) SSL
7 5 (0.68%) BGP
7 5 (0.68%) OpenLDAP
7 5 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.68%) WAN
8 4 (0.54%) SAN
8 4 (0.54%) VXLAN
9 3 (0.41%) DHCP
9 3 (0.41%) HTTP
9 3 (0.41%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.41%) Multicast
9 3 (0.41%) NAS
9 3 (0.41%) OSPF
9 3 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (11.77%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (8.93%) MongoDB
3 64 (8.66%) NoSQL
4 48 (6.50%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (3.11%) Data Lake
6 20 (2.71%) MySQL
6 20 (2.71%) Redis
7 19 (2.57%) DynamoDB
7 19 (2.57%) SQL Server
8 16 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
8 16 (2.17%) Big Data
8 16 (2.17%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (1.49%) Power BI
10 11 (1.49%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 10 (1.35%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.95%) Aerospike
12 7 (0.95%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.95%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.95%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 362 (48.99%) Jenkins
2 171 (23.14%) Git
3 111 (15.02%) JIRA
4 66 (8.93%) Selenium
5 52 (7.04%) JUnit
6 42 (5.68%) Cucumber
7 41 (5.55%) Artifactory
8 36 (4.87%) Maven
9 32 (4.33%) SonarQube
10 31 (4.19%) Cypress.io
11 29 (3.92%) Gradle
12 26 (3.52%) Postman
13 24 (3.25%) Liquibase
14 22 (2.98%) CircleCI
14 22 (2.98%) Sonatype Nexus
15 20 (2.71%) Bitbucket
16 18 (2.44%) REST Assured
17 16 (2.17%) JMeter
18 13 (1.76%) IntelliJ
19 12 (1.62%) Gatling
General
1 217 (29.36%) Social Skills
2 116 (15.70%) Finance
3 101 (13.67%) Public Sector
4 83 (11.23%) Banking
5 49 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.38%) Financial Institution
7 21 (2.84%) Telecoms
8 18 (2.44%) Aerospace
9 16 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.76%) Military
11 8 (1.08%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.95%) Games
13 6 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.81%) Retail
14 4 (0.54%) Law
14 4 (0.54%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.41%) Front Office
15 3 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.41%) Local Government
15 3 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 161 (21.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 140 (18.94%) Developer
3 119 (16.10%) Senior
4 72 (9.74%) AWS Engineer
5 58 (7.85%) Lead
5 58 (7.85%) Software Engineer
6 52 (7.04%) AWS DevOps
7 42 (5.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 40 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 40 (5.41%) Java Developer
9 36 (4.87%) Senior DevOps
9 36 (4.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 34 (4.60%) Test Engineer
11 30 (4.06%) Architect
11 30 (4.06%) Automation Engineer
11 30 (4.06%) GCP Engineer
12 28 (3.79%) Data Engineer
13 24 (3.25%) Senior Developer
14 23 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
15 22 (2.98%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (17.59%) REST
2 105 (14.21%) Kafka
3 83 (11.23%) Elastic Stack
4 80 (10.83%) Node.js
5 79 (10.69%) Spring
6 77 (10.42%) Spring Boot
7 69 (9.34%) RESTful
8 52 (7.04%) React
9 36 (4.87%) HTML
9 36 (4.87%) Playwright
10 30 (4.06%) JSON
10 30 (4.06%) pytest
11 28 (3.79%) AngularJS
12 27 (3.65%) OpenTelemetry
12 27 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
13 23 (3.11%) .NET
13 23 (3.11%) CSS
14 22 (2.98%) OpenID
15 21 (2.84%) Jest
16 20 (2.71%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 104 (14.07%) Cloud Native
2 71 (9.61%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.41%) Public Cloud
4 39 (5.28%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.84%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.17%) Algorithms
7 15 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (2.03%) Private Cloud
8 13 (1.76%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (1.62%) PKI
9 12 (1.62%) Synthetic Data
10 11 (1.49%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (1.08%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 154 (20.84%) Linux
2 49 (6.63%) Windows
3 22 (2.98%) Unix
4 18 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (2.17%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.49%) CentOS
7 9 (1.22%) Android
7 9 (1.22%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.22%) VMS
8 4 (0.54%) Solaris
9 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 590 (79.84%) CI/CD
2 475 (64.28%) DevOps
3 299 (40.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 268 (36.27%) Containerisation
5 266 (35.99%) Agile
6 199 (26.93%) Test Automation
7 175 (23.68%) Microservices
8 146 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
9 124 (16.78%) Software Engineering
10 121 (16.37%) Observability
11 82 (11.10%) Infrastructure Automation
12 76 (10.28%) Computer Science
12 76 (10.28%) DevSecOps
13 74 (10.01%) Continuous Improvement
13 74 (10.01%) High Availability
13 74 (10.01%) Migration
14 70 (9.47%) Scrum
15 65 (8.80%) Analytics
16 63 (8.53%) Root Cause Analysis
17 59 (7.98%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 357 (48.31%) Python
2 197 (26.66%) Java
3 144 (19.49%) Bash
4 120 (16.24%) SQL
5 97 (13.13%) JavaScript
6 87 (11.77%) Go
7 73 (9.88%) PowerShell
8 62 (8.39%) TypeScript
9 38 (5.14%) Shell Script
10 24 (3.25%) C#
11 15 (2.03%) Kotlin
12 14 (1.89%) C++
13 13 (1.76%) PL/SQL
14 8 (1.08%) C
14 8 (1.08%) Ruby
15 7 (0.95%) Groovy
15 7 (0.95%) Korn
15 7 (0.95%) Rust
16 6 (0.81%) Perl
16 6 (0.81%) PHP
Qualifications
1 262 (35.45%) Security Cleared
2 203 (27.47%) SC Cleared
3 65 (8.80%) Degree
4 60 (8.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (5.01%) DV Cleared
6 35 (4.74%) AWS Certification
7 33 (4.47%) Master's Degree
8 22 (2.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 20 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.49%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.35%) CISSP
12 9 (1.22%) OCA
12 9 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
13 8 (1.08%) CISM
14 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.41%) CCNP
16 3 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
17 2 (0.27%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (14.88%) QA
2 36 (4.87%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.71%) GDPR
4 17 (2.30%) WCAG
5 15 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.03%) NIST
6 14 (1.89%) NCSC
7 13 (1.76%) SLA
8 12 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.68%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.54%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.27%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.27%) HL7
12 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.14%) MiFID
12 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 327 (44.25%) Docker
2 24 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.81%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.81%) vSphere
6 4 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.27%) HDFS
8 1 (0.14%) Squid
Systems Management
1 390 (52.77%) Kubernetes
2 367 (49.66%) Terraform
3 229 (30.99%) Ansible
4 189 (25.58%) Grafana
5 145 (19.62%) Prometheus
6 34 (4.60%) Argo
7 21 (2.84%) Puppet
8 20 (2.71%) Istio
9 18 (2.44%) Podman
10 16 (2.17%) Progress Chef
11 14 (1.89%) Packer
12 13 (1.76%) Kibana
13 10 (1.35%) Fluentd
13 10 (1.35%) NetBackup
14 8 (1.08%) linkerd
15 7 (0.95%) Sysdig
16 6 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
16 6 (0.81%) Karpenter
16 6 (0.81%) Proxmox
16 6 (0.81%) Rancher
Vendors
1 104 (14.07%) Splunk
2 63 (8.53%) Microsoft
3 54 (7.31%) Oracle
4 46 (6.22%) Red Hat
5 45 (6.09%) Google
6 37 (5.01%) VMware
7 24 (3.25%) Dynatrace
8 22 (2.98%) F5
9 21 (2.84%) Palo Alto
10 20 (2.71%) CheckPoint
11 18 (2.44%) ServiceNow
12 17 (2.30%) Atlassian
13 16 (2.17%) Cisco
13 16 (2.17%) Databricks
14 14 (1.89%) IBM
15 11 (1.49%) Veritas
16 10 (1.35%) Commvault
16 10 (1.35%) Cribl.io
17 8 (1.08%) Veracode
18 7 (0.95%) Okta