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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 147 206
Rank change year-on-year +15 +59 +21
Contract jobs citing GitLab 774 464 402
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.89% 1.90% 1.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.61% 13.75% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 298 297
10th Percentile £393 £380 £363
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.30% -0.43%
75th Percentile £580 £618 £650
90th Percentile £670 £691 £743
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 4,959 3,375 4,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.10% 13.79% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,271 2,278 2,915
10th Percentile £343 £340 £353
25th Percentile £409 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year - -5.30% -4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £638
90th Percentile £688 £736 £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 £59.00 £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 £78.68
UK median hourly rate £66.75 £58.88 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.38% -9.42% +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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -9 317 £525 -0.94% 80
North of England -7 185 £500 - 62
Midlands +16 116 £466 -11.29% 29
West Midlands +14 101 £469 -11.68% 19
North West -2 94 £500 - 29
Yorkshire -24 65 £500 -6.98% 14
South West +11 56 £500 +8.70% 18
South East -41 56 £550 +4.71% 39
North East -4 38 £450 -12.62% 19
East of England -6 32 £483 +7.22% 13
East Midlands -17 15 £414 +32.96% 10
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 57 (7.36%) Confluence
2 29 (3.75%) SAS
3 23 (2.97%) Apache
4 22 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.84%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.42%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.03%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.65%) CICS
7 5 (0.65%) nginx
8 3 (0.39%) Camunda
8 3 (0.39%) 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%) FileNet
Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) 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
1 459 (59.30%) AWS
2 247 (31.91%) GitHub
3 238 (30.75%) Azure
4 173 (22.35%) GitHub Actions
5 135 (17.44%) GCP
6 111 (14.34%) Amazon S3
7 109 (14.08%) Serverless
8 98 (12.66%) Amazon EKS
9 96 (12.40%) AWS Lambda
10 81 (10.47%) Amazon EC2
11 79 (10.21%) Azure DevOps
12 76 (9.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 71 (9.17%) AWS CloudFormation
14 58 (7.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 56 (7.24%) OpenShift
16 41 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
17 27 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
18 26 (3.36%) Azure AKS
19 25 (3.23%) Power Platform
20 23 (2.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 41 (5.30%) Firewall
2 27 (3.49%) DNS
3 21 (2.71%) TCP/IP
4 17 (2.20%) BGP
5 16 (2.07%) Network Security
5 16 (2.07%) OSPF
6 15 (1.94%) Ethernet VPN
6 15 (1.94%) VPN
6 15 (1.94%) VXLAN
6 15 (1.94%) WAN
7 13 (1.68%) BIG-IP
7 13 (1.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 13 (1.68%) SD-WAN
8 11 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (1.29%) HTTP
10 7 (0.90%) WLAN
11 6 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.52%) Multicast
12 4 (0.52%) SAN
12 4 (0.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (6.72%) MongoDB
3 43 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 34 (4.39%) DynamoDB
4 34 (4.39%) NoSQL
5 30 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
6 27 (3.49%) Amazon Athena
6 27 (3.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 26 (3.36%) MySQL
7 26 (3.36%) Redis
8 24 (3.10%) Power BI
9 23 (2.97%) Pentaho
10 22 (2.84%) SQL Server
11 21 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
12 20 (2.58%) Data Lake
13 18 (2.33%) Big Data
14 16 (2.07%) Oracle Database
15 13 (1.68%) DocumentDB
16 10 (1.29%) BigQuery
16 10 (1.29%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 342 (44.19%) Jenkins
2 177 (22.87%) Git
3 103 (13.31%) JIRA
4 69 (8.91%) Selenium
5 60 (7.75%) JUnit
6 39 (5.04%) Cucumber
7 32 (4.13%) Gradle
7 32 (4.13%) REST Assured
8 30 (3.88%) Postman
9 28 (3.62%) Artifactory
10 26 (3.36%) Bitbucket
10 26 (3.36%) JMeter
11 23 (2.97%) CircleCI
11 23 (2.97%) Mockito
12 22 (2.84%) Gatling
13 18 (2.33%) SonarQube
14 16 (2.07%) Maven
15 13 (1.68%) IntelliJ
16 12 (1.55%) Cypress.io
16 12 (1.55%) WebDriver
General
1 166 (21.45%) Social Skills
2 141 (18.22%) Public Sector
3 88 (11.37%) Finance
4 58 (7.49%) Banking
5 40 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.68%) Military
8 11 (1.42%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.03%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.03%) Law
9 8 (1.03%) Retail
10 7 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.78%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.65%) Legal
13 4 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.52%) Police
13 4 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.39%) Local Government
14 3 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 157 (20.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 135 (17.44%) Developer
3 126 (16.28%) Senior
4 69 (8.91%) AWS Engineer
5 67 (8.66%) Data Engineer
6 59 (7.62%) Software Engineer
7 57 (7.36%) Lead
8 46 (5.94%) Architect
8 46 (5.94%) AWS DevOps
8 46 (5.94%) Java Developer
9 41 (5.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 35 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
11 34 (4.39%) Test Engineer
12 30 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
13 26 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
13 26 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
14 25 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 22 (2.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 22 (2.84%) Java Engineer
16 21 (2.71%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (15.12%) Kafka
1 117 (15.12%) Spring
2 105 (13.57%) Spring Boot
3 93 (12.02%) REST
4 62 (8.01%) RESTful
5 61 (7.88%) Node.js
6 55 (7.11%) React
7 41 (5.30%) Playwright
8 35 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
9 34 (4.39%) OpenTelemetry
10 29 (3.75%) LDAP
10 29 (3.75%) YAML
11 27 (3.49%) PySpark
11 27 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
12 24 (3.10%) AngularJS
13 23 (2.97%) Jest
13 23 (2.97%) OAuth
14 22 (2.84%) OpenID
14 22 (2.84%) pytest
15 21 (2.71%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 130 (16.80%) Cloud Native
2 50 (6.46%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (5.94%) Product Ownership
4 33 (4.26%) Data Centre
5 24 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.20%) Public Cloud
8 12 (1.55%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.55%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.55%) Private Cloud
9 11 (1.42%) NHS
10 9 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
10 9 (1.16%) Mainframe
11 8 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.90%) DataPower
13 6 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.78%) PKI
14 5 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (0.65%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 130 (16.80%) Linux
2 44 (5.68%) Windows
3 42 (5.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (4.13%) Unix
5 14 (1.81%) CentOS
6 8 (1.03%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.03%) VMS
7 7 (0.90%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.90%) zOS
8 6 (0.78%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.65%) Android
10 4 (0.52%) Debian
10 4 (0.52%) 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
1 613 (79.20%) CI/CD
2 428 (55.30%) DevOps
3 281 (36.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 265 (34.24%) Agile
5 252 (32.56%) Containerisation
6 232 (29.97%) Test Automation
7 154 (19.90%) Microservices
8 145 (18.73%) Observability
9 126 (16.28%) Software Engineering
10 114 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
11 105 (13.57%) Scrum
12 99 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 98 (12.66%) Platform Engineering
14 80 (10.34%) ETL
15 78 (10.08%) DevSecOps
16 66 (8.53%) TDD
17 65 (8.40%) Migration
18 63 (8.14%) Analytics
18 63 (8.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 59 (7.62%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 288 (37.21%) Python
2 224 (28.94%) Java
3 170 (21.96%) SQL
4 116 (14.99%) Bash
5 81 (10.47%) JavaScript
6 64 (8.27%) TypeScript
7 62 (8.01%) PowerShell
8 39 (5.04%) Shell Script
9 37 (4.78%) Go
10 33 (4.26%) C#
11 19 (2.45%) Bicep
11 19 (2.45%) Kotlin
12 16 (2.07%) PL/SQL
13 15 (1.94%) C++
14 12 (1.55%) Scala
15 11 (1.42%) MATLAB
16 8 (1.03%) C
16 8 (1.03%) Ruby
17 7 (0.90%) PHP
18 6 (0.78%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 341 (44.06%) Security Cleared
2 279 (36.05%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.65%) Degree
4 30 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.62%) DV Cleared
6 26 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 22 (2.84%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.68%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.29%) SAFe Agilist
10 8 (1.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.39%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.26%) OCA
15 2 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
15 2 (0.26%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (10.72%) QA
2 40 (5.17%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.71%) SLA
4 19 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.81%) GDPR
6 12 (1.55%) WCAG
7 11 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.29%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.65%) FATCA
9 5 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.65%) NCSC
9 5 (0.65%) NIST
10 4 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.26%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) OpenSCAP
12 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 323 (41.73%) Docker
2 24 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.78%) Squid
6 5 (0.65%) HDFS
7 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.39%) 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
1 343 (44.32%) Kubernetes
2 338 (43.67%) Terraform
3 179 (23.13%) Ansible
4 163 (21.06%) Grafana
5 132 (17.05%) Prometheus
6 49 (6.33%) Argo
7 27 (3.49%) Puppet
8 19 (2.45%) Istio
9 17 (2.20%) Progress Chef
10 15 (1.94%) Podman
11 14 (1.81%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.42%) Check_MK
12 11 (1.42%) Kibana
13 9 (1.16%) linkerd
14 7 (0.90%) Packer
15 6 (0.78%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.65%) Nagios
16 5 (0.65%) Rancher
17 4 (0.52%) Suricata
Vendors
1 82 (10.59%) Oracle
2 60 (7.75%) Splunk
3 56 (7.24%) Microsoft
4 44 (5.68%) Red Hat
5 37 (4.78%) Google
6 35 (4.52%) Talend
7 34 (4.39%) VMware
8 33 (4.26%) ServiceNow
9 29 (3.75%) Informatica
10 26 (3.36%) Databricks
11 21 (2.71%) Dynatrace
12 18 (2.33%) Denodo
12 18 (2.33%) Salesforce
13 16 (2.07%) Arista
14 15 (1.94%) F5
15 14 (1.81%) Palo Alto
16 12 (1.55%) Aruba
17 10 (1.29%) IBM
17 10 (1.29%) Veracode
18 6 (0.78%) AppDynamics