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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 138 227
Rank change year-on-year +4 +89 -32
Contract jobs citing GitLab 752 494 377
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.91% 2.02% 1.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.97% 14.83% 9.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 322 273
10th Percentile £385 £370 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -3.16%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £675
90th Percentile £674 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £492 £530 £556
% change year-on-year -7.17% -4.72% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 3 6
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.59 £57.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £62.19
Median hourly rate £59.50 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -28.28% +11.45% +65.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £76.74
90th Percentile £78.40 £92.59 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £82.96 £68.22
% change year-on-year -27.37% +21.61% +51.60%

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 5,022 3,332 4,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.74% 13.60% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,362 2,238 2,903
10th Percentile £340 £340 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -4.48%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 60 166
10th Percentile £39.53 £27.35 £29.86
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.14 £46.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +2.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.90 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -10 323 £525 -3.00% 79
North of England -23 167 £487 -7.19% 43
Midlands +6 105 £470 -1.47% 20
West Midlands -3 92 £475 -3.06% 15
North West -18 91 £475 -5.00% 19
South East -25 60 £525 -0.05% 39
Yorkshire -28 59 £500 -13.04% 10
South West +12 56 £523 +14.33% 25
North East -10 25 £450 -12.62% 14
East of England -12 24 £477 +5.89% 10
East Midlands -23 13 £402 +38.86% 5
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 (7.18%) Confluence
2 41 (5.45%) SAS
3 24 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.26%) Apache
4 17 (2.26%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.73%) OpenStack
6 9 (1.20%) nginx
7 5 (0.66%) CICS
8 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.27%) Camunda
9 2 (0.27%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.40%) 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
Cloud Services
1 437 (58.11%) AWS
2 234 (31.12%) GitHub
3 219 (29.12%) Azure
4 152 (20.21%) GitHub Actions
5 128 (17.02%) GCP
6 111 (14.76%) Serverless
7 106 (14.10%) Amazon S3
8 97 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
9 90 (11.97%) Amazon EKS
10 78 (10.37%) Amazon EC2
11 73 (9.71%) OpenShift
12 69 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
13 68 (9.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 67 (8.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 53 (7.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 38 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
17 22 (2.93%) Azure AKS
18 21 (2.79%) Amazon SQS
18 21 (2.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 20 (2.66%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.52%) Firewall
2 25 (3.32%) DNS
3 18 (2.39%) VPN
4 17 (2.26%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.60%) Network Security
6 8 (1.06%) HTTP
7 6 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.53%) BGP
8 4 (0.53%) Multicast
8 4 (0.53%) SAN
9 3 (0.40%) DHCP
9 3 (0.40%) NAS
9 3 (0.40%) OSPF
9 3 (0.40%) SSL
9 3 (0.40%) VSAN
9 3 (0.40%) WAN
10 2 (0.27%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.27%) IPv6
10 2 (0.27%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.27%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (6.52%) MongoDB
3 43 (5.72%) NoSQL
4 35 (4.65%) Relational Database
5 33 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
6 32 (4.26%) DynamoDB
7 28 (3.72%) MySQL
8 24 (3.19%) Redis
9 22 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
10 21 (2.79%) SQL Server
11 20 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (2.39%) Data Lake
13 16 (2.13%) Big Data
13 16 (2.13%) Power BI
14 15 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
15 14 (1.86%) Oracle Database
16 13 (1.73%) SAS Enterprise Guide
17 12 (1.60%) Pentaho
18 11 (1.46%) DocumentDB
19 10 (1.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 357 (47.47%) Jenkins
2 182 (24.20%) Git
3 107 (14.23%) JIRA
4 79 (10.51%) Selenium
5 73 (9.71%) JUnit
6 42 (5.59%) Cucumber
7 34 (4.52%) Postman
8 29 (3.86%) Bitbucket
9 28 (3.72%) REST Assured
10 27 (3.59%) JMeter
11 26 (3.46%) CircleCI
12 22 (2.93%) Artifactory
12 22 (2.93%) Mockito
13 21 (2.79%) Gradle
14 20 (2.66%) SonarQube
15 17 (2.26%) Gatling
16 16 (2.13%) Maven
17 14 (1.86%) Cypress.io
17 14 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
18 13 (1.73%) IntelliJ
General
1 198 (26.33%) Social Skills
2 121 (16.09%) Public Sector
3 97 (12.90%) Finance
4 65 (8.64%) Banking
5 42 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.46%) Military
8 10 (1.33%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.06%) Retail
10 7 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 7 (0.93%) Investment Banking
10 7 (0.93%) Law
11 6 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.80%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.40%) Legal
14 3 (0.40%) Local Government
14 3 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 153 (20.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 130 (17.29%) Developer
3 103 (13.70%) Senior
4 67 (8.91%) AWS Engineer
5 59 (7.85%) Data Engineer
5 59 (7.85%) Lead
6 56 (7.45%) AWS DevOps
7 53 (7.05%) Software Engineer
8 48 (6.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 42 (5.59%) Architect
9 42 (5.59%) Java Developer
10 32 (4.26%) Test Engineer
11 31 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
11 31 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
12 27 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
12 27 (3.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 23 (3.06%) Full-Stack Developer
13 23 (3.06%) Java Engineer
14 20 (2.66%) Administrator
15 19 (2.53%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (14.76%) Spring
2 110 (14.63%) Kafka
3 105 (13.96%) REST
4 95 (12.63%) Spring Boot
5 67 (8.91%) Node.js
6 60 (7.98%) RESTful
7 57 (7.58%) React
8 43 (5.72%) Elastic Stack
9 42 (5.59%) Playwright
10 35 (4.65%) pytest
11 33 (4.39%) OpenTelemetry
12 30 (3.99%) YAML
13 28 (3.72%) RabbitMQ
14 27 (3.59%) LDAP
15 26 (3.46%) AngularJS
15 26 (3.46%) PySpark
16 24 (3.19%) Jest
16 24 (3.19%) OpenID
17 23 (3.06%) HTML
17 23 (3.06%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 107 (14.23%) Cloud Native
2 47 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.85%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.06%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.39%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.26%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.46%) Mainframe
8 11 (1.46%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.33%) Private Cloud
10 9 (1.20%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.20%) DataPower
10 9 (1.20%) NHS
11 8 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.93%) Synthetic Data
13 6 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.80%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 132 (17.55%) Linux
2 50 (6.65%) Windows
3 30 (3.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 29 (3.86%) Unix
5 10 (1.33%) CentOS
6 9 (1.20%) Android
6 9 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.20%) VMS
6 9 (1.20%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.93%) zOS
8 6 (0.80%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.40%) Debian
9 3 (0.40%) Rocky
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.13%) AIX
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 594 (78.99%) CI/CD
2 418 (55.59%) DevOps
3 272 (36.17%) Agile
4 259 (34.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 252 (33.51%) Containerisation
6 229 (30.45%) Test Automation
7 147 (19.55%) Microservices
8 135 (17.95%) Observability
8 135 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
9 105 (13.96%) Software Engineering
10 97 (12.90%) Scrum
11 96 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 89 (11.84%) Platform Engineering
13 78 (10.37%) Analytics
14 69 (9.18%) DevSecOps
14 69 (9.18%) TDD
15 67 (8.91%) ETL
16 59 (7.85%) Migration
17 57 (7.58%) Data Pipeline
18 55 (7.31%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 307 (40.82%) Python
2 224 (29.79%) Java
3 163 (21.68%) SQL
4 116 (15.43%) Bash
5 84 (11.17%) JavaScript
6 66 (8.78%) PowerShell
7 65 (8.64%) TypeScript
8 38 (5.05%) Shell Script
9 37 (4.92%) Go
10 25 (3.32%) C#
11 20 (2.66%) Kotlin
12 18 (2.39%) Bicep
13 14 (1.86%) PL/SQL
14 13 (1.73%) C++
15 11 (1.46%) Scala
16 10 (1.33%) Ruby
17 9 (1.20%) MATLAB
18 8 (1.06%) C
19 7 (0.93%) PHP
20 6 (0.80%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 316 (42.02%) Security Cleared
2 262 (34.84%) SC Cleared
3 35 (4.65%) Degree
4 30 (3.99%) AWS Certification
4 30 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (3.32%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 14 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (0.93%) CISSP
10 6 (0.80%) CISM
10 6 (0.80%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.80%) OCA
10 6 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.53%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
12 3 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (12.63%) QA
2 37 (4.92%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.39%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.39%) GDPR
3 18 (2.39%) SLA
4 14 (1.86%) WCAG
5 13 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.46%) NIST
7 7 (0.93%) NCSC
8 6 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.53%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.27%) FATCA
10 2 (0.27%) HL7
10 2 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 325 (43.22%) Docker
2 25 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.66%) HDFS
6 4 (0.53%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.27%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) iptables
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.13%) Squid
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 376 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 318 (42.29%) Terraform
3 160 (21.28%) Grafana
4 156 (20.74%) Ansible
5 134 (17.82%) Prometheus
6 51 (6.78%) Argo
7 23 (3.06%) Puppet
8 22 (2.93%) Istio
9 15 (1.99%) Podman
9 15 (1.99%) Progress Chef
10 13 (1.73%) Kibana
11 12 (1.60%) Red Hat Satellite
12 9 (1.20%) Check_MK
12 9 (1.20%) linkerd
13 8 (1.06%) Packer
14 7 (0.93%) Fluentd
15 6 (0.80%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.80%) Nagios
15 6 (0.80%) Rancher
16 5 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (10.37%) Oracle
2 61 (8.11%) Splunk
3 57 (7.58%) Microsoft
4 43 (5.72%) Red Hat
5 37 (4.92%) Google
6 34 (4.52%) VMware
7 31 (4.12%) ServiceNow
8 25 (3.32%) Databricks
9 22 (2.93%) Talend
10 20 (2.66%) Informatica
11 18 (2.39%) Salesforce
12 14 (1.86%) Dynatrace
13 13 (1.73%) IBM
14 11 (1.46%) Veracode
15 9 (1.20%) Atlassian
16 7 (0.93%) AppDynamics
16 7 (0.93%) Denodo
17 6 (0.80%) Cribl.io
18 5 (0.66%) Cisco
18 5 (0.66%) Fortinet