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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 136 235
Rank change year-on-year +17 +99 -43
Contract jobs citing GitLab 801 498 382
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.19% 2.02% 1.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.04% 14.92% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 326 288
10th Percentile £385 £363 £413
25th Percentile £430 £436 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £546 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% -3.74% -5.42%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £675
90th Percentile £663 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £560
% change year-on-year -5.12% -5.89% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 5 4
10th Percentile £39.53 £65.78 £62.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £74.44 £69.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £82.96 £74.72
Median % change year-on-year -33.70% +11.03% +21.99%
75th Percentile £65.00 £87.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £80.65 £92.00 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £82.96 £67.22
% change year-on-year -33.70% +23.42% +37.89%

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 4,994 3,338 4,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.67% 13.53% 11.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,373 2,183 2,993
10th Percentile £338 £335 £360
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% -8.18%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 63 184
10th Percentile £32.39 £26.08 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.72 £48.23
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £72.50 £71.56
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £86.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -16 332 £525 -4.55% 75
North of England +4 223 £500 -2.91% 53
North West -3 109 £447 -10.60% 16
Midlands +16 108 £480 +0.63% 16
West Midlands +10 96 £491 +1.66% 11
Yorkshire -1 84 £500 -21.57% 14
South East -30 58 £500 -21.57% 46
South West +6 46 £523 -11.06% 31
North East -3 39 £508 +1.25% 23
East of England -14 19 £478 +6.22% 18
East Midlands -23 12 £402 +29.99% 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 63 (7.87%) Confluence
2 36 (4.49%) SAS
3 27 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.37%) Apache
5 15 (1.87%) OpenStack
6 13 (1.62%) Apache Spark
7 9 (1.12%) nginx
8 3 (0.37%) Appian
8 3 (0.37%) CICS
8 3 (0.37%) CMS
8 3 (0.37%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.37%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.12%) FileNet
10 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Actimize
2 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.12%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.12%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.12%) SAP FS
2 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 482 (60.17%) AWS
2 241 (30.09%) GitHub
3 210 (26.22%) Azure
4 161 (20.10%) GCP
5 150 (18.73%) GitHub Actions
6 120 (14.98%) Serverless
7 100 (12.48%) Amazon S3
8 92 (11.49%) Amazon EKS
9 89 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
10 81 (10.11%) OpenShift
11 80 (9.99%) Amazon EC2
12 73 (9.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 72 (8.99%) AWS CloudFormation
14 63 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
15 59 (7.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 44 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (3.25%) Datadog
18 22 (2.75%) Snowflake
19 21 (2.62%) Azure AKS
19 21 (2.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.24%) Firewall
2 33 (4.12%) DNS
3 27 (3.37%) VPN
4 23 (2.87%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.75%) Network Security
6 7 (0.87%) HTTP
6 7 (0.87%) WAN
7 6 (0.75%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.75%) SSL
8 5 (0.62%) BGP
8 5 (0.62%) Multicast
9 4 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.50%) SAN
9 4 (0.50%) VSAN
10 3 (0.37%) DHCP
10 3 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.37%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.37%) NAS
10 3 (0.37%) OSPF
10 3 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (11.99%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (7.99%) MongoDB
3 62 (7.74%) NoSQL
4 40 (4.99%) Amazon RDS
5 29 (3.62%) Relational Database
6 27 (3.37%) DynamoDB
7 24 (3.00%) MySQL
8 23 (2.87%) Redis
9 22 (2.75%) SQL Server
10 21 (2.62%) Data Lake
11 18 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
11 18 (2.25%) Big Data
12 17 (2.12%) Power BI
13 15 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.87%) Oracle Database
14 14 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
15 12 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (1.37%) DocumentDB
17 10 (1.25%) Spark SQL
18 9 (1.12%) Aerospike
Development Applications
1 401 (50.06%) Jenkins
2 190 (23.72%) Git
3 118 (14.73%) JIRA
4 88 (10.99%) Selenium
5 78 (9.74%) JUnit
6 54 (6.74%) Cucumber
7 37 (4.62%) Postman
8 31 (3.87%) JMeter
9 28 (3.50%) Artifactory
9 28 (3.50%) Bitbucket
9 28 (3.50%) Maven
9 28 (3.50%) REST Assured
10 26 (3.25%) CircleCI
11 25 (3.12%) Gatling
11 25 (3.12%) SonarQube
12 24 (3.00%) Mockito
13 23 (2.87%) Cypress.io
13 23 (2.87%) Gradle
14 19 (2.37%) Sonatype Nexus
15 15 (1.87%) Liquibase
General
1 227 (28.34%) Social Skills
2 131 (16.35%) Public Sector
3 124 (15.48%) Finance
4 88 (10.99%) Banking
5 50 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (2.50%) Financial Institution
7 13 (1.62%) Military
8 11 (1.37%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.25%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.25%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (0.87%) Retail
12 5 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.50%) Games
13 4 (0.50%) Law
13 4 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.37%) Legal
14 3 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 166 (20.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 153 (19.10%) Developer
3 120 (14.98%) Senior
4 78 (9.74%) AWS Engineer
5 67 (8.36%) Lead
6 61 (7.62%) AWS DevOps
7 53 (6.62%) Software Engineer
8 50 (6.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 48 (5.99%) Data Engineer
10 45 (5.62%) Java Developer
11 44 (5.49%) Architect
12 42 (5.24%) Test Engineer
13 41 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
14 30 (3.75%) GCP Engineer
14 30 (3.75%) Senior DevOps
14 30 (3.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 29 (3.62%) Platform Engineer
16 26 (3.25%) Java Engineer
17 23 (2.87%) Test Automation Engineer
18 22 (2.75%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (17.73%) REST
2 118 (14.73%) Kafka
3 114 (14.23%) Spring
4 103 (12.86%) Spring Boot
5 78 (9.74%) Node.js
6 75 (9.36%) Elastic Stack
7 73 (9.11%) RESTful
8 61 (7.62%) React
9 55 (6.87%) Playwright
10 36 (4.49%) pytest
11 32 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
12 31 (3.87%) HTML
13 30 (3.75%) OpenTelemetry
14 29 (3.62%) YAML
15 27 (3.37%) Jest
16 26 (3.25%) JSON
16 26 (3.25%) OpenID
17 25 (3.12%) AngularJS
17 25 (3.12%) LDAP
17 25 (3.12%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 118 (14.73%) Cloud Native
2 66 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 40 (4.99%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 15 (1.87%) Data Centre
7 14 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (1.62%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.12%) Mainframe
9 9 (1.12%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
10 8 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (0.87%) DataPower
11 7 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (0.87%) Mobile App
11 7 (0.87%) NHS
11 7 (0.87%) PKI
11 7 (0.87%) Synthetic Data
12 6 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 156 (19.48%) Linux
2 54 (6.74%) Windows
3 28 (3.50%) Unix
4 24 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.37%) Apple iOS
7 10 (1.25%) Android
8 9 (1.12%) CentOS
9 8 (1.00%) VMS
10 5 (0.62%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.62%) zOS
11 2 (0.25%) Debian
11 2 (0.25%) Rocky
12 1 (0.12%) AIX
12 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.12%) Solaris
12 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (79.03%) CI/CD
2 470 (58.68%) DevOps
3 301 (37.58%) Agile
4 280 (34.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 276 (34.46%) Containerisation
6 251 (31.34%) Test Automation
7 177 (22.10%) Microservices
8 159 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
9 140 (17.48%) Observability
10 118 (14.73%) Software Engineering
11 104 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 88 (10.99%) Scrum
13 84 (10.49%) Analytics
14 77 (9.61%) TDD
15 72 (8.99%) Test Strategy
16 66 (8.24%) Platform Engineering
17 65 (8.11%) DevSecOps
18 62 (7.74%) Stakeholder Management
19 61 (7.62%) Data Pipeline
20 57 (7.12%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 348 (43.45%) Python
2 246 (30.71%) Java
3 157 (19.60%) SQL
4 118 (14.73%) Bash
5 95 (11.86%) JavaScript
6 73 (9.11%) TypeScript
7 67 (8.36%) PowerShell
8 63 (7.87%) Go
9 40 (4.99%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.25%) Kotlin
11 15 (1.87%) C#
12 14 (1.75%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.50%) Bicep
13 12 (1.50%) Ruby
14 9 (1.12%) Scala
15 8 (1.00%) C++
16 7 (0.87%) C
16 7 (0.87%) Groovy
16 7 (0.87%) Korn
16 7 (0.87%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 309 (38.58%) Security Cleared
2 248 (30.96%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.49%) Degree
4 46 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.75%) AWS Certification
6 29 (3.62%) DV Cleared
7 25 (3.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (2.62%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (1.12%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.87%) CISSP
12 7 (0.87%) OCA
12 7 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (0.75%) CISM
14 4 (0.50%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.37%) CCNP
15 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (13.48%) QA
2 48 (5.99%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.62%) WCAG
4 19 (2.37%) GDPR
5 16 (2.00%) SLA
6 15 (1.87%) Data Quality
7 14 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.37%) NIST
9 10 (1.25%) NCSC
10 6 (0.75%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.50%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.25%) HL7
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.12%) MiFID
13 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 345 (43.07%) Docker
2 22 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.62%) HDFS
6 4 (0.50%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.37%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.25%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.12%) Squid
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 408 (50.94%) Kubernetes
2 362 (45.19%) Terraform
3 196 (24.47%) Grafana
4 189 (23.60%) Ansible
5 154 (19.23%) Prometheus
6 44 (5.49%) Argo
7 20 (2.50%) Istio
8 18 (2.25%) Podman
9 17 (2.12%) Kibana
10 16 (2.00%) Puppet
11 14 (1.75%) Progress Chef
12 11 (1.37%) Packer
13 9 (1.12%) linkerd
13 9 (1.12%) Red Hat Satellite
14 7 (0.87%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.87%) Fluentd
14 7 (0.87%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.87%) Sysdig
15 6 (0.75%) Nagios
16 5 (0.62%) Rancher
Vendors
1 92 (11.49%) Splunk
2 66 (8.24%) Oracle
3 58 (7.24%) Microsoft
4 45 (5.62%) Google
5 43 (5.37%) Red Hat
6 32 (4.00%) VMware
7 31 (3.87%) ServiceNow
8 21 (2.62%) Databricks
9 16 (2.00%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.87%) Informatica
10 15 (1.87%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.75%) Atlassian
11 14 (1.75%) Talend
12 13 (1.62%) Veracode
13 12 (1.50%) IBM
14 11 (1.37%) Cisco
15 8 (1.00%) Cribl.io
16 6 (0.75%) F5
16 6 (0.75%) Fortinet
16 6 (0.75%) Palo Alto