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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 143 192
Rank change year-on-year -2 +49 +65
Contract jobs citing GitLab 849 534 425
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.86% 1.94% 1.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.92% 13.34% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 355 294
10th Percentile £372 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £543
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -4.15% -5.65%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £650
90th Percentile £691 £673 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 8
10th Percentile £64.63 £61.60 £62.30
25th Percentile - £64.56 £70.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.58
90th Percentile £77.25 £71.79 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -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 5,332 4,004 4,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.68% 14.51% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,393 2,774 2,829
10th Percentile £353 £321 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 95 198
10th Percentile £35.00 £40.90 £32.61
25th Percentile £57.25 £51.03 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.45 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - -

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +6 366 £525 -0.94% 164
North of England -26 177 £475 -0.52% 52
Midlands +27 139 £469 -9.55% 21
West Midlands +23 133 £469 -12.42% 15
North East +9 76 £413 -11.29% 12
South East -37 74 £550 - 38
North West -28 71 £575 +18.56% 31
South West -19 53 £550 -8.33% 36
Yorkshire -40 43 £550 +12.82% 9
East of England -16 33 £475 - 14
East Midlands -14 6 £470 +74.07% 6
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 83 (9.78%) Confluence
2 57 (6.71%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (5.77%) Apache Spark
4 43 (5.06%) Apache
5 31 (3.65%) SAS
6 29 (3.42%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.71%) Camunda
7 6 (0.71%) CICS
7 6 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.35%) nginx
8 3 (0.35%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.24%) CMS
9 2 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Trello
2 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 572 (67.37%) AWS
2 288 (33.92%) GitHub
3 283 (33.33%) Azure
4 215 (25.32%) GitHub Actions
5 147 (17.31%) GCP
6 133 (15.67%) Azure DevOps
7 117 (13.78%) Amazon S3
8 111 (13.07%) Amazon EKS
9 110 (12.96%) Serverless
10 100 (11.78%) AWS Lambda
11 99 (11.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 81 (9.54%) Amazon EC2
13 63 (7.42%) AWS CloudFormation
14 58 (6.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 42 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
16 37 (4.36%) OpenShift
17 36 (4.24%) Amazon SQS
18 34 (4.00%) Datadog
18 34 (4.00%) OCI
19 33 (3.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.54%) Firewall
2 29 (3.42%) DNS
3 25 (2.94%) Network Security
4 23 (2.71%) WAN
5 22 (2.59%) BGP
5 22 (2.59%) SD-WAN
6 21 (2.47%) OSPF
7 20 (2.36%) Ethernet VPN
7 20 (2.36%) VXLAN
8 19 (2.24%) BIG-IP
8 19 (2.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 19 (2.24%) TCP/IP
9 15 (1.77%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (1.65%) VPN
11 11 (1.30%) HTTP
11 11 (1.30%) WLAN
12 7 (0.82%) SSL
13 4 (0.47%) DHCP
13 4 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.47%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (8.13%) MongoDB
2 68 (8.01%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (5.54%) Relational Database
4 39 (4.59%) Amazon Athena
4 39 (4.59%) Amazon Redshift
5 35 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
5 35 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (4.00%) DynamoDB
7 33 (3.89%) NoSQL
7 33 (3.89%) Pentaho
8 30 (3.53%) Power BI
9 28 (3.30%) SQL Server
10 27 (3.18%) Oracle Database
11 24 (2.83%) MySQL
12 23 (2.71%) RDBMS
12 23 (2.71%) Redis
13 22 (2.59%) Data Lake
14 21 (2.47%) Big Data
15 12 (1.41%) Oracle Exadata
16 11 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 354 (41.70%) Jenkins
2 204 (24.03%) Git
3 106 (12.49%) JIRA
4 65 (7.66%) Selenium
5 64 (7.54%) JUnit
6 44 (5.18%) Cucumber
7 40 (4.71%) Bitbucket
8 37 (4.36%) SonarQube
9 29 (3.42%) Artifactory
10 28 (3.30%) Gradle
11 26 (3.06%) Gatling
12 25 (2.94%) Maven
13 24 (2.83%) Mockito
14 22 (2.59%) JMeter
14 22 (2.59%) WebDriver
15 20 (2.36%) REST Assured
16 19 (2.24%) Sonatype Nexus
17 17 (2.00%) Postman
18 16 (1.88%) Snyk
19 10 (1.18%) MLflow
General
1 170 (20.02%) Social Skills
2 150 (17.67%) Public Sector
3 98 (11.54%) Finance
4 65 (7.66%) Banking
5 50 (5.89%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.24%) Military
7 17 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.65%) Law
10 11 (1.30%) Legal
11 9 (1.06%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.82%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.59%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.59%) Police
13 5 (0.59%) Publishing
13 5 (0.59%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.47%) Marketing
15 3 (0.35%) Back Office
15 3 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 183 (21.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 168 (19.79%) Senior
3 127 (14.96%) Developer
4 100 (11.78%) AWS Engineer
5 85 (10.01%) Data Engineer
6 65 (7.66%) AWS DevOps
7 63 (7.42%) Lead
8 58 (6.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 56 (6.60%) Software Engineer
10 44 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
11 39 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 39 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
12 37 (4.36%) Java Developer
13 34 (4.00%) Test Engineer
14 32 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
15 31 (3.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.06%) Architect
16 26 (3.06%) Full-Stack Developer
16 26 (3.06%) Senior Developer
16 26 (3.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (13.78%) Kafka
2 96 (11.31%) Spring
3 88 (10.37%) REST
4 83 (9.78%) Spring Boot
5 51 (6.01%) React
6 49 (5.77%) RESTful
7 45 (5.30%) PySpark
8 42 (4.95%) Playwright
9 41 (4.83%) Node.js
10 34 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
11 31 (3.65%) JSON
12 26 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
12 26 (3.06%) WireMock
13 24 (2.83%) YAML
14 23 (2.71%) AWS CDK
15 22 (2.59%) pytest
16 21 (2.47%) HTML
16 21 (2.47%) Keycloak
17 20 (2.36%) .NET
17 20 (2.36%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 165 (19.43%) Cloud Native
2 61 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (5.42%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (3.30%) Data Centre
5 28 (3.30%) Onboarding
6 21 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (2.36%) Data Structures
8 18 (2.12%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (2.12%) Public Cloud
9 17 (2.00%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.53%) Mainframe
11 10 (1.18%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (1.06%) Private Cloud
13 7 (0.82%) PKI
14 6 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.71%) DataPower
14 6 (0.71%) NHS
14 6 (0.71%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 159 (18.73%) Linux
2 40 (4.71%) Unix
3 36 (4.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 36 (4.24%) Windows
4 13 (1.53%) zOS
5 12 (1.41%) AIX
5 12 (1.41%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.06%) CentOS
7 8 (0.94%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.47%) Debian
8 4 (0.47%) Rocky
9 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.24%) Android
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 697 (82.10%) CI/CD
2 499 (58.78%) DevOps
3 379 (44.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 318 (37.46%) Agile
5 291 (34.28%) Containerisation
6 261 (30.74%) Test Automation
7 159 (18.73%) Microservices
8 146 (17.20%) Observability
9 143 (16.84%) Software Engineering
10 137 (16.14%) Scrum
11 130 (15.31%) Platform Engineering
12 120 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 110 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
14 107 (12.60%) AI
15 92 (10.84%) DevSecOps
16 85 (10.01%) ETL
17 77 (9.07%) Event-Driven
18 75 (8.83%) Data Pipeline
18 75 (8.83%) Migration
19 74 (8.72%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 367 (43.23%) Python
2 199 (23.44%) SQL
3 196 (23.09%) Java
4 151 (17.79%) Bash
5 74 (8.72%) PowerShell
6 71 (8.36%) JavaScript
7 57 (6.71%) TypeScript
8 56 (6.60%) C#
9 31 (3.65%) Go
10 28 (3.30%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.24%) Bicep
12 17 (2.00%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.65%) C++
14 9 (1.06%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.82%) Groovy
16 6 (0.71%) JCL
16 6 (0.71%) R
16 6 (0.71%) Scala
17 5 (0.59%) C
17 5 (0.59%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 402 (47.35%) Security Cleared
2 336 (39.58%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.24%) DV Cleared
4 45 (5.30%) Degree
5 39 (4.59%) AWS Certification
6 37 (4.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (2.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 19 (2.24%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 12 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.30%) CISSP
11 11 (1.30%) SAFe Agilist
12 8 (0.94%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.47%) CSSLP
14 4 (0.47%) GCFA
14 4 (0.47%) GCIH
14 4 (0.47%) GIAC
15 3 (0.35%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (10.84%) QA
2 36 (4.24%) Data Quality
3 34 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.53%) WCAG
5 11 (1.30%) GDPR
6 10 (1.18%) SLA
7 9 (1.06%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.94%) NIST
8 8 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.59%) FATCA
10 4 (0.47%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.24%) NCSC
12 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
12 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
12 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 361 (42.52%) Docker
2 21 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.53%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.59%) HDFS
6 5 (0.59%) Squid
7 3 (0.35%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 421 (49.59%) Terraform
2 370 (43.58%) Kubernetes
3 214 (25.21%) Ansible
4 147 (17.31%) Grafana
5 128 (15.08%) Prometheus
6 44 (5.18%) Argo
7 37 (4.36%) Puppet
8 25 (2.94%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.53%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.53%) Istio
9 13 (1.53%) Oracle RMAN
10 11 (1.30%) Packer
11 10 (1.18%) Podman
12 8 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.59%) HP Fortify
13 5 (0.59%) Kibana
13 5 (0.59%) linkerd
13 5 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.59%) Salt
14 4 (0.47%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 98 (11.54%) Oracle
2 63 (7.42%) Microsoft
3 53 (6.24%) Google
4 50 (5.89%) Splunk
5 46 (5.42%) Talend
6 44 (5.18%) Informatica
7 31 (3.65%) Databricks
8 27 (3.18%) Dynatrace
9 26 (3.06%) VMware
10 22 (2.59%) Denodo
11 21 (2.47%) Palo Alto
12 20 (2.36%) F5
12 20 (2.36%) ServiceNow
13 18 (2.12%) Arista
13 18 (2.12%) Aruba
13 18 (2.12%) IBM
14 17 (2.00%) Red Hat
15 16 (1.88%) Trend Micro
16 8 (0.94%) Veracode
17 7 (0.82%) Salesforce