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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 131 239
Rank change year-on-year +12 +108 -51
Contract jobs citing GitLab 781 513 376
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.34% 1.96% 0.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.59% 14.52% 8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 332 290
10th Percentile £381 £368 £413
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £565 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.51% +0.44% -4.66%
75th Percentile £578 £666 £671
90th Percentile £675 £737 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.35% -6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 2
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.33 £60.13
25th Percentile £52.50 £70.83 £62.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 £79.72 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.01% +18.10% -12.90%
75th Percentile £65.00 £89.38 £73.44
90th Percentile £80.65 £92.75 £75.88
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £79.72 £60.00
% change year-on-year -31.01% +32.87% -7.69%

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 4,707 3,534 4,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.13% 13.49% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,259 2,196 3,158
10th Percentile £340 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £536
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -5.39% -6.78%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 57 203
10th Percentile £39.00 £38.00 £41.92
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.25 £50.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £75.89
90th Percentile £81.55 £76.75 £88.75
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 7 February 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 February 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 February 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 -4 313 £525 -10.41% 74
North of England +8 242 £488 -7.14% 41
North West +15 117 £431 -13.80% 29
Yorkshire +7 94 £513 -10.87% 9
Midlands +15 90 £500 +4.82% 10
West Midlands +16 81 £525 +7.36% 7
South East -16 53 £500 -9.09% 58
South West +12 46 £520 -16.80% 28
North East -7 38 £488 -6.25% 3
East of England -7 22 £485 +3.47% 8
East Midlands -20 9 £400 +20.57% 3
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 (6.91%) Confluence
2 26 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (3.33%) SAS
3 17 (2.18%) OpenStack
4 14 (1.79%) Apache
5 10 (1.28%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.02%) nginx
7 7 (0.90%) Appian
8 3 (0.38%) CMS
8 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
10 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Documentum
10 1 (0.13%) FileNet
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Actimize
3 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.13%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 463 (59.28%) AWS
2 209 (26.76%) GitHub
3 198 (25.35%) Azure
4 153 (19.59%) GCP
5 132 (16.90%) GitHub Actions
6 112 (14.34%) Serverless
7 94 (12.04%) Amazon S3
8 83 (10.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 79 (10.12%) Amazon EC2
9 79 (10.12%) OpenShift
10 78 (9.99%) AWS Lambda
11 74 (9.48%) Amazon EKS
12 70 (8.96%) AWS CloudFormation
13 59 (7.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 52 (6.66%) Azure DevOps
15 48 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
16 28 (3.59%) Datadog
17 21 (2.69%) Entra ID
18 20 (2.56%) Azure AKS
19 18 (2.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 49 (6.27%) Firewall
2 40 (5.12%) DNS
3 38 (4.87%) VPN
4 30 (3.84%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.56%) Network Security
6 15 (1.92%) SSL
7 6 (0.77%) WAN
8 5 (0.64%) Multicast
8 5 (0.64%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.51%) BGP
9 4 (0.51%) HTTP
9 4 (0.51%) SAN
10 3 (0.38%) DHCP
10 3 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.38%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.38%) NAS
10 3 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.38%) VSAN
10 3 (0.38%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.26%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (11.01%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (8.32%) MongoDB
3 64 (8.19%) NoSQL
4 43 (5.51%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (3.07%) DynamoDB
5 24 (3.07%) Relational Database
6 23 (2.94%) MySQL
7 22 (2.82%) Data Lake
8 20 (2.56%) Redis
9 18 (2.30%) SQL Server
10 17 (2.18%) Big Data
11 16 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (1.79%) Oracle Database
13 12 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.41%) DocumentDB
14 11 (1.41%) Power BI
15 8 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.02%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 7 (0.90%) Aerospike
16 7 (0.90%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 383 (49.04%) Jenkins
2 175 (22.41%) Git
3 115 (14.72%) JIRA
4 76 (9.73%) Selenium
5 63 (8.07%) JUnit
6 48 (6.15%) Cucumber
7 36 (4.61%) Postman
8 32 (4.10%) Maven
9 30 (3.84%) Artifactory
9 30 (3.84%) SonarQube
10 27 (3.46%) CircleCI
11 26 (3.33%) REST Assured
12 25 (3.20%) Cypress.io
12 25 (3.20%) Gradle
13 23 (2.94%) JMeter
14 21 (2.69%) Gatling
14 21 (2.69%) Liquibase
14 21 (2.69%) Sonatype Nexus
15 20 (2.56%) Mockito
16 19 (2.43%) Bitbucket
General
1 214 (27.40%) Social Skills
2 126 (16.13%) Public Sector
3 121 (15.49%) Finance
4 87 (11.14%) Banking
5 54 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.20%) Financial Institution
7 19 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.18%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.79%) Military
10 10 (1.28%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.02%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.02%) Retail
12 7 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.77%) Games
14 4 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.51%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.38%) Law
15 3 (0.38%) Local Government
15 3 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 175 (22.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 162 (20.74%) Developer
3 117 (14.98%) Senior
4 75 (9.60%) AWS Engineer
5 65 (8.32%) Lead
6 61 (7.81%) AWS DevOps
7 50 (6.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 50 (6.40%) Software Engineer
8 46 (5.89%) Java Developer
9 42 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
10 40 (5.12%) Architect
10 40 (5.12%) Test Engineer
11 35 (4.48%) Senior DevOps
11 35 (4.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 33 (4.23%) Data Engineer
13 28 (3.59%) Full-Stack Developer
13 28 (3.59%) GCP Engineer
14 27 (3.46%) Automation Engineer
15 26 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
16 24 (3.07%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (17.54%) REST
2 114 (14.60%) Kafka
3 108 (13.83%) Spring
4 103 (13.19%) Spring Boot
5 85 (10.88%) Elastic Stack
6 83 (10.63%) RESTful
7 77 (9.86%) Node.js
8 57 (7.30%) React
9 48 (6.15%) Playwright
10 33 (4.23%) HTML
10 33 (4.23%) OpenTelemetry
11 30 (3.84%) RabbitMQ
12 29 (3.71%) JSON
13 28 (3.59%) OpenID
13 28 (3.59%) pytest
13 28 (3.59%) YAML
14 26 (3.33%) Jest
15 25 (3.20%) LDAP
16 24 (3.07%) AngularJS
17 21 (2.69%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 118 (15.11%) Cloud Native
2 66 (8.45%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 43 (5.51%) Public Cloud
5 21 (2.69%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.92%) Private Cloud
8 14 (1.79%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.28%) PKI
11 9 (1.15%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.15%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.15%) Synthetic Data
12 7 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (0.90%) Mainframe
12 7 (0.90%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.77%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 163 (20.87%) Linux
2 51 (6.53%) Windows
3 24 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 24 (3.07%) Unix
4 12 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.41%) CentOS
6 9 (1.15%) Android
6 9 (1.15%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.02%) VMS
8 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.38%) Solaris
9 3 (0.38%) zOS
10 1 (0.13%) Debian
10 1 (0.13%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 626 (80.15%) CI/CD
2 482 (61.72%) DevOps
3 291 (37.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 275 (35.21%) Agile
5 270 (34.57%) Containerisation
6 227 (29.07%) Test Automation
7 175 (22.41%) Microservices
8 156 (19.97%) Problem-Solving
9 135 (17.29%) Observability
10 117 (14.98%) Software Engineering
11 84 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 78 (9.99%) Scrum
13 76 (9.73%) DevSecOps
14 75 (9.60%) Analytics
15 65 (8.32%) Infrastructure Automation
16 62 (7.94%) TDD
17 60 (7.68%) High Availability
17 60 (7.68%) Root Cause Analysis
18 59 (7.55%) Migration
18 59 (7.55%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 349 (44.69%) Python
2 242 (30.99%) Java
3 140 (17.93%) Bash
4 130 (16.65%) SQL
5 101 (12.93%) JavaScript
6 83 (10.63%) Go
7 69 (8.83%) PowerShell
8 67 (8.58%) TypeScript
9 40 (5.12%) Shell Script
10 17 (2.18%) C#
11 16 (2.05%) Kotlin
12 13 (1.66%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.41%) Ruby
14 7 (0.90%) Bicep
14 7 (0.90%) C++
14 7 (0.90%) Groovy
14 7 (0.90%) Korn
14 7 (0.90%) MATLAB
14 7 (0.90%) Rust
15 6 (0.77%) PHP
Qualifications
1 291 (37.26%) Security Cleared
2 228 (29.19%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.66%) Degree
4 47 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (4.10%) DV Cleared
6 29 (3.71%) AWS Certification
6 29 (3.71%) Master's Degree
7 22 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.15%) CISSP
10 9 (1.15%) OCA
10 9 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (1.02%) CISM
12 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.64%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.38%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.26%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (13.44%) QA
2 46 (5.89%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.56%) GDPR
4 19 (2.43%) WCAG
5 14 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.79%) NIST
5 14 (1.79%) SLA
6 13 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (1.54%) NCSC
8 5 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.51%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.51%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.26%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 345 (44.17%) Docker
2 20 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 4 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.38%) vSphere
7 2 (0.26%) HDFS
8 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) Squid
8 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 408 (52.24%) Kubernetes
2 365 (46.73%) Terraform
3 210 (26.89%) Ansible
4 198 (25.35%) Grafana
5 155 (19.85%) Prometheus
6 36 (4.61%) Argo
7 19 (2.43%) Podman
8 18 (2.30%) Istio
8 18 (2.30%) Puppet
9 17 (2.18%) Progress Chef
10 16 (2.05%) Kibana
11 11 (1.41%) Packer
12 10 (1.28%) Fluentd
13 9 (1.15%) Red Hat Satellite
14 7 (0.90%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.90%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.90%) linkerd
14 7 (0.90%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.90%) Sysdig
15 6 (0.77%) Rancher
Vendors
1 95 (12.16%) Splunk
2 60 (7.68%) Microsoft
3 57 (7.30%) Oracle
4 51 (6.53%) Red Hat
5 42 (5.38%) Google
6 36 (4.61%) VMware
7 26 (3.33%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.43%) Dynatrace
9 16 (2.05%) CheckPoint
9 16 (2.05%) Cisco
9 16 (2.05%) Databricks
9 16 (2.05%) F5
9 16 (2.05%) Palo Alto
9 16 (2.05%) Veracode
10 14 (1.79%) Atlassian
10 14 (1.79%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.28%) Cribl.io
11 10 (1.28%) IBM
12 8 (1.02%) Veritas
13 7 (0.90%) Commvault