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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 132 233
Rank change year-on-year +10 +101 -51
Contract jobs citing GitLab 724 519 368
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.31% 1.92% 1.02%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.63% 14.43% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 348 285
10th Percentile £375 £363 £413
25th Percentile £445 £438 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% +3.23% -6.78%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £638
90th Percentile £675 £734 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 5 1
10th Percentile £42.13 £65.60 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £74.00 £58.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £74.44 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +24.07% -9.43%
75th Percentile £66.00 £87.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.10 £92.00 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £74.44 £60.00
% change year-on-year -22.76% +24.07% +9.09%

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 4,631 3,596 4,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.76% 13.28% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,206 2,243 3,058
10th Percentile £332 £335 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 65 191
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £44.60
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.00 £49.24
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.80 £75.85 £90.00
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 9 January 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 9 January 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 9 January 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 +1 289 £525 -12.50% 72
North of England +1 201 £488 -2.50% 58
Midlands +26 87 £525 +10.06% 28
Yorkshire +4 86 £500 - 28
North West -6 86 £405 -16.92% 23
West Midlands +24 79 £525 +7.36% 17
South East -10 57 £500 - 74
South West +17 45 £525 -27.34% 48
North East -10 33 £508 -3.33% 7
East of England -7 26 £478 +27.47% 37
East Midlands -17 8 £400 +30.08% 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 55 (7.60%) Confluence
2 29 (4.01%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (3.45%) SAS
4 15 (2.07%) Apache
5 14 (1.93%) OpenStack
6 12 (1.66%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.97%) Appian
8 6 (0.83%) nginx
9 4 (0.55%) CMS
9 4 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.41%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.41%) Hyperledger
11 2 (0.28%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.14%) CICS
12 1 (0.14%) Documentum
12 1 (0.14%) FileNet
12 1 (0.14%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.14%) Actimize
3 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.14%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.14%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 434 (59.94%) AWS
2 201 (27.76%) GitHub
3 193 (26.66%) Azure
4 154 (21.27%) GCP
5 126 (17.40%) GitHub Actions
6 102 (14.09%) Serverless
7 90 (12.43%) Amazon S3
8 89 (12.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 74 (10.22%) Amazon EC2
10 73 (10.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 71 (9.81%) OpenShift
12 68 (9.39%) AWS Lambda
13 65 (8.98%) Amazon EKS
14 60 (8.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 55 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
16 47 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
17 31 (4.28%) Datadog
18 24 (3.31%) Azure AKS
19 23 (3.18%) Amazon ELB
20 22 (3.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 50 (6.91%) Firewall
2 46 (6.35%) DNS
3 40 (5.52%) VPN
4 33 (4.56%) TCP/IP
5 22 (3.04%) Network Security
6 20 (2.76%) SSL
7 5 (0.69%) BGP
7 5 (0.69%) OpenLDAP
7 5 (0.69%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.69%) WAN
8 4 (0.55%) VXLAN
9 3 (0.41%) DHCP
9 3 (0.41%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (0.41%) HTTP
9 3 (0.41%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.41%) Multicast
9 3 (0.41%) OSPF
9 3 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.41%) VSAN
10 2 (0.28%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (11.74%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (8.84%) MongoDB
3 62 (8.56%) NoSQL
4 48 (6.63%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (3.18%) Data Lake
6 20 (2.76%) MySQL
6 20 (2.76%) Redis
7 19 (2.62%) DynamoDB
7 19 (2.62%) SQL Server
8 16 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
8 16 (2.21%) Big Data
8 16 (2.21%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (1.52%) Power BI
10 11 (1.52%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 10 (1.38%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.97%) Aerospike
12 7 (0.97%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.97%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.97%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 351 (48.48%) Jenkins
2 167 (23.07%) Git
3 104 (14.36%) JIRA
4 64 (8.84%) Selenium
5 51 (7.04%) JUnit
6 41 (5.66%) Cucumber
7 36 (4.97%) Maven
8 34 (4.70%) Artifactory
9 32 (4.42%) SonarQube
10 29 (4.01%) Cypress.io
10 29 (4.01%) Gradle
11 24 (3.31%) Liquibase
11 24 (3.31%) Postman
12 23 (3.18%) Sonatype Nexus
13 22 (3.04%) CircleCI
14 20 (2.76%) Bitbucket
15 16 (2.21%) REST Assured
16 15 (2.07%) JMeter
17 13 (1.80%) IntelliJ
18 12 (1.66%) Gatling
General
1 207 (28.59%) Social Skills
2 113 (15.61%) Finance
3 100 (13.81%) Public Sector
4 81 (11.19%) Banking
5 49 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.45%) Financial Institution
7 21 (2.90%) Telecoms
8 17 (2.35%) Aerospace
9 16 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.80%) Military
11 8 (1.10%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.97%) Games
13 6 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.83%) Retail
14 4 (0.55%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.41%) Front Office
15 3 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.41%) Law
15 3 (0.41%) Local Government
15 3 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 164 (22.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 134 (18.51%) Developer
3 119 (16.44%) Senior
4 74 (10.22%) AWS Engineer
5 58 (8.01%) Lead
6 55 (7.60%) Software Engineer
7 54 (7.46%) AWS DevOps
8 44 (6.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 40 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 40 (5.52%) Java Developer
10 36 (4.97%) Senior DevOps
10 36 (4.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 34 (4.70%) Test Engineer
12 30 (4.14%) Automation Engineer
12 30 (4.14%) GCP Engineer
13 29 (4.01%) Architect
14 28 (3.87%) Data Engineer
15 24 (3.31%) Senior Developer
16 23 (3.18%) Platform Engineer
17 21 (2.90%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (17.40%) REST
2 105 (14.50%) Kafka
3 84 (11.60%) Elastic Stack
4 79 (10.91%) Spring
5 77 (10.64%) Spring Boot
6 71 (9.81%) Node.js
7 65 (8.98%) RESTful
8 45 (6.22%) React
9 35 (4.83%) Playwright
10 30 (4.14%) JSON
10 30 (4.14%) pytest
11 27 (3.73%) HTML
11 27 (3.73%) OpenTelemetry
11 27 (3.73%) RabbitMQ
12 22 (3.04%) OpenID
13 21 (2.90%) Jest
14 19 (2.62%) AngularJS
14 19 (2.62%) LDAP
15 18 (2.49%) PySpark
16 17 (2.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 104 (14.36%) Cloud Native
2 64 (8.84%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.52%) Public Cloud
4 39 (5.39%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (2.07%) Private Cloud
7 13 (1.80%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (1.66%) PKI
9 11 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.24%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.24%) Synthetic Data
11 8 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (1.10%) Security Posture
12 7 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.83%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 145 (20.03%) Linux
2 46 (6.35%) Windows
3 22 (3.04%) Unix
4 18 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.80%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.52%) CentOS
7 9 (1.24%) Android
7 9 (1.24%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.97%) VMS
9 3 (0.41%) Solaris
10 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 575 (79.42%) CI/CD
2 465 (64.23%) DevOps
3 295 (40.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 261 (36.05%) Containerisation
5 252 (34.81%) Agile
6 197 (27.21%) Test Automation
7 165 (22.79%) Microservices
8 143 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
9 122 (16.85%) Software Engineering
10 121 (16.71%) Observability
11 79 (10.91%) Infrastructure Automation
12 77 (10.64%) DevSecOps
13 74 (10.22%) High Availability
14 72 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
15 71 (9.81%) Migration
16 66 (9.12%) Scrum
17 65 (8.98%) Analytics
18 63 (8.70%) Computer Science
18 63 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
19 58 (8.01%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 351 (48.48%) Python
2 194 (26.80%) Java
3 144 (19.89%) Bash
4 118 (16.30%) SQL
5 89 (12.29%) JavaScript
6 87 (12.02%) Go
7 70 (9.67%) PowerShell
8 53 (7.32%) TypeScript
9 36 (4.97%) Shell Script
10 17 (2.35%) C#
11 15 (2.07%) Kotlin
12 13 (1.80%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.10%) C
13 8 (1.10%) C++
13 8 (1.10%) Ruby
14 7 (0.97%) Groovy
14 7 (0.97%) Korn
14 7 (0.97%) Rust
15 6 (0.83%) Perl
15 6 (0.83%) PHP
Qualifications
1 258 (35.64%) Security Cleared
2 201 (27.76%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.15%) Degree
4 54 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (4.97%) DV Cleared
6 33 (4.56%) AWS Certification
6 33 (4.56%) Master's Degree
7 22 (3.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 20 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 10 (1.38%) CISSP
11 9 (1.24%) OCA
11 9 (1.24%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (1.10%) CISM
13 7 (0.97%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.41%) CCNP
16 3 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
17 2 (0.28%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (14.23%) QA
2 35 (4.83%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.76%) GDPR
4 17 (2.35%) WCAG
5 15 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.07%) NIST
6 14 (1.93%) NCSC
7 13 (1.80%) SLA
8 12 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.69%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.55%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.28%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.28%) HL7
12 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.14%) MiFID
12 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 318 (43.92%) Docker
2 21 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.41%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.41%) vSphere
7 2 (0.28%) HDFS
8 1 (0.14%) Squid
Systems Management
1 382 (52.76%) Kubernetes
2 363 (50.14%) Terraform
3 222 (30.66%) Ansible
4 190 (26.24%) Grafana
5 146 (20.17%) Prometheus
6 34 (4.70%) Argo
7 21 (2.90%) Puppet
8 20 (2.76%) Istio
9 18 (2.49%) Podman
10 16 (2.21%) Progress Chef
11 14 (1.93%) Packer
12 13 (1.80%) Kibana
13 10 (1.38%) Fluentd
13 10 (1.38%) NetBackup
14 8 (1.10%) linkerd
15 7 (0.97%) Sysdig
16 6 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
16 6 (0.83%) Karpenter
16 6 (0.83%) Proxmox
16 6 (0.83%) Rancher
Vendors
1 104 (14.36%) Splunk
2 62 (8.56%) Microsoft
3 54 (7.46%) Oracle
4 47 (6.49%) Red Hat
5 45 (6.22%) Google
6 33 (4.56%) VMware
7 24 (3.31%) Dynatrace
8 21 (2.90%) Palo Alto
9 20 (2.76%) CheckPoint
10 19 (2.62%) F5
11 18 (2.49%) ServiceNow
12 17 (2.35%) Atlassian
13 16 (2.21%) Cisco
13 16 (2.21%) Databricks
14 14 (1.93%) IBM
15 11 (1.52%) Veritas
16 10 (1.38%) Commvault
16 10 (1.38%) Cribl.io
17 8 (1.10%) Veracode
18 7 (0.97%) Okta