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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 145 220
Rank change year-on-year +6 +75 +37
Contract jobs citing GitLab 841 506 419
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.91% 1.92% 1.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.22% 13.54% 9.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 317 296
10th Percentile £371 £356 £363
25th Percentile £425 £432 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £652
90th Percentile £688 £660 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 2 8
10th Percentile £52.50 £63.42 £62.30
25th Percentile - £66.68 £70.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.73 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% -2.01% +24.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £78.16 £75.63
90th Percentile - £81.04 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% -5.41% +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 5,186 3,736 4,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.79% 14.18% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,338 2,550 3,058
10th Percentile £350 £332 £350
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £707 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 79 231
10th Percentile £28.08 £28.32 £33.00
25th Percentile £57.63 £50.00 £51.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.24% -8.46% +4.00%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +5 352 £525 - 80
North of England -7 197 £453 -4.63% 42
Midlands +23 135 £469 -6.20% 22
West Midlands +22 128 £466 -11.29% 17
North West -14 88 £500 +6.38% 22
North East +8 69 £400 -13.98% 11
South East -28 68 £550 +9.89% 30
Yorkshire -34 57 £540 +8.00% 9
South West -9 54 £510 -11.30% 34
East of England -10 33 £479 +0.79% 13
East Midlands -15 7 £470 +74.07% 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 89 (10.58%) Confluence
2 52 (6.18%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (5.11%) Apache Spark
4 40 (4.76%) Apache
5 36 (4.28%) SAS
6 27 (3.21%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.83%) CICS
8 6 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.59%) Camunda
10 4 (0.48%) nginx
10 4 (0.48%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.24%) CMS
12 2 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 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
1 549 (65.28%) AWS
2 261 (31.03%) GitHub
3 249 (29.61%) Azure
4 185 (22.00%) GitHub Actions
5 132 (15.70%) GCP
6 128 (15.22%) Amazon S3
7 120 (14.27%) Serverless
8 107 (12.72%) AWS Lambda
9 102 (12.13%) Amazon EKS
10 101 (12.01%) Azure DevOps
11 94 (11.18%) Amazon EC2
12 88 (10.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 62 (7.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 59 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
15 43 (5.11%) OpenShift
16 40 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
17 31 (3.69%) OCI
18 30 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
19 29 (3.45%) Amazon EMR
19 29 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.88%) Firewall
2 21 (2.50%) BGP
2 21 (2.50%) Network Security
2 21 (2.50%) WAN
3 20 (2.38%) OSPF
4 19 (2.26%) BIG-IP
4 19 (2.26%) Ethernet VPN
4 19 (2.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 19 (2.26%) SD-WAN
4 19 (2.26%) VXLAN
5 17 (2.02%) DNS
6 15 (1.78%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (1.43%) VPN
8 11 (1.31%) WLAN
9 8 (0.95%) HTTP
10 6 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.48%) MQTT
11 4 (0.48%) SSL
12 3 (0.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (7.02%) MongoDB
2 58 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (5.47%) Relational Database
4 41 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 40 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
6 33 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
6 33 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (3.92%) DynamoDB
7 30 (3.57%) NoSQL
8 29 (3.45%) Pentaho
9 28 (3.33%) Oracle Database
10 26 (3.09%) Power BI
11 24 (2.85%) SQL Server
12 20 (2.38%) Big Data
12 20 (2.38%) MySQL
13 18 (2.14%) Data Lake
13 18 (2.14%) RDBMS
14 14 (1.66%) Redis
15 12 (1.43%) DocumentDB
16 11 (1.31%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 353 (41.97%) Jenkins
2 191 (22.71%) Git
3 123 (14.63%) JIRA
4 72 (8.56%) Selenium
5 64 (7.61%) JUnit
6 41 (4.88%) Cucumber
7 31 (3.69%) Bitbucket
7 31 (3.69%) SonarQube
8 30 (3.57%) Artifactory
8 30 (3.57%) Mockito
9 29 (3.45%) JMeter
9 29 (3.45%) Postman
9 29 (3.45%) REST Assured
10 27 (3.21%) Gradle
11 26 (3.09%) Gatling
12 24 (2.85%) WebDriver
13 20 (2.38%) Maven
14 14 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
15 13 (1.55%) CircleCI
15 13 (1.55%) Snyk
General
1 163 (19.38%) Social Skills
2 161 (19.14%) Public Sector
3 90 (10.70%) Finance
4 65 (7.73%) Banking
5 45 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.14%) Military
8 14 (1.66%) Law
9 12 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.31%) Legal
11 8 (0.95%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.83%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.71%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.59%) Police
15 4 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.48%) Publishing
16 3 (0.36%) Retail
17 2 (0.24%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 191 (22.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 150 (17.84%) Senior
3 122 (14.51%) Developer
4 98 (11.65%) AWS Engineer
5 85 (10.11%) Data Engineer
6 71 (8.44%) AWS DevOps
7 64 (7.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 58 (6.90%) Lead
9 47 (5.59%) Software Engineer
10 41 (4.88%) Java Developer
11 40 (4.76%) Test Engineer
12 39 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 38 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
14 37 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
15 33 (3.92%) Architect
16 30 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
17 29 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 27 (3.21%) Full-Stack Developer
19 24 (2.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
20 23 (2.73%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (13.08%) Kafka
2 100 (11.89%) Spring
3 89 (10.58%) REST
4 88 (10.46%) Spring Boot
5 65 (7.73%) RESTful
6 52 (6.18%) React
7 45 (5.35%) Playwright
8 43 (5.11%) PySpark
9 40 (4.76%) Node.js
10 36 (4.28%) YAML
11 31 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
12 26 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
13 25 (2.97%) AWS CDK
13 25 (2.97%) JSON
14 24 (2.85%) WireMock
15 23 (2.73%) SOAP
16 21 (2.50%) Keycloak
16 21 (2.50%) pytest
17 20 (2.38%) OAuth
18 19 (2.26%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 156 (18.55%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.92%) Data Centre
5 27 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (2.50%) Public Cloud
8 18 (2.14%) Distributed Architecture
9 15 (1.78%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.66%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.19%) Mainframe
11 10 (1.19%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.07%) NHS
13 8 (0.95%) Management Information System
14 7 (0.83%) AI Agents
14 7 (0.83%) DataPower
14 7 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (0.71%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 163 (19.38%) Linux
2 39 (4.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 38 (4.52%) Unix
3 38 (4.52%) Windows
4 10 (1.19%) CentOS
4 10 (1.19%) zOS
5 9 (1.07%) AIX
5 9 (1.07%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.48%) Debian
7 4 (0.48%) Rocky
8 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.36%) VMS
9 2 (0.24%) Android
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 681 (80.98%) CI/CD
2 489 (58.15%) DevOps
3 349 (41.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 304 (36.15%) Agile
5 284 (33.77%) Containerisation
6 262 (31.15%) Test Automation
7 158 (18.79%) Microservices
8 135 (16.05%) Observability
9 124 (14.74%) Scrum
10 123 (14.63%) Software Engineering
11 117 (13.91%) Platform Engineering
12 113 (13.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 110 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
14 91 (10.82%) AI
15 85 (10.11%) DevSecOps
16 83 (9.87%) ETL
17 75 (8.92%) Migration
18 74 (8.80%) Event-Driven
19 67 (7.97%) Data Engineering
19 67 (7.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 341 (40.55%) Python
2 204 (24.26%) Java
3 187 (22.24%) SQL
4 127 (15.10%) Bash
5 68 (8.09%) JavaScript
6 62 (7.37%) TypeScript
7 54 (6.42%) PowerShell
8 47 (5.59%) C#
9 35 (4.16%) Go
10 30 (3.57%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.02%) Bicep
12 16 (1.90%) PL/SQL
13 13 (1.55%) C++
14 10 (1.19%) Scala
15 8 (0.95%) Cypher
16 7 (0.83%) Ruby
17 6 (0.71%) JCL
17 6 (0.71%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.71%) MATLAB
18 5 (0.59%) C
Qualifications
1 411 (48.87%) Security Cleared
2 347 (41.26%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.59%) DV Cleared
4 40 (4.76%) Degree
5 38 (4.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (4.16%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 13 (1.55%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.31%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (1.07%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.48%) CISSP
13 4 (0.48%) GIAC
14 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.36%) CSSLP
14 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.24%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (9.63%) QA
2 34 (4.04%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.92%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.43%) SLA
5 10 (1.19%) WCAG
6 6 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.59%) FATCA
7 5 (0.59%) NIST
8 4 (0.48%) GDPR
8 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.12%) GRC
10 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
10 1 (0.12%) NCSC
10 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
10 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 351 (41.74%) Docker
2 24 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.19%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.59%) Squid
7 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 4 (0.48%) HDFS
8 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.12%) iptables
10 1 (0.12%) vSphere
10 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 407 (48.39%) Terraform
2 358 (42.57%) Kubernetes
3 189 (22.47%) Ansible
4 152 (18.07%) Grafana
5 134 (15.93%) Prometheus
6 44 (5.23%) Argo
7 33 (3.92%) Puppet
8 16 (1.90%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.43%) Istio
10 11 (1.31%) Podman
11 10 (1.19%) Data Guard
11 10 (1.19%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (1.19%) Packer
12 9 (1.07%) Red Hat Satellite
13 7 (0.83%) Kibana
13 7 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.71%) Check_MK
14 6 (0.71%) Salt
15 5 (0.59%) linkerd
16 4 (0.48%) Suricata
Vendors
1 97 (11.53%) Oracle
2 52 (6.18%) Microsoft
3 49 (5.83%) Talend
4 46 (5.47%) Informatica
4 46 (5.47%) Splunk
5 42 (4.99%) Google
6 27 (3.21%) Red Hat
7 25 (2.97%) Databricks
8 24 (2.85%) ServiceNow
8 24 (2.85%) VMware
9 23 (2.73%) Denodo
10 21 (2.50%) F5
11 20 (2.38%) Palo Alto
12 18 (2.14%) Arista
12 18 (2.14%) Aruba
12 18 (2.14%) Salesforce
13 17 (2.02%) Dynatrace
14 15 (1.78%) Trend Micro
15 14 (1.66%) IBM
15 14 (1.66%) Veracode