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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 142 222
Rank change year-on-year +5 +80 -4
Contract jobs citing GitLab 774 465 390
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.90% 1.90% 1.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.44% 13.85% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 301 287
10th Percentile £386 £380 £370
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £578 £626 £666
90th Percentile £670 £718 £750
UK median daily rate £498 £525 £558
% change year-on-year -5.24% -5.83% -3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 3 6
10th Percentile £42.13 £64.59 £57.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £62.19
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +11.45% +87.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £76.74
90th Percentile £81.10 £92.59 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £68.22
% change year-on-year -24.66% +21.61% +72.27%

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 5,013 3,358 4,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.28% 13.72% 11.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,315 2,254 2,880
10th Percentile £342 £341 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £532
Median % change year-on-year - -6.06% -3.23%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 65 189
10th Percentile £37.25 £27.68 £32.74
25th Percentile £59.25 £50.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.78 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £66.75 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.79% -7.31% +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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -1 323 £525 -0.94% 60
North of England -8 180 £494 -6.45% 53
Midlands +10 114 £463 -6.09% 31
West Midlands +10 99 £469 -10.67% 20
North West -1 93 £493 -1.50% 22
Yorkshire -24 62 £500 -13.04% 11
South East -47 57 £550 +9.89% 38
South West -3 55 £500 +8.70% 16
North East -3 35 £450 -14.29% 20
East of England -9 31 £478 +7.72% 10
East Midlands -24 15 £414 +32.96% 11
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 60 (7.75%) Confluence
2 29 (3.75%) SAS
3 23 (2.97%) Apache
3 23 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.84%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.68%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.03%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.78%) nginx
8 5 (0.65%) CICS
9 3 (0.39%) Camunda
9 3 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.26%) CMS
10 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Actimize
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 458 (59.17%) AWS
2 248 (32.04%) GitHub
3 236 (30.49%) Azure
4 174 (22.48%) GitHub Actions
5 130 (16.80%) GCP
6 116 (14.99%) Serverless
7 115 (14.86%) Amazon S3
8 103 (13.31%) AWS Lambda
9 95 (12.27%) Amazon EKS
10 81 (10.47%) Amazon EC2
10 81 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
11 79 (10.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 69 (8.91%) AWS CloudFormation
13 59 (7.62%) OpenShift
14 58 (7.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 42 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
16 26 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
17 25 (3.23%) Power Platform
18 23 (2.97%) Azure AKS
18 23 (2.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.52%) Firewall
2 24 (3.10%) DNS
3 18 (2.33%) TCP/IP
4 14 (1.81%) BGP
4 14 (1.81%) Network Security
4 14 (1.81%) VPN
5 13 (1.68%) OSPF
6 12 (1.55%) Ethernet VPN
6 12 (1.55%) VXLAN
6 12 (1.55%) WAN
7 10 (1.29%) BIG-IP
7 10 (1.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 10 (1.29%) HTTP
7 10 (1.29%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
9 6 (0.78%) WLAN
10 4 (0.52%) Multicast
10 4 (0.52%) SAN
10 4 (0.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (9.56%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (5.81%) MongoDB
3 39 (5.04%) Relational Database
4 36 (4.65%) DynamoDB
5 34 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
6 32 (4.13%) NoSQL
7 28 (3.62%) Amazon Athena
8 27 (3.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 26 (3.36%) MySQL
9 26 (3.36%) Redis
10 24 (3.10%) Power BI
11 22 (2.84%) Pentaho
11 22 (2.84%) SQL Server
12 21 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
13 20 (2.58%) Data Lake
14 18 (2.33%) Big Data
15 13 (1.68%) DocumentDB
16 12 (1.55%) Oracle Database
17 10 (1.29%) Amazon QuickSight
17 10 (1.29%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 341 (44.06%) Jenkins
2 174 (22.48%) Git
3 110 (14.21%) JIRA
4 64 (8.27%) Selenium
5 62 (8.01%) JUnit
6 41 (5.30%) Cucumber
7 32 (4.13%) Postman
8 31 (4.01%) Gradle
9 27 (3.49%) JMeter
10 26 (3.36%) Artifactory
10 26 (3.36%) Bitbucket
10 26 (3.36%) REST Assured
11 25 (3.23%) CircleCI
12 23 (2.97%) Mockito
13 21 (2.71%) SonarQube
14 18 (2.33%) Gatling
15 15 (1.94%) Maven
16 13 (1.68%) Cypress.io
16 13 (1.68%) IntelliJ
16 13 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 165 (21.32%) Social Skills
2 139 (17.96%) Public Sector
3 95 (12.27%) Finance
4 59 (7.62%) Banking
5 42 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.55%) Military
8 11 (1.42%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.03%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.03%) Law
9 8 (1.03%) Retail
10 6 (0.78%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.65%) Legal
12 4 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.52%) Police
12 4 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 157 (20.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 138 (17.83%) Developer
3 124 (16.02%) Senior
4 68 (8.79%) AWS Engineer
5 67 (8.66%) Data Engineer
6 59 (7.62%) Software Engineer
7 58 (7.49%) Lead
8 48 (6.20%) AWS DevOps
8 48 (6.20%) Java Developer
9 47 (6.07%) Architect
10 42 (5.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 32 (4.13%) Cloud Engineer
12 31 (4.01%) Test Engineer
13 30 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
14 27 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
14 27 (3.49%) Senior DevOps
14 27 (3.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 22 (2.84%) Java Engineer
16 19 (2.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 19 (2.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (15.25%) Spring
2 115 (14.86%) Kafka
3 105 (13.57%) Spring Boot
4 92 (11.89%) REST
5 66 (8.53%) RESTful
6 64 (8.27%) Node.js
7 57 (7.36%) React
8 40 (5.17%) Elastic Stack
9 39 (5.04%) Playwright
10 34 (4.39%) OpenTelemetry
11 31 (4.01%) RabbitMQ
12 29 (3.75%) YAML
13 28 (3.62%) LDAP
14 27 (3.49%) PySpark
15 25 (3.23%) AngularJS
15 25 (3.23%) Jest
16 23 (2.97%) OAuth
16 23 (2.97%) OpenID
17 22 (2.84%) pytest
18 21 (2.71%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 128 (16.54%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (6.33%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.62%) Data Centre
5 25 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (2.20%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.55%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.42%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.42%) NHS
11 10 (1.29%) Mainframe
12 9 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
13 8 (1.03%) DataPower
13 8 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
14 6 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.78%) Mobile App
15 5 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 132 (17.05%) Linux
2 46 (5.94%) Windows
3 40 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (4.01%) Unix
5 13 (1.68%) CentOS
6 9 (1.16%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.03%) Android
7 8 (1.03%) VMS
8 7 (0.90%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.90%) zOS
9 6 (0.78%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.52%) Debian
10 4 (0.52%) Rocky
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.13%) AIX
12 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 610 (78.81%) CI/CD
2 426 (55.04%) DevOps
3 277 (35.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 273 (35.27%) Agile
5 258 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 239 (30.88%) Test Automation
7 157 (20.28%) Microservices
8 140 (18.09%) Observability
9 124 (16.02%) Software Engineering
10 122 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
11 105 (13.57%) Scrum
12 98 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 97 (12.53%) Platform Engineering
14 80 (10.34%) DevSecOps
14 80 (10.34%) ETL
15 70 (9.04%) TDD
16 66 (8.53%) Migration
17 65 (8.40%) Analytics
18 63 (8.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 60 (7.75%) AI
Programming Languages
1 296 (38.24%) Python
2 231 (29.84%) Java
3 173 (22.35%) SQL
4 117 (15.12%) Bash
5 86 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 70 (9.04%) TypeScript
7 64 (8.27%) PowerShell
8 39 (5.04%) Shell Script
9 38 (4.91%) Go
10 34 (4.39%) C#
11 19 (2.45%) Kotlin
12 18 (2.33%) Bicep
12 18 (2.33%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.81%) C++
14 12 (1.55%) Scala
15 10 (1.29%) MATLAB
16 8 (1.03%) C
16 8 (1.03%) Ruby
17 7 (0.90%) PHP
18 6 (0.78%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 336 (43.41%) Security Cleared
2 276 (35.66%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.04%) Degree
4 33 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.36%) DV Cleared
6 25 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (3.10%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.68%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.16%) SAFe Agilist
11 7 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.52%) OCA
12 4 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.39%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (11.63%) QA
2 37 (4.78%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.58%) SLA
4 19 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 16 (2.07%) GDPR
6 12 (1.55%) WCAG
7 11 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (1.16%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.90%) NCSC
10 5 (0.65%) FATCA
10 5 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.65%) NIST
11 4 (0.52%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.26%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.13%) MiFID
13 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 323 (41.73%) Docker
2 22 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.65%) HDFS
6 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.39%) Squid
7 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.26%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) iptables
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 353 (45.61%) Kubernetes
2 334 (43.15%) Terraform
3 178 (23.00%) Ansible
4 161 (20.80%) Grafana
5 128 (16.54%) Prometheus
6 52 (6.72%) Argo
7 26 (3.36%) Puppet
8 20 (2.58%) Istio
9 17 (2.20%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.81%) Podman
11 13 (1.68%) Red Hat Satellite
12 12 (1.55%) Kibana
13 10 (1.29%) Check_MK
14 9 (1.16%) linkerd
15 7 (0.90%) Packer
16 6 (0.78%) Karpenter
16 6 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
17 5 (0.65%) Nagios
17 5 (0.65%) Rancher
18 4 (0.52%) Salt
Vendors
1 84 (10.85%) Oracle
2 57 (7.36%) Splunk
3 55 (7.11%) Microsoft
4 44 (5.68%) Red Hat
5 37 (4.78%) Google
6 34 (4.39%) Talend
7 33 (4.26%) VMware
8 31 (4.01%) ServiceNow
9 28 (3.62%) Informatica
10 25 (3.23%) Databricks
11 20 (2.58%) Dynatrace
12 18 (2.33%) Denodo
12 18 (2.33%) Salesforce
13 13 (1.68%) Arista
14 12 (1.55%) F5
15 11 (1.42%) IBM
15 11 (1.42%) Palo Alto
15 11 (1.42%) Veracode
16 9 (1.16%) Aruba
17 7 (0.90%) AppDynamics