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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 145 202
Rank change year-on-year -3 +57 +55
Contract jobs citing GitLab 812 534 412
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.81% 1.94% 1.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.57% 13.52% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 347 287
10th Percentile £368 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £543
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -7.74% -5.65%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £660 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 9
10th Percentile £63.88 £61.60 £63.20
25th Percentile - £64.56 £72.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £75.00
90th Percentile £81.75 £71.79 £77.50
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 5,215 3,950 4,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.63% 14.36% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,319 2,731 2,859
10th Percentile £350 £320 £350
25th Percentile £413 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £590 £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 236 92 205
10th Percentile £28.53 £40.25 £32.23
25th Percentile £55.94 £51.05 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.68 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -1 347 £525 - 89
North of England -22 174 £488 +3.94% 48
Midlands +25 131 £469 -6.20% 22
West Midlands +22 124 £469 -8.49% 17
South East -38 74 £550 - 28
North West -35 72 £575 +21.05% 25
North East +1 70 £413 -11.29% 16
South West -23 50 £548 -8.67% 21
Yorkshire -40 45 £550 +18.92% 7
East of England -14 31 £489 +2.89% 16
East Midlands -12 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 86 (10.59%) Confluence
2 53 (6.53%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (5.42%) Apache Spark
4 39 (4.80%) Apache
5 32 (3.94%) SAS
6 27 (3.33%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.86%) CICS
8 6 (0.74%) Camunda
8 6 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.49%) nginx
10 3 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.25%) CMS
11 2 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.12%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Trello
2 1 (0.12%) 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
1 539 (66.38%) AWS
2 269 (33.13%) GitHub
3 259 (31.90%) Azure
4 202 (24.88%) GitHub Actions
5 143 (17.61%) GCP
6 117 (14.41%) Azure DevOps
7 116 (14.29%) Amazon S3
8 110 (13.55%) Serverless
9 105 (12.93%) Amazon EKS
10 99 (12.19%) AWS Lambda
11 92 (11.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 81 (9.98%) Amazon EC2
13 59 (7.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 57 (7.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 40 (4.93%) OpenShift
16 37 (4.56%) Amazon ECS
17 35 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
18 34 (4.19%) Datadog
18 34 (4.19%) OCI
19 31 (3.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 41 (5.05%) Firewall
2 22 (2.71%) BGP
2 22 (2.71%) WAN
3 21 (2.59%) Network Security
3 21 (2.59%) OSPF
3 21 (2.59%) SD-WAN
4 20 (2.46%) DNS
4 20 (2.46%) Ethernet VPN
4 20 (2.46%) VXLAN
5 19 (2.34%) BIG-IP
5 19 (2.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 15 (1.85%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (1.72%) VPN
8 11 (1.35%) WLAN
9 8 (0.99%) HTTP
10 5 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.62%) SSL
11 4 (0.49%) DHCP
11 4 (0.49%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (7.51%) MongoDB
3 47 (5.79%) Relational Database
4 41 (5.05%) Amazon Redshift
5 39 (4.80%) Amazon Athena
6 34 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (4.19%) DynamoDB
7 31 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (3.57%) Pentaho
9 28 (3.45%) NoSQL
9 28 (3.45%) Oracle Database
9 28 (3.45%) Power BI
9 28 (3.45%) SQL Server
10 23 (2.83%) RDBMS
11 20 (2.46%) MySQL
12 19 (2.34%) Data Lake
13 18 (2.22%) Big Data
14 17 (2.09%) Redis
15 12 (1.48%) Oracle Exadata
16 11 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 342 (42.12%) Jenkins
2 192 (23.65%) Git
3 110 (13.55%) JIRA
4 62 (7.64%) Selenium
5 58 (7.14%) JUnit
6 37 (4.56%) Bitbucket
6 37 (4.56%) Cucumber
7 31 (3.82%) SonarQube
8 30 (3.69%) Artifactory
9 29 (3.57%) Gradle
10 25 (3.08%) JMeter
11 24 (2.96%) Mockito
12 22 (2.71%) Gatling
12 22 (2.71%) Maven
12 22 (2.71%) REST Assured
12 22 (2.71%) WebDriver
13 19 (2.34%) Postman
14 16 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
15 15 (1.85%) Snyk
16 11 (1.35%) MLflow
General
1 155 (19.09%) Social Skills
2 149 (18.35%) Public Sector
3 90 (11.08%) Finance
4 62 (7.64%) Banking
5 45 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.22%) Military
7 15 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.72%) Law
9 13 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.35%) Legal
11 7 (0.86%) Aerospace
11 7 (0.86%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.74%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.62%) Police
14 4 (0.49%) Publishing
15 3 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.25%) Back Office
16 2 (0.25%) Retail
16 2 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 178 (21.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 160 (19.70%) Senior
3 115 (14.16%) Developer
4 94 (11.58%) AWS Engineer
5 78 (9.61%) Data Engineer
6 63 (7.76%) AWS DevOps
7 58 (7.14%) Lead
8 56 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 52 (6.40%) Software Engineer
10 41 (5.05%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (4.93%) Platform Engineer
12 39 (4.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 37 (4.56%) Java Developer
14 34 (4.19%) Test Engineer
15 32 (3.94%) Architect
15 32 (3.94%) Senior DevOps
16 31 (3.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 26 (3.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 25 (3.08%) Senior Developer
19 23 (2.83%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (14.04%) Kafka
2 88 (10.84%) Spring
3 82 (10.10%) REST
4 79 (9.73%) Spring Boot
5 49 (6.03%) React
6 46 (5.67%) RESTful
7 45 (5.54%) PySpark
8 36 (4.43%) Node.js
9 35 (4.31%) Playwright
10 31 (3.82%) JSON
11 28 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
12 25 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
12 25 (3.08%) YAML
13 23 (2.83%) WireMock
14 22 (2.71%) AWS CDK
15 21 (2.59%) Keycloak
16 20 (2.46%) OAuth
16 20 (2.46%) SOAP
17 19 (2.34%) pytest
18 18 (2.22%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 160 (19.70%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.30%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 28 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (3.20%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.46%) Data Structures
7 20 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (2.22%) Public Cloud
9 17 (2.09%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.72%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.11%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.99%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (0.99%) NHS
13 7 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.86%) DataPower
13 7 (0.86%) PKI
14 6 (0.74%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 155 (19.09%) Linux
2 37 (4.56%) Windows
3 35 (4.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 34 (4.19%) Unix
5 14 (1.72%) zOS
6 12 (1.48%) AIX
7 11 (1.35%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.99%) CentOS
9 6 (0.74%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.37%) Debian
10 3 (0.37%) Rocky
10 3 (0.37%) VMS
11 2 (0.25%) Android
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 667 (82.14%) CI/CD
2 484 (59.61%) DevOps
3 366 (45.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 304 (37.44%) Agile
5 278 (34.24%) Containerisation
6 247 (30.42%) Test Automation
7 152 (18.72%) Microservices
8 140 (17.24%) Observability
9 134 (16.50%) Software Engineering
10 126 (15.52%) Scrum
11 125 (15.39%) Platform Engineering
12 114 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 102 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
14 101 (12.44%) AI
15 90 (11.08%) DevSecOps
16 78 (9.61%) ETL
16 78 (9.61%) Migration
17 75 (9.24%) Event-Driven
18 68 (8.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 68 (8.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 349 (42.98%) Python
2 183 (22.54%) SQL
3 182 (22.41%) Java
4 135 (16.63%) Bash
5 62 (7.64%) JavaScript
5 62 (7.64%) PowerShell
6 53 (6.53%) TypeScript
7 51 (6.28%) C#
8 33 (4.06%) Go
9 25 (3.08%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.22%) Bicep
11 17 (2.09%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.72%) C++
13 8 (0.99%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.74%) Groovy
14 6 (0.74%) JCL
14 6 (0.74%) Scala
15 5 (0.62%) C
15 5 (0.62%) Cypher
15 5 (0.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 390 (48.03%) Security Cleared
2 328 (40.39%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.40%) DV Cleared
4 38 (4.68%) Degree
5 37 (4.56%) AWS Certification
6 34 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 17 (2.09%) Azure Certification
10 15 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.35%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (1.11%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.74%) CISSP
15 4 (0.49%) CSSLP
15 4 (0.49%) GIAC
16 3 (0.37%) CCNP
17 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
17 2 (0.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (10.34%) QA
2 34 (4.19%) Data Quality
3 29 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.23%) SLA
5 9 (1.11%) WCAG
6 6 (0.74%) NIST
7 5 (0.62%) FATCA
7 5 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.37%) GDPR
9 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
11 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
11 1 (0.12%) NCSC
11 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 342 (42.12%) Docker
2 21 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.60%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.62%) HDFS
6 5 (0.62%) Squid
7 3 (0.37%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.25%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 411 (50.62%) Terraform
2 357 (43.97%) Kubernetes
3 205 (25.25%) Ansible
4 148 (18.23%) Grafana
5 127 (15.64%) Prometheus
6 45 (5.54%) Argo
7 36 (4.43%) Puppet
8 19 (2.34%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.60%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.60%) Istio
9 13 (1.60%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.23%) Packer
10 10 (1.23%) Podman
11 5 (0.62%) linkerd
11 5 (0.62%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.62%) Salt
11 5 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.49%) Check_MK
12 4 (0.49%) Kibana
12 4 (0.49%) Suricata
Vendors
1 99 (12.19%) Oracle
2 54 (6.65%) Microsoft
3 52 (6.40%) Google
4 47 (5.79%) Talend
5 46 (5.67%) Splunk
6 45 (5.54%) Informatica
7 26 (3.20%) VMware
8 24 (2.96%) Databricks
9 23 (2.83%) Denodo
9 23 (2.83%) Dynatrace
10 22 (2.71%) Palo Alto
11 20 (2.46%) F5
12 19 (2.34%) IBM
12 19 (2.34%) ServiceNow
13 18 (2.22%) Arista
13 18 (2.22%) Aruba
13 18 (2.22%) Red Hat
14 15 (1.85%) Trend Micro
15 9 (1.11%) Salesforce
16 7 (0.86%) Veracode