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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 142 195
Rank change year-on-year -14 +53 +53
Contract jobs citing GitLab 836 540 425
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.84% 1.96% 1.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.72% 13.52% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 359 293
10th Percentile £368 £356 £320
25th Percentile £425 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -3.30% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £650
90th Percentile £700 £672 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 9
10th Percentile £64.63 £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 £77.25 £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 5,317 3,994 4,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.47% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,384 2,771 2,848
10th Percentile £352 £322 £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 £594 £600 £629
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 243 95 199
10th Percentile £35.00 £40.90 £31.71
25th Percentile £57.25 £51.03 £51.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.45 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - -

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +4 361 £525 -0.47% 183
North of England -22 171 £475 - 60
Midlands +28 139 £469 -6.20% 26
West Midlands +26 132 £469 -11.68% 19
South East -36 75 £550 - 41
North East +9 71 £413 -11.29% 11
North West -38 71 £575 +18.56% 42
South West -33 51 £550 -8.33% 45
Yorkshire -47 42 £550 +12.82% 7
East of England -10 33 £475 - 16
East Midlands -9 7 £470 +74.07% 7
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 84 (10.05%) Confluence
2 55 (6.58%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (5.62%) Apache Spark
4 41 (4.90%) Apache
5 31 (3.71%) SAS
6 27 (3.23%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.72%) Camunda
7 6 (0.72%) CICS
7 6 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.36%) nginx
8 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.24%) CMS
9 2 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.48%) Trello
2 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
3 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
1 563 (67.34%) AWS
2 284 (33.97%) GitHub
3 277 (33.13%) Azure
4 212 (25.36%) GitHub Actions
5 145 (17.34%) GCP
6 131 (15.67%) Azure DevOps
7 116 (13.88%) Amazon S3
8 109 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
9 108 (12.92%) Serverless
10 98 (11.72%) AWS Lambda
11 96 (11.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 81 (9.69%) Amazon EC2
13 63 (7.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 58 (6.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 40 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
16 37 (4.43%) OpenShift
17 35 (4.19%) Amazon SQS
18 34 (4.07%) Datadog
18 34 (4.07%) OCI
19 33 (3.95%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.26%) Firewall
2 26 (3.11%) DNS
3 23 (2.75%) Network Security
4 22 (2.63%) BGP
4 22 (2.63%) WAN
5 21 (2.51%) OSPF
5 21 (2.51%) SD-WAN
6 20 (2.39%) Ethernet VPN
6 20 (2.39%) VXLAN
7 19 (2.27%) BIG-IP
7 19 (2.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 18 (2.15%) TCP/IP
9 15 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (1.56%) VPN
11 11 (1.32%) HTTP
11 11 (1.32%) WLAN
12 6 (0.72%) SSL
13 4 (0.48%) DHCP
13 4 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.48%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (8.25%) MongoDB
2 68 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (5.50%) Relational Database
4 39 (4.67%) Amazon Athena
4 39 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 35 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (4.07%) DynamoDB
7 33 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
8 32 (3.83%) NoSQL
8 32 (3.83%) Pentaho
9 30 (3.59%) Power BI
10 28 (3.35%) SQL Server
11 27 (3.23%) Oracle Database
12 24 (2.87%) MySQL
13 23 (2.75%) RDBMS
13 23 (2.75%) Redis
14 21 (2.51%) Big Data
15 20 (2.39%) Data Lake
16 12 (1.44%) Oracle Exadata
17 11 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 350 (41.87%) Jenkins
2 205 (24.52%) Git
3 107 (12.80%) JIRA
4 64 (7.66%) JUnit
4 64 (7.66%) Selenium
5 43 (5.14%) Cucumber
6 40 (4.78%) Bitbucket
7 35 (4.19%) SonarQube
8 29 (3.47%) Artifactory
8 29 (3.47%) Gradle
9 27 (3.23%) Gatling
10 25 (2.99%) Maven
11 24 (2.87%) Mockito
12 23 (2.75%) JMeter
13 22 (2.63%) WebDriver
14 21 (2.51%) REST Assured
15 18 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
16 17 (2.03%) Postman
17 15 (1.79%) Snyk
18 10 (1.20%) MLflow
General
1 167 (19.98%) Social Skills
2 147 (17.58%) Public Sector
3 93 (11.12%) Finance
4 63 (7.54%) Banking
5 49 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.27%) Military
7 16 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.67%) Law
9 11 (1.32%) Legal
10 9 (1.08%) Aerospace
11 7 (0.84%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.60%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.60%) Police
12 5 (0.60%) Publishing
12 5 (0.60%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.48%) Marketing
14 3 (0.36%) Back Office
14 3 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 179 (21.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 167 (19.98%) Senior
3 125 (14.95%) Developer
4 99 (11.84%) AWS Engineer
5 84 (10.05%) Data Engineer
6 64 (7.66%) AWS DevOps
7 61 (7.30%) Lead
8 57 (6.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 56 (6.70%) Software Engineer
10 44 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
12 39 (4.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 37 (4.43%) Java Developer
14 34 (4.07%) Test Engineer
15 32 (3.83%) Senior DevOps
16 31 (3.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 27 (3.23%) Architect
18 26 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
18 26 (3.11%) Senior Developer
18 26 (3.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (13.76%) Kafka
2 96 (11.48%) Spring
3 87 (10.41%) REST
4 83 (9.93%) Spring Boot
5 51 (6.10%) React
6 50 (5.98%) RESTful
7 45 (5.38%) PySpark
8 42 (5.02%) Playwright
9 41 (4.90%) Node.js
10 33 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
11 32 (3.83%) JSON
12 26 (3.11%) Elastic Stack
12 26 (3.11%) WireMock
13 25 (2.99%) YAML
14 23 (2.75%) AWS CDK
15 21 (2.51%) HTML
15 21 (2.51%) Keycloak
16 20 (2.39%) .NET
16 20 (2.39%) CSS
16 20 (2.39%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 163 (19.50%) Cloud Native
2 60 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.14%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (3.47%) Data Centre
6 27 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 21 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (2.39%) Data Structures
9 18 (2.15%) Distributed Architecture
9 18 (2.15%) Public Cloud
10 17 (2.03%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.44%) Mainframe
12 10 (1.20%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.08%) Private Cloud
14 7 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.84%) PKI
15 6 (0.72%) DataPower
15 6 (0.72%) NHS
15 6 (0.72%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 158 (18.90%) Linux
2 38 (4.55%) Unix
3 36 (4.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 36 (4.31%) Windows
4 12 (1.44%) AIX
4 12 (1.44%) Ubuntu
4 12 (1.44%) zOS
5 8 (0.96%) CentOS
5 8 (0.96%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.48%) Debian
6 4 (0.48%) Rocky
7 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.24%) Android
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 687 (82.18%) CI/CD
2 490 (58.61%) DevOps
3 373 (44.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 315 (37.68%) Agile
5 285 (34.09%) Containerisation
6 254 (30.38%) Test Automation
7 156 (18.66%) Microservices
8 144 (17.22%) Observability
9 140 (16.75%) Software Engineering
10 135 (16.15%) Scrum
11 130 (15.55%) Platform Engineering
12 117 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 109 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
14 107 (12.80%) AI
15 90 (10.77%) DevSecOps
16 83 (9.93%) ETL
17 76 (9.09%) Migration
18 75 (8.97%) Event-Driven
19 73 (8.73%) Mentoring
20 72 (8.61%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 354 (42.34%) Python
2 195 (23.33%) SQL
3 193 (23.09%) Java
4 146 (17.46%) Bash
5 72 (8.61%) PowerShell
6 70 (8.37%) JavaScript
7 56 (6.70%) TypeScript
8 54 (6.46%) C#
9 30 (3.59%) Go
10 27 (3.23%) Shell Script
11 20 (2.39%) Bicep
12 17 (2.03%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.67%) C++
14 9 (1.08%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.72%) Groovy
15 6 (0.72%) JCL
15 6 (0.72%) R
15 6 (0.72%) Scala
16 5 (0.60%) C
16 5 (0.60%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 394 (47.13%) Security Cleared
2 332 (39.71%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.22%) DV Cleared
4 46 (5.50%) Degree
5 37 (4.43%) AWS Certification
6 36 (4.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 34 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 17 (2.03%) Azure Certification
10 15 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.32%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.20%) CISSP
14 8 (0.96%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.48%) CSSLP
16 4 (0.48%) GIAC
17 3 (0.36%) CCNP
17 3 (0.36%) GCFA
17 3 (0.36%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (10.77%) QA
2 35 (4.19%) Accessibility
2 35 (4.19%) Data Quality
3 13 (1.56%) WCAG
4 10 (1.20%) SLA
5 8 (0.96%) GDPR
5 8 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.84%) NIST
7 5 (0.60%) FATCA
7 5 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.24%) NCSC
10 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.12%) GRC
10 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
10 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
10 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 354 (42.34%) Docker
2 21 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.56%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.60%) HDFS
6 5 (0.60%) Squid
7 3 (0.36%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 414 (49.52%) Terraform
2 367 (43.90%) Kubernetes
3 210 (25.12%) Ansible
4 145 (17.34%) Grafana
5 126 (15.07%) Prometheus
6 44 (5.26%) Argo
7 36 (4.31%) Puppet
8 22 (2.63%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.56%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.56%) Istio
9 13 (1.56%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.20%) Packer
10 10 (1.20%) Podman
11 5 (0.60%) Kibana
11 5 (0.60%) linkerd
11 5 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.60%) Salt
11 5 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.48%) Check_MK
12 4 (0.48%) Suricata
Vendors
1 98 (11.72%) Oracle
2 61 (7.30%) Microsoft
3 53 (6.34%) Google
4 48 (5.74%) Splunk
5 46 (5.50%) Talend
6 44 (5.26%) Informatica
7 30 (3.59%) Databricks
8 26 (3.11%) Dynatrace
8 26 (3.11%) VMware
9 22 (2.63%) Denodo
10 21 (2.51%) Palo Alto
11 20 (2.39%) F5
11 20 (2.39%) ServiceNow
12 18 (2.15%) Arista
12 18 (2.15%) Aruba
13 17 (2.03%) IBM
13 17 (2.03%) Red Hat
14 15 (1.79%) Trend Micro
15 7 (0.84%) Salesforce
15 7 (0.84%) Veracode