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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 148 215
Rank change year-on-year +9 +67 +23
Contract jobs citing GitLab 817 474 413
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.91% 1.92% 1.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.13% 13.62% 9.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 296 297
10th Percentile £381 £360 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -7.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £656
90th Percentile £688 £681 £743
UK median daily rate £492 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -5.84% -5.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 8
10th Percentile - - £57.93
25th Percentile £52.50 - £63.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £82.96 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year -21.65% +11.78% +24.11%
75th Percentile - - £75.63
90th Percentile £75.00 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £72.00
% change year-on-year -15.01% +6.22% +81.82%

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 5,064 3,479 4,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.82% 14.09% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,294 2,359 2,971
10th Percentile £350 £336 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £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 £715 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 70 226
10th Percentile £31.87 £27.35 £32.36
25th Percentile £59.06 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.30 £75.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +4.84%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -4 343 £525 -0.47% 78
North of England -3 187 £475 -3.46% 30
Midlands +22 131 £459 -8.20% 14
West Midlands +17 121 £461 -12.24% 11
North West -8 87 £525 +6.92% 14
South East -30 65 £550 +9.89% 37
North East +5 60 £406 -14.02% 9
Yorkshire -33 55 £525 +2.44% 7
South West -5 53 £500 -13.04% 25
East of England -4 38 £483 +1.58% 17
East Midlands -19 10 £436 +50.09% 3
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 82 (10.04%) Confluence
2 43 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (4.90%) Apache Spark
4 37 (4.53%) Apache
5 35 (4.28%) SAS
6 25 (3.06%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.86%) CICS
8 6 (0.73%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.61%) Camunda
10 4 (0.49%) nginx
11 3 (0.37%) 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 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 510 (62.42%) AWS
2 263 (32.19%) GitHub
3 243 (29.74%) Azure
4 189 (23.13%) GitHub Actions
5 131 (16.03%) GCP
6 130 (15.91%) Amazon S3
7 120 (14.69%) Serverless
8 108 (13.22%) AWS Lambda
9 105 (12.85%) Amazon EKS
10 92 (11.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 91 (11.14%) Azure DevOps
12 90 (11.02%) Amazon EC2
13 64 (7.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 60 (7.34%) AWS CloudFormation
15 48 (5.88%) OpenShift
16 42 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
17 32 (3.92%) Power Platform
18 31 (3.79%) Amazon SQS
19 26 (3.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 26 (3.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.39%) Firewall
2 24 (2.94%) DNS
3 21 (2.57%) BGP
3 21 (2.57%) Network Security
3 21 (2.57%) WAN
4 20 (2.45%) OSPF
5 19 (2.33%) BIG-IP
5 19 (2.33%) Ethernet VPN
5 19 (2.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 19 (2.33%) SD-WAN
5 19 (2.33%) VXLAN
6 18 (2.20%) TCP/IP
7 15 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (1.47%) VPN
9 11 (1.35%) WLAN
10 8 (0.98%) HTTP
11 6 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (0.61%) SSL
13 4 (0.49%) MQTT
13 4 (0.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (8.69%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (6.61%) MongoDB
3 41 (5.02%) Relational Database
4 39 (4.77%) Amazon Athena
5 38 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 36 (4.41%) DynamoDB
7 35 (4.28%) Amazon RDS
8 33 (4.04%) NoSQL
9 31 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
10 29 (3.55%) Pentaho
10 29 (3.55%) Power BI
11 24 (2.94%) MySQL
11 24 (2.94%) Redis
12 23 (2.82%) Oracle Database
13 20 (2.45%) Data Lake
14 19 (2.33%) SQL Server
15 18 (2.20%) Big Data
16 15 (1.84%) DocumentDB
17 14 (1.71%) BigQuery
18 11 (1.35%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 344 (42.11%) Jenkins
2 186 (22.77%) Git
3 119 (14.57%) JIRA
4 70 (8.57%) Selenium
5 64 (7.83%) JUnit
6 38 (4.65%) Cucumber
7 31 (3.79%) Gradle
8 30 (3.67%) Bitbucket
9 29 (3.55%) Artifactory
9 29 (3.55%) SonarQube
10 28 (3.43%) REST Assured
11 27 (3.30%) JMeter
12 26 (3.18%) Mockito
13 25 (3.06%) Postman
14 23 (2.82%) WebDriver
15 22 (2.69%) Gatling
16 16 (1.96%) CircleCI
16 16 (1.96%) Maven
17 15 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
18 13 (1.59%) Serenity BDD
General
1 168 (20.56%) Social Skills
2 154 (18.85%) Public Sector
3 88 (10.77%) Finance
4 64 (7.83%) Banking
5 44 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.08%) Military
8 15 (1.84%) Law
9 12 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.22%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.98%) Legal
11 8 (0.98%) Retail
12 6 (0.73%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.73%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.61%) Police
14 4 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.49%) Publishing
15 2 (0.24%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 180 (22.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 143 (17.50%) Senior
3 121 (14.81%) Developer
4 89 (10.89%) AWS Engineer
5 84 (10.28%) Data Engineer
6 64 (7.83%) AWS DevOps
7 58 (7.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 55 (6.73%) Lead
9 49 (6.00%) Software Engineer
10 41 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (4.90%) Java Developer
12 39 (4.77%) Architect
13 38 (4.65%) Test Engineer
14 33 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
15 32 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 30 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
17 29 (3.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 28 (3.43%) Full-Stack Developer
19 22 (2.69%) GCP Engineer
19 22 (2.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (14.08%) Kafka
2 107 (13.10%) Spring
3 97 (11.87%) Spring Boot
4 88 (10.77%) REST
5 67 (8.20%) RESTful
6 56 (6.85%) React
7 48 (5.88%) Node.js
8 43 (5.26%) Playwright
9 42 (5.14%) PySpark
10 30 (3.67%) Elastic Stack
10 30 (3.67%) OpenTelemetry
11 28 (3.43%) YAML
12 25 (3.06%) AWS CDK
13 24 (2.94%) OAuth
13 24 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
14 23 (2.82%) AngularJS
15 22 (2.69%) LDAP
15 22 (2.69%) SOAP
15 22 (2.69%) WireMock
16 21 (2.57%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 157 (19.22%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.77%) Data Centre
5 28 (3.43%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (2.20%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (2.20%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.47%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.10%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.10%) NHS
10 9 (1.10%) Private Cloud
11 8 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (0.98%) Mainframe
12 7 (0.86%) DataPower
12 7 (0.86%) PKI
13 6 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.73%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 144 (17.63%) Linux
2 45 (5.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 39 (4.77%) Unix
4 33 (4.04%) Windows
5 15 (1.84%) CentOS
6 10 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.98%) zOS
8 4 (0.49%) AIX
8 4 (0.49%) Debian
8 4 (0.49%) Rocky
8 4 (0.49%) VMS
8 4 (0.49%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.24%) Android
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (80.54%) CI/CD
2 471 (57.65%) DevOps
3 334 (40.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 289 (35.37%) Agile
5 270 (33.05%) Containerisation
6 258 (31.58%) Test Automation
7 168 (20.56%) Microservices
8 149 (18.24%) Observability
9 122 (14.93%) Software Engineering
10 120 (14.69%) Scrum
11 109 (13.34%) Platform Engineering
12 108 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
13 105 (12.85%) Continuous Improvement
14 87 (10.65%) AI
15 85 (10.40%) DevSecOps
16 84 (10.28%) ETL
17 71 (8.69%) Event-Driven
17 71 (8.69%) Migration
18 69 (8.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 68 (8.32%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 320 (39.17%) Python
2 206 (25.21%) Java
3 194 (23.75%) SQL
4 114 (13.95%) Bash
5 67 (8.20%) JavaScript
6 59 (7.22%) TypeScript
7 47 (5.75%) PowerShell
8 39 (4.77%) C#
9 37 (4.53%) Shell Script
10 33 (4.04%) Go
11 18 (2.20%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.71%) Bicep
13 12 (1.47%) C++
14 11 (1.35%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.35%) MATLAB
14 11 (1.35%) Scala
15 8 (0.98%) Ruby
16 6 (0.73%) JCL
17 5 (0.61%) Cypher
18 4 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 386 (47.25%) Security Cleared
2 329 (40.27%) SC Cleared
3 38 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 38 (4.65%) Degree
4 37 (4.53%) DV Cleared
5 35 (4.28%) AWS Certification
6 29 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 13 (1.59%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.35%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (1.10%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.37%) CISSP
12 3 (0.37%) GIAC
12 3 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.24%) CCNP
13 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.24%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (10.04%) QA
2 34 (4.16%) Accessibility
3 31 (3.79%) Data Quality
4 20 (2.45%) SLA
5 11 (1.35%) WCAG
6 9 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.98%) GDPR
7 8 (0.98%) NIST
8 7 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.61%) FATCA
10 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.49%) NCSC
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
11 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 338 (41.37%) Docker
2 22 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.73%) Squid
6 5 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.37%) HDFS
8 3 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.37%) VMware NSX
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%) vSphere
10 1 (0.12%) iptables
10 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 383 (46.88%) Terraform
2 345 (42.23%) Kubernetes
3 178 (21.79%) Ansible
4 154 (18.85%) Grafana
5 134 (16.40%) Prometheus
6 51 (6.24%) Argo
7 28 (3.43%) Puppet
8 22 (2.69%) Istio
9 16 (1.96%) Podman
10 14 (1.71%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (1.59%) Progress Chef
12 11 (1.35%) Check_MK
13 9 (1.10%) linkerd
13 9 (1.10%) Packer
14 8 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.86%) Kibana
16 5 (0.61%) Data Guard
16 5 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.61%) Salt
17 4 (0.49%) Suricata
Vendors
1 95 (11.63%) Oracle
2 52 (6.36%) Splunk
3 51 (6.24%) Microsoft
4 49 (6.00%) Talend
5 41 (5.02%) Informatica
6 37 (4.53%) Google
6 37 (4.53%) Red Hat
7 34 (4.16%) VMware
8 26 (3.18%) Databricks
9 25 (3.06%) ServiceNow
10 23 (2.82%) Denodo
11 22 (2.69%) Dynatrace
12 21 (2.57%) F5
13 20 (2.45%) Palo Alto
14 19 (2.33%) Arista
15 18 (2.20%) Aruba
15 18 (2.20%) Salesforce
16 14 (1.71%) Trend Micro
16 14 (1.71%) Veracode
17 11 (1.35%) IBM