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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 150 203
Rank change year-on-year +17 +53 +50
Contract jobs citing GitLab 821 474 413
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.93% 1.93% 1.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.18% 13.64% 9.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 298 298
10th Percentile £385 £361 £363
25th Percentile £428 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -7.56% -4.66%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £656
90th Percentile £684 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £492 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -5.38% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 1 8
10th Percentile £51.20 - £57.93
25th Percentile £52.50 - £63.44
Median hourly rate £63.75 £82.96 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year -23.16% +11.78% +87.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £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 5,074 3,476 4,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.90% 14.18% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,302 2,356 2,988
10th Percentile £350 £338 £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 £680 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 68 217
10th Percentile £35.50 £27.06 £32.48
25th Percentile £59.13 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -1 339 £525 -0.47% 49
North of England +6 197 £475 -3.46% 28
Midlands +15 129 £459 -8.20% 11
West Midlands +16 119 £461 -12.24% 8
North West +3 93 £525 +6.71% 13
South East -44 65 £550 +9.89% 32
Yorkshire -23 63 £513 +2.50% 6
North East +2 56 £413 -12.70% 9
South West -2 53 £500 -13.04% 20
East of England +4 38 £483 +1.58% 13
East Midlands -18 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 80 (9.74%) Confluence
2 41 (4.99%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (4.75%) Apache Spark
4 35 (4.26%) Apache
4 35 (4.26%) SAS
5 23 (2.80%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.85%) CICS
7 6 (0.73%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.61%) Camunda
9 4 (0.49%) nginx
10 3 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 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 (62.12%) AWS
2 262 (31.91%) GitHub
3 250 (30.45%) Azure
4 189 (23.02%) GitHub Actions
5 139 (16.93%) GCP
6 128 (15.59%) Amazon S3
7 119 (14.49%) Serverless
8 106 (12.91%) AWS Lambda
9 104 (12.67%) Amazon EKS
10 90 (10.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 90 (10.96%) Azure DevOps
11 89 (10.84%) Amazon EC2
12 62 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 62 (7.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 49 (5.97%) OpenShift
14 42 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
15 32 (3.90%) Amazon SQS
16 31 (3.78%) Power Platform
17 26 (3.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 26 (3.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.60%) Firewall
2 26 (3.17%) DNS
3 21 (2.56%) BGP
3 21 (2.56%) WAN
4 20 (2.44%) Network Security
4 20 (2.44%) OSPF
4 20 (2.44%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.31%) BIG-IP
5 19 (2.31%) Ethernet VPN
5 19 (2.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 19 (2.31%) SD-WAN
5 19 (2.31%) VXLAN
6 15 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (1.46%) VPN
8 11 (1.34%) WLAN
9 8 (0.97%) HTTP
10 6 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.61%) SSL
12 4 (0.49%) MQTT
12 4 (0.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (9.01%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (6.58%) MongoDB
3 41 (4.99%) Relational Database
4 38 (4.63%) Amazon Athena
5 37 (4.51%) Amazon Redshift
6 36 (4.38%) DynamoDB
7 34 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
8 33 (4.02%) NoSQL
9 30 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
10 28 (3.41%) MySQL
10 28 (3.41%) Pentaho
10 28 (3.41%) Power BI
11 23 (2.80%) Redis
11 23 (2.80%) SQL Server
12 22 (2.68%) Oracle Database
13 20 (2.44%) Data Lake
14 19 (2.31%) Big Data
15 15 (1.83%) DocumentDB
16 14 (1.71%) BigQuery
17 11 (1.34%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 350 (42.63%) Jenkins
2 188 (22.90%) Git
3 125 (15.23%) JIRA
4 76 (9.26%) Selenium
5 62 (7.55%) JUnit
6 43 (5.24%) Cucumber
7 34 (4.14%) Gradle
7 34 (4.14%) REST Assured
8 30 (3.65%) Bitbucket
8 30 (3.65%) Postman
9 29 (3.53%) Artifactory
10 28 (3.41%) SonarQube
11 27 (3.29%) JMeter
12 24 (2.92%) Mockito
13 22 (2.68%) WebDriver
14 21 (2.56%) Gatling
15 18 (2.19%) CircleCI
16 15 (1.83%) Maven
16 15 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
17 13 (1.58%) Serenity BDD
General
1 172 (20.95%) Social Skills
2 152 (18.51%) Public Sector
3 90 (10.96%) Finance
4 63 (7.67%) Banking
5 42 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (1.95%) Law
7 16 (1.95%) Military
8 11 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.22%) Aerospace
10 8 (0.97%) Legal
10 8 (0.97%) Retail
11 6 (0.73%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.73%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.61%) Police
13 4 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.49%) Publishing
14 2 (0.24%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 177 (21.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 143 (17.42%) Senior
3 120 (14.62%) Developer
4 88 (10.72%) AWS Engineer
5 82 (9.99%) Data Engineer
6 63 (7.67%) AWS DevOps
7 58 (7.06%) Lead
8 57 (6.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 54 (6.58%) Software Engineer
10 41 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
11 39 (4.75%) Architect
11 39 (4.75%) Test Engineer
12 38 (4.63%) Java Developer
13 34 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
14 32 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 30 (3.65%) Senior DevOps
16 29 (3.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 28 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
18 22 (2.68%) Java Engineer
18 22 (2.68%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (13.89%) Kafka
2 110 (13.40%) Spring
3 100 (12.18%) Spring Boot
4 94 (11.45%) REST
5 66 (8.04%) RESTful
6 55 (6.70%) React
7 47 (5.72%) Node.js
8 41 (4.99%) Playwright
8 41 (4.99%) PySpark
9 33 (4.02%) OpenTelemetry
10 29 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
11 28 (3.41%) LDAP
11 28 (3.41%) YAML
12 25 (3.05%) AWS CDK
12 25 (3.05%) OAuth
13 24 (2.92%) AngularJS
14 23 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
15 22 (2.68%) OpenID
15 22 (2.68%) pytest
15 22 (2.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 153 (18.64%) Cloud Native
2 55 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (6.09%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.75%) Data Centre
5 28 (3.41%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (2.31%) Public Cloud
8 18 (2.19%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.46%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.34%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.22%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.10%) NHS
13 8 (0.97%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.97%) Mainframe
14 7 (0.85%) DataPower
14 7 (0.85%) PKI
15 6 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (0.73%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 145 (17.66%) Linux
2 45 (5.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 41 (4.99%) Unix
4 35 (4.26%) Windows
5 15 (1.83%) CentOS
6 10 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.97%) 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
1 657 (80.02%) CI/CD
2 470 (57.25%) DevOps
3 330 (40.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 289 (35.20%) Agile
5 269 (32.76%) Containerisation
6 260 (31.67%) Test Automation
7 166 (20.22%) Microservices
8 150 (18.27%) Observability
9 127 (15.47%) Software Engineering
10 119 (14.49%) Scrum
11 110 (13.40%) Platform Engineering
12 108 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
13 103 (12.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 89 (10.84%) ETL
15 86 (10.48%) DevSecOps
16 85 (10.35%) AI
17 72 (8.77%) Migration
17 72 (8.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 68 (8.28%) Event-Driven
19 67 (8.16%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 323 (39.34%) Python
2 216 (26.31%) Java
3 201 (24.48%) SQL
4 114 (13.89%) Bash
5 72 (8.77%) JavaScript
6 59 (7.19%) TypeScript
7 49 (5.97%) PowerShell
8 39 (4.75%) C#
9 38 (4.63%) Shell Script
10 34 (4.14%) Go
11 18 (2.19%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.71%) Bicep
12 14 (1.71%) Kotlin
13 12 (1.46%) C++
14 11 (1.34%) MATLAB
14 11 (1.34%) Scala
15 8 (0.97%) Ruby
16 6 (0.73%) JCL
17 5 (0.61%) Cypher
17 5 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 381 (46.41%) Security Cleared
2 324 (39.46%) SC Cleared
3 39 (4.75%) Degree
4 37 (4.51%) DV Cleared
5 36 (4.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 33 (4.02%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 12 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (1.46%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.34%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (1.10%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.37%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.24%) CISSP
13 2 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.24%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (10.11%) QA
2 33 (4.02%) Accessibility
3 30 (3.65%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.68%) SLA
5 11 (1.34%) WCAG
6 9 (1.10%) GDPR
6 9 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.85%) NIST
9 6 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.61%) FATCA
11 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.49%) NCSC
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
12 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 335 (40.80%) Docker
2 22 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.58%) 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%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.24%) vSphere
10 1 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.12%) iptables
10 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 380 (46.29%) Terraform
2 348 (42.39%) Kubernetes
3 180 (21.92%) Ansible
4 160 (19.49%) Grafana
5 134 (16.32%) Prometheus
6 50 (6.09%) Argo
7 28 (3.41%) Puppet
8 22 (2.68%) Istio
9 16 (1.95%) Podman
10 14 (1.71%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (1.58%) Progress Chef
12 11 (1.34%) Check_MK
13 9 (1.10%) linkerd
13 9 (1.10%) Packer
14 8 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.73%) 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 96 (11.69%) Oracle
2 54 (6.58%) Splunk
3 52 (6.33%) Microsoft
4 48 (5.85%) Talend
5 39 (4.75%) Informatica
6 38 (4.63%) Google
6 38 (4.63%) Red Hat
7 34 (4.14%) VMware
8 33 (4.02%) ServiceNow
9 27 (3.29%) Databricks
10 23 (2.80%) Denodo
11 22 (2.68%) Dynatrace
12 21 (2.56%) F5
13 20 (2.44%) Palo Alto
14 19 (2.31%) Arista
15 18 (2.19%) Aruba
15 18 (2.19%) Salesforce
16 13 (1.58%) Veracode
17 12 (1.46%) Trend Micro
18 11 (1.34%) IBM