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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 137 231
Rank change year-on-year +18 +94 -50
Contract jobs citing GitLab 811 508 382
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.23% 1.98% 1.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.13% 14.71% 8.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 332 289
10th Percentile £386 £368 £413
25th Percentile £436 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £580 £656 £660
90th Percentile £663 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 4
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.33 £62.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £70.83 £69.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £79.72 £74.72
Median % change year-on-year -31.01% +6.69% +21.99%
75th Percentile £65.00 £89.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £80.65 £92.75 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £79.72 £74.44
% change year-on-year -31.01% +7.09% +52.70%

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 5,028 3,454 4,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.81% 13.44% 11.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,421 2,216 3,073
10th Percentile £340 £332 £358
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £638
90th Percentile £694 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 64 197
10th Percentile £33.26 £26.63 £39.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.56 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £75.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £86.12
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -8 337 £525 -7.08% 83
North of England +7 231 £500 -4.76% 51
North West +4 111 £447 -10.60% 24
Midlands +18 109 £490 +2.73% 13
West Midlands +15 98 £492 +3.14% 10
Yorkshire -1 91 £513 -10.87% 14
South East -17 55 £500 -20.13% 62
South West +5 48 £523 -14.69% 26
North East -5 38 £508 -2.40% 13
East of England -11 18 £478 +6.22% 18
East Midlands -21 11 £401 +29.67% 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 60 (7.40%) Confluence
2 36 (4.44%) SAS
3 26 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.10%) Apache
5 15 (1.85%) OpenStack
6 13 (1.60%) Apache Spark
7 9 (1.11%) nginx
8 4 (0.49%) Appian
9 3 (0.37%) CICS
9 3 (0.37%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.37%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) FileNet
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Actimize
2 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.12%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.12%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.12%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 483 (59.56%) AWS
2 232 (28.61%) GitHub
3 214 (26.39%) Azure
4 168 (20.72%) GCP
5 145 (17.88%) GitHub Actions
6 123 (15.17%) Serverless
7 98 (12.08%) Amazon S3
8 91 (11.22%) Amazon EKS
9 89 (10.97%) AWS Lambda
10 83 (10.23%) Amazon EC2
10 83 (10.23%) OpenShift
11 76 (9.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 74 (9.12%) AWS CloudFormation
13 63 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
14 60 (7.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 47 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (3.33%) Datadog
17 25 (3.08%) Azure AKS
18 23 (2.84%) Entra ID
19 22 (2.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 43 (5.30%) Firewall
2 33 (4.07%) DNS
3 30 (3.70%) VPN
4 23 (2.84%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.73%) Network Security
6 6 (0.74%) HTTP
6 6 (0.74%) SSL
6 6 (0.74%) WAN
7 5 (0.62%) Multicast
7 5 (0.62%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.49%) BGP
8 4 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.49%) SAN
8 4 (0.49%) VSAN
9 3 (0.37%) DHCP
9 3 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (0.37%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.37%) NAS
9 3 (0.37%) VXLAN
10 2 (0.25%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (11.96%) PostgreSQL
2 68 (8.38%) MongoDB
3 66 (8.14%) NoSQL
4 43 (5.30%) Amazon RDS
5 27 (3.33%) DynamoDB
5 27 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 26 (3.21%) MySQL
7 22 (2.71%) Redis
7 22 (2.71%) SQL Server
8 20 (2.47%) Data Lake
9 17 (2.10%) Big Data
9 17 (2.10%) Power BI
10 16 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (1.85%) Oracle Database
12 12 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (1.36%) DocumentDB
14 10 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.23%) Spark SQL
15 9 (1.11%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 408 (50.31%) Jenkins
2 189 (23.30%) Git
3 116 (14.30%) JIRA
4 85 (10.48%) Selenium
5 74 (9.12%) JUnit
6 53 (6.54%) Cucumber
7 36 (4.44%) Postman
8 30 (3.70%) Artifactory
8 30 (3.70%) Maven
9 28 (3.45%) SonarQube
10 27 (3.33%) JMeter
10 27 (3.33%) REST Assured
11 26 (3.21%) Bitbucket
11 26 (3.21%) CircleCI
12 25 (3.08%) Gatling
13 24 (2.96%) Gradle
13 24 (2.96%) Mockito
14 23 (2.84%) Cypress.io
15 19 (2.34%) Liquibase
15 19 (2.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 231 (28.48%) Social Skills
2 132 (16.28%) Public Sector
3 128 (15.78%) Finance
4 91 (11.22%) Banking
5 52 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (2.59%) Financial Institution
7 14 (1.73%) Military
8 12 (1.48%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.36%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (0.99%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.86%) Retail
13 5 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.49%) Games
14 4 (0.49%) Law
15 3 (0.37%) Local Government
15 3 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 178 (21.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 154 (18.99%) Developer
3 123 (15.17%) Senior
4 79 (9.74%) AWS Engineer
5 69 (8.51%) Lead
6 62 (7.64%) AWS DevOps
7 57 (7.03%) Software Engineer
8 51 (6.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 45 (5.55%) Cloud Engineer
9 45 (5.55%) Data Engineer
9 45 (5.55%) Java Developer
10 44 (5.43%) Architect
11 42 (5.18%) Test Engineer
12 34 (4.19%) Senior DevOps
12 34 (4.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 32 (3.95%) GCP Engineer
14 28 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
15 26 (3.21%) Java Engineer
16 22 (2.71%) Full-Stack Developer
16 22 (2.71%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (17.76%) REST
2 117 (14.43%) Kafka
3 112 (13.81%) Spring
4 103 (12.70%) Spring Boot
5 83 (10.23%) Elastic Stack
6 77 (9.49%) Node.js
7 76 (9.37%) RESTful
8 63 (7.77%) React
9 55 (6.78%) Playwright
10 35 (4.32%) pytest
11 33 (4.07%) HTML
12 30 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
12 30 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
13 28 (3.45%) YAML
14 27 (3.33%) AngularJS
14 27 (3.33%) JSON
14 27 (3.33%) OpenID
15 26 (3.21%) Jest
16 25 (3.08%) LDAP
17 24 (2.96%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 126 (15.54%) Cloud Native
2 66 (8.14%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.43%) Public Cloud
4 42 (5.18%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 15 (1.85%) Data Centre
7 13 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (1.60%) Private Cloud
8 11 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (1.11%) Mainframe
9 9 (1.11%) Management Information System
10 8 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (0.99%) PKI
10 8 (0.99%) Security Posture
11 7 (0.86%) DataPower
11 7 (0.86%) NHS
11 7 (0.86%) Synthetic Data
11 7 (0.86%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 162 (19.98%) Linux
2 53 (6.54%) Windows
3 28 (3.45%) Unix
4 25 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.60%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.23%) Apple iOS
6 10 (1.23%) CentOS
7 9 (1.11%) Android
8 8 (0.99%) VMS
9 5 (0.62%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.62%) zOS
10 2 (0.25%) Debian
10 2 (0.25%) Rocky
10 2 (0.25%) Solaris
11 1 (0.12%) AIX
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 644 (79.41%) CI/CD
2 491 (60.54%) DevOps
3 304 (37.48%) Agile
4 293 (36.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 280 (34.53%) Containerisation
6 249 (30.70%) Test Automation
7 180 (22.19%) Microservices
8 159 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
9 143 (17.63%) Observability
10 122 (15.04%) Software Engineering
11 100 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 90 (11.10%) Scrum
13 84 (10.36%) Analytics
14 72 (8.88%) TDD
15 70 (8.63%) Test Strategy
16 69 (8.51%) DevSecOps
17 65 (8.01%) Platform Engineering
18 61 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
19 60 (7.40%) Data Pipeline
20 59 (7.27%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 359 (44.27%) Python
2 249 (30.70%) Java
3 154 (18.99%) SQL
4 128 (15.78%) Bash
5 97 (11.96%) JavaScript
6 74 (9.12%) TypeScript
7 73 (9.00%) PowerShell
8 71 (8.75%) Go
9 42 (5.18%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.22%) C#
11 17 (2.10%) Kotlin
12 14 (1.73%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.48%) Bicep
13 12 (1.48%) Ruby
14 8 (0.99%) C++
14 8 (0.99%) Groovy
14 8 (0.99%) Scala
15 7 (0.86%) C
15 7 (0.86%) Korn
15 7 (0.86%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 310 (38.22%) Security Cleared
2 246 (30.33%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.66%) Degree
4 49 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.95%) AWS Certification
6 29 (3.58%) DV Cleared
7 25 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (3.08%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 10 (1.23%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.11%) CISSP
12 8 (0.99%) CISM
13 7 (0.86%) OCA
13 7 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.49%) ISTQB
16 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (13.44%) QA
2 48 (5.92%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.59%) WCAG
4 18 (2.22%) GDPR
5 17 (2.10%) SLA
6 14 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.73%) NIST
6 14 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (1.48%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.36%) NCSC
9 5 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.49%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.25%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 357 (44.02%) Docker
2 22 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.62%) HDFS
6 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.37%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.37%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.12%) Squid
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 419 (51.66%) Kubernetes
2 372 (45.87%) Terraform
3 202 (24.91%) Ansible
4 199 (24.54%) Grafana
5 155 (19.11%) Prometheus
6 43 (5.30%) Argo
7 20 (2.47%) Istio
8 18 (2.22%) Podman
8 18 (2.22%) Puppet
9 17 (2.10%) Kibana
10 16 (1.97%) Progress Chef
11 13 (1.60%) Packer
12 9 (1.11%) Fluentd
12 9 (1.11%) linkerd
12 9 (1.11%) Red Hat Satellite
13 7 (0.86%) Check_MK
13 7 (0.86%) Karpenter
13 7 (0.86%) Sysdig
14 6 (0.74%) Nagios
14 6 (0.74%) Rancher
Vendors
1 99 (12.21%) Splunk
2 65 (8.01%) Oracle
3 63 (7.77%) Microsoft
4 46 (5.67%) Google
5 45 (5.55%) Red Hat
6 33 (4.07%) VMware
7 31 (3.82%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.34%) Databricks
9 16 (1.97%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.85%) Informatica
10 15 (1.85%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.73%) Atlassian
11 14 (1.73%) Talend
12 13 (1.60%) Veracode
13 12 (1.48%) Cisco
14 11 (1.36%) IBM
15 10 (1.23%) Cribl.io
16 7 (0.86%) F5
16 7 (0.86%) Palo Alto
17 6 (0.74%) Fortinet