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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 144 207
Rank change year-on-year +11 +63 +44
Contract jobs citing GitLab 806 471 414
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.91% 1.92% 1.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.10% 13.55% 9.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 295 298
10th Percentile £388 £360 £363
25th Percentile £429 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -7.60% -4.66%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £656
90th Percentile £674 £673 £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 £39.53 - £57.93
25th Percentile £52.50 - £63.44
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +11.78% +87.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £75.63
90th Percentile £75.00 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £72.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% +15.22% +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 5,006 3,477 4,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.85% 14.21% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,265 2,359 2,979
10th Percentile £350 £333 £350
25th Percentile £409 £410 £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 £675 £713 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 68 216
10th Percentile £35.38 £27.06 £32.36
25th Percentile £56.25 £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 £58.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +5.26%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -17 328 £525 -0.94% 55
North of England -3 195 £475 -3.46% 38
Midlands +15 130 £459 -8.20% 14
West Midlands +18 119 £461 -10.10% 10
North West -3 93 £525 +6.71% 18
Yorkshire -23 64 £500 - 9
South East -41 64 £550 +9.89% 40
North East +6 52 £413 -12.70% 11
South West +1 51 £500 -9.09% 19
East of England +2 38 £483 +1.58% 17
East Midlands -22 11 £425 +46.30% 4
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 77 (9.55%) Confluence
2 39 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (4.59%) Apache Spark
4 35 (4.34%) SAS
5 33 (4.09%) Apache
6 21 (2.61%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.87%) CICS
7 7 (0.87%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.62%) Camunda
8 5 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.50%) 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
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
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
1 497 (61.66%) AWS
2 257 (31.89%) GitHub
3 242 (30.02%) Azure
4 184 (22.83%) GitHub Actions
5 136 (16.87%) GCP
6 124 (15.38%) Amazon S3
7 115 (14.27%) Serverless
8 105 (13.03%) Amazon EKS
9 103 (12.78%) AWS Lambda
10 87 (10.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 87 (10.79%) Azure DevOps
11 86 (10.67%) Amazon EC2
12 62 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 61 (7.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 50 (6.20%) OpenShift
15 42 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
16 32 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
17 26 (3.23%) Power Platform
17 26 (3.23%) Snowflake
18 25 (3.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.71%) Firewall
2 25 (3.10%) DNS
3 21 (2.61%) BGP
3 21 (2.61%) WAN
4 20 (2.48%) OSPF
4 20 (2.48%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.36%) BIG-IP
5 19 (2.36%) Ethernet VPN
5 19 (2.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 19 (2.36%) Network Security
5 19 (2.36%) SD-WAN
5 19 (2.36%) VXLAN
6 15 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (1.49%) VPN
8 11 (1.36%) WLAN
9 8 (0.99%) HTTP
10 6 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.62%) SSL
12 4 (0.50%) SAN
12 4 (0.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (9.06%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (6.58%) MongoDB
3 39 (4.84%) Relational Database
4 37 (4.59%) DynamoDB
5 35 (4.34%) Amazon Athena
6 34 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (4.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 33 (4.09%) NoSQL
8 29 (3.60%) MySQL
9 28 (3.47%) Pentaho
10 27 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
11 25 (3.10%) Power BI
12 24 (2.98%) SQL Server
13 23 (2.85%) Redis
14 20 (2.48%) Data Lake
15 19 (2.36%) Big Data
15 19 (2.36%) Oracle Database
16 15 (1.86%) DocumentDB
17 14 (1.74%) BigQuery
18 11 (1.36%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 347 (43.05%) Jenkins
2 181 (22.46%) Git
3 122 (15.14%) JIRA
4 75 (9.31%) Selenium
5 59 (7.32%) JUnit
6 42 (5.21%) Cucumber
7 33 (4.09%) REST Assured
8 32 (3.97%) Gradle
9 31 (3.85%) Postman
10 29 (3.60%) Artifactory
11 28 (3.47%) Bitbucket
12 27 (3.35%) JMeter
13 26 (3.23%) SonarQube
14 23 (2.85%) Mockito
15 21 (2.61%) Gatling
16 20 (2.48%) WebDriver
17 18 (2.23%) CircleCI
18 15 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
19 13 (1.61%) Maven
19 13 (1.61%) Serenity BDD
General
1 170 (21.09%) Social Skills
2 150 (18.61%) Public Sector
3 89 (11.04%) Finance
4 61 (7.57%) Banking
5 42 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.86%) Military
8 14 (1.74%) Law
9 10 (1.24%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (0.99%) Legal
11 8 (0.99%) Retail
12 6 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.74%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.50%) Police
14 4 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.50%) Publishing
15 3 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 176 (21.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 136 (16.87%) Senior
3 118 (14.64%) Developer
4 87 (10.79%) AWS Engineer
5 79 (9.80%) Data Engineer
6 63 (7.82%) AWS DevOps
7 59 (7.32%) Lead
8 57 (7.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 53 (6.58%) Software Engineer
10 41 (5.09%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (4.96%) Architect
12 39 (4.84%) Test Engineer
13 36 (4.47%) Java Developer
14 33 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
15 30 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 30 (3.72%) Senior DevOps
16 29 (3.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 27 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
18 22 (2.73%) GCP Engineer
18 22 (2.73%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (13.90%) Kafka
2 107 (13.28%) Spring
3 97 (12.03%) Spring Boot
4 94 (11.66%) REST
5 61 (7.57%) RESTful
6 54 (6.70%) React
7 46 (5.71%) Node.js
8 40 (4.96%) Playwright
9 37 (4.59%) PySpark
10 33 (4.09%) OpenTelemetry
11 29 (3.60%) Elastic Stack
11 29 (3.60%) LDAP
12 27 (3.35%) YAML
13 25 (3.10%) AWS CDK
13 25 (3.10%) OAuth
14 24 (2.98%) AngularJS
15 23 (2.85%) OpenID
16 22 (2.73%) pytest
16 22 (2.73%) SOAP
17 21 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 150 (18.61%) Cloud Native
2 54 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (6.08%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.84%) Data Centre
5 27 (3.35%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.23%) Distributed Architecture
8 17 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (1.99%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.49%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.36%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.12%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.12%) NHS
13 8 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.99%) Mainframe
14 7 (0.87%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.87%) DataPower
14 7 (0.87%) PKI
15 6 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
15 6 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 142 (17.62%) Linux
2 45 (5.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 41 (5.09%) Unix
4 35 (4.34%) Windows
5 15 (1.86%) CentOS
6 10 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.99%) zOS
8 4 (0.50%) Debian
8 4 (0.50%) Rocky
8 4 (0.50%) VMS
8 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.25%) AIX
10 2 (0.25%) Android
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 645 (80.02%) CI/CD
2 460 (57.07%) DevOps
3 318 (39.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 283 (35.11%) Agile
5 266 (33.00%) Containerisation
6 256 (31.76%) Test Automation
7 163 (20.22%) Microservices
8 151 (18.73%) Observability
9 125 (15.51%) Software Engineering
10 117 (14.52%) Scrum
11 109 (13.52%) Platform Engineering
12 104 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
13 100 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 90 (11.17%) ETL
15 84 (10.42%) DevSecOps
16 80 (9.93%) AI
17 71 (8.81%) Migration
18 70 (8.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 67 (8.31%) Data Modelling
20 65 (8.06%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 311 (38.59%) Python
2 212 (26.30%) Java
3 199 (24.69%) SQL
4 114 (14.14%) Bash
5 72 (8.93%) JavaScript
6 58 (7.20%) TypeScript
7 49 (6.08%) PowerShell
8 39 (4.84%) Shell Script
9 37 (4.59%) C#
10 33 (4.09%) Go
11 20 (2.48%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.86%) Bicep
13 14 (1.74%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.36%) C++
14 11 (1.36%) MATLAB
14 11 (1.36%) Scala
15 8 (0.99%) Ruby
16 6 (0.74%) JCL
16 6 (0.74%) PHP
17 5 (0.62%) C
Qualifications
1 370 (45.91%) Security Cleared
2 314 (38.96%) SC Cleared
3 38 (4.71%) Degree
4 36 (4.47%) DV Cleared
5 33 (4.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 30 (3.72%) AWS Certification
6 30 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 12 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 11 (1.36%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (1.12%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.37%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.25%) CISSP
11 2 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (10.30%) QA
2 32 (3.97%) Accessibility
3 27 (3.35%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.73%) SLA
5 10 (1.24%) WCAG
6 9 (1.12%) GDPR
6 9 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.74%) NIST
9 5 (0.62%) FATCA
10 4 (0.50%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.50%) 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
1 327 (40.57%) Docker
2 22 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.74%) Squid
6 4 (0.50%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.50%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.37%) HDFS
7 3 (0.37%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.37%) vSphere
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.25%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 368 (45.66%) Terraform
2 343 (42.56%) Kubernetes
3 174 (21.59%) Ansible
4 159 (19.73%) Grafana
5 135 (16.75%) Prometheus
6 48 (5.96%) Argo
7 27 (3.35%) Puppet
8 22 (2.73%) Istio
9 15 (1.86%) Podman
10 14 (1.74%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (1.61%) Progress Chef
12 11 (1.36%) Check_MK
13 9 (1.12%) Packer
14 8 (0.99%) linkerd
14 8 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.74%) Kibana
16 5 (0.62%) Salt
17 4 (0.50%) Suricata
18 3 (0.37%) Foglight
18 3 (0.37%) Nagios
Vendors
1 95 (11.79%) Oracle
2 53 (6.58%) Splunk
3 49 (6.08%) Microsoft
4 48 (5.96%) Talend
5 39 (4.84%) Red Hat
6 38 (4.71%) Google
7 36 (4.47%) Informatica
8 35 (4.34%) VMware
9 34 (4.22%) ServiceNow
10 27 (3.35%) Databricks
11 23 (2.85%) Denodo
11 23 (2.85%) Dynatrace
12 21 (2.61%) F5
13 20 (2.48%) Arista
13 20 (2.48%) Palo Alto
14 18 (2.23%) Aruba
14 18 (2.23%) Salesforce
15 13 (1.61%) Veracode
16 11 (1.36%) IBM
17 10 (1.24%) Trend Micro