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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 149 213
Rank change year-on-year +16 +64 +37
Contract jobs citing GitLab 814 460 403
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.95% 1.92% 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.30% 13.59% 9.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 288 292
10th Percentile £393 £380 £363
25th Percentile £430 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -7.56% -5.06%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £661
90th Percentile £670 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £492 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -5.38% -5.45% -5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 1 7
10th Percentile £44.72 - £57.65
25th Percentile £52.50 - £61.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +11.45% +87.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £76.25
90th Percentile £80.20 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £82.96 £70.00
% change year-on-year -23.16% +18.51% +76.77%

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 4,994 3,386 4,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.98% 14.14% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,269 2,292 2,914
10th Percentile £348 £350 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £526
Median % change year-on-year - -4.85% -4.45%
75th Percentile £588 £609 £638
90th Percentile £676 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 63 208
10th Percentile £35.88 £27.59 £31.57
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.75 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -10 325 £525 -0.94% 59
North of England 0 199 £480 -4.00% 47
Midlands +25 132 £459 -8.20% 18
West Midlands +13 120 £463 -11.90% 10
North West +7 98 £513 +2.50% 22
South East -28 68 £550 +9.89% 35
Yorkshire -27 65 £500 -4.76% 10
South West +4 55 £500 +5.26% 26
North East +2 52 £419 -20.24% 15
East of England -7 35 £480 +1.11% 16
East Midlands -20 12 £436 +40.19% 8
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 76 (9.34%) Confluence
2 35 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (4.30%) SAS
3 33 (4.05%) Apache
3 33 (4.05%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.09%) Jupyter
5 8 (0.98%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.86%) CICS
7 5 (0.61%) Camunda
7 5 (0.61%) nginx
7 5 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.25%) CMS
9 2 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
10 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
1 490 (60.20%) AWS
2 256 (31.45%) GitHub
3 249 (30.59%) Azure
4 183 (22.48%) GitHub Actions
5 142 (17.44%) GCP
6 124 (15.23%) Amazon S3
7 114 (14.00%) Serverless
8 102 (12.53%) AWS Lambda
9 98 (12.04%) Amazon EKS
10 90 (11.06%) Amazon EC2
11 88 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 88 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
12 64 (7.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 61 (7.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 51 (6.27%) OpenShift
15 37 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (3.32%) Amazon SQS
17 26 (3.19%) Azure AKS
17 26 (3.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 26 (3.19%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.65%) Firewall
2 29 (3.56%) DNS
3 20 (2.46%) BGP
3 20 (2.46%) TCP/IP
3 20 (2.46%) WAN
4 19 (2.33%) Network Security
4 19 (2.33%) OSPF
5 18 (2.21%) BIG-IP
5 18 (2.21%) Ethernet VPN
5 18 (2.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 18 (2.21%) SD-WAN
5 18 (2.21%) VXLAN
6 15 (1.84%) VPN
7 14 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (1.23%) HTTP
8 10 (1.23%) WLAN
9 6 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.61%) SSL
11 4 (0.49%) SAN
11 4 (0.49%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (6.51%) MongoDB
3 40 (4.91%) Relational Database
4 36 (4.42%) Amazon Redshift
4 36 (4.42%) DynamoDB
5 35 (4.30%) Amazon Athena
5 35 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (4.18%) NoSQL
7 29 (3.56%) MySQL
8 28 (3.44%) Pentaho
9 27 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (3.07%) Power BI
11 23 (2.83%) Redis
11 23 (2.83%) SQL Server
12 21 (2.58%) Data Lake
13 19 (2.33%) Big Data
13 19 (2.33%) Oracle Database
14 14 (1.72%) BigQuery
14 14 (1.72%) DocumentDB
15 11 (1.35%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 349 (42.87%) Jenkins
2 189 (23.22%) Git
3 120 (14.74%) JIRA
4 77 (9.46%) Selenium
5 62 (7.62%) JUnit
6 44 (5.41%) Cucumber
7 36 (4.42%) Gradle
8 34 (4.18%) Artifactory
8 34 (4.18%) REST Assured
9 33 (4.05%) Postman
10 27 (3.32%) Bitbucket
10 27 (3.32%) JMeter
11 25 (3.07%) SonarQube
12 23 (2.83%) Mockito
13 21 (2.58%) CircleCI
13 21 (2.58%) Gatling
14 20 (2.46%) WebDriver
15 17 (2.09%) Sonatype Nexus
16 14 (1.72%) Maven
17 13 (1.60%) IntelliJ
General
1 169 (20.76%) Social Skills
2 148 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 87 (10.69%) Finance
4 62 (7.62%) Banking
5 41 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.72%) Military
8 12 (1.47%) Aerospace
9 9 (1.11%) Law
10 8 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.98%) Legal
10 8 (0.98%) Retail
11 6 (0.74%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.74%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.49%) Police
13 4 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.49%) Publishing
14 3 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 171 (21.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 135 (16.58%) Senior
3 125 (15.36%) Developer
4 79 (9.71%) Data Engineer
5 77 (9.46%) AWS Engineer
6 59 (7.25%) Lead
6 59 (7.25%) Software Engineer
7 53 (6.51%) AWS DevOps
8 48 (5.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 42 (5.16%) Architect
10 39 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
11 38 (4.67%) Java Developer
12 35 (4.30%) Test Engineer
13 31 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
14 28 (3.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 28 (3.44%) Senior DevOps
15 27 (3.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.19%) Full-Stack Developer
17 23 (2.83%) Java Engineer
18 22 (2.70%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (14.00%) Kafka
2 112 (13.76%) Spring
3 100 (12.29%) Spring Boot
4 98 (12.04%) REST
5 60 (7.37%) RESTful
6 55 (6.76%) React
7 50 (6.14%) Node.js
8 42 (5.16%) Playwright
9 37 (4.55%) PySpark
10 36 (4.42%) Elastic Stack
11 35 (4.30%) OpenTelemetry
12 30 (3.69%) LDAP
13 29 (3.56%) YAML
14 25 (3.07%) OAuth
15 23 (2.83%) JSON
15 23 (2.83%) OpenID
16 22 (2.70%) AngularJS
16 22 (2.70%) AWS CDK
16 22 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
16 22 (2.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 142 (17.44%) Cloud Native
2 50 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (5.90%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 26 (3.19%) Onboarding
6 23 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.97%) Distributed Architecture
8 16 (1.97%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.47%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.47%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.35%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (1.11%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.11%) NHS
12 8 (0.98%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.98%) PKI
13 7 (0.86%) DataPower
14 6 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.74%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 140 (17.20%) Linux
2 44 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 40 (4.91%) Unix
3 40 (4.91%) Windows
4 15 (1.84%) CentOS
5 10 (1.23%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.11%) zOS
7 5 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.61%) VMS
8 4 (0.49%) Debian
8 4 (0.49%) Rocky
9 3 (0.37%) Android
9 3 (0.37%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.25%) AIX
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 648 (79.61%) CI/CD
2 456 (56.02%) DevOps
3 310 (38.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 279 (34.28%) Agile
5 257 (31.57%) Containerisation
6 251 (30.84%) Test Automation
7 159 (19.53%) Microservices
8 154 (18.92%) Observability
9 132 (16.22%) Software Engineering
10 115 (14.13%) Scrum
11 106 (13.02%) Platform Engineering
12 105 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 101 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
14 91 (11.18%) ETL
15 80 (9.83%) DevSecOps
16 71 (8.72%) Migration
17 70 (8.60%) AI
18 68 (8.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 67 (8.23%) Analytics
19 67 (8.23%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 314 (38.57%) Python
2 218 (26.78%) Java
3 204 (25.06%) SQL
4 117 (14.37%) Bash
5 74 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 60 (7.37%) PowerShell
7 57 (7.00%) TypeScript
8 40 (4.91%) Shell Script
9 37 (4.55%) C#
10 34 (4.18%) Go
11 21 (2.58%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.09%) Kotlin
13 16 (1.97%) Bicep
14 15 (1.84%) C++
15 11 (1.35%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.35%) Scala
16 8 (0.98%) Ruby
17 7 (0.86%) C
18 6 (0.74%) JCL
18 6 (0.74%) PHP
Qualifications
1 372 (45.70%) Security Cleared
2 308 (37.84%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.91%) Degree
4 34 (4.18%) DV Cleared
5 32 (3.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.07%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.35%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 10 (1.23%) ISTQB
8 10 (1.23%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.37%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (10.69%) QA
2 38 (4.67%) Accessibility
3 27 (3.32%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.70%) SLA
5 12 (1.47%) WCAG
6 11 (1.35%) GDPR
7 9 (1.11%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.61%) FATCA
8 5 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.61%) NIST
9 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.49%) NCSC
10 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.12%) GRC
10 1 (0.12%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
10 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 327 (40.17%) Docker
2 23 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.74%) Squid
6 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.49%) HDFS
6 4 (0.49%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.37%) vSphere
8 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 363 (44.59%) Terraform
2 345 (42.38%) Kubernetes
3 179 (21.99%) Ansible
4 164 (20.15%) Grafana
5 136 (16.71%) Prometheus
6 47 (5.77%) Argo
7 31 (3.81%) Puppet
8 22 (2.70%) Istio
9 17 (2.09%) Progress Chef
10 16 (1.97%) Podman
11 14 (1.72%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.35%) Check_MK
13 10 (1.23%) Kibana
14 9 (1.11%) Packer
15 8 (0.98%) linkerd
16 6 (0.74%) Karpenter
16 6 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
17 5 (0.61%) Salt
18 4 (0.49%) Suricata
19 3 (0.37%) Nagios
Vendors
1 96 (11.79%) Oracle
2 56 (6.88%) Splunk
3 53 (6.51%) Microsoft
4 48 (5.90%) Talend
5 44 (5.41%) Red Hat
6 38 (4.67%) Google
7 36 (4.42%) Informatica
7 36 (4.42%) ServiceNow
8 33 (4.05%) VMware
9 27 (3.32%) Databricks
10 23 (2.83%) Denodo
11 22 (2.70%) Dynatrace
12 20 (2.46%) F5
13 19 (2.33%) Arista
13 19 (2.33%) Palo Alto
14 18 (2.21%) Salesforce
15 17 (2.09%) Aruba
16 12 (1.47%) Veracode
17 9 (1.11%) IBM
18 7 (0.86%) Trend Micro