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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 133 233
Rank change year-on-year -6 +100 -30
Contract jobs citing GitLab 741 491 379
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.87% 2.00% 1.02%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.84% 14.71% 9.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 323 275
10th Percentile £381 £368 £389
25th Percentile £425 £450 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £573
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -7.42% -2.97%
75th Percentile £576 £638 £675
90th Percentile £675 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £492 £528 £551
% change year-on-year -6.73% -4.26% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 3 6
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.59 £57.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £62.19
Median hourly rate £60.25 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -27.37% +11.45% +65.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £76.74
90th Percentile £77.95 £92.59 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £82.96 £68.22
% change year-on-year -26.47% +21.61% +51.60%

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 4,992 3,337 4,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.62% 13.61% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,339 2,244 2,884
10th Percentile £340 £340 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -5.84% -3.45%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 62 168
10th Percentile £39.53 £27.54 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.05 £50.44
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +6.25%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.19 £70.31
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -17 323 £525 -2.78% 73
North of England -18 167 £487 -7.19% 50
Midlands -6 92 £463 -3.04% 22
North West -17 91 £475 -5.00% 22
West Midlands -8 79 £469 -4.20% 13
South East -36 60 £525 -0.05% 38
Yorkshire -35 59 £500 -13.04% 9
South West +11 57 £523 +14.33% 25
North East -11 25 £450 -12.62% 19
East of England -11 24 £477 +5.89% 12
East Midlands -24 13 £402 +29.26% 9
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 54 (7.29%) Confluence
2 28 (3.78%) SAS
3 24 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.29%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.16%) Apache
6 13 (1.75%) OpenStack
7 10 (1.35%) nginx
8 5 (0.67%) CICS
9 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.27%) Camunda
10 2 (0.27%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Actimize
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 437 (58.97%) AWS
2 234 (31.58%) GitHub
3 220 (29.69%) Azure
4 152 (20.51%) GitHub Actions
5 128 (17.27%) GCP
6 111 (14.98%) Serverless
7 106 (14.30%) Amazon S3
8 97 (13.09%) AWS Lambda
9 90 (12.15%) Amazon EKS
10 78 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
11 70 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
12 68 (9.18%) AWS CloudFormation
13 67 (9.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 63 (8.50%) OpenShift
15 53 (7.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 38 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
17 22 (2.97%) Azure AKS
18 21 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
18 21 (2.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 20 (2.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.59%) Firewall
2 25 (3.37%) DNS
3 18 (2.43%) VPN
4 17 (2.29%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.62%) Network Security
6 8 (1.08%) HTTP
7 6 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.54%) BGP
8 4 (0.54%) Multicast
8 4 (0.54%) SAN
9 3 (0.40%) DHCP
9 3 (0.40%) NAS
9 3 (0.40%) OSPF
9 3 (0.40%) SSL
9 3 (0.40%) VSAN
9 3 (0.40%) WAN
10 2 (0.27%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.27%) IPv6
10 2 (0.27%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.27%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (10.80%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (6.61%) MongoDB
3 42 (5.67%) NoSQL
4 35 (4.72%) Relational Database
5 33 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
6 32 (4.32%) DynamoDB
7 28 (3.78%) MySQL
8 24 (3.24%) Redis
9 22 (2.97%) Amazon Athena
10 21 (2.83%) SQL Server
11 20 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (2.43%) Data Lake
13 16 (2.16%) Big Data
13 16 (2.16%) Power BI
14 15 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (1.62%) Pentaho
16 11 (1.48%) DocumentDB
17 10 (1.35%) Amazon QuickSight
17 10 (1.35%) Spark SQL
18 9 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 345 (46.56%) Jenkins
2 170 (22.94%) Git
3 107 (14.44%) JIRA
4 68 (9.18%) Selenium
5 63 (8.50%) JUnit
6 42 (5.67%) Cucumber
7 34 (4.59%) Postman
8 29 (3.91%) Bitbucket
9 28 (3.78%) REST Assured
10 27 (3.64%) JMeter
11 26 (3.51%) CircleCI
12 22 (2.97%) Artifactory
12 22 (2.97%) Mockito
13 21 (2.83%) Gradle
14 20 (2.70%) SonarQube
15 17 (2.29%) Gatling
16 16 (2.16%) Maven
17 15 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
18 14 (1.89%) Cypress.io
19 13 (1.75%) IntelliJ
General
1 188 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 120 (16.19%) Public Sector
3 97 (13.09%) Finance
4 65 (8.77%) Banking
5 42 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.48%) Military
8 10 (1.35%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.08%) Retail
10 7 (0.94%) Financial Institution
10 7 (0.94%) Investment Banking
10 7 (0.94%) Law
11 6 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.81%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.40%) Legal
14 3 (0.40%) Local Government
14 3 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 154 (20.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 129 (17.41%) Developer
3 102 (13.77%) Senior
4 67 (9.04%) AWS Engineer
5 59 (7.96%) Data Engineer
6 58 (7.83%) Lead
7 56 (7.56%) AWS DevOps
8 54 (7.29%) Software Engineer
9 48 (6.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 42 (5.67%) Architect
11 41 (5.53%) Java Developer
12 32 (4.32%) Platform Engineer
13 31 (4.18%) Cloud Engineer
13 31 (4.18%) Test Engineer
14 27 (3.64%) Senior DevOps
14 27 (3.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 23 (3.10%) Full-Stack Developer
15 23 (3.10%) Java Engineer
16 20 (2.70%) Administrator
17 18 (2.43%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (14.98%) Spring
2 110 (14.84%) Kafka
3 95 (12.82%) Spring Boot
4 92 (12.42%) REST
5 66 (8.91%) Node.js
6 60 (8.10%) RESTful
7 57 (7.69%) React
8 43 (5.80%) Elastic Stack
9 42 (5.67%) Playwright
10 33 (4.45%) OpenTelemetry
11 30 (4.05%) YAML
12 29 (3.91%) RabbitMQ
13 27 (3.64%) LDAP
14 26 (3.51%) AngularJS
14 26 (3.51%) PySpark
15 24 (3.24%) Jest
15 24 (3.24%) OpenID
15 24 (3.24%) pytest
16 23 (3.10%) HTML
16 23 (3.10%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 106 (14.30%) Cloud Native
2 47 (6.34%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.94%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.24%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.43%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.29%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.48%) Mainframe
8 11 (1.48%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.35%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.35%) Private Cloud
10 9 (1.21%) DataPower
10 9 (1.21%) NHS
11 8 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.94%) Synthetic Data
13 6 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.81%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.81%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 134 (18.08%) Linux
2 49 (6.61%) Windows
3 32 (4.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 29 (3.91%) Unix
5 10 (1.35%) CentOS
6 9 (1.21%) Android
6 9 (1.21%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.21%) VMS
6 9 (1.21%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.94%) zOS
8 6 (0.81%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.40%) Debian
9 3 (0.40%) Rocky
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.13%) AIX
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (78.54%) CI/CD
2 410 (55.33%) DevOps
3 259 (34.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 258 (34.82%) Agile
5 242 (32.66%) Containerisation
6 216 (29.15%) Test Automation
7 146 (19.70%) Microservices
8 135 (18.22%) Observability
9 125 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
10 106 (14.30%) Software Engineering
11 95 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 91 (12.28%) Scrum
13 90 (12.15%) Platform Engineering
14 69 (9.31%) DevSecOps
15 68 (9.18%) TDD
16 67 (9.04%) ETL
17 65 (8.77%) Analytics
18 59 (7.96%) Migration
19 56 (7.56%) AI
20 55 (7.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 293 (39.54%) Python
2 224 (30.23%) Java
3 162 (21.86%) SQL
4 117 (15.79%) Bash
5 84 (11.34%) JavaScript
6 65 (8.77%) PowerShell
6 65 (8.77%) TypeScript
7 38 (5.13%) Shell Script
8 37 (4.99%) Go
9 26 (3.51%) C#
10 20 (2.70%) Kotlin
11 18 (2.43%) Bicep
12 14 (1.89%) C++
12 14 (1.89%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.48%) Scala
14 10 (1.35%) Ruby
15 9 (1.21%) MATLAB
16 8 (1.08%) C
17 7 (0.94%) PHP
18 6 (0.81%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 304 (41.03%) Security Cleared
2 251 (33.87%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.86%) Degree
4 31 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (4.05%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (3.24%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.02%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.94%) CISSP
12 6 (0.81%) CISM
12 6 (0.81%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.81%) OCA
12 6 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.54%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
14 3 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (12.42%) QA
2 37 (4.99%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.43%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.43%) GDPR
3 18 (2.43%) SLA
4 14 (1.89%) WCAG
5 13 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.48%) NIST
7 7 (0.94%) NCSC
8 6 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.54%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.27%) FATCA
10 2 (0.27%) HL7
10 2 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 316 (42.65%) Docker
2 25 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.67%) HDFS
6 4 (0.54%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.27%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) iptables
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.13%) Squid
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 365 (49.26%) Kubernetes
2 317 (42.78%) Terraform
3 160 (21.59%) Grafana
4 156 (21.05%) Ansible
5 134 (18.08%) Prometheus
6 52 (7.02%) Argo
7 23 (3.10%) Puppet
8 22 (2.97%) Istio
9 15 (2.02%) Podman
9 15 (2.02%) Progress Chef
10 13 (1.75%) Kibana
11 12 (1.62%) Red Hat Satellite
12 9 (1.21%) Check_MK
12 9 (1.21%) linkerd
13 8 (1.08%) Packer
14 7 (0.94%) Fluentd
15 6 (0.81%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.81%) Nagios
15 6 (0.81%) Rancher
16 5 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (9.85%) Oracle
2 62 (8.37%) Splunk
3 57 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 42 (5.67%) Red Hat
5 37 (4.99%) Google
6 34 (4.59%) VMware
7 31 (4.18%) ServiceNow
8 25 (3.37%) Databricks
9 22 (2.97%) Talend
10 20 (2.70%) Informatica
11 18 (2.43%) Salesforce
12 14 (1.89%) Dynatrace
13 13 (1.75%) IBM
14 11 (1.48%) Veracode
15 9 (1.21%) Atlassian
16 7 (0.94%) AppDynamics
16 7 (0.94%) Denodo
17 6 (0.81%) Cribl.io
18 5 (0.67%) Cisco
18 5 (0.67%) Fortinet