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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 147 224
Rank change year-on-year +5 +77 -13
Contract jobs citing GitLab 743 468 389
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.84% 1.92% 1.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.95% 14.09% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 305 284
10th Percentile £386 £380 £366
25th Percentile £428 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -1.29%
75th Percentile £579 £638 £661
90th Percentile £675 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £492 £530 £556
% change year-on-year -7.17% -4.72% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 3 6
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.59 £57.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £62.19
Median hourly rate £61.00 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +11.45% +65.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £76.74
90th Percentile £77.50 £92.59 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.75 £82.96 £68.22
% change year-on-year -25.57% +21.61% +61.28%

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 4,971 3,322 4,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.34% 13.63% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,305 2,222 2,906
10th Percentile £343 £346 £352
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £529
Median % change year-on-year - -5.48% -3.82%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £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 217 65 189
10th Percentile £38.62 £27.68 £32.74
25th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.43 £81.30
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -9 314 £525 -2.78% 73
North of England -18 172 £487 -8.07% 54
Midlands +4 102 £466 +1.25% 32
North West -9 89 £493 -1.50% 24
West Midlands +2 88 £469 -11.68% 20
Yorkshire -18 60 £500 -13.04% 11
South East -37 57 £550 +4.71% 34
South West +4 55 £500 +9.41% 19
North East -8 33 £450 -14.29% 19
East of England -14 27 £478 +6.22% 14
East Midlands -22 14 £402 +38.38% 12
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 52 (7.00%) Confluence
2 29 (3.90%) SAS
3 21 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.69%) Apache
5 19 (2.56%) Apache Spark
6 13 (1.75%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.81%) nginx
8 5 (0.67%) CICS
8 5 (0.67%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.40%) Camunda
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.27%) CMS
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
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
2 1 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 438 (58.95%) AWS
2 239 (32.17%) GitHub
3 229 (30.82%) Azure
4 166 (22.34%) GitHub Actions
5 127 (17.09%) GCP
6 112 (15.07%) Serverless
7 110 (14.80%) Amazon S3
8 99 (13.32%) AWS Lambda
9 90 (12.11%) Amazon EKS
10 76 (10.23%) Azure DevOps
11 74 (9.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 74 (9.96%) Amazon EC2
12 69 (9.29%) AWS CloudFormation
13 58 (7.81%) OpenShift
14 53 (7.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 41 (5.52%) Amazon ECS
16 24 (3.23%) Power Platform
17 23 (3.10%) Amazon SQS
18 22 (2.96%) Azure AKS
18 22 (2.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.17%) Firewall
2 24 (3.23%) DNS
3 16 (2.15%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.75%) VPN
5 12 (1.62%) BGP
5 12 (1.62%) Network Security
6 11 (1.48%) OSPF
7 10 (1.35%) Ethernet VPN
7 10 (1.35%) HTTP
7 10 (1.35%) VXLAN
7 10 (1.35%) WAN
8 8 (1.08%) BIG-IP
8 8 (1.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (1.08%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.67%) WLAN
12 4 (0.54%) Multicast
12 4 (0.54%) SAN
12 4 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.69%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.79%) MongoDB
3 36 (4.85%) DynamoDB
3 36 (4.85%) Relational Database
4 34 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
5 32 (4.31%) NoSQL
6 28 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
7 27 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 26 (3.50%) MySQL
9 25 (3.36%) Redis
10 23 (3.10%) Power BI
11 21 (2.83%) Data Lake
11 21 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
11 21 (2.83%) SQL Server
12 20 (2.69%) Pentaho
13 18 (2.42%) Big Data
14 11 (1.48%) DocumentDB
15 10 (1.35%) Amazon QuickSight
15 10 (1.35%) BigQuery
15 10 (1.35%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 336 (45.22%) Jenkins
2 168 (22.61%) Git
3 100 (13.46%) JIRA
4 64 (8.61%) Selenium
5 61 (8.21%) JUnit
6 41 (5.52%) Cucumber
7 32 (4.31%) Postman
8 27 (3.63%) Gradle
8 27 (3.63%) JMeter
8 27 (3.63%) REST Assured
9 25 (3.36%) CircleCI
10 24 (3.23%) Bitbucket
11 22 (2.96%) Mockito
12 21 (2.83%) SonarQube
13 20 (2.69%) Artifactory
14 17 (2.29%) Gatling
15 14 (1.88%) Maven
16 13 (1.75%) Cypress.io
16 13 (1.75%) IntelliJ
16 13 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 164 (22.07%) Social Skills
2 130 (17.50%) Public Sector
3 94 (12.65%) Finance
4 61 (8.21%) Banking
5 39 (5.25%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.48%) Military
8 10 (1.35%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.08%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.08%) Law
9 8 (1.08%) Retail
10 6 (0.81%) Investment Banking
10 6 (0.81%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.54%) Legal
12 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.54%) Police
12 4 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 154 (20.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 134 (18.03%) Developer
3 114 (15.34%) Senior
4 67 (9.02%) AWS Engineer
5 62 (8.34%) Data Engineer
6 57 (7.67%) Software Engineer
7 56 (7.54%) Lead
8 50 (6.73%) AWS DevOps
9 45 (6.06%) Java Developer
10 43 (5.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 42 (5.65%) Architect
12 32 (4.31%) Test Engineer
13 31 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
14 29 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
15 26 (3.50%) Full-Stack Developer
16 25 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
16 25 (3.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 21 (2.83%) Java Engineer
18 18 (2.42%) Administrator
18 18 (2.42%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (15.07%) Spring
2 110 (14.80%) Kafka
3 99 (13.32%) Spring Boot
4 91 (12.25%) REST
5 64 (8.61%) RESTful
6 62 (8.34%) Node.js
7 55 (7.40%) React
8 41 (5.52%) Elastic Stack
9 39 (5.25%) Playwright
10 33 (4.44%) OpenTelemetry
11 30 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
12 28 (3.77%) YAML
13 27 (3.63%) LDAP
14 26 (3.50%) PySpark
15 25 (3.36%) Jest
16 24 (3.23%) AngularJS
17 23 (3.10%) OpenID
18 22 (2.96%) OAuth
18 22 (2.96%) pytest
19 21 (2.83%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 121 (16.29%) Cloud Native
2 51 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.92%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.36%) Onboarding
5 24 (3.23%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.29%) Public Cloud
8 11 (1.48%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.48%) Private Cloud
9 10 (1.35%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.35%) Mainframe
10 9 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
10 9 (1.21%) NHS
11 8 (1.08%) DataPower
11 8 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (0.67%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 127 (17.09%) Linux
2 49 (6.59%) Windows
3 36 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (3.36%) Unix
5 11 (1.48%) CentOS
6 8 (1.08%) Android
6 8 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.94%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.94%) VMS
7 7 (0.94%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.94%) zOS
8 4 (0.54%) Debian
8 4 (0.54%) Rocky
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 587 (79.00%) CI/CD
2 411 (55.32%) DevOps
3 267 (35.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 254 (34.19%) Agile
5 248 (33.38%) Containerisation
6 225 (30.28%) Test Automation
7 148 (19.92%) Microservices
8 136 (18.30%) Observability
9 118 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
9 118 (15.88%) Software Engineering
10 98 (13.19%) Scrum
11 97 (13.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 92 (12.38%) Platform Engineering
13 77 (10.36%) DevSecOps
14 73 (9.83%) ETL
15 67 (9.02%) TDD
16 64 (8.61%) Analytics
17 63 (8.48%) Migration
18 60 (8.08%) AI
19 59 (7.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 287 (38.63%) Python
2 224 (30.15%) Java
3 159 (21.40%) SQL
4 112 (15.07%) Bash
5 86 (11.57%) JavaScript
6 66 (8.88%) TypeScript
7 63 (8.48%) PowerShell
8 37 (4.98%) Go
8 37 (4.98%) Shell Script
9 33 (4.44%) C#
10 19 (2.56%) Kotlin
11 17 (2.29%) Bicep
12 14 (1.88%) C++
13 12 (1.62%) PL/SQL
14 11 (1.48%) Scala
15 9 (1.21%) MATLAB
16 8 (1.08%) C
16 8 (1.08%) Ruby
17 7 (0.94%) PHP
18 6 (0.81%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 320 (43.07%) Security Cleared
2 262 (35.26%) SC Cleared
3 37 (4.98%) Degree
4 32 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.50%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.36%) DV Cleared
7 23 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.88%) Azure Certification
9 13 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.94%) SAFe Agilist
12 6 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.81%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.54%) OCA
13 4 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.40%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (11.98%) QA
2 36 (4.85%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.42%) SLA
5 16 (2.15%) GDPR
6 12 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 12 (1.62%) WCAG
7 8 (1.08%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.94%) NCSC
9 5 (0.67%) FATCA
9 5 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.67%) NIST
10 4 (0.54%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.27%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) OpenSCAP
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 312 (41.99%) Docker
2 22 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.62%) 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%) 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
1 348 (46.84%) Kubernetes
2 321 (43.20%) Terraform
3 170 (22.88%) Ansible
4 158 (21.27%) Grafana
5 128 (17.23%) Prometheus
6 50 (6.73%) Argo
7 25 (3.36%) Puppet
8 20 (2.69%) Istio
9 16 (2.15%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.88%) Podman
11 12 (1.62%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.48%) Kibana
13 9 (1.21%) Check_MK
13 9 (1.21%) linkerd
14 7 (0.94%) Packer
15 6 (0.81%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.67%) Nagios
16 5 (0.67%) Rancher
17 4 (0.54%) Salt
Vendors
1 73 (9.83%) Oracle
2 54 (7.27%) Microsoft
3 53 (7.13%) Splunk
4 42 (5.65%) Red Hat
5 35 (4.71%) Google
6 31 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 31 (4.17%) VMware
7 26 (3.50%) Informatica
8 25 (3.36%) Databricks
8 25 (3.36%) Talend
9 20 (2.69%) Dynatrace
10 18 (2.42%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.62%) Denodo
12 11 (1.48%) Arista
12 11 (1.48%) IBM
12 11 (1.48%) Veracode
13 10 (1.35%) F5
14 9 (1.21%) Palo Alto
15 7 (0.94%) AppDynamics
15 7 (0.94%) Aruba