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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 144 214
Rank change year-on-year +3 +70 +49
Contract jobs citing GitLab 845 534 409
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.88% 1.96% 1.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.98% 13.84% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 341 290
10th Percentile £380 £356 £361
25th Percentile £427 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £650
90th Percentile £688 £650 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 8
10th Percentile £60.85 £61.55 £62.30
25th Percentile - £63.63 £70.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.73% +24.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £75.63
90th Percentile £79.50 £73.38 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +86.87%

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 5,289 3,857 4,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.80% 14.13% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,406 2,640 3,029
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 88 230
10th Percentile £29.86 £30.05 £32.87
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £51.56
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.04
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.40% -3.85% +4.00%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +1 355 £525 - 88
North of England -13 196 £453 -4.63% 56
Midlands +27 137 £463 -7.50% 20
West Midlands +21 130 £463 -11.90% 13
North West -23 87 £525 +7.14% 37
North East +11 70 £413 -11.29% 11
South East -48 68 £550 +9.89% 20
Yorkshire -39 56 £540 +10.77% 8
South West -14 52 £510 -15.00% 38
East of England -11 32 £483 +7.22% 8
East Midlands -14 7 £470 +74.07% 7
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 89 (10.53%) Confluence
2 53 (6.27%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (5.21%) Apache Spark
4 39 (4.62%) Apache
5 36 (4.26%) SAS
6 27 (3.20%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.83%) CICS
8 6 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.59%) Camunda
10 4 (0.47%) nginx
10 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.24%) CMS
12 2 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 556 (65.80%) AWS
2 262 (31.01%) GitHub
3 249 (29.47%) Azure
4 187 (22.13%) GitHub Actions
5 133 (15.74%) GCP
6 126 (14.91%) Amazon S3
7 120 (14.20%) Serverless
8 107 (12.66%) AWS Lambda
9 104 (12.31%) Azure DevOps
10 102 (12.07%) Amazon EKS
11 94 (11.12%) Amazon EC2
12 89 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 60 (7.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 57 (6.75%) AWS CloudFormation
15 41 (4.85%) OpenShift
16 39 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
17 33 (3.91%) OCI
18 30 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
19 29 (3.43%) Amazon EMR
19 29 (3.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.85%) Firewall
2 21 (2.49%) BGP
2 21 (2.49%) Network Security
2 21 (2.49%) WAN
3 20 (2.37%) OSPF
4 19 (2.25%) BIG-IP
4 19 (2.25%) Ethernet VPN
4 19 (2.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 19 (2.25%) SD-WAN
4 19 (2.25%) VXLAN
5 16 (1.89%) DNS
6 15 (1.78%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (1.42%) VPN
8 11 (1.30%) WLAN
9 8 (0.95%) HTTP
10 6 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.47%) MQTT
11 4 (0.47%) SSL
12 3 (0.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (7.22%) MongoDB
1 61 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (5.80%) Relational Database
3 42 (4.97%) Amazon Athena
4 41 (4.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
6 33 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (3.79%) DynamoDB
8 30 (3.55%) Oracle Database
8 30 (3.55%) Pentaho
9 28 (3.31%) NoSQL
10 26 (3.08%) Power BI
11 25 (2.96%) SQL Server
12 20 (2.37%) Big Data
12 20 (2.37%) RDBMS
13 19 (2.25%) Data Lake
13 19 (2.25%) MySQL
14 15 (1.78%) Redis
15 12 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
16 11 (1.30%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 355 (42.01%) Jenkins
2 197 (23.31%) Git
3 122 (14.44%) JIRA
4 71 (8.40%) Selenium
5 66 (7.81%) JUnit
6 40 (4.73%) Cucumber
7 35 (4.14%) SonarQube
8 33 (3.91%) Bitbucket
9 31 (3.67%) Mockito
10 30 (3.55%) Artifactory
11 29 (3.43%) JMeter
12 28 (3.31%) Postman
13 27 (3.20%) Gatling
13 27 (3.20%) Gradle
13 27 (3.20%) REST Assured
14 25 (2.96%) WebDriver
15 23 (2.72%) Maven
16 13 (1.54%) Serenity BDD
16 13 (1.54%) Snyk
16 13 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 166 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 163 (19.29%) Public Sector
3 90 (10.65%) Finance
4 66 (7.81%) Banking
5 46 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (2.13%) Military
7 14 (1.66%) Law
8 12 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.30%) Legal
10 8 (0.95%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.83%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.71%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.59%) Police
14 4 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.47%) Publishing
15 3 (0.36%) Retail
16 2 (0.24%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 188 (22.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 155 (18.34%) Senior
3 128 (15.15%) Developer
4 99 (11.72%) AWS Engineer
5 86 (10.18%) Data Engineer
6 71 (8.40%) AWS DevOps
7 64 (7.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 60 (7.10%) Lead
9 46 (5.44%) Software Engineer
10 42 (4.97%) Java Developer
11 41 (4.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 39 (4.62%) Test Engineer
13 38 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
14 37 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
15 32 (3.79%) Architect
16 30 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
17 29 (3.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 28 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
19 26 (3.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
20 24 (2.84%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (13.49%) Kafka
2 102 (12.07%) Spring
3 89 (10.53%) REST
3 89 (10.53%) Spring Boot
4 66 (7.81%) RESTful
5 58 (6.86%) React
6 45 (5.33%) Playwright
7 43 (5.09%) Node.js
7 43 (5.09%) PySpark
8 36 (4.26%) YAML
9 31 (3.67%) RabbitMQ
10 30 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
11 27 (3.20%) JSON
12 25 (2.96%) AWS CDK
13 24 (2.84%) WireMock
14 23 (2.72%) SOAP
15 21 (2.49%) Keycloak
16 20 (2.37%) HTML
16 20 (2.37%) pytest
17 19 (2.25%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 157 (18.58%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (5.44%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.67%) Data Centre
5 28 (3.31%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (2.72%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.78%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.78%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.30%) Mainframe
12 9 (1.07%) NHS
12 9 (1.07%) Private Cloud
13 8 (0.95%) AI Agents
13 8 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.83%) DataPower
14 7 (0.83%) Management Information System
15 6 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 163 (19.29%) Linux
2 39 (4.62%) Windows
3 38 (4.50%) Unix
4 36 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.30%) AIX
5 11 (1.30%) zOS
6 9 (1.07%) CentOS
7 8 (0.95%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.59%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.36%) Debian
9 3 (0.36%) Rocky
9 3 (0.36%) VMS
10 2 (0.24%) Android
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 690 (81.66%) CI/CD
2 490 (57.99%) DevOps
3 355 (42.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 307 (36.33%) Agile
5 289 (34.20%) Containerisation
6 263 (31.12%) Test Automation
7 161 (19.05%) Microservices
8 136 (16.09%) Observability
9 128 (15.15%) Scrum
10 123 (14.56%) Software Engineering
11 120 (14.20%) Platform Engineering
12 113 (13.37%) Continuous Improvement
13 112 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
14 92 (10.89%) AI
15 84 (9.94%) DevSecOps
16 83 (9.82%) ETL
17 79 (9.35%) Event-Driven
18 77 (9.11%) Migration
19 69 (8.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 67 (7.93%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 343 (40.59%) Python
2 207 (24.50%) Java
3 187 (22.13%) SQL
4 127 (15.03%) Bash
5 72 (8.52%) JavaScript
6 61 (7.22%) TypeScript
7 53 (6.27%) PowerShell
8 49 (5.80%) C#
9 34 (4.02%) Go
10 29 (3.43%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.01%) Bicep
12 16 (1.89%) PL/SQL
13 13 (1.54%) C++
14 10 (1.18%) Scala
15 8 (0.95%) Cypher
16 7 (0.83%) Ruby
17 6 (0.71%) JCL
17 6 (0.71%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.59%) C
18 5 (0.59%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 410 (48.52%) Security Cleared
2 346 (40.95%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 40 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (4.62%) Degree
6 36 (4.26%) AWS Certification
7 29 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 13 (1.54%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.30%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (1.07%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.59%) CISSP
14 4 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.47%) CSSLP
14 4 (0.47%) GIAC
15 2 (0.24%) GWAPT
15 2 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.24%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (9.47%) QA
2 36 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.91%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.30%) SLA
5 10 (1.18%) WCAG
6 5 (0.59%) FATCA
6 5 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.47%) NIST
8 3 (0.36%) GDPR
8 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.12%) GRC
10 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
10 1 (0.12%) NCSC
10 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
10 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 355 (42.01%) Docker
2 23 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.42%) Oracle RAC
3 12 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.59%) HDFS
5 5 (0.59%) Squid
6 4 (0.47%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 410 (48.52%) Terraform
2 362 (42.84%) Kubernetes
3 190 (22.49%) Ansible
4 150 (17.75%) Grafana
5 134 (15.86%) Prometheus
6 45 (5.33%) Argo
7 34 (4.02%) Puppet
8 16 (1.89%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.42%) Data Guard
9 12 (1.42%) Istio
9 12 (1.42%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.18%) Packer
10 10 (1.18%) Podman
11 8 (0.95%) Red Hat Satellite
12 7 (0.83%) Kibana
12 7 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.71%) Salt
14 5 (0.59%) Check_MK
14 5 (0.59%) linkerd
15 4 (0.47%) Suricata
Vendors
1 102 (12.07%) Oracle
2 50 (5.92%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.92%) Talend
3 47 (5.56%) Informatica
4 46 (5.44%) Splunk
5 41 (4.85%) Google
6 25 (2.96%) Red Hat
7 24 (2.84%) Databricks
8 23 (2.72%) Denodo
8 23 (2.72%) VMware
9 22 (2.60%) ServiceNow
10 21 (2.49%) F5
11 20 (2.37%) Palo Alto
12 18 (2.13%) Arista
12 18 (2.13%) Aruba
12 18 (2.13%) Salesforce
13 17 (2.01%) Dynatrace
14 15 (1.78%) IBM
14 15 (1.78%) Trend Micro
15 14 (1.66%) Veracode