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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 134 235
Rank change year-on-year -1 +101 -42
Contract jobs citing GitLab 771 496 374
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.01% 2.05% 1.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.26% 14.99% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 324 270
10th Percentile £387 £370 £412
25th Percentile £431 £445 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £539 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.15% -6.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £685
90th Percentile £667 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £529 £558
% change year-on-year -5.44% -5.16% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 5
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.59 £57.10
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £58.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -33.70% +11.45% +21.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £77.50
90th Percentile £80.65 £92.59 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £82.96 £62.00
% change year-on-year -33.70% +33.81% +27.18%

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 5,054 3,309 4,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.18% 13.65% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,392 2,203 2,915
10th Percentile £340 £340 £358
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £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 206 65 162
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.12 £33.38
25th Percentile £59.25 £51.25 £46.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.31 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.43 £88.13
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%

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 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 3 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 3 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 -28 319 £525 -4.55% 56
North of England -9 195 £500 -4.76% 49
Midlands +16 114 £480 +0.63% 19
West Midlands +9 102 £490 - 12
North West -10 100 £463 -7.50% 16
Yorkshire -14 77 £500 -13.04% 14
South East -30 58 £513 -19.61% 39
South West +8 52 £510 +10.87% 36
North East -13 26 £463 -5.13% 19
East of England -17 23 £477 +5.89% 12
East Midlands -20 12 £402 +29.99% 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 55 (7.13%) Confluence
2 42 (5.45%) SAS
3 29 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.59%) Apache
5 14 (1.82%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.82%) OpenStack
6 9 (1.17%) nginx
7 4 (0.52%) CICS
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.39%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.13%) Camunda
10 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) 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
1 463 (60.05%) AWS
2 245 (31.78%) GitHub
3 220 (28.53%) Azure
4 157 (20.36%) GitHub Actions
5 152 (19.71%) GCP
6 123 (15.95%) Serverless
7 103 (13.36%) Amazon S3
8 95 (12.32%) AWS Lambda
9 88 (11.41%) Amazon EKS
10 81 (10.51%) OpenShift
11 79 (10.25%) Amazon EC2
12 72 (9.34%) AWS CloudFormation
13 70 (9.08%) Azure DevOps
14 68 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 53 (6.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 43 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
17 23 (2.98%) Azure AKS
18 22 (2.85%) Datadog
19 20 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
19 20 (2.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.28%) Firewall
2 26 (3.37%) DNS
3 21 (2.72%) VPN
4 17 (2.20%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.43%) Network Security
6 8 (1.04%) HTTP
7 5 (0.65%) Multicast
8 4 (0.52%) BGP
8 4 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.52%) SAN
9 3 (0.39%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.39%) NAS
9 3 (0.39%) OSPF
9 3 (0.39%) SSL
9 3 (0.39%) VSAN
10 2 (0.26%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.26%) DHCP
10 2 (0.26%) IPv6
10 2 (0.26%) LAN
10 2 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (12.32%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (7.39%) NoSQL
3 49 (6.36%) MongoDB
4 38 (4.93%) Amazon RDS
5 33 (4.28%) Relational Database
6 31 (4.02%) DynamoDB
7 26 (3.37%) MySQL
8 21 (2.72%) Data Lake
8 21 (2.72%) SQL Server
9 20 (2.59%) Redis
10 18 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
10 18 (2.33%) Big Data
11 17 (2.20%) Power BI
12 16 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
13 15 (1.95%) Oracle Database
14 13 (1.69%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 11 (1.43%) DocumentDB
16 10 (1.30%) Spark SQL
17 9 (1.17%) Aerospike
Development Applications
1 387 (50.19%) Jenkins
2 193 (25.03%) Git
3 106 (13.75%) JIRA
4 86 (11.15%) Selenium
5 80 (10.38%) JUnit
6 47 (6.10%) Cucumber
7 36 (4.67%) Postman
8 30 (3.89%) JMeter
9 29 (3.76%) Bitbucket
9 29 (3.76%) REST Assured
10 28 (3.63%) Artifactory
11 26 (3.37%) CircleCI
12 25 (3.24%) Mockito
13 22 (2.85%) Maven
14 21 (2.72%) SonarQube
15 20 (2.59%) Gradle
16 19 (2.46%) Gatling
17 16 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
18 15 (1.95%) Cypress.io
19 14 (1.82%) IntelliJ
General
1 222 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 118 (15.30%) Public Sector
3 115 (14.92%) Finance
4 86 (11.15%) Banking
5 41 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.33%) Financial Institution
8 10 (1.30%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.04%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.04%) Military
10 7 (0.91%) Retail
11 6 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.78%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.65%) Law
13 4 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.39%) Games
14 3 (0.39%) Local Government
14 3 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 157 (20.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 134 (17.38%) Developer
3 104 (13.49%) Senior
4 74 (9.60%) AWS Engineer
5 60 (7.78%) AWS DevOps
5 60 (7.78%) Lead
6 55 (7.13%) Software Engineer
7 51 (6.61%) Data Engineer
8 48 (6.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 42 (5.45%) Java Developer
10 41 (5.32%) Architect
10 41 (5.32%) Cloud Engineer
11 36 (4.67%) Test Engineer
12 33 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
13 28 (3.63%) GCP Engineer
14 25 (3.24%) Senior DevOps
14 25 (3.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 23 (2.98%) Java Engineer
16 22 (2.85%) Test Specialist
17 21 (2.72%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (16.99%) REST
2 114 (14.79%) Spring
3 109 (14.14%) Kafka
4 97 (12.58%) Spring Boot
5 74 (9.60%) RESTful
6 67 (8.69%) Node.js
7 66 (8.56%) Elastic Stack
8 61 (7.91%) React
9 48 (6.23%) Playwright
10 39 (5.06%) pytest
11 32 (4.15%) OpenTelemetry
12 31 (4.02%) YAML
13 29 (3.76%) HTML
13 29 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
14 27 (3.50%) LDAP
14 27 (3.50%) PySpark
15 26 (3.37%) OpenID
16 25 (3.24%) AngularJS
17 24 (3.11%) Jest
18 23 (2.98%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 117 (15.18%) Cloud Native
2 67 (8.69%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.84%) Product Ownership
4 33 (4.28%) Public Cloud
5 21 (2.72%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.20%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (1.43%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.43%) Private Cloud
9 10 (1.30%) Mainframe
10 8 (1.04%) DataPower
10 8 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
10 8 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (1.04%) NHS
11 7 (0.91%) Synthetic Data
12 6 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (0.78%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 151 (19.58%) Linux
2 53 (6.87%) Windows
3 27 (3.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 27 (3.50%) Unix
4 10 (1.30%) CentOS
5 9 (1.17%) Android
5 9 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.17%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.04%) VMS
7 6 (0.78%) zOS
8 5 (0.65%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.39%) Debian
9 3 (0.39%) Rocky
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.13%) AIX
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 615 (79.77%) CI/CD
2 455 (59.01%) DevOps
3 284 (36.84%) Agile
4 274 (35.54%) Containerisation
5 272 (35.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 231 (29.96%) Test Automation
7 162 (21.01%) Microservices
8 144 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
9 138 (17.90%) Observability
10 107 (13.88%) Software Engineering
11 98 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 90 (11.67%) Scrum
13 84 (10.89%) Platform Engineering
14 83 (10.77%) Analytics
15 67 (8.69%) TDD
16 66 (8.56%) Data Pipeline
16 66 (8.56%) DevSecOps
17 63 (8.17%) Test Strategy
18 60 (7.78%) ETL
19 59 (7.65%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 333 (43.19%) Python
2 225 (29.18%) Java
3 152 (19.71%) SQL
4 118 (15.30%) Bash
5 84 (10.89%) JavaScript
6 68 (8.82%) PowerShell
7 66 (8.56%) TypeScript
8 58 (7.52%) Go
9 40 (5.19%) Shell Script
10 20 (2.59%) C#
11 19 (2.46%) Kotlin
12 17 (2.20%) Bicep
13 14 (1.82%) PL/SQL
14 10 (1.30%) Ruby
15 9 (1.17%) C++
15 9 (1.17%) MATLAB
15 9 (1.17%) Scala
16 8 (1.04%) C
17 7 (0.91%) Groovy
18 6 (0.78%) Korn
Qualifications
1 312 (40.47%) Security Cleared
2 255 (33.07%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.10%) Degree
4 42 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (4.02%) AWS Certification
6 27 (3.50%) DV Cleared
7 24 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (2.46%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.95%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.91%) CISSP
12 6 (0.78%) CISM
12 6 (0.78%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.78%) OCA
12 6 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (12.45%) QA
2 38 (4.93%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.46%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.33%) GDPR
4 18 (2.33%) SLA
5 17 (2.20%) WCAG
6 13 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.30%) NIST
9 8 (1.04%) NCSC
10 6 (0.78%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.26%) HL7
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
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%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 335 (43.45%) Docker
2 23 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.65%) HDFS
6 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.26%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
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
1 403 (52.27%) Kubernetes
2 340 (44.10%) Terraform
3 181 (23.48%) Grafana
4 171 (22.18%) Ansible
5 150 (19.46%) Prometheus
6 51 (6.61%) Argo
7 21 (2.72%) Istio
7 21 (2.72%) Puppet
8 19 (2.46%) Podman
8 19 (2.46%) Progress Chef
9 16 (2.08%) Kibana
10 11 (1.43%) Red Hat Satellite
11 9 (1.17%) Check_MK
11 9 (1.17%) linkerd
11 9 (1.17%) Packer
12 7 (0.91%) Fluentd
12 7 (0.91%) Karpenter
12 7 (0.91%) Nagios
12 7 (0.91%) Sysdig
13 5 (0.65%) Rancher
Vendors
1 80 (10.38%) Splunk
2 68 (8.82%) Oracle
3 60 (7.78%) Microsoft
4 45 (5.84%) Red Hat
5 43 (5.58%) Google
6 31 (4.02%) VMware
7 30 (3.89%) ServiceNow
8 26 (3.37%) Databricks
9 18 (2.33%) Salesforce
10 17 (2.20%) Informatica
11 15 (1.95%) Talend
12 14 (1.82%) Dynatrace
13 13 (1.69%) IBM
14 11 (1.43%) Veracode
15 9 (1.17%) Atlassian
16 8 (1.04%) Cribl.io
17 7 (0.91%) AppDynamics
18 5 (0.65%) Cisco
18 5 (0.65%) Denodo
19 4 (0.52%) Sybase