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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 143 198
Rank change year-on-year -6 +55 +54
Contract jobs citing GitLab 828 538 424
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.83% 1.94% 1.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.61% 13.43% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 355 293
10th Percentile £368 £356 £320
25th Percentile £425 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -6.05% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £700 £670 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 9
10th Percentile £63.88 £61.60 £63.20
25th Percentile - £64.56 £72.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £75.00
90th Percentile £81.75 £71.79 £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 5,305 4,005 4,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.70% 14.42% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,377 2,773 2,847
10th Percentile £350 £321 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £629
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 242 95 199
10th Percentile £31.12 £40.90 £31.71
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.03 £51.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.45 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.15% - +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 3 August 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 August 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 August 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 +6 362 £525 - 132
North of England -27 170 £464 -1.28% 48
Midlands +35 137 £469 -6.20% 20
West Midlands +29 130 £469 -8.49% 14
South East -40 74 £550 - 30
North East +8 71 £413 -11.29% 9
North West -40 70 £575 +19.79% 33
South West -24 50 £550 -8.33% 39
Yorkshire -45 42 £550 +15.79% 6
East of England -12 30 £483 +1.58% 11
East Midlands -15 7 £470 +74.07% 6
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 85 (10.27%) Confluence
2 55 (6.64%) Apache Airflow
3 46 (5.56%) Apache Spark
4 40 (4.83%) Apache
5 31 (3.74%) SAS
6 27 (3.26%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.72%) Camunda
7 6 (0.72%) CICS
7 6 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.36%) nginx
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.24%) CMS
9 2 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.48%) Trello
2 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
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
1 560 (67.63%) AWS
2 280 (33.82%) GitHub
3 270 (32.61%) Azure
4 209 (25.24%) GitHub Actions
5 145 (17.51%) GCP
6 126 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
7 117 (14.13%) Amazon S3
8 111 (13.41%) Amazon EKS
8 111 (13.41%) Serverless
9 100 (12.08%) AWS Lambda
10 96 (11.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 82 (9.90%) Amazon EC2
12 61 (7.37%) AWS CloudFormation
13 58 (7.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 41 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
15 37 (4.47%) OpenShift
16 35 (4.23%) Amazon SQS
17 34 (4.11%) Datadog
17 34 (4.11%) OCI
18 33 (3.99%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.31%) Firewall
2 23 (2.78%) DNS
3 22 (2.66%) BGP
3 22 (2.66%) Network Security
3 22 (2.66%) WAN
4 21 (2.54%) OSPF
4 21 (2.54%) SD-WAN
5 20 (2.42%) Ethernet VPN
5 20 (2.42%) VXLAN
6 19 (2.29%) BIG-IP
6 19 (2.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 15 (1.81%) TCP/IP
7 15 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (1.69%) VPN
9 11 (1.33%) WLAN
10 8 (0.97%) HTTP
11 6 (0.72%) SSL
12 4 (0.48%) DHCP
12 4 (0.48%) MQTT
12 4 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (7.97%) MongoDB
1 66 (7.97%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 40 (4.83%) Amazon Redshift
4 39 (4.71%) Amazon Athena
5 35 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (4.23%) DynamoDB
6 33 (3.99%) Amazon RDS
7 30 (3.62%) NoSQL
7 30 (3.62%) Pentaho
7 30 (3.62%) Power BI
8 28 (3.38%) SQL Server
9 27 (3.26%) Oracle Database
10 23 (2.78%) RDBMS
11 21 (2.54%) MySQL
12 20 (2.42%) Big Data
12 20 (2.42%) Data Lake
12 20 (2.42%) Redis
13 12 (1.45%) Oracle Exadata
14 11 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 347 (41.91%) Jenkins
2 202 (24.40%) Git
3 108 (13.04%) JIRA
4 64 (7.73%) JUnit
5 62 (7.49%) Selenium
6 43 (5.19%) Cucumber
7 40 (4.83%) Bitbucket
8 35 (4.23%) SonarQube
9 30 (3.62%) Artifactory
10 29 (3.50%) Gradle
11 27 (3.26%) Gatling
12 24 (2.90%) Maven
12 24 (2.90%) Mockito
13 23 (2.78%) JMeter
14 22 (2.66%) WebDriver
15 21 (2.54%) REST Assured
16 17 (2.05%) Postman
16 17 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
17 15 (1.81%) Snyk
18 10 (1.21%) MLflow
General
1 163 (19.69%) Social Skills
2 151 (18.24%) Public Sector
3 92 (11.11%) Finance
4 63 (7.61%) Banking
5 48 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.29%) Military
7 15 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.69%) Law
9 11 (1.33%) Legal
10 7 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 7 (0.85%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.60%) Police
11 5 (0.60%) Publishing
12 4 (0.48%) Marketing
13 3 (0.36%) Back Office
13 3 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 180 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 164 (19.81%) Senior
3 121 (14.61%) Developer
4 98 (11.84%) AWS Engineer
5 81 (9.78%) Data Engineer
6 65 (7.85%) AWS DevOps
7 61 (7.37%) Lead
8 57 (6.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 55 (6.64%) Software Engineer
10 42 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (4.83%) Platform Engineer
12 39 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 37 (4.47%) Java Developer
14 34 (4.11%) Test Engineer
15 32 (3.86%) Senior DevOps
16 31 (3.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 30 (3.62%) Architect
18 26 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
18 26 (3.14%) Senior Developer
18 26 (3.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (13.77%) Kafka
2 96 (11.59%) Spring
3 84 (10.14%) REST
4 83 (10.02%) Spring Boot
5 52 (6.28%) React
6 47 (5.68%) RESTful
7 45 (5.43%) PySpark
8 40 (4.83%) Node.js
8 40 (4.83%) Playwright
9 32 (3.86%) JSON
10 31 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
11 26 (3.14%) WireMock
12 25 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
12 25 (3.02%) YAML
13 22 (2.66%) AWS CDK
14 21 (2.54%) Keycloak
15 20 (2.42%) .NET
15 20 (2.42%) OAuth
16 19 (2.29%) SOAP
17 18 (2.17%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 164 (19.81%) Cloud Native
2 61 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (5.07%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.50%) Data Centre
5 28 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 27 (3.26%) Onboarding
7 22 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (2.42%) Data Structures
9 18 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
9 18 (2.17%) Public Cloud
10 17 (2.05%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.45%) Mainframe
12 10 (1.21%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.09%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (0.85%) PKI
16 6 (0.72%) DataPower
16 6 (0.72%) NHS
16 6 (0.72%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 154 (18.60%) Linux
2 36 (4.35%) Unix
2 36 (4.35%) Windows
3 35 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (1.45%) AIX
4 12 (1.45%) zOS
5 11 (1.33%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.97%) CentOS
6 8 (0.97%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.36%) Debian
7 3 (0.36%) Rocky
8 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.24%) Android
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 681 (82.25%) CI/CD
2 486 (58.70%) DevOps
3 370 (44.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 312 (37.68%) Agile
5 281 (33.94%) Containerisation
6 253 (30.56%) Test Automation
7 157 (18.96%) Microservices
8 142 (17.15%) Observability
9 139 (16.79%) Software Engineering
10 133 (16.06%) Scrum
11 128 (15.46%) Platform Engineering
12 117 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 106 (12.80%) AI
13 106 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
14 90 (10.87%) DevSecOps
15 80 (9.66%) ETL
16 76 (9.18%) Migration
17 74 (8.94%) Event-Driven
18 72 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
19 71 (8.57%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 348 (42.03%) Python
2 193 (23.31%) Java
3 188 (22.71%) SQL
4 140 (16.91%) Bash
5 69 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 67 (8.09%) PowerShell
7 55 (6.64%) TypeScript
8 54 (6.52%) C#
9 30 (3.62%) Go
10 24 (2.90%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.17%) Bicep
12 17 (2.05%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.69%) C++
14 9 (1.09%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.72%) Groovy
15 6 (0.72%) JCL
15 6 (0.72%) R
15 6 (0.72%) Scala
16 5 (0.60%) C
16 5 (0.60%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 394 (47.58%) Security Cleared
2 332 (40.10%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.28%) DV Cleared
4 40 (4.83%) Degree
5 37 (4.47%) AWS Certification
5 37 (4.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 30 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 17 (2.05%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 13 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.33%) SAFe Agilist
12 8 (0.97%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.85%) CISSP
14 6 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.48%) CSSLP
15 4 (0.48%) GIAC
16 3 (0.36%) CCNP
17 2 (0.24%) CCIE
17 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (10.51%) QA
2 35 (4.23%) Accessibility
2 35 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 13 (1.57%) WCAG
4 10 (1.21%) SLA
5 6 (0.72%) NIST
5 6 (0.72%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.60%) FATCA
7 4 (0.48%) GDPR
7 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.12%) GRC
9 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
9 1 (0.12%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
9 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 348 (42.03%) Docker
2 22 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.57%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.60%) HDFS
6 5 (0.60%) Squid
7 3 (0.36%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 415 (50.12%) Terraform
2 364 (43.96%) Kubernetes
3 208 (25.12%) Ansible
4 145 (17.51%) Grafana
5 126 (15.22%) Prometheus
6 44 (5.31%) Argo
7 36 (4.35%) Puppet
8 20 (2.42%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.57%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.57%) Istio
9 13 (1.57%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.21%) Packer
10 10 (1.21%) Podman
11 5 (0.60%) Kibana
11 5 (0.60%) linkerd
11 5 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.60%) Salt
11 5 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.48%) Check_MK
12 4 (0.48%) Suricata
Vendors
1 98 (11.84%) Oracle
2 58 (7.00%) Microsoft
3 53 (6.40%) Google
4 46 (5.56%) Splunk
4 46 (5.56%) Talend
5 44 (5.31%) Informatica
6 30 (3.62%) Databricks
7 26 (3.14%) Dynatrace
7 26 (3.14%) VMware
8 22 (2.66%) Denodo
8 22 (2.66%) Palo Alto
9 20 (2.42%) F5
9 20 (2.42%) ServiceNow
10 18 (2.17%) Arista
10 18 (2.17%) Aruba
11 17 (2.05%) IBM
11 17 (2.05%) Red Hat
12 15 (1.81%) Trend Micro
13 9 (1.09%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.85%) Veracode