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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 146 216
Rank change year-on-year +10 +70 +12
Contract jobs citing GitLab 781 466 389
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.89% 1.92% 1.07%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.68% 13.97% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 538 297 286
10th Percentile £393 £378 £363
25th Percentile £431 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £564
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.87% -4.25%
75th Percentile £581 £603 £656
90th Percentile £666 £693 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 1 6
10th Percentile £42.13 - £57.38
25th Percentile £52.50 - £62.19
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +11.45% +87.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £76.74
90th Percentile £77.00 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £68.22
% change year-on-year -24.66% +21.61% +72.27%

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 4,980 3,335 4,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.08% 13.77% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,285 2,248 2,904
10th Percentile £346 £343 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £609 £638
90th Percentile £688 £728 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 62 194
10th Percentile £36.13 £27.54 £32.10
25th Percentile £57.94 £48.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.13 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.16% -9.04% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.06 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.88 £78.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -4 317 £525 -0.94% 64
North of England -14 189 £500 - 63
Midlands +16 112 £463 -6.09% 24
West Midlands +8 97 £469 -10.67% 17
North West -2 93 £513 +2.50% 28
Yorkshire -20 67 £494 -6.00% 16
South East -30 60 £550 +9.89% 43
South West +3 58 £500 +8.70% 18
North East -2 42 £450 -12.62% 19
East of England -2 33 £483 +7.22% 8
East Midlands -17 15 £414 +32.96% 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 60 (7.68%) Confluence
2 29 (3.71%) SAS
3 23 (2.94%) Apache
3 23 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.82%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.28%) OpenStack
6 9 (1.15%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.64%) CICS
7 5 (0.64%) nginx
8 3 (0.38%) Camunda
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) 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
1 456 (58.39%) AWS
2 252 (32.27%) GitHub
3 238 (30.47%) Azure
4 176 (22.54%) GitHub Actions
5 137 (17.54%) GCP
6 110 (14.08%) Amazon S3
7 109 (13.96%) Serverless
8 95 (12.16%) AWS Lambda
9 93 (11.91%) Amazon EKS
10 80 (10.24%) Azure DevOps
11 79 (10.12%) Amazon EC2
12 73 (9.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 68 (8.71%) AWS CloudFormation
14 59 (7.55%) OpenShift
14 59 (7.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 40 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
16 30 (3.84%) Amazon SQS
17 27 (3.46%) Azure AKS
18 25 (3.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 25 (3.20%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.38%) Firewall
2 27 (3.46%) DNS
3 22 (2.82%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.43%) BGP
5 18 (2.30%) OSPF
6 17 (2.18%) Ethernet VPN
6 17 (2.18%) VXLAN
6 17 (2.18%) WAN
7 16 (2.05%) Network Security
8 15 (1.92%) BIG-IP
8 15 (1.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 15 (1.92%) SD-WAN
9 14 (1.79%) VPN
10 11 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (1.28%) HTTP
12 7 (0.90%) WLAN
13 6 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (0.51%) Multicast
14 4 (0.51%) SAN
14 4 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (6.79%) MongoDB
3 42 (5.38%) Relational Database
4 34 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 32 (4.10%) DynamoDB
6 30 (3.84%) Amazon RDS
7 27 (3.46%) Amazon Athena
7 27 (3.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 27 (3.46%) MySQL
8 26 (3.33%) Redis
9 24 (3.07%) Power BI
10 23 (2.94%) Pentaho
10 23 (2.94%) SQL Server
11 21 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
12 19 (2.43%) Data Lake
13 16 (2.05%) Big Data
14 15 (1.92%) Oracle Database
15 14 (1.79%) DocumentDB
16 11 (1.41%) BigQuery
17 10 (1.28%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 348 (44.56%) Jenkins
2 180 (23.05%) Git
3 104 (13.32%) JIRA
4 72 (9.22%) Selenium
5 59 (7.55%) JUnit
6 38 (4.87%) Cucumber
7 33 (4.23%) REST Assured
8 32 (4.10%) Gradle
9 30 (3.84%) Postman
10 27 (3.46%) Artifactory
11 26 (3.33%) Bitbucket
11 26 (3.33%) JMeter
12 22 (2.82%) CircleCI
12 22 (2.82%) Gatling
12 22 (2.82%) Mockito
12 22 (2.82%) SonarQube
13 15 (1.92%) Maven
13 15 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
14 13 (1.66%) Cypress.io
14 13 (1.66%) IntelliJ
General
1 162 (20.74%) Social Skills
2 145 (18.57%) Public Sector
3 87 (11.14%) Finance
4 57 (7.30%) Banking
5 38 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.54%) Military
8 11 (1.41%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.02%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.02%) Law
9 8 (1.02%) Retail
10 7 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.90%) Legal
11 6 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.51%) Police
12 4 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.38%) Local Government
14 2 (0.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 161 (20.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 131 (16.77%) Developer
3 127 (16.26%) Senior
4 68 (8.71%) AWS Engineer
5 67 (8.58%) Data Engineer
6 59 (7.55%) Software Engineer
7 57 (7.30%) Lead
8 45 (5.76%) Architect
8 45 (5.76%) AWS DevOps
9 43 (5.51%) Java Developer
10 40 (5.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 37 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
12 35 (4.48%) Test Engineer
13 30 (3.84%) Platform Engineer
14 26 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
14 26 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
15 25 (3.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 22 (2.82%) GCP Engineer
16 22 (2.82%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (15.11%) Kafka
2 115 (14.72%) Spring
3 103 (13.19%) Spring Boot
4 93 (11.91%) REST
5 61 (7.81%) RESTful
6 60 (7.68%) Node.js
7 55 (7.04%) React
8 41 (5.25%) Playwright
9 37 (4.74%) Elastic Stack
10 34 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
11 29 (3.71%) LDAP
12 28 (3.59%) PySpark
12 28 (3.59%) YAML
13 25 (3.20%) AngularJS
13 25 (3.20%) OAuth
13 25 (3.20%) RabbitMQ
14 24 (3.07%) pytest
15 23 (2.94%) Jest
16 22 (2.82%) OpenID
17 21 (2.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 130 (16.65%) Cloud Native
2 50 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.76%) Product Ownership
4 35 (4.48%) Data Centre
5 27 (3.46%) Onboarding
6 20 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.18%) Public Cloud
8 14 (1.79%) Private Cloud
9 12 (1.54%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.41%) NHS
11 10 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
12 8 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (0.90%) Mainframe
14 6 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.77%) PKI
15 5 (0.64%) DataPower
15 5 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
15 5 (0.64%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 131 (16.77%) Linux
2 43 (5.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 40 (5.12%) Windows
4 32 (4.10%) Unix
5 15 (1.92%) CentOS
6 9 (1.15%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.90%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.90%) VMS
7 7 (0.90%) zOS
8 5 (0.64%) Android
9 4 (0.51%) Debian
9 4 (0.51%) Rocky
10 3 (0.38%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.13%) AIX
12 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 618 (79.13%) CI/CD
2 437 (55.95%) DevOps
3 288 (36.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 263 (33.67%) Agile
5 253 (32.39%) Containerisation
6 232 (29.71%) Test Automation
7 152 (19.46%) Microservices
8 146 (18.69%) Observability
9 130 (16.65%) Software Engineering
10 107 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
11 106 (13.57%) Scrum
12 102 (13.06%) Platform Engineering
13 101 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 81 (10.37%) ETL
15 80 (10.24%) DevSecOps
16 66 (8.45%) Migration
17 65 (8.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 65 (8.32%) TDD
18 64 (8.19%) AI
19 63 (8.07%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 290 (37.13%) Python
2 219 (28.04%) Java
3 170 (21.77%) SQL
4 118 (15.11%) Bash
5 80 (10.24%) JavaScript
6 64 (8.19%) TypeScript
7 62 (7.94%) PowerShell
8 36 (4.61%) Shell Script
9 35 (4.48%) Go
10 33 (4.23%) C#
11 19 (2.43%) Kotlin
12 18 (2.30%) Bicep
13 16 (2.05%) PL/SQL
14 15 (1.92%) C++
15 12 (1.54%) Scala
16 11 (1.41%) MATLAB
17 8 (1.02%) C
17 8 (1.02%) Ruby
18 7 (0.90%) PHP
19 6 (0.77%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 350 (44.81%) Security Cleared
2 287 (36.75%) SC Cleared
3 38 (4.87%) Degree
4 34 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 31 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (2.69%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.28%) SAFe Agilist
10 8 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.38%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.26%) OCA
14 2 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (10.63%) QA
2 39 (4.99%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.69%) SLA
4 19 (2.43%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.79%) GDPR
6 12 (1.54%) WCAG
7 11 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.28%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.64%) FATCA
9 5 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.64%) NCSC
9 5 (0.64%) NIST
10 4 (0.51%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 322 (41.23%) Docker
2 22 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.77%) Squid
6 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.51%) HDFS
7 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.26%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) iptables
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.13%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 347 (44.43%) Kubernetes
2 345 (44.17%) Terraform
3 181 (23.18%) Ansible
4 161 (20.61%) Grafana
5 133 (17.03%) Prometheus
6 47 (6.02%) Argo
7 29 (3.71%) Puppet
8 19 (2.43%) Istio
9 17 (2.18%) Progress Chef
10 16 (2.05%) Podman
11 14 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.41%) Check_MK
13 10 (1.28%) Kibana
14 9 (1.15%) linkerd
15 7 (0.90%) Packer
16 6 (0.77%) Karpenter
16 6 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
17 4 (0.51%) Rancher
17 4 (0.51%) Salt
17 4 (0.51%) Suricata
Vendors
1 81 (10.37%) Oracle
2 61 (7.81%) Splunk
3 53 (6.79%) Microsoft
4 46 (5.89%) Red Hat
5 38 (4.87%) Google
6 35 (4.48%) ServiceNow
6 35 (4.48%) Talend
7 34 (4.35%) VMware
8 29 (3.71%) Informatica
9 27 (3.46%) Databricks
10 22 (2.82%) Dynatrace
11 18 (2.30%) Arista
11 18 (2.30%) Denodo
11 18 (2.30%) Salesforce
12 17 (2.18%) F5
13 16 (2.05%) Palo Alto
14 14 (1.79%) Aruba
15 10 (1.28%) Veracode
16 8 (1.02%) IBM
17 6 (0.77%) AppDynamics