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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 141 209
Rank change year-on-year +4 +68 +18
Contract jobs citing GitLab 776 464 402
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.89% 1.91% 1.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.65% 13.87% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 295 297
10th Percentile £393 £380 £363
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.30% -2.76%
75th Percentile £581 £613 £650
90th Percentile £670 £695 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £558
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.83% -3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 2 6
10th Percentile £43.42 £84.16 £57.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £85.97 £62.19
Median hourly rate £62.50 £88.98 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -29.76% +19.53% +87.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £91.99 £76.74
90th Percentile £80.65 £93.80 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £88.98 £68.22
% change year-on-year -29.76% +30.43% +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 4,958 3,346 4,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.06% 13.78% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,274 2,251 2,916
10th Percentile £344 £343 £353
25th Percentile £409 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £529
Median % change year-on-year - -5.48% -3.82%
75th Percentile £588 £611 £638
90th Percentile £688 £735 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 63 193
10th Percentile £36.13 £27.59 £31.97
25th Percentile £57.94 £49.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.06 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £78.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.40% -9.42% +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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +1 316 £525 -0.94% 64
North of England -5 189 £500 - 60
Midlands +13 112 £463 -6.09% 25
West Midlands +13 97 £469 -10.67% 17
North West -3 95 £513 +2.50% 26
Yorkshire -21 66 £494 -8.19% 16
South West -1 58 £500 +8.70% 20
South East -43 56 £550 +9.89% 44
North East -5 40 £450 -12.62% 18
East of England -7 33 £483 +7.22% 12
East Midlands -19 15 £414 +32.96% 8
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 58 (7.47%) Confluence
2 29 (3.74%) SAS
3 24 (3.09%) Apache
4 23 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.96%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.29%) OpenStack
6 9 (1.16%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.64%) CICS
7 5 (0.64%) nginx
8 3 (0.39%) Camunda
8 3 (0.39%) 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%) FileNet
Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
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
2 1 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 457 (58.89%) AWS
2 246 (31.70%) GitHub
3 236 (30.41%) Azure
4 171 (22.04%) GitHub Actions
5 135 (17.40%) GCP
6 110 (14.18%) Serverless
7 109 (14.05%) Amazon S3
8 97 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
9 95 (12.24%) Amazon EKS
10 80 (10.31%) Azure DevOps
11 79 (10.18%) Amazon EC2
12 75 (9.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 68 (8.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 57 (7.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 55 (7.09%) OpenShift
16 40 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
17 30 (3.87%) Amazon SQS
18 27 (3.48%) Azure AKS
19 25 (3.22%) Power Platform
20 24 (3.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 41 (5.28%) Firewall
2 27 (3.48%) DNS
3 21 (2.71%) TCP/IP
4 18 (2.32%) BGP
5 17 (2.19%) OSPF
6 16 (2.06%) Ethernet VPN
6 16 (2.06%) VXLAN
6 16 (2.06%) WAN
7 14 (1.80%) BIG-IP
7 14 (1.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 14 (1.80%) Network Security
7 14 (1.80%) SD-WAN
8 13 (1.68%) VPN
9 11 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (1.29%) HTTP
11 7 (0.90%) WLAN
12 6 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.52%) Multicast
13 4 (0.52%) SAN
13 4 (0.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (6.70%) MongoDB
3 42 (5.41%) Relational Database
4 34 (4.38%) DynamoDB
4 34 (4.38%) NoSQL
5 29 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
6 27 (3.48%) Amazon Athena
6 27 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 26 (3.35%) MySQL
7 26 (3.35%) Redis
8 24 (3.09%) Power BI
9 23 (2.96%) Pentaho
9 23 (2.96%) SQL Server
10 21 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
11 19 (2.45%) Data Lake
12 17 (2.19%) Big Data
13 16 (2.06%) Oracle Database
14 14 (1.80%) DocumentDB
15 10 (1.29%) Amazon QuickSight
15 10 (1.29%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 342 (44.07%) Jenkins
2 179 (23.07%) Git
3 102 (13.14%) JIRA
4 71 (9.15%) Selenium
5 60 (7.73%) JUnit
6 39 (5.03%) Cucumber
7 32 (4.12%) Gradle
7 32 (4.12%) REST Assured
8 30 (3.87%) Postman
9 28 (3.61%) Artifactory
10 26 (3.35%) Bitbucket
10 26 (3.35%) JMeter
11 23 (2.96%) Mockito
12 22 (2.84%) CircleCI
12 22 (2.84%) Gatling
13 18 (2.32%) SonarQube
14 16 (2.06%) Maven
15 14 (1.80%) Cypress.io
16 13 (1.68%) IntelliJ
17 12 (1.55%) WebDriver
General
1 166 (21.39%) Social Skills
2 143 (18.43%) Public Sector
3 88 (11.34%) Finance
4 58 (7.47%) Banking
5 40 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.68%) Military
8 11 (1.42%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.03%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.03%) Law
9 8 (1.03%) Retail
10 7 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.77%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.77%) Legal
12 4 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.52%) Police
12 4 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.39%) Local Government
14 2 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 159 (20.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 136 (17.53%) Developer
3 128 (16.49%) Senior
4 68 (8.76%) AWS Engineer
5 67 (8.63%) Data Engineer
6 59 (7.60%) Software Engineer
7 56 (7.22%) Lead
8 46 (5.93%) Architect
8 46 (5.93%) Java Developer
9 45 (5.80%) AWS DevOps
10 40 (5.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 37 (4.77%) Cloud Engineer
12 35 (4.51%) Test Engineer
13 29 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
14 26 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
14 26 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
15 25 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 24 (3.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 22 (2.84%) Java Engineer
18 21 (2.71%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (15.08%) Spring
2 116 (14.95%) Kafka
3 105 (13.53%) Spring Boot
4 94 (12.11%) REST
5 61 (7.86%) Node.js
5 61 (7.86%) RESTful
6 54 (6.96%) React
7 41 (5.28%) Playwright
8 34 (4.38%) OpenTelemetry
9 33 (4.25%) Elastic Stack
10 29 (3.74%) LDAP
11 28 (3.61%) PySpark
11 28 (3.61%) YAML
12 25 (3.22%) RabbitMQ
13 24 (3.09%) AngularJS
13 24 (3.09%) OAuth
13 24 (3.09%) pytest
14 23 (2.96%) Jest
15 22 (2.84%) OpenID
16 21 (2.71%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 131 (16.88%) Cloud Native
2 50 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.80%) Product Ownership
4 34 (4.38%) Data Centre
5 24 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.19%) Public Cloud
8 13 (1.68%) Private Cloud
9 12 (1.55%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.55%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.42%) NHS
11 9 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (1.16%) Mainframe
12 8 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (0.90%) DataPower
14 6 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.77%) PKI
15 5 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
15 5 (0.64%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 128 (16.49%) Linux
2 42 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 42 (5.41%) Windows
3 32 (4.12%) Unix
4 14 (1.80%) CentOS
5 8 (1.03%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.90%) VMS
6 7 (0.90%) zOS
7 5 (0.64%) Android
7 5 (0.64%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.52%) Debian
8 4 (0.52%) Rocky
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 612 (78.87%) CI/CD
2 431 (55.54%) DevOps
3 282 (36.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 266 (34.28%) Agile
5 249 (32.09%) Containerisation
6 233 (30.03%) Test Automation
7 152 (19.59%) Microservices
8 146 (18.81%) Observability
9 128 (16.49%) Software Engineering
10 111 (14.30%) Problem-Solving
11 108 (13.92%) Scrum
12 101 (13.02%) Platform Engineering
13 99 (12.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 81 (10.44%) ETL
15 77 (9.92%) DevSecOps
16 67 (8.63%) TDD
17 65 (8.38%) Migration
18 63 (8.12%) AI
18 63 (8.12%) Analytics
18 63 (8.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 290 (37.37%) Python
2 222 (28.61%) Java
3 170 (21.91%) SQL
4 117 (15.08%) Bash
5 80 (10.31%) JavaScript
6 64 (8.25%) TypeScript
7 62 (7.99%) PowerShell
8 38 (4.90%) Shell Script
9 34 (4.38%) Go
10 33 (4.25%) C#
11 19 (2.45%) Kotlin
12 18 (2.32%) Bicep
13 16 (2.06%) PL/SQL
14 15 (1.93%) C++
15 12 (1.55%) Scala
16 11 (1.42%) MATLAB
17 8 (1.03%) C
17 8 (1.03%) Ruby
18 7 (0.90%) PHP
19 6 (0.77%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 344 (44.33%) Security Cleared
2 283 (36.47%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.64%) Degree
4 33 (4.25%) DV Cleared
5 30 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 22 (2.84%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.29%) SAFe Agilist
10 8 (1.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.39%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.26%) CSSLP
14 2 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (10.70%) QA
2 40 (5.15%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.71%) SLA
4 19 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.80%) GDPR
6 12 (1.55%) WCAG
7 11 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.29%) 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 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.26%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) OpenSCAP
12 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 321 (41.37%) Docker
2 23 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.77%) Squid
6 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.52%) HDFS
7 3 (0.39%) 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
1 346 (44.59%) Kubernetes
2 338 (43.56%) Terraform
3 176 (22.68%) Ansible
4 160 (20.62%) Grafana
5 131 (16.88%) Prometheus
6 48 (6.19%) Argo
7 26 (3.35%) Puppet
8 19 (2.45%) Istio
9 16 (2.06%) Progress Chef
10 15 (1.93%) Podman
11 14 (1.80%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.42%) Check_MK
12 11 (1.42%) Kibana
13 9 (1.16%) linkerd
14 7 (0.90%) Packer
15 6 (0.77%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.64%) Nagios
16 5 (0.64%) Rancher
17 4 (0.52%) Salt
Vendors
1 82 (10.57%) Oracle
2 60 (7.73%) Splunk
3 54 (6.96%) Microsoft
4 44 (5.67%) Red Hat
5 37 (4.77%) Google
6 35 (4.51%) ServiceNow
6 35 (4.51%) Talend
7 34 (4.38%) VMware
8 29 (3.74%) Informatica
9 27 (3.48%) Databricks
10 22 (2.84%) Dynatrace
11 18 (2.32%) Denodo
11 18 (2.32%) Salesforce
12 17 (2.19%) Arista
13 16 (2.06%) F5
14 15 (1.93%) Palo Alto
15 13 (1.68%) Aruba
16 10 (1.29%) IBM
16 10 (1.29%) Veracode
17 6 (0.77%) AppDynamics