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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 143 173
Rank change year-on-year +7 +30 +88
Contract jobs citing GitLab 923 562 478
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.98% 2.04% 1.48%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.36% 13.62% 11.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 636 388 330
10th Percentile £383 £375 £349
25th Percentile £433 £449 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £605 £603 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 7 7
10th Percentile - £61.55 £70.40
25th Percentile £65.00 £63.63 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.72
90th Percentile £95.00 - £80.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -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 5,317 4,125 4,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.42% 14.94% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,356 2,853 2,754
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £418 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £630
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 93 168
10th Percentile £24.79 £42.30 £37.31
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.75 £54.27
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.23 £77.50 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 +17 393 £520 -1.89% 341
North of England -48 183 £475 -2.56% 127
Midlands +37 145 £475 -12.04% 50
West Midlands +43 136 £475 -13.64% 41
South East -24 84 £550 +9.89% 67
North East -3 78 £413 -17.50% 31
North West -31 77 £569 +21.84% 72
South West -8 64 £550 -8.33% 84
East of England -21 39 £450 -7.69% 40
Yorkshire -68 39 £550 +10.00% 24
East Midlands -16 9 £405 +50.00% 9
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 84 (9.10%) Confluence
2 62 (6.72%) Apache Airflow
2 62 (6.72%) Apache Spark
3 46 (4.98%) Apache
4 30 (3.25%) Jupyter
5 23 (2.49%) SAS
6 12 (1.30%) Camunda
7 6 (0.65%) nginx
8 5 (0.54%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.43%) CICS
10 3 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.33%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.22%) Traefik
12 1 (0.11%) CMS
12 1 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 603 (65.33%) AWS
2 311 (33.69%) Azure
3 292 (31.64%) GitHub
4 205 (22.21%) GitHub Actions
5 152 (16.47%) Azure DevOps
6 150 (16.25%) GCP
7 115 (12.46%) Amazon S3
8 114 (12.35%) Serverless
9 112 (12.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 112 (12.13%) Amazon EKS
10 105 (11.38%) AWS Lambda
11 87 (9.43%) Amazon EC2
12 58 (6.28%) AWS CloudFormation
13 55 (5.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 52 (5.63%) OpenShift
15 49 (5.31%) Amazon ECS
16 41 (4.44%) Amazon EMR
16 41 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
17 36 (3.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 35 (3.79%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.09%) Firewall
2 36 (3.90%) DNS
3 29 (3.14%) BGP
3 29 (3.14%) Ethernet VPN
3 29 (3.14%) Network Security
3 29 (3.14%) VXLAN
4 25 (2.71%) TCP/IP
5 24 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (2.38%) WAN
7 21 (2.28%) SD-WAN
8 20 (2.17%) OSPF
9 19 (2.06%) BIG-IP
9 19 (2.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 13 (1.41%) VPN
11 11 (1.19%) 5G
11 11 (1.19%) HTTP
11 11 (1.19%) WLAN
12 10 (1.08%) 4G
12 10 (1.08%) NX-OS
13 9 (0.98%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (8.78%) MongoDB
2 76 (8.23%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (5.31%) Relational Database
4 43 (4.66%) Amazon Athena
5 42 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
6 38 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
7 37 (4.01%) NoSQL
8 36 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
9 34 (3.68%) Oracle Database
10 33 (3.58%) DynamoDB
11 32 (3.47%) Data Lake
11 32 (3.47%) SQL Server
12 31 (3.36%) Redis
13 29 (3.14%) MySQL
14 28 (3.03%) Power BI
15 27 (2.93%) Pentaho
16 26 (2.82%) RDBMS
17 25 (2.71%) Big Data
18 15 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
19 13 (1.41%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 368 (39.87%) Jenkins
2 249 (26.98%) Git
3 118 (12.78%) JIRA
4 81 (8.78%) JUnit
5 76 (8.23%) Selenium
6 55 (5.96%) SonarQube
7 52 (5.63%) Cucumber
8 51 (5.53%) Maven
9 40 (4.33%) Mockito
10 37 (4.01%) Gradle
11 35 (3.79%) Gatling
12 33 (3.58%) Bitbucket
13 28 (3.03%) REST Assured
14 26 (2.82%) Artifactory
14 26 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
15 17 (1.84%) JMeter
15 17 (1.84%) WebDriver
16 15 (1.63%) Cypress.io
16 15 (1.63%) Postman
16 15 (1.63%) Snyk
General
1 178 (19.28%) Social Skills
2 164 (17.77%) Public Sector
3 99 (10.73%) Finance
4 66 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (6.93%) Banking
6 22 (2.38%) Military
7 19 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (1.95%) Telecoms
9 15 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (1.52%) Law
11 11 (1.19%) Aerospace
12 9 (0.98%) Legal
13 6 (0.65%) Back Office
13 6 (0.65%) Police
14 5 (0.54%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.54%) Publishing
15 4 (0.43%) Local Government
15 4 (0.43%) Marketing
15 4 (0.43%) Retail
16 3 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 199 (21.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 163 (17.66%) Senior
3 153 (16.58%) Developer
4 102 (11.05%) AWS Engineer
5 78 (8.45%) Data Engineer
6 65 (7.04%) AWS DevOps
7 59 (6.39%) Lead
8 58 (6.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 49 (5.31%) Software Engineer
10 48 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
11 46 (4.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 46 (4.98%) Java Developer
12 44 (4.77%) Architect
12 44 (4.77%) Test Engineer
13 37 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
14 35 (3.79%) Software Developer
15 33 (3.58%) Full-Stack Developer
15 33 (3.58%) Java Engineer
16 29 (3.14%) Senior DevOps
17 28 (3.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 466 (50.49%) Terraform
2 143 (15.49%) Kafka
3 125 (13.54%) Spring
4 111 (12.03%) Spring Boot
5 106 (11.48%) REST
6 68 (7.37%) React
7 62 (6.72%) Playwright
8 60 (6.50%) RESTful
9 50 (5.42%) RabbitMQ
10 47 (5.09%) JSON
11 44 (4.77%) PySpark
12 38 (4.12%) Node.js
13 37 (4.01%) HTML
14 35 (3.79%) JPA
15 33 (3.58%) YAML
16 32 (3.47%) CSS
17 30 (3.25%) OpenAPI
18 27 (2.93%) .NET
18 27 (2.93%) OAuth
19 26 (2.82%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 184 (19.93%) Cloud Native
2 56 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (4.77%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.12%) Data Centre
5 36 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 30 (3.25%) Data Structures
7 28 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (2.71%) Onboarding
9 18 (1.95%) AI Agents
10 17 (1.84%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
11 14 (1.52%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.41%) PKI
13 12 (1.30%) Mainframe
13 12 (1.30%) Private Cloud
14 11 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.08%) Replication
15 10 (1.08%) Security Posture
16 9 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
17 7 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 196 (21.24%) Linux
2 45 (4.88%) Windows
3 44 (4.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (4.55%) Unix
5 17 (1.84%) CentOS
6 15 (1.63%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.30%) AIX
7 12 (1.30%) VMS
8 11 (1.19%) zOS
9 10 (1.08%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.22%) Debian
10 2 (0.22%) Rocky
10 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Android
11 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 773 (83.75%) CI/CD
2 548 (59.37%) DevOps
3 445 (48.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 354 (38.35%) Agile
5 329 (35.64%) Containerisation
6 283 (30.66%) Test Automation
7 184 (19.93%) Microservices
8 170 (18.42%) Observability
8 170 (18.42%) Scrum
9 156 (16.90%) Software Engineering
10 134 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 128 (13.87%) Platform Engineering
12 125 (13.54%) AI
13 124 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
14 100 (10.83%) Deployment Automation
15 98 (10.62%) DevSecOps
16 95 (10.29%) Event-Driven
16 95 (10.29%) Migration
17 93 (10.08%) Mentoring
18 89 (9.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 410 (44.42%) Python
2 240 (26.00%) Java
3 215 (23.29%) SQL
4 163 (17.66%) Bash
5 86 (9.32%) JavaScript
6 79 (8.56%) PowerShell
7 67 (7.26%) C#
8 51 (5.53%) TypeScript
9 40 (4.33%) Go
10 38 (4.12%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.84%) Bicep
12 15 (1.63%) C++
12 15 (1.63%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.30%) Groovy
14 9 (0.98%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.87%) Scala
16 6 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.65%) R
17 5 (0.54%) Cypher
17 5 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 436 (47.24%) Security Cleared
2 341 (36.94%) SC Cleared
3 81 (8.78%) DV Cleared
4 64 (6.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 52 (5.63%) Degree
6 46 (4.98%) AWS Certification
7 39 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 15 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (1.52%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.52%) CISSP
10 12 (1.30%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.87%) SAFe Agilist
12 6 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (0.54%) GCFA
13 5 (0.54%) GCIH
14 4 (0.43%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (13.54%) QA
2 45 (4.88%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.58%) Data Quality
4 25 (2.71%) WCAG
5 17 (1.84%) NIST
6 13 (1.41%) GDPR
6 13 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.08%) NCSC
8 9 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.76%) SLA
11 6 (0.65%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.54%) FATCA
13 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.11%) GRC
14 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
14 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.11%) OpenSCAP
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 394 (42.69%) Docker
2 22 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.28%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.41%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.87%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.54%) Squid
7 3 (0.33%) HDFS
7 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.33%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.22%) Firmware
8 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.11%) iptables
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 413 (44.75%) Kubernetes
2 248 (26.87%) Ansible
3 152 (16.47%) Grafana
4 133 (14.41%) Prometheus
5 42 (4.55%) Argo
6 39 (4.23%) Puppet
7 27 (2.93%) Progress Chef
8 23 (2.49%) Kibana
9 13 (1.41%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.41%) Oracle RMAN
10 12 (1.30%) Istio
11 11 (1.19%) Packer
12 10 (1.08%) Podman
12 10 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.76%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.54%) CASB
14 5 (0.54%) Cilium
14 5 (0.54%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.43%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 105 (11.38%) Oracle
2 69 (7.48%) Microsoft
3 64 (6.93%) Google
4 52 (5.63%) Splunk
5 44 (4.77%) Talend
6 42 (4.55%) VMware
7 40 (4.33%) Informatica
8 32 (3.47%) Dynatrace
9 28 (3.03%) Databricks
10 26 (2.82%) Red Hat
11 24 (2.60%) IBM
12 23 (2.49%) ServiceNow
13 21 (2.28%) Palo Alto
14 20 (2.17%) F5
15 19 (2.06%) Denodo
16 18 (1.95%) Arista
16 18 (1.95%) Aruba
17 16 (1.73%) Trend Micro
18 13 (1.41%) Cisco
18 13 (1.41%) Veracode