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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 145 268
Rank change year-on-year +17 +123 -91
Contract jobs citing GitLab 658 547 368
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 1.76% 0.92%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.39% 13.24% 7.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 363 281
10th Percentile £376 £360 £413
25th Percentile £447 £415 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% -1.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £645
90th Percentile £675 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile £61.55 £69.50 -
25th Percentile £63.63 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% -7.50% +20.75%
75th Percentile - £74.86 -
90th Percentile - £81.25 -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.46% +23.33% -9.43%

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 4,573 4,130 5,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.36% 13.26% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,194 2,597 3,617
10th Percentile £325 £350 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 126 227
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £45.88
25th Percentile £54.94 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.50 £70.00 £77.02
90th Percentile £79.25 £74.72 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 8 November 2025.

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
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 8 November 2025. 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 -22 248 £525 -12.50% 231
North of England +14 184 £478 +16.02% 94
Yorkshire +9 86 £500 +25.00% 16
Midlands +19 77 £525 +10.06% 38
West Midlands +26 74 £525 +7.25% 20
North West -2 71 £402 -0.62% 58
South East -5 45 £500 +6.93% 214
South West +14 42 £600 +4.80% 59
East of England +13 33 £488 +44.44% 13
North East -3 28 £515 +19.08% 20
East Midlands -25 3 £270 -24.16% 16
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 56 (8.51%) Confluence
2 25 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (3.80%) SAS
3 10 (1.52%) Apache
4 8 (1.22%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.06%) Appian
6 6 (0.91%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.91%) nginx
7 4 (0.61%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.61%) CMS
7 4 (0.61%) Mule
7 4 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.46%) Documentum
8 3 (0.46%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.46%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.46%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.30%) FileNet
9 2 (0.30%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.15%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.15%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 382 (58.05%) AWS
2 180 (27.36%) Azure
3 172 (26.14%) GitHub
4 141 (21.43%) GCP
5 89 (13.53%) GitHub Actions
6 73 (11.09%) Serverless
7 66 (10.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 65 (9.88%) Amazon S3
9 63 (9.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 57 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
11 56 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
12 48 (7.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 45 (6.84%) Amazon ECS
13 45 (6.84%) OpenShift
14 39 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
15 37 (5.62%) Amazon EKS
16 22 (3.34%) Datadog
17 20 (3.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 18 (2.74%) Amazon ELB
18 18 (2.74%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (8.05%) Firewall
2 47 (7.14%) DNS
3 41 (6.23%) VPN
4 30 (4.56%) TCP/IP
5 24 (3.65%) Network Security
6 21 (3.19%) SSL
7 7 (1.06%) BGP
7 7 (1.06%) WAN
8 6 (0.91%) SAN
9 5 (0.76%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (0.76%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (0.76%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.61%) MPLS
10 4 (0.61%) VXLAN
11 3 (0.46%) DHCP
11 3 (0.46%) HTTP
11 3 (0.46%) iSCSI
11 3 (0.46%) NAS
11 3 (0.46%) OSPF
11 3 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (10.33%) MongoDB
2 64 (9.73%) NoSQL
3 62 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
5 22 (3.34%) SQL Server
6 15 (2.28%) Big Data
7 14 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (2.13%) Data Lake
8 11 (1.67%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 10 (1.52%) MySQL
10 9 (1.37%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (1.06%) DynamoDB
12 7 (1.06%) Power BI
13 6 (0.91%) Redis
13 6 (0.91%) SAS Visual Analytics
14 5 (0.76%) Couchbase
14 5 (0.76%) HPCC
15 4 (0.61%) SAS Data Integration Studio
16 3 (0.46%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 324 (49.24%) Jenkins
2 155 (23.56%) Git
3 102 (15.50%) JIRA
4 66 (10.03%) Selenium
5 57 (8.66%) JUnit
6 52 (7.90%) Maven
7 43 (6.53%) Cucumber
8 41 (6.23%) SonarQube
9 36 (5.47%) Artifactory
10 30 (4.56%) Bitbucket
10 30 (4.56%) Cypress.io
11 29 (4.41%) Sonatype Nexus
12 27 (4.10%) Liquibase
13 23 (3.50%) Postman
14 22 (3.34%) Gradle
15 17 (2.58%) REST Assured
16 16 (2.43%) JMeter
16 16 (2.43%) TeamCity
17 13 (1.98%) Mockito
18 12 (1.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 187 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 101 (15.35%) Finance
3 82 (12.46%) Banking
4 78 (11.85%) Public Sector
5 43 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (4.71%) Financial Institution
7 17 (2.58%) Telecoms
8 14 (2.13%) Aerospace
8 14 (2.13%) Military
9 9 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.22%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.06%) Games
12 5 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.76%) Marketing
13 4 (0.61%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.46%) Front Office
14 3 (0.46%) Retail
15 1 (0.15%) Automotive
15 1 (0.15%) Electronics
15 1 (0.15%) Law
Job Titles
1 148 (22.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 128 (19.45%) Developer
3 108 (16.41%) Senior
4 79 (12.01%) AWS Engineer
5 52 (7.90%) AWS DevOps
6 46 (6.99%) Lead
7 43 (6.53%) Java Developer
7 43 (6.53%) Software Engineer
8 41 (6.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 38 (5.78%) Cloud Engineer
10 34 (5.17%) Senior DevOps
10 34 (5.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 28 (4.26%) Automation Engineer
11 28 (4.26%) Test Engineer
12 27 (4.10%) GCP Engineer
13 23 (3.50%) Data Engineer
13 23 (3.50%) Full-Stack Developer
13 23 (3.50%) Senior Developer
14 21 (3.19%) Consultant
14 21 (3.19%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (17.02%) REST
2 76 (11.55%) Kafka
3 70 (10.64%) Elastic Stack
4 66 (10.03%) Node.js
5 64 (9.73%) RESTful
6 52 (7.90%) React
7 47 (7.14%) HTML
7 47 (7.14%) Spring Boot
8 45 (6.84%) Spring
9 34 (5.17%) Playwright
10 31 (4.71%) CSS
11 28 (4.26%) JSON
12 22 (3.34%) AngularJS
12 22 (3.34%) pytest
13 21 (3.19%) .NET
14 17 (2.58%) XML
15 16 (2.43%) Jest
15 16 (2.43%) RabbitMQ
16 15 (2.28%) OAuth
17 14 (2.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 80 (12.16%) Cloud Native
2 54 (8.21%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (6.23%) Public Cloud
4 28 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 18 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
6 17 (2.58%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.98%) PKI
8 12 (1.82%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (1.67%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.67%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.37%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (1.06%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.61%) Derivative
14 4 (0.61%) Mobile App
14 4 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 150 (22.80%) Linux
2 41 (6.23%) Windows
3 33 (5.02%) Unix
4 17 (2.58%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (1.82%) CentOS
7 9 (1.37%) Android
8 8 (1.22%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.91%) Solaris
10 4 (0.61%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.61%) VMS
11 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 504 (76.60%) CI/CD
2 423 (64.29%) DevOps
3 278 (42.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 243 (36.93%) Agile
4 243 (36.93%) Containerisation
5 168 (25.53%) Test Automation
6 158 (24.01%) Microservices
7 121 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (14.13%) Software Engineering
9 91 (13.83%) Infrastructure Automation
10 81 (12.31%) Migration
11 78 (11.85%) Computer Science
12 76 (11.55%) Observability
13 70 (10.64%) High Availability
14 69 (10.49%) Scrum
15 64 (9.73%) DevSecOps
16 63 (9.57%) Continuous Integration
17 61 (9.27%) SDLC
18 59 (8.97%) TDD
19 56 (8.51%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 311 (47.26%) Python
2 162 (24.62%) Java
3 123 (18.69%) Bash
4 100 (15.20%) SQL
5 87 (13.22%) JavaScript
6 79 (12.01%) Go
7 53 (8.05%) PowerShell
8 44 (6.69%) TypeScript
9 33 (5.02%) Shell Script
10 27 (4.10%) C#
11 12 (1.82%) C++
12 8 (1.22%) C
13 7 (1.06%) Perl
14 6 (0.91%) Korn
14 6 (0.91%) Ruby
14 6 (0.91%) Rust
15 5 (0.76%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.61%) DataWeave
16 4 (0.61%) Groovy
16 4 (0.61%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 242 (36.78%) Security Cleared
2 189 (28.72%) SC Cleared
3 66 (10.03%) Degree
4 58 (8.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (6.69%) AWS Certification
6 41 (6.23%) DV Cleared
7 38 (5.78%) Master's Degree
8 25 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 16 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.82%) CISSP
11 10 (1.52%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.52%) CISM
12 8 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (0.76%) CCNP
13 5 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.76%) OCA
13 5 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (12.92%) QA
2 28 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.89%) WCAG
4 14 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.13%) NIST
5 12 (1.82%) GDPR
6 11 (1.67%) NCSC
7 9 (1.37%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.61%) SLA
9 3 (0.46%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.46%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 284 (43.16%) Docker
2 22 (3.34%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.91%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.61%) vSphere
6 3 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.30%) Firmware
8 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 334 (50.76%) Terraform
2 324 (49.24%) Kubernetes
3 209 (31.76%) Ansible
4 133 (20.21%) Grafana
5 113 (17.17%) Prometheus
6 32 (4.86%) Puppet
7 19 (2.89%) Argo
8 18 (2.74%) Packer
9 16 (2.43%) Progress Chef
10 11 (1.67%) Istio
11 10 (1.52%) Fluentd
11 10 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
11 10 (1.52%) NetBackup
11 10 (1.52%) Podman
12 6 (0.91%) Kibana
12 6 (0.91%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.91%) Sysdig
12 6 (0.91%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.76%) Salt
13 5 (0.76%) vRealize
Vendors
1 89 (13.53%) Splunk
2 53 (8.05%) Microsoft
3 44 (6.69%) Google
4 35 (5.32%) Oracle
5 28 (4.26%) VMware
6 27 (4.10%) Red Hat
7 24 (3.65%) F5
8 23 (3.50%) Palo Alto
9 20 (3.04%) CheckPoint
10 18 (2.74%) Cisco
10 18 (2.74%) Dynatrace
11 16 (2.43%) Atlassian
12 15 (2.28%) IBM
13 13 (1.98%) Veracode
14 12 (1.82%) Databricks
15 10 (1.52%) Commvault
15 10 (1.52%) Cribl.io
15 10 (1.52%) ServiceNow
15 10 (1.52%) Veritas
16 9 (1.37%) MuleSoft