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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 137 234
Rank change year-on-year +15 +97 -47
Contract jobs citing GitLab 795 497 379
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.20% 2.01% 1.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.01% 14.88% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 325 284
10th Percentile £386 £363 £413
25th Percentile £431 £435 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £578 £650 £675
90th Percentile £663 £736 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £541 £556
% change year-on-year -7.62% -2.70% -7.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 4
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.33 £62.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £70.83 £69.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £79.72 £74.72
Median % change year-on-year -31.01% +6.69% +21.99%
75th Percentile £65.00 £89.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £80.65 £92.75 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £79.72 £67.22
% change year-on-year -31.01% +18.60% +37.89%

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 4,966 3,340 4,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.72% 13.49% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,367 2,174 3,010
10th Percentile £338 £334 £358
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -3.34% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 64 191
10th Percentile £34.13 £26.10 £37.50
25th Percentile £54.06 £51.95 £49.24
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.88 £73.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -18 327 £525 -6.67% 55
North of England +7 226 £500 -2.91% 49
North West +4 111 £450 -7.69% 21
Midlands +14 106 £481 +0.84% 13
West Midlands +4 95 £492 +3.14% 10
Yorkshire -2 85 £500 -13.04% 12
South East -23 55 £500 -20.85% 51
South West +5 47 £520 -13.33% 26
North East -5 39 £508 +1.25% 16
East of England -20 18 £478 +6.22% 17
East Midlands -22 11 £401 +29.67% 3
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 (7.55%) Confluence
2 36 (4.53%) SAS
3 26 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.14%) Apache
5 15 (1.89%) OpenStack
6 12 (1.51%) Apache Spark
7 9 (1.13%) nginx
8 4 (0.50%) Appian
9 3 (0.38%) CICS
9 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) FileNet
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Actimize
2 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.13%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 473 (59.50%) AWS
2 229 (28.81%) GitHub
3 207 (26.04%) Azure
4 160 (20.13%) GCP
5 143 (17.99%) GitHub Actions
6 121 (15.22%) Serverless
7 99 (12.45%) Amazon S3
8 91 (11.45%) Amazon EKS
9 90 (11.32%) AWS Lambda
10 83 (10.44%) Amazon EC2
10 83 (10.44%) OpenShift
11 75 (9.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 75 (9.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 63 (7.92%) Azure DevOps
13 60 (7.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 45 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
15 27 (3.40%) Datadog
16 23 (2.89%) Azure AKS
17 22 (2.77%) Entra ID
17 22 (2.77%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.28%) Firewall
2 32 (4.03%) DNS
3 28 (3.52%) VPN
4 22 (2.77%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.76%) Network Security
6 7 (0.88%) WAN
7 6 (0.75%) HTTP
7 6 (0.75%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.63%) BGP
8 5 (0.63%) Multicast
8 5 (0.63%) SSL
9 4 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.50%) SAN
9 4 (0.50%) VSAN
10 3 (0.38%) DHCP
10 3 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.38%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.38%) NAS
10 3 (0.38%) OSPF
10 3 (0.38%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (8.30%) MongoDB
3 62 (7.80%) NoSQL
4 43 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
5 27 (3.40%) DynamoDB
5 27 (3.40%) Relational Database
6 26 (3.27%) MySQL
7 22 (2.77%) Redis
8 21 (2.64%) SQL Server
9 20 (2.52%) Data Lake
10 17 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
10 17 (2.14%) Power BI
11 16 (2.01%) Big Data
12 15 (1.89%) Oracle Database
13 14 (1.76%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (1.38%) DocumentDB
16 10 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.26%) Spark SQL
17 9 (1.13%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 395 (49.69%) Jenkins
2 189 (23.77%) Git
3 115 (14.47%) JIRA
4 86 (10.82%) Selenium
5 74 (9.31%) JUnit
6 53 (6.67%) Cucumber
7 36 (4.53%) Postman
8 28 (3.52%) Artifactory
8 28 (3.52%) JMeter
8 28 (3.52%) Maven
9 27 (3.40%) Bitbucket
9 27 (3.40%) REST Assured
10 26 (3.27%) CircleCI
10 26 (3.27%) SonarQube
11 25 (3.14%) Gatling
12 23 (2.89%) Cypress.io
12 23 (2.89%) Gradle
12 23 (2.89%) Mockito
13 19 (2.39%) Sonatype Nexus
14 16 (2.01%) Liquibase
General
1 226 (28.43%) Social Skills
2 130 (16.35%) Public Sector
3 123 (15.47%) Finance
4 87 (10.94%) Banking
5 52 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.26%) Financial Institution
8 13 (1.64%) Military
9 12 (1.51%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.38%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.01%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.88%) Retail
14 5 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.50%) Games
15 4 (0.50%) Law
16 3 (0.38%) Local Government
16 3 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 167 (21.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 153 (19.25%) Developer
3 118 (14.84%) Senior
4 78 (9.81%) AWS Engineer
5 68 (8.55%) Lead
6 61 (7.67%) AWS DevOps
7 54 (6.79%) Software Engineer
8 50 (6.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 45 (5.66%) Java Developer
10 44 (5.53%) Architect
11 43 (5.41%) Data Engineer
12 42 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
13 41 (5.16%) Test Engineer
14 30 (3.77%) GCP Engineer
14 30 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
14 30 (3.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 27 (3.40%) Platform Engineer
16 26 (3.27%) Java Engineer
17 22 (2.77%) Test Automation Engineer
17 22 (2.77%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (17.61%) REST
2 116 (14.59%) Kafka
3 111 (13.96%) Spring
4 102 (12.83%) Spring Boot
5 79 (9.94%) Elastic Stack
6 77 (9.69%) Node.js
7 72 (9.06%) RESTful
8 60 (7.55%) React
9 55 (6.92%) Playwright
10 35 (4.40%) pytest
11 31 (3.90%) HTML
12 30 (3.77%) OpenTelemetry
12 30 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
13 28 (3.52%) YAML
14 27 (3.40%) JSON
15 26 (3.27%) Jest
15 26 (3.27%) OpenID
16 25 (3.14%) AngularJS
16 25 (3.14%) LDAP
17 23 (2.89%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 116 (14.59%) Cloud Native
2 64 (8.05%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.16%) Product Ownership
4 40 (5.03%) Public Cloud
5 20 (2.52%) Onboarding
6 15 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 13 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (1.64%) Private Cloud
8 10 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (1.13%) Mainframe
9 9 (1.13%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (1.01%) PKI
11 7 (0.88%) DataPower
11 7 (0.88%) NHS
11 7 (0.88%) Synthetic Data
11 7 (0.88%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 158 (19.87%) Linux
2 53 (6.67%) Windows
3 28 (3.52%) Unix
4 24 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.51%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.26%) Apple iOS
6 10 (1.26%) CentOS
7 9 (1.13%) Android
8 8 (1.01%) VMS
9 5 (0.63%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.63%) zOS
10 2 (0.25%) Debian
10 2 (0.25%) Rocky
11 1 (0.13%) AIX
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 629 (79.12%) CI/CD
2 475 (59.75%) DevOps
3 299 (37.61%) Agile
4 283 (35.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 276 (34.72%) Containerisation
6 244 (30.69%) Test Automation
7 176 (22.14%) Microservices
8 157 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
9 142 (17.86%) Observability
10 117 (14.72%) Software Engineering
11 100 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 88 (11.07%) Scrum
13 84 (10.57%) Analytics
14 73 (9.18%) TDD
15 70 (8.81%) Test Strategy
16 64 (8.05%) DevSecOps
17 63 (7.92%) Platform Engineering
18 61 (7.67%) Stakeholder Management
19 59 (7.42%) Data Pipeline
20 58 (7.30%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 348 (43.77%) Python
2 243 (30.57%) Java
3 152 (19.12%) SQL
4 120 (15.09%) Bash
5 94 (11.82%) JavaScript
6 72 (9.06%) TypeScript
7 68 (8.55%) PowerShell
8 66 (8.30%) Go
9 42 (5.28%) Shell Script
10 17 (2.14%) Kotlin
11 16 (2.01%) C#
12 14 (1.76%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.51%) Bicep
13 12 (1.51%) Ruby
14 8 (1.01%) C++
14 8 (1.01%) Scala
15 7 (0.88%) C
15 7 (0.88%) Groovy
15 7 (0.88%) Korn
15 7 (0.88%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 307 (38.62%) Security Cleared
2 246 (30.94%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.42%) Degree
4 46 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.65%) AWS Certification
5 29 (3.65%) DV Cleared
6 25 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 22 (2.77%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 10 (1.26%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.13%) CISSP
12 8 (1.01%) CISM
13 7 (0.88%) OCA
13 7 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.50%) ISTQB
16 3 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.25%) CCNP
17 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (13.58%) QA
2 47 (5.91%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.52%) WCAG
4 18 (2.26%) GDPR
5 17 (2.14%) SLA
6 14 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 13 (1.64%) Data Quality
7 13 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.64%) NIST
8 11 (1.38%) NCSC
9 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.50%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.25%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 346 (43.52%) Docker
2 22 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.63%) HDFS
6 4 (0.50%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.25%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.13%) Squid
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 409 (51.45%) Kubernetes
2 362 (45.53%) Terraform
3 195 (24.53%) Grafana
4 194 (24.40%) Ansible
5 153 (19.25%) Prometheus
6 43 (5.41%) Argo
7 20 (2.52%) Istio
8 18 (2.26%) Podman
8 18 (2.26%) Puppet
9 17 (2.14%) Kibana
10 16 (2.01%) Progress Chef
11 13 (1.64%) Packer
12 9 (1.13%) Fluentd
12 9 (1.13%) linkerd
12 9 (1.13%) Red Hat Satellite
13 7 (0.88%) Check_MK
13 7 (0.88%) Karpenter
13 7 (0.88%) Sysdig
14 6 (0.75%) Nagios
15 5 (0.63%) Rancher
Vendors
1 95 (11.95%) Splunk
2 65 (8.18%) Oracle
3 62 (7.80%) Microsoft
4 43 (5.41%) Google
5 42 (5.28%) Red Hat
6 32 (4.03%) VMware
7 29 (3.65%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.26%) Databricks
9 16 (2.01%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.89%) Informatica
10 15 (1.89%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.76%) Atlassian
11 14 (1.76%) Talend
12 13 (1.64%) Veracode
13 12 (1.51%) Cisco
14 10 (1.26%) Cribl.io
14 10 (1.26%) IBM
15 6 (0.75%) F5
15 6 (0.75%) Fortinet
15 6 (0.75%) Palo Alto