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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 149 218
Rank change year-on-year +14 +69 +31
Contract jobs citing GitLab 803 458 398
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.92% 1.91% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.94% 13.60% 9.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 289 291
10th Percentile £400 £380 £363
25th Percentile £438 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% -5.06%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £666
90th Percentile £667 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £495 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -4.81% -5.45% -6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 1 7
10th Percentile £43.42 - £57.65
25th Percentile £52.50 - £61.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +11.45% +87.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £76.25
90th Percentile £76.75 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £70.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% +18.51% +76.77%

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 5,038 3,368 4,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.05% 14.08% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,304 2,287 2,925
10th Percentile £349 £350 £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 £608 £638
90th Percentile £684 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 61 203
10th Percentile £36.13 £27.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £55.31 £48.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £77.90
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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -8 323 £525 -0.94% 32
North of England +2 198 £487 -2.60% 46
Midlands +19 122 £463 -7.50% 13
West Midlands +16 110 £466 -11.29% 9
North West +9 96 £500 - 22
Yorkshire -18 69 £500 -4.76% 8
South East -24 66 £550 +9.89% 26
South West +4 56 £500 +6.95% 16
North East -2 47 £450 -14.29% 16
East of England -5 35 £480 +1.11% 6
East Midlands -19 12 £436 +40.19% 4
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 68 (8.47%) Confluence
2 34 (4.23%) SAS
3 31 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (3.61%) Apache
4 29 (3.61%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.62%) Jupyter
6 9 (1.12%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.87%) CICS
8 5 (0.62%) Camunda
8 5 (0.62%) nginx
8 5 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 482 (60.02%) AWS
2 257 (32.00%) GitHub
3 244 (30.39%) Azure
4 182 (22.67%) GitHub Actions
5 141 (17.56%) GCP
6 117 (14.57%) Amazon S3
7 110 (13.70%) Serverless
8 99 (12.33%) AWS Lambda
9 96 (11.96%) Amazon EKS
10 87 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
11 83 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
12 82 (10.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 64 (7.97%) AWS CloudFormation
14 60 (7.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 57 (7.10%) OpenShift
16 37 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
17 28 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
18 26 (3.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 25 (3.11%) Azure AKS
19 25 (3.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 45 (5.60%) Firewall
2 29 (3.61%) DNS
3 20 (2.49%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.37%) BGP
4 19 (2.37%) WAN
5 18 (2.24%) OSPF
6 17 (2.12%) BIG-IP
6 17 (2.12%) Ethernet VPN
6 17 (2.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 17 (2.12%) Network Security
6 17 (2.12%) SD-WAN
6 17 (2.12%) VXLAN
7 15 (1.87%) VPN
8 13 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (1.25%) HTTP
10 9 (1.12%) WLAN
11 6 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (0.62%) SSL
13 4 (0.50%) SAN
13 4 (0.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (8.84%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (6.72%) MongoDB
3 41 (5.11%) Relational Database
4 36 (4.48%) NoSQL
5 35 (4.36%) DynamoDB
6 33 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
7 31 (3.86%) Amazon Athena
7 31 (3.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 27 (3.36%) MySQL
9 25 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
10 24 (2.99%) Power BI
10 24 (2.99%) SQL Server
11 23 (2.86%) Pentaho
11 23 (2.86%) Redis
12 22 (2.74%) Data Lake
13 20 (2.49%) Big Data
14 17 (2.12%) Oracle Database
15 14 (1.74%) BigQuery
15 14 (1.74%) DocumentDB
16 11 (1.37%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 348 (43.34%) Jenkins
2 181 (22.54%) Git
3 115 (14.32%) JIRA
4 72 (8.97%) Selenium
5 59 (7.35%) JUnit
6 40 (4.98%) Cucumber
7 36 (4.48%) Gradle
8 34 (4.23%) Artifactory
9 33 (4.11%) REST Assured
10 32 (3.99%) Postman
11 27 (3.36%) Bitbucket
12 24 (2.99%) Mockito
12 24 (2.99%) SonarQube
13 23 (2.86%) JMeter
14 22 (2.74%) CircleCI
15 21 (2.62%) Gatling
16 17 (2.12%) Sonatype Nexus
17 15 (1.87%) WebDriver
18 14 (1.74%) Maven
19 13 (1.62%) IntelliJ
General
1 167 (20.80%) Social Skills
2 143 (17.81%) Public Sector
3 87 (10.83%) Finance
4 61 (7.60%) Banking
5 39 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.74%) Military
8 12 (1.49%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.00%) Law
9 8 (1.00%) Legal
9 8 (1.00%) Retail
10 7 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.75%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.75%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.50%) Police
12 4 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.37%) Local Government
13 3 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 168 (20.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 132 (16.44%) Senior
3 125 (15.57%) Developer
4 77 (9.59%) AWS Engineer
5 73 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 59 (7.35%) Lead
6 59 (7.35%) Software Engineer
7 52 (6.48%) AWS DevOps
8 47 (5.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 43 (5.35%) Architect
10 39 (4.86%) Cloud Engineer
10 39 (4.86%) Java Developer
11 34 (4.23%) Test Engineer
12 32 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
13 28 (3.49%) Senior DevOps
14 27 (3.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 27 (3.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 26 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
16 23 (2.86%) Java Engineer
17 22 (2.74%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (14.57%) Kafka
2 109 (13.57%) Spring
3 99 (12.33%) REST
3 99 (12.33%) Spring Boot
4 60 (7.47%) RESTful
5 56 (6.97%) React
6 50 (6.23%) Node.js
7 42 (5.23%) Playwright
8 36 (4.48%) Elastic Stack
9 35 (4.36%) OpenTelemetry
10 33 (4.11%) PySpark
11 30 (3.74%) LDAP
12 29 (3.61%) YAML
13 25 (3.11%) OAuth
14 23 (2.86%) JSON
14 23 (2.86%) OpenID
15 22 (2.74%) AngularJS
15 22 (2.74%) AWS CDK
15 22 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
15 22 (2.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 136 (16.94%) Cloud Native
2 50 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.85%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.61%) Data Centre
5 26 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 23 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.99%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
9 13 (1.62%) Private Cloud
10 12 (1.49%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.37%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (1.12%) Mainframe
12 9 (1.12%) NHS
13 8 (1.00%) PKI
14 7 (0.87%) DataPower
15 6 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (0.75%) Data Structures
15 6 (0.75%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 137 (17.06%) Linux
2 44 (5.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 40 (4.98%) Unix
3 40 (4.98%) Windows
4 15 (1.87%) CentOS
5 10 (1.25%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.12%) zOS
7 6 (0.75%) VMS
8 5 (0.62%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.50%) Debian
9 4 (0.50%) Rocky
10 3 (0.37%) Android
10 3 (0.37%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.25%) AIX
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 636 (79.20%) CI/CD
2 453 (56.41%) DevOps
3 307 (38.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 273 (34.00%) Agile
5 255 (31.76%) Containerisation
6 242 (30.14%) Test Automation
7 154 (19.18%) Microservices
8 151 (18.80%) Observability
9 133 (16.56%) Software Engineering
10 112 (13.95%) Scrum
11 108 (13.45%) Platform Engineering
12 102 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
13 98 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 86 (10.71%) ETL
15 79 (9.84%) DevSecOps
16 70 (8.72%) Migration
17 67 (8.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 66 (8.22%) TDD
19 64 (7.97%) AI
19 64 (7.97%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 311 (38.73%) Python
2 219 (27.27%) Java
3 195 (24.28%) SQL
4 121 (15.07%) Bash
5 76 (9.46%) JavaScript
6 61 (7.60%) PowerShell
7 59 (7.35%) TypeScript
8 39 (4.86%) Shell Script
9 36 (4.48%) C#
10 34 (4.23%) Go
11 21 (2.62%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.12%) Kotlin
13 16 (1.99%) Bicep
14 15 (1.87%) C++
15 11 (1.37%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.37%) Scala
16 8 (1.00%) Ruby
17 7 (0.87%) C
18 6 (0.75%) JCL
18 6 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 359 (44.71%) Security Cleared
2 295 (36.74%) SC Cleared
3 38 (4.73%) Degree
4 34 (4.23%) DV Cleared
5 31 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 22 (2.74%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.37%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.25%) ISTQB
9 10 (1.25%) SAFe Agilist
10 8 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.37%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.25%) CCNP
13 2 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (10.46%) QA
2 38 (4.73%) Accessibility
3 24 (2.99%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.74%) SLA
5 12 (1.49%) GDPR
5 12 (1.49%) WCAG
6 10 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.62%) FATCA
8 5 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.62%) NIST
9 4 (0.50%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.50%) NCSC
10 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.12%) GRC
10 1 (0.12%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
10 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 325 (40.47%) Docker
2 23 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.75%) Squid
6 4 (0.50%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.50%) HDFS
6 4 (0.50%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.37%) vSphere
8 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 360 (44.83%) Terraform
2 347 (43.21%) Kubernetes
3 182 (22.67%) Ansible
4 162 (20.17%) Grafana
5 134 (16.69%) Prometheus
6 48 (5.98%) Argo
7 30 (3.74%) Puppet
8 22 (2.74%) Istio
9 17 (2.12%) Progress Chef
10 15 (1.87%) Podman
11 14 (1.74%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.37%) Check_MK
13 10 (1.25%) Kibana
14 9 (1.12%) Packer
15 8 (1.00%) linkerd
16 6 (0.75%) Karpenter
16 6 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
17 5 (0.62%) Salt
18 4 (0.50%) Nagios
18 4 (0.50%) Suricata
Vendors
1 91 (11.33%) Oracle
2 57 (7.10%) Splunk
3 54 (6.72%) Microsoft
4 44 (5.48%) Red Hat
5 43 (5.35%) Talend
6 38 (4.73%) Google
7 33 (4.11%) ServiceNow
7 33 (4.11%) VMware
8 32 (3.99%) Informatica
9 28 (3.49%) Databricks
10 23 (2.86%) Denodo
11 21 (2.62%) Dynatrace
12 19 (2.37%) F5
13 18 (2.24%) Arista
13 18 (2.24%) Palo Alto
13 18 (2.24%) Salesforce
14 16 (1.99%) Aruba
15 12 (1.49%) Veracode
16 9 (1.12%) IBM
17 6 (0.75%) AppDynamics