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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 142 195
Rank change year-on-year -10 +53 +53
Contract jobs citing GitLab 828 540 425
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.83% 1.96% 1.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.69% 13.52% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 359 293
10th Percentile £368 £356 £320
25th Percentile £425 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -3.30% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £650
90th Percentile £700 £672 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 9
10th Percentile £64.63 £61.60 £63.20
25th Percentile - £64.56 £72.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £75.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £71.79 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -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 5,277 3,994 4,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.47% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,358 2,771 2,848
10th Percentile £351 £322 £350
25th Percentile £413 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £592 £600 £629
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 95 199
10th Percentile £35.00 £40.90 £31.71
25th Percentile £57.25 £51.03 £51.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.45 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - -

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +4 360 £525 -0.47% 176
North of England -23 169 £464 -2.32% 54
Midlands +31 139 £469 -6.20% 24
West Midlands +25 132 £469 -11.68% 17
South East -35 75 £550 - 42
North East +8 71 £413 -11.29% 10
North West -40 69 £575 +18.56% 37
South West -31 50 £550 -8.33% 43
Yorkshire -43 42 £550 +12.82% 7
East of England -15 30 £483 +1.58% 14
East Midlands -8 7 £470 +74.07% 7
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 (10.14%) Confluence
2 55 (6.64%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (5.68%) Apache Spark
4 40 (4.83%) Apache
5 31 (3.74%) SAS
6 27 (3.26%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.72%) Camunda
7 6 (0.72%) CICS
7 6 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.36%) nginx
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.24%) CMS
9 2 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.48%) Trello
2 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 558 (67.39%) AWS
2 282 (34.06%) GitHub
3 273 (32.97%) Azure
4 211 (25.48%) GitHub Actions
5 145 (17.51%) GCP
6 130 (15.70%) Azure DevOps
7 116 (14.01%) Amazon S3
8 108 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
8 108 (13.04%) Serverless
9 98 (11.84%) AWS Lambda
10 96 (11.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 81 (9.78%) Amazon EC2
12 62 (7.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 57 (6.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 40 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
15 37 (4.47%) OpenShift
16 35 (4.23%) Amazon SQS
17 34 (4.11%) Datadog
17 34 (4.11%) OCI
18 33 (3.99%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.07%) Firewall
2 23 (2.78%) DNS
3 22 (2.66%) BGP
3 22 (2.66%) WAN
4 21 (2.54%) Network Security
4 21 (2.54%) OSPF
4 21 (2.54%) SD-WAN
5 20 (2.42%) Ethernet VPN
5 20 (2.42%) VXLAN
6 19 (2.29%) BIG-IP
6 19 (2.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 15 (1.81%) TCP/IP
7 15 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (1.57%) VPN
9 11 (1.33%) WLAN
10 8 (0.97%) HTTP
11 6 (0.72%) SSL
12 4 (0.48%) DHCP
12 4 (0.48%) MQTT
12 4 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (7.97%) MongoDB
2 65 (7.85%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 39 (4.71%) Amazon Athena
4 39 (4.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 35 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (4.11%) DynamoDB
7 33 (3.99%) Amazon RDS
8 32 (3.86%) Pentaho
9 30 (3.62%) Power BI
10 29 (3.50%) NoSQL
11 28 (3.38%) SQL Server
12 27 (3.26%) Oracle Database
13 23 (2.78%) RDBMS
14 21 (2.54%) Big Data
14 21 (2.54%) MySQL
15 20 (2.42%) Data Lake
15 20 (2.42%) Redis
16 12 (1.45%) Oracle Exadata
17 11 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 345 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 201 (24.28%) Git
3 107 (12.92%) JIRA
4 64 (7.73%) JUnit
5 62 (7.49%) Selenium
6 43 (5.19%) Cucumber
7 40 (4.83%) Bitbucket
8 35 (4.23%) SonarQube
9 29 (3.50%) Artifactory
9 29 (3.50%) Gradle
10 27 (3.26%) Gatling
11 25 (3.02%) Maven
12 24 (2.90%) Mockito
13 23 (2.78%) JMeter
14 22 (2.66%) WebDriver
15 21 (2.54%) REST Assured
16 18 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
17 17 (2.05%) Postman
18 15 (1.81%) Snyk
19 10 (1.21%) MLflow
General
1 165 (19.93%) Social Skills
2 147 (17.75%) Public Sector
3 91 (10.99%) Finance
4 63 (7.61%) Banking
5 48 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.29%) Military
7 14 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (1.69%) Law
8 11 (1.33%) Legal
9 9 (1.09%) Aerospace
10 7 (0.85%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.60%) Police
11 5 (0.60%) Publishing
12 4 (0.48%) Marketing
13 3 (0.36%) Back Office
13 3 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 179 (21.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 166 (20.05%) Senior
3 122 (14.73%) Developer
4 98 (11.84%) AWS Engineer
5 84 (10.14%) Data Engineer
6 64 (7.73%) AWS DevOps
7 61 (7.37%) Lead
8 57 (6.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 55 (6.64%) Software Engineer
10 42 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (4.83%) Platform Engineer
12 39 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 37 (4.47%) Java Developer
14 34 (4.11%) Test Engineer
15 32 (3.86%) Senior DevOps
16 31 (3.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 27 (3.26%) Architect
18 26 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
18 26 (3.14%) Senior Developer
18 26 (3.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (13.65%) Kafka
2 96 (11.59%) Spring
3 84 (10.14%) REST
4 83 (10.02%) Spring Boot
5 51 (6.16%) React
6 47 (5.68%) RESTful
7 45 (5.43%) PySpark
8 41 (4.95%) Node.js
9 40 (4.83%) Playwright
10 32 (3.86%) JSON
11 31 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
12 26 (3.14%) WireMock
13 25 (3.02%) YAML
14 24 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
15 22 (2.66%) AWS CDK
16 21 (2.54%) Keycloak
17 20 (2.42%) .NET
17 20 (2.42%) OAuth
18 19 (2.29%) SOAP
19 18 (2.17%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 161 (19.44%) Cloud Native
2 60 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (5.07%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (3.50%) Data Centre
6 27 (3.26%) Onboarding
7 21 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (2.42%) Data Structures
9 18 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
9 18 (2.17%) Public Cloud
10 17 (2.05%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.45%) Mainframe
12 10 (1.21%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.09%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (0.85%) PKI
16 6 (0.72%) DataPower
16 6 (0.72%) NHS
16 6 (0.72%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 154 (18.60%) Linux
2 38 (4.59%) Unix
3 36 (4.35%) Windows
4 35 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.45%) AIX
5 12 (1.45%) zOS
6 11 (1.33%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.97%) CentOS
7 8 (0.97%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.36%) Debian
8 3 (0.36%) Rocky
9 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.24%) Android
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 679 (82.00%) CI/CD
2 485 (58.57%) DevOps
3 368 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 312 (37.68%) Agile
5 280 (33.82%) Containerisation
6 252 (30.43%) Test Automation
7 156 (18.84%) Microservices
8 143 (17.27%) Observability
9 139 (16.79%) Software Engineering
10 133 (16.06%) Scrum
11 129 (15.58%) Platform Engineering
12 117 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 108 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
14 106 (12.80%) AI
15 90 (10.87%) DevSecOps
16 83 (10.02%) ETL
17 76 (9.18%) Migration
18 73 (8.82%) Event-Driven
19 72 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
19 72 (8.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 348 (42.03%) Python
2 193 (23.31%) Java
3 190 (22.95%) SQL
4 142 (17.15%) Bash
5 70 (8.45%) JavaScript
5 70 (8.45%) PowerShell
6 56 (6.76%) TypeScript
7 54 (6.52%) C#
8 29 (3.50%) Go
9 24 (2.90%) Shell Script
10 20 (2.42%) Bicep
11 17 (2.05%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.69%) C++
13 9 (1.09%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.72%) Groovy
14 6 (0.72%) JCL
14 6 (0.72%) R
14 6 (0.72%) Scala
15 5 (0.60%) C
15 5 (0.60%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 393 (47.46%) Security Cleared
2 332 (40.10%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.28%) DV Cleared
4 40 (4.83%) Degree
5 37 (4.47%) AWS Certification
6 36 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 30 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (2.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 17 (2.05%) Azure Certification
10 15 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.33%) SAFe Agilist
13 8 (0.97%) CISSP
13 8 (0.97%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.48%) CSSLP
15 4 (0.48%) GIAC
16 3 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 3 (0.36%) CCNP
16 3 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (10.51%) QA
2 35 (4.23%) Accessibility
2 35 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 13 (1.57%) WCAG
4 10 (1.21%) SLA
5 7 (0.85%) NIST
6 6 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.60%) FATCA
7 5 (0.60%) GDPR
8 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.24%) NCSC
11 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
11 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
11 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 349 (42.15%) Docker
2 21 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.57%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.60%) HDFS
6 5 (0.60%) Squid
7 3 (0.36%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 412 (49.76%) Terraform
2 364 (43.96%) Kubernetes
3 208 (25.12%) Ansible
4 143 (17.27%) Grafana
5 124 (14.98%) Prometheus
6 43 (5.19%) Argo
7 36 (4.35%) Puppet
8 20 (2.42%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.57%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.57%) Istio
9 13 (1.57%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.21%) Packer
10 10 (1.21%) Podman
11 5 (0.60%) Kibana
11 5 (0.60%) linkerd
11 5 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.60%) Salt
11 5 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.48%) Check_MK
12 4 (0.48%) Suricata
Vendors
1 98 (11.84%) Oracle
2 58 (7.00%) Microsoft
3 53 (6.40%) Google
4 46 (5.56%) Splunk
4 46 (5.56%) Talend
5 44 (5.31%) Informatica
6 30 (3.62%) Databricks
7 26 (3.14%) Dynatrace
7 26 (3.14%) VMware
8 22 (2.66%) Denodo
9 21 (2.54%) Palo Alto
10 20 (2.42%) F5
10 20 (2.42%) ServiceNow
11 18 (2.17%) Arista
11 18 (2.17%) Aruba
12 17 (2.05%) IBM
12 17 (2.05%) Red Hat
13 15 (1.81%) Trend Micro
14 7 (0.85%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.85%) Veracode