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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 129 232
Rank change year-on-year +15 +103 -42
Contract jobs citing GitLab 784 510 390
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.37% 1.92% 1.03%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.52% 14.21% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 334 297
10th Percentile £381 £368 £413
25th Percentile £439 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £573 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +1.78% -5.46%
75th Percentile £583 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £736 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £551 £560
% change year-on-year -9.17% -1.70% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 1
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.33 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £70.83 £58.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £79.72 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.01% +32.87% -22.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £89.38 £61.25
90th Percentile £80.65 £92.75 -
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £79.72 £50.00
% change year-on-year -29.44% +59.44% -23.08%

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 4,745 3,590 4,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.35% 13.53% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,291 2,219 3,176
10th Percentile £340 £340 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -4.74% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 62 203
10th Percentile £39.53 £45.12 £44.68
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.64 £50.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.70 £76.15 £89.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -6 313 £525 -12.50% 76
North of England +7 241 £488 -6.25% 48
North West +7 115 £433 -13.40% 31
Yorkshire +9 95 £513 -10.87% 15
Midlands +26 93 £525 +8.70% 16
West Midlands +22 85 £525 +7.25% 10
South East -21 51 £500 -4.76% 73
South West +13 49 £525 -22.08% 23
North East -8 38 £488 -7.14% 2
East of England +1 22 £478 +1.97% 15
East Midlands -16 8 £400 +20.57% 6
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 (7.14%) Confluence
2 29 (3.70%) SAS
3 28 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.30%) OpenStack
5 14 (1.79%) Apache
6 11 (1.40%) Apache Spark
7 8 (1.02%) nginx
8 7 (0.89%) Appian
9 4 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.38%) CMS
10 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
11 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.13%) Documentum
12 1 (0.13%) FileNet
12 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Actimize
3 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.13%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 469 (59.82%) AWS
2 209 (26.66%) GitHub
3 200 (25.51%) Azure
4 153 (19.52%) GCP
5 132 (16.84%) GitHub Actions
6 113 (14.41%) Serverless
7 97 (12.37%) Amazon S3
8 86 (10.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 82 (10.46%) Amazon EC2
10 80 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
11 76 (9.69%) OpenShift
12 75 (9.57%) Amazon EKS
13 74 (9.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 59 (7.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 53 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
16 50 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
17 31 (3.95%) Datadog
18 23 (2.93%) Azure AKS
19 20 (2.55%) Entra ID
19 20 (2.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 49 (6.25%) Firewall
2 42 (5.36%) DNS
3 39 (4.97%) VPN
4 32 (4.08%) TCP/IP
5 21 (2.68%) Network Security
6 17 (2.17%) SSL
7 6 (0.77%) WAN
8 5 (0.64%) Multicast
8 5 (0.64%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.51%) BGP
9 4 (0.51%) SAN
10 3 (0.38%) DHCP
10 3 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.38%) HTTP
10 3 (0.38%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.38%) NAS
10 3 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.38%) VSAN
10 3 (0.38%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (8.55%) MongoDB
3 65 (8.29%) NoSQL
4 47 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (3.06%) Relational Database
6 23 (2.93%) DynamoDB
6 23 (2.93%) MySQL
7 22 (2.81%) Data Lake
8 20 (2.55%) Redis
9 18 (2.30%) SQL Server
10 17 (2.17%) Big Data
11 16 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.66%) Oracle Database
13 12 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.40%) Power BI
14 11 (1.40%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 10 (1.28%) DocumentDB
16 8 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
17 7 (0.89%) Aerospike
17 7 (0.89%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 379 (48.34%) Jenkins
2 175 (22.32%) Git
3 115 (14.67%) JIRA
4 75 (9.57%) Selenium
5 61 (7.78%) JUnit
6 47 (5.99%) Cucumber
7 35 (4.46%) SonarQube
8 34 (4.34%) Maven
8 34 (4.34%) Postman
9 30 (3.83%) Artifactory
10 28 (3.57%) CircleCI
11 27 (3.44%) Cypress.io
12 26 (3.32%) Gradle
13 24 (3.06%) REST Assured
14 23 (2.93%) Sonatype Nexus
15 21 (2.68%) Liquibase
16 20 (2.55%) Bitbucket
16 20 (2.55%) Gatling
16 20 (2.55%) JMeter
17 19 (2.42%) Mockito
General
1 212 (27.04%) Social Skills
2 121 (15.43%) Public Sector
3 120 (15.31%) Finance
4 86 (10.97%) Banking
5 54 (6.89%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.06%) Financial Institution
7 21 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.17%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.79%) Military
10 10 (1.28%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.02%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.02%) Retail
12 7 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.77%) Games
14 4 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.51%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.38%) Law
15 3 (0.38%) Local Government
15 3 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 178 (22.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 161 (20.54%) Developer
3 121 (15.43%) Senior
4 79 (10.08%) AWS Engineer
5 65 (8.29%) Lead
6 63 (8.04%) AWS DevOps
7 53 (6.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 53 (6.76%) Software Engineer
8 46 (5.87%) Java Developer
9 42 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
10 39 (4.97%) Test Engineer
11 36 (4.59%) Data Engineer
11 36 (4.59%) Senior DevOps
11 36 (4.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 34 (4.34%) Architect
13 30 (3.83%) Automation Engineer
14 29 (3.70%) GCP Engineer
15 27 (3.44%) Full-Stack Developer
16 26 (3.32%) Platform Engineer
17 25 (3.19%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (17.22%) REST
2 114 (14.54%) Kafka
3 105 (13.39%) Spring
4 101 (12.88%) Spring Boot
5 86 (10.97%) Elastic Stack
6 81 (10.33%) Node.js
6 81 (10.33%) RESTful
7 55 (7.02%) React
8 47 (5.99%) Playwright
9 32 (4.08%) HTML
10 31 (3.95%) OpenTelemetry
11 30 (3.83%) RabbitMQ
12 28 (3.57%) JSON
12 28 (3.57%) OpenID
12 28 (3.57%) YAML
13 27 (3.44%) pytest
14 26 (3.32%) Jest
15 24 (3.06%) LDAP
16 23 (2.93%) AngularJS
17 20 (2.55%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 118 (15.05%) Cloud Native
2 63 (8.04%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.12%) Product Ownership
4 43 (5.48%) Public Cloud
5 21 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.04%) Private Cloud
7 15 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (1.79%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.28%) PKI
11 9 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.15%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.15%) Synthetic Data
12 8 (1.02%) Security Posture
13 7 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (0.77%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.77%) Mobile App
14 6 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 160 (20.41%) Linux
2 48 (6.12%) Windows
3 24 (3.06%) Unix
4 23 (2.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.53%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.40%) CentOS
7 9 (1.15%) Android
7 9 (1.15%) Apple iOS
8 8 (1.02%) VMS
9 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.38%) Solaris
11 1 (0.13%) Debian
11 1 (0.13%) Rocky
11 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 628 (80.10%) CI/CD
2 487 (62.12%) DevOps
3 298 (38.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 276 (35.20%) Containerisation
5 274 (34.95%) Agile
6 228 (29.08%) Test Automation
7 174 (22.19%) Microservices
8 156 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
9 132 (16.84%) Observability
10 122 (15.56%) Software Engineering
11 86 (10.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 79 (10.08%) Scrum
13 77 (9.82%) DevSecOps
14 76 (9.69%) Analytics
15 72 (9.18%) Infrastructure Automation
16 67 (8.55%) High Availability
17 63 (8.04%) Migration
18 62 (7.91%) TDD
19 61 (7.78%) Root Cause Analysis
20 60 (7.65%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 350 (44.64%) Python
2 240 (30.61%) Java
3 144 (18.37%) Bash
4 129 (16.45%) SQL
5 100 (12.76%) JavaScript
6 82 (10.46%) Go
7 69 (8.80%) PowerShell
8 68 (8.67%) TypeScript
9 40 (5.10%) Shell Script
10 17 (2.17%) C#
11 16 (2.04%) Kotlin
12 13 (1.66%) PL/SQL
13 10 (1.28%) Ruby
14 7 (0.89%) C
14 7 (0.89%) C++
14 7 (0.89%) Groovy
14 7 (0.89%) Korn
14 7 (0.89%) MATLAB
14 7 (0.89%) Rust
15 6 (0.77%) Perl
Qualifications
1 290 (36.99%) Security Cleared
2 227 (28.95%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.63%) Degree
4 46 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (4.34%) DV Cleared
6 29 (3.70%) Master's Degree
7 28 (3.57%) AWS Certification
8 22 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (1.15%) CISSP
11 9 (1.15%) OCA
11 9 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (1.02%) CISM
13 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.64%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.38%) CCNP
15 3 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (13.14%) QA
2 44 (5.61%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.55%) GDPR
4 19 (2.42%) WCAG
5 14 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.79%) NIST
5 14 (1.79%) SLA
6 13 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (1.53%) NCSC
8 5 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.51%) Def Stans
10 3 (0.38%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.26%) 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
1 353 (45.03%) Docker
2 19 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 4 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.38%) vSphere
7 2 (0.26%) HDFS
8 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) Squid
8 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 408 (52.04%) Kubernetes
2 368 (46.94%) Terraform
3 216 (27.55%) Ansible
4 195 (24.87%) Grafana
5 153 (19.52%) Prometheus
6 37 (4.72%) Argo
7 20 (2.55%) Podman
7 20 (2.55%) Puppet
8 19 (2.42%) Istio
9 18 (2.30%) Progress Chef
10 16 (2.04%) Kibana
11 12 (1.53%) Packer
12 10 (1.28%) Fluentd
12 10 (1.28%) NetBackup
13 9 (1.15%) Red Hat Satellite
14 7 (0.89%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.89%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.89%) linkerd
14 7 (0.89%) Sysdig
15 6 (0.77%) Rancher
Vendors
1 96 (12.24%) Splunk
2 65 (8.29%) Microsoft
3 59 (7.53%) Oracle
4 53 (6.76%) Red Hat
5 41 (5.23%) Google
6 36 (4.59%) VMware
7 25 (3.19%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.42%) Dynatrace
9 18 (2.30%) F5
10 17 (2.17%) CheckPoint
10 17 (2.17%) Databricks
10 17 (2.17%) Palo Alto
11 16 (2.04%) Cisco
11 16 (2.04%) Veracode
12 13 (1.66%) Atlassian
13 12 (1.53%) Salesforce
14 11 (1.40%) Veritas
15 10 (1.28%) Commvault
15 10 (1.28%) Cribl.io
16 9 (1.15%) IBM