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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 145 217
Rank change year-on-year +13 +72 +30
Contract jobs citing GitLab 824 471 409
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.94% 1.93% 1.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.29% 13.66% 9.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 294 294
10th Percentile £391 £380 £363
25th Percentile £429 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.25% -5.08%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £655
90th Percentile £670 £684 £750
UK median daily rate £492 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -6.29% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 1 7
10th Percentile £48.61 - £57.65
25th Percentile £52.50 - £61.88
Median hourly rate £63.75 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -23.16% +11.45% +87.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £76.25
90th Percentile £78.85 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £82.96 £70.00
% change year-on-year -21.65% +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 5,059 3,448 4,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.93% 14.15% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,302 2,328 2,947
10th Percentile £349 £349 £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 £603 £638
90th Percentile £680 £718 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 65 213
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.68 £31.97
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £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 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.78 £77.05
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -5 329 £525 -0.94% 53
North of England +7 201 £475 -5.00% 36
Midlands +20 134 £459 -8.20% 16
West Midlands +18 123 £463 -9.76% 11
North West +6 99 £525 +5.00% 16
South East -28 65 £550 +9.89% 36
Yorkshire -26 64 £500 -2.44% 9
South West +1 56 £500 -9.09% 20
North East +4 52 £413 -14.06% 11
East of England -5 38 £483 +1.58% 15
East Midlands -22 11 £425 +36.66% 5
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 76 (9.22%) Confluence
2 38 (4.61%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (4.37%) Apache
3 36 (4.37%) Apache Spark
4 35 (4.25%) SAS
5 20 (2.43%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.97%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.85%) CICS
8 5 (0.61%) Camunda
8 5 (0.61%) nginx
8 5 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.24%) CMS
10 2 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) 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
1 501 (60.80%) AWS
2 263 (31.92%) GitHub
3 248 (30.10%) Azure
4 189 (22.94%) GitHub Actions
5 142 (17.23%) GCP
6 126 (15.29%) Amazon S3
7 117 (14.20%) Serverless
8 106 (12.86%) Amazon EKS
9 105 (12.74%) AWS Lambda
10 90 (10.92%) Amazon EC2
11 89 (10.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 86 (10.44%) Azure DevOps
13 65 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
13 65 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 52 (6.31%) OpenShift
15 41 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
16 30 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
17 27 (3.28%) Power Platform
18 26 (3.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 25 (3.03%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.58%) Firewall
2 29 (3.52%) DNS
3 21 (2.55%) BGP
3 21 (2.55%) WAN
4 20 (2.43%) Network Security
4 20 (2.43%) OSPF
4 20 (2.43%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.31%) BIG-IP
5 19 (2.31%) Ethernet VPN
5 19 (2.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 19 (2.31%) SD-WAN
5 19 (2.31%) VXLAN
6 15 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (1.58%) VPN
8 11 (1.33%) WLAN
9 9 (1.09%) HTTP
10 6 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.61%) SSL
12 4 (0.49%) SAN
12 4 (0.49%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (8.98%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (6.43%) MongoDB
3 41 (4.98%) Relational Database
4 37 (4.49%) DynamoDB
5 36 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (4.13%) Amazon Athena
6 34 (4.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 33 (4.00%) NoSQL
8 29 (3.52%) MySQL
9 28 (3.40%) Pentaho
10 27 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
11 26 (3.16%) Power BI
12 24 (2.91%) SQL Server
13 23 (2.79%) Redis
14 21 (2.55%) Data Lake
15 19 (2.31%) Big Data
15 19 (2.31%) Oracle Database
16 15 (1.82%) DocumentDB
17 14 (1.70%) BigQuery
18 11 (1.33%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 350 (42.48%) Jenkins
2 185 (22.45%) Git
3 122 (14.81%) JIRA
4 77 (9.34%) Selenium
5 61 (7.40%) JUnit
6 43 (5.22%) Cucumber
7 36 (4.37%) Gradle
8 34 (4.13%) Artifactory
9 33 (4.00%) REST Assured
10 32 (3.88%) Postman
11 29 (3.52%) Bitbucket
12 27 (3.28%) JMeter
12 27 (3.28%) SonarQube
13 23 (2.79%) Mockito
14 21 (2.55%) CircleCI
14 21 (2.55%) Gatling
15 20 (2.43%) WebDriver
16 16 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
17 14 (1.70%) Maven
18 13 (1.58%) IntelliJ
General
1 173 (21.00%) Social Skills
2 153 (18.57%) Public Sector
3 90 (10.92%) Finance
4 62 (7.52%) Banking
5 42 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.70%) Military
8 12 (1.46%) Aerospace
8 12 (1.46%) Law
9 9 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.97%) Legal
10 8 (0.97%) Retail
11 6 (0.73%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.73%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.49%) Police
13 4 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.49%) Publishing
14 3 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 177 (21.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 135 (16.38%) Senior
3 123 (14.93%) Developer
4 83 (10.07%) AWS Engineer
5 79 (9.59%) Data Engineer
6 59 (7.16%) AWS DevOps
6 59 (7.16%) Lead
6 59 (7.16%) Software Engineer
7 53 (6.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 42 (5.10%) Architect
9 40 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
10 38 (4.61%) Test Engineer
11 36 (4.37%) Java Developer
12 32 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
13 30 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 29 (3.52%) Senior DevOps
15 28 (3.40%) Full-Stack Developer
15 28 (3.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 24 (2.91%) Java Engineer
17 22 (2.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (13.59%) Kafka
2 111 (13.47%) Spring
3 102 (12.38%) REST
4 101 (12.26%) Spring Boot
5 61 (7.40%) RESTful
6 55 (6.67%) React
7 49 (5.95%) Node.js
8 42 (5.10%) Playwright
9 38 (4.61%) PySpark
10 35 (4.25%) OpenTelemetry
11 34 (4.13%) Elastic Stack
12 30 (3.64%) LDAP
13 28 (3.40%) YAML
14 25 (3.03%) OAuth
15 23 (2.79%) AngularJS
15 23 (2.79%) AWS CDK
15 23 (2.79%) OpenID
16 22 (2.67%) JSON
16 22 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
16 22 (2.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 150 (18.20%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (6.07%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.73%) Data Centre
5 26 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
8 16 (1.94%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.46%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.46%) Private Cloud
10 10 (1.21%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (1.09%) NHS
12 8 (0.97%) Mainframe
12 8 (0.97%) PKI
13 7 (0.85%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.85%) DataPower
14 6 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (0.73%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 146 (17.72%) Linux
2 44 (5.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 41 (4.98%) Unix
4 40 (4.85%) Windows
5 15 (1.82%) CentOS
6 10 (1.21%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.97%) zOS
8 5 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.49%) Debian
9 4 (0.49%) Rocky
9 4 (0.49%) VMS
9 4 (0.49%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.36%) Android
11 2 (0.24%) AIX
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (79.98%) CI/CD
2 467 (56.67%) DevOps
3 321 (38.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 287 (34.83%) Agile
5 268 (32.52%) Containerisation
6 259 (31.43%) Test Automation
7 163 (19.78%) Microservices
8 156 (18.93%) Observability
9 134 (16.26%) Software Engineering
10 118 (14.32%) Scrum
11 109 (13.23%) Platform Engineering
12 105 (12.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 105 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
13 91 (11.04%) ETL
14 85 (10.32%) DevSecOps
15 77 (9.34%) AI
16 71 (8.62%) Migration
17 69 (8.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 67 (8.13%) Analytics
18 67 (8.13%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 315 (38.23%) Python
2 217 (26.33%) Java
3 201 (24.39%) SQL
4 114 (13.83%) Bash
5 74 (8.98%) JavaScript
6 59 (7.16%) TypeScript
7 53 (6.43%) PowerShell
8 40 (4.85%) Shell Script
9 37 (4.49%) C#
10 34 (4.13%) Go
11 20 (2.43%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.06%) Kotlin
13 15 (1.82%) Bicep
14 14 (1.70%) C++
15 11 (1.33%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.33%) Scala
16 8 (0.97%) Ruby
17 7 (0.85%) C
18 6 (0.73%) JCL
18 6 (0.73%) PHP
Qualifications
1 376 (45.63%) Security Cleared
2 314 (38.11%) SC Cleared
3 41 (4.98%) Degree
4 38 (4.61%) DV Cleared
5 33 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (3.40%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.46%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 11 (1.33%) SAFe Agilist
9 10 (1.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.21%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.36%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.24%) GIAC
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.24%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (10.56%) QA
2 39 (4.73%) Accessibility
3 27 (3.28%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.67%) SLA
5 12 (1.46%) WCAG
6 10 (1.21%) GDPR
7 9 (1.09%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.73%) NIST
9 5 (0.61%) FATCA
10 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.49%) NCSC
11 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
11 1 (0.12%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 335 (40.66%) Docker
2 23 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.73%) Squid
6 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.49%) HDFS
6 4 (0.49%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.36%) vSphere
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 374 (45.39%) Terraform
2 355 (43.08%) Kubernetes
3 183 (22.21%) Ansible
4 163 (19.78%) Grafana
5 137 (16.63%) Prometheus
6 47 (5.70%) Argo
7 29 (3.52%) Puppet
8 22 (2.67%) Istio
9 16 (1.94%) Podman
10 15 (1.82%) Progress Chef
11 14 (1.70%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.33%) Check_MK
13 9 (1.09%) Kibana
13 9 (1.09%) Packer
14 8 (0.97%) linkerd
14 8 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.73%) Karpenter
16 5 (0.61%) Salt
17 4 (0.49%) Suricata
18 3 (0.36%) Nagios
Vendors
1 95 (11.53%) Oracle
2 54 (6.55%) Splunk
3 52 (6.31%) Microsoft
4 48 (5.83%) Talend
5 43 (5.22%) Red Hat
6 38 (4.61%) Google
7 36 (4.37%) Informatica
8 35 (4.25%) VMware
9 34 (4.13%) ServiceNow
10 27 (3.28%) Databricks
11 23 (2.79%) Denodo
11 23 (2.79%) Dynatrace
12 21 (2.55%) F5
13 20 (2.43%) Arista
13 20 (2.43%) Palo Alto
14 18 (2.18%) Aruba
14 18 (2.18%) Salesforce
15 13 (1.58%) Veracode
16 12 (1.46%) IBM
17 10 (1.21%) Trend Micro