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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 140 190
Rank change year-on-year -8 +50 +56
Contract jobs citing GitLab 862 544 437
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.89% 1.97% 1.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.39% 13.46% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 367 298
10th Percentile £381 £358 £339
25th Percentile £429 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £650
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 8 8
10th Percentile - £61.60 £62.30
25th Percentile £65.00 £64.56 £70.63
Median hourly rate £66.61 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.58
90th Percentile £89.00 £71.79 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £66.61 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -0.59% -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 5,258 4,042 4,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.51% 14.67% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,345 2,800 2,830
10th Percentile £356 £325 £355
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £630
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 96 184
10th Percentile £36.25 £41.13 £31.78
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.05 £53.63
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £73.93
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +14 376 £525 -0.47% 45
North of England -30 180 £500 +2.56% 48
Midlands +26 127 £469 -10.67% 20
West Midlands +22 120 £469 -13.15% 15
South East -34 79 £550 +7.32% 25
North East +11 76 £413 -12.70% 14
North West -29 75 £575 +19.79% 22
South West -29 57 £550 -8.33% 35
Yorkshire -46 42 £550 +10.00% 12
East of England -10 33 £475 +2.70% 11
East Midlands -17 7 £436 +61.48% 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 81 (9.40%) Confluence
2 64 (7.42%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (6.38%) Apache Spark
4 45 (5.22%) Apache
5 30 (3.48%) Jupyter
6 27 (3.13%) SAS
7 6 (0.70%) Camunda
7 6 (0.70%) CICS
7 6 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.35%) nginx
8 3 (0.35%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.23%) CMS
9 2 (0.23%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Trello
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 586 (67.98%) AWS
2 301 (34.92%) GitHub
3 299 (34.69%) Azure
4 221 (25.64%) GitHub Actions
5 152 (17.63%) GCP
6 147 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
7 118 (13.69%) Amazon S3
7 118 (13.69%) Serverless
8 113 (13.11%) Amazon EKS
9 107 (12.41%) AWS Lambda
10 103 (11.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 84 (9.74%) Amazon EC2
12 59 (6.84%) AWS CloudFormation
13 57 (6.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 43 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
15 40 (4.64%) Amazon SQS
16 38 (4.41%) OpenShift
17 35 (4.06%) Datadog
18 34 (3.94%) Amazon EMR
18 34 (3.94%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.80%) Firewall
2 30 (3.48%) DNS
3 29 (3.36%) BGP
4 28 (3.25%) Network Security
5 27 (3.13%) Ethernet VPN
5 27 (3.13%) VXLAN
6 23 (2.67%) WAN
7 22 (2.55%) SD-WAN
8 21 (2.44%) OSPF
9 19 (2.20%) BIG-IP
9 19 (2.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 19 (2.20%) TCP/IP
10 15 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (1.62%) VPN
12 11 (1.28%) HTTP
12 11 (1.28%) WLAN
13 8 (0.93%) NX-OS
14 7 (0.81%) SSL
15 6 (0.70%) DHCP
16 5 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (8.12%) MongoDB
3 50 (5.80%) Relational Database
4 43 (4.99%) Amazon Athena
5 42 (4.87%) Amazon Redshift
6 38 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
7 37 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
8 36 (4.18%) DynamoDB
8 36 (4.18%) NoSQL
9 31 (3.60%) Power BI
10 30 (3.48%) Oracle Database
10 30 (3.48%) Pentaho
11 29 (3.36%) SQL Server
12 28 (3.25%) Redis
13 26 (3.02%) MySQL
14 25 (2.90%) RDBMS
15 24 (2.78%) Big Data
15 24 (2.78%) Data Lake
16 13 (1.51%) Oracle Exadata
17 11 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 365 (42.34%) Jenkins
2 210 (24.36%) Git
3 107 (12.41%) JIRA
4 62 (7.19%) Selenium
5 58 (6.73%) JUnit
6 41 (4.76%) Cucumber
7 39 (4.52%) SonarQube
8 37 (4.29%) Bitbucket
9 30 (3.48%) Gradle
10 28 (3.25%) Maven
11 27 (3.13%) Artifactory
12 25 (2.90%) Gatling
13 24 (2.78%) Mockito
14 23 (2.67%) REST Assured
15 22 (2.55%) JMeter
16 21 (2.44%) WebDriver
17 19 (2.20%) Postman
17 19 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
18 16 (1.86%) Snyk
19 14 (1.62%) Cypress.io
General
1 167 (19.37%) Social Skills
2 159 (18.45%) Public Sector
3 95 (11.02%) Finance
4 62 (7.19%) Banking
5 55 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.20%) Military
7 17 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.62%) Law
9 10 (1.16%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.16%) Legal
10 6 (0.70%) Investment Banking
10 6 (0.70%) Police
10 6 (0.70%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.58%) Publishing
12 4 (0.46%) Marketing
12 4 (0.46%) Retail
13 3 (0.35%) Back Office
13 3 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 187 (21.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 168 (19.49%) Senior
3 135 (15.66%) Developer
4 102 (11.83%) AWS Engineer
5 83 (9.63%) Data Engineer
6 67 (7.77%) AWS DevOps
7 63 (7.31%) Lead
8 60 (6.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 55 (6.38%) Software Engineer
10 45 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 39 (4.52%) Java Developer
13 37 (4.29%) Test Engineer
14 36 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
15 32 (3.71%) Architect
16 29 (3.36%) Software Developer
17 28 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
18 27 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 26 (3.02%) Full-Stack Developer
19 26 (3.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 432 (50.12%) Terraform
2 127 (14.73%) Kafka
3 97 (11.25%) REST
3 97 (11.25%) Spring
4 87 (10.09%) Spring Boot
5 58 (6.73%) RESTful
6 54 (6.26%) React
7 45 (5.22%) PySpark
8 42 (4.87%) JSON
8 42 (4.87%) Node.js
9 41 (4.76%) Playwright
10 36 (4.18%) RabbitMQ
11 35 (4.06%) YAML
12 24 (2.78%) .NET
12 24 (2.78%) WireMock
13 23 (2.67%) HTML
13 23 (2.67%) OAuth
14 22 (2.55%) Keycloak
15 21 (2.44%) CSS
15 21 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 173 (20.07%) Cloud Native
2 59 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.22%) Product Ownership
4 35 (4.06%) Data Centre
4 35 (4.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (2.55%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.97%) Algorithms
9 16 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
10 14 (1.62%) Mainframe
10 14 (1.62%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.51%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.04%) Private Cloud
14 7 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
14 7 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (0.81%) PKI
15 6 (0.70%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 162 (18.79%) Linux
2 42 (4.87%) Unix
3 39 (4.52%) Windows
4 34 (3.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.51%) zOS
6 12 (1.39%) AIX
6 12 (1.39%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.16%) CentOS
8 8 (0.93%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.70%) VMS
10 3 (0.35%) Debian
10 3 (0.35%) Rocky
11 2 (0.23%) Android
11 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 724 (83.99%) CI/CD
2 512 (59.40%) DevOps
3 404 (46.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 314 (36.43%) Agile
5 311 (36.08%) Containerisation
6 261 (30.28%) Test Automation
7 166 (19.26%) Microservices
8 156 (18.10%) Observability
9 150 (17.40%) Software Engineering
10 132 (15.31%) Scrum
11 128 (14.85%) Platform Engineering
12 125 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 120 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
14 110 (12.76%) AI
15 101 (11.72%) DevSecOps
16 88 (10.21%) ETL
17 87 (10.09%) Event-Driven
17 87 (10.09%) Migration
18 82 (9.51%) Deployment Automation
19 79 (9.16%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 384 (44.55%) Python
2 205 (23.78%) Java
3 202 (23.43%) SQL
4 158 (18.33%) Bash
5 83 (9.63%) PowerShell
6 73 (8.47%) JavaScript
7 64 (7.42%) C#
8 56 (6.50%) TypeScript
9 31 (3.60%) Go
10 28 (3.25%) Shell Script
11 21 (2.44%) Bicep
12 18 (2.09%) PL/SQL
13 15 (1.74%) C++
14 9 (1.04%) Groovy
14 9 (1.04%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.81%) Scala
16 6 (0.70%) JCL
16 6 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.70%) R
17 5 (0.58%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 413 (47.91%) Security Cleared
2 336 (38.98%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.31%) DV Cleared
4 46 (5.34%) AWS Certification
5 43 (4.99%) Degree
6 37 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (2.32%) Azure Certification
9 19 (2.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (1.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 14 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (1.62%) CISSP
12 11 (1.28%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.28%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.58%) GCFA
14 5 (0.58%) GCIH
15 4 (0.46%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (11.14%) QA
2 34 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.83%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.39%) NIST
4 12 (1.39%) WCAG
5 11 (1.28%) GDPR
6 10 (1.16%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.16%) SLA
7 8 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.70%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.58%) FATCA
10 4 (0.46%) NCSC
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
12 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 373 (43.27%) Docker
2 20 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.51%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.70%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.58%) HDFS
6 5 (0.58%) Squid
7 3 (0.35%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 386 (44.78%) Kubernetes
2 229 (26.57%) Ansible
3 146 (16.94%) Grafana
4 126 (14.62%) Prometheus
5 45 (5.22%) Argo
6 39 (4.52%) Puppet
7 28 (3.25%) Progress Chef
8 14 (1.62%) Istio
9 13 (1.51%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.51%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (1.04%) Podman
12 8 (0.93%) Packer
13 6 (0.70%) Kibana
13 6 (0.70%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.58%) CASB
14 5 (0.58%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.58%) linkerd
14 5 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.58%) Salt
Vendors
1 101 (11.72%) Oracle
2 69 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 56 (6.50%) Google
4 51 (5.92%) Splunk
5 45 (5.22%) Talend
6 44 (5.10%) Informatica
7 33 (3.83%) Databricks
8 31 (3.60%) VMware
9 26 (3.02%) ServiceNow
10 24 (2.78%) Dynatrace
11 23 (2.67%) Red Hat
12 22 (2.55%) Denodo
13 21 (2.44%) Palo Alto
14 20 (2.32%) F5
15 18 (2.09%) Arista
15 18 (2.09%) Aruba
16 17 (1.97%) IBM
17 16 (1.86%) Trend Micro
18 11 (1.28%) Cisco
19 9 (1.04%) Veracode