GitLab Contracts in England

GitLab
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring GitLab skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitLab over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 222 208
Rank change year-on-year +73 -14 -40
Contract jobs citing GitLab 465 394 651
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.91% 1.06% 1.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.07% 9.24% 8.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 286 436
10th Percentile £380 £365 £463
25th Percentile £450 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £574 £590
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% -2.75% +0.85%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £665
90th Percentile £725 £744 £700
UK median daily rate £528 £551 £575
% change year-on-year -4.26% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 4
10th Percentile £64.59 £57.38 £41.22
25th Percentile £71.48 £62.19 £43.65
Median hourly rate £82.96 £74.44 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.45% +65.42% -13.25%
75th Percentile £88.98 £76.74 £55.25
90th Percentile £92.59 £77.50 £73.70
UK median hourly rate £82.96 £68.22 £45.00
% change year-on-year +21.61% +51.60% -5.96%

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 3,305 4,263 7,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.57% 11.46% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,218 2,908 5,318
10th Percentile £350 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 182 222
10th Percentile £27.50 £31.84 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.00 £52.50 £52.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £82.35 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in England

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in England.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in England

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in England

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in England.

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in England

GitLab
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitLab in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +69 255 £540 -5.88% 196
North of England +39 103 £528 -8.26% 52
North West +22 56 £500 -17.53% 31
South East +15 40 £525 -11.35% 72
Yorkshire +15 30 £575 +0.44% 19
Midlands +40 24 £460 -3.16% 27
West Midlands +29 20 £531 +37.03% 14
North East +15 20 £525 +22.09% 2
South West +46 17 £457 -12.95% 62
East of England +30 5 £450 +80.00% 20
East Midlands +13 4 £291 -44.13% 13
GitLab
UK

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 36 (7.74%) Confluence
2 24 (5.16%) nginx
3 12 (2.58%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.58%) Traefik
4 11 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.94%) Apache
6 4 (0.86%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.86%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.65%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.43%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.43%) IIS
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.43%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.22%) CMS
9 1 (0.22%) FileNet
9 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.22%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 254 (54.62%) AWS
2 125 (26.88%) Azure
3 61 (13.12%) GCP
4 56 (12.04%) GitHub
5 48 (10.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 48 (10.32%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (7.53%) Amazon S3
7 34 (7.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (6.45%) Serverless
9 26 (5.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 25 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
11 23 (4.95%) AWS Fargate
11 23 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (4.73%) Amazon ECS
13 21 (4.52%) PaaS
14 18 (3.87%) Entra ID
15 17 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
17 13 (2.80%) Azure AKS
17 13 (2.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.59%) DNS
2 22 (4.73%) Firewall
3 21 (4.52%) TCP/IP
4 12 (2.58%) HTTP
5 8 (1.72%) DHCP
6 7 (1.51%) BGP
6 7 (1.51%) Network Security
7 6 (1.29%) SAN
7 6 (1.29%) SSL
8 5 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (1.08%) VPN
8 5 (1.08%) WAN
9 4 (0.86%) Ethernet VPN
9 4 (0.86%) LAN
9 4 (0.86%) NAS
9 4 (0.86%) OSPF
9 4 (0.86%) Wireless
10 3 (0.65%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (0.65%) Cisco Wireless
10 3 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (8.82%) MongoDB
3 26 (5.59%) MySQL
4 22 (4.73%) NoSQL
5 17 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (3.66%) Relational Database
6 16 (3.44%) SQL Server
7 11 (2.37%) Apache Hive
8 10 (2.15%) Oracle Database
9 8 (1.72%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.51%) Big Data
10 7 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.51%) Power BI
11 6 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.29%) Apache Iceberg
12 5 (1.08%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.08%) Parquet
12 5 (1.08%) Presto
13 4 (0.86%) ObjectStore
13 4 (0.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 215 (46.24%) Jenkins
2 66 (14.19%) Git
3 64 (13.76%) JIRA
4 42 (9.03%) Selenium
5 31 (6.67%) Maven
6 28 (6.02%) Bitbucket
7 26 (5.59%) SonarQube
8 22 (4.73%) Cucumber
9 21 (4.52%) REST Assured
10 19 (4.09%) JUnit
10 19 (4.09%) Sonatype Nexus
11 15 (3.23%) Postman
12 14 (3.01%) Liquibase
12 14 (3.01%) Mockito
13 12 (2.58%) CircleCI
13 12 (2.58%) Gradle
14 11 (2.37%) TeamCity
15 9 (1.94%) Cypress.io
15 9 (1.94%) Eclipse
16 8 (1.72%) JMeter
General
1 104 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 70 (15.05%) Public Sector
3 67 (14.41%) Finance
4 38 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (5.59%) Telecoms
6 25 (5.38%) Banking
7 17 (3.66%) Marketing
8 16 (3.44%) Electronics
8 16 (3.44%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.37%) Military
10 9 (1.94%) Law
11 7 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.86%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.86%) Police
14 3 (0.65%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.43%) Retail
16 1 (0.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 148 (31.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 81 (17.42%) Senior
3 75 (16.13%) Developer
4 47 (10.11%) AWS Engineer
5 38 (8.17%) AWS DevOps
5 38 (8.17%) Senior DevOps
6 37 (7.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 34 (7.31%) Architect
8 31 (6.67%) Software Engineer
9 30 (6.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 25 (5.38%) Lead
11 24 (5.16%) Java Engineer
12 23 (4.95%) Java Developer
13 22 (4.73%) Azure Engineer
14 21 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
15 17 (3.66%) Automation Engineer
15 17 (3.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 15 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
17 14 (3.01%) Data Engineer
17 14 (3.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (11.61%) Kafka
2 48 (10.32%) React
3 45 (9.68%) Spring
4 43 (9.25%) REST
4 43 (9.25%) Spring Boot
5 27 (5.81%) RESTful
6 22 (4.73%) cloud-init
7 21 (4.52%) Node.js
8 20 (4.30%) JSON
9 17 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (3.23%) AngularJS
10 15 (3.23%) Java EE
10 15 (3.23%) Keycloak
10 15 (3.23%) Swagger
11 14 (3.01%) OpenAPI
12 13 (2.80%) SOAP
13 12 (2.58%) Playwright
14 10 (2.15%) ARM Templates
14 10 (2.15%) CSS
14 10 (2.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.81%) Onboarding
2 23 (4.95%) PKI
3 22 (4.73%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (2.58%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.51%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.29%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.08%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.08%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (0.86%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.65%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.65%) Mainframe
11 3 (0.65%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 125 (26.88%) Linux
2 49 (10.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 36 (7.74%) Unix
4 32 (6.88%) Windows
5 31 (6.67%) CentOS
6 14 (3.01%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.51%) Android
8 4 (0.86%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.65%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.65%) Rocky
10 2 (0.43%) SUSE
11 1 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.22%) Solaris
11 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (65.38%) CI/CD
2 284 (61.08%) DevOps
3 139 (29.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 124 (26.67%) Agile
5 115 (24.73%) Containerisation
6 88 (18.92%) Microservices
7 87 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
8 82 (17.63%) Test Automation
9 78 (16.77%) Software Engineering
10 71 (15.27%) Continuous Integration
11 68 (14.62%) Configuration Management
12 58 (12.47%) Migration
13 54 (11.61%) Infrastructure Automation
14 46 (9.89%) Observability
15 41 (8.82%) Scrum
16 35 (7.53%) Event-Driven
17 34 (7.31%) Cloud Security
18 33 (7.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 33 (7.10%) Mentoring
19 32 (6.88%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 199 (42.80%) Python
2 122 (26.24%) Java
3 84 (18.06%) Bash
4 72 (15.48%) SQL
5 62 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 44 (9.46%) PowerShell
7 39 (8.39%) TypeScript
8 34 (7.31%) Go
9 23 (4.95%) C#
10 19 (4.09%) Shell Script
11 10 (2.15%) C++
12 8 (1.72%) Ruby
13 5 (1.08%) PHP
13 5 (1.08%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.86%) Perl
14 4 (0.86%) Scala
15 3 (0.65%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.65%) XPath
16 2 (0.43%) Bicep
16 2 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 159 (34.19%) Security Cleared
2 137 (29.46%) SC Cleared
3 36 (7.74%) AWS Certification
4 21 (4.52%) Degree
5 14 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.01%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.51%) SANS
8 5 (1.08%) CISSP
8 5 (1.08%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.86%) CCNP
9 4 (0.86%) CEH
9 4 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.86%) OCP
9 4 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.65%) CCNA
11 2 (0.43%) CISM
11 2 (0.43%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.88%) QA
2 16 (3.44%) NCSC
3 5 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.65%) GDPR
4 3 (0.65%) NIST
4 3 (0.65%) SLA
5 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.43%) COBIT
5 2 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.43%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.22%) FedRAMP
6 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 150 (32.26%) Docker
2 15 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.08%) vSphere
5 4 (0.86%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.65%) FreeRADIUS
6 3 (0.65%) iptables
7 2 (0.43%) Ceph
7 2 (0.43%) RACF
Systems Management
1 230 (49.46%) Terraform
2 205 (44.09%) Kubernetes
3 127 (27.31%) Ansible
4 62 (13.33%) Prometheus
5 60 (12.90%) Grafana
6 32 (6.88%) Puppet
7 29 (6.24%) Packer
8 22 (4.73%) Istio
9 18 (3.87%) ZABBIX
10 17 (3.66%) Consul
11 16 (3.44%) Rancher
12 15 (3.23%) Argo
12 15 (3.23%) Jamf Pro
13 14 (3.01%) linkerd
13 14 (3.01%) Podman
14 12 (2.58%) HAProxy
15 11 (2.37%) Progress Chef
16 9 (1.94%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (1.29%) Nagios
18 5 (1.08%) logstash
Vendors
1 31 (6.67%) Splunk
2 30 (6.45%) Google
2 30 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 26 (5.59%) Oracle
4 23 (4.95%) SAP
5 16 (3.44%) VMware
6 15 (3.23%) Cisco
6 15 (3.23%) Databricks
6 15 (3.23%) Okta
7 14 (3.01%) Atlassian
7 14 (3.01%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.80%) Apple
8 13 (2.80%) ESET
9 10 (2.15%) Fortinet
10 9 (1.94%) IBM
10 9 (1.94%) Infoblox
11 8 (1.72%) CheckPoint
11 8 (1.72%) Veracode
12 7 (1.51%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.51%) Virgin Media