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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 142 216
Rank change year-on-year +5 +74 +31
Contract jobs citing GitLab 831 495 413
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.92% 1.98% 1.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.21% 13.91% 9.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 309 298
10th Percentile £372 £358 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £553
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -6.30% -5.87%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £656
90th Percentile £688 £670 £750
UK median daily rate £492 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -5.38% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 1 7
10th Percentile £52.50 - £61.40
25th Percentile £57.56 - £68.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -21.65% +11.45% +24.48%
75th Percentile £67.50 - £76.25
90th Percentile £75.00 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £74.00
% change year-on-year -15.01% +3.35% +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 5,127 3,558 4,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.83% 14.24% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,320 2,415 3,002
10th Percentile £350 £335 £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 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 73 234
10th Percentile £28.97 £27.59 £32.10
25th Percentile £56.25 £48.00 £51.56
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.41% -9.23% +4.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.80% -11.35% +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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +1 354 £525 - 47
North of England -9 189 £453 -5.13% 33
Midlands +24 132 £459 -8.20% 13
West Midlands +17 122 £461 -12.24% 11
North West -16 86 £500 +6.50% 17
South East -33 65 £550 +9.89% 24
North East +3 63 £400 -13.98% 9
Yorkshire -31 55 £533 +3.90% 7
South West -9 53 £500 -13.04% 18
East of England -4 38 £483 +7.22% 14
East Midlands -14 10 £436 +61.48% 2
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 87 (10.47%) Confluence
2 50 (6.02%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (5.17%) Apache Spark
4 40 (4.81%) Apache
5 36 (4.33%) SAS
6 27 (3.25%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.84%) CICS
8 6 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.60%) Camunda
10 4 (0.48%) nginx
10 4 (0.48%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.24%) CMS
12 2 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.12%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 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
1 529 (63.66%) AWS
2 257 (30.93%) GitHub
3 247 (29.72%) Azure
4 182 (21.90%) GitHub Actions
5 131 (15.76%) Amazon S3
6 130 (15.64%) GCP
7 123 (14.80%) Serverless
8 111 (13.36%) AWS Lambda
9 103 (12.39%) Amazon EKS
10 94 (11.31%) Azure DevOps
11 92 (11.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 92 (11.07%) Amazon EC2
12 64 (7.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 58 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
14 44 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
15 42 (5.05%) OpenShift
16 33 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
16 33 (3.97%) Power Platform
17 27 (3.25%) Entra ID
18 26 (3.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.05%) Firewall
2 21 (2.53%) BGP
2 21 (2.53%) DNS
2 21 (2.53%) Network Security
2 21 (2.53%) WAN
3 20 (2.41%) OSPF
4 19 (2.29%) BIG-IP
4 19 (2.29%) Ethernet VPN
4 19 (2.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 19 (2.29%) SD-WAN
4 19 (2.29%) VXLAN
5 16 (1.93%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (1.44%) VPN
8 11 (1.32%) WLAN
9 8 (0.96%) HTTP
10 6 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.48%) MQTT
11 4 (0.48%) SAN
11 4 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (7.82%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (6.86%) MongoDB
3 46 (5.54%) Relational Database
4 42 (5.05%) Amazon Athena
5 41 (4.93%) Amazon Redshift
6 37 (4.45%) DynamoDB
7 36 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
8 34 (4.09%) NoSQL
9 33 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
10 30 (3.61%) Power BI
11 29 (3.49%) Pentaho
12 24 (2.89%) MySQL
12 24 (2.89%) SQL Server
13 23 (2.77%) Oracle Database
14 21 (2.53%) Data Lake
15 20 (2.41%) Big Data
15 20 (2.41%) Redis
16 15 (1.81%) DocumentDB
17 13 (1.56%) RDBMS
18 10 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 354 (42.60%) Jenkins
2 193 (23.23%) Git
3 120 (14.44%) JIRA
4 72 (8.66%) Selenium
5 65 (7.82%) JUnit
6 41 (4.93%) Cucumber
7 31 (3.73%) SonarQube
8 30 (3.61%) Artifactory
8 30 (3.61%) Bitbucket
8 30 (3.61%) Gradle
9 29 (3.49%) Mockito
9 29 (3.49%) REST Assured
10 28 (3.37%) JMeter
10 28 (3.37%) Postman
11 23 (2.77%) WebDriver
12 22 (2.65%) Gatling
13 18 (2.17%) Maven
14 15 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
15 13 (1.56%) CircleCI
15 13 (1.56%) Snyk
General
1 170 (20.46%) Social Skills
2 158 (19.01%) Public Sector
3 90 (10.83%) Finance
4 65 (7.82%) Banking
5 44 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.05%) Military
8 14 (1.68%) Law
9 12 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.32%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.96%) Legal
12 7 (0.84%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.84%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.60%) Police
14 4 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.48%) Publishing
15 3 (0.36%) Retail
16 2 (0.24%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 185 (22.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 146 (17.57%) Senior
3 123 (14.80%) Developer
4 93 (11.19%) AWS Engineer
5 85 (10.23%) Data Engineer
6 67 (8.06%) AWS DevOps
7 60 (7.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 54 (6.50%) Lead
9 50 (6.02%) Software Engineer
10 40 (4.81%) Java Developer
11 39 (4.69%) Test Engineer
12 37 (4.45%) Cloud Engineer
13 36 (4.33%) Architect
14 35 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
15 33 (3.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 31 (3.73%) Senior DevOps
17 30 (3.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 26 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
19 23 (2.77%) Tester
20 21 (2.53%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (13.96%) Kafka
2 102 (12.27%) Spring
3 91 (10.95%) REST
3 91 (10.95%) Spring Boot
4 69 (8.30%) RESTful
5 50 (6.02%) React
6 44 (5.29%) PySpark
7 41 (4.93%) Node.js
7 41 (4.93%) Playwright
8 33 (3.97%) YAML
9 29 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
10 25 (3.01%) AWS CDK
10 25 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
11 24 (2.89%) WireMock
12 23 (2.77%) JSON
12 23 (2.77%) OAuth
12 23 (2.77%) SOAP
13 22 (2.65%) LDAP
13 22 (2.65%) OpenTelemetry
14 21 (2.53%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 157 (18.89%) Cloud Native
2 61 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (5.78%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.57%) Data Centre
5 26 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (2.17%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.68%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.56%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.56%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.08%) NHS
12 8 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.96%) Mainframe
13 7 (0.84%) DataPower
13 7 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.84%) Private Cloud
14 6 (0.72%) AI Agents
14 6 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 155 (18.65%) Linux
2 44 (5.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 39 (4.69%) Unix
4 38 (4.57%) Windows
5 15 (1.81%) CentOS
6 9 (1.08%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.96%) zOS
8 4 (0.48%) AIX
8 4 (0.48%) Debian
8 4 (0.48%) Rocky
8 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.36%) VMS
10 2 (0.24%) Android
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 670 (80.63%) CI/CD
2 480 (57.76%) DevOps
3 336 (40.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 305 (36.70%) Agile
5 268 (32.25%) Containerisation
6 262 (31.53%) Test Automation
7 165 (19.86%) Microservices
8 137 (16.49%) Observability
9 125 (15.04%) Software Engineering
10 121 (14.56%) Scrum
11 114 (13.72%) Platform Engineering
12 111 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
13 109 (13.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 90 (10.83%) AI
15 84 (10.11%) DevSecOps
15 84 (10.11%) ETL
16 74 (8.90%) Event-Driven
17 70 (8.42%) Data Engineering
18 69 (8.30%) Migration
19 67 (8.06%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 330 (39.71%) Python
2 212 (25.51%) Java
3 194 (23.35%) SQL
4 116 (13.96%) Bash
5 68 (8.18%) JavaScript
6 58 (6.98%) TypeScript
7 47 (5.66%) PowerShell
8 46 (5.54%) C#
9 34 (4.09%) Shell Script
10 32 (3.85%) Go
11 16 (1.93%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.81%) Bicep
13 13 (1.56%) C++
14 11 (1.32%) MATLAB
15 10 (1.20%) Scala
16 9 (1.08%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.96%) Ruby
18 6 (0.72%) JCL
19 5 (0.60%) C
19 5 (0.60%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 406 (48.86%) Security Cleared
2 345 (41.52%) SC Cleared
3 43 (5.17%) DV Cleared
4 40 (4.81%) Degree
5 37 (4.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (4.21%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 13 (1.56%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.32%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (1.08%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.48%) CISSP
13 4 (0.48%) GIAC
14 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.36%) CSSLP
14 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.24%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (9.99%) QA
2 33 (3.97%) Accessibility
2 33 (3.97%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.17%) SLA
4 9 (1.08%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.08%) WCAG
5 8 (0.96%) GDPR
5 8 (0.96%) NIST
6 7 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.60%) FATCA
8 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.12%) GRC
9 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
9 1 (0.12%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
9 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 346 (41.64%) Docker
2 29 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (0.60%) Squid
6 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.48%) HDFS
7 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 391 (47.05%) Terraform
2 348 (41.88%) Kubernetes
3 182 (21.90%) Ansible
4 150 (18.05%) Grafana
5 133 (16.00%) Prometheus
6 41 (4.93%) Argo
7 30 (3.61%) Puppet
8 16 (1.93%) Podman
9 14 (1.68%) Red Hat Satellite
10 13 (1.56%) Progress Chef
11 12 (1.44%) Istio
12 11 (1.32%) Check_MK
13 9 (1.08%) Packer
14 7 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.72%) Kibana
15 6 (0.72%) Salt
16 5 (0.60%) Data Guard
16 5 (0.60%) linkerd
16 5 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
17 4 (0.48%) Suricata
Vendors
1 92 (11.07%) Oracle
2 55 (6.62%) Microsoft
3 49 (5.90%) Talend
4 46 (5.54%) Splunk
5 43 (5.17%) Informatica
6 37 (4.45%) Google
7 32 (3.85%) Red Hat
8 29 (3.49%) VMware
9 26 (3.13%) Databricks
10 24 (2.89%) ServiceNow
11 23 (2.77%) Denodo
12 21 (2.53%) F5
13 20 (2.41%) Dynatrace
13 20 (2.41%) Palo Alto
14 18 (2.17%) Arista
14 18 (2.17%) Aruba
14 18 (2.17%) Salesforce
15 15 (1.81%) Trend Micro
16 14 (1.68%) Veracode
17 12 (1.44%) IBM