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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 141 188
Rank change year-on-year -6 +47 +65
Contract jobs citing GitLab 871 546 436
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.91% 1.98% 1.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.75% 13.43% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 368 297
10th Percentile £385 £358 £350
25th Percentile £432 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £601 £600 £650
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 8
10th Percentile - £61.60 £62.30
25th Percentile £65.00 £64.56 £70.63
Median hourly rate £68.22 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.58
90th Percentile £95.00 £71.79 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +1.81% -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 5,200 4,065 4,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 14.76% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,308 2,815 2,824
10th Percentile £358 £325 £353
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £625
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 240 97 181
10th Percentile £36.25 £41.35 £33.07
25th Percentile £57.75 £51.06 £54.00
Median hourly rate £68.11 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +7 374 £525 - 49
North of England -26 183 £500 +2.56% 54
Midlands +21 133 £470 -10.54% 18
West Midlands +27 125 £471 -12.74% 14
South East -32 81 £550 +7.32% 27
North West -26 78 £575 +19.79% 26
North East +9 76 £413 -12.70% 15
South West -21 58 £550 -8.33% 37
Yorkshire -42 42 £550 +10.00% 13
East of England -18 32 £475 - 11
East Midlands -16 8 £436 +61.48% 4
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 82 (9.41%) Confluence
2 64 (7.35%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (6.31%) Apache Spark
4 45 (5.17%) Apache
5 30 (3.44%) Jupyter
6 24 (2.76%) SAS
7 9 (1.03%) Camunda
8 6 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.57%) CICS
10 4 (0.46%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.34%) nginx
11 3 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.23%) CMS
12 2 (0.23%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 593 (68.08%) AWS
2 303 (34.79%) GitHub
3 298 (34.21%) Azure
4 221 (25.37%) GitHub Actions
5 153 (17.57%) GCP
6 146 (16.76%) Azure DevOps
7 117 (13.43%) Serverless
8 116 (13.32%) Amazon S3
9 113 (12.97%) Amazon EKS
10 106 (12.17%) AWS Lambda
11 102 (11.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 82 (9.41%) Amazon EC2
13 60 (6.89%) AWS CloudFormation
14 56 (6.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 44 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
16 41 (4.71%) OpenShift
17 40 (4.59%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (4.02%) Datadog
19 34 (3.90%) Amazon EMR
19 34 (3.90%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 49 (5.63%) Firewall
2 31 (3.56%) DNS
3 29 (3.33%) BGP
4 28 (3.21%) Network Security
5 27 (3.10%) Ethernet VPN
5 27 (3.10%) VXLAN
6 23 (2.64%) WAN
7 22 (2.53%) SD-WAN
8 21 (2.41%) OSPF
9 20 (2.30%) TCP/IP
10 19 (2.18%) BIG-IP
10 19 (2.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 15 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (1.61%) VPN
13 12 (1.38%) HTTP
14 11 (1.26%) WLAN
15 8 (0.92%) NX-OS
15 8 (0.92%) SSL
16 6 (0.69%) DHCP
17 5 (0.57%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (8.50%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (8.15%) MongoDB
3 51 (5.86%) Relational Database
4 41 (4.71%) Amazon Athena
5 38 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
5 38 (4.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 37 (4.25%) NoSQL
7 36 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (4.02%) DynamoDB
9 32 (3.67%) SQL Server
10 31 (3.56%) Oracle Database
11 29 (3.33%) Redis
12 28 (3.21%) Power BI
13 26 (2.99%) Pentaho
13 26 (2.99%) RDBMS
14 24 (2.76%) Big Data
14 24 (2.76%) Data Lake
14 24 (2.76%) MySQL
15 13 (1.49%) Oracle Exadata
16 11 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 364 (41.79%) Jenkins
2 218 (25.03%) Git
3 107 (12.28%) JIRA
4 71 (8.15%) JUnit
5 68 (7.81%) Selenium
6 47 (5.40%) SonarQube
7 45 (5.17%) Cucumber
8 37 (4.25%) Maven
9 34 (3.90%) Bitbucket
10 33 (3.79%) Gradle
11 30 (3.44%) Gatling
11 30 (3.44%) Mockito
12 26 (2.99%) Artifactory
12 26 (2.99%) REST Assured
13 22 (2.53%) JMeter
13 22 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
14 21 (2.41%) WebDriver
15 18 (2.07%) Postman
16 16 (1.84%) Snyk
17 14 (1.61%) Cypress.io
General
1 170 (19.52%) Social Skills
2 158 (18.14%) Public Sector
3 98 (11.25%) Finance
4 65 (7.46%) Banking
5 55 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.18%) Military
7 16 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.49%) Law
10 10 (1.15%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.15%) Legal
11 7 (0.80%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.80%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.69%) Police
13 5 (0.57%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.57%) Publishing
14 4 (0.46%) Marketing
14 4 (0.46%) Retail
15 3 (0.34%) Back Office
15 3 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 188 (21.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 169 (19.40%) Senior
3 142 (16.30%) Developer
4 101 (11.60%) AWS Engineer
5 79 (9.07%) Data Engineer
6 66 (7.58%) AWS DevOps
7 63 (7.23%) Lead
8 59 (6.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 53 (6.08%) Software Engineer
10 45 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 42 (4.82%) Java Developer
12 40 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 37 (4.25%) Test Engineer
14 36 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
15 33 (3.79%) Architect
16 29 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
16 29 (3.33%) Software Developer
17 28 (3.21%) Java Engineer
17 28 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 26 (2.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 434 (49.83%) Terraform
2 131 (15.04%) Kafka
3 109 (12.51%) Spring
4 99 (11.37%) REST
5 97 (11.14%) Spring Boot
6 58 (6.66%) React
6 58 (6.66%) RESTful
7 48 (5.51%) Playwright
8 45 (5.17%) PySpark
9 42 (4.82%) Node.js
10 41 (4.71%) JSON
11 39 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
12 34 (3.90%) YAML
13 28 (3.21%) WireMock
14 27 (3.10%) HTML
15 26 (2.99%) OAuth
16 25 (2.87%) CSS
17 24 (2.76%) .NET
18 23 (2.64%) Keycloak
19 22 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 173 (19.86%) Cloud Native
2 59 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 35 (4.02%) Data Centre
4 35 (4.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.87%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.95%) Algorithms
8 17 (1.95%) Distributed Architecture
9 14 (1.61%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.49%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.49%) Mainframe
11 10 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (1.03%) Private Cloud
13 8 (0.92%) PKI
14 7 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
14 7 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 163 (18.71%) Linux
2 38 (4.36%) Unix
3 37 (4.25%) Windows
4 35 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.38%) AIX
5 12 (1.38%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.38%) zOS
6 11 (1.26%) CentOS
7 8 (0.92%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.69%) VMS
9 3 (0.34%) Debian
9 3 (0.34%) Rocky
10 2 (0.23%) Android
10 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 732 (84.04%) CI/CD
2 514 (59.01%) DevOps
3 408 (46.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 325 (37.31%) Agile
5 311 (35.71%) Containerisation
6 267 (30.65%) Test Automation
7 178 (20.44%) Microservices
8 160 (18.37%) Observability
9 149 (17.11%) Software Engineering
10 141 (16.19%) Scrum
11 129 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
12 127 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 119 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
14 109 (12.51%) AI
15 101 (11.60%) DevSecOps
16 87 (9.99%) Event-Driven
16 87 (9.99%) Migration
17 84 (9.64%) Deployment Automation
18 83 (9.53%) ETL
19 79 (9.07%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 382 (43.86%) Python
2 217 (24.91%) Java
3 203 (23.31%) SQL
4 160 (18.37%) Bash
5 84 (9.64%) PowerShell
6 77 (8.84%) JavaScript
7 63 (7.23%) C#
8 56 (6.43%) TypeScript
9 32 (3.67%) Go
10 31 (3.56%) Shell Script
11 21 (2.41%) Bicep
12 15 (1.72%) C++
12 15 (1.72%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.03%) Groovy
14 8 (0.92%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.80%) Scala
16 6 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.69%) R
17 5 (0.57%) Cypher
17 5 (0.57%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 411 (47.19%) Security Cleared
2 333 (38.23%) SC Cleared
3 64 (7.35%) DV Cleared
4 46 (5.28%) AWS Certification
4 46 (5.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 46 (5.28%) Degree
5 33 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.30%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 17 (1.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.61%) CISSP
10 11 (1.26%) ISTQB
10 11 (1.26%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.57%) GCFA
12 5 (0.57%) GCIH
13 4 (0.46%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (11.48%) QA
2 38 (4.36%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.90%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.95%) WCAG
5 12 (1.38%) NIST
6 11 (1.26%) GDPR
7 10 (1.15%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.15%) SLA
8 8 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.69%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.57%) FATCA
11 4 (0.46%) NCSC
12 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.11%) GRC
13 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 379 (43.51%) Docker
2 19 (2.18%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.49%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.69%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.57%) Squid
6 3 (0.34%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) HDFS
7 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.11%) iptables
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 392 (45.01%) Kubernetes
2 226 (25.95%) Ansible
3 147 (16.88%) Grafana
4 130 (14.93%) Prometheus
5 45 (5.17%) Argo
6 39 (4.48%) Puppet
7 28 (3.21%) Progress Chef
8 14 (1.61%) Istio
9 13 (1.49%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.49%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.15%) Kibana
10 10 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (1.03%) Podman
12 8 (0.92%) Packer
13 6 (0.69%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.57%) CASB
14 5 (0.57%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.57%) linkerd
14 5 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.46%) Salt
Vendors
1 96 (11.02%) Oracle
2 68 (7.81%) Microsoft
3 57 (6.54%) Google
4 51 (5.86%) Splunk
5 42 (4.82%) Talend
6 40 (4.59%) Informatica
7 33 (3.79%) Databricks
8 32 (3.67%) VMware
9 27 (3.10%) Dynatrace
10 26 (2.99%) ServiceNow
11 23 (2.64%) Red Hat
12 21 (2.41%) Palo Alto
13 20 (2.30%) F5
13 20 (2.30%) IBM
14 19 (2.18%) Denodo
15 18 (2.07%) Arista
15 18 (2.07%) Aruba
16 16 (1.84%) Trend Micro
17 12 (1.38%) Veracode
18 11 (1.26%) Cisco