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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 138 250
Rank change year-on-year +15 +112 -70
Contract jobs citing GitLab 736 539 357
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.33% 1.88% 0.97%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.59% 14.15% 7.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 360 278
10th Percentile £375 £363 £413
25th Percentile £447 £417 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £551
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.63% -5.17%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £638
90th Percentile £675 £726 £700
UK median daily rate £518 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 6 1
10th Percentile - £67.00 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £74.00 £58.75
Median hourly rate £63.50 £74.22 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% +23.70% -9.43%
75th Percentile £67.00 £84.24 £61.25
90th Percentile £80.20 £91.25 -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 £74.22 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.12% +23.70% +9.09%

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 4,721 3,809 4,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.94% 13.30% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,275 2,395 3,231
10th Percentile £335 £337 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -4.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £601 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 75 200
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £44.32
25th Percentile £54.94 £54.66 £48.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.30 £75.15 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 23 December 2025.

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 December 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 23 December 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 -12 288 £525 -12.50% 109
North of England +2 210 £488 -2.50% 124
Yorkshire +5 93 £500 +17.65% 60
North West 0 88 £413 -17.50% 55
Midlands +24 84 £525 +10.06% 63
West Midlands +30 79 £525 +7.36% 36
South East -5 59 £500 - 118
South West +22 44 £525 -16.00% 83
North East -9 33 £508 -2.40% 9
East of England -3 28 £475 +40.74% 58
East Midlands -16 5 £402 +30.73% 22
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 57 (7.74%) Confluence
2 29 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (3.40%) SAS
4 15 (2.04%) Apache
5 14 (1.90%) OpenStack
6 12 (1.63%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.95%) Appian
8 6 (0.82%) nginx
9 4 (0.54%) CMS
9 4 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.41%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.41%) Hyperledger
11 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.27%) Mule
11 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.14%) Documentum
12 1 (0.14%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.14%) Actimize
3 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.14%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.14%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 440 (59.78%) AWS
2 205 (27.85%) Azure
3 194 (26.36%) GitHub
4 164 (22.28%) GCP
5 124 (16.85%) GitHub Actions
6 100 (13.59%) Serverless
7 86 (11.68%) Amazon S3
8 84 (11.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 75 (10.19%) Amazon EC2
10 74 (10.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 68 (9.24%) OpenShift
12 67 (9.10%) Azure DevOps
13 64 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
14 62 (8.42%) Amazon EKS
15 60 (8.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 43 (5.84%) Amazon ECS
17 29 (3.94%) Datadog
18 23 (3.13%) Amazon ELB
18 23 (3.13%) Azure AKS
19 22 (2.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 54 (7.34%) Firewall
2 47 (6.39%) DNS
3 40 (5.43%) VPN
4 32 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 22 (2.99%) Network Security
6 20 (2.72%) SSL
7 5 (0.68%) BGP
7 5 (0.68%) OpenLDAP
7 5 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.68%) WAN
8 4 (0.54%) VXLAN
9 3 (0.41%) DHCP
9 3 (0.41%) HTTP
9 3 (0.41%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.41%) Multicast
9 3 (0.41%) NAS
9 3 (0.41%) OSPF
9 3 (0.41%) SAN
9 3 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
2 68 (9.24%) MongoDB
3 63 (8.56%) NoSQL
4 45 (6.11%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (2.72%) SQL Server
6 19 (2.58%) Data Lake
7 16 (2.17%) Big Data
7 16 (2.17%) MySQL
8 14 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (1.90%) Redis
9 13 (1.77%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
10 12 (1.63%) Relational Database
11 11 (1.49%) SAS Enterprise Guide
12 10 (1.36%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.95%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.95%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.95%) Power BI
14 6 (0.82%) SAS Visual Analytics
15 5 (0.68%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 364 (49.46%) Jenkins
2 169 (22.96%) Git
3 113 (15.35%) JIRA
4 66 (8.97%) Selenium
5 52 (7.07%) JUnit
6 43 (5.84%) Cucumber
7 41 (5.57%) Artifactory
8 38 (5.16%) Maven
9 34 (4.62%) SonarQube
10 31 (4.21%) Cypress.io
11 26 (3.53%) Gradle
11 26 (3.53%) Liquibase
12 24 (3.26%) CircleCI
12 24 (3.26%) Postman
13 23 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
14 22 (2.99%) Bitbucket
15 18 (2.45%) REST Assured
16 14 (1.90%) JMeter
17 13 (1.77%) Mockito
18 12 (1.63%) Gatling
General
1 214 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 113 (15.35%) Finance
3 98 (13.32%) Public Sector
4 83 (11.28%) Banking
5 50 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.67%) Financial Institution
7 21 (2.85%) Telecoms
8 13 (1.77%) Aerospace
8 13 (1.77%) Military
9 11 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.09%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.95%) Games
12 6 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.82%) Retail
13 4 (0.54%) Law
13 4 (0.54%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.41%) Front Office
14 3 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.41%) Local Government
14 3 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 161 (21.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 141 (19.16%) Developer
3 117 (15.90%) Senior
4 72 (9.78%) AWS Engineer
5 61 (8.29%) Lead
6 55 (7.47%) Software Engineer
7 52 (7.07%) AWS DevOps
8 46 (6.25%) Java Developer
9 41 (5.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 41 (5.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 34 (4.62%) Senior DevOps
10 34 (4.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 34 (4.62%) Test Engineer
11 31 (4.21%) Architect
12 30 (4.08%) Automation Engineer
12 30 (4.08%) GCP Engineer
13 26 (3.53%) Data Engineer
14 24 (3.26%) Senior Developer
15 23 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
15 23 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (17.26%) REST
2 103 (13.99%) Kafka
3 86 (11.68%) Elastic Stack
4 82 (11.14%) Node.js
5 75 (10.19%) Spring
6 74 (10.05%) Spring Boot
7 68 (9.24%) RESTful
8 54 (7.34%) React
9 38 (5.16%) HTML
10 36 (4.89%) Playwright
11 30 (4.08%) JSON
12 29 (3.94%) RabbitMQ
13 28 (3.80%) AngularJS
14 27 (3.67%) pytest
15 25 (3.40%) CSS
16 23 (3.13%) .NET
17 21 (2.85%) OpenTelemetry
18 20 (2.72%) Jest
19 19 (2.58%) OpenID
20 18 (2.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 101 (13.72%) Cloud Native
2 69 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.43%) Public Cloud
4 39 (5.30%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.85%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.17%) Algorithms
7 15 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (1.90%) Private Cloud
9 13 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (1.63%) PKI
10 12 (1.63%) Synthetic Data
11 11 (1.49%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.09%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (1.09%) Security Posture
13 6 (0.82%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 155 (21.06%) Linux
2 49 (6.66%) Windows
3 24 (3.26%) Unix
4 17 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.22%) Android
6 9 (1.22%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.22%) VMS
7 6 (0.82%) CentOS
8 4 (0.54%) Solaris
9 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 591 (80.30%) CI/CD
2 477 (64.81%) DevOps
3 301 (40.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 280 (38.04%) Containerisation
5 266 (36.14%) Agile
6 200 (27.17%) Test Automation
7 176 (23.91%) Microservices
8 149 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
9 125 (16.98%) Software Engineering
10 111 (15.08%) Observability
11 91 (12.36%) Infrastructure Automation
12 78 (10.60%) Computer Science
13 76 (10.33%) DevSecOps
13 76 (10.33%) High Availability
14 74 (10.05%) Scrum
15 71 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 69 (9.38%) Migration
17 64 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
18 61 (8.29%) Analytics
18 61 (8.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 357 (48.51%) Python
2 195 (26.49%) Java
3 146 (19.84%) Bash
4 114 (15.49%) SQL
5 97 (13.18%) JavaScript
6 90 (12.23%) Go
7 72 (9.78%) PowerShell
8 63 (8.56%) TypeScript
9 37 (5.03%) Shell Script
10 26 (3.53%) C#
11 14 (1.90%) C++
12 13 (1.77%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.63%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.09%) C
15 7 (0.95%) Groovy
15 7 (0.95%) Korn
15 7 (0.95%) Perl
15 7 (0.95%) Rust
16 6 (0.82%) PHP
16 6 (0.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 267 (36.28%) Security Cleared
2 206 (27.99%) SC Cleared
3 68 (9.24%) Degree
4 62 (8.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (5.57%) DV Cleared
6 40 (5.43%) AWS Certification
7 35 (4.76%) Master's Degree
8 24 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.49%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.36%) CISSP
12 9 (1.22%) OCA
12 9 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
13 8 (1.09%) CISM
14 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.41%) CCNP
16 3 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
17 2 (0.27%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (14.67%) QA
2 34 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.31%) WCAG
4 16 (2.17%) GDPR
5 14 (1.90%) NCSC
6 12 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.63%) NIST
7 8 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.95%) SLA
9 4 (0.54%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.27%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.27%) HL7
10 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.14%) MiFID
11 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 330 (44.84%) Docker
2 19 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.82%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.82%) vSphere
6 4 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.27%) HDFS
8 1 (0.14%) Squid
Systems Management
1 392 (53.26%) Kubernetes
2 373 (50.68%) Terraform
3 236 (32.07%) Ansible
4 183 (24.86%) Grafana
5 146 (19.84%) Prometheus
6 35 (4.76%) Argo
7 24 (3.26%) Puppet
8 20 (2.72%) Istio
9 19 (2.58%) Progress Chef
10 16 (2.17%) Packer
11 13 (1.77%) Kibana
11 13 (1.77%) Podman
12 10 (1.36%) Fluentd
12 10 (1.36%) NetBackup
13 8 (1.09%) linkerd
14 7 (0.95%) Sysdig
15 6 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
15 6 (0.82%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.82%) Proxmox
15 6 (0.82%) Rancher
Vendors
1 104 (14.13%) Splunk
2 60 (8.15%) Microsoft
3 53 (7.20%) Oracle
4 47 (6.39%) Google
5 41 (5.57%) Red Hat
6 32 (4.35%) VMware
7 22 (2.99%) Dynatrace
7 22 (2.99%) F5
8 21 (2.85%) Palo Alto
9 20 (2.72%) CheckPoint
10 18 (2.45%) ServiceNow
11 17 (2.31%) Atlassian
12 16 (2.17%) Cisco
13 14 (1.90%) IBM
14 13 (1.77%) Databricks
15 11 (1.49%) Veritas
16 10 (1.36%) Commvault
16 10 (1.36%) Cribl.io
16 10 (1.36%) Veracode
17 7 (0.95%) Okta