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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 139 235
Rank change year-on-year +13 +96 -46
Contract jobs citing GitLab 790 494 372
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.13% 2.02% 0.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.62% 14.85% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 324 275
10th Percentile £386 £370 £409
25th Percentile £430 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £541 £568
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -4.63% -5.42%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £675
90th Percentile £663 £731 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £558
% change year-on-year -5.66% -4.93% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 5
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.59 £57.10
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £58.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -33.70% +11.45% +21.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £77.50
90th Percentile £80.65 £92.59 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £82.96 £62.00
% change year-on-year -33.70% +33.81% +27.18%

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 5,057 3,326 4,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.61% 13.61% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,434 2,195 2,949
10th Percentile £338 £340 £359
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% -7.89%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 62 179
10th Percentile £36.20 £26.06 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.48 £48.16
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £78.13 £73.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.66 £83.75
UK median hourly rate £65.75 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +5.20% +0.81% +0.81%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -11 326 £525 -4.55% 65
North of England 0 215 £500 -4.76% 53
Midlands +13 111 £478 -2.40% 13
North West +4 108 £449 -10.30% 14
West Midlands +6 99 £481 -3.75% 7
Yorkshire -8 81 £500 -13.04% 19
South East -33 58 £500 -21.57% 40
South West +6 48 £525 - 29
North East -5 34 £513 +2.24% 20
East of England -8 20 £477 +5.89% 12
East Midlands -26 12 £402 +29.99% 6
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 65 (8.23%) Confluence
2 36 (4.56%) SAS
3 26 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.66%) Apache
5 14 (1.77%) OpenStack
6 13 (1.65%) Apache Spark
7 9 (1.14%) nginx
8 3 (0.38%) Appian
8 3 (0.38%) CICS
8 3 (0.38%) CMS
8 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.13%) FileNet
10 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Actimize
3 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 476 (60.25%) AWS
2 248 (31.39%) GitHub
3 211 (26.71%) Azure
4 159 (20.13%) GCP
5 156 (19.75%) GitHub Actions
6 124 (15.70%) Serverless
7 106 (13.42%) Amazon S3
8 95 (12.03%) Amazon EKS
9 94 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
10 85 (10.76%) Amazon EC2
11 81 (10.25%) OpenShift
12 76 (9.62%) AWS CloudFormation
13 74 (9.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 64 (8.10%) Azure DevOps
15 62 (7.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 48 (6.08%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (3.29%) Datadog
18 21 (2.66%) Snowflake
19 20 (2.53%) AWS KMS
19 20 (2.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.32%) Firewall
2 33 (4.18%) DNS
3 27 (3.42%) VPN
4 22 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 15 (1.90%) Network Security
6 7 (0.89%) HTTP
6 7 (0.89%) WAN
7 6 (0.76%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.76%) SSL
8 5 (0.63%) BGP
8 5 (0.63%) Multicast
9 4 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.51%) SAN
9 4 (0.51%) VSAN
10 3 (0.38%) DHCP
10 3 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.38%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.38%) NAS
10 3 (0.38%) OSPF
10 3 (0.38%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (12.53%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (7.72%) NoSQL
3 56 (7.09%) MongoDB
4 43 (5.44%) Amazon RDS
5 29 (3.67%) Relational Database
6 28 (3.54%) DynamoDB
7 25 (3.16%) MySQL
8 23 (2.91%) Redis
9 22 (2.78%) SQL Server
10 21 (2.66%) Data Lake
11 18 (2.28%) Amazon Athena
11 18 (2.28%) Big Data
12 17 (2.15%) Power BI
13 15 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.90%) Oracle Database
14 14 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
15 12 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (1.39%) DocumentDB
17 10 (1.27%) Spark SQL
18 9 (1.14%) Aerospike
Development Applications
1 400 (50.63%) Jenkins
2 190 (24.05%) Git
3 120 (15.19%) JIRA
4 85 (10.76%) Selenium
5 76 (9.62%) JUnit
6 53 (6.71%) Cucumber
7 35 (4.43%) Postman
8 32 (4.05%) JMeter
9 31 (3.92%) Bitbucket
10 29 (3.67%) Artifactory
11 28 (3.54%) REST Assured
12 25 (3.16%) CircleCI
12 25 (3.16%) Maven
12 25 (3.16%) Mockito
13 22 (2.78%) Gatling
13 22 (2.78%) SonarQube
14 21 (2.66%) Gradle
15 20 (2.53%) Cypress.io
16 18 (2.28%) Sonatype Nexus
17 14 (1.77%) Liquibase
General
1 231 (29.24%) Social Skills
2 125 (15.82%) Public Sector
3 123 (15.57%) Finance
4 91 (11.52%) Banking
5 49 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (2.41%) Financial Institution
8 11 (1.39%) Aerospace
8 11 (1.39%) Military
9 10 (1.27%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.14%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.89%) Retail
13 5 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.51%) Law
14 4 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.38%) Games
15 3 (0.38%) Legal
15 3 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 162 (20.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 147 (18.61%) Developer
3 118 (14.94%) Senior
4 77 (9.75%) AWS Engineer
5 63 (7.97%) Lead
6 61 (7.72%) AWS DevOps
7 51 (6.46%) Software Engineer
8 49 (6.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 49 (6.20%) Data Engineer
9 43 (5.44%) Architect
10 42 (5.32%) Java Developer
11 41 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
11 41 (5.19%) Test Engineer
12 31 (3.92%) Senior DevOps
12 31 (3.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 30 (3.80%) GCP Engineer
13 30 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
14 27 (3.42%) Java Engineer
15 23 (2.91%) Test Automation Engineer
16 22 (2.78%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (18.10%) REST
2 116 (14.68%) Spring
3 113 (14.30%) Kafka
4 102 (12.91%) Spring Boot
5 76 (9.62%) Node.js
6 73 (9.24%) Elastic Stack
7 71 (8.99%) RESTful
8 59 (7.47%) React
9 54 (6.84%) Playwright
10 36 (4.56%) pytest
11 32 (4.05%) RabbitMQ
12 31 (3.92%) HTML
12 31 (3.92%) OpenTelemetry
13 29 (3.67%) YAML
14 27 (3.42%) Jest
15 26 (3.29%) AngularJS
15 26 (3.29%) OpenID
16 25 (3.16%) LDAP
16 25 (3.16%) PySpark
17 23 (2.91%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 117 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 66 (8.35%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.95%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.94%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 15 (1.90%) Data Centre
7 14 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (1.52%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
9 9 (1.14%) Mainframe
9 9 (1.14%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (0.89%) DataPower
11 7 (0.89%) NHS
11 7 (0.89%) PKI
12 6 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (0.76%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 152 (19.24%) Linux
2 54 (6.84%) Windows
3 27 (3.42%) Unix
4 25 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.14%) Android
6 9 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.14%) CentOS
7 8 (1.01%) VMS
8 6 (0.76%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.63%) zOS
10 3 (0.38%) Debian
10 3 (0.38%) Rocky
11 1 (0.13%) AIX
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 628 (79.49%) CI/CD
2 463 (58.61%) DevOps
3 299 (37.85%) Agile
4 278 (35.19%) Containerisation
5 275 (34.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 250 (31.65%) Test Automation
7 172 (21.77%) Microservices
8 154 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
9 143 (18.10%) Observability
10 110 (13.92%) Software Engineering
11 108 (13.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 91 (11.52%) Scrum
13 81 (10.25%) Analytics
14 74 (9.37%) Platform Engineering
15 72 (9.11%) TDD
16 70 (8.86%) DevSecOps
17 69 (8.73%) Test Strategy
18 62 (7.85%) Data Pipeline
19 60 (7.59%) Stakeholder Management
20 56 (7.09%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 347 (43.92%) Python
2 239 (30.25%) Java
3 155 (19.62%) SQL
4 118 (14.94%) Bash
5 91 (11.52%) JavaScript
6 72 (9.11%) TypeScript
7 69 (8.73%) PowerShell
8 64 (8.10%) Go
9 38 (4.81%) Shell Script
10 17 (2.15%) Kotlin
11 16 (2.03%) C#
12 13 (1.65%) Bicep
12 13 (1.65%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.52%) Ruby
14 9 (1.14%) Scala
15 8 (1.01%) C++
16 7 (0.89%) C
16 7 (0.89%) Groovy
16 7 (0.89%) Korn
16 7 (0.89%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 308 (38.99%) Security Cleared
2 247 (31.27%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.58%) Degree
4 47 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.80%) AWS Certification
5 30 (3.80%) DV Cleared
6 23 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 20 (2.53%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.14%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.01%) CISSP
12 6 (0.76%) CISM
12 6 (0.76%) OCA
12 6 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.51%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.38%) CCNP
14 3 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (13.54%) QA
2 47 (5.95%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.53%) WCAG
4 18 (2.28%) GDPR
5 16 (2.03%) SLA
6 15 (1.90%) Data Quality
7 14 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.39%) NIST
9 10 (1.27%) NCSC
10 6 (0.76%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.51%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.25%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.13%) MiFID
13 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 348 (44.05%) Docker
2 22 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.63%) HDFS
6 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.25%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.13%) Squid
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 410 (51.90%) Kubernetes
2 353 (44.68%) Terraform
3 197 (24.94%) Grafana
4 184 (23.29%) Ansible
5 156 (19.75%) Prometheus
6 46 (5.82%) Argo
7 21 (2.66%) Istio
8 17 (2.15%) Kibana
8 17 (2.15%) Podman
9 16 (2.03%) Puppet
10 14 (1.77%) Progress Chef
11 11 (1.39%) Packer
12 9 (1.14%) linkerd
12 9 (1.14%) Red Hat Satellite
13 7 (0.89%) Check_MK
13 7 (0.89%) Fluentd
13 7 (0.89%) Karpenter
13 7 (0.89%) Sysdig
14 6 (0.76%) Nagios
15 5 (0.63%) Rancher
Vendors
1 87 (11.01%) Splunk
2 65 (8.23%) Oracle
3 58 (7.34%) Microsoft
4 44 (5.57%) Red Hat
5 43 (5.44%) Google
6 32 (4.05%) VMware
7 30 (3.80%) ServiceNow
8 20 (2.53%) Databricks
9 17 (2.15%) Dynatrace
10 16 (2.03%) Salesforce
11 15 (1.90%) Informatica
12 14 (1.77%) Atlassian
12 14 (1.77%) Talend
12 14 (1.77%) Veracode
13 12 (1.52%) IBM
14 11 (1.39%) Cisco
15 8 (1.01%) Cribl.io
16 6 (0.76%) AppDynamics
16 6 (0.76%) F5
16 6 (0.76%) Fortinet