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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 138 160
Rank change year-on-year 0 +22 +109
Contract jobs citing GitLab 970 605 520
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.07% 2.15% 1.62%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.87% 14.14% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 433 351
10th Percentile £386 £375 £356
25th Percentile £436 £438 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £543
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -4.15% -1.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 7 7
10th Percentile £56.75 £61.55 £70.40
25th Percentile £64.38 £63.63 -
Median hourly rate £66.61 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% -9.46% -7.50%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.72
90th Percentile £95.00 - £80.00
UK median hourly rate £66.61 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -0.59% -9.46% +48.59%

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 5,428 4,278 4,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.59% 15.20% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,441 2,975 2,713
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 97 159
10th Percentile £22.68 £33.90 £41.51
25th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 £54.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £77.50 £72.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +24 416 £520 -0.95% 50
North of England -49 187 £500 +5.04% 40
Midlands +39 170 £470 -11.26% 26
West Midlands +27 156 £475 -11.63% 20
North West -32 81 £569 +41.54% 26
North East -3 78 £413 -28.26% 7
South East -35 75 £543 +8.50% 18
South West -13 61 £550 -8.33% 33
East of England -20 40 £450 -7.69% 10
Yorkshire -76 39 £550 +10.00% 7
East Midlands -2 14 £402 +48.89% 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 88 (9.07%) Confluence
2 67 (6.91%) Apache Spark
3 60 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
4 55 (5.67%) Apache
5 29 (2.99%) Jupyter
6 15 (1.55%) SAS
7 14 (1.44%) nginx
8 11 (1.13%) Camunda
9 5 (0.52%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.31%) CICS
10 3 (0.31%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.21%) Traefik
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.10%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Trello
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.10%) CATIA
3 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.10%) Simulink
3 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 634 (65.36%) AWS
2 310 (31.96%) GitHub
3 308 (31.75%) Azure
4 210 (21.65%) GitHub Actions
5 157 (16.19%) GCP
6 148 (15.26%) Azure DevOps
7 121 (12.47%) Amazon EKS
7 121 (12.47%) Amazon S3
8 119 (12.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 113 (11.65%) Serverless
10 104 (10.72%) AWS Lambda
11 95 (9.79%) Amazon EC2
12 62 (6.39%) OpenShift
13 57 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
14 56 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
14 56 (5.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 42 (4.33%) Amazon SQS
16 39 (4.02%) Amazon EMR
17 36 (3.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 34 (3.51%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.74%) Firewall
2 38 (3.92%) DNS
3 30 (3.09%) BGP
3 30 (3.09%) Ethernet VPN
3 30 (3.09%) Network Security
3 30 (3.09%) TCP/IP
3 30 (3.09%) VXLAN
3 30 (3.09%) Wi-Fi
4 22 (2.27%) WAN
5 21 (2.16%) SD-WAN
6 20 (2.06%) BIG-IP
6 20 (2.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 20 (2.06%) OSPF
7 17 (1.75%) VPN
8 15 (1.55%) Broadband
8 15 (1.55%) IPv4
8 15 (1.55%) IPv6
9 14 (1.44%) 5G
9 14 (1.44%) HTTP
10 13 (1.34%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (9.38%) MongoDB
2 78 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
4 47 (4.85%) Relational Database
5 41 (4.23%) Amazon Athena
5 41 (4.23%) NoSQL
6 38 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
7 37 (3.81%) Pentaho
8 34 (3.51%) Amazon Redshift
9 33 (3.40%) Oracle Database
9 33 (3.40%) SQL Server
10 32 (3.30%) Data Lake
10 32 (3.30%) DynamoDB
10 32 (3.30%) MySQL
11 31 (3.20%) Power BI
12 29 (2.99%) Big Data
13 28 (2.89%) Redis
14 27 (2.78%) RDBMS
15 17 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
16 13 (1.34%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 382 (39.38%) Jenkins
2 277 (28.56%) Git
3 127 (13.09%) JIRA
4 93 (9.59%) JUnit
5 83 (8.56%) Selenium
6 67 (6.91%) Cucumber
7 60 (6.19%) Maven
7 60 (6.19%) SonarQube
8 46 (4.74%) Gatling
9 42 (4.33%) Mockito
10 39 (4.02%) Gradle
11 32 (3.30%) Bitbucket
11 32 (3.30%) REST Assured
12 31 (3.20%) Sonatype Nexus
13 27 (2.78%) Artifactory
14 18 (1.86%) Cypress.io
14 18 (1.86%) JMeter
15 17 (1.75%) WebDriver
16 16 (1.65%) Postman
17 13 (1.34%) Claude Code
General
1 201 (20.72%) Social Skills
2 172 (17.73%) Public Sector
3 115 (11.86%) Finance
4 79 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (7.32%) Banking
6 26 (2.68%) Telecoms
7 22 (2.27%) Military
8 20 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.34%) Law
10 12 (1.24%) Aerospace
11 9 (0.93%) Legal
12 8 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.72%) Police
14 6 (0.62%) Back Office
15 5 (0.52%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.52%) Publishing
16 4 (0.41%) Front Office
16 4 (0.41%) Local Government
16 4 (0.41%) Marketing
16 4 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 214 (22.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 169 (17.42%) Senior
3 166 (17.11%) Developer
4 102 (10.52%) AWS Engineer
5 81 (8.35%) Data Engineer
6 66 (6.80%) AWS DevOps
7 59 (6.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 59 (6.08%) Lead
8 49 (5.05%) Test Engineer
9 48 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 48 (4.95%) Java Developer
10 44 (4.54%) Java Engineer
11 43 (4.43%) Architect
11 43 (4.43%) Cloud Engineer
12 42 (4.33%) Software Engineer
13 40 (4.12%) Software Developer
14 38 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
15 34 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
16 33 (3.40%) Senior DevOps
17 32 (3.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 495 (51.03%) Terraform
2 150 (15.46%) Kafka
3 143 (14.74%) Spring
4 124 (12.78%) REST
5 122 (12.58%) Spring Boot
6 75 (7.73%) React
7 74 (7.63%) Playwright
8 62 (6.39%) RESTful
9 57 (5.88%) JSON
10 55 (5.67%) RabbitMQ
11 42 (4.33%) PySpark
12 39 (4.02%) Node.js
13 36 (3.71%) HTML
13 36 (3.71%) JPA
14 35 (3.61%) .NET
15 33 (3.40%) OpenAPI
15 33 (3.40%) YAML
16 32 (3.30%) CSS
16 32 (3.30%) WireMock
17 31 (3.20%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 196 (20.21%) Cloud Native
2 67 (6.91%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (4.74%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 37 (3.81%) Data Centre
6 33 (3.40%) Data Structures
7 30 (3.09%) Onboarding
8 23 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.96%) PKI
10 18 (1.86%) Algorithms
11 16 (1.65%) AI Agents
11 16 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
11 16 (1.65%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.24%) Private Cloud
12 12 (1.24%) Replication
13 11 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.13%) Mainframe
13 11 (1.13%) Security Posture
14 9 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 217 (22.37%) Linux
2 52 (5.36%) Windows
3 43 (4.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 39 (4.02%) Unix
5 17 (1.75%) Ubuntu
6 15 (1.55%) CentOS
6 15 (1.55%) VMS
7 12 (1.24%) AIX
8 10 (1.03%) Windows Server
8 10 (1.03%) zOS
9 2 (0.21%) Debian
9 2 (0.21%) Rocky
9 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Android
10 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 814 (83.92%) CI/CD
2 573 (59.07%) DevOps
3 460 (47.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 380 (39.18%) Agile
5 349 (35.98%) Containerisation
6 311 (32.06%) Test Automation
7 209 (21.55%) Microservices
8 190 (19.59%) Observability
9 182 (18.76%) Scrum
10 162 (16.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 153 (15.77%) Software Engineering
12 141 (14.54%) Platform Engineering
13 136 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
14 134 (13.81%) AI
15 108 (11.13%) Deployment Automation
16 107 (11.03%) Stakeholder Management
17 106 (10.93%) DevSecOps
17 106 (10.93%) Mentoring
18 104 (10.72%) Software Delivery
19 99 (10.21%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 440 (45.36%) Python
2 274 (28.25%) Java
3 230 (23.71%) SQL
4 169 (17.42%) Bash
5 98 (10.10%) JavaScript
6 83 (8.56%) PowerShell
7 68 (7.01%) C#
8 51 (5.26%) TypeScript
9 42 (4.33%) Go
9 42 (4.33%) Shell Script
10 20 (2.06%) Groovy
11 16 (1.65%) Bicep
12 14 (1.44%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.24%) C++
14 7 (0.72%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.72%) Scala
15 6 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.62%) R
16 5 (0.52%) Cypher
16 5 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 449 (46.29%) Security Cleared
2 338 (34.85%) SC Cleared
3 99 (10.21%) DV Cleared
4 82 (8.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 54 (5.57%) Degree
6 51 (5.26%) AWS Certification
7 37 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 14 (1.44%) CISSP
11 12 (1.24%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.13%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.82%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.52%) GCFA
16 5 (0.52%) GCIH
17 4 (0.41%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (14.33%) QA
2 56 (5.77%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 34 (3.51%) WCAG
4 16 (1.65%) NIST
5 13 (1.34%) GDPR
5 13 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.03%) NCSC
7 9 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.52%) SLA
10 4 (0.41%) FATCA
10 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.10%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.10%) MIL-STD-1553
12 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 426 (43.92%) Docker
2 20 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.86%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.34%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.82%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.52%) Firmware
7 5 (0.52%) Squid
8 4 (0.41%) HDFS
8 4 (0.41%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 447 (46.08%) Kubernetes
2 258 (26.60%) Ansible
3 153 (15.77%) Grafana
4 133 (13.71%) Prometheus
5 43 (4.43%) Argo
6 40 (4.12%) Puppet
7 37 (3.81%) Kibana
8 29 (2.99%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.34%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.34%) Oracle RMAN
10 12 (1.24%) Istio
10 12 (1.24%) Packer
11 9 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.82%) Kustomize
12 8 (0.82%) Podman
13 5 (0.52%) CASB
13 5 (0.52%) HP Fortify
14 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.41%) Suricata
15 3 (0.31%) Cilium
Vendors
1 110 (11.34%) Oracle
2 72 (7.42%) Google
3 66 (6.80%) Microsoft
4 55 (5.67%) Splunk
5 46 (4.74%) Talend
6 45 (4.64%) Informatica
7 39 (4.02%) VMware
8 33 (3.40%) Dynatrace
9 30 (3.09%) Databricks
10 26 (2.68%) Red Hat
10 26 (2.68%) ServiceNow
11 24 (2.47%) IBM
12 22 (2.27%) Palo Alto
13 21 (2.16%) F5
14 18 (1.86%) Arista
14 18 (1.86%) Aruba
15 16 (1.65%) Denodo
15 16 (1.65%) Trend Micro
16 15 (1.55%) Cloudera
17 14 (1.44%) Veracode