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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 137 212
Rank change year-on-year -2 +75 +33
Contract jobs citing GitLab 797 468 395
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.91% 1.97% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.92% 14.11% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 296 291
10th Percentile £400 £380 £363
25th Percentile £438 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% -5.06%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £653
90th Percentile £670 £716 £750
UK median daily rate £498 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -5.24% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 1 7
10th Percentile £43.42 - £57.65
25th Percentile £52.50 - £61.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +11.45% +87.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £76.25
90th Percentile £76.75 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £70.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% +18.51% +76.77%

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 5,007 3,317 4,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.02% 13.95% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,292 2,257 2,901
10th Percentile £350 £348 £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 £613 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 60 199
10th Percentile £35.88 £27.35 £31.71
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.88 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.13 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.27% -7.50% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.30 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.80% -11.35% +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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -15 320 £525 -0.94% 53
North of England -5 193 £500 - 59
Midlands +6 121 £463 -6.09% 18
West Midlands +13 109 £463 -11.90% 11
North West +1 97 £500 - 30
Yorkshire -20 68 £494 -6.00% 11
South East -29 68 £546 +9.14% 33
South West +5 57 £500 +6.95% 21
North East -3 42 £450 -14.29% 18
East of England -5 35 £480 +6.72% 8
East Midlands -24 12 £436 +40.19% 7
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 68 (8.53%) Confluence
2 34 (4.27%) SAS
3 29 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (3.39%) Apache
5 26 (3.26%) Apache Spark
6 10 (1.25%) Jupyter
7 9 (1.13%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.88%) CICS
9 5 (0.63%) Camunda
9 5 (0.63%) nginx
9 5 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.25%) CMS
11 2 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 476 (59.72%) AWS
2 255 (31.99%) GitHub
3 241 (30.24%) Azure
4 179 (22.46%) GitHub Actions
5 139 (17.44%) GCP
6 116 (14.55%) Amazon S3
7 110 (13.80%) Serverless
8 98 (12.30%) AWS Lambda
9 95 (11.92%) Amazon EKS
10 82 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
11 81 (10.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 81 (10.16%) Amazon EC2
12 64 (8.03%) AWS CloudFormation
13 59 (7.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 58 (7.28%) OpenShift
15 38 (4.77%) Amazon ECS
16 28 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
17 26 (3.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 25 (3.14%) Azure AKS
18 25 (3.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.52%) Firewall
2 28 (3.51%) DNS
3 20 (2.51%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.38%) BGP
4 19 (2.38%) WAN
5 18 (2.26%) OSPF
6 17 (2.13%) BIG-IP
6 17 (2.13%) Ethernet VPN
6 17 (2.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 17 (2.13%) Network Security
6 17 (2.13%) SD-WAN
6 17 (2.13%) VXLAN
7 14 (1.76%) VPN
8 13 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (1.25%) HTTP
10 9 (1.13%) WLAN
11 6 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.50%) SAN
12 4 (0.50%) SSL
13 3 (0.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (6.78%) MongoDB
3 41 (5.14%) Relational Database
4 36 (4.52%) NoSQL
5 35 (4.39%) DynamoDB
6 32 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
7 30 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
8 29 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
9 28 (3.51%) MySQL
10 26 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
11 25 (3.14%) Redis
12 24 (3.01%) Power BI
12 24 (3.01%) SQL Server
13 23 (2.89%) Pentaho
14 22 (2.76%) Data Lake
15 18 (2.26%) Big Data
16 16 (2.01%) Oracle Database
17 14 (1.76%) DocumentDB
18 13 (1.63%) BigQuery
19 10 (1.25%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 343 (43.04%) Jenkins
2 181 (22.71%) Git
3 114 (14.30%) JIRA
4 70 (8.78%) Selenium
5 59 (7.40%) JUnit
6 38 (4.77%) Cucumber
7 35 (4.39%) Gradle
8 34 (4.27%) REST Assured
9 32 (4.02%) Artifactory
9 32 (4.02%) Postman
10 27 (3.39%) Bitbucket
11 23 (2.89%) JMeter
11 23 (2.89%) Mockito
11 23 (2.89%) SonarQube
12 22 (2.76%) CircleCI
13 21 (2.63%) Gatling
14 16 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
15 14 (1.76%) Maven
16 13 (1.63%) IntelliJ
16 13 (1.63%) WebDriver
General
1 165 (20.70%) Social Skills
2 143 (17.94%) Public Sector
3 89 (11.17%) Finance
4 62 (7.78%) Banking
5 38 (4.77%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.63%) Military
8 12 (1.51%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.00%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.00%) Law
9 8 (1.00%) Legal
9 8 (1.00%) Retail
10 7 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.75%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.50%) Police
12 4 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.38%) Local Government
14 2 (0.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 166 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 129 (16.19%) Senior
3 126 (15.81%) Developer
4 76 (9.54%) AWS Engineer
5 73 (9.16%) Data Engineer
6 60 (7.53%) Lead
7 59 (7.40%) Software Engineer
8 51 (6.40%) AWS DevOps
9 46 (5.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 43 (5.40%) Architect
11 40 (5.02%) Java Developer
12 38 (4.77%) Cloud Engineer
13 33 (4.14%) Test Engineer
14 32 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
15 27 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 27 (3.39%) Senior DevOps
16 26 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
16 26 (3.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 22 (2.76%) GCP Engineer
17 22 (2.76%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (14.81%) Kafka
2 110 (13.80%) Spring
3 100 (12.55%) Spring Boot
4 96 (12.05%) REST
5 61 (7.65%) RESTful
6 55 (6.90%) React
7 52 (6.52%) Node.js
8 42 (5.27%) Playwright
9 35 (4.39%) Elastic Stack
9 35 (4.39%) OpenTelemetry
10 34 (4.27%) PySpark
11 29 (3.64%) LDAP
11 29 (3.64%) YAML
12 25 (3.14%) OAuth
13 23 (2.89%) JSON
14 22 (2.76%) AngularJS
14 22 (2.76%) OpenID
14 22 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
14 22 (2.76%) SOAP
15 21 (2.63%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 136 (17.06%) Cloud Native
2 48 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.64%) Data Centre
5 26 (3.26%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.88%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.63%) Private Cloud
10 12 (1.51%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
10 12 (1.51%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.13%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.13%) NHS
12 8 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (0.88%) DataPower
13 7 (0.88%) PKI
14 6 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.75%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.75%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 134 (16.81%) Linux
2 43 (5.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 40 (5.02%) Unix
3 40 (5.02%) Windows
4 15 (1.88%) CentOS
5 10 (1.25%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.13%) zOS
7 6 (0.75%) VMS
8 5 (0.63%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.50%) Debian
9 4 (0.50%) Rocky
10 3 (0.38%) Android
10 3 (0.38%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.13%) AIX
12 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 629 (78.92%) CI/CD
2 447 (56.09%) DevOps
3 301 (37.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 270 (33.88%) Agile
5 255 (31.99%) Containerisation
6 239 (29.99%) Test Automation
7 154 (19.32%) Microservices
8 151 (18.95%) Observability
9 132 (16.56%) Software Engineering
10 109 (13.68%) Scrum
11 106 (13.30%) Platform Engineering
12 102 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
13 99 (12.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 85 (10.66%) ETL
15 80 (10.04%) DevSecOps
16 68 (8.53%) Migration
16 68 (8.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 64 (8.03%) AI
17 64 (8.03%) TDD
18 63 (7.90%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 305 (38.27%) Python
2 216 (27.10%) Java
3 192 (24.09%) SQL
4 118 (14.81%) Bash
5 77 (9.66%) JavaScript
6 61 (7.65%) PowerShell
7 58 (7.28%) TypeScript
8 39 (4.89%) Shell Script
9 35 (4.39%) C#
10 34 (4.27%) Go
11 21 (2.63%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.13%) Kotlin
13 16 (2.01%) Bicep
14 15 (1.88%) C++
15 11 (1.38%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.38%) Scala
16 8 (1.00%) Ruby
17 7 (0.88%) C
18 6 (0.75%) JCL
18 6 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 358 (44.92%) Security Cleared
2 294 (36.89%) SC Cleared
3 39 (4.89%) Degree
4 35 (4.39%) DV Cleared
5 31 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (2.63%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.38%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.25%) ISTQB
9 10 (1.25%) SAFe Agilist
10 8 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.38%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.25%) CCNP
14 2 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (10.16%) QA
2 38 (4.77%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.89%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.76%) SLA
5 13 (1.63%) GDPR
6 12 (1.51%) WCAG
7 11 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.25%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.63%) FATCA
9 5 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.63%) NCSC
9 5 (0.63%) NIST
10 4 (0.50%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.13%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 321 (40.28%) Docker
2 22 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.75%) Squid
6 4 (0.50%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.50%) HDFS
7 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.25%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) iptables
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.13%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 356 (44.67%) Terraform
2 344 (43.16%) Kubernetes
3 182 (22.84%) Ansible
4 162 (20.33%) Grafana
5 134 (16.81%) Prometheus
6 49 (6.15%) Argo
7 29 (3.64%) Puppet
8 22 (2.76%) Istio
9 16 (2.01%) Podman
9 16 (2.01%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.76%) Red Hat Satellite
11 11 (1.38%) Check_MK
12 10 (1.25%) Kibana
13 9 (1.13%) linkerd
13 9 (1.13%) Packer
14 6 (0.75%) Karpenter
14 6 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.50%) Rancher
15 4 (0.50%) Salt
15 4 (0.50%) Suricata
Vendors
1 91 (11.42%) Oracle
2 61 (7.65%) Splunk
3 52 (6.52%) Microsoft
4 45 (5.65%) Red Hat
5 43 (5.40%) Talend
6 38 (4.77%) Google
7 35 (4.39%) ServiceNow
8 34 (4.27%) VMware
9 32 (4.02%) Informatica
10 29 (3.64%) Databricks
11 23 (2.89%) Denodo
11 23 (2.89%) Dynatrace
12 19 (2.38%) F5
13 18 (2.26%) Arista
13 18 (2.26%) Palo Alto
13 18 (2.26%) Salesforce
14 16 (2.01%) Aruba
15 12 (1.51%) Veracode
16 9 (1.13%) IBM
17 6 (0.75%) AppDynamics