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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 141 213
Rank change year-on-year -8 +72 +41
Contract jobs citing GitLab 814 533 411
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.81% 1.94% 1.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.52% 13.70% 9.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 343 292
10th Percentile £368 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £696 £662 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 8
10th Percentile £63.88 £61.60 £62.30
25th Percentile - £64.56 £70.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.73% +24.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £75.63
90th Percentile £81.75 £71.79 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -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 5,245 3,891 4,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.19% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,355 2,664 2,962
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 90 218
10th Percentile £26.30 £35.70 £31.71
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £51.56
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.08 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £65.75 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.54% -2.31% +4.00%

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 20 July 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 July 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 July 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 -14 341 £525 - 75
North of England -17 186 £453 -3.67% 39
Midlands +35 132 £469 -6.20% 16
West Midlands +18 125 £466 -9.12% 10
North West -23 85 £525 +8.25% 21
South East -45 69 £550 - 26
North East +5 68 £413 -11.29% 12
South West -19 50 £542 -9.71% 21
Yorkshire -47 48 £550 +15.79% 6
East of England -8 31 £489 +8.61% 12
East Midlands -13 7 £470 +74.07% 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 91 (11.18%) Confluence
2 53 (6.51%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (5.41%) Apache Spark
4 39 (4.79%) Apache
5 33 (4.05%) SAS
6 27 (3.32%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.86%) CICS
8 6 (0.74%) Camunda
8 6 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.49%) nginx
9 4 (0.49%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.37%) 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 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Trello
2 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 534 (65.60%) AWS
2 261 (32.06%) GitHub
3 246 (30.22%) Azure
4 189 (23.22%) GitHub Actions
5 133 (16.34%) GCP
6 121 (14.86%) Amazon S3
7 114 (14.00%) Serverless
8 109 (13.39%) Azure DevOps
9 103 (12.65%) AWS Lambda
10 97 (11.92%) Amazon EKS
11 88 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 86 (10.57%) Amazon EC2
13 57 (7.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 55 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
15 41 (5.04%) OpenShift
16 35 (4.30%) Amazon ECS
16 35 (4.30%) OCI
17 32 (3.93%) Amazon SQS
18 29 (3.56%) Amazon EMR
18 29 (3.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.91%) Firewall
2 21 (2.58%) BGP
2 21 (2.58%) Network Security
2 21 (2.58%) WAN
3 20 (2.46%) OSPF
4 19 (2.33%) BIG-IP
4 19 (2.33%) Ethernet VPN
4 19 (2.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 19 (2.33%) SD-WAN
4 19 (2.33%) VXLAN
5 18 (2.21%) DNS
6 15 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (1.72%) TCP/IP
7 14 (1.72%) VPN
8 11 (1.35%) WLAN
9 8 (0.98%) HTTP
10 5 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.49%) MQTT
11 4 (0.49%) SSL
12 3 (0.37%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (7.49%) MongoDB
3 51 (6.27%) Relational Database
4 41 (5.04%) Amazon Athena
4 41 (5.04%) Amazon Redshift
5 33 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
5 33 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (4.05%) DynamoDB
6 30 (3.69%) Oracle Database
7 29 (3.56%) Pentaho
8 26 (3.19%) NoSQL
8 26 (3.19%) Power BI
8 26 (3.19%) SQL Server
9 22 (2.70%) RDBMS
10 19 (2.33%) Big Data
10 19 (2.33%) Data Lake
10 19 (2.33%) MySQL
11 16 (1.97%) Redis
12 12 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.47%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 336 (41.28%) Jenkins
2 191 (23.46%) Git
3 118 (14.50%) JIRA
4 67 (8.23%) Selenium
5 62 (7.62%) JUnit
6 39 (4.79%) Cucumber
7 37 (4.55%) SonarQube
8 34 (4.18%) Bitbucket
9 29 (3.56%) Artifactory
10 28 (3.44%) Gradle
10 28 (3.44%) Mockito
11 26 (3.19%) REST Assured
12 25 (3.07%) JMeter
13 23 (2.83%) Gatling
13 23 (2.83%) WebDriver
14 22 (2.70%) Postman
15 21 (2.58%) Maven
16 13 (1.60%) Serenity BDD
16 13 (1.60%) Snyk
17 12 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 157 (19.29%) Social Skills
2 156 (19.16%) Public Sector
3 85 (10.44%) Finance
4 63 (7.74%) Banking
5 44 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.21%) Military
7 16 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.72%) Law
9 12 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.35%) Legal
11 7 (0.86%) Financial Institution
11 7 (0.86%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.74%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.61%) Police
14 4 (0.49%) Publishing
15 3 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.37%) Retail
16 2 (0.25%) Back Office
16 2 (0.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 182 (22.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 157 (19.29%) Senior
3 119 (14.62%) Developer
4 95 (11.67%) AWS Engineer
5 80 (9.83%) Data Engineer
6 67 (8.23%) AWS DevOps
7 60 (7.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 57 (7.00%) Lead
9 48 (5.90%) Software Engineer
10 41 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 39 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
12 37 (4.55%) Java Developer
12 37 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
12 37 (4.55%) Test Engineer
13 32 (3.93%) Senior DevOps
14 31 (3.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 30 (3.69%) Architect
16 27 (3.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 26 (3.19%) Full-Stack Developer
18 23 (2.83%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (13.88%) Kafka
2 89 (10.93%) Spring
3 83 (10.20%) REST
4 81 (9.95%) Spring Boot
5 61 (7.49%) RESTful
6 53 (6.51%) React
7 43 (5.28%) PySpark
8 39 (4.79%) Playwright
9 37 (4.55%) YAML
10 36 (4.42%) Node.js
11 30 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
12 28 (3.44%) JSON
13 24 (2.95%) WireMock
14 23 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
14 23 (2.83%) SOAP
15 22 (2.70%) AWS CDK
16 20 (2.46%) Keycloak
17 19 (2.33%) OAuth
17 19 (2.33%) pytest
18 17 (2.09%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 149 (18.30%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.56%) Data Centre
5 26 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (3.19%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.70%) Public Cloud
7 19 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (2.21%) Data Structures
8 18 (2.21%) Distributed Architecture
9 16 (1.97%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.47%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.11%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.98%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.98%) NHS
13 7 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.86%) DataPower
13 7 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.74%) Online Banking
14 6 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 154 (18.92%) Linux
2 35 (4.30%) Unix
2 35 (4.30%) Windows
3 34 (4.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.60%) zOS
5 12 (1.47%) AIX
6 8 (0.98%) CentOS
6 8 (0.98%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.49%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.37%) Debian
8 3 (0.37%) Rocky
8 3 (0.37%) VMS
9 2 (0.25%) Android
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 669 (82.19%) CI/CD
2 478 (58.72%) DevOps
3 353 (43.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 303 (37.22%) Agile
5 272 (33.42%) Containerisation
6 253 (31.08%) Test Automation
7 154 (18.92%) Microservices
8 137 (16.83%) Observability
9 126 (15.48%) Scrum
9 126 (15.48%) Software Engineering
10 120 (14.74%) Platform Engineering
11 105 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 105 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
12 94 (11.55%) AI
13 85 (10.44%) DevSecOps
14 78 (9.58%) ETL
14 78 (9.58%) Migration
15 71 (8.72%) Event-Driven
16 69 (8.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 67 (8.23%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 336 (41.28%) Python
2 187 (22.97%) Java
3 179 (21.99%) SQL
4 126 (15.48%) Bash
5 65 (7.99%) JavaScript
6 55 (6.76%) PowerShell
7 53 (6.51%) TypeScript
8 48 (5.90%) C#
9 32 (3.93%) Go
10 26 (3.19%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.09%) Bicep
12 16 (1.97%) PL/SQL
13 13 (1.60%) C++
14 7 (0.86%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.74%) JCL
15 6 (0.74%) Scala
16 5 (0.61%) C
16 5 (0.61%) Ruby
17 4 (0.49%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.49%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 395 (48.53%) Security Cleared
2 331 (40.66%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.90%) DV Cleared
4 39 (4.79%) Degree
5 36 (4.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (4.30%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 16 (1.97%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 11 (1.35%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (1.11%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.61%) CISSP
14 4 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.49%) CSSLP
14 4 (0.49%) GIAC
15 3 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (9.34%) QA
2 33 (4.05%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.93%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.23%) SLA
5 9 (1.11%) WCAG
6 5 (0.61%) FATCA
6 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.49%) NIST
8 3 (0.37%) GDPR
8 3 (0.37%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.12%) GRC
10 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
10 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
10 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 340 (41.77%) Docker
2 21 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.60%) Oracle RAC
4 12 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.61%) HDFS
6 5 (0.61%) Squid
7 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.25%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.12%) iptables
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 405 (49.75%) Terraform
2 345 (42.38%) Kubernetes
3 192 (23.59%) Ansible
4 151 (18.55%) Grafana
5 131 (16.09%) Prometheus
6 46 (5.65%) Argo
7 33 (4.05%) Puppet
8 16 (1.97%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.72%) Istio
10 13 (1.60%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.60%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (1.23%) Packer
12 9 (1.11%) Podman
13 6 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
13 6 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.61%) Kibana
14 5 (0.61%) linkerd
14 5 (0.61%) Salt
15 4 (0.49%) HP Fortify
15 4 (0.49%) Suricata
Vendors
1 100 (12.29%) Oracle
2 51 (6.27%) Microsoft
3 48 (5.90%) Talend
4 45 (5.53%) Informatica
4 45 (5.53%) Splunk
5 44 (5.41%) Google
6 24 (2.95%) Databricks
7 23 (2.83%) Denodo
8 21 (2.58%) Palo Alto
8 21 (2.58%) Red Hat
8 21 (2.58%) VMware
9 20 (2.46%) F5
10 18 (2.21%) Arista
10 18 (2.21%) Aruba
10 18 (2.21%) IBM
10 18 (2.21%) ServiceNow
11 17 (2.09%) Dynatrace
11 17 (2.09%) Salesforce
12 15 (1.84%) Trend Micro
12 15 (1.84%) Veracode