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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 145 184
Rank change year-on-year +1 +39 +58
Contract jobs citing GitLab 872 537 431
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.90% 1.93% 1.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.29% 13.28% 10.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 360 297
10th Percentile £380 £363 £335
25th Percentile £428 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £543
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% -4.31% -3.56%
75th Percentile £601 £601 £650
90th Percentile £700 £675 £705
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 8 8
10th Percentile - £61.60 £62.30
25th Percentile - £64.56 £70.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.58
90th Percentile £93.00 £71.79 £75.75
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 5,352 4,043 4,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.67% 14.55% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,406 2,796 2,853
10th Percentile £354 £320 £356
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £631
90th Percentile £689 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 95 188
10th Percentile £36.25 £40.90 £33.05
25th Percentile £58.63 £51.03 £54.27
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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 16 August 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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +8 373 £525 - 43
North of England -30 182 £500 +3.36% 35
Midlands +37 138 £469 -10.67% 18
West Midlands +26 131 £469 -12.91% 13
South East -40 81 £550 +7.32% 25
North East +9 76 £413 -12.70% 11
North West -27 74 £575 +19.79% 19
South West -27 57 £550 -8.33% 30
Yorkshire -45 45 £550 +10.00% 5
East of England -17 33 £475 - 10
East Midlands -16 7 £459 +69.81% 5
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 82 (9.40%) Confluence
2 61 (7.00%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (6.08%) Apache Spark
4 45 (5.16%) Apache
5 31 (3.56%) SAS
6 29 (3.33%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.69%) Camunda
7 6 (0.69%) CICS
7 6 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.23%) CMS
9 2 (0.23%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.23%) nginx
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Trello
2 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 586 (67.20%) AWS
2 305 (34.98%) GitHub
3 299 (34.29%) Azure
4 225 (25.80%) GitHub Actions
5 157 (18.00%) GCP
6 142 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
7 117 (13.42%) Amazon S3
8 114 (13.07%) Amazon EKS
8 114 (13.07%) Serverless
9 104 (11.93%) AWS Lambda
10 100 (11.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 83 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
12 61 (7.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 58 (6.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 44 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
15 42 (4.82%) OpenShift
16 39 (4.47%) Amazon SQS
17 35 (4.01%) Datadog
18 34 (3.90%) OCI
19 32 (3.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 49 (5.62%) Firewall
2 29 (3.33%) DNS
3 28 (3.21%) BGP
4 27 (3.10%) Network Security
5 26 (2.98%) Ethernet VPN
5 26 (2.98%) VXLAN
6 23 (2.64%) WAN
7 22 (2.52%) SD-WAN
8 21 (2.41%) OSPF
9 19 (2.18%) BIG-IP
9 19 (2.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 19 (2.18%) TCP/IP
10 15 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (1.49%) VPN
12 11 (1.26%) HTTP
12 11 (1.26%) WLAN
13 7 (0.80%) NX-OS
13 7 (0.80%) SSL
14 6 (0.69%) DHCP
15 5 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (8.72%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (8.14%) MongoDB
3 49 (5.62%) Relational Database
4 40 (4.59%) Amazon Athena
4 40 (4.59%) Amazon Redshift
5 37 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
6 35 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
6 35 (4.01%) DynamoDB
7 33 (3.78%) NoSQL
7 33 (3.78%) Pentaho
8 30 (3.44%) SQL Server
9 29 (3.33%) Power BI
10 27 (3.10%) Oracle Database
11 26 (2.98%) Redis
12 24 (2.75%) Data Lake
12 24 (2.75%) MySQL
12 24 (2.75%) RDBMS
13 22 (2.52%) Big Data
14 13 (1.49%) Oracle Exadata
15 11 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 368 (42.20%) Jenkins
2 214 (24.54%) Git
3 104 (11.93%) JIRA
4 66 (7.57%) Selenium
5 63 (7.22%) JUnit
6 42 (4.82%) Cucumber
7 38 (4.36%) Bitbucket
8 37 (4.24%) SonarQube
9 29 (3.33%) Gradle
10 28 (3.21%) Artifactory
11 27 (3.10%) Maven
12 25 (2.87%) Gatling
13 24 (2.75%) Mockito
14 22 (2.52%) JMeter
15 21 (2.41%) REST Assured
15 21 (2.41%) WebDriver
16 19 (2.18%) Postman
16 19 (2.18%) Sonatype Nexus
17 16 (1.83%) Snyk
18 11 (1.26%) Cypress.io
General
1 172 (19.72%) Social Skills
2 150 (17.20%) Public Sector
3 97 (11.12%) Finance
4 61 (7.00%) Banking
5 54 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.18%) Military
7 16 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.61%) Law
9 11 (1.26%) Legal
10 10 (1.15%) Aerospace
11 6 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.57%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.57%) Police
12 5 (0.57%) Publishing
12 5 (0.57%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.46%) Marketing
13 4 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.46%) Retail
14 3 (0.34%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 184 (21.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 170 (19.50%) Senior
3 133 (15.25%) Developer
4 104 (11.93%) AWS Engineer
5 86 (9.86%) Data Engineer
6 67 (7.68%) AWS DevOps
7 63 (7.22%) Lead
8 60 (6.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 56 (6.42%) Software Engineer
10 46 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 39 (4.47%) Java Developer
13 37 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
13 37 (4.24%) Test Engineer
14 33 (3.78%) Architect
15 31 (3.56%) Senior DevOps
16 30 (3.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 26 (2.98%) Full-Stack Developer
17 26 (2.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 26 (2.98%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (14.45%) Kafka
2 99 (11.35%) Spring
3 97 (11.12%) REST
4 87 (9.98%) Spring Boot
5 54 (6.19%) React
6 53 (6.08%) RESTful
7 43 (4.93%) PySpark
8 42 (4.82%) Node.js
8 42 (4.82%) Playwright
9 41 (4.70%) JSON
10 35 (4.01%) RabbitMQ
11 33 (3.78%) YAML
12 26 (2.98%) WireMock
13 25 (2.87%) Elastic Stack
14 23 (2.64%) .NET
14 23 (2.64%) HTML
14 23 (2.64%) pytest
15 22 (2.52%) Keycloak
15 22 (2.52%) OAuth
16 21 (2.41%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 173 (19.84%) Cloud Native
2 61 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.39%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.90%) Data Centre
5 33 (3.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (2.98%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (2.52%) Data Structures
9 18 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
10 17 (1.95%) Algorithms
11 15 (1.72%) Public Cloud
12 14 (1.61%) Mainframe
13 13 (1.49%) AI Agents
14 10 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (1.03%) Private Cloud
16 8 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
17 7 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
17 7 (0.80%) PKI
18 6 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
18 6 (0.69%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 165 (18.92%) Linux
2 42 (4.82%) Unix
3 38 (4.36%) Windows
4 36 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.49%) Ubuntu
5 13 (1.49%) zOS
6 12 (1.38%) AIX
7 10 (1.15%) CentOS
8 7 (0.80%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.57%) VMS
10 4 (0.46%) Debian
10 4 (0.46%) Rocky
11 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.23%) Android
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 720 (82.57%) CI/CD
2 514 (58.94%) DevOps
3 398 (45.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 318 (36.47%) Agile
5 306 (35.09%) Containerisation
6 265 (30.39%) Test Automation
7 165 (18.92%) Microservices
8 157 (18.00%) Observability
9 150 (17.20%) Software Engineering
10 136 (15.60%) Scrum
11 127 (14.56%) Platform Engineering
12 124 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 117 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
14 109 (12.50%) AI
15 99 (11.35%) DevSecOps
16 89 (10.21%) ETL
17 86 (9.86%) Migration
18 84 (9.63%) Event-Driven
19 81 (9.29%) Validation
20 80 (9.17%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 379 (43.46%) Python
2 203 (23.28%) SQL
3 200 (22.94%) Java
4 157 (18.00%) Bash
5 81 (9.29%) PowerShell
6 74 (8.49%) JavaScript
7 59 (6.77%) C#
8 56 (6.42%) TypeScript
9 32 (3.67%) Go
10 26 (2.98%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.18%) Bicep
12 18 (2.06%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.61%) C++
14 9 (1.03%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.92%) Groovy
15 8 (0.92%) Scala
16 6 (0.69%) JCL
16 6 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.69%) R
17 5 (0.57%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 415 (47.59%) Security Cleared
2 341 (39.11%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.00%) DV Cleared
4 45 (5.16%) Degree
5 41 (4.70%) AWS Certification
6 35 (4.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (2.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 18 (2.06%) Azure Certification
10 15 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (1.49%) CISSP
12 11 (1.26%) SAFe Agilist
13 8 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.92%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.57%) GCFA
14 5 (0.57%) GCIH
15 4 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.46%) CSSLP
15 4 (0.46%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (10.55%) QA
2 36 (4.13%) Accessibility
3 35 (4.01%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.38%) GDPR
4 12 (1.38%) WCAG
5 11 (1.26%) NIST
6 10 (1.15%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.15%) SLA
7 9 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.57%) FATCA
10 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.34%) NCSC
12 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.11%) GRC
13 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 371 (42.55%) Docker
2 20 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.49%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.69%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.57%) HDFS
5 5 (0.57%) Squid
6 3 (0.34%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.11%) iptables
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 435 (49.89%) Terraform
2 392 (44.95%) Kubernetes
3 227 (26.03%) Ansible
4 148 (16.97%) Grafana
5 128 (14.68%) Prometheus
6 45 (5.16%) Argo
7 39 (4.47%) Puppet
8 26 (2.98%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.61%) Istio
10 13 (1.49%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.49%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (1.26%) Packer
12 9 (1.03%) Podman
12 9 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.69%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.57%) CASB
14 5 (0.57%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.57%) linkerd
14 5 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.57%) Salt
Vendors
1 100 (11.47%) Oracle
2 68 (7.80%) Microsoft
3 56 (6.42%) Google
4 53 (6.08%) Splunk
5 48 (5.50%) Talend
6 47 (5.39%) Informatica
7 34 (3.90%) Databricks
8 33 (3.78%) VMware
9 27 (3.10%) Dynatrace
10 26 (2.98%) ServiceNow
11 23 (2.64%) Red Hat
12 22 (2.52%) Denodo
13 21 (2.41%) Palo Alto
14 20 (2.29%) F5
15 18 (2.06%) Arista
15 18 (2.06%) Aruba
16 17 (1.95%) IBM
17 16 (1.83%) Trend Micro
18 10 (1.15%) Cisco
19 8 (0.92%) Veracode