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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 133 225
Rank change year-on-year +16 +92 -44
Contract jobs citing GitLab 758 529 382
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.38% 1.96% 1.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.16% 14.69% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 349 292
10th Percentile £381 £363 £413
25th Percentile £447 £438 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £568 £551
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +3.09% -8.25%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £645
90th Percentile £675 £734 £711
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £551
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.09% -8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 5 1
10th Percentile £39.53 £65.60 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £74.00 £58.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £74.44 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +24.07% -22.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £87.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £80.20 £92.00 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £74.44 £60.00
% change year-on-year -22.76% +24.07% -7.69%

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 4,691 3,601 4,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.73% 13.36% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,255 2,247 3,059
10th Percentile £335 £335 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 64 196
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £45.24
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.31 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.95 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 16 January 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 January 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 January 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 +3 307 £525 -12.50% 61
North of England -1 213 £488 -5.34% 59
Yorkshire +1 92 £513 -6.82% 23
Midlands +22 90 £525 +10.06% 31
North West +2 90 £420 -16.00% 30
West Midlands +22 82 £525 +7.25% 17
South East -14 56 £500 - 89
South West +16 48 £523 -22.45% 50
North East -11 37 £488 -7.14% 6
East of England -1 26 £478 +27.47% 44
East Midlands -21 8 £400 +30.08% 14
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 55 (7.26%) Confluence
2 29 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (3.69%) SAS
4 16 (2.11%) Apache
5 14 (1.85%) OpenStack
6 11 (1.45%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.92%) Appian
8 6 (0.79%) nginx
9 4 (0.53%) CMS
9 4 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.40%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.40%) Hyperledger
11 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.13%) CICS
12 1 (0.13%) Documentum
12 1 (0.13%) FileNet
12 1 (0.13%) Luigi
12 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Actimize
3 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.13%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 455 (60.03%) AWS
2 205 (27.04%) GitHub
3 203 (26.78%) Azure
4 156 (20.58%) GCP
5 131 (17.28%) GitHub Actions
6 105 (13.85%) Serverless
7 93 (12.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 93 (12.27%) Amazon S3
8 79 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
9 74 (9.76%) OpenShift
10 73 (9.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 72 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
12 70 (9.23%) Amazon EKS
13 63 (8.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 53 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
15 47 (6.20%) Amazon ECS
16 32 (4.22%) Datadog
17 25 (3.30%) Azure AKS
18 23 (3.03%) Amazon ELB
19 21 (2.77%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 51 (6.73%) Firewall
2 46 (6.07%) DNS
3 40 (5.28%) VPN
4 33 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 22 (2.90%) Network Security
6 20 (2.64%) SSL
7 5 (0.66%) BGP
7 5 (0.66%) OpenLDAP
7 5 (0.66%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.66%) WAN
8 4 (0.53%) HTTP
8 4 (0.53%) VXLAN
9 3 (0.40%) DHCP
9 3 (0.40%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (0.40%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.40%) Multicast
9 3 (0.40%) OSPF
9 3 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.40%) VSAN
10 2 (0.26%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (10.82%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (8.58%) MongoDB
3 64 (8.44%) NoSQL
4 44 (5.80%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 22 (2.90%) MySQL
7 21 (2.77%) DynamoDB
7 21 (2.77%) Redis
8 18 (2.37%) SQL Server
9 16 (2.11%) Big Data
9 16 (2.11%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (1.58%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (1.45%) Oracle Database
12 11 (1.45%) Power BI
12 11 (1.45%) SAS Enterprise Guide
13 7 (0.92%) Aerospike
13 7 (0.92%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.92%) Spark SQL
14 6 (0.79%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 369 (48.68%) Jenkins
2 174 (22.96%) Git
3 111 (14.64%) JIRA
4 67 (8.84%) Selenium
5 55 (7.26%) JUnit
6 43 (5.67%) Cucumber
7 39 (5.15%) Maven
8 35 (4.62%) Artifactory
9 30 (3.96%) Cypress.io
10 29 (3.83%) Gradle
10 29 (3.83%) Postman
11 28 (3.69%) SonarQube
12 25 (3.30%) CircleCI
12 25 (3.30%) Sonatype Nexus
13 22 (2.90%) Liquibase
14 20 (2.64%) Bitbucket
15 19 (2.51%) JMeter
16 18 (2.37%) REST Assured
17 16 (2.11%) Gatling
18 15 (1.98%) Mockito
General
1 209 (27.57%) Social Skills
2 116 (15.30%) Finance
3 107 (14.12%) Public Sector
4 84 (11.08%) Banking
5 50 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (3.03%) Financial Institution
7 20 (2.64%) Telecoms
8 19 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.85%) Military
10 11 (1.45%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.06%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.92%) Games
13 6 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.79%) Retail
14 4 (0.53%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.40%) Front Office
15 3 (0.40%) Law
15 3 (0.40%) Local Government
15 3 (0.40%) Marketing
15 3 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 172 (22.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 145 (19.13%) Developer
3 121 (15.96%) Senior
4 73 (9.63%) AWS Engineer
5 60 (7.92%) Lead
6 56 (7.39%) AWS DevOps
6 56 (7.39%) Software Engineer
7 46 (6.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 45 (5.94%) Java Developer
9 42 (5.54%) Cloud Engineer
10 37 (4.88%) Test Engineer
11 36 (4.75%) Senior DevOps
11 36 (4.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 33 (4.35%) Architect
12 33 (4.35%) Data Engineer
13 31 (4.09%) Automation Engineer
14 29 (3.83%) GCP Engineer
15 24 (3.17%) Java Engineer
15 24 (3.17%) Senior Developer
16 23 (3.03%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (17.55%) REST
2 109 (14.38%) Kafka
3 94 (12.40%) Spring
4 89 (11.74%) Spring Boot
5 84 (11.08%) Elastic Stack
6 78 (10.29%) Node.js
7 69 (9.10%) RESTful
8 50 (6.60%) React
9 42 (5.54%) Playwright
10 33 (4.35%) HTML
11 31 (4.09%) pytest
12 30 (3.96%) JSON
13 29 (3.83%) OpenID
13 29 (3.83%) OpenTelemetry
14 28 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
15 26 (3.43%) LDAP
16 23 (3.03%) AngularJS
17 22 (2.90%) Jest
18 20 (2.64%) CSS
19 18 (2.37%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 110 (14.51%) Cloud Native
2 64 (8.44%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.67%) Product Ownership
4 39 (5.15%) Public Cloud
5 23 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.11%) Private Cloud
7 15 (1.98%) Data Centre
7 15 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.45%) PKI
10 9 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.19%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.19%) Synthetic Data
11 8 (1.06%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (1.06%) Security Posture
12 7 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (0.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 151 (19.92%) Linux
2 47 (6.20%) Windows
3 24 (3.17%) Unix
4 21 (2.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.72%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.45%) CentOS
7 9 (1.19%) Android
7 9 (1.19%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.92%) VMS
9 3 (0.40%) Solaris
9 3 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.26%) zOS
11 1 (0.13%) Debian
11 1 (0.13%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 601 (79.29%) CI/CD
2 481 (63.46%) DevOps
3 291 (38.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 271 (35.75%) Containerisation
5 265 (34.96%) Agile
6 208 (27.44%) Test Automation
7 172 (22.69%) Microservices
8 147 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
9 125 (16.49%) Observability
10 124 (16.36%) Software Engineering
11 81 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 78 (10.29%) Infrastructure Automation
13 77 (10.16%) DevSecOps
14 75 (9.89%) Scrum
15 73 (9.63%) High Availability
16 70 (9.23%) Analytics
17 68 (8.97%) Migration
18 61 (8.05%) Root Cause Analysis
19 58 (7.65%) Computer Science
19 58 (7.65%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 355 (46.83%) Python
2 215 (28.36%) Java
3 146 (19.26%) Bash
4 128 (16.89%) SQL
5 97 (12.80%) JavaScript
6 87 (11.48%) Go
7 69 (9.10%) PowerShell
8 60 (7.92%) TypeScript
9 38 (5.01%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.37%) C#
11 16 (2.11%) Kotlin
12 13 (1.72%) PL/SQL
13 10 (1.32%) Ruby
14 8 (1.06%) C
14 8 (1.06%) C++
15 7 (0.92%) Groovy
15 7 (0.92%) Korn
15 7 (0.92%) Rust
16 6 (0.79%) Perl
16 6 (0.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 279 (36.81%) Security Cleared
2 221 (29.16%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.26%) Degree
4 49 (6.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (4.88%) DV Cleared
6 31 (4.09%) Master's Degree
7 26 (3.43%) AWS Certification
8 22 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.19%) CISSP
10 9 (1.19%) OCA
10 9 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (1.06%) CISM
12 5 (0.66%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.40%) CCNP
14 3 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (14.38%) QA
2 39 (5.15%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.77%) GDPR
4 18 (2.37%) WCAG
5 15 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.85%) NIST
6 14 (1.85%) SLA
7 13 (1.72%) NCSC
7 13 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.53%) Def Stans
10 3 (0.40%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.26%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 333 (43.93%) Docker
2 22 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.53%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 4 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.40%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.40%) vSphere
7 2 (0.26%) HDFS
8 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) Squid
Systems Management
1 405 (53.43%) Kubernetes
2 365 (48.15%) Terraform
3 223 (29.42%) Ansible
4 189 (24.93%) Grafana
5 147 (19.39%) Prometheus
6 33 (4.35%) Argo
7 22 (2.90%) Puppet
8 20 (2.64%) Istio
9 19 (2.51%) Podman
10 17 (2.24%) Progress Chef
11 15 (1.98%) Kibana
12 13 (1.72%) Packer
13 10 (1.32%) Fluentd
13 10 (1.32%) NetBackup
14 8 (1.06%) linkerd
15 7 (0.92%) Karpenter
15 7 (0.92%) Sysdig
16 6 (0.79%) Check_MK
16 6 (0.79%) Proxmox
16 6 (0.79%) Rancher
Vendors
1 99 (13.06%) Splunk
2 64 (8.44%) Microsoft
3 57 (7.52%) Oracle
4 50 (6.60%) Red Hat
5 44 (5.80%) Google
6 35 (4.62%) VMware
7 24 (3.17%) Dynatrace
7 24 (3.17%) ServiceNow
8 21 (2.77%) Palo Alto
9 20 (2.64%) CheckPoint
10 19 (2.51%) F5
11 18 (2.37%) Atlassian
12 17 (2.24%) Databricks
13 16 (2.11%) Cisco
14 11 (1.45%) Veritas
15 10 (1.32%) Commvault
15 10 (1.32%) Cribl.io
15 10 (1.32%) IBM
16 8 (1.06%) Veracode
17 6 (0.79%) Okta