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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 144 219
Rank change year-on-year +10 +75 +9
Contract jobs citing GitLab 779 466 392
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.89% 1.94% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.65% 14.03% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 294 288
10th Percentile £393 £377 £363
25th Percentile £431 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% -5.06%
75th Percentile £581 £602 £652
90th Percentile £668 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 1 6
10th Percentile £42.13 - £57.38
25th Percentile £52.50 - £62.19
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +11.45% +87.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £76.74
90th Percentile £77.00 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £68.22
% change year-on-year -24.66% +21.61% +72.27%

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 4,979 3,321 4,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.06% 13.85% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,283 2,239 2,902
10th Percentile £346 £342 £353
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £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 219 61 194
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.50 £32.10
25th Percentile £55.63 £48.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -11.15% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £78.53
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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -1 317 £525 -0.94% 61
North of England -7 189 £500 - 60
Midlands +7 110 £463 -6.09% 22
West Midlands +11 98 £469 -10.67% 15
North West -6 93 £500 - 28
Yorkshire -22 67 £494 -6.00% 12
South East -34 60 £550 +9.89% 43
South West +9 58 £500 +8.70% 18
North East -6 42 £450 -14.29% 20
East of England -6 33 £483 +7.22% 8
East Midlands -17 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 61 (7.83%) Confluence
2 29 (3.72%) SAS
3 24 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.95%) Apache
5 20 (2.57%) Apache Spark
6 10 (1.28%) OpenStack
7 9 (1.16%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.64%) CICS
8 5 (0.64%) nginx
9 3 (0.39%) Camunda
9 3 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.26%) CMS
10 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.13%) FileNet
Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Actimize
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
1 455 (58.41%) AWS
2 249 (31.96%) GitHub
3 238 (30.55%) Azure
4 172 (22.08%) GitHub Actions
5 137 (17.59%) GCP
6 110 (14.12%) Serverless
7 109 (13.99%) Amazon S3
8 96 (12.32%) AWS Lambda
9 92 (11.81%) Amazon EKS
10 80 (10.27%) Amazon EC2
10 80 (10.27%) Azure DevOps
11 74 (9.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 68 (8.73%) AWS CloudFormation
13 59 (7.57%) OpenShift
13 59 (7.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 40 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
15 30 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
16 27 (3.47%) Azure AKS
17 25 (3.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 25 (3.21%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.39%) Firewall
2 27 (3.47%) DNS
3 22 (2.82%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.44%) BGP
5 18 (2.31%) OSPF
6 17 (2.18%) Ethernet VPN
6 17 (2.18%) VXLAN
6 17 (2.18%) WAN
7 16 (2.05%) Network Security
8 15 (1.93%) BIG-IP
8 15 (1.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 15 (1.93%) SD-WAN
9 14 (1.80%) VPN
10 11 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (1.28%) HTTP
12 7 (0.90%) WLAN
13 6 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (0.51%) Multicast
14 4 (0.51%) SAN
14 4 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (6.80%) MongoDB
3 42 (5.39%) Relational Database
4 34 (4.36%) NoSQL
5 32 (4.11%) DynamoDB
6 31 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (3.59%) Amazon Athena
8 27 (3.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 27 (3.47%) MySQL
9 25 (3.21%) Redis
10 24 (3.08%) Power BI
11 23 (2.95%) Pentaho
12 22 (2.82%) SQL Server
13 21 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
14 19 (2.44%) Data Lake
15 16 (2.05%) Big Data
15 16 (2.05%) Oracle Database
16 14 (1.80%) DocumentDB
17 11 (1.41%) BigQuery
18 10 (1.28%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 344 (44.16%) Jenkins
2 181 (23.23%) Git
3 106 (13.61%) JIRA
4 72 (9.24%) Selenium
5 58 (7.45%) JUnit
6 39 (5.01%) Cucumber
7 33 (4.24%) REST Assured
8 32 (4.11%) Gradle
9 31 (3.98%) Postman
10 28 (3.59%) Artifactory
11 26 (3.34%) Bitbucket
11 26 (3.34%) JMeter
12 22 (2.82%) CircleCI
12 22 (2.82%) Gatling
12 22 (2.82%) Mockito
12 22 (2.82%) SonarQube
13 15 (1.93%) Maven
13 15 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
14 13 (1.67%) Cypress.io
14 13 (1.67%) IntelliJ
General
1 158 (20.28%) Social Skills
2 142 (18.23%) Public Sector
3 86 (11.04%) Finance
4 58 (7.45%) Banking
5 38 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.54%) Military
8 11 (1.41%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.03%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.03%) Law
9 8 (1.03%) Retail
10 7 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.90%) Legal
11 6 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.51%) Police
12 4 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.39%) Local Government
14 2 (0.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 161 (20.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 129 (16.56%) Developer
3 126 (16.17%) Senior
4 67 (8.60%) AWS Engineer
5 66 (8.47%) Data Engineer
6 59 (7.57%) Software Engineer
7 58 (7.45%) Lead
8 46 (5.91%) AWS DevOps
9 45 (5.78%) Architect
10 41 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 41 (5.26%) Java Developer
11 37 (4.75%) Cloud Engineer
12 34 (4.36%) Test Engineer
13 30 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
14 26 (3.34%) Full-Stack Developer
14 26 (3.34%) Senior DevOps
15 25 (3.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 22 (2.82%) GCP Engineer
16 22 (2.82%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (14.76%) Kafka
2 114 (14.63%) Spring
3 102 (13.09%) Spring Boot
4 92 (11.81%) REST
5 60 (7.70%) RESTful
6 57 (7.32%) Node.js
7 54 (6.93%) React
8 40 (5.13%) Playwright
9 37 (4.75%) Elastic Stack
10 34 (4.36%) OpenTelemetry
11 29 (3.72%) LDAP
11 29 (3.72%) YAML
12 26 (3.34%) PySpark
13 25 (3.21%) OAuth
13 25 (3.21%) RabbitMQ
14 24 (3.08%) AngularJS
15 22 (2.82%) Jest
15 22 (2.82%) OpenID
16 21 (2.70%) AWS CDK
16 21 (2.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 127 (16.30%) Cloud Native
2 46 (5.91%) Distributed Systems
2 46 (5.91%) Product Ownership
3 35 (4.49%) Data Centre
4 27 (3.47%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.18%) Public Cloud
7 14 (1.80%) Private Cloud
8 12 (1.54%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.54%) Management Information System
9 11 (1.41%) NHS
10 10 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.90%) Mainframe
13 6 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.77%) PKI
14 5 (0.64%) DataPower
14 5 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (0.64%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 133 (17.07%) Linux
2 43 (5.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 40 (5.13%) Windows
4 33 (4.24%) Unix
5 15 (1.93%) CentOS
6 9 (1.16%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.90%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.90%) VMS
7 7 (0.90%) zOS
8 5 (0.64%) Android
9 4 (0.51%) Debian
9 4 (0.51%) Rocky
10 3 (0.39%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.13%) AIX
12 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 616 (79.08%) CI/CD
2 438 (56.23%) DevOps
3 290 (37.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 260 (33.38%) Agile
5 252 (32.35%) Containerisation
6 229 (29.40%) Test Automation
7 149 (19.13%) Microservices
8 146 (18.74%) Observability
9 129 (16.56%) Software Engineering
10 106 (13.61%) Scrum
11 104 (13.35%) Problem-Solving
12 103 (13.22%) Platform Engineering
13 101 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 81 (10.40%) DevSecOps
15 80 (10.27%) ETL
16 65 (8.34%) Migration
16 65 (8.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 64 (8.22%) TDD
18 63 (8.09%) AI
19 61 (7.83%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 289 (37.10%) Python
2 216 (27.73%) Java
3 170 (21.82%) SQL
4 118 (15.15%) Bash
5 79 (10.14%) JavaScript
6 62 (7.96%) PowerShell
6 62 (7.96%) TypeScript
7 36 (4.62%) Shell Script
8 35 (4.49%) Go
9 34 (4.36%) C#
10 19 (2.44%) Kotlin
11 18 (2.31%) Bicep
12 17 (2.18%) PL/SQL
13 15 (1.93%) C++
14 12 (1.54%) Scala
15 11 (1.41%) MATLAB
16 8 (1.03%) C
16 8 (1.03%) Ruby
17 7 (0.90%) PHP
18 6 (0.77%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 348 (44.67%) Security Cleared
2 287 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 37 (4.75%) Degree
4 34 (4.36%) DV Cleared
5 30 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (2.70%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.28%) SAFe Agilist
10 8 (1.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.39%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.26%) OCA
14 2 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (10.53%) QA
2 39 (5.01%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.82%) SLA
4 19 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.80%) GDPR
6 12 (1.54%) WCAG
7 11 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.28%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.64%) FATCA
9 5 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.64%) NCSC
9 5 (0.64%) NIST
10 4 (0.51%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 320 (41.08%) Docker
2 22 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.77%) Squid
6 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.51%) HDFS
7 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.26%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) iptables
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.13%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 347 (44.54%) Terraform
2 345 (44.29%) Kubernetes
3 182 (23.36%) Ansible
4 161 (20.67%) Grafana
5 133 (17.07%) Prometheus
6 47 (6.03%) Argo
7 29 (3.72%) Puppet
8 19 (2.44%) Istio
9 17 (2.18%) Progress Chef
10 16 (2.05%) Podman
11 14 (1.80%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.41%) Check_MK
13 10 (1.28%) Kibana
14 9 (1.16%) linkerd
15 8 (1.03%) Packer
16 6 (0.77%) Karpenter
16 6 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
17 4 (0.51%) Rancher
17 4 (0.51%) Salt
17 4 (0.51%) Suricata
Vendors
1 82 (10.53%) Oracle
2 61 (7.83%) Splunk
3 53 (6.80%) Microsoft
4 46 (5.91%) Red Hat
5 38 (4.88%) Google
6 36 (4.62%) Talend
7 35 (4.49%) ServiceNow
8 34 (4.36%) VMware
9 29 (3.72%) Informatica
10 24 (3.08%) Databricks
11 22 (2.82%) Dynatrace
12 19 (2.44%) Denodo
13 18 (2.31%) Arista
13 18 (2.31%) Salesforce
14 17 (2.18%) F5
15 16 (2.05%) Palo Alto
16 14 (1.80%) Aruba
17 10 (1.28%) Veracode
18 8 (1.03%) IBM
19 6 (0.77%) AppDynamics