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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 137 175
Rank change year-on-year -3 +38 +77
Contract jobs citing GitLab 900 565 467
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.95% 2.03% 1.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.10% 13.67% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 387 323
10th Percentile £384 £375 £350
25th Percentile £432 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £650
90th Percentile £690 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 7 6
10th Percentile - £61.55 £69.50
25th Percentile £65.00 £63.63 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.44
90th Percentile £95.00 - £74.72
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -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 5,263 4,134 4,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.41% 14.89% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,335 2,857 2,803
10th Percentile £355 £325 £353
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £634
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 96 168
10th Percentile £34.90 £44.63 £37.31
25th Percentile £52.29 £54.94 £54.27
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.15 £81.50 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +1 385 £513 -3.30% 410
North of England -39 180 £475 -1.04% 142
Midlands +29 138 £473 -12.50% 47
West Midlands +23 130 £475 -13.64% 39
South East -30 82 £546 +9.14% 74
North East +7 76 £413 -11.29% 32
North West -33 75 £569 +21.32% 75
South West -19 65 £550 -8.33% 101
Yorkshire -67 40 £550 +10.00% 36
East of England -16 37 £463 -5.13% 50
East Midlands -8 8 £414 +53.15% 8
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 (9.11%) Confluence
2 60 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 59 (6.56%) Apache Spark
4 47 (5.22%) Apache
5 30 (3.33%) Jupyter
6 23 (2.56%) SAS
7 12 (1.33%) Camunda
8 5 (0.56%) nginx
8 5 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.44%) CICS
10 3 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.22%) Traefik
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 588 (65.33%) AWS
2 305 (33.89%) Azure
3 297 (33.00%) GitHub
4 212 (23.56%) GitHub Actions
5 154 (17.11%) Azure DevOps
6 148 (16.44%) GCP
7 111 (12.33%) Amazon S3
7 111 (12.33%) Serverless
8 107 (11.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 107 (11.89%) Amazon EKS
9 102 (11.33%) AWS Lambda
10 83 (9.22%) Amazon EC2
11 58 (6.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 55 (6.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 49 (5.44%) OpenShift
14 46 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
15 39 (4.33%) Amazon SQS
16 38 (4.22%) Amazon EMR
17 35 (3.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 34 (3.78%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.11%) Firewall
2 34 (3.78%) DNS
3 29 (3.22%) Network Security
4 27 (3.00%) BGP
4 27 (3.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 27 (3.00%) VXLAN
5 24 (2.67%) TCP/IP
6 22 (2.44%) WAN
7 21 (2.33%) SD-WAN
8 20 (2.22%) OSPF
8 20 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
9 19 (2.11%) BIG-IP
9 19 (2.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 13 (1.44%) VPN
11 11 (1.22%) HTTP
11 11 (1.22%) WLAN
12 8 (0.89%) 5G
12 8 (0.89%) DHCP
12 8 (0.89%) NX-OS
13 7 (0.78%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (8.56%) MongoDB
2 75 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 42 (4.67%) Amazon Athena
5 40 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
6 37 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
7 36 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 36 (4.00%) NoSQL
8 34 (3.78%) Oracle Database
9 33 (3.67%) DynamoDB
10 32 (3.56%) SQL Server
11 29 (3.22%) MySQL
11 29 (3.22%) Redis
12 28 (3.11%) Data Lake
12 28 (3.11%) Power BI
13 27 (3.00%) Pentaho
14 26 (2.89%) RDBMS
15 24 (2.67%) Big Data
16 13 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
16 13 (1.44%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 366 (40.67%) Jenkins
2 236 (26.22%) Git
3 113 (12.56%) JIRA
4 75 (8.33%) JUnit
5 72 (8.00%) Selenium
6 53 (5.89%) SonarQube
7 48 (5.33%) Cucumber
8 46 (5.11%) Maven
9 36 (4.00%) Gradle
10 35 (3.89%) Mockito
11 33 (3.67%) Gatling
12 32 (3.56%) Bitbucket
13 28 (3.11%) REST Assured
14 26 (2.89%) Artifactory
15 24 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
16 18 (2.00%) JMeter
16 18 (2.00%) WebDriver
17 15 (1.67%) Cypress.io
17 15 (1.67%) Postman
17 15 (1.67%) Snyk
General
1 176 (19.56%) Social Skills
2 161 (17.89%) Public Sector
3 100 (11.11%) Finance
4 64 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (7.11%) Banking
5 22 (2.44%) Military
6 18 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.56%) Law
9 13 (1.44%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.22%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.00%) Legal
12 6 (0.67%) Police
13 5 (0.56%) Back Office
14 4 (0.44%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.44%) Marketing
14 4 (0.44%) Publishing
14 4 (0.44%) Retail
15 3 (0.33%) Front Office
15 3 (0.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 196 (21.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 163 (18.11%) Senior
3 151 (16.78%) Developer
4 98 (10.89%) AWS Engineer
5 78 (8.67%) Data Engineer
6 62 (6.89%) AWS DevOps
7 58 (6.44%) Lead
8 55 (6.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 51 (5.67%) Software Engineer
10 49 (5.44%) Cloud Engineer
11 45 (5.00%) Java Developer
12 44 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 41 (4.56%) Test Engineer
14 39 (4.33%) Architect
15 34 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
15 34 (3.78%) Software Developer
16 33 (3.67%) Full-Stack Developer
17 29 (3.22%) Java Engineer
18 28 (3.11%) Senior DevOps
19 27 (3.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 456 (50.67%) Terraform
2 138 (15.33%) Kafka
3 119 (13.22%) Spring
4 107 (11.89%) Spring Boot
5 102 (11.33%) REST
6 67 (7.44%) React
7 62 (6.89%) RESTful
8 59 (6.56%) Playwright
9 48 (5.33%) RabbitMQ
10 44 (4.89%) JSON
11 43 (4.78%) PySpark
12 40 (4.44%) Node.js
13 37 (4.11%) HTML
14 34 (3.78%) YAML
15 32 (3.56%) CSS
16 30 (3.33%) JPA
17 27 (3.00%) .NET
18 26 (2.89%) OAuth
19 25 (2.78%) Keycloak
20 24 (2.67%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 185 (20.56%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.22%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 36 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (3.11%) Data Structures
6 25 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (2.67%) Onboarding
8 17 (1.89%) AI Agents
8 17 (1.89%) Algorithms
9 15 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
9 15 (1.67%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.33%) Mainframe
10 12 (1.33%) PKI
11 11 (1.22%) Private Cloud
12 10 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.11%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.89%) Replication
15 7 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 186 (20.67%) Linux
2 43 (4.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 41 (4.56%) Unix
3 41 (4.56%) Windows
4 15 (1.67%) CentOS
4 15 (1.67%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.33%) AIX
6 11 (1.22%) zOS
7 10 (1.11%) Windows Server
8 9 (1.00%) VMS
9 3 (0.33%) Debian
9 3 (0.33%) Rocky
10 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Android
11 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (84.33%) CI/CD
2 544 (60.44%) DevOps
3 433 (48.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 344 (38.22%) Agile
5 318 (35.33%) Containerisation
6 277 (30.78%) Test Automation
7 182 (20.22%) Microservices
8 162 (18.00%) Observability
9 161 (17.89%) Scrum
10 156 (17.33%) Software Engineering
11 131 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 129 (14.33%) Platform Engineering
13 121 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
14 118 (13.11%) AI
15 101 (11.22%) DevSecOps
16 93 (10.33%) Event-Driven
17 91 (10.11%) Deployment Automation
18 90 (10.00%) Mentoring
18 90 (10.00%) Migration
19 88 (9.78%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 398 (44.22%) Python
2 230 (25.56%) Java
3 210 (23.33%) SQL
4 163 (18.11%) Bash
5 86 (9.56%) JavaScript
6 82 (9.11%) PowerShell
7 66 (7.33%) C#
8 52 (5.78%) TypeScript
9 39 (4.33%) Go
10 33 (3.67%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.11%) Bicep
12 15 (1.67%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.56%) C++
14 10 (1.11%) Groovy
15 9 (1.00%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.78%) Scala
17 6 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.67%) R
18 5 (0.56%) Cypher
18 5 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 433 (48.11%) Security Cleared
2 341 (37.89%) SC Cleared
3 79 (8.78%) DV Cleared
4 56 (6.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 51 (5.67%) Degree
6 44 (4.89%) AWS Certification
7 39 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 16 (1.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 15 (1.67%) CISSP
11 13 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (1.33%) ISTQB
13 9 (1.00%) SAFe Agilist
14 8 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 5 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.56%) GCFA
16 5 (0.56%) GCIH
17 4 (0.44%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (13.00%) QA
2 43 (4.78%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.78%) Data Quality
4 23 (2.56%) WCAG
5 15 (1.67%) NIST
6 13 (1.44%) GDPR
7 12 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.00%) NCSC
8 9 (1.00%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.78%) SLA
11 6 (0.67%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.56%) FATCA
13 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
14 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.11%) OpenSCAP
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 381 (42.33%) Docker
2 20 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.44%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.67%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.56%) Squid
6 3 (0.33%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.22%) HDFS
7 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.11%) iptables
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 406 (45.11%) Kubernetes
2 241 (26.78%) Ansible
3 146 (16.22%) Grafana
4 127 (14.11%) Prometheus
5 41 (4.56%) Argo
5 41 (4.56%) Puppet
6 30 (3.33%) Progress Chef
7 16 (1.78%) Kibana
8 13 (1.44%) Data Guard
8 13 (1.44%) Oracle RMAN
9 11 (1.22%) Istio
9 11 (1.22%) Packer
10 10 (1.11%) Podman
10 10 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.78%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.56%) CASB
12 5 (0.56%) Cilium
12 5 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (0.44%) Check_MK
13 4 (0.44%) Salt
Vendors
1 102 (11.33%) Oracle
2 67 (7.44%) Microsoft
3 61 (6.78%) Google
4 47 (5.22%) Splunk
5 44 (4.89%) Talend
6 40 (4.44%) Informatica
7 39 (4.33%) VMware
8 31 (3.44%) Databricks
9 29 (3.22%) Dynatrace
10 26 (2.89%) Red Hat
11 23 (2.56%) IBM
12 21 (2.33%) Palo Alto
12 21 (2.33%) ServiceNow
13 20 (2.22%) F5
14 19 (2.11%) Denodo
15 18 (2.00%) Arista
15 18 (2.00%) Aruba
16 16 (1.78%) Trend Micro
17 14 (1.56%) Veracode
18 11 (1.22%) Cisco