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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 141 181
Rank change year-on-year -7 +40 +69
Contract jobs citing GitLab 893 558 461
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.93% 2.01% 1.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.96% 13.53% 10.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 379 319
10th Percentile £381 £373 £350
25th Percentile £431 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £691 £689 £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 £60.50
25th Percentile £65.00 £63.63 £67.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.33
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 5,264 4,125 4,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.40% 14.87% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,335 2,854 2,828
10th Percentile £356 £325 £354
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 £635
90th Percentile £693 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 95 172
10th Percentile £34.90 £44.30 £36.83
25th Percentile £52.29 £54.88 £53.63
Median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.80 £81.80 £71.88
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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +1 382 £513 -3.30% 241
North of England -31 180 £475 -2.56% 87
Midlands +24 135 £475 -12.04% 30
West Midlands +25 128 £475 -13.64% 26
South East -24 82 £546 +7.85% 55
North East +6 76 £413 -11.29% 21
North West -41 75 £569 +17.32% 39
South West -16 65 £550 -8.33% 49
Yorkshire -60 40 £550 +10.00% 27
East of England -16 37 £463 -5.13% 28
East Midlands -15 7 £425 +57.41% 4
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 83 (9.29%) Confluence
2 60 (6.72%) Apache Airflow
3 57 (6.38%) Apache Spark
4 45 (5.04%) Apache
5 30 (3.36%) Jupyter
6 23 (2.58%) SAS
7 12 (1.34%) Camunda
8 5 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.45%) CICS
9 4 (0.45%) nginx
9 4 (0.45%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.34%) 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 (0.45%) 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
1 585 (65.51%) AWS
2 307 (34.38%) Azure
3 297 (33.26%) GitHub
4 215 (24.08%) GitHub Actions
5 155 (17.36%) Azure DevOps
6 148 (16.57%) GCP
7 114 (12.77%) Serverless
8 112 (12.54%) Amazon S3
9 110 (12.32%) Amazon EKS
10 107 (11.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 105 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
12 83 (9.29%) Amazon EC2
13 61 (6.83%) AWS CloudFormation
14 56 (6.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 49 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
15 49 (5.49%) OpenShift
16 39 (4.37%) Amazon SQS
17 35 (3.92%) Amazon EMR
17 35 (3.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 34 (3.81%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.15%) Firewall
2 33 (3.70%) DNS
3 30 (3.36%) Network Security
4 27 (3.02%) BGP
4 27 (3.02%) Ethernet VPN
4 27 (3.02%) VXLAN
5 23 (2.58%) TCP/IP
6 22 (2.46%) WAN
7 21 (2.35%) SD-WAN
8 20 (2.24%) OSPF
8 20 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
9 19 (2.13%) BIG-IP
9 19 (2.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 12 (1.34%) VPN
11 11 (1.23%) WLAN
12 10 (1.12%) HTTP
13 8 (0.90%) DHCP
13 8 (0.90%) NX-OS
14 7 (0.78%) 5G
14 7 (0.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (8.51%) MongoDB
2 74 (8.29%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (5.60%) Relational Database
4 42 (4.70%) Amazon Athena
5 41 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
6 35 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 35 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
6 35 (3.92%) NoSQL
7 34 (3.81%) DynamoDB
8 33 (3.70%) Oracle Database
9 32 (3.58%) SQL Server
10 28 (3.14%) MySQL
10 28 (3.14%) Power BI
10 28 (3.14%) Redis
11 27 (3.02%) Pentaho
12 26 (2.91%) RDBMS
13 25 (2.80%) Data Lake
14 24 (2.69%) Big Data
15 13 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.46%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 368 (41.21%) Jenkins
2 234 (26.20%) Git
3 115 (12.88%) JIRA
4 72 (8.06%) JUnit
5 68 (7.61%) Selenium
6 51 (5.71%) SonarQube
7 46 (5.15%) Cucumber
8 45 (5.04%) Maven
9 36 (4.03%) Gradle
10 35 (3.92%) Mockito
11 33 (3.70%) Bitbucket
12 30 (3.36%) Gatling
13 28 (3.14%) REST Assured
14 27 (3.02%) Artifactory
15 25 (2.80%) Sonatype Nexus
16 18 (2.02%) JMeter
16 18 (2.02%) WebDriver
17 16 (1.79%) Postman
18 15 (1.68%) Cypress.io
18 15 (1.68%) Snyk
General
1 172 (19.26%) Social Skills
2 160 (17.92%) Public Sector
3 99 (11.09%) Finance
4 65 (7.28%) Banking
5 61 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.46%) Military
7 18 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.57%) Law
10 12 (1.34%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.23%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.01%) Legal
13 6 (0.67%) Police
14 4 (0.45%) Back Office
14 4 (0.45%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.45%) Marketing
14 4 (0.45%) Publishing
14 4 (0.45%) Retail
15 3 (0.34%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 194 (21.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 163 (18.25%) Senior
3 150 (16.80%) Developer
4 98 (10.97%) AWS Engineer
5 75 (8.40%) Data Engineer
6 63 (7.05%) AWS DevOps
7 59 (6.61%) Lead
8 55 (6.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 51 (5.71%) Software Engineer
10 48 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
11 45 (5.04%) Java Developer
12 44 (4.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 41 (4.59%) Test Engineer
14 39 (4.37%) Architect
15 35 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
16 34 (3.81%) Software Developer
17 33 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
18 29 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
19 28 (3.14%) Java Engineer
19 28 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 454 (50.84%) Terraform
2 138 (15.45%) Kafka
3 116 (12.99%) Spring
4 107 (11.98%) Spring Boot
5 100 (11.20%) REST
6 65 (7.28%) React
7 61 (6.83%) RESTful
8 55 (6.16%) Playwright
9 45 (5.04%) RabbitMQ
10 43 (4.82%) JSON
11 41 (4.59%) PySpark
12 40 (4.48%) Node.js
13 36 (4.03%) HTML
14 35 (3.92%) YAML
15 31 (3.47%) CSS
16 29 (3.25%) JPA
17 26 (2.91%) OAuth
18 25 (2.80%) .NET
18 25 (2.80%) Keycloak
19 23 (2.58%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 183 (20.49%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (5.49%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (4.03%) Data Centre
6 28 (3.14%) Data Structures
7 25 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (2.69%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.90%) AI Agents
9 17 (1.90%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.68%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.34%) Mainframe
11 12 (1.34%) PKI
12 11 (1.23%) Private Cloud
13 10 (1.12%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
16 7 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 182 (20.38%) Linux
2 42 (4.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 41 (4.59%) Unix
4 40 (4.48%) Windows
5 14 (1.57%) CentOS
5 14 (1.57%) Ubuntu
6 12 (1.34%) AIX
7 11 (1.23%) zOS
8 10 (1.12%) Windows Server
9 9 (1.01%) VMS
10 3 (0.34%) Debian
10 3 (0.34%) Rocky
11 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.11%) Android
12 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 752 (84.21%) CI/CD
2 542 (60.69%) DevOps
3 431 (48.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 339 (37.96%) Agile
5 317 (35.50%) Containerisation
6 276 (30.91%) Test Automation
7 180 (20.16%) Microservices
8 161 (18.03%) Observability
9 158 (17.69%) Scrum
10 154 (17.25%) Software Engineering
11 132 (14.78%) Platform Engineering
12 128 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 120 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
14 117 (13.10%) AI
15 103 (11.53%) DevSecOps
16 92 (10.30%) Event-Driven
17 89 (9.97%) Deployment Automation
18 87 (9.74%) Migration
18 87 (9.74%) Software Delivery
19 86 (9.63%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 393 (44.01%) Python
2 227 (25.42%) Java
3 205 (22.96%) SQL
4 161 (18.03%) Bash
5 84 (9.41%) JavaScript
6 83 (9.29%) PowerShell
7 66 (7.39%) C#
8 52 (5.82%) TypeScript
9 38 (4.26%) Go
10 31 (3.47%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.13%) Bicep
12 15 (1.68%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.57%) C++
14 9 (1.01%) Groovy
14 9 (1.01%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.78%) Scala
16 6 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.67%) R
17 5 (0.56%) Cypher
17 5 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 433 (48.49%) Security Cleared
2 341 (38.19%) SC Cleared
3 78 (8.73%) DV Cleared
4 52 (5.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 51 (5.71%) Degree
6 44 (4.93%) AWS Certification
7 39 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.02%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 16 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (1.68%) CISSP
12 13 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (1.34%) ISTQB
14 11 (1.23%) SAFe Agilist
15 8 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 5 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
17 5 (0.56%) GCFA
17 5 (0.56%) GCIH
18 4 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (12.65%) QA
2 40 (4.48%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 20 (2.24%) WCAG
5 15 (1.68%) NIST
6 13 (1.46%) GDPR
7 12 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.01%) NCSC
8 9 (1.01%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.78%) SLA
11 6 (0.67%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.56%) FATCA
13 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.11%) GRC
14 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
14 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 380 (42.55%) Docker
2 20 (2.24%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.46%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.67%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.56%) Squid
6 3 (0.34%) 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
8 1 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.11%) iptables
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 406 (45.46%) Kubernetes
2 240 (26.88%) Ansible
3 147 (16.46%) Grafana
4 128 (14.33%) Prometheus
5 42 (4.70%) Argo
6 41 (4.59%) Puppet
7 30 (3.36%) Progress Chef
8 14 (1.57%) Kibana
9 13 (1.46%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.46%) Oracle RMAN
10 12 (1.34%) Istio
11 11 (1.23%) Packer
12 10 (1.12%) Podman
12 10 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.78%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.56%) CASB
14 5 (0.56%) Cilium
14 5 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.45%) Check_MK
15 4 (0.45%) Salt
Vendors
1 101 (11.31%) Oracle
2 67 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 61 (6.83%) Google
4 48 (5.38%) Splunk
5 43 (4.82%) Talend
6 40 (4.48%) Informatica
7 39 (4.37%) VMware
8 31 (3.47%) Databricks
9 30 (3.36%) Dynatrace
10 26 (2.91%) Red Hat
11 23 (2.58%) IBM
12 21 (2.35%) Palo Alto
12 21 (2.35%) ServiceNow
13 20 (2.24%) F5
14 19 (2.13%) Denodo
15 18 (2.02%) Arista
15 18 (2.02%) Aruba
16 16 (1.79%) Trend Micro
17 14 (1.57%) Veracode
18 11 (1.23%) Cisco