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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 141 211
Rank change year-on-year -2 +70 +48
Contract jobs citing GitLab 826 523 409
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.85% 1.93% 1.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.70% 13.65% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 335 290
10th Percentile £370 £356 £361
25th Percentile £425 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -9.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £599 £591 £650
90th Percentile £688 £650 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 8
10th Percentile £63.88 £61.55 £62.30
25th Percentile - £63.63 £70.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.73% +24.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £75.63
90th Percentile £81.75 £73.38 £77.50
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 5,260 3,831 4,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.76% 14.12% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,383 2,623 3,030
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 88 230
10th Percentile £28.08 £30.05 £32.87
25th Percentile £57.63 £50.00 £51.56
Median hourly rate £68.00 £63.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% -3.08% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.04
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 0 348 £525 - 73
North of England -14 191 £453 -3.67% 66
Midlands +29 133 £466 -6.85% 40
West Midlands +19 126 £463 -9.76% 20
North West -18 87 £525 +8.25% 38
North East +7 69 £406 -12.63% 13
South East -39 67 £550 +9.89% 46
South West -15 50 £538 -10.42% 26
Yorkshire -46 50 £550 +15.79% 15
East of England -11 32 £483 +7.22% 26
East Midlands -12 7 £470 +74.07% 20
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 90 (10.90%) Confluence
2 53 (6.42%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (5.33%) Apache Spark
4 39 (4.72%) Apache
5 33 (4.00%) SAS
6 27 (3.27%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.85%) CICS
8 6 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.61%) Camunda
10 4 (0.48%) nginx
10 4 (0.48%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.24%) CMS
12 2 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 545 (65.98%) AWS
2 263 (31.84%) GitHub
3 244 (29.54%) Azure
4 190 (23.00%) GitHub Actions
5 131 (15.86%) GCP
6 126 (15.25%) Amazon S3
7 121 (14.65%) Serverless
8 108 (13.08%) AWS Lambda
8 108 (13.08%) Azure DevOps
9 102 (12.35%) Amazon EKS
10 92 (11.14%) Amazon EC2
11 90 (10.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 58 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 58 (7.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 41 (4.96%) OpenShift
14 37 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
15 33 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
15 33 (4.00%) OCI
16 29 (3.51%) Amazon EMR
16 29 (3.51%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.84%) Firewall
2 21 (2.54%) BGP
2 21 (2.54%) Network Security
2 21 (2.54%) WAN
3 20 (2.42%) OSPF
4 19 (2.30%) BIG-IP
4 19 (2.30%) Ethernet VPN
4 19 (2.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 19 (2.30%) SD-WAN
4 19 (2.30%) VXLAN
5 16 (1.94%) DNS
6 15 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (1.45%) VPN
8 11 (1.33%) WLAN
9 8 (0.97%) HTTP
10 5 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.48%) MQTT
11 4 (0.48%) SSL
12 3 (0.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (7.02%) MongoDB
3 49 (5.93%) Relational Database
4 41 (4.96%) Amazon Athena
4 41 (4.96%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
5 34 (4.12%) DynamoDB
6 33 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (3.63%) Oracle Database
7 30 (3.63%) Pentaho
8 27 (3.27%) NoSQL
9 26 (3.15%) Power BI
10 25 (3.03%) SQL Server
11 20 (2.42%) Big Data
11 20 (2.42%) RDBMS
12 19 (2.30%) Data Lake
13 18 (2.18%) MySQL
14 15 (1.82%) Redis
15 12 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
16 11 (1.33%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 348 (42.13%) Jenkins
2 195 (23.61%) Git
3 119 (14.41%) JIRA
4 71 (8.60%) Selenium
5 63 (7.63%) JUnit
6 40 (4.84%) Cucumber
7 36 (4.36%) SonarQube
8 33 (4.00%) Bitbucket
9 29 (3.51%) Artifactory
10 28 (3.39%) Mockito
11 27 (3.27%) Gradle
11 27 (3.27%) REST Assured
12 25 (3.03%) JMeter
12 25 (3.03%) WebDriver
13 24 (2.91%) Postman
14 23 (2.78%) Gatling
15 20 (2.42%) Maven
16 13 (1.57%) Serenity BDD
16 13 (1.57%) Snyk
17 12 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 162 (19.61%) Public Sector
2 160 (19.37%) Social Skills
3 89 (10.77%) Finance
4 62 (7.51%) Banking
5 45 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.18%) Military
7 17 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.69%) Law
9 12 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.33%) Legal
11 8 (0.97%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.73%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.61%) Police
15 4 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.48%) Publishing
16 3 (0.36%) Retail
17 2 (0.24%) Back Office
17 2 (0.24%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 188 (22.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 155 (18.77%) Senior
3 119 (14.41%) Developer
4 99 (11.99%) AWS Engineer
5 83 (10.05%) Data Engineer
6 71 (8.60%) AWS DevOps
7 64 (7.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 58 (7.02%) Lead
9 47 (5.69%) Software Engineer
10 40 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 38 (4.60%) Java Developer
12 37 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
12 37 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
12 37 (4.48%) Test Engineer
13 32 (3.87%) Architect
14 31 (3.75%) Senior DevOps
15 30 (3.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 25 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
18 23 (2.78%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (13.68%) Kafka
2 91 (11.02%) Spring
3 86 (10.41%) REST
4 83 (10.05%) Spring Boot
5 62 (7.51%) RESTful
6 53 (6.42%) React
7 43 (5.21%) PySpark
8 40 (4.84%) Playwright
9 38 (4.60%) Node.js
10 37 (4.48%) YAML
11 30 (3.63%) RabbitMQ
12 27 (3.27%) Elastic Stack
12 27 (3.27%) JSON
13 24 (2.91%) AWS CDK
13 24 (2.91%) WireMock
14 23 (2.78%) SOAP
15 20 (2.42%) Keycloak
15 20 (2.42%) pytest
16 19 (2.30%) OAuth
17 17 (2.06%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 154 (18.64%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.75%) Data Centre
5 27 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (2.78%) Public Cloud
8 20 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (2.18%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.82%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.82%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.33%) Mainframe
12 9 (1.09%) NHS
12 9 (1.09%) Private Cloud
13 8 (0.97%) AI Agents
14 7 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.85%) DataPower
14 7 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (0.73%) Online Banking
15 6 (0.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 159 (19.25%) Linux
2 37 (4.48%) Windows
3 36 (4.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 36 (4.36%) Unix
4 12 (1.45%) zOS
5 11 (1.33%) AIX
6 9 (1.09%) CentOS
7 8 (0.97%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.36%) Debian
9 3 (0.36%) Rocky
9 3 (0.36%) VMS
10 2 (0.24%) Android
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (82.08%) CI/CD
2 483 (58.47%) DevOps
3 357 (43.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 303 (36.68%) Agile
5 277 (33.54%) Containerisation
6 259 (31.36%) Test Automation
7 159 (19.25%) Microservices
8 137 (16.59%) Observability
9 124 (15.01%) Scrum
10 122 (14.77%) Software Engineering
11 118 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
12 108 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 108 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
13 92 (11.14%) AI
14 84 (10.17%) DevSecOps
15 79 (9.56%) Migration
16 78 (9.44%) ETL
17 76 (9.20%) Event-Driven
18 68 (8.23%) Data Modelling
18 68 (8.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 341 (41.28%) Python
2 192 (23.24%) Java
3 182 (22.03%) SQL
4 129 (15.62%) Bash
5 68 (8.23%) JavaScript
6 57 (6.90%) PowerShell
7 56 (6.78%) TypeScript
8 49 (5.93%) C#
9 32 (3.87%) Go
10 27 (3.27%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.06%) Bicep
12 16 (1.94%) PL/SQL
13 13 (1.57%) C++
14 6 (0.73%) JCL
14 6 (0.73%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.73%) Scala
15 5 (0.61%) C
15 5 (0.61%) MATLAB
15 5 (0.61%) Ruby
16 4 (0.48%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 399 (48.31%) Security Cleared
2 336 (40.68%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.69%) DV Cleared
4 39 (4.72%) Degree
5 38 (4.60%) AWS Certification
5 38 (4.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 29 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 16 (1.94%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 12 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.33%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (1.09%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.61%) CISSP
13 4 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.48%) CSSLP
13 4 (0.48%) GIAC
14 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (9.44%) QA
2 33 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 33 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.33%) SLA
4 10 (1.21%) WCAG
5 5 (0.61%) FATCA
5 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.48%) NIST
7 3 (0.36%) GDPR
7 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.12%) GRC
9 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
9 1 (0.12%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
9 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 346 (41.89%) Docker
2 22 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.45%) Oracle RAC
3 12 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.61%) HDFS
5 5 (0.61%) Squid
6 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
6 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.12%) iptables
7 1 (0.12%) vSphere
7 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 410 (49.64%) Terraform
2 349 (42.25%) Kubernetes
3 189 (22.88%) Ansible
4 154 (18.64%) Grafana
5 134 (16.22%) Prometheus
6 45 (5.45%) Argo
7 34 (4.12%) Puppet
8 17 (2.06%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.45%) Data Guard
9 12 (1.45%) Istio
9 12 (1.45%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.21%) Packer
10 10 (1.21%) Podman
11 8 (0.97%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.61%) Check_MK
13 5 (0.61%) Kibana
13 5 (0.61%) linkerd
13 5 (0.61%) Salt
14 4 (0.48%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 100 (12.11%) Oracle
2 51 (6.17%) Microsoft
3 48 (5.81%) Talend
4 45 (5.45%) Informatica
4 45 (5.45%) Splunk
5 42 (5.08%) Google
6 24 (2.91%) Databricks
6 24 (2.91%) Red Hat
7 23 (2.78%) Denodo
8 22 (2.66%) VMware
9 21 (2.54%) F5
10 20 (2.42%) Palo Alto
11 18 (2.18%) Arista
11 18 (2.18%) Aruba
11 18 (2.18%) Salesforce
11 18 (2.18%) ServiceNow
12 17 (2.06%) Dynatrace
13 16 (1.94%) IBM
14 15 (1.82%) Trend Micro
15 14 (1.69%) Veracode