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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 148 213
Rank change year-on-year +15 +65 +35
Contract jobs citing GitLab 818 468 407
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.95% 1.94% 1.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.34% 13.72% 9.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 292 295
10th Percentile £393 £380 £363
25th Percentile £430 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -7.11% -5.06%
75th Percentile £586 £600 £656
90th Percentile £670 £686 £750
UK median daily rate £492 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -6.29% -4.55% -5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 1 7
10th Percentile £44.72 - £57.65
25th Percentile £52.50 - £61.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +11.45% +87.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £76.25
90th Percentile £80.20 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £82.96 £70.00
% change year-on-year -23.16% +18.51% +76.77%

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 5,007 3,411 4,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.94% 14.16% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,277 2,298 2,911
10th Percentile £349 £350 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £638
90th Percentile £680 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 64 205
10th Percentile £36.13 £27.63 £31.43
25th Percentile £56.81 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.63 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -9 326 £525 -0.94% 60
North of England +8 201 £475 -5.00% 47
Midlands +32 134 £459 -8.20% 16
West Midlands +20 122 £463 -9.76% 9
North West +7 100 £513 +2.50% 23
South East -34 67 £550 +9.89% 35
Yorkshire -18 65 £500 -2.44% 10
South West -1 56 £500 -9.09% 25
North East +5 52 £413 -14.06% 14
East of England -5 35 £480 +1.11% 15
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 76 (9.29%) Confluence
2 38 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (4.40%) Apache
3 36 (4.40%) Apache Spark
4 35 (4.28%) SAS
5 20 (2.44%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.98%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.86%) CICS
8 5 (0.61%) Camunda
8 5 (0.61%) nginx
8 5 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.24%) CMS
10 2 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 497 (60.76%) AWS
2 262 (32.03%) GitHub
3 247 (30.20%) Azure
4 188 (22.98%) GitHub Actions
5 140 (17.11%) GCP
6 124 (15.16%) Amazon S3
7 116 (14.18%) Serverless
8 104 (12.71%) AWS Lambda
9 102 (12.47%) Amazon EKS
10 88 (10.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 88 (10.76%) Amazon EC2
10 88 (10.76%) Azure DevOps
11 64 (7.82%) AWS CloudFormation
12 62 (7.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 52 (6.36%) OpenShift
14 40 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
15 30 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
16 27 (3.30%) Power Platform
17 26 (3.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 25 (3.06%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (5.50%) Firewall
2 29 (3.55%) DNS
3 20 (2.44%) BGP
3 20 (2.44%) TCP/IP
3 20 (2.44%) WAN
4 19 (2.32%) Network Security
4 19 (2.32%) OSPF
5 18 (2.20%) BIG-IP
5 18 (2.20%) Ethernet VPN
5 18 (2.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 18 (2.20%) SD-WAN
5 18 (2.20%) VXLAN
6 14 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (1.59%) VPN
8 10 (1.22%) WLAN
9 9 (1.10%) HTTP
10 6 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.61%) SSL
12 4 (0.49%) SAN
12 4 (0.49%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (9.05%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (6.72%) MongoDB
3 41 (5.01%) Relational Database
4 37 (4.52%) DynamoDB
5 35 (4.28%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (4.16%) Amazon Athena
6 34 (4.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 34 (4.16%) NoSQL
7 29 (3.55%) MySQL
8 28 (3.42%) Pentaho
9 27 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
10 26 (3.18%) Power BI
11 24 (2.93%) SQL Server
12 23 (2.81%) Redis
13 21 (2.57%) Data Lake
14 19 (2.32%) Big Data
14 19 (2.32%) Oracle Database
15 15 (1.83%) DocumentDB
16 14 (1.71%) BigQuery
17 11 (1.34%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 349 (42.67%) Jenkins
2 187 (22.86%) Git
3 118 (14.43%) JIRA
4 77 (9.41%) Selenium
5 61 (7.46%) JUnit
6 43 (5.26%) Cucumber
7 36 (4.40%) Gradle
8 34 (4.16%) Artifactory
9 33 (4.03%) REST Assured
10 32 (3.91%) Postman
11 29 (3.55%) Bitbucket
12 27 (3.30%) JMeter
13 26 (3.18%) SonarQube
14 23 (2.81%) Mockito
15 21 (2.57%) Gatling
16 20 (2.44%) CircleCI
16 20 (2.44%) WebDriver
17 16 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
18 14 (1.71%) Maven
19 13 (1.59%) IntelliJ
General
1 173 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 151 (18.46%) Public Sector
3 89 (10.88%) Finance
4 62 (7.58%) Banking
5 42 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.71%) Military
8 12 (1.47%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.22%) Law
10 9 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (0.98%) Legal
11 8 (0.98%) Retail
12 6 (0.73%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.73%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.49%) Police
14 4 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.49%) Publishing
15 3 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 173 (21.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 137 (16.75%) Senior
3 126 (15.40%) Developer
4 79 (9.66%) AWS Engineer
4 79 (9.66%) Data Engineer
5 60 (7.33%) Lead
5 60 (7.33%) Software Engineer
6 55 (6.72%) AWS DevOps
7 49 (5.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 42 (5.13%) Architect
9 40 (4.89%) Cloud Engineer
10 38 (4.65%) Java Developer
11 36 (4.40%) Test Engineer
12 31 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
13 29 (3.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 29 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
14 28 (3.42%) Full-Stack Developer
14 28 (3.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 24 (2.93%) Java Engineer
16 22 (2.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (13.94%) Kafka
2 113 (13.81%) Spring
3 102 (12.47%) REST
4 101 (12.35%) Spring Boot
5 61 (7.46%) RESTful
6 56 (6.85%) React
7 51 (6.23%) Node.js
8 42 (5.13%) Playwright
9 38 (4.65%) PySpark
10 35 (4.28%) OpenTelemetry
11 33 (4.03%) Elastic Stack
12 30 (3.67%) LDAP
13 28 (3.42%) YAML
14 25 (3.06%) OAuth
15 23 (2.81%) AngularJS
15 23 (2.81%) AWS CDK
15 23 (2.81%) OpenID
16 22 (2.69%) JSON
16 22 (2.69%) RabbitMQ
16 22 (2.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 147 (17.97%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (6.11%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.52%) Data Centre
5 26 (3.18%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
8 16 (1.96%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.47%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.47%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.34%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (1.10%) NHS
12 8 (0.98%) Mainframe
12 8 (0.98%) PKI
13 7 (0.86%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.86%) DataPower
14 6 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 142 (17.36%) Linux
2 44 (5.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 41 (5.01%) Unix
4 39 (4.77%) Windows
5 15 (1.83%) CentOS
6 10 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.98%) zOS
8 5 (0.61%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.61%) VMS
9 4 (0.49%) Debian
9 4 (0.49%) Rocky
10 3 (0.37%) Android
10 3 (0.37%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.24%) AIX
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (79.95%) CI/CD
2 461 (56.36%) DevOps
3 317 (38.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 284 (34.72%) Agile
5 266 (32.52%) Containerisation
6 254 (31.05%) Test Automation
7 164 (20.05%) Microservices
8 153 (18.70%) Observability
9 135 (16.50%) Software Engineering
10 116 (14.18%) Scrum
11 109 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
12 106 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 102 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
14 91 (11.12%) ETL
15 84 (10.27%) DevSecOps
16 72 (8.80%) AI
17 71 (8.68%) Migration
18 68 (8.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 68 (8.31%) TDD
19 66 (8.07%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 315 (38.51%) Python
2 218 (26.65%) Java
3 201 (24.57%) SQL
4 113 (13.81%) Bash
5 75 (9.17%) JavaScript
6 59 (7.21%) TypeScript
7 54 (6.60%) PowerShell
8 40 (4.89%) Shell Script
9 37 (4.52%) C#
10 34 (4.16%) Go
11 20 (2.44%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.08%) Kotlin
13 16 (1.96%) Bicep
14 15 (1.83%) C++
15 11 (1.34%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.34%) Scala
16 8 (0.98%) Ruby
17 7 (0.86%) C
18 6 (0.73%) JCL
18 6 (0.73%) PHP
Qualifications
1 375 (45.84%) Security Cleared
2 312 (38.14%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.89%) Degree
4 38 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 32 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.18%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.47%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 11 (1.34%) SAFe Agilist
9 10 (1.22%) ISTQB
10 9 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.37%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.24%) CISSP
12 2 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.24%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (10.64%) QA
2 39 (4.77%) Accessibility
3 27 (3.30%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.69%) SLA
5 12 (1.47%) WCAG
6 10 (1.22%) GDPR
7 9 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.73%) NIST
9 5 (0.61%) FATCA
10 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.49%) NCSC
11 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
11 1 (0.12%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 335 (40.95%) Docker
2 23 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.73%) Squid
6 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.49%) HDFS
6 4 (0.49%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.37%) vSphere
8 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 368 (44.99%) Terraform
2 350 (42.79%) Kubernetes
3 178 (21.76%) Ansible
4 160 (19.56%) Grafana
5 133 (16.26%) Prometheus
6 47 (5.75%) Argo
7 29 (3.55%) Puppet
8 22 (2.69%) Istio
9 16 (1.96%) Podman
10 15 (1.83%) Progress Chef
11 14 (1.71%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.34%) Check_MK
13 9 (1.10%) Kibana
13 9 (1.10%) Packer
14 8 (0.98%) linkerd
15 7 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
16 6 (0.73%) Karpenter
17 5 (0.61%) Salt
18 4 (0.49%) Suricata
19 3 (0.37%) Foglight
Vendors
1 95 (11.61%) Oracle
2 54 (6.60%) Splunk
3 52 (6.36%) Microsoft
4 48 (5.87%) Talend
5 43 (5.26%) Red Hat
6 38 (4.65%) Google
7 36 (4.40%) Informatica
8 34 (4.16%) ServiceNow
8 34 (4.16%) VMware
9 27 (3.30%) Databricks
10 23 (2.81%) Denodo
10 23 (2.81%) Dynatrace
11 20 (2.44%) F5
12 19 (2.32%) Arista
12 19 (2.32%) Palo Alto
13 18 (2.20%) Salesforce
14 17 (2.08%) Aruba
15 13 (1.59%) Veracode
16 10 (1.22%) Trend Micro
17 8 (0.98%) IBM