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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 148 217
Rank change year-on-year +10 +69 0
Contract jobs citing GitLab 772 454 393
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.90% 1.88% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.57% 13.74% 9.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 291 289
10th Percentile £386 £375 £373
25th Percentile £426 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.30% -0.43%
75th Percentile £579 £623 £650
90th Percentile £670 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £495 £525 £558
% change year-on-year -5.71% -5.83% -3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 3 6
10th Percentile £43.42 £64.59 £57.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £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 £88.98 £76.74
90th Percentile £80.65 £92.59 £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 4,958 3,305 4,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.21% 13.70% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,269 2,221 2,873
10th Percentile £343 £341 £351
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.10% -3.18%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 64 189
10th Percentile £37.15 £27.63 £32.74
25th Percentile £59.81 £49.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.75 £60.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.45% -7.31% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.07 £79.34
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -7.69% +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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -13 320 £525 -0.94% 70
North of England 0 180 £500 -4.76% 60
Midlands +15 114 £466 -5.43% 32
West Midlands +13 99 £469 -10.67% 20
North West -3 93 £500 - 25
Yorkshire -16 61 £500 -13.04% 11
South West +3 56 £500 +8.70% 20
South East -38 56 £550 +4.71% 33
North East -3 36 £450 -14.29% 24
East of England -10 32 £478 +7.72% 10
East Midlands -20 15 £414 +32.96% 12
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 58 (7.51%) Confluence
2 29 (3.76%) SAS
3 23 (2.98%) Apache
3 23 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.85%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.68%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.04%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.65%) CICS
7 5 (0.65%) nginx
8 3 (0.39%) Camunda
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.13%) Traefik
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 (58.94%) AWS
2 241 (31.22%) GitHub
3 235 (30.44%) Azure
4 172 (22.28%) GitHub Actions
5 129 (16.71%) GCP
6 113 (14.64%) Amazon S3
7 112 (14.51%) Serverless
8 99 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
9 97 (12.56%) Amazon EKS
10 83 (10.75%) Amazon EC2
11 80 (10.36%) Azure DevOps
12 79 (10.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 69 (8.94%) AWS CloudFormation
14 60 (7.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 57 (7.38%) OpenShift
16 43 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
18 25 (3.24%) Azure AKS
18 25 (3.24%) Power Platform
19 22 (2.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 39 (5.05%) Firewall
2 25 (3.24%) DNS
3 20 (2.59%) TCP/IP
4 16 (2.07%) BGP
4 16 (2.07%) Network Security
5 15 (1.94%) OSPF
5 15 (1.94%) VPN
6 14 (1.81%) Ethernet VPN
6 14 (1.81%) VXLAN
6 14 (1.81%) WAN
7 12 (1.55%) BIG-IP
7 12 (1.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 12 (1.55%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.30%) HTTP
9 9 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
10 6 (0.78%) WLAN
11 4 (0.52%) Multicast
11 4 (0.52%) SAN
11 4 (0.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (5.70%) MongoDB
3 39 (5.05%) Relational Database
4 35 (4.53%) DynamoDB
5 32 (4.15%) Amazon RDS
5 32 (4.15%) NoSQL
6 27 (3.50%) Amazon Athena
6 27 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 26 (3.37%) MySQL
8 25 (3.24%) Redis
9 24 (3.11%) Power BI
10 23 (2.98%) Pentaho
11 22 (2.85%) SQL Server
12 21 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
13 20 (2.59%) Data Lake
14 18 (2.33%) Big Data
15 14 (1.81%) Oracle Database
16 13 (1.68%) DocumentDB
17 10 (1.30%) BigQuery
17 10 (1.30%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 339 (43.91%) Jenkins
2 173 (22.41%) Git
3 108 (13.99%) JIRA
4 63 (8.16%) Selenium
5 61 (7.90%) JUnit
6 40 (5.18%) Cucumber
7 31 (4.02%) Postman
8 30 (3.89%) Gradle
9 28 (3.63%) Artifactory
10 27 (3.50%) JMeter
11 26 (3.37%) REST Assured
12 25 (3.24%) Bitbucket
12 25 (3.24%) CircleCI
13 23 (2.98%) Mockito
14 20 (2.59%) SonarQube
15 17 (2.20%) Gatling
16 15 (1.94%) Maven
17 13 (1.68%) IntelliJ
17 13 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
18 12 (1.55%) Cypress.io
General
1 162 (20.98%) Social Skills
2 138 (17.88%) Public Sector
3 93 (12.05%) Finance
4 58 (7.51%) Banking
5 42 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.55%) Military
8 11 (1.42%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.04%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.04%) Law
9 8 (1.04%) Retail
10 6 (0.78%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.65%) Legal
12 4 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.52%) Police
12 4 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 158 (20.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 134 (17.36%) Developer
3 124 (16.06%) Senior
4 69 (8.94%) AWS Engineer
5 67 (8.68%) Data Engineer
6 58 (7.51%) Software Engineer
7 56 (7.25%) Lead
8 47 (6.09%) Architect
8 47 (6.09%) AWS DevOps
9 46 (5.96%) Java Developer
10 41 (5.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 35 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
12 30 (3.89%) Test Engineer
13 26 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
13 26 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
13 26 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 22 (2.85%) Java Engineer
15 21 (2.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 20 (2.59%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (14.77%) Spring
2 113 (14.64%) Kafka
3 101 (13.08%) Spring Boot
4 91 (11.79%) REST
5 65 (8.42%) RESTful
6 62 (8.03%) Node.js
7 56 (7.25%) React
8 38 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
9 35 (4.53%) Playwright
10 33 (4.27%) OpenTelemetry
11 30 (3.89%) RabbitMQ
12 29 (3.76%) LDAP
12 29 (3.76%) YAML
13 27 (3.50%) PySpark
14 25 (3.24%) AngularJS
15 24 (3.11%) Jest
16 22 (2.85%) OAuth
16 22 (2.85%) OpenID
16 22 (2.85%) pytest
17 21 (2.72%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 129 (16.71%) Cloud Native
2 51 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (6.35%) Product Ownership
4 31 (4.02%) Data Centre
5 24 (3.11%) Onboarding
6 20 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (2.20%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.55%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.55%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.42%) NHS
11 10 (1.30%) Mainframe
12 9 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
13 8 (1.04%) DataPower
13 8 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
14 6 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.78%) Mobile App
15 5 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
15 5 (0.65%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 133 (17.23%) Linux
2 45 (5.83%) Windows
3 41 (5.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (4.02%) Unix
5 14 (1.81%) CentOS
6 9 (1.17%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.04%) VMS
8 7 (0.91%) Android
8 7 (0.91%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.91%) zOS
9 6 (0.78%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.52%) Debian
10 4 (0.52%) Rocky
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
1 612 (79.27%) CI/CD
2 425 (55.05%) DevOps
3 280 (36.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 269 (34.84%) Agile
5 256 (33.16%) Containerisation
6 232 (30.05%) Test Automation
7 152 (19.69%) Microservices
8 138 (17.88%) Observability
9 125 (16.19%) Software Engineering
10 119 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
11 102 (13.21%) Scrum
12 97 (12.56%) Platform Engineering
13 96 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
14 80 (10.36%) ETL
15 77 (9.97%) DevSecOps
16 68 (8.81%) TDD
17 64 (8.29%) Migration
17 64 (8.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 63 (8.16%) Analytics
19 59 (7.64%) AI
Programming Languages
1 294 (38.08%) Python
2 223 (28.89%) Java
3 170 (22.02%) SQL
4 119 (15.41%) Bash
5 83 (10.75%) JavaScript
6 67 (8.68%) TypeScript
7 63 (8.16%) PowerShell
8 40 (5.18%) Shell Script
9 38 (4.92%) Go
10 34 (4.40%) C#
11 19 (2.46%) Bicep
11 19 (2.46%) Kotlin
12 18 (2.33%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.81%) C++
14 12 (1.55%) Scala
15 11 (1.42%) MATLAB
16 8 (1.04%) C
16 8 (1.04%) Ruby
17 7 (0.91%) PHP
18 6 (0.78%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 336 (43.52%) Security Cleared
2 276 (35.75%) SC Cleared
3 38 (4.92%) Degree
4 32 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (3.37%) DV Cleared
6 24 (3.11%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.68%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (1.17%) SAFe Agilist
10 8 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (0.91%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.52%) OCA
12 4 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.39%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (11.40%) QA
2 36 (4.66%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.72%) SLA
4 19 (2.46%) Data Quality
5 16 (2.07%) GDPR
6 12 (1.55%) WCAG
7 11 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (1.17%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.78%) NCSC
10 5 (0.65%) FATCA
10 5 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.65%) NIST
11 4 (0.52%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.26%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.13%) MiFID
13 1 (0.13%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 323 (41.84%) Docker
2 24 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.78%) Squid
6 5 (0.65%) HDFS
7 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.26%) vSphere
10 1 (0.13%) iptables
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 349 (45.21%) Kubernetes
2 339 (43.91%) Terraform
3 179 (23.19%) Ansible
4 159 (20.60%) Grafana
5 126 (16.32%) Prometheus
6 49 (6.35%) Argo
7 26 (3.37%) Puppet
8 19 (2.46%) Istio
9 17 (2.20%) Progress Chef
10 15 (1.94%) Podman
11 14 (1.81%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.42%) Check_MK
12 11 (1.42%) Kibana
13 8 (1.04%) linkerd
14 7 (0.91%) Packer
15 6 (0.78%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.65%) Nagios
16 5 (0.65%) Rancher
17 4 (0.52%) Salt
Vendors
1 83 (10.75%) Oracle
2 56 (7.25%) Microsoft
3 54 (6.99%) Splunk
4 44 (5.70%) Red Hat
5 36 (4.66%) Google
6 35 (4.53%) Talend
7 33 (4.27%) VMware
8 31 (4.02%) ServiceNow
9 29 (3.76%) Informatica
10 25 (3.24%) Databricks
11 20 (2.59%) Dynatrace
12 18 (2.33%) Denodo
12 18 (2.33%) Salesforce
13 15 (1.94%) Arista
14 14 (1.81%) F5
15 13 (1.68%) Palo Alto
16 11 (1.42%) Aruba
16 11 (1.42%) IBM
17 10 (1.30%) Veracode
18 6 (0.78%) AppDynamics