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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 144 222
Rank change year-on-year +1 +78 +23
Contract jobs citing GitLab 818 481 412
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.91% 1.94% 1.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.16% 13.81% 9.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 300 297
10th Percentile £372 £358 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% -7.58% -2.17%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £656
90th Percentile £688 £676 £743
UK median daily rate £492 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -5.38% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 1 8
10th Percentile - - £57.93
25th Percentile £52.50 - £63.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £82.96 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year -21.65% +11.78% +24.11%
75th Percentile - - £75.63
90th Percentile £75.00 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £72.00
% change year-on-year -15.01% +6.22% +81.82%

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 5,063 3,484 4,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.79% 14.08% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,296 2,364 2,973
10th Percentile £350 £334 £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 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £716 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 70 226
10th Percentile £31.12 £27.35 £32.36
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.30 £75.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +5.26%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -1 343 £525 - 72
North of England -1 191 £465 -5.49% 99
Midlands +20 131 £459 -8.20% 52
West Midlands +20 121 £461 -12.24% 28
North West -5 88 £525 +6.92% 41
North East +6 63 £400 -15.34% 26
South East -32 62 £550 +9.89% 103
Yorkshire -35 55 £525 +2.44% 32
South West -4 52 £500 -13.04% 49
East of England -3 38 £483 +7.22% 70
East Midlands -17 10 £436 +61.48% 24
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 85 (10.39%) Confluence
2 45 (5.50%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (5.13%) Apache Spark
4 39 (4.77%) Apache
5 35 (4.28%) SAS
6 27 (3.30%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.86%) CICS
8 6 (0.73%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.61%) Camunda
10 4 (0.49%) nginx
11 3 (0.37%) 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 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Oracle 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
1 510 (62.35%) AWS
2 261 (31.91%) GitHub
3 242 (29.58%) Azure
4 186 (22.74%) GitHub Actions
5 131 (16.01%) GCP
6 129 (15.77%) Amazon S3
7 119 (14.55%) Serverless
8 107 (13.08%) AWS Lambda
9 102 (12.47%) Amazon EKS
10 92 (11.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 91 (11.12%) Azure DevOps
12 90 (11.00%) Amazon EC2
13 63 (7.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 58 (7.09%) AWS CloudFormation
15 45 (5.50%) OpenShift
16 42 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
17 32 (3.91%) Power Platform
18 31 (3.79%) Amazon SQS
19 26 (3.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 26 (3.18%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.38%) Firewall
2 23 (2.81%) DNS
3 21 (2.57%) BGP
3 21 (2.57%) Network Security
3 21 (2.57%) WAN
4 20 (2.44%) OSPF
5 19 (2.32%) BIG-IP
5 19 (2.32%) Ethernet VPN
5 19 (2.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 19 (2.32%) SD-WAN
5 19 (2.32%) VXLAN
6 18 (2.20%) TCP/IP
7 15 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (1.47%) VPN
9 11 (1.34%) WLAN
10 8 (0.98%) HTTP
11 6 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (0.61%) SSL
13 4 (0.49%) MQTT
13 4 (0.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (8.31%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (6.72%) MongoDB
3 42 (5.13%) Relational Database
4 40 (4.89%) Amazon Athena
4 40 (4.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 36 (4.40%) DynamoDB
6 35 (4.28%) Amazon RDS
7 34 (4.16%) NoSQL
8 32 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
9 29 (3.55%) Pentaho
9 29 (3.55%) Power BI
10 24 (2.93%) MySQL
11 23 (2.81%) Oracle Database
12 21 (2.57%) Redis
13 20 (2.44%) Data Lake
13 20 (2.44%) SQL Server
14 19 (2.32%) Big Data
15 15 (1.83%) DocumentDB
16 14 (1.71%) BigQuery
17 12 (1.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 348 (42.54%) Jenkins
2 190 (23.23%) Git
3 121 (14.79%) JIRA
4 72 (8.80%) Selenium
5 66 (8.07%) JUnit
6 40 (4.89%) Cucumber
7 31 (3.79%) Gradle
8 30 (3.67%) Bitbucket
9 29 (3.55%) Artifactory
9 29 (3.55%) REST Assured
9 29 (3.55%) SonarQube
10 28 (3.42%) JMeter
11 27 (3.30%) Mockito
11 27 (3.30%) Postman
12 23 (2.81%) WebDriver
13 22 (2.69%) Gatling
14 17 (2.08%) Maven
15 16 (1.96%) CircleCI
16 15 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
17 13 (1.59%) Serenity BDD
General
1 170 (20.78%) Social Skills
2 158 (19.32%) Public Sector
3 88 (10.76%) Finance
4 64 (7.82%) Banking
5 44 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.08%) Military
8 15 (1.83%) Law
9 12 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.22%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.98%) Legal
11 8 (0.98%) Retail
12 7 (0.86%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.86%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.61%) Police
14 4 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.49%) Publishing
15 2 (0.24%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 177 (21.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 147 (17.97%) Senior
3 122 (14.91%) Developer
4 89 (10.88%) AWS Engineer
5 84 (10.27%) Data Engineer
6 65 (7.95%) AWS DevOps
7 58 (7.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 55 (6.72%) Lead
9 48 (5.87%) Software Engineer
10 41 (5.01%) Java Developer
11 40 (4.89%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (4.89%) Test Engineer
12 38 (4.65%) Architect
13 34 (4.16%) Platform Engineer
14 32 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 30 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
16 29 (3.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 28 (3.42%) Full-Stack Developer
18 23 (2.81%) Tester
19 22 (2.69%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (13.94%) Kafka
2 109 (13.33%) Spring
3 98 (11.98%) Spring Boot
4 90 (11.00%) REST
5 68 (8.31%) RESTful
6 57 (6.97%) React
7 48 (5.87%) Node.js
8 43 (5.26%) Playwright
8 43 (5.26%) PySpark
9 29 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
9 29 (3.55%) OpenTelemetry
10 28 (3.42%) YAML
11 25 (3.06%) AWS CDK
11 25 (3.06%) RabbitMQ
12 24 (2.93%) OAuth
13 23 (2.81%) AngularJS
13 23 (2.81%) WireMock
14 22 (2.69%) LDAP
14 22 (2.69%) SOAP
15 21 (2.57%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 157 (19.19%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (5.99%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.77%) Data Centre
5 28 (3.42%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 20 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (2.20%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (2.20%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.47%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.22%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.10%) NHS
11 9 (1.10%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.98%) Mainframe
13 7 (0.86%) DataPower
13 7 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.86%) PKI
14 6 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 144 (17.60%) Linux
2 45 (5.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 39 (4.77%) Unix
4 33 (4.03%) Windows
5 15 (1.83%) CentOS
6 10 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.98%) zOS
8 4 (0.49%) AIX
8 4 (0.49%) Debian
8 4 (0.49%) Rocky
8 4 (0.49%) VMS
8 4 (0.49%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
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
1 658 (80.44%) CI/CD
2 472 (57.70%) DevOps
3 334 (40.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 296 (36.19%) Agile
5 270 (33.01%) Containerisation
6 264 (32.27%) Test Automation
7 169 (20.66%) Microservices
8 144 (17.60%) Observability
9 123 (15.04%) Software Engineering
10 120 (14.67%) Scrum
11 110 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
12 109 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
13 105 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
14 88 (10.76%) AI
15 83 (10.15%) DevSecOps
15 83 (10.15%) ETL
16 72 (8.80%) Event-Driven
17 71 (8.68%) Migration
18 69 (8.44%) Data Engineering
18 69 (8.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 320 (39.12%) Python
2 210 (25.67%) Java
3 194 (23.72%) SQL
4 113 (13.81%) Bash
5 68 (8.31%) JavaScript
6 60 (7.33%) TypeScript
7 48 (5.87%) PowerShell
8 40 (4.89%) C#
9 36 (4.40%) Shell Script
10 33 (4.03%) Go
11 17 (2.08%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.71%) Bicep
13 11 (1.34%) C++
13 11 (1.34%) Kotlin
13 11 (1.34%) MATLAB
13 11 (1.34%) Scala
14 8 (0.98%) Ruby
15 6 (0.73%) JCL
16 5 (0.61%) Cypher
17 4 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 389 (47.56%) Security Cleared
2 331 (40.46%) SC Cleared
3 38 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 38 (4.65%) Degree
3 38 (4.65%) DV Cleared
4 35 (4.28%) AWS Certification
5 29 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 13 (1.59%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.34%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (1.10%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.37%) CISSP
11 3 (0.37%) GIAC
11 3 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.24%) CCNP
12 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.24%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (10.27%) QA
2 34 (4.16%) Accessibility
3 32 (3.91%) Data Quality
4 20 (2.44%) SLA
5 11 (1.34%) WCAG
6 9 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.98%) GDPR
7 8 (0.98%) NIST
8 7 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.61%) FATCA
10 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.24%) NCSC
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
12 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 340 (41.56%) Docker
2 22 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.73%) Squid
6 5 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.37%) HDFS
8 3 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.37%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.24%) vSphere
10 1 (0.12%) iptables
10 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 383 (46.82%) Terraform
2 345 (42.18%) Kubernetes
3 177 (21.64%) Ansible
4 152 (18.58%) Grafana
5 132 (16.14%) Prometheus
6 47 (5.75%) Argo
7 28 (3.42%) Puppet
8 19 (2.32%) Istio
9 16 (1.96%) Podman
10 14 (1.71%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (1.59%) Progress Chef
12 11 (1.34%) Check_MK
13 9 (1.10%) Packer
14 8 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.73%) Kibana
15 6 (0.73%) linkerd
16 5 (0.61%) Data Guard
16 5 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.61%) Salt
17 4 (0.49%) Suricata
Vendors
1 94 (11.49%) Oracle
2 51 (6.23%) Microsoft
3 49 (5.99%) Talend
4 48 (5.87%) Splunk
5 42 (5.13%) Informatica
6 36 (4.40%) Google
7 34 (4.16%) Red Hat
8 31 (3.79%) VMware
9 26 (3.18%) Databricks
10 25 (3.06%) ServiceNow
11 23 (2.81%) Denodo
12 21 (2.57%) Dynatrace
12 21 (2.57%) F5
13 20 (2.44%) Palo Alto
14 19 (2.32%) Arista
15 18 (2.20%) Aruba
15 18 (2.20%) Salesforce
16 15 (1.83%) Trend Micro
17 14 (1.71%) Veracode
18 11 (1.34%) IBM