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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 139 235
Rank change year-on-year +12 +96 -44
Contract jobs citing GitLab 788 498 371
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.11% 2.02% 0.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.60% 14.91% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 328 270
10th Percentile £386 £368 £412
25th Percentile £430 £439 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £573
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -5.68% -4.58%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £677
90th Percentile £663 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £563
% change year-on-year -5.12% -6.31% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 5
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.59 £57.10
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £58.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -33.70% +11.45% +21.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £77.50
90th Percentile £80.65 £92.59 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £82.96 £62.00
% change year-on-year -33.70% +33.81% +27.18%

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 5,052 3,341 4,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.51% 13.53% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,419 2,208 2,931
10th Percentile £337 £340 £360
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £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 185 66 173
10th Percentile £39.21 £26.15 £37.50
25th Percentile £58.50 £52.26 £48.31
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +1.63%
75th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.48 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -11 332 £525 -4.55% 64
North of England +1 207 £488 -7.14% 51
Midlands +14 111 £478 -1.09% 16
North West +5 108 £449 -10.30% 13
West Midlands +9 99 £481 -2.78% 9
Yorkshire -11 81 £500 -13.04% 20
South East -34 57 £500 -21.57% 38
South West +7 48 £525 +9.38% 33
North East -12 26 £463 -7.73% 18
East of England -11 21 £477 +5.89% 14
East Midlands -25 12 £402 +29.99% 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 65 (8.25%) Confluence
2 36 (4.57%) SAS
3 26 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.66%) Apache
5 14 (1.78%) OpenStack
6 13 (1.65%) Apache Spark
7 9 (1.14%) nginx
8 3 (0.38%) Appian
8 3 (0.38%) CICS
8 3 (0.38%) CMS
8 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.13%) FileNet
10 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Actimize
3 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 471 (59.77%) AWS
2 254 (32.23%) GitHub
3 216 (27.41%) Azure
4 161 (20.43%) GCP
4 161 (20.43%) GitHub Actions
5 122 (15.48%) Serverless
6 106 (13.45%) Amazon S3
7 92 (11.68%) Amazon EKS
7 92 (11.68%) AWS Lambda
8 85 (10.79%) Amazon EC2
9 82 (10.41%) OpenShift
10 77 (9.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 70 (8.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 69 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
13 60 (7.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 48 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
15 27 (3.43%) Datadog
16 22 (2.79%) Azure AKS
17 21 (2.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 21 (2.66%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.33%) Firewall
2 31 (3.93%) DNS
3 28 (3.55%) VPN
4 22 (2.79%) TCP/IP
5 16 (2.03%) Network Security
6 7 (0.89%) HTTP
6 7 (0.89%) WAN
7 6 (0.76%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.76%) SSL
8 5 (0.63%) BGP
8 5 (0.63%) Multicast
9 4 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.51%) SAN
9 4 (0.51%) VSAN
10 3 (0.38%) DHCP
10 3 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.38%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.38%) NAS
10 3 (0.38%) OSPF
10 3 (0.38%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (12.56%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (7.74%) NoSQL
3 56 (7.11%) MongoDB
4 43 (5.46%) Amazon RDS
5 30 (3.81%) Relational Database
6 28 (3.55%) DynamoDB
7 25 (3.17%) MySQL
8 23 (2.92%) Redis
9 22 (2.79%) SQL Server
10 21 (2.66%) Data Lake
11 18 (2.28%) Amazon Athena
11 18 (2.28%) Big Data
12 17 (2.16%) Power BI
13 16 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (1.90%) Oracle Database
15 14 (1.78%) Apache Cassandra
16 13 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
17 11 (1.40%) DocumentDB
18 10 (1.27%) Spark SQL
19 9 (1.14%) Aerospike
Development Applications
1 404 (51.27%) Jenkins
2 191 (24.24%) Git
3 120 (15.23%) JIRA
4 85 (10.79%) Selenium
5 76 (9.64%) JUnit
6 53 (6.73%) Cucumber
7 35 (4.44%) Postman
8 32 (4.06%) JMeter
9 31 (3.93%) Bitbucket
10 29 (3.68%) Artifactory
11 28 (3.55%) REST Assured
12 25 (3.17%) CircleCI
12 25 (3.17%) Maven
12 25 (3.17%) Mockito
13 22 (2.79%) Gatling
13 22 (2.79%) SonarQube
14 21 (2.66%) Gradle
15 20 (2.54%) Cypress.io
16 18 (2.28%) Sonatype Nexus
17 14 (1.78%) Liquibase
General
1 232 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 126 (15.99%) Finance
3 121 (15.36%) Public Sector
4 91 (11.55%) Banking
5 49 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (2.41%) Financial Institution
8 11 (1.40%) Aerospace
8 11 (1.40%) Military
9 10 (1.27%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.14%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.89%) Retail
13 5 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.51%) Law
14 4 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.38%) Games
15 3 (0.38%) Legal
15 3 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 164 (20.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 144 (18.27%) Developer
3 119 (15.10%) Senior
4 75 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
5 62 (7.87%) Lead
6 59 (7.49%) AWS DevOps
7 50 (6.35%) Data Engineer
8 49 (6.22%) Software Engineer
9 47 (5.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 43 (5.46%) Architect
11 42 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
11 42 (5.33%) Java Developer
12 40 (5.08%) Test Engineer
13 31 (3.93%) GCP Engineer
13 31 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
13 31 (3.93%) Senior DevOps
13 31 (3.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 24 (3.05%) Java Engineer
15 23 (2.92%) Test Automation Engineer
16 22 (2.79%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (17.77%) REST
2 113 (14.34%) Spring
3 112 (14.21%) Kafka
4 99 (12.56%) Spring Boot
5 75 (9.52%) Node.js
6 74 (9.39%) Elastic Stack
7 72 (9.14%) RESTful
8 58 (7.36%) React
9 54 (6.85%) Playwright
10 36 (4.57%) pytest
11 32 (4.06%) RabbitMQ
11 32 (4.06%) YAML
12 31 (3.93%) OpenTelemetry
13 30 (3.81%) HTML
14 26 (3.30%) OpenID
15 25 (3.17%) AngularJS
15 25 (3.17%) LDAP
15 25 (3.17%) PySpark
16 24 (3.05%) Jest
17 23 (2.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 117 (14.85%) Cloud Native
2 66 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.96%) Product Ownership
4 40 (5.08%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.79%) Onboarding
6 15 (1.90%) Data Centre
7 14 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (1.52%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.14%) Mainframe
9 9 (1.14%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
10 8 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (0.89%) DataPower
11 7 (0.89%) NHS
11 7 (0.89%) PKI
12 6 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (0.76%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 153 (19.42%) Linux
2 54 (6.85%) Windows
3 27 (3.43%) Unix
4 25 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.40%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.14%) Android
6 9 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.14%) CentOS
7 8 (1.02%) VMS
8 6 (0.76%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.63%) zOS
10 3 (0.38%) Debian
10 3 (0.38%) Rocky
11 1 (0.13%) AIX
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 625 (79.31%) CI/CD
2 464 (58.88%) DevOps
3 295 (37.44%) Agile
4 277 (35.15%) Containerisation
4 277 (35.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 246 (31.22%) Test Automation
6 169 (21.45%) Microservices
7 156 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (18.15%) Observability
9 108 (13.71%) Software Engineering
10 106 (13.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 91 (11.55%) Scrum
12 81 (10.28%) Analytics
13 79 (10.03%) Platform Engineering
14 72 (9.14%) DevSecOps
15 69 (8.76%) TDD
16 66 (8.38%) Test Strategy
17 62 (7.87%) Data Pipeline
18 60 (7.61%) Stakeholder Management
19 57 (7.23%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 353 (44.80%) Python
2 238 (30.20%) Java
3 156 (19.80%) SQL
4 123 (15.61%) Bash
5 90 (11.42%) JavaScript
6 72 (9.14%) PowerShell
6 72 (9.14%) TypeScript
7 64 (8.12%) Go
8 38 (4.82%) Shell Script
9 18 (2.28%) Kotlin
10 17 (2.16%) C#
11 16 (2.03%) Bicep
12 13 (1.65%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.65%) Ruby
13 9 (1.14%) Scala
14 8 (1.02%) C++
15 7 (0.89%) C
15 7 (0.89%) Groovy
15 7 (0.89%) Korn
15 7 (0.89%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 303 (38.45%) Security Cleared
2 242 (30.71%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.60%) Degree
4 47 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (4.06%) AWS Certification
6 30 (3.81%) DV Cleared
7 24 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (2.54%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.65%) Azure Certification
11 12 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (1.02%) CISSP
13 6 (0.76%) CISM
13 6 (0.76%) OCA
13 6 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.51%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.38%) CCNP
15 3 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (13.71%) QA
2 47 (5.96%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.54%) WCAG
4 18 (2.28%) GDPR
5 16 (2.03%) Data Quality
5 16 (2.03%) SLA
6 14 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.40%) NIST
8 10 (1.27%) NCSC
9 6 (0.76%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.51%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.25%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 347 (44.04%) Docker
2 22 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.63%) HDFS
6 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.25%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.13%) Squid
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 410 (52.03%) Kubernetes
2 354 (44.92%) Terraform
3 194 (24.62%) Grafana
4 188 (23.86%) Ansible
5 157 (19.92%) Prometheus
6 46 (5.84%) Argo
7 21 (2.66%) Istio
8 20 (2.54%) Puppet
9 18 (2.28%) Progress Chef
10 17 (2.16%) Kibana
10 17 (2.16%) Podman
11 11 (1.40%) Packer
12 9 (1.14%) linkerd
12 9 (1.14%) Red Hat Satellite
13 7 (0.89%) Check_MK
13 7 (0.89%) Fluentd
13 7 (0.89%) Karpenter
13 7 (0.89%) Sysdig
14 6 (0.76%) Nagios
15 5 (0.63%) Rancher
Vendors
1 86 (10.91%) Splunk
2 65 (8.25%) Oracle
3 58 (7.36%) Microsoft
4 45 (5.71%) Google
5 44 (5.58%) Red Hat
6 32 (4.06%) VMware
7 30 (3.81%) ServiceNow
8 23 (2.92%) Databricks
9 16 (2.03%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.90%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.90%) Informatica
11 14 (1.78%) Atlassian
11 14 (1.78%) Talend
11 14 (1.78%) Veracode
12 12 (1.52%) IBM
13 11 (1.40%) Cisco
14 8 (1.02%) Cribl.io
15 6 (0.76%) AppDynamics
15 6 (0.76%) F5
15 6 (0.76%) Fortinet