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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 137 166
Rank change year-on-year -1 +29 +93
Contract jobs citing GitLab 944 567 490
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.03% 2.04% 1.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.82% 13.51% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 396 337
10th Percentile £385 £365 £350
25th Percentile £434 £436 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.78% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £604 £605 £650
90th Percentile £689 £696 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 7 7
10th Percentile - £61.55 £70.40
25th Percentile £65.00 £63.63 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.72
90th Percentile £95.00 - £80.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -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 5,297 4,197 4,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 15.13% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,352 2,912 2,711
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £416 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £635
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 96 163
10th Percentile £24.13 £38.13 £38.54
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.56 £54.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £76.25 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 +12 400 £524 -1.18% 276
North of England -39 186 £500 +4.17% 110
Midlands +53 160 £474 -12.27% 43
West Midlands +46 151 £475 -13.64% 36
South East -26 80 £546 +9.14% 46
North East +1 79 £413 -24.31% 27
North West -34 79 £560 +29.36% 68
South West -16 59 £550 -8.33% 78
East of England -16 41 £450 -7.69% 38
Yorkshire -60 39 £550 +10.00% 15
East Midlands -14 9 £405 +50.00% 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 86 (9.11%) Confluence
2 61 (6.46%) Apache Spark
3 60 (6.36%) Apache Airflow
4 47 (4.98%) Apache
5 30 (3.18%) Jupyter
6 22 (2.33%) SAS
7 12 (1.27%) Camunda
8 6 (0.64%) nginx
9 5 (0.53%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.32%) CICS
10 3 (0.32%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.21%) Traefik
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.11%) CMS
12 1 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.42%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 622 (65.89%) AWS
2 305 (32.31%) Azure
3 296 (31.36%) GitHub
4 204 (21.61%) GitHub Actions
5 150 (15.89%) GCP
6 148 (15.68%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (12.61%) Amazon S3
8 115 (12.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 114 (12.08%) Amazon EKS
9 114 (12.08%) Serverless
10 104 (11.02%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (9.53%) Amazon EC2
12 58 (6.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 55 (5.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 52 (5.51%) Amazon ECS
14 52 (5.51%) OpenShift
15 42 (4.45%) Amazon SQS
16 40 (4.24%) Amazon EMR
17 37 (3.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 35 (3.71%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.98%) Firewall
2 36 (3.81%) DNS
3 30 (3.18%) BGP
3 30 (3.18%) Ethernet VPN
3 30 (3.18%) VXLAN
4 29 (3.07%) Network Security
5 26 (2.75%) TCP/IP
5 26 (2.75%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (2.33%) WAN
7 21 (2.22%) SD-WAN
8 20 (2.12%) OSPF
9 19 (2.01%) BIG-IP
9 19 (2.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 14 (1.48%) VPN
11 12 (1.27%) 5G
12 11 (1.17%) 4G
12 11 (1.17%) Broadband
12 11 (1.17%) IPv4
12 11 (1.17%) NX-OS
12 11 (1.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (9.00%) MongoDB
2 77 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (4.87%) Relational Database
4 44 (4.66%) Amazon Athena
5 42 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
6 40 (4.24%) NoSQL
7 38 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
8 37 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
9 34 (3.60%) Oracle Database
10 32 (3.39%) Data Lake
10 32 (3.39%) SQL Server
11 30 (3.18%) DynamoDB
11 30 (3.18%) Redis
12 28 (2.97%) MySQL
12 28 (2.97%) Power BI
13 27 (2.86%) Pentaho
14 26 (2.75%) RDBMS
15 22 (2.33%) Big Data
16 16 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
17 13 (1.38%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 370 (39.19%) Jenkins
2 260 (27.54%) Git
3 121 (12.82%) JIRA
4 86 (9.11%) JUnit
5 81 (8.58%) Selenium
6 62 (6.57%) Cucumber
7 60 (6.36%) SonarQube
8 57 (6.04%) Maven
9 43 (4.56%) Gatling
10 41 (4.34%) Mockito
11 38 (4.03%) Gradle
12 32 (3.39%) Bitbucket
13 30 (3.18%) REST Assured
14 29 (3.07%) Sonatype Nexus
15 28 (2.97%) Artifactory
16 18 (1.91%) Cypress.io
16 18 (1.91%) JMeter
17 17 (1.80%) WebDriver
18 16 (1.69%) Postman
19 14 (1.48%) Snyk
General
1 189 (20.02%) Social Skills
2 173 (18.33%) Public Sector
3 103 (10.91%) Finance
4 70 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (6.89%) Banking
6 24 (2.54%) Military
7 22 (2.33%) Telecoms
8 20 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.38%) Law
11 11 (1.17%) Aerospace
12 9 (0.95%) Legal
13 6 (0.64%) Back Office
13 6 (0.64%) Police
14 5 (0.53%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.53%) Publishing
15 4 (0.42%) Front Office
15 4 (0.42%) Local Government
15 4 (0.42%) Retail
16 3 (0.32%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 200 (21.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 166 (17.58%) Senior
3 163 (17.27%) Developer
4 102 (10.81%) AWS Engineer
5 77 (8.16%) Data Engineer
6 66 (6.99%) AWS DevOps
7 59 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 58 (6.14%) Lead
9 49 (5.19%) Java Developer
10 47 (4.98%) Cloud Engineer
10 47 (4.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 46 (4.87%) Architect
11 46 (4.87%) Test Engineer
12 44 (4.66%) Software Engineer
13 39 (4.13%) Java Engineer
14 37 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
14 37 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
15 36 (3.81%) Software Developer
16 30 (3.18%) Senior DevOps
17 29 (3.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 473 (50.11%) Terraform
2 144 (15.25%) Kafka
3 137 (14.51%) Spring
4 117 (12.39%) Spring Boot
5 112 (11.86%) REST
6 71 (7.52%) React
7 70 (7.42%) Playwright
8 60 (6.36%) RESTful
9 50 (5.30%) JSON
10 49 (5.19%) RabbitMQ
11 42 (4.45%) PySpark
12 39 (4.13%) Node.js
13 36 (3.81%) HTML
13 36 (3.81%) JPA
14 33 (3.50%) YAML
15 32 (3.39%) CSS
15 32 (3.39%) OpenAPI
16 31 (3.28%) .NET
17 29 (3.07%) WireMock
18 28 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 190 (20.13%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.46%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (4.77%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.13%) Data Centre
5 36 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 33 (3.50%) Data Structures
7 27 (2.86%) Onboarding
8 25 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.80%) AI Agents
9 17 (1.80%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.69%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
11 14 (1.48%) PKI
12 12 (1.27%) Private Cloud
13 11 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.17%) Mainframe
13 11 (1.17%) Replication
14 10 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.06%) Security Posture
15 9 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 205 (21.72%) Linux
2 46 (4.87%) Windows
3 43 (4.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (4.45%) Unix
5 17 (1.80%) CentOS
6 15 (1.59%) Ubuntu
7 13 (1.38%) VMS
8 12 (1.27%) AIX
9 10 (1.06%) Windows Server
9 10 (1.06%) zOS
10 2 (0.21%) Debian
10 2 (0.21%) Rocky
10 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Android
11 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 791 (83.79%) CI/CD
2 549 (58.16%) DevOps
3 449 (47.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 367 (38.88%) Agile
5 337 (35.70%) Containerisation
6 295 (31.25%) Test Automation
7 196 (20.76%) Microservices
8 180 (19.07%) Scrum
9 175 (18.54%) Observability
10 155 (16.42%) Software Engineering
11 145 (15.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 132 (13.98%) Platform Engineering
13 126 (13.35%) AI
13 126 (13.35%) Problem-Solving
14 104 (11.02%) Deployment Automation
15 101 (10.70%) DevSecOps
16 99 (10.49%) Stakeholder Management
17 95 (10.06%) Migration
17 95 (10.06%) Software Delivery
18 94 (9.96%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 414 (43.86%) Python
2 262 (27.75%) Java
3 221 (23.41%) SQL
4 160 (16.95%) Bash
5 94 (9.96%) JavaScript
6 77 (8.16%) PowerShell
7 68 (7.20%) C#
8 51 (5.40%) TypeScript
9 42 (4.45%) Go
9 42 (4.45%) Shell Script
10 16 (1.69%) Bicep
10 16 (1.69%) C++
11 15 (1.59%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.27%) Groovy
13 9 (0.95%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.85%) Scala
15 6 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.64%) R
16 5 (0.53%) Cypher
16 5 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 443 (46.93%) Security Cleared
2 344 (36.44%) SC Cleared
3 85 (9.00%) DV Cleared
4 76 (8.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 51 (5.40%) Degree
6 47 (4.98%) AWS Certification
7 39 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 15 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 14 (1.48%) CISSP
11 12 (1.27%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.17%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.85%) SAFe Agilist
14 6 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.53%) GCFA
15 5 (0.53%) GCIH
16 4 (0.42%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (13.98%) QA
2 52 (5.51%) Accessibility
3 31 (3.28%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.28%) WCAG
4 17 (1.80%) NIST
5 13 (1.38%) GDPR
5 13 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.06%) NCSC
7 9 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.85%) SLA
9 6 (0.64%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.53%) FATCA
11 3 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.11%) OpenSCAP
12 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 408 (43.22%) Docker
2 23 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.38%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.95%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.53%) Squid
8 3 (0.32%) Firmware
8 3 (0.32%) HDFS
8 3 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.32%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.11%) iptables
10 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 429 (45.44%) Kubernetes
2 248 (26.27%) Ansible
3 156 (16.53%) Grafana
4 136 (14.41%) Prometheus
5 43 (4.56%) Argo
6 39 (4.13%) Puppet
7 27 (2.86%) Kibana
7 27 (2.86%) Progress Chef
8 13 (1.38%) Data Guard
8 13 (1.38%) Oracle RMAN
8 13 (1.38%) Packer
9 12 (1.27%) Istio
10 10 (1.06%) Podman
10 10 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.74%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.53%) CASB
12 5 (0.53%) Cilium
12 5 (0.53%) HP Fortify
12 5 (0.53%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (0.42%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 110 (11.65%) Oracle
2 70 (7.42%) Microsoft
3 66 (6.99%) Google
4 54 (5.72%) Splunk
5 44 (4.66%) Talend
6 43 (4.56%) VMware
7 39 (4.13%) Informatica
8 33 (3.50%) Dynatrace
9 26 (2.75%) Databricks
9 26 (2.75%) Red Hat
10 24 (2.54%) IBM
10 24 (2.54%) ServiceNow
11 21 (2.22%) Palo Alto
12 20 (2.12%) F5
13 19 (2.01%) Denodo
14 18 (1.91%) Arista
14 18 (1.91%) Aruba
15 16 (1.69%) Trend Micro
16 14 (1.48%) Cisco
16 14 (1.48%) Veracode