GitLab Contracts in England

GitLab
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring GitLab skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitLab over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 215 255
Rank change year-on-year +66 +40 -93
Contract jobs citing GitLab 506 416 476
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.94% 1.11% 1.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.66% 9.14% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 298 316
10th Percentile £356 £363 £432
25th Percentile £432 £456 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -4.30% -3.77%
75th Percentile £588 £655 £671
90th Percentile £660 £738 £716
UK median daily rate £523 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 2
10th Percentile £63.42 £62.30 £43.64
25th Percentile £66.68 £70.63 £49.70
Median hourly rate £72.73 £74.22 £59.80
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% +24.11% +10.23%
75th Percentile £78.16 £75.63 £69.90
90th Percentile £81.04 £77.50 £75.96
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £74.00 £39.60
% change year-on-year -5.41% +86.87% -27.00%

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 3,704 4,553 6,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.19% 12.18% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,529 3,056 4,733
10th Percentile £332 £350 £363
25th Percentile £409 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £706 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 231 202
10th Percentile £28.32 £33.00 £48.20
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.88 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.84% +18.10%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -8.46% +4.00% +18.72%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in England

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in England.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in England

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in England

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in England.

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in England

GitLab
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitLab in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 2025. 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 +50 249 £525 -8.30% 203
North of England +40 104 £475 -6.40% 83
North West +36 57 £470 -8.29% 46
South East +17 40 £501 -15.88% 67
Yorkshire +9 37 £500 +6.67% 27
Midlands +33 35 £500 +11.36% 46
South West +38 31 £575 +5.99% 56
West Midlands +31 28 £525 +35.48% 33
East of England +35 14 £475 - 43
North East +7 13 £465 +8.14% 10
East Midlands -1 7 £270 -39.87% 13
GitLab
UK

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 38 (7.51%) Confluence
2 11 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.38%) Apache
4 6 (1.19%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.99%) nginx
5 5 (0.99%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.79%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.79%) Documentum
6 4 (0.79%) FileNet
6 4 (0.79%) Mule
6 4 (0.79%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.79%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.59%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.20%) Camunda
9 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 268 (52.96%) AWS
2 158 (31.23%) Azure
3 98 (19.37%) GitHub
4 78 (15.42%) GCP
5 50 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (6.92%) Amazon S3
6 35 (6.92%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (6.52%) Serverless
8 32 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
10 22 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (3.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (2.77%) PaaS
14 12 (2.37%) Azure AKS
15 11 (2.17%) Power Platform
16 10 (1.98%) AWS CodePipeline
16 10 (1.98%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.55%) DNS
2 21 (4.15%) Firewall
3 13 (2.57%) Network Security
4 11 (2.17%) HTTP
5 10 (1.98%) SAN
6 9 (1.78%) VPN
7 7 (1.38%) BGP
8 6 (1.19%) Ethernet VPN
8 6 (1.19%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.19%) WAN
9 5 (0.99%) LAN
9 5 (0.99%) OSPF
10 4 (0.79%) Calico
10 4 (0.79%) DHCP
10 4 (0.79%) iSCSI
10 4 (0.79%) Multicast
10 4 (0.79%) NAS
11 3 (0.59%) Cisco ISE
11 3 (0.59%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (0.59%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (7.51%) MongoDB
3 28 (5.53%) MySQL
4 27 (5.34%) NoSQL
5 23 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 20 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (3.16%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.98%) Oracle Database
9 9 (1.78%) Big Data
9 9 (1.78%) Power BI
10 8 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (1.38%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.79%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.79%) BusinessObjects
13 4 (0.79%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.79%) HPCC
13 4 (0.79%) Tableau
14 3 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 221 (43.68%) Jenkins
2 94 (18.58%) Git
3 83 (16.40%) JIRA
4 48 (9.49%) Selenium
5 40 (7.91%) SonarQube
6 38 (7.51%) Bitbucket
6 38 (7.51%) JUnit
7 37 (7.31%) Maven
8 35 (6.92%) Cucumber
9 27 (5.34%) REST Assured
9 27 (5.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 20 (3.95%) TeamCity
11 19 (3.75%) Mockito
11 19 (3.75%) Postman
12 18 (3.56%) Gradle
13 17 (3.36%) Liquibase
14 15 (2.96%) Cypress.io
15 14 (2.77%) CircleCI
15 14 (2.77%) JMeter
16 11 (2.17%) Artifactory
General
1 117 (23.12%) Social Skills
2 70 (13.83%) Finance
3 67 (13.24%) Public Sector
4 47 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (6.32%) Banking
6 22 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 15 (2.96%) Marketing
8 12 (2.37%) Electronics
8 12 (2.37%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.78%) Law
10 8 (1.58%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.19%) Military
12 5 (0.99%) Police
12 5 (0.99%) Retail
13 4 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.59%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.40%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.20%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (23.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 112 (22.13%) Developer
3 65 (12.85%) Senior
4 53 (10.47%) AWS Engineer
5 41 (8.10%) Java Developer
6 37 (7.31%) AWS DevOps
7 35 (6.92%) Architect
8 34 (6.72%) Software Engineer
9 33 (6.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 27 (5.34%) Java Engineer
11 23 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
12 21 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
12 21 (4.15%) Lead
13 20 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (3.95%) Test Engineer
14 16 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
15 15 (2.96%) Automation Engineer
15 15 (2.96%) Consultant
15 15 (2.96%) Data Engineer
15 15 (2.96%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (10.28%) React
2 48 (9.49%) REST
3 47 (9.29%) Spring
4 45 (8.89%) Kafka
4 45 (8.89%) Spring Boot
5 40 (7.91%) RESTful
6 36 (7.11%) Node.js
7 28 (5.53%) HTML
8 24 (4.74%) CSS
9 21 (4.15%) Elastic Stack
9 21 (4.15%) Playwright
10 18 (3.56%) AngularJS
10 18 (3.56%) JSON
11 15 (2.96%) Swagger
12 14 (2.77%) Java EE
12 14 (2.77%) OpenAPI
12 14 (2.77%) Web Services
13 13 (2.57%) Hibernate
13 13 (2.57%) OAuth
13 13 (2.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.53%) Onboarding
2 27 (5.34%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.56%) Data Centre
4 14 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (2.57%) PKI
5 13 (2.57%) Public Cloud
6 11 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.58%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.19%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.99%) Hedge funds
11 5 (0.99%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.79%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (0.59%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 109 (21.54%) Linux
2 37 (7.31%) Windows
3 26 (5.14%) Unix
4 19 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (3.36%) Windows Server
6 12 (2.37%) Android
7 11 (2.17%) CentOS
8 8 (1.58%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.79%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.59%) Rocky
10 3 (0.59%) Solaris
11 2 (0.40%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.40%) SUSE
12 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (63.24%) CI/CD
2 274 (54.15%) DevOps
3 154 (30.43%) Agile
4 152 (30.04%) Containerisation
4 152 (30.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 107 (21.15%) Microservices
6 105 (20.75%) Test Automation
7 98 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
8 79 (15.61%) Software Engineering
9 72 (14.23%) Migration
10 64 (12.65%) Configuration Management
11 54 (10.67%) Infrastructure Automation
12 48 (9.49%) Scrum
13 47 (9.29%) Continuous Integration
14 45 (8.89%) TDD
15 41 (8.10%) SDLC
16 40 (7.91%) Mentoring
17 34 (6.72%) DevSecOps
17 34 (6.72%) Event-Driven
17 34 (6.72%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 198 (39.13%) Python
2 160 (31.62%) Java
3 89 (17.59%) SQL
4 77 (15.22%) JavaScript
5 70 (13.83%) Bash
6 44 (8.70%) PowerShell
7 36 (7.11%) TypeScript
8 31 (6.13%) Shell Script
9 22 (4.35%) C#
10 16 (3.16%) Go
11 14 (2.77%) C++
12 8 (1.58%) Ruby
13 6 (1.19%) PHP
14 5 (0.99%) C
14 5 (0.99%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.99%) Rust
15 4 (0.79%) DataWeave
15 4 (0.79%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.79%) Scala
16 3 (0.59%) Korn
Qualifications
1 182 (35.97%) Security Cleared
2 148 (29.25%) SC Cleared
3 36 (7.11%) AWS Certification
4 30 (5.93%) Degree
5 25 (4.94%) DV Cleared
6 19 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (0.99%) CCNP
10 5 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.99%) CISSP
11 4 (0.79%) CCNA
11 4 (0.79%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.79%) OCP
11 4 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (0.79%) SANS
12 3 (0.59%) CEH
13 2 (0.40%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.89%) QA
2 13 (2.57%) PCI DSS
3 11 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.58%) GDPR
5 6 (1.19%) WCAG
6 5 (0.99%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.79%) NCSC
7 4 (0.79%) SLA
7 4 (0.79%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.59%) NIST
9 2 (0.40%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.20%) COBIT
10 1 (0.20%) FedRAMP
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 168 (33.20%) Docker
2 20 (3.95%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.19%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.99%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.99%) vSphere
6 4 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.59%) FreeRADIUS
7 3 (0.59%) iptables
8 2 (0.40%) Ceph
8 2 (0.40%) Firmware
9 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 222 (43.87%) Terraform
2 190 (37.55%) Kubernetes
3 144 (28.46%) Ansible
4 48 (9.49%) Grafana
5 47 (9.29%) Puppet
6 46 (9.09%) Prometheus
7 14 (2.77%) Argo
7 14 (2.77%) Podman
7 14 (2.77%) Progress Chef
8 9 (1.78%) Docker Swarm
9 8 (1.58%) Istio
10 6 (1.19%) Packer
11 5 (0.99%) HP Fortify
11 5 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.99%) Nagios
11 5 (0.99%) Nessus
11 5 (0.99%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.79%) Dell DRAC
12 4 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 41 (8.10%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.92%) Google
3 26 (5.14%) Splunk
4 24 (4.74%) Oracle
5 20 (3.95%) SAP
5 20 (3.95%) VMware
6 16 (3.16%) Cisco
7 15 (2.96%) ServiceNow
8 14 (2.77%) Databricks
9 13 (2.57%) Atlassian
10 12 (2.37%) IBM
10 12 (2.37%) Veracode
11 11 (2.17%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.38%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.38%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.38%) Talend
13 6 (1.19%) F5
13 6 (1.19%) Infoblox
13 6 (1.19%) PagerDuty
13 6 (1.19%) Virgin Media