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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 148 194
Rank change year-on-year +3 +46 +58
Contract jobs citing GitLab 860 529 428
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.89% 1.91% 1.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.14% 13.23% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 354 295
10th Percentile £372 £358 £328
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% -3.28% -6.32%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £650
90th Percentile £691 £674 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 8
10th Percentile - £61.60 £62.30
25th Percentile - £64.56 £70.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.58
90th Percentile - £71.79 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -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 5,329 3,998 4,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.47% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,393 2,764 2,835
10th Percentile £353 £319 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 97 198
10th Percentile £35.38 £41.35 £35.30
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.06 £52.88
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.30 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - +4.00%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +2 370 £525 - 159
North of England -26 179 £488 +1.56% 59
Midlands +28 139 £469 -9.55% 20
West Midlands +30 132 £469 -12.42% 14
South East -39 77 £550 - 35
North East +8 76 £413 -11.29% 14
North West -24 73 £575 +18.56% 34
South West -18 55 £550 -8.33% 43
Yorkshire -46 43 £550 +10.00% 11
East of England -15 33 £475 - 14
East Midlands -10 7 £459 +69.81% 6
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 83 (9.65%) Confluence
2 58 (6.74%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (5.81%) Apache Spark
4 44 (5.12%) Apache
5 31 (3.60%) SAS
6 29 (3.37%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.70%) Camunda
7 6 (0.70%) CICS
7 6 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.35%) nginx
8 3 (0.35%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.23%) CMS
9 2 (0.23%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Trello
2 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business 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
1 580 (67.44%) AWS
2 295 (34.30%) GitHub
3 291 (33.84%) Azure
4 220 (25.58%) GitHub Actions
5 150 (17.44%) GCP
6 137 (15.93%) Azure DevOps
7 118 (13.72%) Amazon S3
8 116 (13.49%) Amazon EKS
9 115 (13.37%) Serverless
10 104 (12.09%) AWS Lambda
11 101 (11.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 84 (9.77%) Amazon EC2
13 65 (7.56%) AWS CloudFormation
14 59 (6.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 46 (5.35%) Amazon ECS
16 39 (4.53%) OpenShift
17 38 (4.42%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (4.07%) Datadog
19 34 (3.95%) OCI
20 33 (3.84%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 48 (5.58%) Firewall
2 31 (3.60%) DNS
3 24 (2.79%) BGP
3 24 (2.79%) Network Security
4 23 (2.67%) WAN
5 22 (2.56%) Ethernet VPN
5 22 (2.56%) SD-WAN
5 22 (2.56%) VXLAN
6 21 (2.44%) OSPF
7 20 (2.33%) TCP/IP
8 19 (2.21%) BIG-IP
8 19 (2.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 15 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (1.51%) VPN
11 11 (1.28%) HTTP
11 11 (1.28%) WLAN
12 7 (0.81%) SSL
13 6 (0.70%) DHCP
14 5 (0.58%) VLAN
15 4 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (8.26%) MongoDB
2 70 (8.14%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (5.70%) Relational Database
4 39 (4.53%) Amazon Athena
4 39 (4.53%) Amazon Redshift
5 36 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
5 36 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (3.95%) DynamoDB
7 33 (3.84%) NoSQL
7 33 (3.84%) Pentaho
8 30 (3.49%) Power BI
8 30 (3.49%) SQL Server
9 27 (3.14%) Oracle Database
10 24 (2.79%) MySQL
10 24 (2.79%) RDBMS
10 24 (2.79%) Redis
11 23 (2.67%) Data Lake
12 21 (2.44%) Big Data
13 12 (1.40%) Oracle Exadata
14 11 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 361 (41.98%) Jenkins
2 210 (24.42%) Git
3 105 (12.21%) JIRA
4 67 (7.79%) Selenium
5 65 (7.56%) JUnit
6 44 (5.12%) Cucumber
7 40 (4.65%) Bitbucket
8 38 (4.42%) SonarQube
9 29 (3.37%) Artifactory
9 29 (3.37%) Gradle
10 27 (3.14%) Maven
11 26 (3.02%) Gatling
12 24 (2.79%) Mockito
13 22 (2.56%) JMeter
14 21 (2.44%) REST Assured
14 21 (2.44%) WebDriver
15 19 (2.21%) Postman
15 19 (2.21%) Sonatype Nexus
16 16 (1.86%) Snyk
17 11 (1.28%) Cypress.io
General
1 173 (20.12%) Social Skills
2 153 (17.79%) Public Sector
3 97 (11.28%) Finance
4 61 (7.09%) Banking
5 52 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.21%) Military
7 16 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.63%) Law
10 11 (1.28%) Legal
11 10 (1.16%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.70%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.58%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.58%) Police
13 5 (0.58%) Publishing
13 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.47%) Marketing
14 4 (0.47%) Retail
15 3 (0.35%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 182 (21.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 169 (19.65%) Senior
3 129 (15.00%) Developer
4 102 (11.86%) AWS Engineer
5 87 (10.12%) Data Engineer
6 67 (7.79%) AWS DevOps
7 62 (7.21%) Lead
8 60 (6.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 56 (6.51%) Software Engineer
10 44 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 39 (4.53%) Java Developer
13 37 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
14 36 (4.19%) Test Engineer
15 31 (3.60%) Senior DevOps
16 30 (3.49%) Architect
16 30 (3.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 26 (3.02%) Full-Stack Developer
17 26 (3.02%) Senior Developer
17 26 (3.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (13.84%) Kafka
2 99 (11.51%) Spring
3 90 (10.47%) REST
4 85 (9.88%) Spring Boot
5 53 (6.16%) React
6 51 (5.93%) RESTful
7 45 (5.23%) PySpark
8 43 (5.00%) Playwright
9 41 (4.77%) Node.js
10 36 (4.19%) RabbitMQ
11 35 (4.07%) JSON
12 27 (3.14%) WireMock
12 27 (3.14%) YAML
13 25 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
14 23 (2.67%) AWS CDK
15 22 (2.56%) .NET
15 22 (2.56%) HTML
16 21 (2.44%) Keycloak
16 21 (2.44%) OAuth
16 21 (2.44%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 170 (19.77%) Cloud Native
2 61 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.47%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (3.49%) Data Centre
6 28 (3.26%) Onboarding
7 22 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (2.44%) Data Structures
9 18 (2.09%) Distributed Architecture
10 17 (1.98%) Algorithms
11 15 (1.74%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.51%) Mainframe
13 11 (1.28%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.05%) Private Cloud
15 7 (0.81%) PKI
16 6 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
16 6 (0.70%) DataPower
16 6 (0.70%) NHS
16 6 (0.70%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 160 (18.60%) Linux
2 42 (4.88%) Unix
3 36 (4.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 36 (4.19%) Windows
4 13 (1.51%) zOS
5 12 (1.40%) AIX
5 12 (1.40%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.05%) CentOS
7 7 (0.81%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.47%) Debian
8 4 (0.47%) Rocky
8 4 (0.47%) VMS
9 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.23%) Android
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 707 (82.21%) CI/CD
2 506 (58.84%) DevOps
3 387 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 323 (37.56%) Agile
5 299 (34.77%) Containerisation
6 265 (30.81%) Test Automation
7 162 (18.84%) Microservices
8 153 (17.79%) Observability
9 147 (17.09%) Software Engineering
10 138 (16.05%) Scrum
11 127 (14.77%) Platform Engineering
12 122 (14.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 112 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
14 107 (12.44%) AI
15 96 (11.16%) DevSecOps
16 86 (10.00%) ETL
17 82 (9.53%) Migration
18 80 (9.30%) Event-Driven
19 77 (8.95%) Mentoring
20 76 (8.84%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 371 (43.14%) Python
2 202 (23.49%) SQL
3 201 (23.37%) Java
4 153 (17.79%) Bash
5 77 (8.95%) PowerShell
6 73 (8.49%) JavaScript
7 57 (6.63%) C#
8 56 (6.51%) TypeScript
9 30 (3.49%) Go
10 28 (3.26%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.21%) Bicep
12 17 (1.98%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.63%) C++
14 9 (1.05%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.93%) Groovy
16 7 (0.81%) Scala
17 6 (0.70%) JCL
17 6 (0.70%) R
18 5 (0.58%) Cypher
18 5 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 413 (48.02%) Security Cleared
2 343 (39.88%) SC Cleared
3 56 (6.51%) DV Cleared
4 46 (5.35%) Degree
5 41 (4.77%) AWS Certification
6 38 (4.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (2.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 19 (2.21%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 13 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.40%) CISSP
12 11 (1.28%) SAFe Agilist
13 8 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.93%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.47%) CSSLP
14 4 (0.47%) GCFA
14 4 (0.47%) GCIH
14 4 (0.47%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (10.70%) QA
2 36 (4.19%) Data Quality
3 35 (4.07%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.63%) WCAG
5 11 (1.28%) GDPR
6 10 (1.16%) NIST
6 10 (1.16%) SLA
7 9 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.58%) FATCA
11 4 (0.47%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.35%) NCSC
13 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.12%) GRC
14 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
14 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
14 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 364 (42.33%) Docker
2 20 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.51%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.58%) HDFS
6 5 (0.58%) Squid
7 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.35%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.12%) iptables
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.12%) vSphere
10 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 429 (49.88%) Terraform
2 382 (44.42%) Kubernetes
3 217 (25.23%) Ansible
4 146 (16.98%) Grafana
5 127 (14.77%) Prometheus
6 44 (5.12%) Argo
7 38 (4.42%) Puppet
8 25 (2.91%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.63%) Istio
10 13 (1.51%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.51%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (1.28%) Packer
12 9 (1.05%) Podman
13 8 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.58%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.58%) linkerd
14 5 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.58%) Salt
15 4 (0.47%) Check_MK
15 4 (0.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 100 (11.63%) Oracle
2 68 (7.91%) Microsoft
3 52 (6.05%) Google
4 51 (5.93%) Splunk
5 47 (5.47%) Talend
6 45 (5.23%) Informatica
7 32 (3.72%) Databricks
8 29 (3.37%) VMware
9 27 (3.14%) Dynatrace
10 22 (2.56%) Denodo
10 22 (2.56%) ServiceNow
11 21 (2.44%) Palo Alto
12 20 (2.33%) F5
13 19 (2.21%) Red Hat
14 18 (2.09%) Arista
14 18 (2.09%) Aruba
14 18 (2.09%) IBM
15 16 (1.86%) Trend Micro
16 8 (0.93%) Veracode
17 7 (0.81%) Salesforce