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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 144 182
Rank change year-on-year +3 +38 +67
Contract jobs citing GitLab 869 539 434
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.90% 1.95% 1.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.38% 13.36% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 361 297
10th Percentile £385 £363 £335
25th Percentile £431 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £650
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 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 £91.00 £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 5,304 4,034 4,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.60% 14.62% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,380 2,791 2,841
10th Percentile £356 £321 £356
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £631
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 247 96 182
10th Percentile £36.25 £41.13 £33.01
25th Percentile £58.63 £51.05 £54.09
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £73.98
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +10 373 £525 -0.47% 159
North of England -28 183 £500 +2.30% 78
Midlands +34 134 £469 -10.67% 32
West Midlands +25 127 £469 -13.15% 23
South East -39 82 £550 +7.32% 47
North East +8 78 £413 -12.70% 17
North West -39 74 £575 +18.56% 45
South West -24 56 £550 -8.33% 56
Yorkshire -47 44 £550 +10.00% 16
East of England -21 33 £475 +2.70% 17
East Midlands -14 7 £459 +69.81% 9
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 80 (9.21%) Confluence
2 62 (7.13%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (6.21%) Apache Spark
4 43 (4.95%) Apache
5 30 (3.45%) Jupyter
6 29 (3.34%) SAS
7 6 (0.69%) Camunda
7 6 (0.69%) CICS
7 6 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
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%) nginx
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 (0.46%) Trello
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 586 (67.43%) AWS
2 302 (34.75%) Azure
2 302 (34.75%) GitHub
3 221 (25.43%) GitHub Actions
4 154 (17.72%) GCP
5 149 (17.15%) Azure DevOps
6 117 (13.46%) Amazon S3
7 115 (13.23%) Serverless
8 114 (13.12%) Amazon EKS
9 105 (12.08%) AWS Lambda
10 101 (11.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 83 (9.55%) Amazon EC2
12 59 (6.79%) AWS CloudFormation
13 56 (6.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 43 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
15 42 (4.83%) OpenShift
16 40 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
17 35 (4.03%) Datadog
18 34 (3.91%) OCI
19 32 (3.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.75%) Firewall
2 30 (3.45%) DNS
3 29 (3.34%) BGP
4 28 (3.22%) Network Security
5 27 (3.11%) Ethernet VPN
5 27 (3.11%) VXLAN
6 23 (2.65%) WAN
7 22 (2.53%) SD-WAN
8 21 (2.42%) OSPF
9 19 (2.19%) BIG-IP
9 19 (2.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 19 (2.19%) TCP/IP
10 15 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (1.50%) VPN
12 11 (1.27%) HTTP
12 11 (1.27%) WLAN
13 8 (0.92%) NX-OS
14 7 (0.81%) SSL
15 6 (0.69%) DHCP
16 5 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (8.52%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (7.94%) MongoDB
3 49 (5.64%) Relational Database
4 40 (4.60%) Amazon Athena
4 40 (4.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 38 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
6 35 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
6 35 (4.03%) DynamoDB
7 34 (3.91%) NoSQL
8 33 (3.80%) Pentaho
9 30 (3.45%) SQL Server
10 29 (3.34%) Power BI
11 27 (3.11%) Oracle Database
11 27 (3.11%) Redis
12 25 (2.88%) MySQL
13 24 (2.76%) Data Lake
13 24 (2.76%) RDBMS
14 22 (2.53%) Big Data
15 13 (1.50%) Oracle Exadata
16 11 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 368 (42.35%) Jenkins
2 213 (24.51%) Git
3 104 (11.97%) JIRA
4 65 (7.48%) Selenium
5 62 (7.13%) JUnit
6 41 (4.72%) Cucumber
7 37 (4.26%) Bitbucket
7 37 (4.26%) SonarQube
8 29 (3.34%) Gradle
9 27 (3.11%) Artifactory
9 27 (3.11%) Maven
10 25 (2.88%) Gatling
11 24 (2.76%) Mockito
12 23 (2.65%) REST Assured
13 22 (2.53%) JMeter
14 21 (2.42%) WebDriver
15 19 (2.19%) Postman
15 19 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
16 16 (1.84%) Snyk
17 13 (1.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 171 (19.68%) Social Skills
2 153 (17.61%) Public Sector
3 96 (11.05%) Finance
4 62 (7.13%) Banking
5 56 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.07%) Military
7 17 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.61%) Law
9 11 (1.27%) Legal
10 10 (1.15%) Aerospace
11 6 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.69%) Police
12 5 (0.58%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.58%) Publishing
12 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.46%) Marketing
13 4 (0.46%) Retail
14 3 (0.35%) Back Office
14 3 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 188 (21.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 170 (19.56%) Senior
3 135 (15.54%) Developer
4 104 (11.97%) AWS Engineer
5 84 (9.67%) Data Engineer
6 67 (7.71%) AWS DevOps
7 63 (7.25%) Lead
8 60 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 55 (6.33%) Software Engineer
10 46 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 39 (4.49%) Java Developer
13 37 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
13 37 (4.26%) Test Engineer
14 33 (3.80%) Architect
15 31 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
16 30 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 28 (3.22%) Software Developer
18 26 (2.99%) Full-Stack Developer
18 26 (2.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (14.50%) Kafka
2 99 (11.39%) REST
3 96 (11.05%) Spring
4 86 (9.90%) Spring Boot
5 55 (6.33%) RESTful
6 53 (6.10%) React
7 43 (4.95%) Node.js
8 42 (4.83%) JSON
8 42 (4.83%) PySpark
9 41 (4.72%) Playwright
10 36 (4.14%) RabbitMQ
11 34 (3.91%) YAML
12 25 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
13 24 (2.76%) OAuth
13 24 (2.76%) WireMock
14 23 (2.65%) .NET
15 22 (2.53%) Keycloak
15 22 (2.53%) pytest
16 21 (2.42%) HTML
17 20 (2.30%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 175 (20.14%) Cloud Native
2 60 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.18%) Product Ownership
4 35 (4.03%) Data Centre
4 35 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (2.42%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.96%) Algorithms
9 16 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.73%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.61%) Mainframe
12 13 (1.50%) AI Agents
13 10 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.04%) Private Cloud
15 7 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
15 7 (0.81%) PKI
16 6 (0.69%) DataPower
16 6 (0.69%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 164 (18.87%) Linux
2 40 (4.60%) Unix
3 38 (4.37%) Windows
4 34 (3.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.50%) zOS
6 12 (1.38%) AIX
6 12 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.15%) CentOS
8 8 (0.92%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.58%) VMS
10 3 (0.35%) Debian
10 3 (0.35%) Rocky
11 2 (0.23%) Android
11 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 721 (82.97%) CI/CD
2 519 (59.72%) DevOps
3 402 (46.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 314 (36.13%) Agile
5 312 (35.90%) Containerisation
6 264 (30.38%) Test Automation
7 165 (18.99%) Microservices
8 157 (18.07%) Observability
9 148 (17.03%) Software Engineering
10 137 (15.77%) Scrum
11 128 (14.73%) Platform Engineering
12 124 (14.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 120 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
14 107 (12.31%) AI
15 100 (11.51%) DevSecOps
16 89 (10.24%) ETL
17 86 (9.90%) Event-Driven
17 86 (9.90%) Migration
18 82 (9.44%) Deployment Automation
19 79 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 380 (43.73%) Python
2 202 (23.25%) Java
3 199 (22.90%) SQL
4 160 (18.41%) Bash
5 83 (9.55%) PowerShell
6 73 (8.40%) JavaScript
7 62 (7.13%) C#
8 56 (6.44%) TypeScript
9 32 (3.68%) Go
10 25 (2.88%) Shell Script
11 20 (2.30%) Bicep
12 18 (2.07%) PL/SQL
13 15 (1.73%) C++
14 9 (1.04%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.92%) Groovy
16 7 (0.81%) Scala
17 6 (0.69%) JCL
17 6 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.69%) R
18 5 (0.58%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 419 (48.22%) Security Cleared
2 343 (39.47%) SC Cleared
3 64 (7.36%) DV Cleared
4 44 (5.06%) AWS Certification
5 43 (4.95%) Degree
6 35 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (2.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 19 (2.19%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 14 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.61%) CISSP
11 11 (1.27%) ISTQB
11 11 (1.27%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.58%) GCFA
13 5 (0.58%) GCIH
14 4 (0.46%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (10.47%) QA
2 33 (3.80%) Accessibility
2 33 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.38%) NIST
3 12 (1.38%) WCAG
4 11 (1.27%) GDPR
5 10 (1.15%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.15%) SLA
6 8 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.69%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.58%) FATCA
9 4 (0.46%) NCSC
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
11 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
11 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 372 (42.81%) Docker
2 20 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.50%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.69%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.58%) HDFS
5 5 (0.58%) Squid
6 3 (0.35%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.12%) iptables
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 434 (49.94%) Terraform
2 393 (45.22%) Kubernetes
3 231 (26.58%) Ansible
4 146 (16.80%) Grafana
5 127 (14.61%) Prometheus
6 45 (5.18%) Argo
7 39 (4.49%) Puppet
8 28 (3.22%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.61%) Istio
10 13 (1.50%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.50%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (1.27%) Packer
12 10 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (1.04%) Podman
14 6 (0.69%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.58%) CASB
15 5 (0.58%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.58%) Kibana
15 5 (0.58%) linkerd
15 5 (0.58%) Salt
Vendors
1 98 (11.28%) Oracle
2 68 (7.83%) Microsoft
3 56 (6.44%) Google
4 52 (5.98%) Splunk
5 46 (5.29%) Talend
6 45 (5.18%) Informatica
7 34 (3.91%) Databricks
8 32 (3.68%) VMware
9 29 (3.34%) ServiceNow
10 27 (3.11%) Dynatrace
11 23 (2.65%) Red Hat
12 22 (2.53%) Denodo
13 21 (2.42%) Palo Alto
14 20 (2.30%) F5
15 18 (2.07%) Arista
15 18 (2.07%) Aruba
16 17 (1.96%) IBM
17 16 (1.84%) Trend Micro
18 11 (1.27%) Cisco
19 8 (0.92%) Veracode