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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 142 190
Rank change year-on-year -4 +48 +69
Contract jobs citing GitLab 876 545 442
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.91% 1.98% 1.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.86% 13.40% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 366 305
10th Percentile £385 £363 £350
25th Percentile £431 £442 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 8 7
10th Percentile - £61.60 £61.40
25th Percentile £65.00 £64.56 £69.50
Median hourly rate £69.11 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.44
90th Percentile £95.00 £71.79 £74.66
UK median hourly rate £69.11 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +3.15% -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 5,195 4,067 4,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.35% 14.76% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,301 2,815 2,833
10th Percentile £358 £325 £353
25th Percentile £415 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £625
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 239 95 175
10th Percentile £36.25 £42.35 £36.45
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.41 £54.49
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 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -1 379 £525 -0.47% 267
North of England -30 184 £475 -1.04% 100
Midlands +28 132 £474 -11.53% 33
West Midlands +25 125 £475 -12.84% 22
South East -24 80 £546 +7.85% 61
North West -29 78 £569 +18.54% 53
North East +7 77 £413 -11.29% 24
South West -7 60 £550 -8.33% 70
Yorkshire -49 42 £550 +10.00% 23
East of England -18 31 £475 - 26
East Midlands -16 7 £436 +61.48% 11
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 84 (9.59%) Confluence
2 63 (7.19%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (6.28%) Apache Spark
4 46 (5.25%) Apache
5 30 (3.42%) Jupyter
6 23 (2.63%) SAS
7 11 (1.26%) Camunda
8 6 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.46%) CICS
9 4 (0.46%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.34%) nginx
10 3 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 591 (67.47%) AWS
2 301 (34.36%) Azure
3 297 (33.90%) GitHub
4 215 (24.54%) GitHub Actions
5 149 (17.01%) GCP
6 148 (16.89%) Azure DevOps
7 116 (13.24%) Amazon S3
8 114 (13.01%) Serverless
9 109 (12.44%) Amazon EKS
10 103 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
11 101 (11.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 81 (9.25%) Amazon EC2
13 57 (6.51%) AWS CloudFormation
14 55 (6.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 48 (5.48%) OpenShift
16 44 (5.02%) Amazon ECS
17 40 (4.57%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (4.00%) Datadog
18 35 (4.00%) OCI
19 34 (3.88%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 48 (5.48%) Firewall
2 31 (3.54%) DNS
3 30 (3.42%) Network Security
4 28 (3.20%) BGP
5 27 (3.08%) Ethernet VPN
5 27 (3.08%) VXLAN
6 23 (2.63%) WAN
7 22 (2.51%) SD-WAN
8 21 (2.40%) OSPF
9 20 (2.28%) TCP/IP
10 19 (2.17%) BIG-IP
10 19 (2.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 15 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (1.48%) VPN
13 11 (1.26%) HTTP
13 11 (1.26%) WLAN
14 8 (0.91%) NX-OS
14 8 (0.91%) SSL
15 6 (0.68%) DHCP
16 5 (0.57%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (8.22%) MongoDB
3 54 (6.16%) Relational Database
4 41 (4.68%) Amazon Athena
5 39 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
6 38 (4.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 37 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
7 37 (4.22%) NoSQL
8 34 (3.88%) DynamoDB
8 34 (3.88%) SQL Server
9 33 (3.77%) Oracle Database
10 29 (3.31%) Redis
11 28 (3.20%) Power BI
12 27 (3.08%) RDBMS
13 26 (2.97%) Pentaho
14 25 (2.85%) MySQL
15 24 (2.74%) Big Data
15 24 (2.74%) Data Lake
16 14 (1.60%) Oracle Exadata
17 11 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 367 (41.89%) Jenkins
2 218 (24.89%) Git
3 110 (12.56%) JIRA
4 72 (8.22%) JUnit
5 69 (7.88%) Selenium
6 49 (5.59%) SonarQube
7 44 (5.02%) Cucumber
8 39 (4.45%) Maven
9 34 (3.88%) Bitbucket
9 34 (3.88%) Gradle
10 32 (3.65%) Mockito
11 29 (3.31%) Gatling
12 28 (3.20%) REST Assured
13 27 (3.08%) Artifactory
14 24 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
15 21 (2.40%) JMeter
15 21 (2.40%) WebDriver
16 17 (1.94%) Postman
17 15 (1.71%) Snyk
18 14 (1.60%) Cypress.io
General
1 171 (19.52%) Social Skills
2 156 (17.81%) Public Sector
3 100 (11.42%) Finance
4 65 (7.42%) Banking
5 56 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.17%) Military
7 16 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.48%) Law
10 10 (1.14%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.14%) Legal
11 7 (0.80%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.80%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.68%) Police
13 5 (0.57%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.57%) Publishing
14 4 (0.46%) Marketing
14 4 (0.46%) Retail
15 3 (0.34%) Back Office
15 3 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 188 (21.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 163 (18.61%) Senior
3 145 (16.55%) Developer
4 100 (11.42%) AWS Engineer
5 80 (9.13%) Data Engineer
6 65 (7.42%) AWS DevOps
7 63 (7.19%) Lead
8 58 (6.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 53 (6.05%) Software Engineer
10 46 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
11 43 (4.91%) Java Developer
12 42 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 38 (4.34%) Test Engineer
14 36 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
15 34 (3.88%) Architect
16 30 (3.42%) Software Developer
17 29 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
18 28 (3.20%) Java Engineer
19 27 (3.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
20 26 (2.97%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 442 (50.46%) Terraform
2 137 (15.64%) Kafka
3 111 (12.67%) Spring
4 100 (11.42%) Spring Boot
5 99 (11.30%) REST
6 61 (6.96%) React
7 57 (6.51%) RESTful
8 49 (5.59%) Playwright
9 45 (5.14%) PySpark
10 43 (4.91%) Node.js
11 40 (4.57%) JSON
11 40 (4.57%) RabbitMQ
12 35 (4.00%) YAML
13 31 (3.54%) HTML
14 28 (3.20%) CSS
15 27 (3.08%) WireMock
16 25 (2.85%) .NET
16 25 (2.85%) OAuth
17 24 (2.74%) Keycloak
18 23 (2.63%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 176 (20.09%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.14%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (4.11%) Data Centre
6 27 (3.08%) Data Structures
7 26 (2.97%) Onboarding
8 24 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.94%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.71%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.60%) AI Agents
12 12 (1.37%) Mainframe
13 10 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.14%) PKI
14 9 (1.03%) Private Cloud
15 8 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (0.91%) Security Posture
16 7 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
17 6 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 169 (19.29%) Linux
2 40 (4.57%) Windows
3 38 (4.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 37 (4.22%) Unix
5 13 (1.48%) AIX
5 13 (1.48%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.26%) CentOS
6 11 (1.26%) zOS
7 9 (1.03%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.68%) VMS
9 3 (0.34%) Debian
9 3 (0.34%) Rocky
10 2 (0.23%) Android
10 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 740 (84.47%) CI/CD
2 521 (59.47%) DevOps
3 415 (47.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 329 (37.56%) Agile
5 311 (35.50%) Containerisation
6 269 (30.71%) Test Automation
7 183 (20.89%) Microservices
8 161 (18.38%) Observability
9 151 (17.24%) Software Engineering
10 143 (16.32%) Scrum
11 130 (14.84%) Platform Engineering
12 126 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 117 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
14 109 (12.44%) AI
15 104 (11.87%) DevSecOps
16 92 (10.50%) Migration
17 85 (9.70%) Deployment Automation
17 85 (9.70%) ETL
17 85 (9.70%) Event-Driven
18 81 (9.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 386 (44.06%) Python
2 219 (25.00%) Java
3 207 (23.63%) SQL
4 162 (18.49%) Bash
5 85 (9.70%) PowerShell
6 79 (9.02%) JavaScript
7 65 (7.42%) C#
8 56 (6.39%) TypeScript
9 34 (3.88%) Go
10 31 (3.54%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.17%) Bicep
12 15 (1.71%) C++
12 15 (1.71%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.03%) Groovy
14 8 (0.91%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.80%) Scala
16 6 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.68%) R
17 5 (0.57%) Cypher
17 5 (0.57%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 419 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 339 (38.70%) SC Cleared
3 68 (7.76%) DV Cleared
4 49 (5.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 49 (5.59%) Degree
5 44 (5.02%) AWS Certification
6 36 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.05%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 16 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.71%) CISSP
11 14 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (1.37%) ISTQB
13 11 (1.26%) SAFe Agilist
14 9 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 5 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.57%) GCFA
16 5 (0.57%) GCIH
17 4 (0.46%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (11.64%) QA
2 39 (4.45%) Accessibility
3 36 (4.11%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.05%) WCAG
5 15 (1.71%) NIST
6 11 (1.26%) GDPR
7 10 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.14%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.14%) SLA
8 8 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.68%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.68%) NCSC
10 5 (0.57%) FATCA
11 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.11%) GRC
12 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 378 (43.15%) Docker
2 20 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.17%) Active Directory
4 14 (1.60%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.68%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.57%) Squid
7 3 (0.34%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.23%) HDFS
8 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.11%) iptables
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 395 (45.09%) Kubernetes
2 234 (26.71%) Ansible
3 144 (16.44%) Grafana
4 128 (14.61%) Prometheus
5 44 (5.02%) Argo
6 39 (4.45%) Puppet
7 28 (3.20%) Progress Chef
8 14 (1.60%) Data Guard
8 14 (1.60%) Oracle RMAN
9 12 (1.37%) Istio
10 11 (1.26%) Kibana
11 10 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (1.03%) Packer
12 9 (1.03%) Podman
13 6 (0.68%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.57%) CASB
14 5 (0.57%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.46%) Check_MK
15 4 (0.46%) Salt
Vendors
1 97 (11.07%) Oracle
2 68 (7.76%) Microsoft
3 58 (6.62%) Google
4 51 (5.82%) Splunk
5 42 (4.79%) Talend
6 39 (4.45%) Informatica
7 35 (4.00%) VMware
8 33 (3.77%) Databricks
9 27 (3.08%) Dynatrace
10 26 (2.97%) Red Hat
11 25 (2.85%) ServiceNow
12 22 (2.51%) IBM
13 21 (2.40%) Palo Alto
14 20 (2.28%) F5
15 19 (2.17%) Denodo
16 18 (2.05%) Arista
16 18 (2.05%) Aruba
17 16 (1.83%) Trend Micro
18 14 (1.60%) Veracode
19 11 (1.26%) Cisco