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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 142 186
Rank change year-on-year -4 +44 +62
Contract jobs citing GitLab 885 543 445
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.94% 2.00% 1.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.05% 13.39% 10.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 366 311
10th Percentile £378 £363 £350
25th Percentile £430 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -5.73% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £693 £684 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 8 6
10th Percentile - £61.60 £60.50
25th Percentile £65.00 £64.56 £67.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £71.79 £74.72
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 5,192 4,054 4,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 14.89% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,313 2,810 2,807
10th Percentile £356 £325 £356
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £631
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 94 173
10th Percentile £37.05 £43.63 £36.35
25th Percentile £55.00 £53.06 £52.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.99 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £67.24 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.44% - -

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +7 376 £513 -2.38% 308
North of England -29 183 £475 -0.11% 92
Midlands +32 137 £470 -12.54% 28
West Midlands +32 130 £471 -14.33% 17
South East -34 80 £541 +8.14% 52
North East +8 77 £413 -11.29% 13
North West -31 76 £569 +21.32% 53
South West -18 64 £550 -8.33% 63
Yorkshire -53 41 £550 +10.00% 26
East of England -16 34 £475 -2.56% 34
East Midlands -20 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 87 (9.83%) Confluence
2 62 (7.01%) Apache Airflow
3 57 (6.44%) Apache Spark
4 47 (5.31%) Apache
5 30 (3.39%) Jupyter
6 23 (2.60%) SAS
7 12 (1.36%) Camunda
8 6 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.45%) CICS
9 4 (0.45%) 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 (0.45%) 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
1 590 (66.67%) AWS
2 306 (34.58%) Azure
3 300 (33.90%) GitHub
4 216 (24.41%) GitHub Actions
5 152 (17.18%) Azure DevOps
6 144 (16.27%) GCP
7 116 (13.11%) Amazon S3
8 113 (12.77%) Serverless
9 107 (12.09%) Amazon EKS
10 104 (11.75%) AWS Lambda
11 102 (11.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 80 (9.04%) Amazon EC2
13 57 (6.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 54 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 47 (5.31%) OpenShift
16 45 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
17 41 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (4.07%) Amazon EMR
19 34 (3.84%) OCI
20 32 (3.62%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 49 (5.54%) Firewall
2 33 (3.73%) DNS
3 30 (3.39%) Network Security
4 28 (3.16%) BGP
5 27 (3.05%) Ethernet VPN
5 27 (3.05%) VXLAN
6 23 (2.60%) WAN
7 22 (2.49%) SD-WAN
7 22 (2.49%) TCP/IP
8 21 (2.37%) OSPF
9 19 (2.15%) BIG-IP
9 19 (2.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 17 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (1.47%) VPN
12 11 (1.24%) HTTP
12 11 (1.24%) WLAN
13 8 (0.90%) DHCP
13 8 (0.90%) NX-OS
13 8 (0.90%) SSL
14 6 (0.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (7.91%) MongoDB
3 52 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 43 (4.86%) Amazon Athena
5 40 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
6 38 (4.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 37 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (3.95%) DynamoDB
9 33 (3.73%) NoSQL
9 33 (3.73%) Oracle Database
10 31 (3.50%) SQL Server
11 29 (3.28%) Power BI
11 29 (3.28%) Redis
12 27 (3.05%) Pentaho
13 26 (2.94%) MySQL
13 26 (2.94%) RDBMS
14 25 (2.82%) Big Data
14 25 (2.82%) Data Lake
15 13 (1.47%) Oracle Exadata
16 12 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 364 (41.13%) Jenkins
2 227 (25.65%) Git
3 117 (13.22%) JIRA
4 75 (8.47%) JUnit
5 71 (8.02%) Selenium
6 51 (5.76%) SonarQube
7 48 (5.42%) Cucumber
8 42 (4.75%) Maven
9 35 (3.95%) Gradle
10 34 (3.84%) Bitbucket
10 34 (3.84%) Mockito
11 30 (3.39%) Gatling
12 29 (3.28%) REST Assured
13 27 (3.05%) Artifactory
14 25 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
15 22 (2.49%) JMeter
16 21 (2.37%) WebDriver
17 17 (1.92%) Postman
18 15 (1.69%) Snyk
19 14 (1.58%) Cypress.io
General
1 174 (19.66%) Social Skills
2 158 (17.85%) Public Sector
3 98 (11.07%) Finance
4 64 (7.23%) Banking
5 57 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.15%) Military
7 17 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.47%) Law
10 10 (1.13%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.02%) Legal
11 9 (1.02%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.79%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.68%) Police
14 5 (0.56%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.56%) Publishing
15 4 (0.45%) Marketing
15 4 (0.45%) Retail
16 3 (0.34%) Back Office
16 3 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 190 (21.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 160 (18.08%) Senior
3 146 (16.50%) Developer
4 100 (11.30%) AWS Engineer
5 80 (9.04%) Data Engineer
6 65 (7.34%) AWS DevOps
7 60 (6.78%) Lead
8 58 (6.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 50 (5.65%) Software Engineer
10 47 (5.31%) Cloud Engineer
11 44 (4.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 44 (4.97%) Java Developer
12 39 (4.41%) Test Engineer
13 38 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
14 34 (3.84%) Architect
15 32 (3.62%) Software Developer
16 30 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
17 27 (3.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 26 (2.94%) Java Engineer
18 26 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 441 (49.83%) Terraform
2 136 (15.37%) Kafka
3 116 (13.11%) Spring
4 104 (11.75%) Spring Boot
5 99 (11.19%) REST
6 64 (7.23%) React
7 58 (6.55%) RESTful
8 52 (5.88%) Playwright
9 44 (4.97%) PySpark
10 43 (4.86%) JSON
10 43 (4.86%) RabbitMQ
11 41 (4.63%) Node.js
12 35 (3.95%) YAML
13 33 (3.73%) HTML
14 28 (3.16%) CSS
15 27 (3.05%) JPA
15 27 (3.05%) OAuth
15 27 (3.05%) WireMock
16 25 (2.82%) .NET
17 23 (2.60%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 179 (20.23%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.18%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (4.07%) Data Centre
6 28 (3.16%) Data Structures
7 26 (2.94%) Onboarding
8 24 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.92%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (1.81%) AI Agents
11 14 (1.58%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.36%) Mainframe
13 11 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.13%) PKI
15 9 (1.02%) Private Cloud
15 9 (1.02%) Security Posture
16 7 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
16 7 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 175 (19.77%) Linux
2 41 (4.63%) Unix
2 41 (4.63%) Windows
3 40 (4.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.47%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.36%) AIX
5 12 (1.36%) CentOS
6 11 (1.24%) zOS
7 10 (1.13%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.79%) 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
1 747 (84.41%) CI/CD
2 528 (59.66%) DevOps
3 420 (47.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 336 (37.97%) Agile
5 313 (35.37%) Containerisation
6 274 (30.96%) Test Automation
7 180 (20.34%) Microservices
8 159 (17.97%) Observability
9 153 (17.29%) Software Engineering
10 151 (17.06%) Scrum
11 133 (15.03%) Platform Engineering
12 129 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 116 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
14 113 (12.77%) AI
15 105 (11.86%) DevSecOps
16 88 (9.94%) Migration
17 87 (9.83%) Deployment Automation
17 87 (9.83%) Event-Driven
18 86 (9.72%) ETL
19 83 (9.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 387 (43.73%) Python
2 222 (25.08%) Java
3 204 (23.05%) SQL
4 161 (18.19%) Bash
5 84 (9.49%) PowerShell
6 83 (9.38%) JavaScript
7 65 (7.34%) C#
8 53 (5.99%) TypeScript
9 35 (3.95%) Go
10 31 (3.50%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.92%) Bicep
12 15 (1.69%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.58%) C++
14 9 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.90%) Groovy
16 7 (0.79%) Scala
17 6 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.68%) R
18 5 (0.56%) Cypher
18 5 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 428 (48.36%) Security Cleared
2 343 (38.76%) SC Cleared
3 73 (8.25%) DV Cleared
4 51 (5.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 50 (5.65%) Degree
6 44 (4.97%) AWS Certification
7 37 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.03%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 16 (1.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (1.69%) CISSP
12 14 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (1.36%) ISTQB
14 11 (1.24%) SAFe Agilist
15 9 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 5 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
17 5 (0.56%) GCFA
17 5 (0.56%) GCIH
18 4 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (12.09%) QA
2 40 (4.52%) Accessibility
3 35 (3.95%) Data Quality
4 20 (2.26%) WCAG
5 15 (1.69%) NIST
6 12 (1.36%) GDPR
7 10 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.79%) SLA
10 6 (0.68%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.68%) NCSC
11 5 (0.56%) FATCA
12 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.11%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 374 (42.26%) Docker
2 20 (2.26%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.47%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.56%) Squid
6 3 (0.34%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) HDFS
7 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.11%) iptables
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 402 (45.42%) Kubernetes
2 235 (26.55%) Ansible
3 143 (16.16%) Grafana
4 125 (14.12%) Prometheus
5 43 (4.86%) Argo
6 39 (4.41%) Puppet
7 28 (3.16%) Progress Chef
8 13 (1.47%) Data Guard
8 13 (1.47%) Kibana
8 13 (1.47%) Oracle RMAN
9 11 (1.24%) Istio
10 10 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (1.02%) Packer
11 9 (1.02%) Podman
12 7 (0.79%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.56%) CASB
13 5 (0.56%) HP Fortify
13 5 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (0.45%) Check_MK
14 4 (0.45%) Salt
Vendors
1 100 (11.30%) Oracle
2 68 (7.68%) Microsoft
3 58 (6.55%) Google
4 47 (5.31%) Splunk
5 43 (4.86%) Talend
6 40 (4.52%) Informatica
7 36 (4.07%) VMware
8 32 (3.62%) Databricks
9 28 (3.16%) Dynatrace
10 26 (2.94%) Red Hat
11 24 (2.71%) ServiceNow
12 23 (2.60%) IBM
13 21 (2.37%) Palo Alto
14 20 (2.26%) F5
15 19 (2.15%) Denodo
16 18 (2.03%) Arista
16 18 (2.03%) Aruba
17 16 (1.81%) Trend Micro
18 15 (1.69%) Veracode
19 11 (1.24%) Cisco