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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 134 161
Rank change year-on-year -2 +27 +112
Contract jobs citing GitLab 956 587 505
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.05% 2.10% 1.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.87% 13.83% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 413 340
10th Percentile £385 £364 £350
25th Percentile £435 £438 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £546
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -3.89% -0.68%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £679 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 7 7
10th Percentile £61.37 £61.55 £70.40
25th Percentile £65.00 £63.63 -
Median hourly rate £66.61 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.72
90th Percentile £95.00 - £80.00
UK median hourly rate £66.61 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -0.59% -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 5,349 4,243 4,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.49% 15.18% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,392 2,939 2,709
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £635
90th Percentile £700 £695 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 98 163
10th Percentile £22.68 £34.43 £42.90
25th Percentile £51.19 £50.00 £55.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.12 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £75.75 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +17 413 £525 -0.94% 341
North of England -39 185 £500 +4.17% 117
Midlands +44 157 £475 -12.04% 50
West Midlands +36 147 £475 -13.64% 39
North East 0 79 £413 -24.31% 29
North West -21 79 £569 +36.29% 70
South East -34 75 £540 +7.89% 73
South West -17 63 £550 -8.33% 81
East of England -15 40 £450 -7.69% 47
Yorkshire -64 38 £550 +10.00% 18
East Midlands -13 10 £405 +50.00% 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 (9.10%) Confluence
2 67 (7.01%) Apache Spark
3 57 (5.96%) Apache Airflow
4 52 (5.44%) Apache
5 29 (3.03%) Jupyter
6 15 (1.57%) SAS
7 13 (1.36%) nginx
8 12 (1.26%) Camunda
9 5 (0.52%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.31%) CICS
10 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.21%) Traefik
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.10%) CMS
12 1 (0.10%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.42%) Trello
2 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.10%) CATIA
2 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Simulink
2 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 635 (66.42%) AWS
2 310 (32.43%) Azure
3 300 (31.38%) GitHub
4 206 (21.55%) GitHub Actions
5 155 (16.21%) GCP
6 149 (15.59%) Azure DevOps
7 126 (13.18%) Amazon S3
8 120 (12.55%) Amazon EKS
9 117 (12.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 117 (12.24%) Serverless
10 107 (11.19%) AWS Lambda
11 97 (10.15%) Amazon EC2
12 58 (6.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 58 (6.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 57 (5.96%) Amazon ECS
14 56 (5.86%) OpenShift
15 42 (4.39%) Amazon SQS
16 39 (4.08%) Amazon EMR
17 36 (3.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 35 (3.66%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 48 (5.02%) Firewall
2 37 (3.87%) DNS
3 31 (3.24%) Network Security
4 30 (3.14%) BGP
4 30 (3.14%) Ethernet VPN
4 30 (3.14%) VXLAN
5 29 (3.03%) TCP/IP
6 28 (2.93%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (2.30%) WAN
8 21 (2.20%) SD-WAN
9 20 (2.09%) BIG-IP
9 20 (2.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 20 (2.09%) OSPF
10 17 (1.78%) VPN
11 13 (1.36%) 5G
11 13 (1.36%) Broadband
11 13 (1.36%) IPv4
11 13 (1.36%) IPv6
12 12 (1.26%) 4G
13 11 (1.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (9.00%) MongoDB
2 81 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
4 46 (4.81%) Relational Database
5 44 (4.60%) Amazon Athena
6 42 (4.39%) NoSQL
7 37 (3.87%) Amazon Redshift
8 36 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
9 33 (3.45%) Oracle Database
10 32 (3.35%) Data Lake
10 32 (3.35%) DynamoDB
10 32 (3.35%) Pentaho
10 32 (3.35%) SQL Server
11 30 (3.14%) Redis
12 28 (2.93%) Big Data
12 28 (2.93%) MySQL
12 28 (2.93%) Power BI
13 26 (2.72%) RDBMS
14 17 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.36%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 379 (39.64%) Jenkins
2 261 (27.30%) Git
3 124 (12.97%) JIRA
4 85 (8.89%) JUnit
5 79 (8.26%) Selenium
6 63 (6.59%) Cucumber
7 59 (6.17%) SonarQube
8 57 (5.96%) Maven
9 42 (4.39%) Gatling
10 41 (4.29%) Mockito
11 37 (3.87%) Gradle
12 32 (3.35%) Bitbucket
13 30 (3.14%) REST Assured
13 30 (3.14%) Sonatype Nexus
14 28 (2.93%) Artifactory
15 18 (1.88%) Cypress.io
16 17 (1.78%) JMeter
16 17 (1.78%) WebDriver
17 15 (1.57%) Postman
18 13 (1.36%) Snyk
General
1 192 (20.08%) Social Skills
2 173 (18.10%) Public Sector
3 104 (10.88%) Finance
4 75 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (6.80%) Banking
6 25 (2.62%) Military
7 24 (2.51%) Telecoms
8 20 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.57%) Law
10 12 (1.26%) Aerospace
11 9 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (0.94%) Legal
11 9 (0.94%) Police
12 6 (0.63%) Back Office
13 5 (0.52%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.52%) Publishing
14 4 (0.42%) Front Office
14 4 (0.42%) Local Government
14 4 (0.42%) Retail
15 3 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 209 (21.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 174 (18.20%) Senior
3 167 (17.47%) Developer
4 104 (10.88%) AWS Engineer
5 80 (8.37%) Data Engineer
6 67 (7.01%) AWS DevOps
7 60 (6.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 59 (6.17%) Lead
9 51 (5.33%) Java Developer
10 48 (5.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 47 (4.92%) Test Engineer
12 46 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
13 45 (4.71%) Architect
14 44 (4.60%) Software Engineer
15 40 (4.18%) Java Engineer
16 39 (4.08%) Software Developer
17 37 (3.87%) Full-Stack Developer
17 37 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
18 33 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
19 32 (3.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 492 (51.46%) Terraform
2 148 (15.48%) Kafka
3 138 (14.44%) Spring
4 122 (12.76%) REST
5 118 (12.34%) Spring Boot
6 72 (7.53%) React
7 68 (7.11%) Playwright
8 61 (6.38%) RESTful
9 50 (5.23%) JSON
10 49 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
11 41 (4.29%) Node.js
11 41 (4.29%) PySpark
12 36 (3.77%) HTML
13 35 (3.66%) JPA
14 34 (3.56%) .NET
15 33 (3.45%) YAML
16 32 (3.35%) CSS
17 31 (3.24%) OpenAPI
18 29 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
18 29 (3.03%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 192 (20.08%) Cloud Native
2 63 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 38 (3.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 37 (3.87%) Data Centre
6 33 (3.45%) Data Structures
7 28 (2.93%) Onboarding
8 25 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.99%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.67%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.67%) PKI
10 16 (1.67%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
12 12 (1.26%) Private Cloud
12 12 (1.26%) Replication
12 12 (1.26%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.15%) Mainframe
14 9 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 212 (22.18%) Linux
2 53 (5.54%) Windows
3 42 (4.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 39 (4.08%) Unix
5 16 (1.67%) Ubuntu
6 15 (1.57%) CentOS
7 14 (1.46%) VMS
8 12 (1.26%) AIX
9 10 (1.05%) Windows Server
9 10 (1.05%) zOS
10 2 (0.21%) Debian
10 2 (0.21%) Rocky
10 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.10%) Android
11 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 806 (84.31%) CI/CD
2 566 (59.21%) DevOps
3 460 (48.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 373 (39.02%) Agile
5 343 (35.88%) Containerisation
6 304 (31.80%) Test Automation
7 204 (21.34%) Microservices
8 185 (19.35%) Observability
9 183 (19.14%) Scrum
10 155 (16.21%) Software Engineering
11 154 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 136 (14.23%) Platform Engineering
13 133 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
14 131 (13.70%) AI
15 106 (11.09%) Deployment Automation
16 105 (10.98%) DevSecOps
17 101 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
18 100 (10.46%) Software Delivery
19 98 (10.25%) Mentoring
20 95 (9.94%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 432 (45.19%) Python
2 261 (27.30%) Java
3 223 (23.33%) SQL
4 169 (17.68%) Bash
5 95 (9.94%) JavaScript
6 82 (8.58%) PowerShell
7 68 (7.11%) C#
8 52 (5.44%) TypeScript
9 42 (4.39%) Go
10 40 (4.18%) Shell Script
11 19 (1.99%) Groovy
12 16 (1.67%) Bicep
13 14 (1.46%) PL/SQL
14 13 (1.36%) C++
15 8 (0.84%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.84%) Scala
16 6 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.63%) R
17 5 (0.52%) Cypher
17 5 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 448 (46.86%) Security Cleared
2 341 (35.67%) SC Cleared
3 95 (9.94%) DV Cleared
4 81 (8.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 55 (5.75%) Degree
6 50 (5.23%) AWS Certification
7 38 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 14 (1.46%) CISSP
11 12 (1.26%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.15%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.84%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.52%) GCFA
16 5 (0.52%) GCIH
17 4 (0.42%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (14.12%) QA
2 52 (5.44%) Accessibility
3 32 (3.35%) Data Quality
4 31 (3.24%) WCAG
5 17 (1.78%) NIST
6 13 (1.36%) GDPR
6 13 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.05%) NCSC
8 9 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.63%) SLA
11 5 (0.52%) FATCA
11 5 (0.52%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.10%) GRC
13 1 (0.10%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.10%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 415 (43.41%) Docker
2 22 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.09%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.36%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.84%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.52%) Squid
8 4 (0.42%) Firmware
8 4 (0.42%) HDFS
8 4 (0.42%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 437 (45.71%) Kubernetes
2 258 (26.99%) Ansible
3 153 (16.00%) Grafana
4 134 (14.02%) Prometheus
5 42 (4.39%) Argo
5 42 (4.39%) Puppet
6 35 (3.66%) Kibana
7 28 (2.93%) Progress Chef
8 13 (1.36%) Data Guard
8 13 (1.36%) Oracle RMAN
8 13 (1.36%) Packer
9 12 (1.26%) Istio
10 9 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.84%) Podman
12 7 (0.73%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.52%) CASB
13 5 (0.52%) Cilium
13 5 (0.52%) HP Fortify
14 4 (0.42%) Salt
14 4 (0.42%) Suricata
Vendors
1 104 (10.88%) Oracle
2 68 (7.11%) Google
2 68 (7.11%) Microsoft
3 56 (5.86%) Splunk
4 46 (4.81%) Talend
5 43 (4.50%) Informatica
6 41 (4.29%) VMware
7 33 (3.45%) Dynatrace
8 28 (2.93%) Databricks
9 27 (2.82%) ServiceNow
10 24 (2.51%) IBM
11 23 (2.41%) Red Hat
12 22 (2.30%) Palo Alto
13 21 (2.20%) F5
14 18 (1.88%) Arista
14 18 (1.88%) Aruba
15 16 (1.67%) Denodo
15 16 (1.67%) Trend Micro
16 14 (1.46%) Veracode
17 13 (1.36%) Cisco