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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 147 226
Rank change year-on-year +9 +79 -11
Contract jobs citing GitLab 763 471 388
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.87% 1.93% 1.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.24% 14.12% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 304 284
10th Percentile £385 £373 £366
25th Percentile £425 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £661
90th Percentile £673 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £556
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.62% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 3 6
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.59 £57.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £62.19
Median hourly rate £61.00 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +11.45% +75.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £76.74
90th Percentile £77.50 £92.59 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.75 £82.96 £68.22
% change year-on-year -25.57% +21.61% +72.27%

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 5,008 3,335 4,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.30% 13.68% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,318 2,234 2,923
10th Percentile £342 £344 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £691 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 66 191
10th Percentile £37.15 £27.72 £33.00
25th Percentile £59.19 £50.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -5.38% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.48 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £61.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.76% -5.38% +5.69%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -7 320 £525 -1.64% 68
North of England -8 176 £487 -8.11% 54
Midlands +7 112 £466 +1.25% 32
West Midlands +11 97 £469 -11.68% 20
North West -8 91 £493 -1.50% 22
Yorkshire -20 61 £500 -13.04% 12
South East -25 59 £550 +9.89% 43
South West +2 55 £500 +9.41% 20
North East -3 34 £450 -14.29% 20
East of England -13 28 £478 +7.72% 12
East Midlands -20 15 £414 +42.34% 12
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 59 (7.73%) Confluence
2 29 (3.80%) SAS
3 21 (2.75%) Apache
3 21 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.62%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.70%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.79%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.79%) nginx
7 5 (0.66%) CICS
8 3 (0.39%) Camunda
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Actimize
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 454 (59.50%) AWS
2 248 (32.50%) GitHub
3 235 (30.80%) Azure
4 172 (22.54%) GitHub Actions
5 130 (17.04%) GCP
6 113 (14.81%) Serverless
7 112 (14.68%) Amazon S3
8 100 (13.11%) AWS Lambda
9 93 (12.19%) Amazon EKS
10 81 (10.62%) Azure DevOps
11 76 (9.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 75 (9.83%) Amazon EC2
13 69 (9.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 59 (7.73%) OpenShift
15 55 (7.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 42 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
17 25 (3.28%) Power Platform
18 24 (3.15%) Amazon SQS
19 23 (3.01%) Azure AKS
19 23 (3.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.19%) Firewall
2 24 (3.15%) DNS
3 16 (2.10%) TCP/IP
4 14 (1.83%) VPN
5 13 (1.70%) BGP
6 12 (1.57%) Network Security
6 12 (1.57%) OSPF
7 11 (1.44%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (1.44%) VXLAN
7 11 (1.44%) WAN
8 10 (1.31%) HTTP
9 9 (1.18%) BIG-IP
9 9 (1.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 9 (1.18%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (0.66%) WLAN
13 4 (0.52%) Multicast
13 4 (0.52%) SAN
13 4 (0.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (9.70%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (5.90%) MongoDB
3 39 (5.11%) Relational Database
4 36 (4.72%) DynamoDB
5 34 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
6 32 (4.19%) NoSQL
7 28 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
8 27 (3.54%) Amazon Redshift
9 26 (3.41%) MySQL
9 26 (3.41%) Redis
10 24 (3.15%) Power BI
11 22 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
11 22 (2.88%) SQL Server
12 21 (2.75%) Data Lake
13 20 (2.62%) Pentaho
14 18 (2.36%) Big Data
15 11 (1.44%) DocumentDB
15 11 (1.44%) Oracle Database
16 10 (1.31%) Amazon QuickSight
16 10 (1.31%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 341 (44.69%) Jenkins
2 171 (22.41%) Git
3 108 (14.15%) JIRA
4 65 (8.52%) Selenium
5 62 (8.13%) JUnit
6 41 (5.37%) Cucumber
7 32 (4.19%) Postman
8 29 (3.80%) Gradle
9 27 (3.54%) JMeter
9 27 (3.54%) REST Assured
10 26 (3.41%) Artifactory
11 25 (3.28%) Bitbucket
11 25 (3.28%) CircleCI
12 23 (3.01%) Mockito
13 21 (2.75%) SonarQube
14 18 (2.36%) Gatling
15 15 (1.97%) Maven
16 13 (1.70%) Cypress.io
16 13 (1.70%) IntelliJ
16 13 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 167 (21.89%) Social Skills
2 134 (17.56%) Public Sector
3 95 (12.45%) Finance
4 59 (7.73%) Banking
5 41 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.44%) Military
8 10 (1.31%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.05%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.05%) Law
9 8 (1.05%) Retail
10 6 (0.79%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.66%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.66%) Legal
12 4 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.52%) Police
12 4 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 158 (20.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 134 (17.56%) Developer
3 121 (15.86%) Senior
4 68 (8.91%) AWS Engineer
5 64 (8.39%) Data Engineer
6 58 (7.60%) Software Engineer
7 57 (7.47%) Lead
8 51 (6.68%) AWS DevOps
9 47 (6.16%) Architect
10 46 (6.03%) Java Developer
11 44 (5.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 32 (4.19%) Test Engineer
13 31 (4.06%) Cloud Engineer
13 31 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
14 27 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
14 27 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
14 27 (3.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 22 (2.88%) Java Engineer
16 18 (2.36%) Administrator
16 18 (2.36%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (15.20%) Spring
2 114 (14.94%) Kafka
3 102 (13.37%) Spring Boot
4 93 (12.19%) REST
5 65 (8.52%) RESTful
6 62 (8.13%) Node.js
7 57 (7.47%) React
8 42 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
9 39 (5.11%) Playwright
10 34 (4.46%) OpenTelemetry
11 31 (4.06%) RabbitMQ
12 29 (3.80%) YAML
13 27 (3.54%) LDAP
13 27 (3.54%) PySpark
14 25 (3.28%) Jest
15 24 (3.15%) AngularJS
16 23 (3.01%) OAuth
16 23 (3.01%) OpenID
17 22 (2.88%) pytest
17 22 (2.88%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 124 (16.25%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.95%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.90%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.41%) Data Centre
5 25 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.23%) Public Cloud
8 12 (1.57%) Private Cloud
9 11 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.31%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.31%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (1.18%) NHS
12 8 (1.05%) DataPower
12 8 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (0.66%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 134 (17.56%) Linux
2 48 (6.29%) Windows
3 39 (5.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (4.06%) Unix
5 12 (1.57%) CentOS
6 8 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.05%) VMS
7 7 (0.92%) Android
7 7 (0.92%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.92%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.92%) zOS
8 4 (0.52%) Debian
8 4 (0.52%) Rocky
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 602 (78.90%) CI/CD
2 422 (55.31%) DevOps
3 275 (36.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 269 (35.26%) Agile
5 255 (33.42%) Containerisation
6 233 (30.54%) Test Automation
7 154 (20.18%) Microservices
8 141 (18.48%) Observability
9 122 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
10 121 (15.86%) Software Engineering
11 101 (13.24%) Scrum
12 99 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 96 (12.58%) Platform Engineering
14 79 (10.35%) DevSecOps
15 76 (9.96%) ETL
16 68 (8.91%) TDD
17 67 (8.78%) Migration
18 65 (8.52%) Analytics
19 62 (8.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 59 (7.73%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 291 (38.14%) Python
2 228 (29.88%) Java
3 169 (22.15%) SQL
4 115 (15.07%) Bash
5 86 (11.27%) JavaScript
6 67 (8.78%) TypeScript
7 65 (8.52%) PowerShell
8 38 (4.98%) Go
8 38 (4.98%) Shell Script
9 33 (4.33%) C#
10 19 (2.49%) Kotlin
11 18 (2.36%) Bicep
11 18 (2.36%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.70%) C++
13 11 (1.44%) Scala
14 9 (1.18%) MATLAB
15 8 (1.05%) C
15 8 (1.05%) Ruby
16 7 (0.92%) PHP
17 6 (0.79%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 334 (43.77%) Security Cleared
2 275 (36.04%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.11%) Degree
4 33 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.41%) AWS Certification
5 26 (3.41%) DV Cleared
6 25 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.05%) SAFe Agilist
11 7 (0.92%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.52%) OCA
14 4 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
15 3 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.39%) Master's Degree
16 2 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (11.53%) QA
2 37 (4.85%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.49%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.49%) SLA
4 16 (2.10%) GDPR
5 12 (1.57%) WCAG
6 11 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.92%) NCSC
9 5 (0.66%) FATCA
9 5 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.66%) NIST
10 4 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.26%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 321 (42.07%) Docker
2 22 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.66%) HDFS
6 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.26%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) iptables
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.13%) Squid
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 354 (46.40%) Kubernetes
2 330 (43.25%) Terraform
3 176 (23.07%) Ansible
4 162 (21.23%) Grafana
5 132 (17.30%) Prometheus
6 52 (6.82%) Argo
7 26 (3.41%) Puppet
8 20 (2.62%) Istio
9 17 (2.23%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.83%) Podman
11 12 (1.57%) Kibana
11 12 (1.57%) Red Hat Satellite
12 9 (1.18%) Check_MK
12 9 (1.18%) linkerd
13 8 (1.05%) Packer
14 6 (0.79%) Karpenter
14 6 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.66%) Nagios
15 5 (0.66%) Rancher
16 4 (0.52%) Salt
Vendors
1 82 (10.75%) Oracle
2 56 (7.34%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.34%) Splunk
3 43 (5.64%) Red Hat
4 37 (4.85%) Google
5 33 (4.33%) VMware
6 31 (4.06%) ServiceNow
6 31 (4.06%) Talend
7 26 (3.41%) Informatica
8 25 (3.28%) Databricks
9 20 (2.62%) Dynatrace
10 18 (2.36%) Denodo
10 18 (2.36%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.57%) Arista
12 11 (1.44%) F5
12 11 (1.44%) IBM
12 11 (1.44%) Veracode
13 10 (1.31%) Palo Alto
14 8 (1.05%) Aruba
15 7 (0.92%) AppDynamics