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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 150 214
Rank change year-on-year +11 +64 +29
Contract jobs citing GitLab 821 474 417
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.92% 1.92% 1.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.19% 13.62% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 296 299
10th Percentile £383 £360 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -7.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £675
90th Percentile £681 £681 £750
UK median daily rate £492 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -5.84% -5.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 8
10th Percentile - - £57.93
25th Percentile £52.50 - £63.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £82.96 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year -21.65% +11.78% +24.11%
75th Percentile - - £75.63
90th Percentile £75.00 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £72.00
% change year-on-year -15.01% +6.22% +81.82%

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 5,070 3,480 4,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.84% 14.09% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,299 2,360 2,985
10th Percentile £350 £336 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £681 £715 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 70 225
10th Percentile £32.24 £27.35 £33.03
25th Percentile £59.13 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.30 £75.15
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +5.26%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -3 343 £525 -0.47% 69
North of England -5 190 £475 -3.46% 31
Midlands +25 131 £459 -8.20% 11
West Midlands +15 121 £461 -12.24% 8
North West -9 87 £525 +6.92% 14
South East -31 66 £550 +9.89% 34
North East +5 59 £413 -12.70% 10
Yorkshire -27 59 £525 +2.44% 7
South West -5 53 £500 -13.04% 24
East of England -4 38 £483 +1.58% 14
East Midlands -18 10 £436 +50.09% 3
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 81 (9.87%) Confluence
2 43 (5.24%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (4.87%) Apache Spark
4 37 (4.51%) Apache
5 35 (4.26%) SAS
6 25 (3.05%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.85%) CICS
8 6 (0.73%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.61%) Camunda
10 4 (0.49%) nginx
11 3 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.24%) CMS
12 2 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 513 (62.48%) AWS
2 264 (32.16%) GitHub
3 247 (30.09%) Azure
4 190 (23.14%) GitHub Actions
5 136 (16.57%) GCP
6 129 (15.71%) Amazon S3
7 120 (14.62%) Serverless
8 107 (13.03%) AWS Lambda
9 104 (12.67%) Amazon EKS
10 91 (11.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 91 (11.08%) Azure DevOps
11 90 (10.96%) Amazon EC2
12 63 (7.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 62 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 49 (5.97%) OpenShift
15 42 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
16 32 (3.90%) Amazon SQS
17 31 (3.78%) Power Platform
18 26 (3.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 26 (3.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.60%) Firewall
2 26 (3.17%) DNS
3 21 (2.56%) BGP
3 21 (2.56%) Network Security
3 21 (2.56%) WAN
4 20 (2.44%) OSPF
4 20 (2.44%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.31%) BIG-IP
5 19 (2.31%) Ethernet VPN
5 19 (2.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 19 (2.31%) SD-WAN
5 19 (2.31%) VXLAN
6 15 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (1.46%) VPN
8 11 (1.34%) WLAN
9 8 (0.97%) HTTP
10 6 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.61%) SSL
12 4 (0.49%) MQTT
12 4 (0.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (6.70%) MongoDB
3 41 (4.99%) Relational Database
4 38 (4.63%) Amazon Athena
5 37 (4.51%) Amazon Redshift
6 36 (4.38%) DynamoDB
7 35 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
8 33 (4.02%) NoSQL
9 30 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
10 29 (3.53%) Pentaho
11 28 (3.41%) Power BI
12 24 (2.92%) MySQL
12 24 (2.92%) Redis
13 23 (2.80%) Oracle Database
14 20 (2.44%) Data Lake
15 19 (2.31%) Big Data
15 19 (2.31%) SQL Server
16 15 (1.83%) DocumentDB
17 14 (1.71%) BigQuery
18 11 (1.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 350 (42.63%) Jenkins
2 189 (23.02%) Git
3 122 (14.86%) JIRA
4 73 (8.89%) Selenium
5 64 (7.80%) JUnit
6 41 (4.99%) Cucumber
7 31 (3.78%) Gradle
8 30 (3.65%) Bitbucket
8 30 (3.65%) REST Assured
9 29 (3.53%) Artifactory
9 29 (3.53%) SonarQube
10 27 (3.29%) JMeter
11 26 (3.17%) Mockito
11 26 (3.17%) Postman
12 23 (2.80%) WebDriver
13 22 (2.68%) Gatling
14 18 (2.19%) CircleCI
15 16 (1.95%) Maven
16 15 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
17 13 (1.58%) Snyk
General
1 173 (21.07%) Social Skills
2 155 (18.88%) Public Sector
3 94 (11.45%) Finance
4 65 (7.92%) Banking
5 43 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.07%) Law
7 17 (2.07%) Military
8 12 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.22%) Aerospace
10 8 (0.97%) Legal
10 8 (0.97%) Retail
11 6 (0.73%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.73%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.61%) Police
13 4 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.49%) Publishing
14 2 (0.24%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 179 (21.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 144 (17.54%) Senior
3 122 (14.86%) Developer
4 89 (10.84%) AWS Engineer
5 83 (10.11%) Data Engineer
6 64 (7.80%) AWS DevOps
7 58 (7.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 58 (7.06%) Lead
8 50 (6.09%) Software Engineer
9 41 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
10 40 (4.87%) Java Developer
11 39 (4.75%) Architect
12 38 (4.63%) Test Engineer
13 34 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
14 32 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 30 (3.65%) Senior DevOps
16 29 (3.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 28 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
18 22 (2.68%) GCP Engineer
18 22 (2.68%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (14.25%) Kafka
2 107 (13.03%) Spring
3 97 (11.81%) Spring Boot
4 91 (11.08%) REST
5 67 (8.16%) RESTful
6 56 (6.82%) React
7 48 (5.85%) Node.js
8 42 (5.12%) Playwright
9 41 (4.99%) PySpark
10 30 (3.65%) OpenTelemetry
11 29 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
12 28 (3.41%) YAML
13 25 (3.05%) AWS CDK
13 25 (3.05%) OAuth
14 24 (2.92%) AngularJS
14 24 (2.92%) LDAP
14 24 (2.92%) RabbitMQ
15 22 (2.68%) pytest
15 22 (2.68%) SOAP
15 22 (2.68%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 155 (18.88%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (6.09%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.75%) Data Centre
5 28 (3.41%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (2.31%) Public Cloud
8 18 (2.19%) Distributed Architecture
9 12 (1.46%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.46%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.22%) Private Cloud
11 9 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.10%) NHS
12 8 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.97%) Mainframe
13 7 (0.85%) DataPower
13 7 (0.85%) PKI
14 6 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 145 (17.66%) Linux
2 45 (5.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 41 (4.99%) Unix
4 35 (4.26%) Windows
5 15 (1.83%) CentOS
6 10 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.97%) zOS
8 4 (0.49%) AIX
8 4 (0.49%) Debian
8 4 (0.49%) Rocky
8 4 (0.49%) VMS
8 4 (0.49%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.24%) Android
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 662 (80.63%) CI/CD
2 471 (57.37%) DevOps
3 335 (40.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 290 (35.32%) Agile
5 273 (33.25%) Containerisation
6 259 (31.55%) Test Automation
7 169 (20.58%) Microservices
8 152 (18.51%) Observability
9 123 (14.98%) Software Engineering
10 121 (14.74%) Scrum
11 110 (13.40%) Platform Engineering
11 110 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
12 104 (12.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 87 (10.60%) DevSecOps
14 85 (10.35%) AI
14 85 (10.35%) ETL
15 72 (8.77%) Migration
15 72 (8.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 70 (8.53%) Event-Driven
17 68 (8.28%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 322 (39.22%) Python
2 211 (25.70%) Java
3 198 (24.12%) SQL
4 115 (14.01%) Bash
5 69 (8.40%) JavaScript
6 59 (7.19%) TypeScript
7 49 (5.97%) PowerShell
8 39 (4.75%) C#
8 39 (4.75%) Shell Script
9 34 (4.14%) Go
10 18 (2.19%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.71%) Bicep
12 12 (1.46%) C++
13 11 (1.34%) Kotlin
13 11 (1.34%) MATLAB
13 11 (1.34%) Scala
14 8 (0.97%) Ruby
15 6 (0.73%) JCL
16 5 (0.61%) Cypher
17 4 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 386 (47.02%) Security Cleared
2 328 (39.95%) SC Cleared
3 38 (4.63%) Degree
4 37 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 37 (4.51%) DV Cleared
5 34 (4.14%) AWS Certification
6 29 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 13 (1.58%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.34%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (1.10%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.37%) CISSP
12 3 (0.37%) GIAC
12 3 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.24%) CCNP
13 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.24%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (9.99%) QA
2 34 (4.14%) Accessibility
3 30 (3.65%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.68%) SLA
5 11 (1.34%) WCAG
6 9 (1.10%) GDPR
6 9 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.97%) NIST
7 8 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.61%) FATCA
10 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.49%) NCSC
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
11 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 340 (41.41%) Docker
2 22 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.73%) Squid
6 5 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.37%) HDFS
8 3 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.37%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.24%) vSphere
10 1 (0.12%) iptables
10 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 383 (46.65%) Terraform
2 347 (42.27%) Kubernetes
3 181 (22.05%) Ansible
4 157 (19.12%) Grafana
5 135 (16.44%) Prometheus
6 50 (6.09%) Argo
7 28 (3.41%) Puppet
8 22 (2.68%) Istio
9 16 (1.95%) Podman
10 14 (1.71%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (1.58%) Progress Chef
12 11 (1.34%) Check_MK
13 9 (1.10%) linkerd
13 9 (1.10%) Packer
13 9 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.85%) Kibana
15 5 (0.61%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.61%) Salt
16 4 (0.49%) Suricata
Vendors
1 97 (11.81%) Oracle
2 54 (6.58%) Splunk
3 51 (6.21%) Microsoft
4 49 (5.97%) Talend
5 40 (4.87%) Informatica
6 38 (4.63%) Google
6 38 (4.63%) Red Hat
7 34 (4.14%) VMware
8 29 (3.53%) ServiceNow
9 26 (3.17%) Databricks
10 23 (2.80%) Denodo
11 22 (2.68%) Dynatrace
12 21 (2.56%) F5
13 20 (2.44%) Palo Alto
14 19 (2.31%) Arista
15 18 (2.19%) Aruba
15 18 (2.19%) Salesforce
16 14 (1.71%) Trend Micro
16 14 (1.71%) Veracode
17 11 (1.34%) IBM