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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 133 158
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 +115
Contract jobs citing GitLab 956 593 508
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.07% 2.12% 1.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.94% 13.91% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 420 342
10th Percentile £385 £367 £350
25th Percentile £435 £438 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £546
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -3.89% -0.68%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £676 £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% -7.50%
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% +48.59%

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 5,329 4,263 4,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.52% 15.23% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,374 2,952 2,726
10th Percentile £351 £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 £694 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £524
% change year-on-year - -4.58% -4.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 98 162
10th Percentile £22.68 £34.43 £42.70
25th Percentile £51.19 £50.00 £54.94
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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +12 413 £521 -1.65% 327
North of England -41 186 £500 +3.36% 109
Midlands +35 158 £475 -11.05% 44
West Midlands +34 148 £475 -13.64% 35
North East -2 79 £413 -24.31% 28
North West -26 79 £569 +38.78% 64
South East -32 74 £541 +8.14% 57
South West -13 63 £550 -8.33% 74
East of England -26 39 £450 -7.69% 49
Yorkshire -67 39 £550 +10.00% 17
East Midlands -8 10 £405 +50.00% 9
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
1 634 (66.32%) AWS
2 312 (32.64%) Azure
3 301 (31.49%) GitHub
4 207 (21.65%) GitHub Actions
5 157 (16.42%) GCP
6 149 (15.59%) Azure DevOps
7 124 (12.97%) Amazon S3
8 119 (12.45%) Amazon EKS
9 117 (12.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 116 (12.13%) Serverless
11 106 (11.09%) AWS Lambda
12 96 (10.04%) Amazon EC2
13 58 (6.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 57 (5.96%) Amazon ECS
14 57 (5.96%) AWS CloudFormation
14 57 (5.96%) OpenShift
15 42 (4.39%) Amazon SQS
16 39 (4.08%) Amazon EMR
17 36 (3.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 34 (3.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 48 (5.02%) Firewall
2 38 (3.97%) 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 85 (8.89%) MongoDB
2 79 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (5.02%) 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 34 (3.56%) Pentaho
10 33 (3.45%) Oracle Database
11 32 (3.35%) Data Lake
11 32 (3.35%) DynamoDB
11 32 (3.35%) SQL Server
12 29 (3.03%) Redis
13 28 (2.93%) Big Data
13 28 (2.93%) MySQL
13 28 (2.93%) Power BI
14 26 (2.72%) RDBMS
15 17 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
16 13 (1.36%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 380 (39.75%) Jenkins
2 262 (27.41%) 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 36 (3.77%) 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
2 172 (17.99%) Public Sector
3 104 (10.88%) Finance
4 74 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (6.69%) 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%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 208 (21.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 173 (18.10%) Senior
3 168 (17.57%) Developer
4 103 (10.77%) AWS Engineer
5 82 (8.58%) Data Engineer
6 66 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
7 59 (6.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 59 (6.17%) Lead
8 50 (5.23%) Java Developer
9 48 (5.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 47 (4.92%) Test Engineer
11 45 (4.71%) Architect
11 45 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
12 44 (4.60%) Software Engineer
13 40 (4.18%) Java Engineer
14 39 (4.08%) Software Developer
15 37 (3.87%) Full-Stack Developer
16 36 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
17 32 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
18 31 (3.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 491 (51.36%) Terraform
2 148 (15.48%) Kafka
3 137 (14.33%) Spring
4 122 (12.76%) REST
5 117 (12.24%) Spring Boot
6 73 (7.64%) 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
1 193 (20.19%) Cloud Native
2 63 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.08%) 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
1 211 (22.07%) 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
1 804 (84.10%) CI/CD
2 566 (59.21%) DevOps
3 460 (48.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 372 (38.91%) Agile
5 343 (35.88%) Containerisation
6 305 (31.90%) Test Automation
7 203 (21.23%) Microservices
8 183 (19.14%) Observability
8 183 (19.14%) Scrum
9 155 (16.21%) Software Engineering
10 153 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 136 (14.23%) Platform Engineering
12 133 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
13 131 (13.70%) AI
14 106 (11.09%) Deployment Automation
15 105 (10.98%) DevSecOps
16 101 (10.56%) Software Delivery
16 101 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
17 100 (10.46%) Mentoring
18 96 (10.04%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 433 (45.29%) Python
2 261 (27.30%) Java
3 225 (23.54%) SQL
4 170 (17.78%) Bash
5 95 (9.94%) JavaScript
6 82 (8.58%) PowerShell
7 69 (7.22%) 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
1 449 (46.97%) Security Cleared
2 341 (35.67%) SC Cleared
3 96 (10.04%) 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 21 (2.20%) 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
3 151 (15.79%) Grafana
4 132 (13.81%) Prometheus
5 42 (4.39%) Puppet
6 41 (4.29%) Argo
7 35 (3.66%) Kibana
8 28 (2.93%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.36%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.36%) Oracle RMAN
9 13 (1.36%) Packer
10 12 (1.26%) Istio
11 9 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.84%) Kustomize
12 8 (0.84%) Podman
13 5 (0.52%) CASB
13 5 (0.52%) HP Fortify
14 4 (0.42%) Cilium
14 4 (0.42%) Salt
14 4 (0.42%) Suricata
Vendors
1 105 (10.98%) Oracle
2 69 (7.22%) Microsoft
3 68 (7.11%) Google
4 55 (5.75%) Splunk
5 48 (5.02%) Talend
6 45 (4.71%) Informatica
7 40 (4.18%) VMware
8 33 (3.45%) Dynatrace
9 28 (2.93%) Databricks
10 27 (2.82%) ServiceNow
11 24 (2.51%) IBM
12 23 (2.41%) Red Hat
13 22 (2.30%) Palo Alto
14 21 (2.20%) F5
15 18 (1.88%) Arista
15 18 (1.88%) Aruba
16 16 (1.67%) Denodo
16 16 (1.67%) Trend Micro
17 14 (1.46%) Veracode
18 13 (1.36%) Cisco