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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 139 237
Rank change year-on-year +3 +98 -48
Contract jobs citing GitLab 750 497 373
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.91% 2.04% 1.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.94% 14.92% 8.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 324 270
10th Percentile £385 £368 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £675
90th Percentile £675 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £492 £530 £558
% change year-on-year -7.17% -4.93% -5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 3 5
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.59 £57.10
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £58.75
Median hourly rate £58.50 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -29.48% +11.45% +65.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £77.50
90th Percentile £78.85 £92.59 -
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £82.96 £62.00
% change year-on-year -28.28% +33.81% +37.78%

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 5,020 3,331 4,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.79% 13.65% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,366 2,229 2,892
10th Percentile £337 £340 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 64 165
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.63 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.14 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +2.00% +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.51 £87.25
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.25
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.40% +1.22%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -11 322 £525 -4.55% 74
North of England -23 165 £487 -7.24% 45
Midlands +5 107 £471 -1.26% 17
West Midlands +4 94 £475 -3.06% 12
North West -8 92 £475 -6.84% 18
South East -32 61 £525 -10.71% 39
Yorkshire -29 57 £500 -13.04% 9
South West +10 56 £523 +14.33% 24
North East -16 24 £450 -12.62% 18
East of England -16 23 £477 +5.89% 8
East Midlands -23 13 £402 +30.73% 5
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 52 (6.93%) Confluence
2 45 (6.00%) SAS
3 23 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.13%) Apache
4 16 (2.13%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.73%) OpenStack
6 9 (1.20%) nginx
7 4 (0.53%) CICS
8 3 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.40%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.27%) Camunda
9 2 (0.27%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.40%) 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
Cloud Services
1 437 (58.27%) AWS
2 234 (31.20%) GitHub
3 219 (29.20%) Azure
4 151 (20.13%) GitHub Actions
5 128 (17.07%) GCP
6 109 (14.53%) Serverless
7 105 (14.00%) Amazon S3
8 95 (12.67%) AWS Lambda
9 89 (11.87%) Amazon EKS
10 77 (10.27%) Amazon EC2
11 76 (10.13%) OpenShift
12 68 (9.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 68 (9.07%) Azure DevOps
13 65 (8.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 52 (6.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 37 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (2.93%) Azure AKS
17 20 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
17 20 (2.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 19 (2.53%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.40%) Firewall
2 24 (3.20%) DNS
3 18 (2.40%) VPN
4 16 (2.13%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.60%) Network Security
6 8 (1.07%) HTTP
7 6 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.53%) BGP
8 4 (0.53%) Multicast
8 4 (0.53%) SAN
9 3 (0.40%) NAS
9 3 (0.40%) OSPF
9 3 (0.40%) SSL
9 3 (0.40%) VSAN
10 2 (0.27%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.27%) DHCP
10 2 (0.27%) IPv6
10 2 (0.27%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.27%) LAN
10 2 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (6.40%) MongoDB
3 43 (5.73%) NoSQL
4 34 (4.53%) Relational Database
5 33 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
6 31 (4.13%) DynamoDB
7 28 (3.73%) MySQL
8 23 (3.07%) Redis
9 22 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
10 21 (2.80%) SQL Server
11 20 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (2.40%) Data Lake
13 17 (2.27%) Big Data
13 17 (2.27%) Power BI
14 16 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
15 14 (1.87%) Oracle Database
16 13 (1.73%) SAS Enterprise Guide
17 11 (1.47%) DocumentDB
18 10 (1.33%) Pentaho
18 10 (1.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 361 (48.13%) Jenkins
2 187 (24.93%) Git
3 105 (14.00%) JIRA
4 83 (11.07%) Selenium
5 77 (10.27%) JUnit
6 42 (5.60%) Cucumber
7 34 (4.53%) Postman
8 28 (3.73%) REST Assured
9 27 (3.60%) Bitbucket
9 27 (3.60%) JMeter
10 26 (3.47%) CircleCI
11 24 (3.20%) Artifactory
12 22 (2.93%) Mockito
13 21 (2.80%) SonarQube
14 20 (2.67%) Gradle
15 17 (2.27%) Gatling
16 16 (2.13%) Maven
17 14 (1.87%) Cypress.io
17 14 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
18 13 (1.73%) IntelliJ
General
1 202 (26.93%) Social Skills
2 122 (16.27%) Public Sector
3 96 (12.80%) Finance
4 66 (8.80%) Banking
5 42 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.47%) Military
8 10 (1.33%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.07%) Investment Banking
10 7 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 7 (0.93%) Law
10 7 (0.93%) Retail
11 6 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.80%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.40%) Legal
14 3 (0.40%) Marketing
14 3 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 152 (20.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 129 (17.20%) Developer
3 103 (13.73%) Senior
4 67 (8.93%) AWS Engineer
5 58 (7.73%) Lead
6 57 (7.60%) Data Engineer
7 56 (7.47%) AWS DevOps
8 52 (6.93%) Software Engineer
9 48 (6.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 42 (5.60%) Architect
11 41 (5.47%) Java Developer
12 33 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
13 32 (4.27%) Test Engineer
14 31 (4.13%) Cloud Engineer
15 27 (3.60%) Senior DevOps
15 27 (3.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 23 (3.07%) Full-Stack Developer
16 23 (3.07%) Java Engineer
17 22 (2.93%) Test Specialist
18 20 (2.67%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (14.80%) Spring
2 109 (14.53%) Kafka
3 108 (14.40%) REST
4 95 (12.67%) Spring Boot
5 67 (8.93%) Node.js
6 59 (7.87%) RESTful
7 57 (7.60%) React
8 45 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
9 42 (5.60%) Playwright
10 39 (5.20%) pytest
11 32 (4.27%) OpenTelemetry
12 30 (4.00%) YAML
13 27 (3.60%) RabbitMQ
14 26 (3.47%) AngularJS
14 26 (3.47%) LDAP
14 26 (3.47%) PySpark
15 24 (3.20%) HTML
15 24 (3.20%) Jest
16 23 (3.07%) OpenID
17 21 (2.80%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 107 (14.27%) Cloud Native
2 47 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.87%) Product Ownership
4 22 (2.93%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.40%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.27%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.47%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.33%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.33%) Private Cloud
10 9 (1.20%) NHS
11 8 (1.07%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.07%) DataPower
11 8 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.93%) Synthetic Data
13 6 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.80%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 134 (17.87%) Linux
2 50 (6.67%) Windows
3 29 (3.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (3.87%) Unix
4 10 (1.33%) CentOS
5 9 (1.20%) Android
5 9 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.07%) VMS
6 8 (1.07%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.80%) zOS
8 3 (0.40%) Debian
8 3 (0.40%) Rocky
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (79.73%) CI/CD
2 421 (56.13%) DevOps
3 276 (36.80%) Agile
4 257 (34.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 254 (33.87%) Containerisation
6 230 (30.67%) Test Automation
7 146 (19.47%) Microservices
8 141 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
9 135 (18.00%) Observability
10 103 (13.73%) Software Engineering
11 96 (12.80%) Scrum
12 95 (12.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 88 (11.73%) Platform Engineering
14 83 (11.07%) Analytics
15 69 (9.20%) TDD
16 67 (8.93%) DevSecOps
17 65 (8.67%) ETL
18 61 (8.13%) Data Pipeline
19 59 (7.87%) Test Strategy
20 58 (7.73%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 308 (41.07%) Python
2 223 (29.73%) Java
3 160 (21.33%) SQL
4 117 (15.60%) Bash
5 85 (11.33%) JavaScript
6 66 (8.80%) PowerShell
6 66 (8.80%) TypeScript
7 39 (5.20%) Shell Script
8 38 (5.07%) Go
9 24 (3.20%) C#
10 20 (2.67%) Kotlin
11 18 (2.40%) Bicep
12 14 (1.87%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.60%) C++
14 11 (1.47%) Scala
15 10 (1.33%) Ruby
16 9 (1.20%) MATLAB
17 8 (1.07%) C
18 7 (0.93%) PHP
19 6 (0.80%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 317 (42.27%) Security Cleared
2 264 (35.20%) SC Cleared
3 34 (4.53%) Degree
4 30 (4.00%) AWS Certification
5 29 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (3.20%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.93%) CISSP
12 6 (0.80%) CISM
12 6 (0.80%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.80%) OCA
12 6 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.53%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.40%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (12.67%) QA
2 38 (5.07%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.40%) GDPR
3 18 (2.40%) SLA
4 15 (2.00%) WCAG
5 13 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.47%) NIST
7 7 (0.93%) NCSC
8 6 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.53%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.27%) HL7
10 2 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 325 (43.33%) Docker
2 24 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.67%) HDFS
6 4 (0.53%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.27%) 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
1 378 (50.40%) Kubernetes
2 316 (42.13%) Terraform
3 162 (21.60%) Grafana
4 155 (20.67%) Ansible
5 136 (18.13%) Prometheus
6 50 (6.67%) Argo
7 23 (3.07%) Puppet
8 22 (2.93%) Istio
9 16 (2.13%) Podman
10 15 (2.00%) Progress Chef
11 13 (1.73%) Kibana
12 12 (1.60%) Red Hat Satellite
13 9 (1.20%) Check_MK
13 9 (1.20%) linkerd
13 9 (1.20%) Packer
14 7 (0.93%) Fluentd
15 6 (0.80%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.80%) Nagios
15 6 (0.80%) Rancher
16 5 (0.67%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 76 (10.13%) Oracle
2 60 (8.00%) Splunk
3 56 (7.47%) Microsoft
4 43 (5.73%) Red Hat
5 36 (4.80%) Google
6 33 (4.40%) VMware
7 31 (4.13%) ServiceNow
8 25 (3.33%) Databricks
9 20 (2.67%) Talend
10 18 (2.40%) Informatica
10 18 (2.40%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.87%) Dynatrace
12 13 (1.73%) IBM
13 11 (1.47%) Veracode
14 9 (1.20%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.93%) AppDynamics
15 7 (0.93%) Denodo
16 6 (0.80%) Cribl.io
17 5 (0.67%) Cisco
17 5 (0.67%) Fortinet