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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 140 170
Rank change year-on-year -2 +30 +81
Contract jobs citing GitLab 919 559 478
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.97% 2.01% 1.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.25% 13.53% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 384 331
10th Percentile £385 £366 £341
25th Percentile £432 £440 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £601 £603 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 7 6
10th Percentile - £61.55 £69.50
25th Percentile £65.00 £63.63 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.44
90th Percentile £95.00 - £74.72
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -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 5,327 4,133 4,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.44% 14.86% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,371 2,855 2,828
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £416 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £630
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 95 169
10th Percentile £34.64 £44.30 £37.39
25th Percentile £52.29 £54.88 £54.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.53 £79.50 £73.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +14 394 £513 -3.30% 333
North of England -43 181 £475 -1.04% 107
Midlands +35 143 £474 -12.27% 43
West Midlands +35 134 £475 -13.64% 35
South East -20 84 £550 +9.89% 62
North East -1 77 £413 -12.70% 26
North West -39 75 £569 +21.32% 56
South West -9 64 £550 -8.33% 80
East of England -16 40 £450 -7.69% 44
Yorkshire -55 40 £550 +10.00% 25
East Midlands -11 9 £405 +50.00% 8
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 82 (8.92%) Confluence
2 60 (6.53%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (6.53%) Apache Spark
3 47 (5.11%) Apache
4 30 (3.26%) Jupyter
5 23 (2.50%) SAS
6 12 (1.31%) Camunda
7 5 (0.54%) nginx
7 5 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.44%) CICS
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.22%) Traefik
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 600 (65.29%) AWS
2 314 (34.17%) Azure
3 301 (32.75%) GitHub
4 212 (23.07%) GitHub Actions
5 157 (17.08%) Azure DevOps
6 153 (16.65%) GCP
7 115 (12.51%) Amazon S3
8 112 (12.19%) Serverless
9 110 (11.97%) Amazon EKS
10 109 (11.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 103 (11.21%) AWS Lambda
12 86 (9.36%) Amazon EC2
13 57 (6.20%) AWS CloudFormation
14 55 (5.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 52 (5.66%) OpenShift
16 46 (5.01%) Amazon ECS
17 40 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
18 39 (4.24%) Amazon SQS
19 37 (4.03%) Datadog
19 37 (4.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.01%) Firewall
2 34 (3.70%) DNS
3 29 (3.16%) BGP
3 29 (3.16%) Ethernet VPN
3 29 (3.16%) Network Security
3 29 (3.16%) VXLAN
4 25 (2.72%) TCP/IP
5 23 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (2.39%) WAN
7 21 (2.29%) SD-WAN
8 20 (2.18%) OSPF
9 19 (2.07%) BIG-IP
9 19 (2.07%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 13 (1.41%) VPN
11 11 (1.20%) HTTP
11 11 (1.20%) WLAN
12 10 (1.09%) 5G
12 10 (1.09%) NX-OS
13 9 (0.98%) 4G
14 8 (0.87%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (8.49%) MongoDB
2 76 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (5.44%) Relational Database
4 43 (4.68%) Amazon Athena
4 43 (4.68%) Amazon RDS
5 38 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
6 37 (4.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 37 (4.03%) NoSQL
7 34 (3.70%) Oracle Database
8 33 (3.59%) DynamoDB
9 32 (3.48%) SQL Server
10 30 (3.26%) Data Lake
10 30 (3.26%) Redis
11 29 (3.16%) MySQL
12 28 (3.05%) Power BI
13 27 (2.94%) Pentaho
14 26 (2.83%) RDBMS
15 24 (2.61%) Big Data
16 14 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
17 13 (1.41%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 371 (40.37%) Jenkins
2 245 (26.66%) Git
3 115 (12.51%) JIRA
4 79 (8.60%) JUnit
5 75 (8.16%) Selenium
6 55 (5.98%) SonarQube
7 52 (5.66%) Cucumber
8 49 (5.33%) Maven
9 38 (4.13%) Mockito
10 37 (4.03%) Gradle
11 35 (3.81%) Gatling
12 33 (3.59%) Bitbucket
13 28 (3.05%) REST Assured
14 26 (2.83%) Artifactory
15 25 (2.72%) Sonatype Nexus
16 17 (1.85%) JMeter
16 17 (1.85%) WebDriver
17 15 (1.63%) Cypress.io
17 15 (1.63%) Postman
17 15 (1.63%) Snyk
General
1 179 (19.48%) Social Skills
2 161 (17.52%) Public Sector
3 102 (11.10%) Finance
4 66 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (7.07%) Banking
6 22 (2.39%) Military
7 19 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 15 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (1.52%) Law
11 11 (1.20%) Aerospace
12 9 (0.98%) Legal
13 6 (0.65%) Back Office
13 6 (0.65%) Police
14 5 (0.54%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.44%) Local Government
15 4 (0.44%) Marketing
15 4 (0.44%) Publishing
15 4 (0.44%) Retail
16 3 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 199 (21.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 162 (17.63%) Senior
3 153 (16.65%) Developer
4 101 (10.99%) AWS Engineer
5 79 (8.60%) Data Engineer
6 64 (6.96%) AWS DevOps
7 59 (6.42%) Lead
8 57 (6.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 49 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 49 (5.33%) Software Engineer
10 46 (5.01%) Java Developer
11 45 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 43 (4.68%) Architect
13 42 (4.57%) Test Engineer
14 36 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
15 35 (3.81%) Software Developer
16 33 (3.59%) Full-Stack Developer
17 30 (3.26%) Java Engineer
18 27 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
18 27 (2.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 467 (50.82%) Terraform
2 141 (15.34%) Kafka
3 123 (13.38%) Spring
4 110 (11.97%) Spring Boot
5 106 (11.53%) REST
6 67 (7.29%) React
7 62 (6.75%) RESTful
8 61 (6.64%) Playwright
9 50 (5.44%) RabbitMQ
10 46 (5.01%) JSON
11 44 (4.79%) PySpark
12 40 (4.35%) Node.js
13 37 (4.03%) HTML
14 36 (3.92%) YAML
15 33 (3.59%) JPA
16 32 (3.48%) CSS
17 28 (3.05%) OpenAPI
18 27 (2.94%) .NET
19 26 (2.83%) OAuth
20 25 (2.72%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 187 (20.35%) Cloud Native
2 56 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (4.79%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.13%) Data Centre
5 36 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 30 (3.26%) Data Structures
7 26 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (2.72%) Onboarding
9 18 (1.96%) AI Agents
10 17 (1.85%) Algorithms
11 15 (1.63%) Public Cloud
12 14 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
13 12 (1.31%) Mainframe
13 12 (1.31%) PKI
13 12 (1.31%) Private Cloud
14 11 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.09%) Replication
15 10 (1.09%) Security Posture
16 9 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
17 7 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 192 (20.89%) Linux
2 45 (4.90%) Windows
3 44 (4.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 41 (4.46%) Unix
5 16 (1.74%) CentOS
6 15 (1.63%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.31%) AIX
7 12 (1.31%) VMS
8 11 (1.20%) zOS
9 10 (1.09%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.22%) Debian
10 2 (0.22%) Rocky
10 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Android
11 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 774 (84.22%) CI/CD
2 551 (59.96%) DevOps
3 447 (48.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 348 (37.87%) Agile
5 328 (35.69%) Containerisation
6 281 (30.58%) Test Automation
7 185 (20.13%) Microservices
8 168 (18.28%) Observability
9 165 (17.95%) Scrum
10 155 (16.87%) Software Engineering
11 134 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 131 (14.25%) Platform Engineering
13 126 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
14 122 (13.28%) AI
15 101 (10.99%) DevSecOps
16 96 (10.45%) Deployment Automation
17 95 (10.34%) Event-Driven
17 95 (10.34%) Migration
18 93 (10.12%) Mentoring
19 89 (9.68%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 411 (44.72%) Python
2 239 (26.01%) Java
3 213 (23.18%) SQL
4 166 (18.06%) Bash
5 85 (9.25%) JavaScript
6 83 (9.03%) PowerShell
7 67 (7.29%) C#
8 52 (5.66%) TypeScript
9 40 (4.35%) Go
10 36 (3.92%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.07%) Bicep
12 15 (1.63%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.52%) C++
14 12 (1.31%) Groovy
15 10 (1.09%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.87%) Scala
17 6 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.65%) R
18 5 (0.54%) Cypher
18 5 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 437 (47.55%) Security Cleared
2 343 (37.32%) SC Cleared
3 80 (8.71%) DV Cleared
4 61 (6.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 52 (5.66%) Degree
6 46 (5.01%) AWS Certification
7 39 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.96%) Azure Certification
9 16 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 15 (1.63%) CISSP
11 14 (1.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 12 (1.31%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.87%) SAFe Agilist
14 6 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.54%) GCFA
15 5 (0.54%) GCIH
15 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (13.38%) QA
2 45 (4.90%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 25 (2.72%) WCAG
5 16 (1.74%) NIST
6 13 (1.41%) GDPR
7 12 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.09%) NCSC
9 9 (0.98%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.76%) SLA
12 6 (0.65%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.54%) FATCA
14 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
15 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
15 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.11%) OpenSCAP
15 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 394 (42.87%) Docker
2 22 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.18%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.41%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.87%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.54%) Squid
8 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.33%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.22%) Firmware
9 2 (0.22%) HDFS
9 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.11%) iptables
10 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 417 (45.38%) Kubernetes
2 249 (27.09%) Ansible
3 152 (16.54%) Grafana
4 133 (14.47%) Prometheus
5 41 (4.46%) Puppet
6 40 (4.35%) Argo
7 30 (3.26%) Progress Chef
8 20 (2.18%) Kibana
9 13 (1.41%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.41%) Oracle RMAN
10 11 (1.20%) Istio
10 11 (1.20%) Packer
11 10 (1.09%) Podman
11 10 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.76%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.54%) CASB
13 5 (0.54%) Cilium
13 5 (0.54%) HP Fortify
13 5 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (0.44%) Suricata
Vendors
1 103 (11.21%) Oracle
2 68 (7.40%) Microsoft
3 65 (7.07%) Google
4 52 (5.66%) Splunk
5 44 (4.79%) Talend
6 42 (4.57%) VMware
7 40 (4.35%) Informatica
8 32 (3.48%) Dynatrace
9 31 (3.37%) Databricks
10 27 (2.94%) Red Hat
11 23 (2.50%) IBM
11 23 (2.50%) ServiceNow
12 21 (2.29%) Palo Alto
13 20 (2.18%) F5
14 19 (2.07%) Denodo
15 18 (1.96%) Arista
15 18 (1.96%) Aruba
16 16 (1.74%) Trend Micro
17 13 (1.41%) Cisco
17 13 (1.41%) Veracode