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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 131 229
Rank change year-on-year +16 +98 -39
Contract jobs citing GitLab 768 517 387
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.38% 1.94% 1.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.24% 14.46% 8.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 338 295
10th Percentile £381 £363 £413
25th Percentile £447 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £569 £558
Median % change year-on-year -9.93% +2.06% -7.08%
75th Percentile £588 £684 £645
90th Percentile £675 £735 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £554
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.77% -7.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 5 1
10th Percentile £39.53 £65.60 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £74.00 £58.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £74.44 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +24.07% -22.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £87.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £80.65 £92.00 -
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £74.44 £60.00
% change year-on-year -24.44% +24.07% -7.69%

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 4,728 3,576 4,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.64% 13.42% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,297 2,222 3,123
10th Percentile £336 £335 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.56% -6.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -4.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 67 204
10th Percentile £39.53 £45.71 £44.98
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.63 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.65 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 21 January 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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -1 311 £525 -12.50% 63
North of England +7 222 £488 -3.94% 61
North West -4 98 £420 -16.00% 34
Yorkshire +4 93 £513 -2.38% 22
Midlands +18 90 £525 +8.70% 28
West Midlands +23 82 £525 +7.25% 13
South East -20 53 £500 -2.44% 95
South West +18 49 £523 -22.45% 40
North East -8 37 £488 -7.14% 5
East of England -2 25 £478 +9.26% 37
East Midlands -23 8 £400 +20.57% 15
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 49 (6.38%) Confluence
2 28 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (3.65%) SAS
3 16 (2.08%) Apache
4 15 (1.95%) OpenStack
5 11 (1.43%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.91%) Appian
7 6 (0.78%) nginx
8 4 (0.52%) CMS
8 4 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.39%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.39%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) Documentum
11 1 (0.13%) FileNet
11 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Actimize
3 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.13%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 463 (60.29%) AWS
2 206 (26.82%) GitHub
3 204 (26.56%) Azure
4 155 (20.18%) GCP
5 131 (17.06%) GitHub Actions
6 106 (13.80%) Serverless
7 94 (12.24%) Amazon S3
8 91 (11.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 79 (10.29%) Amazon EC2
10 75 (9.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 75 (9.77%) OpenShift
11 73 (9.51%) Amazon EKS
11 73 (9.51%) AWS Lambda
12 63 (8.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 54 (7.03%) Azure DevOps
14 50 (6.51%) Amazon ECS
15 33 (4.30%) Datadog
16 25 (3.26%) Azure AKS
17 23 (2.99%) Amazon ELB
18 21 (2.73%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 52 (6.77%) Firewall
2 46 (5.99%) DNS
3 40 (5.21%) VPN
4 34 (4.43%) TCP/IP
5 22 (2.86%) Network Security
6 20 (2.60%) SSL
7 6 (0.78%) WAN
8 5 (0.65%) BGP
8 5 (0.65%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.52%) HTTP
9 4 (0.52%) Multicast
9 4 (0.52%) VXLAN
10 3 (0.39%) DHCP
10 3 (0.39%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.39%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.39%) OSPF
10 3 (0.39%) SAN
10 3 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.39%) VSAN
11 2 (0.26%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (10.68%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (8.46%) MongoDB
2 65 (8.46%) NoSQL
3 46 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (2.99%) Data Lake
4 23 (2.99%) DynamoDB
5 22 (2.86%) MySQL
6 21 (2.73%) Redis
7 17 (2.21%) Big Data
7 17 (2.21%) SQL Server
8 16 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
8 16 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (1.43%) Oracle Database
10 11 (1.43%) Power BI
10 11 (1.43%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 8 (1.04%) DocumentDB
12 7 (0.91%) Aerospike
12 7 (0.91%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.91%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 378 (49.22%) Jenkins
2 176 (22.92%) Git
3 108 (14.06%) JIRA
4 71 (9.24%) Selenium
5 57 (7.42%) JUnit
6 46 (5.99%) Cucumber
7 39 (5.08%) Maven
8 32 (4.17%) Artifactory
8 32 (4.17%) Postman
9 30 (3.91%) Cypress.io
10 29 (3.78%) Gradle
10 29 (3.78%) SonarQube
11 27 (3.52%) CircleCI
12 25 (3.26%) Sonatype Nexus
13 21 (2.73%) Liquibase
13 21 (2.73%) REST Assured
14 20 (2.60%) Bitbucket
15 19 (2.47%) JMeter
16 16 (2.08%) Gatling
16 16 (2.08%) Mockito
General
1 211 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 119 (15.49%) Finance
3 115 (14.97%) Public Sector
4 84 (10.94%) Banking
5 51 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.99%) Financial Institution
7 20 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (2.47%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.82%) Military
10 11 (1.43%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.04%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.91%) Games
12 7 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.78%) Retail
14 4 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.52%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.39%) Law
15 3 (0.39%) Local Government
15 3 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 174 (22.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 152 (19.79%) Developer
3 120 (15.63%) Senior
4 76 (9.90%) AWS Engineer
5 61 (7.94%) Lead
6 59 (7.68%) AWS DevOps
7 53 (6.90%) Software Engineer
8 49 (6.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 46 (5.99%) Java Developer
10 40 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
11 36 (4.69%) Data Engineer
11 36 (4.69%) Senior DevOps
11 36 (4.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 36 (4.69%) Test Engineer
12 35 (4.56%) Architect
13 31 (4.04%) Automation Engineer
14 28 (3.65%) GCP Engineer
15 24 (3.13%) Java Engineer
15 24 (3.13%) Senior Developer
16 23 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (17.32%) REST
2 110 (14.32%) Kafka
3 97 (12.63%) Spring
4 92 (11.98%) Spring Boot
5 85 (11.07%) Elastic Stack
6 79 (10.29%) Node.js
7 70 (9.11%) RESTful
8 50 (6.51%) React
9 43 (5.60%) Playwright
10 31 (4.04%) HTML
11 30 (3.91%) OpenID
12 29 (3.78%) JSON
12 29 (3.78%) OpenTelemetry
13 28 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
14 27 (3.52%) pytest
15 24 (3.13%) Jest
15 24 (3.13%) LDAP
16 22 (2.86%) AngularJS
17 19 (2.47%) YAML
18 18 (2.34%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 116 (15.10%) Cloud Native
2 62 (8.07%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.86%) Product Ownership
4 41 (5.34%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 16 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (2.08%) Private Cloud
7 12 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (1.43%) PKI
9 10 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.17%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.17%) Synthetic Data
11 8 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (1.04%) Security Posture
12 7 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (0.78%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 154 (20.05%) Linux
2 49 (6.38%) Windows
3 24 (3.13%) Unix
4 22 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.56%) CentOS
5 12 (1.56%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.17%) Android
6 9 (1.17%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.91%) VMS
8 3 (0.39%) Solaris
8 3 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.13%) Debian
9 1 (0.13%) Rocky
9 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 607 (79.04%) CI/CD
2 483 (62.89%) DevOps
3 297 (38.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 276 (35.94%) Containerisation
5 265 (34.51%) Agile
6 216 (28.13%) Test Automation
7 170 (22.14%) Microservices
8 149 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
9 128 (16.67%) Observability
10 122 (15.89%) Software Engineering
11 83 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 76 (9.90%) DevSecOps
13 75 (9.77%) Analytics
14 74 (9.64%) Infrastructure Automation
14 74 (9.64%) Scrum
15 71 (9.24%) High Availability
16 68 (8.85%) Migration
17 63 (8.20%) Root Cause Analysis
18 59 (7.68%) Data Pipeline
19 58 (7.55%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 355 (46.22%) Python
2 224 (29.17%) Java
3 147 (19.14%) Bash
4 131 (17.06%) SQL
5 96 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 81 (10.55%) Go
7 68 (8.85%) PowerShell
8 62 (8.07%) TypeScript
9 39 (5.08%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.34%) C#
11 16 (2.08%) Kotlin
12 13 (1.69%) PL/SQL
13 10 (1.30%) Ruby
14 8 (1.04%) C
15 7 (0.91%) C++
15 7 (0.91%) Groovy
15 7 (0.91%) Korn
15 7 (0.91%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.91%) Rust
16 6 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 284 (36.98%) Security Cleared
2 223 (29.04%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.03%) Degree
4 48 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (4.69%) DV Cleared
6 29 (3.78%) Master's Degree
7 27 (3.52%) AWS Certification
8 21 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.17%) CISSP
10 9 (1.17%) OCA
10 9 (1.17%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (1.04%) CISM
12 5 (0.65%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.39%) CCNP
14 3 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.39%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (13.80%) QA
2 39 (5.08%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.73%) GDPR
4 18 (2.34%) WCAG
5 15 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.82%) NIST
6 14 (1.82%) SLA
7 13 (1.69%) NCSC
7 13 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.52%) Def Stans
10 3 (0.39%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.26%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 342 (44.53%) Docker
2 19 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 4 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.39%) vSphere
7 2 (0.26%) HDFS
8 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) Squid
8 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 406 (52.86%) Kubernetes
2 371 (48.31%) Terraform
3 224 (29.17%) Ansible
4 188 (24.48%) Grafana
5 147 (19.14%) Prometheus
6 33 (4.30%) Argo
7 23 (2.99%) Puppet
8 20 (2.60%) Istio
8 20 (2.60%) Podman
9 18 (2.34%) Progress Chef
10 16 (2.08%) Kibana
11 13 (1.69%) Packer
12 10 (1.30%) Fluentd
12 10 (1.30%) NetBackup
13 8 (1.04%) linkerd
13 8 (1.04%) Red Hat Satellite
14 7 (0.91%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.91%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.91%) Sysdig
15 6 (0.78%) Rancher
Vendors
1 97 (12.63%) Splunk
2 64 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 56 (7.29%) Oracle
4 53 (6.90%) Red Hat
5 44 (5.73%) Google
6 36 (4.69%) VMware
7 25 (3.26%) ServiceNow
8 23 (2.99%) Dynatrace
9 21 (2.73%) Palo Alto
10 20 (2.60%) CheckPoint
10 20 (2.60%) F5
11 17 (2.21%) Cisco
11 17 (2.21%) Databricks
12 13 (1.69%) Atlassian
13 11 (1.43%) Veritas
14 10 (1.30%) Commvault
14 10 (1.30%) Cribl.io
15 9 (1.17%) IBM
15 9 (1.17%) Veracode
16 6 (0.78%) Okta