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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 142 220
Rank change year-on-year +6 +78 -4
Contract jobs citing GitLab 746 477 391
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.86% 1.95% 1.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.87% 14.34% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 316 284
10th Percentile £385 £369 £387
25th Percentile £425 £450 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -
75th Percentile £578 £638 £675
90th Percentile £675 £725 £746
UK median daily rate £494 £527 £558
% change year-on-year -6.36% -5.47% -3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 3 6
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.59 £57.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £62.19
Median hourly rate £60.25 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -27.37% +11.45% +65.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £76.74
90th Percentile £77.95 £92.59 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £82.96 £68.22
% change year-on-year -26.47% +21.61% +51.60%

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 5,017 3,327 4,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.49% 13.60% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,350 2,236 2,876
10th Percentile £340 £342 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -2.73%
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 213 61 175
10th Percentile £37.71 £27.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £59.25 £52.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +6.25%
75th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £84.00
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% - +1.63%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -8 320 £525 -2.78% 75
North of England -20 171 £487 -7.24% 60
Midlands +5 100 £466 +1.25% 28
North West -1 92 £475 -5.00% 33
West Midlands +2 86 £469 -11.68% 19
Yorkshire -32 59 £500 -13.04% 7
South East -44 59 £550 +4.71% 44
South West +2 56 £510 +11.60% 32
North East -13 30 £450 -12.62% 20
East of England -13 23 £478 +6.22% 14
East Midlands -26 14 £402 +38.38% 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 57 (7.64%) Confluence
2 29 (3.89%) SAS
3 23 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.41%) Apache Spark
5 17 (2.28%) Apache
6 13 (1.74%) OpenStack
7 10 (1.34%) nginx
8 5 (0.67%) CICS
9 3 (0.40%) Camunda
9 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 2 (0.27%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
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
2 1 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 446 (59.79%) AWS
2 239 (32.04%) GitHub
3 227 (30.43%) Azure
4 157 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
5 128 (17.16%) GCP
6 113 (15.15%) Serverless
7 108 (14.48%) Amazon S3
8 100 (13.40%) AWS Lambda
9 90 (12.06%) Amazon EKS
10 76 (10.19%) Amazon EC2
11 73 (9.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 71 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
13 70 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
14 64 (8.58%) OpenShift
15 54 (7.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 41 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
17 23 (3.08%) Power Platform
18 22 (2.95%) Amazon SQS
19 21 (2.82%) Azure AKS
19 21 (2.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.96%) Firewall
2 25 (3.35%) DNS
3 18 (2.41%) VPN
4 17 (2.28%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.61%) Network Security
6 10 (1.34%) HTTP
7 8 (1.07%) BGP
8 7 (0.94%) OSPF
9 6 (0.80%) Ethernet VPN
9 6 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
9 6 (0.80%) VXLAN
9 6 (0.80%) WAN
10 4 (0.54%) BIG-IP
10 4 (0.54%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 4 (0.54%) Multicast
10 4 (0.54%) SAN
10 4 (0.54%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.54%) SSL
11 3 (0.40%) NAS
11 3 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (10.46%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (5.90%) MongoDB
3 40 (5.36%) NoSQL
4 36 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
5 35 (4.69%) DynamoDB
5 35 (4.69%) Relational Database
6 26 (3.49%) Amazon Athena
6 26 (3.49%) MySQL
7 25 (3.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 24 (3.22%) Redis
9 22 (2.95%) Data Lake
9 22 (2.95%) SQL Server
10 21 (2.82%) Power BI
11 20 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
12 19 (2.55%) Pentaho
13 18 (2.41%) Big Data
14 11 (1.47%) DocumentDB
15 10 (1.34%) Amazon QuickSight
15 10 (1.34%) Spark SQL
16 9 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 340 (45.58%) Jenkins
2 169 (22.65%) Git
3 108 (14.48%) JIRA
4 64 (8.58%) Selenium
5 61 (8.18%) JUnit
6 40 (5.36%) Cucumber
7 33 (4.42%) Postman
8 30 (4.02%) Bitbucket
9 27 (3.62%) JMeter
9 27 (3.62%) REST Assured
10 25 (3.35%) CircleCI
11 22 (2.95%) Gradle
12 21 (2.82%) Mockito
12 21 (2.82%) SonarQube
13 20 (2.68%) Artifactory
14 17 (2.28%) Gatling
15 15 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
16 14 (1.88%) Maven
17 13 (1.74%) Cypress.io
17 13 (1.74%) IntelliJ
General
1 179 (23.99%) Social Skills
2 125 (16.76%) Public Sector
3 94 (12.60%) Finance
4 61 (8.18%) Banking
5 42 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.47%) Military
8 10 (1.34%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.07%) Retail
10 7 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.94%) Investment Banking
10 7 (0.94%) Law
11 6 (0.80%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.80%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.54%) Legal
13 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.40%) Local Government
14 3 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 154 (20.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 130 (17.43%) Developer
3 107 (14.34%) Senior
4 71 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
5 63 (8.45%) Data Engineer
6 57 (7.64%) Lead
7 56 (7.51%) Software Engineer
8 55 (7.37%) AWS DevOps
9 47 (6.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 43 (5.76%) Java Developer
11 42 (5.63%) Architect
12 33 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
13 31 (4.16%) Cloud Engineer
13 31 (4.16%) Test Engineer
14 25 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
14 25 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
14 25 (3.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 21 (2.82%) Java Engineer
16 18 (2.41%) Administrator
16 18 (2.41%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (14.75%) Spring
2 108 (14.48%) Kafka
3 95 (12.73%) Spring Boot
4 90 (12.06%) REST
5 65 (8.71%) Node.js
6 61 (8.18%) RESTful
7 55 (7.37%) React
8 42 (5.63%) Elastic Stack
9 39 (5.23%) Playwright
10 32 (4.29%) OpenTelemetry
11 28 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
11 28 (3.75%) YAML
12 27 (3.62%) LDAP
13 26 (3.49%) AngularJS
14 25 (3.35%) Jest
15 24 (3.22%) PySpark
16 23 (3.08%) OpenID
16 23 (3.08%) pytest
17 21 (2.82%) HTML
17 21 (2.82%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 112 (15.01%) Cloud Native
2 49 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.90%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.82%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.28%) Public Cloud
8 14 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.47%) Management Information System
9 11 (1.47%) Private Cloud
10 10 (1.34%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.34%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (1.21%) NHS
12 8 (1.07%) DataPower
12 8 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.67%) Hedge funds
14 5 (0.67%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 132 (17.69%) Linux
2 48 (6.43%) Windows
3 34 (4.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 28 (3.75%) Unix
5 11 (1.47%) CentOS
6 8 (1.07%) Android
6 8 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.07%) VMS
6 8 (1.07%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.94%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.94%) zOS
8 4 (0.54%) Debian
8 4 (0.54%) 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
1 588 (78.82%) CI/CD
2 412 (55.23%) DevOps
3 263 (35.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 257 (34.45%) Agile
5 247 (33.11%) Containerisation
6 218 (29.22%) Test Automation
7 144 (19.30%) Microservices
8 139 (18.63%) Observability
9 121 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
10 114 (15.28%) Software Engineering
11 98 (13.14%) Scrum
12 95 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 92 (12.33%) Platform Engineering
14 73 (9.79%) DevSecOps
14 73 (9.79%) ETL
15 70 (9.38%) Analytics
16 67 (8.98%) TDD
17 60 (8.04%) Migration
18 59 (7.91%) AI
19 57 (7.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 292 (39.14%) Python
2 221 (29.62%) Java
3 162 (21.72%) SQL
4 116 (15.55%) Bash
5 84 (11.26%) JavaScript
6 65 (8.71%) TypeScript
7 64 (8.58%) PowerShell
8 37 (4.96%) Shell Script
9 36 (4.83%) Go
10 30 (4.02%) C#
11 19 (2.55%) Kotlin
12 18 (2.41%) Bicep
13 14 (1.88%) C++
14 12 (1.61%) PL/SQL
15 11 (1.47%) Scala
16 10 (1.34%) Ruby
17 9 (1.21%) MATLAB
18 8 (1.07%) C
19 7 (0.94%) PHP
20 6 (0.80%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 316 (42.36%) Security Cleared
2 260 (34.85%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.83%) Degree
4 31 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.89%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (3.35%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.01%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (0.94%) CISSP
11 6 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (0.80%) CISM
11 6 (0.80%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
12 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.54%) OCA
12 4 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (11.80%) QA
2 36 (4.83%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.41%) SLA
5 16 (2.14%) GDPR
6 13 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (1.61%) WCAG
8 11 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.47%) NIST
9 7 (0.94%) NCSC
9 7 (0.94%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.67%) FATCA
11 4 (0.54%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.27%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.13%) GRC
13 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.13%) MiFID
13 1 (0.13%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 318 (42.63%) Docker
2 24 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.67%) HDFS
6 4 (0.54%) 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
1 361 (48.39%) Kubernetes
2 321 (43.03%) Terraform
3 160 (21.45%) Ansible
3 160 (21.45%) Grafana
4 131 (17.56%) Prometheus
5 50 (6.70%) Argo
6 24 (3.22%) Puppet
7 20 (2.68%) Istio
8 16 (2.14%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.88%) Podman
10 12 (1.61%) Red Hat Satellite
11 11 (1.47%) Kibana
12 9 (1.21%) Check_MK
12 9 (1.21%) linkerd
13 8 (1.07%) Packer
14 7 (0.94%) Fluentd
15 6 (0.80%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.80%) Nagios
15 6 (0.80%) Rancher
15 6 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 75 (10.05%) Oracle
2 61 (8.18%) Splunk
3 56 (7.51%) Microsoft
4 41 (5.50%) Red Hat
5 37 (4.96%) Google
6 32 (4.29%) VMware
7 31 (4.16%) ServiceNow
8 25 (3.35%) Databricks
8 25 (3.35%) Informatica
8 25 (3.35%) Talend
9 19 (2.55%) Dynatrace
10 18 (2.41%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.47%) Denodo
11 11 (1.47%) IBM
11 11 (1.47%) Veracode
12 8 (1.07%) Arista
12 8 (1.07%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.94%) AppDynamics
14 6 (0.80%) Cribl.io
14 6 (0.80%) F5