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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 133 218
Rank change year-on-year +17 +85 -33
Contract jobs citing GitLab 753 515 392
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.38% 1.93% 1.07%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.22% 14.39% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 336 299
10th Percentile £383 £363 £413
25th Percentile £447 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £569 £558
Median % change year-on-year -9.93% +2.06% -7.08%
75th Percentile £588 £678 £645
90th Percentile £675 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.35% -7.08%
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 4,641 3,578 4,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.65% 13.42% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,225 2,220 3,122
10th Percentile £335 £337 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.53% -5.65%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 66 203
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.16 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.75 £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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -5 305 £525 -12.50% 62
North of England +6 215 £494 -2.71% 76
Yorkshire +11 93 £513 -2.38% 33
North West -6 91 £420 -16.00% 34
Midlands +28 90 £525 +8.70% 44
West Midlands +25 82 £525 +7.25% 18
South East -12 53 £500 -2.44% 118
South West +22 48 £523 -22.45% 62
North East -8 37 £488 -7.14% 9
East of England +4 25 £478 +9.26% 61
East Midlands -18 8 £400 +20.57% 26
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 48 (6.37%) Confluence
2 28 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (3.72%) SAS
3 16 (2.12%) Apache
4 14 (1.86%) OpenStack
5 11 (1.46%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.93%) Appian
7 6 (0.80%) nginx
8 4 (0.53%) CMS
8 4 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.40%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.40%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.13%) Documentum
11 1 (0.13%) FileNet
11 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.27%) 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
1 455 (60.42%) AWS
2 202 (26.83%) GitHub
3 201 (26.69%) Azure
4 155 (20.58%) GCP
5 129 (17.13%) GitHub Actions
6 101 (13.41%) Serverless
7 90 (11.95%) Amazon S3
8 89 (11.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 75 (9.96%) Amazon EC2
9 75 (9.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 74 (9.83%) OpenShift
11 73 (9.69%) Amazon EKS
12 68 (9.03%) AWS Lambda
13 63 (8.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 52 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
15 49 (6.51%) Amazon ECS
16 33 (4.38%) Datadog
17 25 (3.32%) Azure AKS
18 23 (3.05%) Amazon ELB
19 21 (2.79%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 51 (6.77%) Firewall
2 46 (6.11%) DNS
3 40 (5.31%) VPN
4 34 (4.52%) TCP/IP
5 22 (2.92%) Network Security
6 20 (2.66%) SSL
7 5 (0.66%) BGP
7 5 (0.66%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.66%) WAN
8 4 (0.53%) HTTP
8 4 (0.53%) Multicast
8 4 (0.53%) VXLAN
9 3 (0.40%) DHCP
9 3 (0.40%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (0.40%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.40%) OSPF
9 3 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.40%) VSAN
10 2 (0.27%) Calico
10 2 (0.27%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (10.89%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (8.63%) MongoDB
3 64 (8.50%) NoSQL
4 45 (5.98%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (3.05%) Data Lake
6 22 (2.92%) DynamoDB
6 22 (2.92%) MySQL
7 21 (2.79%) Redis
8 17 (2.26%) Big Data
8 17 (2.26%) SQL Server
9 16 (2.12%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (1.46%) Oracle Database
12 11 (1.46%) Power BI
12 11 (1.46%) SAS Enterprise Guide
13 7 (0.93%) Aerospike
13 7 (0.93%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.93%) Spark SQL
14 6 (0.80%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 371 (49.27%) Jenkins
2 170 (22.58%) Git
3 104 (13.81%) JIRA
4 68 (9.03%) Selenium
5 55 (7.30%) JUnit
6 44 (5.84%) Cucumber
7 39 (5.18%) Maven
8 32 (4.25%) Artifactory
9 29 (3.85%) Cypress.io
9 29 (3.85%) Gradle
9 29 (3.85%) Postman
10 28 (3.72%) SonarQube
11 25 (3.32%) CircleCI
11 25 (3.32%) Sonatype Nexus
12 21 (2.79%) Liquibase
13 19 (2.52%) Bitbucket
13 19 (2.52%) JMeter
13 19 (2.52%) REST Assured
14 16 (2.12%) Gatling
15 15 (1.99%) Mockito
General
1 208 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 116 (15.41%) Finance
3 108 (14.34%) Public Sector
4 82 (10.89%) Banking
5 49 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (3.05%) Financial Institution
7 20 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (2.52%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.86%) Military
10 11 (1.46%) Aerospace
11 7 (0.93%) Games
11 7 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (0.93%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.80%) Retail
13 4 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.53%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.40%) Law
14 3 (0.40%) Local Government
14 3 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 172 (22.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 146 (19.39%) Developer
3 120 (15.94%) Senior
4 73 (9.69%) AWS Engineer
5 60 (7.97%) Lead
6 57 (7.57%) AWS DevOps
7 52 (6.91%) Software Engineer
8 47 (6.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 45 (5.98%) Java Developer
10 40 (5.31%) Cloud Engineer
11 36 (4.78%) Senior DevOps
11 36 (4.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 36 (4.78%) Test Engineer
12 35 (4.65%) Architect
12 35 (4.65%) Data Engineer
13 30 (3.98%) Automation Engineer
14 28 (3.72%) GCP Engineer
15 24 (3.19%) Java Engineer
15 24 (3.19%) Senior Developer
16 22 (2.92%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (17.00%) REST
2 109 (14.48%) Kafka
3 93 (12.35%) Spring
4 88 (11.69%) Spring Boot
5 84 (11.16%) Elastic Stack
6 76 (10.09%) Node.js
7 67 (8.90%) RESTful
8 48 (6.37%) React
9 42 (5.58%) Playwright
10 31 (4.12%) HTML
11 30 (3.98%) OpenID
12 29 (3.85%) JSON
12 29 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
13 28 (3.72%) RabbitMQ
14 27 (3.59%) pytest
15 23 (3.05%) LDAP
16 22 (2.92%) Jest
17 21 (2.79%) AngularJS
18 18 (2.39%) Middleware
18 18 (2.39%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 112 (14.87%) Cloud Native
2 62 (8.23%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 39 (5.18%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.12%) Data Centre
7 15 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.99%) Private Cloud
8 12 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (1.46%) PKI
10 10 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.20%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.20%) Synthetic Data
12 8 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (1.06%) Security Posture
13 7 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
14 6 (0.80%) Mobile App
14 6 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 152 (20.19%) Linux
2 48 (6.37%) Windows
3 24 (3.19%) Unix
4 22 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.59%) CentOS
5 12 (1.59%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.20%) Android
6 9 (1.20%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.93%) VMS
8 3 (0.40%) Solaris
8 3 (0.40%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.13%) Debian
9 1 (0.13%) Rocky
9 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 592 (78.62%) CI/CD
2 474 (62.95%) DevOps
3 293 (38.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 270 (35.86%) Containerisation
5 258 (34.26%) Agile
6 209 (27.76%) Test Automation
7 166 (22.05%) Microservices
8 147 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
9 127 (16.87%) Observability
10 121 (16.07%) Software Engineering
11 79 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 76 (10.09%) DevSecOps
13 74 (9.83%) Analytics
13 74 (9.83%) Infrastructure Automation
13 74 (9.83%) Scrum
14 71 (9.43%) High Availability
15 66 (8.76%) Migration
16 61 (8.10%) Root Cause Analysis
17 58 (7.70%) Data Pipeline
18 57 (7.57%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 352 (46.75%) Python
2 216 (28.69%) Java
3 146 (19.39%) Bash
4 129 (17.13%) SQL
5 93 (12.35%) JavaScript
6 81 (10.76%) Go
7 67 (8.90%) PowerShell
8 58 (7.70%) TypeScript
9 39 (5.18%) Shell Script
10 16 (2.12%) C#
10 16 (2.12%) Kotlin
11 13 (1.73%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.33%) Ruby
13 8 (1.06%) C
14 7 (0.93%) C++
14 7 (0.93%) Groovy
14 7 (0.93%) Korn
14 7 (0.93%) MATLAB
14 7 (0.93%) Rust
15 6 (0.80%) Scala
Qualifications
1 276 (36.65%) Security Cleared
2 218 (28.95%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.04%) Degree
4 47 (6.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (4.78%) DV Cleared
6 29 (3.85%) Master's Degree
7 27 (3.59%) AWS Certification
8 20 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.20%) CISSP
10 9 (1.20%) OCA
10 9 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (1.06%) CISM
12 5 (0.66%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.40%) CCNP
14 3 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (13.81%) QA
2 38 (5.05%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.79%) GDPR
4 17 (2.26%) WCAG
5 15 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.86%) NIST
6 14 (1.86%) SLA
7 13 (1.73%) NCSC
7 13 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.53%) Def Stans
10 3 (0.40%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.27%) 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
1 335 (44.49%) Docker
2 18 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.53%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 4 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.40%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.40%) vSphere
7 2 (0.27%) HDFS
8 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) Squid
Systems Management
1 399 (52.99%) Kubernetes
2 367 (48.74%) Terraform
3 224 (29.75%) Ansible
4 186 (24.70%) Grafana
5 147 (19.52%) Prometheus
6 33 (4.38%) Argo
7 23 (3.05%) Puppet
8 20 (2.66%) Istio
8 20 (2.66%) Podman
9 18 (2.39%) Progress Chef
10 15 (1.99%) Kibana
11 13 (1.73%) Packer
12 10 (1.33%) Fluentd
12 10 (1.33%) NetBackup
13 8 (1.06%) linkerd
13 8 (1.06%) Red Hat Satellite
14 7 (0.93%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.93%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.93%) Sysdig
15 6 (0.80%) Rancher
Vendors
1 97 (12.88%) Splunk
2 64 (8.50%) Microsoft
3 56 (7.44%) Oracle
4 52 (6.91%) Red Hat
5 44 (5.84%) Google
6 35 (4.65%) VMware
7 25 (3.32%) ServiceNow
8 23 (3.05%) Dynatrace
9 21 (2.79%) Palo Alto
10 20 (2.66%) CheckPoint
10 20 (2.66%) F5
11 17 (2.26%) Databricks
12 16 (2.12%) Cisco
13 13 (1.73%) Atlassian
14 11 (1.46%) Veritas
15 10 (1.33%) Commvault
15 10 (1.33%) Cribl.io
16 9 (1.20%) IBM
17 8 (1.06%) Veracode
18 6 (0.80%) Okta