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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 149 196
Rank change year-on-year 0 +47 +52
Contract jobs citing GitLab 864 530 427
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.89% 1.92% 1.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.24% 13.24% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 355 293
10th Percentile £376 £363 £320
25th Percentile £427 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £543
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -4.20% -3.77%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 8
10th Percentile - £61.60 £62.30
25th Percentile - £64.56 £70.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.58
90th Percentile - £71.79 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -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 5,320 4,002 4,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.67% 14.48% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,386 2,765 2,846
10th Percentile £353 £319 £352
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 94 194
10th Percentile £35.25 £40.68 £34.02
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.02 £54.09
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.99 £73.93
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - +4.00%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +15 370 £525 - 148
North of England -21 181 £500 +2.30% 45
Midlands +36 137 £469 -10.11% 20
West Midlands +28 130 £469 -12.42% 14
South East -37 79 £550 +3.53% 31
North East +7 76 £413 -12.70% 13
North West -26 73 £575 +17.35% 25
South West -25 57 £550 -8.33% 38
Yorkshire -41 45 £550 +10.00% 7
East of England -14 33 £475 - 15
East Midlands -19 7 £459 +69.81% 6
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 81 (9.38%) Confluence
2 60 (6.94%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (6.13%) Apache Spark
4 45 (5.21%) Apache
5 31 (3.59%) SAS
6 29 (3.36%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.69%) Camunda
7 6 (0.69%) CICS
7 6 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.35%) nginx
8 3 (0.35%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.23%) CMS
9 2 (0.23%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Trello
2 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 581 (67.25%) AWS
2 301 (34.84%) GitHub
3 296 (34.26%) Azure
4 223 (25.81%) GitHub Actions
5 155 (17.94%) GCP
6 140 (16.20%) Azure DevOps
7 117 (13.54%) Amazon S3
8 114 (13.19%) Amazon EKS
9 113 (13.08%) Serverless
10 103 (11.92%) AWS Lambda
11 99 (11.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 82 (9.49%) Amazon EC2
13 61 (7.06%) AWS CloudFormation
14 57 (6.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 44 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
16 41 (4.75%) OpenShift
17 39 (4.51%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (4.05%) Datadog
19 34 (3.94%) OCI
20 31 (3.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 48 (5.56%) Firewall
2 30 (3.47%) DNS
3 26 (3.01%) BGP
4 25 (2.89%) Network Security
5 24 (2.78%) Ethernet VPN
5 24 (2.78%) VXLAN
6 23 (2.66%) WAN
7 22 (2.55%) SD-WAN
8 21 (2.43%) OSPF
9 19 (2.20%) BIG-IP
9 19 (2.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 19 (2.20%) TCP/IP
10 15 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (1.50%) VPN
12 11 (1.27%) HTTP
12 11 (1.27%) WLAN
13 7 (0.81%) SSL
14 6 (0.69%) DHCP
15 5 (0.58%) NX-OS
15 5 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (8.22%) MongoDB
3 49 (5.67%) Relational Database
4 40 (4.63%) Amazon Athena
4 40 (4.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 36 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
6 35 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
7 34 (3.94%) DynamoDB
8 33 (3.82%) NoSQL
8 33 (3.82%) Pentaho
9 30 (3.47%) SQL Server
10 28 (3.24%) Power BI
11 27 (3.13%) Oracle Database
12 26 (3.01%) Redis
13 24 (2.78%) Data Lake
13 24 (2.78%) MySQL
13 24 (2.78%) RDBMS
14 22 (2.55%) Big Data
15 13 (1.50%) Oracle Exadata
16 11 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 366 (42.36%) Jenkins
2 211 (24.42%) Git
3 103 (11.92%) JIRA
4 65 (7.52%) Selenium
5 63 (7.29%) JUnit
6 42 (4.86%) Cucumber
7 38 (4.40%) Bitbucket
8 37 (4.28%) SonarQube
9 29 (3.36%) Artifactory
9 29 (3.36%) Gradle
10 27 (3.13%) Maven
11 25 (2.89%) Gatling
12 24 (2.78%) Mockito
13 22 (2.55%) JMeter
14 21 (2.43%) REST Assured
14 21 (2.43%) WebDriver
15 19 (2.20%) Postman
15 19 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
16 16 (1.85%) Snyk
17 11 (1.27%) Cypress.io
General
1 170 (19.68%) Social Skills
2 149 (17.25%) Public Sector
3 97 (11.23%) Finance
4 61 (7.06%) Banking
5 52 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.20%) Military
7 16 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.62%) Law
9 13 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.27%) Legal
11 10 (1.16%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.69%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.58%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.58%) Police
13 5 (0.58%) Publishing
13 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.46%) Marketing
14 4 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.46%) Retail
15 3 (0.35%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 183 (21.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 168 (19.44%) Senior
3 132 (15.28%) Developer
4 103 (11.92%) AWS Engineer
5 86 (9.95%) Data Engineer
6 67 (7.75%) AWS DevOps
7 63 (7.29%) Lead
8 60 (6.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 56 (6.48%) Software Engineer
10 45 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (4.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 39 (4.51%) Java Developer
13 37 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
14 36 (4.17%) Test Engineer
15 32 (3.70%) Architect
16 31 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
17 30 (3.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 26 (3.01%) Full-Stack Developer
18 26 (3.01%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 26 (3.01%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (14.58%) Kafka
2 99 (11.46%) Spring
3 95 (11.00%) REST
4 87 (10.07%) Spring Boot
5 54 (6.25%) React
6 52 (6.02%) RESTful
7 43 (4.98%) PySpark
8 42 (4.86%) Node.js
9 41 (4.75%) Playwright
10 39 (4.51%) JSON
11 36 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
12 31 (3.59%) YAML
13 26 (3.01%) WireMock
14 25 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
15 23 (2.66%) .NET
15 23 (2.66%) HTML
16 22 (2.55%) Keycloak
17 21 (2.43%) AWS CDK
17 21 (2.43%) OAuth
17 21 (2.43%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 172 (19.91%) Cloud Native
2 61 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.44%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 32 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (3.01%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (2.55%) Data Structures
8 18 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
9 17 (1.97%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.74%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.62%) Mainframe
12 13 (1.50%) AI Agents
13 10 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.04%) Private Cloud
15 8 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
16 7 (0.81%) PKI
17 6 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
17 6 (0.69%) NHS
17 6 (0.69%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 166 (19.21%) Linux
2 42 (4.86%) Unix
3 38 (4.40%) Windows
4 37 (4.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.50%) Ubuntu
5 13 (1.50%) zOS
6 12 (1.39%) AIX
7 10 (1.16%) CentOS
8 7 (0.81%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.46%) Debian
9 4 (0.46%) Rocky
9 4 (0.46%) VMS
10 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.23%) Android
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 711 (82.29%) CI/CD
2 509 (58.91%) DevOps
3 390 (45.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 317 (36.69%) Agile
5 303 (35.07%) Containerisation
6 262 (30.32%) Test Automation
7 163 (18.87%) Microservices
8 155 (17.94%) Observability
9 149 (17.25%) Software Engineering
10 137 (15.86%) Scrum
11 127 (14.70%) Platform Engineering
12 122 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 115 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
14 108 (12.50%) AI
15 98 (11.34%) DevSecOps
16 89 (10.30%) ETL
17 84 (9.72%) Event-Driven
18 83 (9.61%) Migration
19 79 (9.14%) Deployment Automation
19 79 (9.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 371 (42.94%) Python
2 201 (23.26%) SQL
3 200 (23.15%) Java
4 156 (18.06%) Bash
5 80 (9.26%) PowerShell
6 74 (8.56%) JavaScript
7 59 (6.83%) C#
8 56 (6.48%) TypeScript
9 31 (3.59%) Go
10 26 (3.01%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.20%) Bicep
12 18 (2.08%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.62%) C++
14 9 (1.04%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.93%) Groovy
15 8 (0.93%) Scala
16 6 (0.69%) JCL
16 6 (0.69%) R
17 5 (0.58%) Cypher
17 5 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 412 (47.69%) Security Cleared
2 340 (39.35%) SC Cleared
3 59 (6.83%) DV Cleared
4 45 (5.21%) Degree
5 41 (4.75%) AWS Certification
6 35 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (2.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 18 (2.08%) Azure Certification
10 15 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (1.39%) CISSP
13 11 (1.27%) SAFe Agilist
14 8 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.93%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (0.46%) GCFA
15 4 (0.46%) GCIH
15 4 (0.46%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (10.53%) QA
2 35 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.94%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.39%) WCAG
5 11 (1.27%) GDPR
6 10 (1.16%) NIST
6 10 (1.16%) SLA
7 9 (1.04%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.58%) FATCA
11 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.35%) NCSC
13 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
14 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
14 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 368 (42.59%) Docker
2 20 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.50%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (0.58%) HDFS
5 5 (0.58%) Squid
5 5 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.58%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.35%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.12%) iptables
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 431 (49.88%) Terraform
2 390 (45.14%) Kubernetes
3 223 (25.81%) Ansible
4 147 (17.01%) Grafana
5 128 (14.81%) Prometheus
6 44 (5.09%) Argo
7 39 (4.51%) Puppet
8 25 (2.89%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.62%) Istio
10 13 (1.50%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.50%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (1.27%) Packer
12 9 (1.04%) Podman
13 8 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.69%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.58%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.58%) linkerd
15 5 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
15 5 (0.58%) Salt
16 4 (0.46%) Kibana
Vendors
1 101 (11.69%) Oracle
2 66 (7.64%) Microsoft
3 54 (6.25%) Google
4 51 (5.90%) Splunk
5 48 (5.56%) Talend
6 47 (5.44%) Informatica
7 34 (3.94%) Databricks
8 31 (3.59%) VMware
9 27 (3.13%) Dynatrace
10 24 (2.78%) ServiceNow
11 22 (2.55%) Denodo
12 21 (2.43%) Palo Alto
12 21 (2.43%) Red Hat
13 20 (2.31%) F5
14 18 (2.08%) Arista
14 18 (2.08%) Aruba
14 18 (2.08%) IBM
15 16 (1.85%) Trend Micro
16 8 (0.93%) Cisco
16 8 (0.93%) Veracode