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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 147 192
Rank change year-on-year +1 +45 +50
Contract jobs citing GitLab 845 541 425
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.86% 1.96% 1.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.87% 13.49% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 360 294
10th Percentile £371 £356 £324
25th Percentile £425 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% -3.73% -6.09%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £650
90th Percentile £694 £671 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 8
10th Percentile £64.63 £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 £77.25 £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 5,325 4,011 4,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.70% 14.52% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,388 2,780 2,839
10th Percentile £352 £320 £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 £594 £600 £631
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 244 95 200
10th Percentile £35.00 £40.90 £31.71
25th Percentile £57.75 £51.03 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.45 £73.78
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - -

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -1 365 £525 -0.94% 167
North of England -25 174 £475 - 50
Midlands +29 140 £469 -7.90% 22
West Midlands +28 133 £469 -12.17% 16
North East +6 75 £413 -11.29% 12
South East -26 74 £550 - 34
North West -40 70 £575 +18.56% 30
South West -29 53 £550 -8.33% 37
Yorkshire -48 42 £550 +12.82% 8
East of England -14 33 £475 - 14
East Midlands -7 7 £470 +74.07% 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 84 (9.94%) Confluence
2 56 (6.63%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (5.68%) Apache Spark
4 42 (4.97%) Apache
5 31 (3.67%) SAS
6 28 (3.31%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.71%) Camunda
7 6 (0.71%) CICS
7 6 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.36%) nginx
8 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.24%) CMS
9 2 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Trello
2 2 (0.24%) 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
1 568 (67.22%) AWS
2 288 (34.08%) GitHub
3 282 (33.37%) Azure
4 214 (25.33%) GitHub Actions
5 146 (17.28%) GCP
6 133 (15.74%) Azure DevOps
7 117 (13.85%) Amazon S3
8 110 (13.02%) Amazon EKS
8 110 (13.02%) Serverless
9 100 (11.83%) AWS Lambda
10 99 (11.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 81 (9.59%) Amazon EC2
12 63 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 58 (6.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 41 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
15 37 (4.38%) OpenShift
16 36 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
17 34 (4.02%) Datadog
17 34 (4.02%) OCI
18 33 (3.91%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.44%) Firewall
2 29 (3.43%) DNS
3 23 (2.72%) Network Security
4 22 (2.60%) BGP
4 22 (2.60%) WAN
5 21 (2.49%) OSPF
5 21 (2.49%) SD-WAN
6 20 (2.37%) Ethernet VPN
6 20 (2.37%) VXLAN
7 19 (2.25%) BIG-IP
7 19 (2.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 19 (2.25%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (1.54%) VPN
10 12 (1.42%) HTTP
11 11 (1.30%) WLAN
12 7 (0.83%) SSL
13 4 (0.47%) DHCP
13 4 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.47%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (8.17%) MongoDB
2 68 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 39 (4.62%) Amazon Athena
4 39 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
5 35 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
5 35 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (4.02%) DynamoDB
7 33 (3.91%) NoSQL
7 33 (3.91%) Pentaho
8 30 (3.55%) Power BI
9 28 (3.31%) SQL Server
10 27 (3.20%) Oracle Database
11 24 (2.84%) MySQL
12 23 (2.72%) RDBMS
12 23 (2.72%) Redis
13 22 (2.60%) Data Lake
14 21 (2.49%) Big Data
15 12 (1.42%) Oracle Exadata
16 11 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 351 (41.54%) Jenkins
2 206 (24.38%) Git
3 107 (12.66%) JIRA
4 65 (7.69%) JUnit
4 65 (7.69%) Selenium
5 44 (5.21%) Cucumber
6 40 (4.73%) Bitbucket
7 36 (4.26%) SonarQube
8 29 (3.43%) Artifactory
8 29 (3.43%) Gradle
9 27 (3.20%) Gatling
10 26 (3.08%) Maven
11 24 (2.84%) Mockito
12 23 (2.72%) JMeter
13 22 (2.60%) WebDriver
14 21 (2.49%) REST Assured
15 19 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
16 18 (2.13%) Postman
17 15 (1.78%) Snyk
18 10 (1.18%) MLflow
General
1 169 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 150 (17.75%) Public Sector
3 96 (11.36%) Finance
4 63 (7.46%) Banking
5 49 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.25%) Military
7 17 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.66%) Law
10 11 (1.30%) Legal
11 9 (1.07%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.83%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.59%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.59%) Police
13 5 (0.59%) Publishing
13 5 (0.59%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.47%) Marketing
15 3 (0.36%) Back Office
15 3 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 182 (21.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 167 (19.76%) Senior
3 127 (15.03%) Developer
4 100 (11.83%) AWS Engineer
5 85 (10.06%) Data Engineer
6 65 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
7 63 (7.46%) Lead
8 58 (6.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 56 (6.63%) Software Engineer
10 44 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
11 39 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 39 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
12 37 (4.38%) Java Developer
13 34 (4.02%) Test Engineer
14 32 (3.79%) Senior DevOps
15 31 (3.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 27 (3.20%) Architect
17 26 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
17 26 (3.08%) Senior Developer
17 26 (3.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (13.73%) Kafka
2 96 (11.36%) Spring
3 88 (10.41%) REST
4 83 (9.82%) Spring Boot
5 51 (6.04%) React
6 49 (5.80%) RESTful
7 45 (5.33%) PySpark
8 43 (5.09%) Playwright
9 41 (4.85%) Node.js
10 34 (4.02%) RabbitMQ
11 32 (3.79%) JSON
12 26 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
12 26 (3.08%) WireMock
13 25 (2.96%) YAML
14 23 (2.72%) AWS CDK
15 22 (2.60%) pytest
16 21 (2.49%) HTML
16 21 (2.49%) Keycloak
17 20 (2.37%) .NET
17 20 (2.37%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 164 (19.41%) Cloud Native
2 61 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (3.31%) Data Centre
6 27 (3.20%) Onboarding
7 21 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (2.37%) Data Structures
9 18 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
9 18 (2.13%) Public Cloud
10 17 (2.01%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.42%) Mainframe
12 10 (1.18%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.07%) Private Cloud
14 7 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.83%) PKI
15 6 (0.71%) DataPower
15 6 (0.71%) NHS
15 6 (0.71%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 159 (18.82%) Linux
2 40 (4.73%) Unix
3 36 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 36 (4.26%) Windows
4 12 (1.42%) AIX
4 12 (1.42%) Ubuntu
4 12 (1.42%) zOS
5 9 (1.07%) CentOS
6 8 (0.95%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.47%) Debian
7 4 (0.47%) Rocky
8 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.24%) Android
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 695 (82.25%) CI/CD
2 496 (58.70%) DevOps
3 378 (44.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 318 (37.63%) Agile
5 289 (34.20%) Containerisation
6 261 (30.89%) Test Automation
7 157 (18.58%) Microservices
8 146 (17.28%) Observability
9 142 (16.80%) Software Engineering
10 137 (16.21%) Scrum
11 130 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
12 120 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 110 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
14 107 (12.66%) AI
15 91 (10.77%) DevSecOps
16 85 (10.06%) ETL
17 76 (8.99%) Event-Driven
17 76 (8.99%) Migration
18 74 (8.76%) Data Pipeline
19 73 (8.64%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 363 (42.96%) Python
2 198 (23.43%) SQL
3 196 (23.20%) Java
4 151 (17.87%) Bash
5 74 (8.76%) PowerShell
6 71 (8.40%) JavaScript
7 57 (6.75%) TypeScript
8 56 (6.63%) C#
9 31 (3.67%) Go
10 28 (3.31%) Shell Script
11 20 (2.37%) Bicep
12 17 (2.01%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.66%) C++
14 9 (1.07%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.83%) Groovy
16 6 (0.71%) JCL
16 6 (0.71%) R
16 6 (0.71%) Scala
17 5 (0.59%) C
17 5 (0.59%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 401 (47.46%) Security Cleared
2 335 (39.64%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.27%) DV Cleared
4 45 (5.33%) Degree
5 39 (4.62%) AWS Certification
6 37 (4.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (2.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 19 (2.25%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 12 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.30%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.18%) CISSP
13 8 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.47%) CSSLP
15 4 (0.47%) GIAC
16 3 (0.36%) CCNP
16 3 (0.36%) GCFA
16 3 (0.36%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (11.01%) QA
2 36 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 34 (4.02%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.54%) WCAG
5 10 (1.18%) GDPR
5 10 (1.18%) SLA
6 8 (0.95%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.83%) NIST
7 7 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.59%) FATCA
9 4 (0.47%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.24%) NCSC
11 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
11 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
11 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 358 (42.37%) Docker
2 21 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.54%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.59%) HDFS
6 5 (0.59%) Squid
7 3 (0.36%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 419 (49.59%) Terraform
2 368 (43.55%) Kubernetes
3 213 (25.21%) Ansible
4 147 (17.40%) Grafana
5 128 (15.15%) Prometheus
6 44 (5.21%) Argo
7 37 (4.38%) Puppet
8 24 (2.84%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.54%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.54%) Istio
9 13 (1.54%) Oracle RMAN
10 11 (1.30%) Packer
11 10 (1.18%) Podman
12 8 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.59%) Kibana
13 5 (0.59%) linkerd
13 5 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.59%) Salt
14 4 (0.47%) Check_MK
14 4 (0.47%) Suricata
Vendors
1 98 (11.60%) Oracle
2 63 (7.46%) Microsoft
3 53 (6.27%) Google
4 49 (5.80%) Splunk
5 46 (5.44%) Talend
6 44 (5.21%) Informatica
7 31 (3.67%) Databricks
8 27 (3.20%) Dynatrace
9 26 (3.08%) VMware
10 22 (2.60%) Denodo
11 21 (2.49%) Palo Alto
12 20 (2.37%) F5
12 20 (2.37%) ServiceNow
13 18 (2.13%) Arista
13 18 (2.13%) Aruba
14 17 (2.01%) IBM
14 17 (2.01%) Red Hat
15 15 (1.78%) Trend Micro
16 7 (0.83%) Salesforce
16 7 (0.83%) Veracode