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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 141 188
Rank change year-on-year -9 +47 +55
Contract jobs citing GitLab 868 550 435
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.89% 1.98% 1.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.43% 13.44% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 371 296
10th Percentile £381 £358 £350
25th Percentile £430 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -0.90%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £650
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 8
10th Percentile - £61.60 £62.30
25th Percentile £65.00 £64.56 £70.63
Median hourly rate £68.22 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.58
90th Percentile £95.00 £71.79 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +1.81% -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 5,284 4,091 4,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.51% 14.75% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,362 2,834 2,818
10th Percentile £356 £325 £355
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 £603 £630
90th Percentile £692 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 97 181
10th Percentile £36.25 £41.35 £33.07
25th Percentile £58.44 £51.06 £54.00
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 £82.98 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +4 377 £525 - 46
North of England -19 180 £500 +2.56% 45
Midlands +30 131 £469 -10.67% 19
West Midlands +27 123 £469 -13.15% 14
South East -37 80 £550 +7.32% 25
North East +8 76 £413 -12.70% 14
North West -29 75 £575 +19.79% 21
South West -21 57 £550 -8.33% 34
Yorkshire -43 42 £550 +10.00% 10
East of England -15 33 £475 - 10
East Midlands -13 8 £436 +61.48% 5
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 82 (9.45%) Confluence
2 64 (7.37%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (6.34%) Apache Spark
4 45 (5.18%) Apache
5 30 (3.46%) Jupyter
6 27 (3.11%) SAS
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 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 590 (67.97%) AWS
2 305 (35.14%) GitHub
3 299 (34.45%) Azure
4 222 (25.58%) GitHub Actions
5 153 (17.63%) GCP
6 147 (16.94%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (13.71%) Serverless
8 118 (13.59%) Amazon S3
9 113 (13.02%) Amazon EKS
10 108 (12.44%) AWS Lambda
11 103 (11.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 84 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
13 60 (6.91%) AWS CloudFormation
14 57 (6.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 44 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
16 40 (4.61%) Amazon SQS
17 38 (4.38%) OpenShift
18 35 (4.03%) Datadog
19 34 (3.92%) Amazon EMR
19 34 (3.92%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.76%) Firewall
2 30 (3.46%) DNS
3 29 (3.34%) BGP
4 28 (3.23%) Network Security
5 27 (3.11%) Ethernet VPN
5 27 (3.11%) VXLAN
6 23 (2.65%) WAN
7 22 (2.53%) SD-WAN
8 21 (2.42%) OSPF
9 19 (2.19%) BIG-IP
9 19 (2.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 19 (2.19%) TCP/IP
10 15 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (1.61%) VPN
12 11 (1.27%) HTTP
12 11 (1.27%) WLAN
13 8 (0.92%) NX-OS
13 8 (0.92%) SSL
14 6 (0.69%) DHCP
15 5 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (8.06%) MongoDB
3 51 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 43 (4.95%) Amazon Athena
5 42 (4.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 38 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
7 37 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
8 36 (4.15%) DynamoDB
8 36 (4.15%) NoSQL
9 31 (3.57%) Power BI
10 30 (3.46%) Oracle Database
10 30 (3.46%) Pentaho
11 29 (3.34%) SQL Server
12 28 (3.23%) Redis
13 26 (3.00%) MySQL
13 26 (3.00%) RDBMS
14 24 (2.76%) Big Data
14 24 (2.76%) Data Lake
15 13 (1.50%) Oracle Exadata
16 11 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 366 (42.17%) Jenkins
2 213 (24.54%) Git
3 108 (12.44%) JIRA
4 65 (7.49%) Selenium
5 61 (7.03%) JUnit
6 44 (5.07%) Cucumber
7 42 (4.84%) SonarQube
8 37 (4.26%) Bitbucket
9 30 (3.46%) Gradle
10 28 (3.23%) Gatling
10 28 (3.23%) Maven
11 27 (3.11%) Artifactory
12 24 (2.76%) Mockito
13 23 (2.65%) REST Assured
14 22 (2.53%) JMeter
15 21 (2.42%) WebDriver
16 19 (2.19%) Postman
16 19 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
17 16 (1.84%) Snyk
18 14 (1.61%) Cypress.io
General
1 170 (19.59%) Social Skills
2 160 (18.43%) Public Sector
3 95 (10.94%) Finance
4 62 (7.14%) Banking
5 55 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.19%) Military
7 17 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.61%) Law
9 10 (1.15%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.15%) Legal
10 6 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 6 (0.69%) Police
10 6 (0.69%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.58%) Publishing
12 4 (0.46%) Marketing
12 4 (0.46%) Retail
13 3 (0.35%) Back Office
13 3 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 188 (21.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 168 (19.35%) Senior
3 136 (15.67%) Developer
4 102 (11.75%) AWS Engineer
5 83 (9.56%) Data Engineer
6 67 (7.72%) AWS DevOps
7 63 (7.26%) Lead
8 60 (6.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 55 (6.34%) Software Engineer
10 45 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (4.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 40 (4.61%) Java Developer
12 37 (4.26%) Test Engineer
13 36 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
14 33 (3.80%) Architect
15 29 (3.34%) Software Developer
16 28 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
17 27 (3.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 26 (3.00%) Full-Stack Developer
18 26 (3.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 433 (49.88%) Terraform
2 128 (14.75%) Kafka
3 101 (11.64%) Spring
4 98 (11.29%) REST
5 88 (10.14%) Spring Boot
6 58 (6.68%) RESTful
7 54 (6.22%) React
8 45 (5.18%) PySpark
9 44 (5.07%) Playwright
10 42 (4.84%) JSON
10 42 (4.84%) Node.js
11 36 (4.15%) RabbitMQ
12 35 (4.03%) YAML
13 27 (3.11%) WireMock
14 24 (2.76%) .NET
15 23 (2.65%) HTML
15 23 (2.65%) Keycloak
15 23 (2.65%) OAuth
16 21 (2.42%) CSS
16 21 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 173 (19.93%) Cloud Native
2 59 (6.80%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.18%) Product Ownership
4 35 (4.03%) Data Centre
4 35 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (2.53%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.96%) Algorithms
8 17 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
9 14 (1.61%) Mainframe
9 14 (1.61%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.50%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (1.04%) Private Cloud
13 8 (0.92%) PKI
14 7 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
14 7 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (0.69%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 163 (18.78%) Linux
2 42 (4.84%) Unix
3 39 (4.49%) Windows
4 34 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.50%) zOS
6 12 (1.38%) AIX
6 12 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.15%) CentOS
8 8 (0.92%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.69%) VMS
10 3 (0.35%) Debian
10 3 (0.35%) Rocky
11 2 (0.23%) Android
11 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 729 (83.99%) CI/CD
2 514 (59.22%) DevOps
3 406 (46.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 318 (36.64%) Agile
5 312 (35.94%) Containerisation
6 264 (30.41%) Test Automation
7 170 (19.59%) Microservices
8 157 (18.09%) Observability
9 150 (17.28%) Software Engineering
10 135 (15.55%) Scrum
11 129 (14.86%) Platform Engineering
12 125 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 120 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
14 110 (12.67%) AI
15 101 (11.64%) DevSecOps
16 88 (10.14%) ETL
17 87 (10.02%) Event-Driven
17 87 (10.02%) Migration
18 83 (9.56%) Deployment Automation
19 79 (9.10%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 385 (44.35%) Python
2 209 (24.08%) Java
3 202 (23.27%) SQL
4 159 (18.32%) Bash
5 83 (9.56%) PowerShell
6 73 (8.41%) JavaScript
7 64 (7.37%) C#
8 56 (6.45%) TypeScript
9 32 (3.69%) Go
10 28 (3.23%) Shell Script
11 21 (2.42%) Bicep
12 18 (2.07%) PL/SQL
13 15 (1.73%) C++
14 9 (1.04%) Groovy
14 9 (1.04%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.81%) Scala
16 6 (0.69%) JCL
16 6 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.69%) R
17 5 (0.58%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 416 (47.93%) Security Cleared
2 338 (38.94%) SC Cleared
3 64 (7.37%) DV Cleared
4 46 (5.30%) AWS Certification
5 43 (4.95%) Degree
6 39 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (2.30%) Azure Certification
9 19 (2.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (1.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 14 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (1.61%) CISSP
12 11 (1.27%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.27%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.58%) GCFA
14 5 (0.58%) GCIH
15 4 (0.46%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (11.41%) QA
2 36 (4.15%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.92%) Data Quality
4 15 (1.73%) WCAG
5 12 (1.38%) NIST
6 11 (1.27%) GDPR
7 10 (1.15%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.15%) SLA
8 8 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.69%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.58%) FATCA
11 4 (0.46%) NCSC
12 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.12%) GRC
13 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 378 (43.55%) Docker
2 20 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.50%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.69%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.58%) HDFS
6 5 (0.58%) Squid
7 3 (0.35%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 390 (44.93%) Kubernetes
2 231 (26.61%) Ansible
3 147 (16.94%) Grafana
4 127 (14.63%) Prometheus
5 45 (5.18%) Argo
6 39 (4.49%) Puppet
7 28 (3.23%) Progress Chef
8 14 (1.61%) Istio
9 13 (1.50%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.50%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (1.04%) Podman
12 8 (0.92%) Packer
13 6 (0.69%) Kibana
13 6 (0.69%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.58%) CASB
14 5 (0.58%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.58%) linkerd
14 5 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.58%) Salt
Vendors
1 101 (11.64%) Oracle
2 69 (7.95%) Microsoft
3 57 (6.57%) Google
4 51 (5.88%) Splunk
5 45 (5.18%) Talend
6 44 (5.07%) Informatica
7 33 (3.80%) Databricks
8 32 (3.69%) VMware
9 26 (3.00%) ServiceNow
10 24 (2.76%) Dynatrace
11 23 (2.65%) Red Hat
12 22 (2.53%) Denodo
13 21 (2.42%) Palo Alto
14 20 (2.30%) F5
15 18 (2.07%) Arista
15 18 (2.07%) Aruba
16 17 (1.96%) IBM
17 16 (1.84%) Trend Micro
18 11 (1.27%) Cisco
19 9 (1.04%) Veracode