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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 143 182
Rank change year-on-year -1 +39 +61
Contract jobs citing GitLab 880 543 449
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.93% 1.98% 1.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.92% 13.40% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 366 313
10th Percentile £381 £363 £350
25th Percentile £430 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% -5.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 8 6
10th Percentile - £61.60 £60.50
25th Percentile £65.00 £64.56 £67.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £71.79 £74.72
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -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 5,202 4,053 4,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.41% 14.80% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,318 2,809 2,845
10th Percentile £356 £325 £354
25th Percentile £415 £404 £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 £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 97 172
10th Percentile £36.75 £42.40 £36.30
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.75 £53.63
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £72.75 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.18 £82.98 £71.84
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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 +12 376 £513 -2.38% 301
North of England -32 184 £475 -0.11% 95
Midlands +29 135 £471 -12.01% 30
West Midlands +31 128 £474 -13.07% 19
South East -31 81 £543 +7.11% 60
North West -33 77 £569 +21.19% 50
North East +3 76 £413 -11.29% 20
South West -17 61 £550 -8.33% 65
Yorkshire -49 42 £550 +10.00% 25
East of England -20 33 £475 - 26
East Midlands -14 7 £436 +61.48% 11
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 86 (9.77%) Confluence
2 61 (6.93%) Apache Airflow
3 57 (6.48%) Apache Spark
4 47 (5.34%) Apache
5 30 (3.41%) Jupyter
6 23 (2.61%) SAS
7 11 (1.25%) Camunda
8 6 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.45%) CICS
9 4 (0.45%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.34%) nginx
10 3 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 589 (66.93%) AWS
2 303 (34.43%) Azure
3 300 (34.09%) GitHub
4 215 (24.43%) GitHub Actions
5 149 (16.93%) Azure DevOps
6 145 (16.48%) GCP
7 116 (13.18%) Amazon S3
8 112 (12.73%) Serverless
9 108 (12.27%) Amazon EKS
10 102 (11.59%) AWS Lambda
11 99 (11.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 80 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
13 56 (6.36%) AWS CloudFormation
14 54 (6.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 47 (5.34%) OpenShift
16 44 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
17 40 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (4.09%) Amazon EMR
19 35 (3.98%) OCI
20 32 (3.64%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 49 (5.57%) Firewall
2 32 (3.64%) DNS
3 30 (3.41%) Network Security
4 28 (3.18%) BGP
5 27 (3.07%) Ethernet VPN
5 27 (3.07%) VXLAN
6 23 (2.61%) WAN
7 22 (2.50%) SD-WAN
7 22 (2.50%) TCP/IP
8 21 (2.39%) OSPF
9 19 (2.16%) BIG-IP
9 19 (2.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 16 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (1.48%) VPN
12 11 (1.25%) HTTP
12 11 (1.25%) WLAN
13 8 (0.91%) NX-OS
13 8 (0.91%) SSL
14 7 (0.80%) DHCP
15 6 (0.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
2 68 (7.73%) MongoDB
3 54 (6.14%) Relational Database
4 43 (4.89%) Amazon Athena
5 40 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
6 39 (4.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 37 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (3.98%) DynamoDB
8 35 (3.98%) NoSQL
9 34 (3.86%) Oracle Database
10 32 (3.64%) SQL Server
11 30 (3.41%) Redis
12 28 (3.18%) Power BI
13 27 (3.07%) Pentaho
13 27 (3.07%) RDBMS
14 26 (2.95%) Big Data
14 26 (2.95%) MySQL
15 25 (2.84%) Data Lake
16 14 (1.59%) Oracle Exadata
17 12 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 362 (41.14%) Jenkins
2 221 (25.11%) Git
3 113 (12.84%) JIRA
4 72 (8.18%) JUnit
5 69 (7.84%) Selenium
6 50 (5.68%) SonarQube
7 45 (5.11%) Cucumber
8 39 (4.43%) Maven
9 34 (3.86%) Bitbucket
9 34 (3.86%) Gradle
10 31 (3.52%) Mockito
11 30 (3.41%) Gatling
12 28 (3.18%) REST Assured
13 27 (3.07%) Artifactory
14 24 (2.73%) Sonatype Nexus
15 21 (2.39%) JMeter
15 21 (2.39%) WebDriver
16 17 (1.93%) Postman
17 15 (1.70%) Snyk
18 14 (1.59%) Cypress.io
General
1 173 (19.66%) Social Skills
2 161 (18.30%) Public Sector
3 98 (11.14%) Finance
4 64 (7.27%) Banking
5 57 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.27%) Military
7 16 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.48%) Law
9 10 (1.14%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.14%) Legal
10 8 (0.91%) Telecoms
11 7 (0.80%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.68%) Police
13 5 (0.57%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.57%) Publishing
14 4 (0.45%) Marketing
14 4 (0.45%) Retail
15 3 (0.34%) Back Office
15 3 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 190 (21.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 158 (17.95%) Senior
3 143 (16.25%) Developer
4 98 (11.14%) AWS Engineer
5 81 (9.20%) Data Engineer
6 65 (7.39%) AWS DevOps
7 61 (6.93%) Lead
8 58 (6.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 50 (5.68%) Software Engineer
10 46 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
11 43 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 43 (4.89%) Java Developer
12 39 (4.43%) Test Engineer
13 37 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
14 35 (3.98%) Architect
15 30 (3.41%) Software Developer
16 29 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
17 27 (3.07%) Java Engineer
17 27 (3.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 26 (2.95%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 441 (50.11%) Terraform
2 136 (15.45%) Kafka
3 113 (12.84%) Spring
4 101 (11.48%) Spring Boot
5 99 (11.25%) REST
6 61 (6.93%) React
7 57 (6.48%) RESTful
8 50 (5.68%) Playwright
9 45 (5.11%) PySpark
10 42 (4.77%) JSON
10 42 (4.77%) Node.js
10 42 (4.77%) RabbitMQ
11 35 (3.98%) YAML
12 30 (3.41%) HTML
13 27 (3.07%) CSS
13 27 (3.07%) WireMock
14 25 (2.84%) .NET
14 25 (2.84%) OAuth
15 24 (2.73%) JPA
15 24 (2.73%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 176 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.11%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (4.09%) Data Centre
6 27 (3.07%) Data Structures
7 26 (2.95%) Onboarding
8 23 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.93%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.93%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (1.82%) AI Agents
11 15 (1.70%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.36%) Mainframe
13 10 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.14%) PKI
14 9 (1.02%) Private Cloud
15 8 (0.91%) Security Posture
16 7 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
16 7 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 172 (19.55%) Linux
2 40 (4.55%) Unix
2 40 (4.55%) Windows
3 38 (4.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.48%) AIX
4 13 (1.48%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.25%) CentOS
5 11 (1.25%) zOS
6 9 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.68%) VMS
8 3 (0.34%) Debian
8 3 (0.34%) Rocky
9 2 (0.23%) Android
9 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 744 (84.55%) CI/CD
2 522 (59.32%) DevOps
3 421 (47.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 333 (37.84%) Agile
5 312 (35.45%) Containerisation
6 269 (30.57%) Test Automation
7 178 (20.23%) Microservices
8 160 (18.18%) Observability
9 150 (17.05%) Software Engineering
10 147 (16.70%) Scrum
11 131 (14.89%) Platform Engineering
12 129 (14.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 116 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
14 112 (12.73%) AI
15 104 (11.82%) DevSecOps
16 89 (10.11%) Migration
17 87 (9.89%) ETL
17 87 (9.89%) Event-Driven
18 85 (9.66%) Deployment Automation
19 84 (9.55%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 383 (43.52%) Python
2 220 (25.00%) Java
3 206 (23.41%) SQL
4 160 (18.18%) Bash
5 86 (9.77%) PowerShell
6 80 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 64 (7.27%) C#
8 54 (6.14%) TypeScript
9 35 (3.98%) Go
10 31 (3.52%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.05%) Bicep
12 15 (1.70%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.59%) C++
14 9 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.91%) Groovy
15 8 (0.91%) Scala
16 6 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.68%) R
17 5 (0.57%) Cypher
17 5 (0.57%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 425 (48.30%) Security Cleared
2 344 (39.09%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.95%) DV Cleared
4 50 (5.68%) Degree
5 49 (5.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 44 (5.00%) AWS Certification
7 37 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.05%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 16 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (1.70%) CISSP
12 14 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (1.36%) ISTQB
14 11 (1.25%) SAFe Agilist
15 9 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 5 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
17 5 (0.57%) GCFA
17 5 (0.57%) GCIH
18 4 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (11.93%) QA
2 40 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 36 (4.09%) Data Quality
4 19 (2.16%) WCAG
5 15 (1.70%) NIST
6 11 (1.25%) GDPR
7 10 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.80%) SLA
10 6 (0.68%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.68%) NCSC
11 5 (0.57%) FATCA
12 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.11%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 374 (42.50%) Docker
2 21 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.16%) Active Directory
4 14 (1.59%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.68%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.57%) Squid
7 3 (0.34%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.23%) HDFS
8 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.11%) iptables
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 397 (45.11%) Kubernetes
2 236 (26.82%) Ansible
3 142 (16.14%) Grafana
4 126 (14.32%) Prometheus
5 43 (4.89%) Argo
6 39 (4.43%) Puppet
7 28 (3.18%) Progress Chef
8 14 (1.59%) Data Guard
8 14 (1.59%) Oracle RMAN
9 12 (1.36%) Istio
10 11 (1.25%) Kibana
11 10 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (1.02%) Packer
12 9 (1.02%) Podman
13 7 (0.80%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.57%) CASB
14 5 (0.57%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.45%) Check_MK
15 4 (0.45%) Salt
Vendors
1 100 (11.36%) Oracle
2 68 (7.73%) Microsoft
3 58 (6.59%) Google
4 48 (5.45%) Splunk
5 43 (4.89%) Talend
6 40 (4.55%) Informatica
7 37 (4.20%) VMware
8 34 (3.86%) Databricks
9 27 (3.07%) Dynatrace
10 26 (2.95%) Red Hat
11 25 (2.84%) ServiceNow
12 22 (2.50%) IBM
13 21 (2.39%) Palo Alto
14 20 (2.27%) F5
15 19 (2.16%) Denodo
16 18 (2.05%) Arista
16 18 (2.05%) Aruba
17 16 (1.82%) Trend Micro
18 14 (1.59%) Veracode
19 11 (1.25%) Cisco