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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 146 213
Rank change year-on-year +8 +67 +36
Contract jobs citing GitLab 839 491 416
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.93% 1.95% 1.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.20% 13.65% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 308 298
10th Percentile £371 £358 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £553
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% -6.27% -4.86%
75th Percentile £588 £589 £656
90th Percentile £688 £664 £741
UK median daily rate £492 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -5.38% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 1 7
10th Percentile £52.50 - £61.40
25th Percentile £62.19 - £68.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -21.65% +11.45% +24.48%
75th Percentile £72.50 - £76.25
90th Percentile £75.00 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £74.00
% change year-on-year -15.01% +3.35% +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 5,178 3,596 4,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.93% 14.27% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,354 2,444 3,027
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £411 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 76 233
10th Percentile £27.64 £27.72 £33.01
25th Percentile £56.94 £49.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +8 356 £525 - 49
North of England -3 191 £453 -4.63% 30
Midlands +15 134 £461 -7.85% 14
West Midlands +21 124 £463 -11.90% 11
North West -20 86 £500 +6.50% 15
North East +8 66 £400 -13.98% 9
South East -30 66 £550 +9.89% 24
Yorkshire -26 55 £540 +5.37% 6
South West -9 54 £500 -13.04% 21
East of England -5 38 £483 +1.58% 14
East Midlands -6 10 £436 +61.48% 3
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 88 (10.49%) Confluence
2 51 (6.08%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (5.13%) Apache Spark
4 40 (4.77%) Apache
5 36 (4.29%) SAS
6 27 (3.22%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.83%) CICS
8 6 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.60%) Camunda
10 4 (0.48%) nginx
10 4 (0.48%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.24%) CMS
12 2 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 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
1 540 (64.36%) AWS
2 260 (30.99%) GitHub
3 246 (29.32%) Azure
4 184 (21.93%) GitHub Actions
5 130 (15.49%) Amazon S3
5 130 (15.49%) GCP
6 123 (14.66%) Serverless
7 110 (13.11%) AWS Lambda
8 102 (12.16%) Amazon EKS
9 96 (11.44%) Azure DevOps
10 93 (11.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 92 (10.97%) Amazon EC2
12 64 (7.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 60 (7.15%) AWS CloudFormation
14 44 (5.24%) Amazon ECS
15 43 (5.13%) OpenShift
16 33 (3.93%) Amazon SQS
17 31 (3.69%) Power Platform
18 29 (3.46%) Amazon EMR
19 28 (3.34%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.89%) Firewall
2 21 (2.50%) BGP
2 21 (2.50%) Network Security
2 21 (2.50%) WAN
3 20 (2.38%) DNS
3 20 (2.38%) OSPF
4 19 (2.26%) BIG-IP
4 19 (2.26%) Ethernet VPN
4 19 (2.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 19 (2.26%) SD-WAN
4 19 (2.26%) VXLAN
5 15 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 15 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (1.43%) VPN
7 11 (1.31%) WLAN
8 8 (0.95%) HTTP
9 6 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.48%) MQTT
10 4 (0.48%) SAN
10 4 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (6.91%) MongoDB
3 45 (5.36%) Relational Database
4 41 (4.89%) Amazon Athena
4 41 (4.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 38 (4.53%) DynamoDB
6 36 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
7 33 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (3.93%) NoSQL
8 29 (3.46%) Pentaho
9 28 (3.34%) Power BI
10 25 (2.98%) Oracle Database
11 24 (2.86%) SQL Server
12 23 (2.74%) MySQL
13 20 (2.38%) Big Data
13 20 (2.38%) Redis
14 19 (2.26%) Data Lake
15 15 (1.79%) DocumentDB
15 15 (1.79%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 357 (42.55%) Jenkins
2 195 (23.24%) Git
3 121 (14.42%) JIRA
4 73 (8.70%) Selenium
5 67 (7.99%) JUnit
6 42 (5.01%) Cucumber
7 31 (3.69%) SonarQube
8 30 (3.58%) Artifactory
8 30 (3.58%) Bitbucket
8 30 (3.58%) Mockito
9 29 (3.46%) JMeter
9 29 (3.46%) Postman
9 29 (3.46%) REST Assured
10 28 (3.34%) Gradle
11 24 (2.86%) Gatling
12 23 (2.74%) WebDriver
13 19 (2.26%) Maven
14 15 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
15 13 (1.55%) CircleCI
15 13 (1.55%) Snyk
General
1 166 (19.79%) Social Skills
2 160 (19.07%) Public Sector
3 91 (10.85%) Finance
4 63 (7.51%) Banking
5 44 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.03%) Military
8 14 (1.67%) Law
9 12 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.31%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.07%) Legal
12 7 (0.83%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.83%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.60%) Police
14 4 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.48%) Publishing
15 3 (0.36%) Retail
16 2 (0.24%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 188 (22.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 147 (17.52%) Senior
3 125 (14.90%) Developer
4 96 (11.44%) AWS Engineer
5 86 (10.25%) Data Engineer
6 69 (8.22%) AWS DevOps
7 62 (7.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 55 (6.56%) Lead
9 48 (5.72%) Software Engineer
10 41 (4.89%) Java Developer
11 40 (4.77%) Test Engineer
12 37 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
13 36 (4.29%) Architect
14 35 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 35 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
15 31 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
16 30 (3.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 26 (3.10%) Full-Stack Developer
18 23 (2.74%) Tester
19 21 (2.50%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (13.95%) Kafka
2 101 (12.04%) Spring
3 91 (10.85%) REST
4 90 (10.73%) Spring Boot
5 69 (8.22%) RESTful
6 51 (6.08%) React
7 45 (5.36%) PySpark
8 43 (5.13%) Playwright
9 42 (5.01%) Node.js
10 34 (4.05%) YAML
11 30 (3.58%) Elastic Stack
12 26 (3.10%) RabbitMQ
13 25 (2.98%) AWS CDK
13 25 (2.98%) JSON
14 24 (2.86%) WireMock
15 23 (2.74%) LDAP
15 23 (2.74%) OAuth
15 23 (2.74%) SOAP
16 22 (2.62%) pytest
17 21 (2.50%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 158 (18.83%) Cloud Native
2 63 (7.51%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (5.72%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.53%) Data Centre
5 26 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.26%) Public Cloud
9 18 (2.15%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.79%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.67%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.55%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.07%) NHS
14 8 (0.95%) Mainframe
14 8 (0.95%) Private Cloud
15 7 (0.83%) DataPower
15 7 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
16 6 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
16 6 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
16 6 (0.72%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 160 (19.07%) Linux
2 44 (5.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 38 (4.53%) Unix
3 38 (4.53%) Windows
4 15 (1.79%) CentOS
5 9 (1.07%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.95%) zOS
7 6 (0.72%) AIX
8 5 (0.60%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.48%) Debian
9 4 (0.48%) Rocky
10 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.36%) VMS
11 2 (0.24%) Android
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 677 (80.69%) CI/CD
2 485 (57.81%) DevOps
3 344 (41.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 305 (36.35%) Agile
5 275 (32.78%) Containerisation
6 266 (31.70%) Test Automation
7 165 (19.67%) Microservices
8 138 (16.45%) Observability
9 123 (14.66%) Scrum
9 123 (14.66%) Software Engineering
10 114 (13.59%) Platform Engineering
11 112 (13.35%) Problem-Solving
12 111 (13.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 91 (10.85%) AI
14 85 (10.13%) DevSecOps
14 85 (10.13%) ETL
15 78 (9.30%) Event-Driven
16 74 (8.82%) Migration
17 69 (8.22%) Data Engineering
18 67 (7.99%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 335 (39.93%) Python
2 209 (24.91%) Java
3 192 (22.88%) SQL
4 121 (14.42%) Bash
5 69 (8.22%) JavaScript
6 60 (7.15%) TypeScript
7 50 (5.96%) PowerShell
8 47 (5.60%) C#
9 35 (4.17%) Shell Script
10 33 (3.93%) Go
11 16 (1.91%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.79%) Bicep
13 13 (1.55%) C++
14 11 (1.31%) MATLAB
15 10 (1.19%) Scala
16 8 (0.95%) Ruby
17 7 (0.83%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.72%) Cypher
18 6 (0.72%) JCL
19 5 (0.60%) C
Qualifications
1 411 (48.99%) Security Cleared
2 349 (41.60%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.24%) DV Cleared
4 40 (4.77%) Degree
5 39 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 13 (1.55%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.31%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (1.07%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.48%) CISSP
13 4 (0.48%) GIAC
14 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.36%) CSSLP
14 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.24%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (10.01%) QA
2 34 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.93%) Data Quality
4 17 (2.03%) SLA
5 10 (1.19%) WCAG
6 9 (1.07%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.95%) NIST
8 7 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.72%) GDPR
10 5 (0.60%) FATCA
10 5 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
12 1 (0.12%) NCSC
12 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
12 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 348 (41.48%) Docker
2 29 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.60%) Squid
7 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 4 (0.48%) HDFS
8 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.12%) iptables
10 1 (0.12%) vSphere
10 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 400 (47.68%) Terraform
2 351 (41.84%) Kubernetes
3 185 (22.05%) Ansible
4 152 (18.12%) Grafana
5 135 (16.09%) Prometheus
6 42 (5.01%) Argo
7 31 (3.69%) Puppet
8 16 (1.91%) Podman
9 14 (1.67%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.67%) Red Hat Satellite
10 12 (1.43%) Istio
11 11 (1.31%) Check_MK
12 9 (1.07%) Packer
13 7 (0.83%) Data Guard
13 7 (0.83%) Kibana
13 7 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
13 7 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.72%) Salt
15 5 (0.60%) linkerd
16 4 (0.48%) Suricata
Vendors
1 94 (11.20%) Oracle
2 53 (6.32%) Microsoft
3 49 (5.84%) Talend
4 46 (5.48%) Informatica
4 46 (5.48%) Splunk
5 39 (4.65%) Google
6 32 (3.81%) Red Hat
7 29 (3.46%) VMware
8 27 (3.22%) Databricks
9 24 (2.86%) ServiceNow
10 23 (2.74%) Denodo
11 21 (2.50%) F5
12 20 (2.38%) Dynatrace
12 20 (2.38%) Palo Alto
13 18 (2.15%) Arista
13 18 (2.15%) Aruba
13 18 (2.15%) Salesforce
14 15 (1.79%) Trend Micro
15 14 (1.67%) Veracode
16 12 (1.43%) IBM