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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 137 180
Rank change year-on-year -8 +43 +70
Contract jobs citing GitLab 891 550 445
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.94% 2.01% 1.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.07% 13.50% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 369 311
10th Percentile £379 £363 £350
25th Percentile £430 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -5.73% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £691 £682 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 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 £79.69 - £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 5,219 4,073 4,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.37% 14.87% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,325 2,819 2,803
10th Percentile £356 £325 £356
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £638
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 231 94 172
10th Percentile £37.25 £43.63 £36.30
25th Percentile £55.00 £53.06 £52.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.99 £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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +5 379 £513 -2.84% 234
North of England -32 184 £475 - 75
Midlands +25 137 £470 -12.78% 24
West Midlands +27 130 £471 -14.33% 16
South East -30 82 £540 +7.89% 42
North East +7 77 £413 -11.29% 12
North West -41 77 £569 +21.32% 38
South West -12 64 £550 -8.33% 54
Yorkshire -57 41 £550 +10.00% 25
East of England -20 34 £475 -2.56% 27
East Midlands -17 7 £436 +61.48% 8
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 (9.88%) Confluence
2 62 (6.96%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (6.51%) Apache Spark
4 47 (5.27%) Apache
5 30 (3.37%) Jupyter
6 23 (2.58%) SAS
7 12 (1.35%) Camunda
8 6 (0.67%) 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 (0.22%) CMS
11 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 593 (66.55%) AWS
2 308 (34.57%) Azure
3 303 (34.01%) GitHub
4 216 (24.24%) GitHub Actions
5 153 (17.17%) Azure DevOps
6 145 (16.27%) GCP
7 116 (13.02%) Amazon S3
8 114 (12.79%) Serverless
9 107 (12.01%) Amazon EKS
10 105 (11.78%) AWS Lambda
11 103 (11.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 81 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
13 57 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
14 54 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 47 (5.27%) OpenShift
16 46 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
17 41 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (4.04%) Amazon EMR
19 34 (3.82%) OCI
20 32 (3.59%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 49 (5.50%) Firewall
2 33 (3.70%) DNS
3 30 (3.37%) Network Security
4 28 (3.14%) BGP
5 27 (3.03%) Ethernet VPN
5 27 (3.03%) VXLAN
6 23 (2.58%) WAN
7 22 (2.47%) SD-WAN
7 22 (2.47%) TCP/IP
8 21 (2.36%) OSPF
9 19 (2.13%) BIG-IP
9 19 (2.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 17 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (1.46%) VPN
12 11 (1.23%) HTTP
12 11 (1.23%) WLAN
13 8 (0.90%) DHCP
13 8 (0.90%) NX-OS
13 8 (0.90%) SSL
14 6 (0.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (7.97%) MongoDB
3 52 (5.84%) Relational Database
4 43 (4.83%) Amazon Athena
5 41 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
6 38 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 37 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
8 36 (4.04%) DynamoDB
9 33 (3.70%) NoSQL
9 33 (3.70%) Oracle Database
10 32 (3.59%) SQL Server
11 29 (3.25%) Power BI
11 29 (3.25%) Redis
12 27 (3.03%) MySQL
12 27 (3.03%) Pentaho
13 26 (2.92%) Big Data
13 26 (2.92%) RDBMS
14 25 (2.81%) Data Lake
15 13 (1.46%) Oracle Exadata
16 12 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 366 (41.08%) Jenkins
2 230 (25.81%) Git
3 118 (13.24%) JIRA
4 75 (8.42%) JUnit
5 71 (7.97%) Selenium
6 51 (5.72%) SonarQube
7 48 (5.39%) Cucumber
8 43 (4.83%) Maven
9 35 (3.93%) Gradle
10 34 (3.82%) Bitbucket
10 34 (3.82%) Mockito
11 30 (3.37%) Gatling
12 29 (3.25%) REST Assured
13 27 (3.03%) Artifactory
14 26 (2.92%) Sonatype Nexus
15 22 (2.47%) JMeter
16 21 (2.36%) WebDriver
17 17 (1.91%) Postman
18 15 (1.68%) Snyk
19 14 (1.57%) Cypress.io
General
1 175 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 159 (17.85%) Public Sector
3 99 (11.11%) Finance
4 65 (7.30%) Banking
5 58 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.24%) Military
7 17 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.46%) Law
10 10 (1.12%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.01%) Legal
11 9 (1.01%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.79%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.67%) Police
14 5 (0.56%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.56%) Publishing
15 4 (0.45%) Marketing
15 4 (0.45%) Retail
16 3 (0.34%) Back Office
16 3 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 192 (21.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 161 (18.07%) Senior
3 148 (16.61%) Developer
4 102 (11.45%) AWS Engineer
5 80 (8.98%) Data Engineer
6 66 (7.41%) AWS DevOps
7 60 (6.73%) Lead
8 59 (6.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 50 (5.61%) Software Engineer
10 48 (5.39%) Cloud Engineer
11 44 (4.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 44 (4.94%) Java Developer
12 39 (4.38%) Test Engineer
13 38 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
14 35 (3.93%) Architect
15 32 (3.59%) Software Developer
16 31 (3.48%) Full-Stack Developer
17 27 (3.03%) Senior DevOps
17 27 (3.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 26 (2.92%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 445 (49.94%) Terraform
2 137 (15.38%) Kafka
3 116 (13.02%) Spring
4 104 (11.67%) Spring Boot
5 101 (11.34%) REST
6 66 (7.41%) React
7 59 (6.62%) RESTful
8 52 (5.84%) Playwright
9 44 (4.94%) PySpark
9 44 (4.94%) RabbitMQ
10 43 (4.83%) JSON
11 41 (4.60%) Node.js
12 35 (3.93%) HTML
12 35 (3.93%) YAML
13 30 (3.37%) CSS
14 27 (3.03%) JPA
14 27 (3.03%) OAuth
14 27 (3.03%) WireMock
15 25 (2.81%) .NET
16 23 (2.58%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 180 (20.20%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (5.50%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (4.04%) Data Centre
6 28 (3.14%) Data Structures
7 26 (2.92%) Onboarding
8 24 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.91%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.91%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (1.80%) AI Agents
11 14 (1.57%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.35%) Mainframe
13 11 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.12%) PKI
15 9 (1.01%) Private Cloud
15 9 (1.01%) Security Posture
16 7 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
16 7 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 175 (19.64%) Linux
2 41 (4.60%) Unix
2 41 (4.60%) Windows
3 40 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.46%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.35%) AIX
5 12 (1.35%) CentOS
6 11 (1.23%) zOS
7 10 (1.12%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.79%) VMS
9 3 (0.34%) Debian
9 3 (0.34%) Rocky
10 2 (0.22%) Android
10 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 753 (84.51%) CI/CD
2 534 (59.93%) DevOps
3 424 (47.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 339 (38.05%) Agile
5 314 (35.24%) Containerisation
6 274 (30.75%) Test Automation
7 181 (20.31%) Microservices
8 159 (17.85%) Observability
9 154 (17.28%) Software Engineering
10 153 (17.17%) Scrum
11 133 (14.93%) Platform Engineering
12 130 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 118 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
14 113 (12.68%) AI
15 105 (11.78%) DevSecOps
16 89 (9.99%) Migration
17 88 (9.88%) Deployment Automation
17 88 (9.88%) Event-Driven
18 86 (9.65%) ETL
19 84 (9.43%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 389 (43.66%) Python
2 222 (24.92%) Java
3 205 (23.01%) SQL
4 161 (18.07%) Bash
5 85 (9.54%) JavaScript
5 85 (9.54%) PowerShell
6 65 (7.30%) C#
7 55 (6.17%) TypeScript
8 35 (3.93%) Go
9 31 (3.48%) Shell Script
10 17 (1.91%) Bicep
11 15 (1.68%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.57%) C++
13 9 (1.01%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.90%) Groovy
15 7 (0.79%) Scala
16 6 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.67%) R
17 5 (0.56%) Cypher
17 5 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 430 (48.26%) Security Cleared
2 344 (38.61%) SC Cleared
3 74 (8.31%) DV Cleared
4 51 (5.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 51 (5.72%) Degree
5 44 (4.94%) AWS Certification
6 38 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.02%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 16 (1.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.68%) CISSP
11 14 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (1.35%) ISTQB
13 11 (1.23%) SAFe Agilist
14 9 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 5 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.56%) GCFA
16 5 (0.56%) GCIH
17 4 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (12.12%) QA
2 41 (4.60%) Accessibility
3 35 (3.93%) Data Quality
4 21 (2.36%) WCAG
5 15 (1.68%) NIST
6 12 (1.35%) GDPR
7 10 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.79%) SLA
10 6 (0.67%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.67%) NCSC
11 5 (0.56%) FATCA
12 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.11%) GRC
13 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 376 (42.20%) Docker
2 20 (2.24%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.46%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.67%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.56%) Squid
6 3 (0.34%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.22%) HDFS
7 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.11%) iptables
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 403 (45.23%) Kubernetes
2 236 (26.49%) Ansible
3 143 (16.05%) Grafana
4 125 (14.03%) Prometheus
5 43 (4.83%) Argo
6 39 (4.38%) Puppet
7 28 (3.14%) Progress Chef
8 13 (1.46%) Data Guard
8 13 (1.46%) Kibana
8 13 (1.46%) Oracle RMAN
9 11 (1.23%) Istio
10 10 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (1.01%) Packer
11 9 (1.01%) Podman
12 7 (0.79%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.56%) CASB
13 5 (0.56%) HP Fortify
13 5 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (0.45%) Check_MK
14 4 (0.45%) Salt
Vendors
1 100 (11.22%) Oracle
2 68 (7.63%) Microsoft
3 58 (6.51%) Google
4 47 (5.27%) Splunk
5 43 (4.83%) Talend
6 40 (4.49%) Informatica
7 37 (4.15%) VMware
8 32 (3.59%) Databricks
9 28 (3.14%) Dynatrace
10 26 (2.92%) Red Hat
11 24 (2.69%) ServiceNow
12 23 (2.58%) IBM
13 21 (2.36%) Palo Alto
14 20 (2.24%) F5
15 19 (2.13%) Denodo
16 18 (2.02%) Arista
16 18 (2.02%) Aruba
17 16 (1.80%) Trend Micro
18 15 (1.68%) Veracode
19 11 (1.23%) Cisco