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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 134 163
Rank change year-on-year -3 +29 +104
Contract jobs citing GitLab 936 577 506
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.03% 2.07% 1.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.80% 13.68% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 640 407 341
10th Percentile £385 £363 £350
25th Percentile £433 £438 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £602 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 7 7
10th Percentile £61.37 £61.55 £70.40
25th Percentile £65.00 £63.63 -
Median hourly rate £66.61 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.72
90th Percentile £95.00 - £80.00
UK median hourly rate £66.61 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -0.59% -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 5,257 4,217 4,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.40% 15.10% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,330 2,924 2,737
10th Percentile £351 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £695 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 97 166
10th Percentile £24.08 £37.90 £40.02
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.00 £54.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.16 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.45 £76.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 5 October 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 October 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 October 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 +11 402 £525 -1.64% 331
North of England -30 185 £500 +5.15% 152
Midlands +44 155 £475 -12.84% 71
West Midlands +36 146 £475 -13.64% 48
North East +1 79 £413 -24.31% 37
North West -28 79 £569 +36.29% 85
South East -28 75 £540 +7.89% 80
South West -12 62 £550 -8.33% 94
East of England -16 38 £450 -7.69% 65
Yorkshire -59 38 £550 +10.00% 30
East Midlands -7 9 £405 +50.00% 23
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 (9.19%) Confluence
2 66 (7.05%) Apache Spark
3 56 (5.98%) Apache Airflow
4 52 (5.56%) Apache
5 29 (3.10%) Jupyter
6 14 (1.50%) SAS
7 12 (1.28%) Camunda
8 6 (0.64%) nginx
9 5 (0.53%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.32%) CICS
10 3 (0.32%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.21%) Traefik
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.11%) CMS
12 1 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) CATIA
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Simulink
2 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 620 (66.24%) AWS
2 307 (32.80%) Azure
3 297 (31.73%) GitHub
4 204 (21.79%) GitHub Actions
5 152 (16.24%) GCP
6 149 (15.92%) Azure DevOps
7 125 (13.35%) Amazon S3
8 117 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
9 116 (12.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 114 (12.18%) Serverless
11 104 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
12 92 (9.83%) Amazon EC2
13 57 (6.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 56 (5.98%) AWS CloudFormation
14 56 (5.98%) OpenShift
15 53 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
16 42 (4.49%) Amazon SQS
17 39 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
18 36 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 35 (3.74%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 48 (5.13%) Firewall
2 37 (3.95%) DNS
3 31 (3.31%) Network Security
4 30 (3.21%) BGP
4 30 (3.21%) Ethernet VPN
4 30 (3.21%) VXLAN
5 28 (2.99%) TCP/IP
6 26 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (2.35%) WAN
8 21 (2.24%) SD-WAN
9 20 (2.14%) BIG-IP
9 20 (2.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 20 (2.14%) OSPF
10 14 (1.50%) VPN
11 12 (1.28%) 5G
12 11 (1.18%) 4G
12 11 (1.18%) HTTP
12 11 (1.18%) IPv4
12 11 (1.18%) IPv6
12 11 (1.18%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (9.19%) MongoDB
2 77 (8.23%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (4.81%) Relational Database
4 44 (4.70%) Amazon Athena
4 44 (4.70%) Amazon RDS
5 42 (4.49%) NoSQL
6 37 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
7 36 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
8 33 (3.53%) Oracle Database
9 32 (3.42%) SQL Server
10 31 (3.31%) Data Lake
10 31 (3.31%) Pentaho
11 30 (3.21%) DynamoDB
12 29 (3.10%) Redis
13 28 (2.99%) MySQL
13 28 (2.99%) Power BI
14 27 (2.88%) Big Data
15 26 (2.78%) RDBMS
16 15 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
17 13 (1.39%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 368 (39.32%) Jenkins
2 258 (27.56%) Git
3 121 (12.93%) JIRA
4 85 (9.08%) JUnit
5 79 (8.44%) Selenium
6 63 (6.73%) Cucumber
7 59 (6.30%) SonarQube
8 56 (5.98%) Maven
9 42 (4.49%) Gatling
10 41 (4.38%) Mockito
11 37 (3.95%) Gradle
12 32 (3.42%) Bitbucket
13 30 (3.21%) REST Assured
14 29 (3.10%) Sonatype Nexus
15 28 (2.99%) Artifactory
16 18 (1.92%) Cypress.io
17 17 (1.82%) JMeter
17 17 (1.82%) WebDriver
18 15 (1.60%) Postman
19 13 (1.39%) Snyk
General
1 188 (20.09%) Social Skills
2 168 (17.95%) Public Sector
3 104 (11.11%) Finance
4 70 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (6.94%) Banking
6 24 (2.56%) Military
7 22 (2.35%) Telecoms
8 20 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.39%) Law
10 11 (1.18%) Aerospace
11 9 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (0.96%) Legal
12 6 (0.64%) Back Office
12 6 (0.64%) Police
13 5 (0.53%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.53%) Publishing
14 4 (0.43%) Front Office
14 4 (0.43%) Local Government
14 4 (0.43%) Retail
15 3 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 200 (21.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 170 (18.16%) Senior
3 165 (17.63%) Developer
4 101 (10.79%) AWS Engineer
5 79 (8.44%) Data Engineer
6 64 (6.84%) AWS DevOps
7 59 (6.30%) Lead
8 57 (6.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 50 (5.34%) Java Developer
10 47 (5.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 46 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
11 46 (4.91%) Test Engineer
12 45 (4.81%) Architect
13 44 (4.70%) Software Engineer
14 40 (4.27%) Java Engineer
15 38 (4.06%) Software Developer
16 37 (3.95%) Full-Stack Developer
17 36 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
18 30 (3.21%) Senior DevOps
19 29 (3.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 480 (51.28%) Terraform
2 146 (15.60%) Kafka
3 137 (14.64%) Spring
4 118 (12.61%) REST
5 117 (12.50%) Spring Boot
6 68 (7.26%) Playwright
6 68 (7.26%) React
7 59 (6.30%) RESTful
8 50 (5.34%) JSON
9 49 (5.24%) RabbitMQ
10 41 (4.38%) PySpark
11 39 (4.17%) Node.js
12 36 (3.85%) HTML
13 35 (3.74%) JPA
14 33 (3.53%) YAML
15 32 (3.42%) CSS
16 31 (3.31%) .NET
16 31 (3.31%) OpenAPI
17 29 (3.10%) Gherkin
17 29 (3.10%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 191 (20.41%) Cloud Native
2 63 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (4.91%) Product Ownership
4 36 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 36 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (3.53%) Data Structures
6 27 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 25 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.03%) Algorithms
9 16 (1.71%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.71%) PKI
9 16 (1.71%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
11 12 (1.28%) Private Cloud
12 11 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.18%) Mainframe
12 11 (1.18%) Replication
13 10 (1.07%) Security Posture
14 9 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 199 (21.26%) Linux
2 45 (4.81%) Windows
3 42 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 39 (4.17%) Unix
5 16 (1.71%) Ubuntu
6 15 (1.60%) CentOS
7 13 (1.39%) VMS
8 12 (1.28%) AIX
9 10 (1.07%) Windows Server
9 10 (1.07%) zOS
10 2 (0.21%) Debian
10 2 (0.21%) Rocky
10 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Android
11 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (84.40%) CI/CD
2 554 (59.19%) DevOps
3 449 (47.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 366 (39.10%) Agile
5 335 (35.79%) Containerisation
6 298 (31.84%) Test Automation
7 199 (21.26%) Microservices
8 181 (19.34%) Scrum
9 176 (18.80%) Observability
10 154 (16.45%) Software Engineering
11 148 (15.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 132 (14.10%) Platform Engineering
13 130 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
14 128 (13.68%) AI
15 105 (11.22%) Deployment Automation
16 103 (11.00%) DevSecOps
17 99 (10.58%) Software Delivery
17 99 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
18 96 (10.26%) Mentoring
19 94 (10.04%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 421 (44.98%) Python
2 260 (27.78%) Java
3 222 (23.72%) SQL
4 164 (17.52%) Bash
5 92 (9.83%) JavaScript
6 79 (8.44%) PowerShell
7 65 (6.94%) C#
8 50 (5.34%) TypeScript
9 42 (4.49%) Go
10 40 (4.27%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.71%) Bicep
12 14 (1.50%) PL/SQL
13 13 (1.39%) C++
14 12 (1.28%) Groovy
15 8 (0.85%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.85%) Scala
16 6 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.64%) R
17 5 (0.53%) Cypher
17 5 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 437 (46.69%) Security Cleared
2 331 (35.36%) SC Cleared
3 94 (10.04%) DV Cleared
4 78 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 55 (5.88%) Degree
6 48 (5.13%) AWS Certification
7 38 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 15 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 14 (1.50%) CISSP
11 12 (1.28%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.18%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.85%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.53%) GCFA
16 5 (0.53%) GCIH
17 4 (0.43%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (14.10%) QA
2 52 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 31 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.31%) WCAG
4 17 (1.82%) NIST
5 13 (1.39%) GDPR
5 13 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.07%) NCSC
7 9 (0.96%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.64%) SLA
10 5 (0.53%) FATCA
10 5 (0.53%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.11%) GRC
12 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.11%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 402 (42.95%) Docker
2 22 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.14%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.39%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.85%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.53%) Squid
7 4 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.43%) VirtualBox
8 3 (0.32%) Firmware
8 3 (0.32%) HDFS
9 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 431 (46.05%) Kubernetes
2 254 (27.14%) Ansible
3 153 (16.35%) Grafana
4 134 (14.32%) Prometheus
5 41 (4.38%) Argo
6 40 (4.27%) Puppet
7 27 (2.88%) Kibana
7 27 (2.88%) Progress Chef
8 13 (1.39%) Data Guard
8 13 (1.39%) Oracle RMAN
8 13 (1.39%) Packer
9 12 (1.28%) Istio
10 9 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.85%) Podman
12 7 (0.75%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.53%) CASB
13 5 (0.53%) Cilium
13 5 (0.53%) HP Fortify
14 4 (0.43%) Rancher
14 4 (0.43%) Suricata
Vendors
1 103 (11.00%) Oracle
2 67 (7.16%) Microsoft
3 66 (7.05%) Google
4 56 (5.98%) Splunk
5 45 (4.81%) Talend
6 42 (4.49%) Informatica
7 41 (4.38%) VMware
8 33 (3.53%) Dynatrace
9 28 (2.99%) Databricks
10 24 (2.56%) IBM
10 24 (2.56%) ServiceNow
11 23 (2.46%) Red Hat
12 22 (2.35%) Palo Alto
13 21 (2.24%) F5
14 18 (1.92%) Arista
14 18 (1.92%) Aruba
15 16 (1.71%) Denodo
15 16 (1.71%) Trend Micro
16 14 (1.50%) Veracode
17 13 (1.39%) Cisco