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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 147 209
Rank change year-on-year -4 +62 +40
Contract jobs citing GitLab 819 532 412
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.82% 1.94% 1.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.51% 13.56% 9.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 344 290
10th Percentile £368 £356 £348
25th Percentile £425 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -8.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £659 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 8
10th Percentile £63.88 £61.60 £62.30
25th Percentile - £64.56 £70.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.73% +24.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £75.63
90th Percentile £81.75 £71.79 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -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 5,279 3,922 4,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.29% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,366 2,705 2,884
10th Percentile £350 £321 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 93 205
10th Percentile £28.97 £40.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.60 £73.90
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -7 350 £525 - 86
North of England -17 179 £500 +6.61% 47
Midlands +33 132 £469 -6.20% 22
West Midlands +27 125 £469 -8.49% 18
North West -30 75 £575 +21.05% 25
South East -43 72 £550 - 28
North East +6 71 £413 -11.29% 15
South West -20 50 £548 -8.67% 16
Yorkshire -33 48 £538 +13.16% 7
East of England -15 31 £489 +5.68% 13
East Midlands -12 7 £470 +74.07% 4
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 87 (10.62%) Confluence
2 53 (6.47%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (5.37%) Apache Spark
4 39 (4.76%) Apache
5 32 (3.91%) SAS
6 27 (3.30%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.85%) CICS
8 6 (0.73%) Camunda
8 6 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.49%) nginx
10 3 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.12%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Trello
2 1 (0.12%) 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
1 542 (66.18%) AWS
2 268 (32.72%) GitHub
3 256 (31.26%) Azure
4 200 (24.42%) GitHub Actions
5 142 (17.34%) GCP
6 116 (14.16%) Amazon S3
7 115 (14.04%) Azure DevOps
8 112 (13.68%) Serverless
9 105 (12.82%) Amazon EKS
10 100 (12.21%) AWS Lambda
11 93 (11.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 81 (9.89%) Amazon EC2
13 58 (7.08%) AWS CloudFormation
14 57 (6.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 41 (5.01%) OpenShift
16 37 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
17 36 (4.40%) OCI
18 35 (4.27%) Amazon SQS
19 32 (3.91%) Datadog
20 30 (3.66%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 41 (5.01%) Firewall
2 23 (2.81%) Network Security
3 22 (2.69%) BGP
3 22 (2.69%) WAN
4 21 (2.56%) OSPF
4 21 (2.56%) SD-WAN
5 20 (2.44%) DNS
5 20 (2.44%) Ethernet VPN
5 20 (2.44%) VXLAN
6 19 (2.32%) BIG-IP
6 19 (2.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 16 (1.95%) VPN
8 15 (1.83%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (1.34%) WLAN
10 8 (0.98%) HTTP
11 5 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.61%) SSL
12 4 (0.49%) DHCP
12 4 (0.49%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 48 (5.86%) Relational Database
4 41 (5.01%) Amazon Redshift
5 39 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
6 34 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (4.15%) DynamoDB
7 32 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (3.66%) Oracle Database
9 29 (3.54%) Pentaho
10 28 (3.42%) NoSQL
10 28 (3.42%) SQL Server
11 27 (3.30%) Power BI
12 23 (2.81%) RDBMS
13 20 (2.44%) MySQL
14 19 (2.32%) Data Lake
15 18 (2.20%) Big Data
16 17 (2.08%) Redis
17 12 (1.47%) Oracle Exadata
18 11 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 346 (42.25%) Jenkins
2 192 (23.44%) Git
3 111 (13.55%) JIRA
4 64 (7.81%) Selenium
5 58 (7.08%) JUnit
6 37 (4.52%) Cucumber
7 36 (4.40%) Bitbucket
8 33 (4.03%) SonarQube
9 30 (3.66%) Artifactory
10 29 (3.54%) Gradle
11 25 (3.05%) JMeter
12 24 (2.93%) Gatling
12 24 (2.93%) Mockito
13 23 (2.81%) REST Assured
14 22 (2.69%) Maven
14 22 (2.69%) WebDriver
15 19 (2.32%) Postman
16 15 (1.83%) Snyk
16 15 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
17 11 (1.34%) MLflow
General
1 158 (19.29%) Social Skills
2 153 (18.68%) Public Sector
3 90 (10.99%) Finance
4 65 (7.94%) Banking
5 43 (5.25%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.20%) Military
7 15 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.71%) Law
9 13 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.34%) Legal
11 7 (0.85%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.73%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.73%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.61%) Police
14 4 (0.49%) Publishing
15 3 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.24%) Back Office
16 2 (0.24%) Marketing
16 2 (0.24%) Retail
Job Titles
1 181 (22.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 162 (19.78%) Senior
3 117 (14.29%) Developer
4 97 (11.84%) AWS Engineer
5 78 (9.52%) Data Engineer
6 66 (8.06%) AWS DevOps
7 60 (7.33%) Lead
8 59 (7.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 52 (6.35%) Software Engineer
10 41 (5.01%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 40 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
12 37 (4.52%) Java Developer
13 36 (4.40%) Test Engineer
14 33 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
15 32 (3.91%) Architect
15 32 (3.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 27 (3.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 24 (2.93%) Senior Developer
18 23 (2.81%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (14.04%) Kafka
2 91 (11.11%) Spring
3 83 (10.13%) REST
4 82 (10.01%) Spring Boot
5 48 (5.86%) React
5 48 (5.86%) RESTful
6 44 (5.37%) PySpark
7 37 (4.52%) Node.js
7 37 (4.52%) Playwright
8 31 (3.79%) JSON
9 28 (3.42%) RabbitMQ
10 27 (3.30%) YAML
11 26 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
12 23 (2.81%) WireMock
13 22 (2.69%) AWS CDK
14 21 (2.56%) Keycloak
15 20 (2.44%) OAuth
15 20 (2.44%) SOAP
16 19 (2.32%) pytest
17 17 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 161 (19.66%) Cloud Native
2 60 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.25%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.54%) Data Centre
5 27 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (3.30%) Onboarding
6 20 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 20 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (2.44%) Public Cloud
7 18 (2.20%) Distributed Architecture
8 17 (2.08%) Algorithms
9 14 (1.71%) Mainframe
10 9 (1.10%) Private Cloud
11 8 (0.98%) AI Agents
11 8 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (0.98%) NHS
12 7 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.85%) DataPower
12 7 (0.85%) PKI
13 6 (0.73%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 157 (19.17%) Linux
2 37 (4.52%) Windows
3 35 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 34 (4.15%) Unix
5 14 (1.71%) zOS
6 12 (1.47%) AIX
7 10 (1.22%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.98%) CentOS
9 5 (0.61%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.37%) Debian
10 3 (0.37%) Rocky
10 3 (0.37%) 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
1 673 (82.17%) CI/CD
2 489 (59.71%) DevOps
3 368 (44.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 306 (37.36%) Agile
5 280 (34.19%) Containerisation
6 248 (30.28%) Test Automation
7 156 (19.05%) Microservices
8 142 (17.34%) Observability
9 135 (16.48%) Software Engineering
10 126 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
10 126 (15.38%) Scrum
11 112 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 104 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
13 99 (12.09%) AI
14 89 (10.87%) DevSecOps
15 79 (9.65%) Migration
16 78 (9.52%) ETL
17 75 (9.16%) Event-Driven
18 70 (8.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 67 (8.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 346 (42.25%) Python
2 185 (22.59%) Java
3 183 (22.34%) SQL
4 133 (16.24%) Bash
5 61 (7.45%) JavaScript
6 60 (7.33%) PowerShell
7 52 (6.35%) TypeScript
8 50 (6.11%) C#
9 33 (4.03%) Go
10 26 (3.17%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.08%) Bicep
11 17 (2.08%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.71%) C++
13 8 (0.98%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.73%) JCL
14 6 (0.73%) Scala
15 5 (0.61%) C
15 5 (0.61%) Cypher
15 5 (0.61%) Groovy
15 5 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 393 (47.99%) Security Cleared
2 329 (40.17%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.35%) DV Cleared
4 38 (4.64%) AWS Certification
4 38 (4.64%) Degree
5 34 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 29 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (2.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 16 (1.95%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 13 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.34%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (1.10%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.61%) CISSP
14 4 (0.49%) CSSLP
14 4 (0.49%) GIAC
15 3 (0.37%) CCNP
16 2 (0.24%) CCIE
16 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (10.13%) QA
2 34 (4.15%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.79%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.22%) SLA
5 9 (1.10%) WCAG
6 5 (0.61%) FATCA
6 5 (0.61%) NIST
6 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.37%) GDPR
9 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.12%) GRC
10 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
10 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
10 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 347 (42.37%) Docker
2 21 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.59%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.61%) HDFS
6 5 (0.61%) Squid
7 3 (0.37%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 415 (50.67%) Terraform
2 359 (43.83%) Kubernetes
3 205 (25.03%) Ansible
4 151 (18.44%) Grafana
5 129 (15.75%) Prometheus
6 46 (5.62%) Argo
7 36 (4.40%) Puppet
8 19 (2.32%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.59%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.59%) Istio
9 13 (1.59%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.22%) Packer
10 10 (1.22%) Podman
11 5 (0.61%) linkerd
11 5 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.61%) Salt
11 5 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.49%) Check_MK
12 4 (0.49%) Kibana
12 4 (0.49%) Suricata
Vendors
1 101 (12.33%) Oracle
2 55 (6.72%) Microsoft
3 50 (6.11%) Google
4 48 (5.86%) Splunk
5 47 (5.74%) Talend
6 45 (5.49%) Informatica
7 24 (2.93%) Databricks
7 24 (2.93%) VMware
8 23 (2.81%) Denodo
9 22 (2.69%) Dynatrace
9 22 (2.69%) Palo Alto
10 20 (2.44%) F5
11 19 (2.32%) IBM
11 19 (2.32%) Red Hat
11 19 (2.32%) ServiceNow
12 18 (2.20%) Arista
12 18 (2.20%) Aruba
13 15 (1.83%) Trend Micro
14 10 (1.22%) Salesforce
15 9 (1.10%) Veracode