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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 147 214
Rank change year-on-year +5 +67 +46
Contract jobs citing GitLab 853 534 417
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.89% 1.97% 1.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.03% 13.94% 9.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 341 293
10th Percentile £381 £356 £357
25th Percentile £428 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £650
90th Percentile £688 £650 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 8
10th Percentile £58.58 £61.55 £62.30
25th Percentile - £63.63 £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 £77.25 £73.38 £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 5,320 3,832 4,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.81% 14.14% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,429 2,624 3,048
10th Percentile £350 £327 £350
25th Percentile £413 £407 £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 88 233
10th Percentile £28.97 £30.05 £33.01
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.89
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -4 358 £525 - 58
North of England -11 198 £453 -4.68% 38
Midlands +21 137 £463 -7.50% 16
West Midlands +20 130 £463 -11.90% 11
North West -22 88 £525 +7.14% 22
North East +12 71 £406 -12.63% 8
South East -36 68 £550 +9.89% 19
Yorkshire -37 56 £540 +10.77% 8
South West -14 54 £500 -16.67% 26
East of England -14 33 £479 +6.39% 8
East Midlands -20 7 £470 +74.07% 5
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 89 (10.43%) Confluence
2 53 (6.21%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (5.16%) Apache Spark
4 40 (4.69%) Apache
5 36 (4.22%) SAS
6 27 (3.17%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.82%) CICS
8 6 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.59%) Camunda
10 4 (0.47%) nginx
10 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.23%) CMS
12 2 (0.23%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.12%) Trello
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
1 560 (65.65%) AWS
2 263 (30.83%) GitHub
3 253 (29.66%) Azure
4 187 (21.92%) GitHub Actions
5 133 (15.59%) GCP
6 128 (15.01%) Amazon S3
7 120 (14.07%) Serverless
8 107 (12.54%) AWS Lambda
9 105 (12.31%) Azure DevOps
10 103 (12.08%) Amazon EKS
11 95 (11.14%) Amazon EC2
12 89 (10.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 61 (7.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 57 (6.68%) AWS CloudFormation
15 42 (4.92%) OpenShift
16 39 (4.57%) Amazon ECS
17 33 (3.87%) OCI
18 30 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
19 29 (3.40%) Amazon EMR
19 29 (3.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.81%) Firewall
2 21 (2.46%) BGP
2 21 (2.46%) Network Security
2 21 (2.46%) WAN
3 20 (2.34%) OSPF
4 19 (2.23%) BIG-IP
4 19 (2.23%) Ethernet VPN
4 19 (2.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 19 (2.23%) SD-WAN
4 19 (2.23%) VXLAN
5 16 (1.88%) DNS
6 15 (1.76%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (1.41%) VPN
8 11 (1.29%) WLAN
9 8 (0.94%) HTTP
10 6 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.47%) MQTT
11 4 (0.47%) SSL
12 3 (0.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (7.15%) MongoDB
1 61 (7.15%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (5.74%) Relational Database
3 42 (4.92%) Amazon Athena
4 41 (4.81%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (3.99%) Amazon RDS
6 33 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (3.75%) DynamoDB
8 30 (3.52%) Oracle Database
8 30 (3.52%) Pentaho
9 29 (3.40%) NoSQL
10 26 (3.05%) Power BI
11 25 (2.93%) SQL Server
12 21 (2.46%) Big Data
13 20 (2.34%) RDBMS
14 19 (2.23%) Data Lake
14 19 (2.23%) MySQL
15 15 (1.76%) Redis
16 12 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
17 11 (1.29%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 358 (41.97%) Jenkins
2 200 (23.45%) Git
3 123 (14.42%) JIRA
4 72 (8.44%) Selenium
5 66 (7.74%) JUnit
6 40 (4.69%) Cucumber
7 35 (4.10%) SonarQube
8 34 (3.99%) Bitbucket
9 31 (3.63%) Mockito
10 30 (3.52%) Artifactory
11 29 (3.40%) JMeter
11 29 (3.40%) Postman
12 28 (3.28%) Gradle
13 27 (3.17%) Gatling
13 27 (3.17%) REST Assured
14 25 (2.93%) WebDriver
15 23 (2.70%) Maven
16 13 (1.52%) Serenity BDD
16 13 (1.52%) Snyk
16 13 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 167 (19.58%) Social Skills
2 164 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 92 (10.79%) Finance
4 67 (7.85%) Banking
5 46 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.11%) Military
8 14 (1.64%) Law
9 12 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.29%) Legal
11 8 (0.94%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.82%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.70%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.59%) Police
15 4 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.47%) Publishing
16 3 (0.35%) Retail
17 2 (0.23%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 190 (22.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 155 (18.17%) Senior
3 128 (15.01%) Developer
4 100 (11.72%) AWS Engineer
5 87 (10.20%) Data Engineer
6 71 (8.32%) AWS DevOps
7 64 (7.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 60 (7.03%) Lead
9 48 (5.63%) Software Engineer
10 42 (4.92%) Java Developer
11 41 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 39 (4.57%) Test Engineer
13 38 (4.45%) Cloud Engineer
13 38 (4.45%) Platform Engineer
14 32 (3.75%) Architect
15 30 (3.52%) Senior DevOps
16 29 (3.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 28 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
18 26 (3.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
19 24 (2.81%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (13.36%) Kafka
2 103 (12.08%) Spring
3 90 (10.55%) Spring Boot
4 89 (10.43%) REST
5 66 (7.74%) RESTful
6 58 (6.80%) React
7 45 (5.28%) Playwright
8 43 (5.04%) Node.js
8 43 (5.04%) PySpark
9 36 (4.22%) YAML
10 31 (3.63%) RabbitMQ
11 30 (3.52%) Elastic Stack
12 27 (3.17%) JSON
13 25 (2.93%) AWS CDK
14 24 (2.81%) WireMock
15 23 (2.70%) SOAP
16 21 (2.46%) HTML
16 21 (2.46%) Keycloak
16 21 (2.46%) pytest
17 20 (2.34%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 158 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.80%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (5.74%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.87%) Data Centre
5 28 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (2.70%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.76%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.76%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.29%) Mainframe
12 10 (1.17%) Private Cloud
13 9 (1.06%) NHS
14 8 (0.94%) AI Agents
14 8 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.94%) Management Information System
15 7 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (0.82%) DataPower
16 6 (0.70%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 166 (19.46%) Linux
2 39 (4.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 39 (4.57%) Windows
3 38 (4.45%) Unix
4 11 (1.29%) AIX
4 11 (1.29%) zOS
5 10 (1.17%) CentOS
6 9 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.59%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.47%) Debian
8 4 (0.47%) Rocky
9 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.35%) VMS
10 2 (0.23%) Android
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 694 (81.36%) CI/CD
2 494 (57.91%) DevOps
3 355 (41.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 309 (36.23%) Agile
5 290 (34.00%) Containerisation
6 264 (30.95%) Test Automation
7 161 (18.87%) Microservices
8 137 (16.06%) Observability
9 129 (15.12%) Scrum
10 125 (14.65%) Software Engineering
11 121 (14.19%) Platform Engineering
12 114 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
13 113 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
14 93 (10.90%) AI
15 85 (9.96%) DevSecOps
15 85 (9.96%) ETL
16 79 (9.26%) Event-Driven
17 78 (9.14%) Migration
18 69 (8.09%) Data Engineering
18 69 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 346 (40.56%) Python
2 208 (24.38%) Java
3 188 (22.04%) SQL
4 127 (14.89%) Bash
5 74 (8.68%) JavaScript
6 61 (7.15%) TypeScript
7 53 (6.21%) PowerShell
8 49 (5.74%) C#
9 35 (4.10%) Go
10 30 (3.52%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.99%) Bicep
12 16 (1.88%) PL/SQL
13 13 (1.52%) C++
14 10 (1.17%) Scala
15 8 (0.94%) Cypher
16 7 (0.82%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.82%) Ruby
17 6 (0.70%) JCL
17 6 (0.70%) MATLAB
18 5 (0.59%) C
Qualifications
1 414 (48.53%) Security Cleared
2 350 (41.03%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.51%) DV Cleared
4 40 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 40 (4.69%) Degree
5 36 (4.22%) AWS Certification
6 30 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 13 (1.52%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.29%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.17%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.59%) CISSP
13 4 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.47%) CSSLP
13 4 (0.47%) GIAC
14 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.23%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (9.50%) QA
2 36 (4.22%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.99%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.41%) SLA
5 10 (1.17%) WCAG
6 5 (0.59%) FATCA
6 5 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.47%) GDPR
7 4 (0.47%) NIST
8 3 (0.35%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.12%) GRC
9 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
9 1 (0.12%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
9 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 356 (41.74%) Docker
2 24 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.41%) Oracle RAC
3 12 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.59%) HDFS
5 5 (0.59%) Squid
6 4 (0.47%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.35%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.23%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 412 (48.30%) Terraform
2 366 (42.91%) Kubernetes
3 192 (22.51%) Ansible
4 151 (17.70%) Grafana
5 134 (15.71%) Prometheus
6 45 (5.28%) Argo
7 34 (3.99%) Puppet
8 16 (1.88%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.41%) Data Guard
9 12 (1.41%) Istio
9 12 (1.41%) Oracle RMAN
10 11 (1.29%) Podman
11 10 (1.17%) Packer
12 9 (1.06%) Red Hat Satellite
13 7 (0.82%) Kibana
13 7 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.70%) Check_MK
14 6 (0.70%) Salt
15 5 (0.59%) linkerd
16 4 (0.47%) Suricata
Vendors
1 102 (11.96%) Oracle
2 52 (6.10%) Microsoft
3 50 (5.86%) Talend
4 47 (5.51%) Informatica
5 46 (5.39%) Splunk
6 41 (4.81%) Google
7 26 (3.05%) Red Hat
8 25 (2.93%) Databricks
9 24 (2.81%) VMware
10 23 (2.70%) Denodo
11 22 (2.58%) ServiceNow
12 21 (2.46%) F5
13 20 (2.34%) Palo Alto
14 18 (2.11%) Arista
14 18 (2.11%) Aruba
14 18 (2.11%) Salesforce
15 17 (1.99%) Dynatrace
16 15 (1.76%) IBM
16 15 (1.76%) Trend Micro
17 14 (1.64%) Veracode