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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 147 204
Rank change year-on-year -7 +57 +49
Contract jobs citing GitLab 818 535 417
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.81% 1.94% 1.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.44% 13.56% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 346 295
10th Percentile £368 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £432 £438
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 £658 £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 5,297 3,945 4,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.30% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,381 2,716 2,901
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 £630
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 93 209
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 £73.80
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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -12 350 £525 - 86
North of England -20 180 £500 +6.61% 56
Midlands +26 133 £469 -6.20% 26
West Midlands +30 126 £469 -8.49% 19
North West -29 76 £575 +21.05% 31
North East +6 71 £413 -11.29% 17
South East -52 69 £550 - 29
South West -21 50 £548 -8.67% 20
Yorkshire -38 48 £550 +15.79% 8
East of England -20 31 £489 +5.68% 13
East Midlands -13 7 £470 +74.07% 7
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 (10.51%) Confluence
2 53 (6.48%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (5.38%) Apache Spark
4 39 (4.77%) Apache
5 33 (4.03%) SAS
6 27 (3.30%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.86%) 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%) SharePoint
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
1 539 (65.89%) AWS
2 268 (32.76%) GitHub
3 252 (30.81%) Azure
4 198 (24.21%) GitHub Actions
5 140 (17.11%) GCP
6 116 (14.18%) Amazon S3
7 112 (13.69%) Azure DevOps
8 111 (13.57%) Serverless
9 102 (12.47%) Amazon EKS
10 100 (12.22%) AWS Lambda
11 89 (10.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 81 (9.90%) Amazon EC2
13 57 (6.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 55 (6.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 41 (5.01%) OpenShift
16 37 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
17 36 (4.40%) OCI
18 35 (4.28%) Amazon SQS
19 30 (3.67%) Amazon EMR
19 30 (3.67%) Power Platform
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 (2.57%) OSPF
4 21 (2.57%) 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 (1.96%) 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 65 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (7.82%) MongoDB
3 50 (6.11%) Relational Database
4 41 (5.01%) Amazon Redshift
5 39 (4.77%) Amazon Athena
6 34 (4.16%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (4.16%) DynamoDB
7 32 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (3.67%) Oracle Database
9 29 (3.55%) Pentaho
10 28 (3.42%) NoSQL
11 27 (3.30%) Power BI
11 27 (3.30%) SQL Server
12 22 (2.69%) 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
1 345 (42.18%) Jenkins
2 191 (23.35%) Git
3 111 (13.57%) JIRA
4 66 (8.07%) Selenium
5 58 (7.09%) JUnit
6 37 (4.52%) Cucumber
7 36 (4.40%) Bitbucket
8 33 (4.03%) SonarQube
9 30 (3.67%) Artifactory
10 29 (3.55%) Gradle
11 25 (3.06%) Gatling
11 25 (3.06%) REST Assured
12 24 (2.93%) JMeter
12 24 (2.93%) Mockito
13 22 (2.69%) Maven
13 22 (2.69%) WebDriver
14 19 (2.32%) Postman
15 15 (1.83%) Snyk
15 15 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
16 13 (1.59%) Serenity BDD
General
1 157 (19.19%) Social Skills
2 153 (18.70%) Public Sector
3 89 (10.88%) Finance
4 64 (7.82%) Banking
5 43 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.32%) 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 (0.86%) 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
15 3 (0.37%) Retail
16 2 (0.24%) Marketing
16 2 (0.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 181 (22.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 162 (19.80%) Senior
3 118 (14.43%) Developer
4 97 (11.86%) AWS Engineer
5 79 (9.66%) Data Engineer
6 66 (8.07%) AWS DevOps
7 59 (7.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 58 (7.09%) Lead
9 52 (6.36%) Software Engineer
10 42 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 40 (4.89%) Platform Engineer
12 38 (4.65%) Test Engineer
13 37 (4.52%) Java Developer
14 33 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
15 32 (3.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 31 (3.79%) Architect
17 27 (3.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 24 (2.93%) Full-Stack Developer
18 24 (2.93%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (14.18%) Kafka
2 93 (11.37%) Spring
3 84 (10.27%) Spring Boot
4 83 (10.15%) REST
5 49 (5.99%) React
5 49 (5.99%) RESTful
6 44 (5.38%) PySpark
7 39 (4.77%) Playwright
8 38 (4.65%) Node.js
9 30 (3.67%) JSON
10 28 (3.42%) RabbitMQ
10 28 (3.42%) YAML
11 26 (3.18%) Elastic Stack
12 23 (2.81%) WireMock
13 22 (2.69%) AWS CDK
14 21 (2.57%) Keycloak
15 20 (2.44%) OAuth
15 20 (2.44%) SOAP
16 19 (2.32%) pytest
17 18 (2.20%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 160 (19.56%) Cloud Native
2 60 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.55%) Data Centre
5 27 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (3.30%) Onboarding
6 20 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (2.44%) Public Cloud
7 19 (2.32%) Data Structures
8 18 (2.20%) Distributed Architecture
9 16 (1.96%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.59%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.10%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.98%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (0.98%) NHS
13 7 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.86%) DataPower
13 7 (0.86%) PKI
14 6 (0.73%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 157 (19.19%) Linux
2 37 (4.52%) Windows
3 35 (4.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 35 (4.28%) Unix
4 14 (1.71%) zOS
5 12 (1.47%) AIX
6 10 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.98%) CentOS
8 5 (0.61%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.37%) Debian
9 3 (0.37%) Rocky
9 3 (0.37%) VMS
10 2 (0.24%) Android
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 672 (82.15%) CI/CD
2 487 (59.54%) DevOps
3 365 (44.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 301 (36.80%) Agile
5 277 (33.86%) Containerisation
6 251 (30.68%) Test Automation
7 159 (19.44%) Microservices
8 141 (17.24%) Observability
9 136 (16.63%) Software Engineering
10 125 (15.28%) Platform Engineering
10 125 (15.28%) Scrum
11 109 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 104 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
13 99 (12.10%) AI
14 89 (10.88%) DevSecOps
15 78 (9.54%) Migration
16 77 (9.41%) ETL
17 74 (9.05%) Event-Driven
18 70 (8.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 65 (7.95%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 345 (42.18%) Python
2 186 (22.74%) Java
3 182 (22.25%) SQL
4 133 (16.26%) Bash
5 61 (7.46%) JavaScript
6 59 (7.21%) PowerShell
7 52 (6.36%) TypeScript
8 49 (5.99%) C#
9 33 (4.03%) Go
10 26 (3.18%) 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%) Groovy
15 5 (0.61%) Ruby
16 4 (0.49%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 395 (48.29%) Security Cleared
2 332 (40.59%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.36%) DV Cleared
4 38 (4.65%) Degree
5 36 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (4.28%) AWS Certification
7 29 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 16 (1.96%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 11 (1.34%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.24%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (9.78%) QA
2 34 (4.16%) Data Quality
3 33 (4.03%) 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 3 (0.37%) GDPR
7 3 (0.37%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.12%) GRC
9 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
9 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
9 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 346 (42.30%) Docker
2 20 (2.44%) 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
1 413 (50.49%) Terraform
2 356 (43.52%) Kubernetes
3 201 (24.57%) Ansible
4 150 (18.34%) Grafana
5 131 (16.01%) Prometheus
6 47 (5.75%) Argo
7 36 (4.40%) Puppet
8 19 (2.32%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.71%) Istio
10 13 (1.59%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.59%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (1.22%) Packer
11 10 (1.22%) Podman
12 5 (0.61%) linkerd
12 5 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (0.61%) Salt
12 5 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.49%) Check_MK
13 4 (0.49%) Kibana
13 4 (0.49%) Suricata
Vendors
1 102 (12.47%) Oracle
2 54 (6.60%) Microsoft
3 48 (5.87%) Google
3 48 (5.87%) Talend
4 47 (5.75%) Splunk
5 46 (5.62%) Informatica
6 24 (2.93%) Databricks
6 24 (2.93%) VMware
7 23 (2.81%) Denodo
8 22 (2.69%) Palo Alto
9 20 (2.44%) F5
10 19 (2.32%) Dynatrace
10 19 (2.32%) IBM
10 19 (2.32%) Red Hat
11 18 (2.20%) Arista
11 18 (2.20%) Aruba
11 18 (2.20%) ServiceNow
12 15 (1.83%) Trend Micro
13 9 (1.10%) Veracode
14 8 (0.98%) Salesforce