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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 149 216
Rank change year-on-year +15 +67 +27
Contract jobs citing GitLab 787 463 396
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.90% 1.93% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.82% 13.89% 9.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 292 291
10th Percentile £396 £376 £363
25th Percentile £432 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% -5.06%
75th Percentile £580 £603 £653
90th Percentile £667 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 1 7
10th Percentile £42.13 - £57.65
25th Percentile £52.50 - £61.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +11.45% +87.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £76.25
90th Percentile £77.00 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £70.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% +18.51% +76.77%

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 4,976 3,334 4,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.02% 13.91% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,272 2,263 2,904
10th Percentile £348 £343 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 62 200
10th Percentile £35.13 £27.54 £31.71
25th Percentile £55.00 £48.50 £54.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £57.63 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -11.35% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.69 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.88 £78.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +5.69%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -8 321 £525 -0.94% 53
North of England -3 191 £500 - 64
Midlands +15 113 £463 -6.09% 22
West Midlands +6 101 £469 -10.67% 15
North West -4 94 £500 - 31
Yorkshire -26 67 £500 -4.76% 12
South East -37 61 £550 +9.89% 28
South West +7 58 £500 +8.70% 16
North East -4 42 £450 -14.29% 21
East of England -9 34 £483 +7.22% 8
East Midlands -17 12 £436 +40.19% 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 62 (7.88%) Confluence
2 30 (3.81%) SAS
3 27 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (3.05%) Apache
5 22 (2.80%) Apache Spark
6 10 (1.27%) Jupyter
7 9 (1.14%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.64%) CICS
8 5 (0.64%) nginx
9 3 (0.38%) Camunda
9 3 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Actimize
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 462 (58.70%) AWS
2 251 (31.89%) GitHub
3 240 (30.50%) Azure
4 174 (22.11%) GitHub Actions
5 138 (17.53%) GCP
6 113 (14.36%) Amazon S3
7 109 (13.85%) Serverless
8 95 (12.07%) AWS Lambda
9 93 (11.82%) Amazon EKS
10 82 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
10 82 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
11 75 (9.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 66 (8.39%) AWS CloudFormation
13 60 (7.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 58 (7.37%) OpenShift
15 39 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
16 30 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
17 26 (3.30%) Azure AKS
17 26 (3.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 25 (3.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.34%) Firewall
2 28 (3.56%) DNS
3 22 (2.80%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.41%) BGP
5 18 (2.29%) OSPF
6 17 (2.16%) Ethernet VPN
6 17 (2.16%) VXLAN
6 17 (2.16%) WAN
7 16 (2.03%) Network Security
8 15 (1.91%) BIG-IP
8 15 (1.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 15 (1.91%) SD-WAN
9 14 (1.78%) VPN
10 11 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (1.27%) HTTP
12 7 (0.89%) WLAN
13 6 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (0.51%) Multicast
14 4 (0.51%) SAN
14 4 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (6.86%) MongoDB
3 42 (5.34%) Relational Database
4 35 (4.45%) NoSQL
5 32 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
6 31 (3.94%) DynamoDB
7 29 (3.68%) Amazon Athena
8 28 (3.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 27 (3.43%) MySQL
10 25 (3.18%) Redis
11 24 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (3.05%) Power BI
12 23 (2.92%) Pentaho
13 22 (2.80%) SQL Server
14 20 (2.54%) Data Lake
15 17 (2.16%) Big Data
16 16 (2.03%) Oracle Database
17 14 (1.78%) DocumentDB
18 12 (1.52%) BigQuery
19 10 (1.27%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 342 (43.46%) Jenkins
2 181 (23.00%) Git
3 108 (13.72%) JIRA
4 71 (9.02%) Selenium
5 59 (7.50%) JUnit
6 38 (4.83%) Cucumber
7 34 (4.32%) Gradle
8 33 (4.19%) REST Assured
9 31 (3.94%) Postman
10 28 (3.56%) Artifactory
11 26 (3.30%) Bitbucket
11 26 (3.30%) JMeter
12 23 (2.92%) Mockito
13 22 (2.80%) CircleCI
13 22 (2.80%) Gatling
14 21 (2.67%) SonarQube
15 15 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
16 14 (1.78%) Maven
17 13 (1.65%) Cypress.io
17 13 (1.65%) WebDriver
General
1 159 (20.20%) Social Skills
2 142 (18.04%) Public Sector
3 88 (11.18%) Finance
4 59 (7.50%) Banking
5 37 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.65%) Military
8 12 (1.52%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.02%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.02%) Law
9 8 (1.02%) Retail
10 7 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.89%) Legal
11 6 (0.76%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.51%) Police
12 4 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.38%) Local Government
14 2 (0.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 162 (20.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 128 (16.26%) Developer
2 128 (16.26%) Senior
3 71 (9.02%) AWS Engineer
4 70 (8.89%) Data Engineer
5 59 (7.50%) Software Engineer
6 57 (7.24%) Lead
7 48 (6.10%) AWS DevOps
8 44 (5.59%) Architect
9 43 (5.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 40 (5.08%) Java Developer
11 38 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
12 35 (4.45%) Test Engineer
13 30 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
14 27 (3.43%) Senior DevOps
15 26 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
15 26 (3.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 25 (3.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 22 (2.80%) GCP Engineer
17 22 (2.80%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (14.49%) Kafka
2 112 (14.23%) Spring
3 101 (12.83%) Spring Boot
4 95 (12.07%) REST
5 59 (7.50%) RESTful
6 56 (7.12%) Node.js
7 54 (6.86%) React
8 40 (5.08%) Playwright
9 36 (4.57%) Elastic Stack
10 35 (4.45%) OpenTelemetry
11 30 (3.81%) PySpark
12 29 (3.68%) LDAP
12 29 (3.68%) YAML
13 25 (3.18%) OAuth
14 23 (2.92%) AngularJS
14 23 (2.92%) RabbitMQ
15 22 (2.80%) OpenID
16 21 (2.67%) Jest
16 21 (2.67%) Middleware
16 21 (2.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 127 (16.14%) Cloud Native
2 46 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.72%) Product Ownership
4 35 (4.45%) Data Centre
5 27 (3.43%) Onboarding
6 20 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.16%) Public Cloud
8 13 (1.65%) Private Cloud
9 12 (1.52%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.52%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
11 10 (1.27%) NHS
12 8 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (0.89%) Mainframe
14 6 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.76%) PKI
15 5 (0.64%) DataPower
15 5 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
15 5 (0.64%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 133 (16.90%) Linux
2 43 (5.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 40 (5.08%) Windows
4 34 (4.32%) Unix
5 15 (1.91%) CentOS
6 9 (1.14%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.89%) zOS
8 6 (0.76%) VMS
9 5 (0.64%) Android
10 4 (0.51%) Debian
10 4 (0.51%) Rocky
11 3 (0.38%) Windows Server
12 2 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.13%) AIX
13 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 623 (79.16%) CI/CD
2 441 (56.04%) DevOps
3 293 (37.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 263 (33.42%) Agile
5 253 (32.15%) Containerisation
6 232 (29.48%) Test Automation
7 150 (19.06%) Microservices
8 148 (18.81%) Observability
9 131 (16.65%) Software Engineering
10 105 (13.34%) Scrum
11 103 (13.09%) Platform Engineering
12 102 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
13 101 (12.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 83 (10.55%) ETL
15 82 (10.42%) DevSecOps
16 68 (8.64%) Migration
17 66 (8.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 64 (8.13%) AI
18 64 (8.13%) TDD
19 62 (7.88%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 295 (37.48%) Python
2 216 (27.45%) Java
3 176 (22.36%) SQL
4 115 (14.61%) Bash
5 79 (10.04%) JavaScript
6 61 (7.75%) TypeScript
7 60 (7.62%) PowerShell
8 36 (4.57%) Shell Script
9 35 (4.45%) Go
10 34 (4.32%) C#
11 18 (2.29%) Bicep
12 17 (2.16%) Kotlin
13 16 (2.03%) PL/SQL
14 15 (1.91%) C++
15 11 (1.40%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.40%) Scala
16 8 (1.02%) C
16 8 (1.02%) Ruby
17 6 (0.76%) PHP
18 5 (0.64%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 352 (44.73%) Security Cleared
2 290 (36.85%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.57%) Degree
4 34 (4.32%) DV Cleared
5 29 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (2.67%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.40%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.27%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (1.14%) ISTQB
11 8 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 7 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.38%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.25%) CCNP
15 2 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (10.42%) QA
2 40 (5.08%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.80%) SLA
4 13 (1.65%) GDPR
5 12 (1.52%) WCAG
6 11 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (1.27%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.64%) FATCA
8 5 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.64%) NCSC
8 5 (0.64%) NIST
9 4 (0.51%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
10 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.13%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) OpenSCAP
10 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 320 (40.66%) Docker
2 22 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.76%) Squid
6 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.51%) HDFS
7 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.25%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) iptables
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.13%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 351 (44.60%) Terraform
2 345 (43.84%) Kubernetes
3 182 (23.13%) Ansible
4 161 (20.46%) Grafana
5 133 (16.90%) Prometheus
6 48 (6.10%) Argo
7 28 (3.56%) Puppet
8 21 (2.67%) Istio
9 16 (2.03%) Podman
9 16 (2.03%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.78%) Red Hat Satellite
11 11 (1.40%) Check_MK
12 10 (1.27%) Kibana
13 9 (1.14%) linkerd
13 9 (1.14%) Packer
14 6 (0.76%) Karpenter
14 6 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.51%) Rancher
15 4 (0.51%) Salt
15 4 (0.51%) Suricata
Vendors
1 85 (10.80%) Oracle
2 61 (7.75%) Splunk
3 55 (6.99%) Microsoft
4 46 (5.84%) Red Hat
5 38 (4.83%) Google
6 37 (4.70%) Talend
7 35 (4.45%) ServiceNow
8 34 (4.32%) VMware
9 30 (3.81%) Informatica
10 26 (3.30%) Databricks
11 22 (2.80%) Dynatrace
12 19 (2.41%) Denodo
13 18 (2.29%) Arista
13 18 (2.29%) Salesforce
14 17 (2.16%) F5
15 16 (2.03%) Palo Alto
16 14 (1.78%) Aruba
17 10 (1.27%) Veracode
18 8 (1.02%) IBM
19 6 (0.76%) AppDynamics