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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 145 213
Rank change year-on-year -7 +68 +40
Contract jobs citing GitLab 814 531 409
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.81% 1.94% 1.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.47% 13.62% 9.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 342 291
10th Percentile £368 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -9.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £696 £660 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £533
% change year-on-year -4.31% -1.97% -7.10%
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 5,263 3,900 4,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.73% 14.26% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,365 2,675 2,938
10th Percentile £350 £325 £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 235 91 214
10th Percentile £28.08 £40.00 £32.10
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £73.93
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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -9 343 £525 - 88
North of England -18 186 £500 +6.61% 42
Midlands +27 133 £469 -6.20% 24
West Midlands +21 126 £469 -8.49% 14
North West -25 82 £550 +15.79% 25
North East +7 71 £413 -11.29% 11
South East -44 69 £550 - 31
South West -24 48 £542 -9.71% 21
Yorkshire -40 48 £550 +19.31% 6
East of England -19 31 £489 +5.68% 13
East Midlands -12 7 £470 +74.07% 10
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 88 (10.81%) Confluence
2 53 (6.51%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (5.41%) Apache Spark
4 39 (4.79%) Apache
5 33 (4.05%) SAS
6 27 (3.32%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.86%) CICS
8 6 (0.74%) Camunda
8 6 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.49%) nginx
10 3 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.25%) CMS
11 2 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.12%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (0.25%) 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
1 538 (66.09%) AWS
2 268 (32.92%) GitHub
3 247 (30.34%) Azure
4 196 (24.08%) GitHub Actions
5 138 (16.95%) GCP
6 118 (14.50%) Amazon S3
7 112 (13.76%) Serverless
8 110 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
9 101 (12.41%) Amazon EKS
9 101 (12.41%) AWS Lambda
10 88 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 83 (10.20%) Amazon EC2
12 57 (7.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 56 (6.88%) AWS CloudFormation
14 41 (5.04%) OpenShift
15 36 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
15 36 (4.42%) OCI
16 34 (4.18%) Amazon SQS
17 29 (3.56%) Amazon EMR
17 29 (3.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 41 (5.04%) Firewall
2 23 (2.83%) Network Security
3 22 (2.70%) BGP
3 22 (2.70%) WAN
4 21 (2.58%) OSPF
4 21 (2.58%) SD-WAN
5 20 (2.46%) DNS
5 20 (2.46%) Ethernet VPN
5 20 (2.46%) VXLAN
6 19 (2.33%) BIG-IP
6 19 (2.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 16 (1.97%) TCP/IP
7 16 (1.97%) VPN
8 15 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (1.35%) WLAN
10 8 (0.98%) HTTP
11 5 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.49%) DHCP
12 4 (0.49%) MQTT
12 4 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (7.99%) MongoDB
2 64 (7.86%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (6.14%) Relational Database
4 41 (5.04%) Amazon Redshift
5 39 (4.79%) Amazon Athena
6 34 (4.18%) DynamoDB
7 33 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
9 30 (3.69%) NoSQL
9 30 (3.69%) Oracle Database
10 29 (3.56%) Pentaho
11 26 (3.19%) Power BI
11 26 (3.19%) SQL Server
12 22 (2.70%) RDBMS
13 21 (2.58%) MySQL
14 19 (2.33%) Big Data
14 19 (2.33%) Data Lake
15 16 (1.97%) Redis
16 12 (1.47%) Oracle Exadata
17 11 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 341 (41.89%) Jenkins
2 193 (23.71%) Git
3 113 (13.88%) JIRA
4 67 (8.23%) Selenium
5 60 (7.37%) JUnit
6 37 (4.55%) Cucumber
7 35 (4.30%) Bitbucket
8 34 (4.18%) SonarQube
9 30 (3.69%) Artifactory
10 29 (3.56%) Gradle
11 25 (3.07%) JMeter
11 25 (3.07%) Mockito
11 25 (3.07%) REST Assured
12 24 (2.95%) Gatling
13 22 (2.70%) Maven
13 22 (2.70%) WebDriver
14 21 (2.58%) Postman
15 15 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
16 14 (1.72%) Snyk
17 13 (1.60%) Serenity BDD
General
1 155 (19.04%) Social Skills
2 154 (18.92%) Public Sector
3 85 (10.44%) Finance
4 61 (7.49%) Banking
5 44 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.21%) Military
7 16 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.72%) Law
9 13 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.35%) Legal
11 7 (0.86%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.74%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.74%) 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 (0.25%) Marketing
16 2 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 182 (22.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 161 (19.78%) Senior
3 117 (14.37%) Developer
4 97 (11.92%) AWS Engineer
5 79 (9.71%) Data Engineer
6 67 (8.23%) AWS DevOps
7 60 (7.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 57 (7.00%) Lead
9 49 (6.02%) Software Engineer
10 40 (4.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 39 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
11 39 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
12 37 (4.55%) Test Engineer
13 36 (4.42%) Java Developer
14 33 (4.05%) Senior DevOps
15 32 (3.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 31 (3.81%) Architect
17 27 (3.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 25 (3.07%) Full-Stack Developer
19 23 (2.83%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (14.25%) Kafka
2 91 (11.18%) Spring
3 83 (10.20%) REST
3 83 (10.20%) Spring Boot
4 53 (6.51%) RESTful
5 52 (6.39%) React
6 43 (5.28%) PySpark
7 39 (4.79%) Node.js
7 39 (4.79%) Playwright
8 30 (3.69%) JSON
8 30 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
8 30 (3.69%) YAML
9 26 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
10 23 (2.83%) WireMock
11 22 (2.70%) AWS CDK
12 21 (2.58%) SOAP
13 20 (2.46%) Keycloak
14 19 (2.33%) pytest
15 18 (2.21%) OAuth
15 18 (2.21%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 153 (18.80%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.28%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.56%) Data Centre
5 27 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (3.19%) Onboarding
7 21 (2.58%) Public Cloud
8 20 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (2.21%) Data Structures
9 18 (2.21%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (1.97%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.60%) Mainframe
12 9 (1.11%) Private Cloud
13 8 (0.98%) AI Agents
13 8 (0.98%) NHS
14 7 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.86%) DataPower
14 7 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
15 6 (0.74%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 158 (19.41%) Linux
2 36 (4.42%) Unix
2 36 (4.42%) Windows
3 35 (4.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (1.72%) zOS
5 12 (1.47%) AIX
6 10 (1.23%) 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 (0.25%) Android
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 667 (81.94%) CI/CD
2 482 (59.21%) DevOps
3 358 (43.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 301 (36.98%) Agile
5 272 (33.42%) Containerisation
6 251 (30.84%) Test Automation
7 160 (19.66%) Microservices
8 140 (17.20%) Observability
9 130 (15.97%) Software Engineering
10 127 (15.60%) Scrum
11 122 (14.99%) Platform Engineering
12 109 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 104 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
14 95 (11.67%) AI
15 87 (10.69%) DevSecOps
16 78 (9.58%) Migration
17 77 (9.46%) ETL
18 74 (9.09%) Event-Driven
19 69 (8.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 66 (8.11%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 338 (41.52%) Python
2 183 (22.48%) Java
3 180 (22.11%) SQL
4 133 (16.34%) Bash
5 63 (7.74%) JavaScript
6 58 (7.13%) PowerShell
7 55 (6.76%) TypeScript
8 47 (5.77%) C#
9 35 (4.30%) Go
10 26 (3.19%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.09%) Bicep
12 16 (1.97%) PL/SQL
13 13 (1.60%) C++
14 7 (0.86%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.74%) JCL
15 6 (0.74%) Scala
16 5 (0.61%) C
16 5 (0.61%) Groovy
16 5 (0.61%) Ruby
17 4 (0.49%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 393 (48.28%) Security Cleared
2 332 (40.79%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.02%) DV Cleared
4 38 (4.67%) Degree
5 37 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (4.30%) AWS Certification
7 29 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 16 (1.97%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 11 (1.35%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (1.11%) 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
15 3 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (9.58%) QA
2 34 (4.18%) Accessibility
3 33 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.23%) SLA
4 10 (1.23%) WCAG
5 5 (0.61%) FATCA
5 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.49%) NIST
7 3 (0.37%) GDPR
7 3 (0.37%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.25%) 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
1 342 (42.01%) Docker
2 20 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.60%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.61%) HDFS
6 5 (0.61%) Squid
7 3 (0.37%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.25%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 409 (50.25%) Terraform
2 350 (43.00%) Kubernetes
3 198 (24.32%) Ansible
4 153 (18.80%) Grafana
5 134 (16.46%) Prometheus
6 45 (5.53%) Argo
7 35 (4.30%) Puppet
8 18 (2.21%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.72%) Istio
10 13 (1.60%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.60%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (1.23%) Packer
11 10 (1.23%) Podman
12 6 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.61%) linkerd
13 5 (0.61%) Salt
13 5 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.49%) HP Fortify
14 4 (0.49%) Kibana
14 4 (0.49%) Suricata
Vendors
1 101 (12.41%) Oracle
2 52 (6.39%) Microsoft
3 48 (5.90%) Talend
4 47 (5.77%) Splunk
5 46 (5.65%) Google
6 45 (5.53%) Informatica
7 24 (2.95%) Databricks
8 23 (2.83%) Denodo
8 23 (2.83%) VMware
9 22 (2.70%) Palo Alto
10 21 (2.58%) F5
11 20 (2.46%) Red Hat
12 19 (2.33%) Dynatrace
12 19 (2.33%) IBM
13 18 (2.21%) Arista
13 18 (2.21%) Aruba
13 18 (2.21%) ServiceNow
14 15 (1.84%) Trend Micro
15 11 (1.35%) Veracode
16 10 (1.23%) Salesforce