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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 129 237
Rank change year-on-year +8 +108 -49
Contract jobs citing GitLab 795 515 368
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.33% 1.98% 0.97%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.53% 14.61% 8.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 335 282
10th Percentile £381 £369 £413
25th Percentile £436 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £565 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% +0.44% -5.06%
75th Percentile £580 £663 £675
90th Percentile £675 £736 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.35% -6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 2
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.33 £60.13
25th Percentile £52.50 £70.83 £62.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 £79.72 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.01% +18.10% +10.20%
75th Percentile £65.00 £89.38 £73.44
90th Percentile £80.65 £92.75 £75.88
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £79.72 £60.00
% change year-on-year -31.01% +32.87% +14.29%

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 4,810 3,526 4,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.09% 13.53% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,310 2,203 3,090
10th Percentile £340 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -4.67% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 61 202
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.50 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.70 £48.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.25
90th Percentile £81.50 £80.00 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 13 February 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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -3 325 £525 -10.41% 74
North of England +10 239 £488 -7.14% 35
North West +14 116 £431 -13.80% 22
Midlands +15 94 £508 +6.50% 14
Yorkshire -2 92 £506 -20.59% 10
West Midlands +13 85 £525 +7.36% 11
South East -27 53 £500 -13.04% 60
South West +14 47 £523 -16.40% 21
North East -7 38 £488 -6.25% 3
East of England -6 22 £485 +3.47% 12
East Midlands -24 9 £400 +28.62% 3
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 54 (6.79%) Confluence
2 26 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (3.27%) SAS
3 17 (2.14%) OpenStack
4 14 (1.76%) Apache
5 10 (1.26%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.01%) nginx
7 7 (0.88%) Appian
8 3 (0.38%) CMS
8 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
10 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Documentum
10 1 (0.13%) FileNet
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Actimize
3 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.13%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 474 (59.62%) AWS
2 216 (27.17%) GitHub
3 202 (25.41%) Azure
4 157 (19.75%) GCP
5 137 (17.23%) GitHub Actions
6 115 (14.47%) Serverless
7 97 (12.20%) Amazon S3
8 85 (10.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 82 (10.31%) Amazon EC2
10 80 (10.06%) AWS Lambda
11 79 (9.94%) OpenShift
12 77 (9.69%) Amazon EKS
13 75 (9.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 62 (7.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 55 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
16 50 (6.29%) Amazon ECS
17 28 (3.52%) Datadog
18 22 (2.77%) Entra ID
19 20 (2.52%) Azure AKS
20 18 (2.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 50 (6.29%) Firewall
2 42 (5.28%) DNS
3 39 (4.91%) VPN
4 32 (4.03%) TCP/IP
5 21 (2.64%) Network Security
6 15 (1.89%) SSL
7 6 (0.75%) WAN
8 5 (0.63%) Multicast
8 5 (0.63%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.50%) BGP
9 4 (0.50%) HTTP
9 4 (0.50%) SAN
10 3 (0.38%) DHCP
10 3 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.38%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.38%) NAS
10 3 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.38%) VSAN
10 3 (0.38%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (10.82%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (8.05%) MongoDB
2 64 (8.05%) NoSQL
3 44 (5.53%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (3.02%) DynamoDB
4 24 (3.02%) Relational Database
5 23 (2.89%) MySQL
6 22 (2.77%) Data Lake
7 20 (2.52%) Redis
8 18 (2.26%) SQL Server
9 17 (2.14%) Big Data
10 16 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.76%) Oracle Database
12 13 (1.64%) Power BI
13 12 (1.51%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.38%) DocumentDB
15 9 (1.13%) Spark SQL
16 8 (1.01%) BigQuery
16 8 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (1.01%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 391 (49.18%) Jenkins
2 179 (22.52%) Git
3 115 (14.47%) JIRA
4 78 (9.81%) Selenium
5 65 (8.18%) JUnit
6 51 (6.42%) Cucumber
7 36 (4.53%) Postman
8 32 (4.03%) Maven
9 31 (3.90%) SonarQube
10 29 (3.65%) Artifactory
11 27 (3.40%) CircleCI
12 26 (3.27%) REST Assured
13 25 (3.14%) Cypress.io
13 25 (3.14%) Gradle
14 24 (3.02%) JMeter
15 23 (2.89%) Gatling
16 22 (2.77%) Liquibase
17 21 (2.64%) Bitbucket
17 21 (2.64%) Sonatype Nexus
18 20 (2.52%) Mockito
General
1 224 (28.18%) Social Skills
2 129 (16.23%) Public Sector
3 122 (15.35%) Finance
4 91 (11.45%) Banking
5 54 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.02%) Financial Institution
7 20 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.14%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.76%) Military
10 10 (1.26%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.13%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.01%) Retail
13 6 (0.75%) Games
14 5 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.50%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.38%) Law
16 3 (0.38%) Local Government
16 3 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 181 (22.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 161 (20.25%) Developer
3 121 (15.22%) Senior
4 77 (9.69%) AWS Engineer
5 67 (8.43%) Lead
6 62 (7.80%) AWS DevOps
7 53 (6.67%) Software Engineer
8 51 (6.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 46 (5.79%) Java Developer
10 44 (5.53%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (5.03%) Architect
11 40 (5.03%) Test Engineer
12 38 (4.78%) Senior DevOps
12 38 (4.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 34 (4.28%) Data Engineer
14 30 (3.77%) GCP Engineer
15 28 (3.52%) Full-Stack Developer
15 28 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
16 24 (3.02%) Automation Engineer
16 24 (3.02%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (17.48%) REST
2 115 (14.47%) Kafka
3 110 (13.84%) Spring
4 102 (12.83%) Spring Boot
5 86 (10.82%) Elastic Stack
6 83 (10.44%) RESTful
7 76 (9.56%) Node.js
8 60 (7.55%) React
9 51 (6.42%) Playwright
10 34 (4.28%) OpenTelemetry
11 32 (4.03%) HTML
12 30 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
13 29 (3.65%) JSON
13 29 (3.65%) pytest
14 28 (3.52%) OpenID
14 28 (3.52%) YAML
15 26 (3.27%) Jest
16 25 (3.14%) LDAP
17 24 (3.02%) AngularJS
18 21 (2.64%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 124 (15.60%) Cloud Native
2 68 (8.55%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (5.79%) Public Cloud
4 40 (5.03%) Product Ownership
5 23 (2.89%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.89%) Private Cloud
8 14 (1.76%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.26%) PKI
11 9 (1.13%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.13%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.13%) Synthetic Data
12 7 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (0.88%) Mainframe
12 7 (0.88%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 166 (20.88%) Linux
2 52 (6.54%) Windows
3 24 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (2.89%) Unix
5 13 (1.64%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.38%) CentOS
7 9 (1.13%) Android
7 9 (1.13%) Apple iOS
8 8 (1.01%) VMS
9 4 (0.50%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.38%) Solaris
10 3 (0.38%) zOS
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.13%) Debian
11 1 (0.13%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 639 (80.38%) CI/CD
2 491 (61.76%) DevOps
3 305 (38.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 285 (35.85%) Agile
5 275 (34.59%) Containerisation
6 231 (29.06%) Test Automation
7 179 (22.52%) Microservices
8 158 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
9 141 (17.74%) Observability
10 121 (15.22%) Software Engineering
11 89 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 79 (9.94%) Scrum
13 77 (9.69%) Analytics
13 77 (9.69%) DevSecOps
14 67 (8.43%) Infrastructure Automation
15 64 (8.05%) Platform Engineering
15 64 (8.05%) TDD
16 61 (7.67%) Root Cause Analysis
16 61 (7.67%) Test Strategy
17 60 (7.55%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 360 (45.28%) Python
2 245 (30.82%) Java
3 139 (17.48%) Bash
4 134 (16.86%) SQL
5 103 (12.96%) JavaScript
6 83 (10.44%) Go
7 70 (8.81%) PowerShell
8 69 (8.68%) TypeScript
9 42 (5.28%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.26%) C#
11 16 (2.01%) Kotlin
12 13 (1.64%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.38%) Ruby
14 8 (1.01%) Bicep
15 7 (0.88%) C
15 7 (0.88%) C++
15 7 (0.88%) Groovy
15 7 (0.88%) Korn
15 7 (0.88%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.88%) Rust
Qualifications
1 295 (37.11%) Security Cleared
2 231 (29.06%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.67%) Degree
4 49 (6.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (4.03%) DV Cleared
6 30 (3.77%) AWS Certification
7 29 (3.65%) Master's Degree
8 25 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (1.13%) CISSP
11 9 (1.13%) OCA
11 9 (1.13%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (1.01%) CISM
13 6 (0.75%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.50%) ISTQB
16 3 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (13.46%) QA
2 46 (5.79%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.64%) WCAG
4 19 (2.39%) GDPR
5 14 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.76%) NIST
5 14 (1.76%) SLA
6 13 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (1.51%) NCSC
8 6 (0.75%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.50%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.25%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 355 (44.65%) Docker
2 21 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.50%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 4 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.38%) vSphere
7 2 (0.25%) HDFS
8 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) Squid
8 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 412 (51.82%) Kubernetes
2 379 (47.67%) Terraform
3 212 (26.67%) Ansible
4 200 (25.16%) Grafana
5 156 (19.62%) Prometheus
6 38 (4.78%) Argo
7 20 (2.52%) Podman
8 18 (2.26%) Puppet
9 17 (2.14%) Istio
9 17 (2.14%) Kibana
9 17 (2.14%) Progress Chef
10 12 (1.51%) Packer
11 10 (1.26%) Fluentd
12 9 (1.13%) Red Hat Satellite
13 7 (0.88%) Check_MK
13 7 (0.88%) Karpenter
13 7 (0.88%) Sysdig
14 6 (0.75%) linkerd
14 6 (0.75%) Nagios
14 6 (0.75%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 95 (11.95%) Splunk
2 62 (7.80%) Microsoft
3 56 (7.04%) Oracle
4 48 (6.04%) Red Hat
5 44 (5.53%) Google
6 36 (4.53%) VMware
7 26 (3.27%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.26%) Dynatrace
9 16 (2.01%) CheckPoint
9 16 (2.01%) Cisco
9 16 (2.01%) Databricks
9 16 (2.01%) F5
9 16 (2.01%) Palo Alto
9 16 (2.01%) Veracode
10 15 (1.89%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.76%) Atlassian
12 10 (1.26%) Cribl.io
12 10 (1.26%) IBM
13 5 (0.63%) AppDynamics
13 5 (0.63%) PagerDuty