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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 136 227
Rank change year-on-year +6 +91 -31
Contract jobs citing GitLab 780 497 377
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.02% 2.04% 1.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.36% 14.95% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 552 326 276
10th Percentile £388 £370 £409
25th Percentile £430 £447 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £539 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.15% -6.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £676
90th Percentile £665 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £558
% change year-on-year -5.66% -4.93% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 3 5
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.59 £57.10
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £58.75
Median hourly rate £56.25 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -32.20% +11.45% +21.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £77.50
90th Percentile £79.75 £92.59 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £82.96 £62.00
% change year-on-year -30.69% +33.81% +27.18%

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 5,079 3,324 4,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.15% 13.64% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,404 2,223 2,922
10th Percentile £340 £340 £358
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 65 159
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.12 £32.74
25th Percentile £60.25 £51.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.31 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.43 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +5.47% +6.67% -2.44%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -15 320 £525 -4.55% 56
North of England -18 193 £500 -4.76% 49
Midlands +11 118 £476 -0.26% 19
West Midlands +16 106 £481 -1.84% 12
North West -10 100 £463 -7.50% 16
Yorkshire -13 75 £500 -13.04% 14
South East -24 60 £513 -19.61% 39
South West +12 54 £510 +10.87% 36
North East -13 26 £463 -5.13% 19
East of England -12 24 £477 +5.89% 12
East Midlands -21 12 £402 +29.99% 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 55 (7.05%) Confluence
2 45 (5.77%) SAS
3 29 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.56%) Apache
5 14 (1.79%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.79%) OpenStack
6 9 (1.15%) nginx
7 4 (0.51%) CICS
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
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
Cloud Services
1 462 (59.23%) AWS
2 246 (31.54%) GitHub
3 220 (28.21%) Azure
4 158 (20.26%) GitHub Actions
5 150 (19.23%) GCP
6 123 (15.77%) Serverless
7 103 (13.21%) Amazon S3
8 95 (12.18%) AWS Lambda
9 89 (11.41%) Amazon EKS
10 81 (10.38%) OpenShift
11 79 (10.13%) Amazon EC2
12 72 (9.23%) AWS CloudFormation
13 70 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
14 68 (8.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 53 (6.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 43 (5.51%) Amazon ECS
17 23 (2.95%) Azure AKS
18 22 (2.82%) Datadog
19 20 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
19 20 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.23%) Firewall
2 26 (3.33%) DNS
3 21 (2.69%) VPN
4 17 (2.18%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.41%) Network Security
6 8 (1.03%) HTTP
7 5 (0.64%) Multicast
8 4 (0.51%) BGP
8 4 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.51%) SAN
9 3 (0.38%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.38%) NAS
9 3 (0.38%) OSPF
9 3 (0.38%) SSL
9 3 (0.38%) VSAN
10 2 (0.26%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.26%) Calico
10 2 (0.26%) DHCP
10 2 (0.26%) VXLAN
10 2 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (12.18%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (7.31%) NoSQL
3 50 (6.41%) MongoDB
4 38 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
5 34 (4.36%) Relational Database
6 31 (3.97%) DynamoDB
7 28 (3.59%) MySQL
8 21 (2.69%) Data Lake
8 21 (2.69%) Redis
8 21 (2.69%) SQL Server
9 18 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
9 18 (2.31%) Big Data
10 17 (2.18%) Power BI
11 16 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
11 16 (2.05%) Oracle Database
12 13 (1.67%) SAS Enterprise Guide
13 11 (1.41%) DocumentDB
14 10 (1.28%) Spark SQL
15 9 (1.15%) Aerospike
Development Applications
1 386 (49.49%) Jenkins
2 194 (24.87%) Git
3 107 (13.72%) JIRA
4 87 (11.15%) Selenium
5 81 (10.38%) JUnit
6 47 (6.03%) Cucumber
7 36 (4.62%) Postman
8 30 (3.85%) JMeter
9 29 (3.72%) Bitbucket
9 29 (3.72%) REST Assured
10 28 (3.59%) Artifactory
11 26 (3.33%) CircleCI
12 25 (3.21%) Mockito
13 22 (2.82%) Maven
14 21 (2.69%) SonarQube
15 20 (2.56%) Gradle
16 19 (2.44%) Gatling
17 16 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
18 15 (1.92%) Cypress.io
19 14 (1.79%) IntelliJ
General
1 226 (28.97%) Social Skills
2 121 (15.51%) Public Sector
3 115 (14.74%) Finance
4 84 (10.77%) Banking
5 42 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.31%) Financial Institution
8 10 (1.28%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.03%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.03%) Military
10 7 (0.90%) Retail
11 6 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.64%) Law
13 4 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.38%) Games
14 3 (0.38%) Legal
14 3 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 158 (20.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 134 (17.18%) Developer
3 104 (13.33%) Senior
4 75 (9.62%) AWS Engineer
5 61 (7.82%) AWS DevOps
6 60 (7.69%) Lead
7 57 (7.31%) Data Engineer
8 56 (7.18%) Software Engineer
9 49 (6.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 42 (5.38%) Java Developer
11 41 (5.26%) Architect
12 40 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
13 36 (4.62%) Test Engineer
14 33 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
15 27 (3.46%) GCP Engineer
16 25 (3.21%) Senior DevOps
16 25 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 23 (2.95%) Java Engineer
18 22 (2.82%) Test Specialist
19 21 (2.69%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (16.79%) REST
2 115 (14.74%) Spring
3 110 (14.10%) Kafka
4 98 (12.56%) Spring Boot
5 75 (9.62%) RESTful
6 67 (8.59%) Node.js
7 66 (8.46%) Elastic Stack
8 61 (7.82%) React
9 48 (6.15%) Playwright
10 39 (5.00%) pytest
11 32 (4.10%) OpenTelemetry
12 31 (3.97%) YAML
13 29 (3.72%) HTML
13 29 (3.72%) RabbitMQ
14 27 (3.46%) LDAP
14 27 (3.46%) PySpark
15 26 (3.33%) OpenID
16 25 (3.21%) AngularJS
17 24 (3.08%) Jest
17 24 (3.08%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 117 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 65 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 33 (4.23%) Public Cloud
5 21 (2.69%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.18%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (1.41%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.41%) Private Cloud
9 10 (1.28%) Mainframe
10 8 (1.03%) DataPower
10 8 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
10 8 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (1.03%) NHS
11 7 (0.90%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.90%) Synthetic Data
12 6 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (0.77%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 155 (19.87%) Linux
2 53 (6.79%) Windows
3 30 (3.85%) Unix
4 28 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.28%) CentOS
6 9 (1.15%) Android
6 9 (1.15%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.15%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.03%) VMS
8 6 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.77%) zOS
9 3 (0.38%) Debian
9 3 (0.38%) Rocky
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.13%) AIX
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 620 (79.49%) CI/CD
2 454 (58.21%) DevOps
3 289 (37.05%) Agile
4 273 (35.00%) Containerisation
5 271 (34.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 234 (30.00%) Test Automation
7 163 (20.90%) Microservices
8 144 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
9 139 (17.82%) Observability
10 110 (14.10%) Software Engineering
11 98 (12.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 94 (12.05%) Scrum
13 84 (10.77%) Platform Engineering
14 83 (10.64%) Analytics
15 68 (8.72%) Data Pipeline
16 67 (8.59%) TDD
17 66 (8.46%) DevSecOps
18 64 (8.21%) ETL
19 63 (8.08%) Test Strategy
20 59 (7.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 334 (42.82%) Python
2 229 (29.36%) Java
3 160 (20.51%) SQL
4 118 (15.13%) Bash
5 84 (10.77%) JavaScript
6 68 (8.72%) PowerShell
7 66 (8.46%) TypeScript
8 57 (7.31%) Go
9 40 (5.13%) Shell Script
10 22 (2.82%) C#
11 19 (2.44%) Kotlin
12 17 (2.18%) Bicep
13 14 (1.79%) PL/SQL
14 11 (1.41%) C++
15 10 (1.28%) Ruby
16 9 (1.15%) MATLAB
16 9 (1.15%) Scala
17 8 (1.03%) C
18 7 (0.90%) Groovy
19 6 (0.77%) Korn
Qualifications
1 321 (41.15%) Security Cleared
2 263 (33.72%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.15%) Degree
4 43 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.97%) AWS Certification
6 27 (3.46%) DV Cleared
7 24 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (2.44%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.92%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.90%) CISSP
12 6 (0.77%) CISM
12 6 (0.77%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.77%) OCA
12 6 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.38%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (12.56%) QA
2 38 (4.87%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.31%) GDPR
4 18 (2.31%) SLA
5 17 (2.18%) WCAG
6 13 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.28%) NIST
9 8 (1.03%) NCSC
10 6 (0.77%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.26%) HL7
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 339 (43.46%) Docker
2 23 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.64%) HDFS
6 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.26%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.13%) iptables
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.13%) Squid
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 404 (51.79%) Kubernetes
2 339 (43.46%) Terraform
3 182 (23.33%) Grafana
4 172 (22.05%) Ansible
5 151 (19.36%) Prometheus
6 51 (6.54%) Argo
7 22 (2.82%) Puppet
8 21 (2.69%) Istio
9 19 (2.44%) Podman
9 19 (2.44%) Progress Chef
10 16 (2.05%) Kibana
11 11 (1.41%) Red Hat Satellite
12 9 (1.15%) Check_MK
12 9 (1.15%) linkerd
12 9 (1.15%) Packer
13 7 (0.90%) Fluentd
13 7 (0.90%) Karpenter
13 7 (0.90%) Nagios
13 7 (0.90%) Sysdig
14 5 (0.64%) Rancher
Vendors
1 80 (10.26%) Splunk
2 74 (9.49%) Oracle
3 60 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 45 (5.77%) Red Hat
5 43 (5.51%) Google
6 31 (3.97%) VMware
7 30 (3.85%) ServiceNow
8 26 (3.33%) Databricks
9 18 (2.31%) Salesforce
10 17 (2.18%) Informatica
10 17 (2.18%) Talend
11 14 (1.79%) Dynatrace
12 13 (1.67%) IBM
13 11 (1.41%) Veracode
14 9 (1.15%) Atlassian
15 8 (1.03%) Cribl.io
16 7 (0.90%) AppDynamics
16 7 (0.90%) Denodo
17 5 (0.64%) Cisco
18 4 (0.51%) Sybase