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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 136 236
Rank change year-on-year +15 +100 -51
Contract jobs citing GitLab 799 502 381
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.28% 1.98% 1.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.37% 14.78% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 328 290
10th Percentile £385 £363 £413
25th Percentile £431 £437 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £561
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.00% -5.67%
75th Percentile £579 £656 £675
90th Percentile £675 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
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 4,880 3,396 4,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.95% 13.38% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,351 2,160 3,082
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £408 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -5.89% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £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 144 58 202
10th Percentile £30.11 £39.75 £37.75
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.87 £48.31
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 £74.69
90th Percentile £82.78 £80.00 £88.31
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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -11 325 £525 -8.70% 76
North of England +4 237 £488 -5.34% 41
North West +6 112 £435 -8.42% 23
Midlands +19 106 £492 +3.14% 16
West Midlands +13 96 £500 +3.52% 13
Yorkshire +4 93 £500 -21.57% 11
South East -18 51 £500 -14.89% 58
South West +9 47 £525 -15.15% 20
North East -7 39 £500 -3.85% 7
East of England -8 19 £478 +6.22% 16
East Midlands -22 10 £401 +28.94% 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 57 (7.13%) Confluence
2 33 (4.13%) SAS
3 24 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.13%) Apache
5 16 (2.00%) OpenStack
6 12 (1.50%) Apache Spark
7 9 (1.13%) nginx
8 5 (0.63%) Appian
9 3 (0.38%) CMS
9 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.13%) CICS
11 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) Documentum
11 1 (0.13%) FileNet
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
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 (59.32%) AWS
2 213 (26.66%) GitHub
3 208 (26.03%) Azure
4 159 (19.90%) GCP
5 133 (16.65%) GitHub Actions
6 115 (14.39%) Serverless
7 99 (12.39%) Amazon S3
8 83 (10.39%) Amazon EC2
9 82 (10.26%) OpenShift
10 81 (10.14%) Amazon EKS
11 80 (10.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 80 (10.01%) AWS Lambda
12 72 (9.01%) AWS CloudFormation
13 62 (7.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 59 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
15 49 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
16 26 (3.25%) Datadog
17 23 (2.88%) Entra ID
18 21 (2.63%) Azure AKS
19 19 (2.38%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (6.26%) Firewall
2 41 (5.13%) DNS
3 37 (4.63%) VPN
4 31 (3.88%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.50%) Network Security
6 14 (1.75%) SSL
7 6 (0.75%) WAN
8 5 (0.63%) Multicast
8 5 (0.63%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.50%) HTTP
9 4 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.50%) SAN
9 4 (0.50%) VSAN
10 3 (0.38%) BGP
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%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (11.26%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (8.01%) MongoDB
2 64 (8.01%) NoSQL
3 42 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 25 (3.13%) Relational Database
5 24 (3.00%) MySQL
6 23 (2.88%) DynamoDB
7 20 (2.50%) Data Lake
7 20 (2.50%) Redis
8 19 (2.38%) SQL Server
9 18 (2.25%) Big Data
10 15 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
10 15 (1.88%) Power BI
11 14 (1.75%) Oracle Database
12 13 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
13 11 (1.38%) DocumentDB
14 10 (1.25%) Spark SQL
15 9 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (1.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 8 (1.00%) Aerospike
Development Applications
1 398 (49.81%) Jenkins
2 189 (23.65%) Git
3 114 (14.27%) JIRA
4 84 (10.51%) Selenium
5 72 (9.01%) JUnit
6 51 (6.38%) Cucumber
7 37 (4.63%) Postman
8 32 (4.01%) Artifactory
9 31 (3.88%) Maven
10 29 (3.63%) SonarQube
11 27 (3.38%) REST Assured
12 26 (3.25%) CircleCI
12 26 (3.25%) JMeter
13 25 (3.13%) Cypress.io
14 24 (3.00%) Bitbucket
14 24 (3.00%) Gatling
14 24 (3.00%) Gradle
15 23 (2.88%) Liquibase
16 21 (2.63%) Mockito
16 21 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 232 (29.04%) Social Skills
2 126 (15.77%) Finance
2 126 (15.77%) Public Sector
3 90 (11.26%) Banking
4 53 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (3.00%) Financial Institution
6 21 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.88%) Military
8 14 (1.75%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.38%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.13%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.00%) Retail
12 5 (0.63%) Games
12 5 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.50%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.38%) Local Government
14 3 (0.38%) Marketing
14 3 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 179 (22.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 156 (19.52%) Developer
3 122 (15.27%) Senior
4 76 (9.51%) AWS Engineer
5 64 (8.01%) Lead
6 59 (7.38%) AWS DevOps
7 55 (6.88%) Software Engineer
8 48 (6.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 46 (5.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 45 (5.63%) Java Developer
11 42 (5.26%) Architect
12 41 (5.13%) Data Engineer
12 41 (5.13%) Test Engineer
13 38 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
13 38 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 31 (3.88%) GCP Engineer
15 29 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
16 26 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
17 23 (2.88%) Java Engineer
18 22 (2.75%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (17.77%) REST
2 113 (14.14%) Kafka
3 110 (13.77%) Spring
4 101 (12.64%) Spring Boot
5 88 (11.01%) Elastic Stack
6 79 (9.89%) RESTful
7 77 (9.64%) Node.js
8 61 (7.63%) React
9 53 (6.63%) Playwright
10 35 (4.38%) pytest
11 34 (4.26%) HTML
12 31 (3.88%) OpenTelemetry
13 30 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
14 28 (3.50%) YAML
15 27 (3.38%) OpenID
16 26 (3.25%) Jest
16 26 (3.25%) JSON
17 25 (3.13%) AngularJS
17 25 (3.13%) LDAP
18 23 (2.88%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 127 (15.89%) Cloud Native
2 68 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (5.76%) Public Cloud
4 42 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 24 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 15 (1.88%) Data Centre
7 14 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (1.75%) Private Cloud
8 12 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.13%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.00%) PKI
11 8 (1.00%) Security Posture
12 7 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (0.88%) Mainframe
12 7 (0.88%) NHS
12 7 (0.88%) Synthetic Data
12 7 (0.88%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 164 (20.53%) Linux
2 51 (6.38%) Windows
3 26 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (3.25%) Unix
4 13 (1.63%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.25%) CentOS
6 9 (1.13%) Android
7 8 (1.00%) VMS
8 5 (0.63%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.38%) Solaris
9 3 (0.38%) zOS
10 2 (0.25%) Debian
10 2 (0.25%) Rocky
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 635 (79.47%) CI/CD
2 492 (61.58%) DevOps
3 300 (37.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 297 (37.17%) Agile
5 275 (34.42%) Containerisation
6 241 (30.16%) Test Automation
7 177 (22.15%) Microservices
8 155 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
9 137 (17.15%) Observability
10 122 (15.27%) Software Engineering
11 93 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 86 (10.76%) Scrum
13 83 (10.39%) Analytics
14 72 (9.01%) DevSecOps
15 68 (8.51%) Test Strategy
16 67 (8.39%) TDD
17 66 (8.26%) Platform Engineering
18 65 (8.14%) Infrastructure Automation
19 62 (7.76%) Data Pipeline
20 61 (7.63%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 358 (44.81%) Python
2 239 (29.91%) Java
3 139 (17.40%) SQL
4 134 (16.77%) Bash
5 100 (12.52%) JavaScript
6 77 (9.64%) Go
7 70 (8.76%) TypeScript
8 68 (8.51%) PowerShell
9 40 (5.01%) Shell Script
10 16 (2.00%) C#
10 16 (2.00%) Kotlin
11 12 (1.50%) PL/SQL
12 11 (1.38%) Ruby
13 8 (1.00%) Bicep
14 7 (0.88%) C++
14 7 (0.88%) Groovy
14 7 (0.88%) Korn
14 7 (0.88%) MATLAB
14 7 (0.88%) Scala
15 6 (0.75%) C
Qualifications
1 306 (38.30%) Security Cleared
2 244 (30.54%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.01%) Degree
4 52 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.75%) AWS Certification
5 30 (3.75%) DV Cleared
6 29 (3.63%) Master's Degree
7 25 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.13%) CISSP
11 8 (1.00%) CISM
12 7 (0.88%) OCA
12 7 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
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 (13.39%) QA
2 49 (6.13%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.63%) WCAG
4 18 (2.25%) GDPR
5 14 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.75%) NIST
5 14 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 14 (1.75%) SLA
6 11 (1.38%) NCSC
7 10 (1.25%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.50%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.25%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 353 (44.18%) Docker
2 22 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.50%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 4 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.38%) HDFS
5 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.38%) vSphere
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) Squid
6 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 414 (51.81%) Kubernetes
2 379 (47.43%) Terraform
3 213 (26.66%) Ansible
4 198 (24.78%) Grafana
5 153 (19.15%) Prometheus
6 38 (4.76%) Argo
7 19 (2.38%) Podman
7 19 (2.38%) Puppet
8 17 (2.13%) Istio
8 17 (2.13%) Kibana
8 17 (2.13%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.75%) Packer
10 10 (1.25%) Fluentd
11 9 (1.13%) Red Hat Satellite
12 7 (0.88%) Check_MK
12 7 (0.88%) Karpenter
12 7 (0.88%) Sysdig
13 6 (0.75%) linkerd
13 6 (0.75%) Nagios
14 5 (0.63%) Rancher
Vendors
1 95 (11.89%) Splunk
2 62 (7.76%) Microsoft
3 59 (7.38%) Oracle
4 46 (5.76%) Red Hat
5 45 (5.63%) Google
6 32 (4.01%) VMware
7 29 (3.63%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.38%) Dynatrace
9 18 (2.25%) Databricks
10 15 (1.88%) F5
10 15 (1.88%) Palo Alto
10 15 (1.88%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.75%) Atlassian
11 14 (1.75%) CheckPoint
11 14 (1.75%) Veracode
12 13 (1.63%) Cisco
13 12 (1.50%) Informatica
14 11 (1.38%) IBM
14 11 (1.38%) Talend
15 10 (1.25%) Cribl.io