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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 135 156
Rank change year-on-year +2 +21 +117
Contract jobs citing GitLab 955 598 512
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.07% 2.13% 1.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.93% 13.98% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 427 346
10th Percentile £385 £366 £350
25th Percentile £437 £438 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £520 £541
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -3.93% -1.59%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 7 7
10th Percentile £61.25 £61.55 £70.40
25th Percentile £65.00 £63.63 -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% -9.46% -7.50%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.72
90th Percentile £95.00 - £80.00
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +1.81% -9.46% +48.59%

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 5,325 4,277 4,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.52% 15.22% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,374 2,969 2,740
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £635
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.31% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 96 164
10th Percentile £22.68 £33.38 £39.03
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £54.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.80 £76.25 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.17% -1.15% -

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +11 410 £516 -2.04% 359
North of England -48 184 £500 +5.26% 117
Midlands +38 163 £475 -10.29% 45
West Midlands +31 154 £475 -12.04% 34
North West -37 79 £569 +41.02% 67
North East -3 78 £413 -24.31% 30
South East -28 74 £541 +8.14% 60
South West -5 62 £550 -8.33% 71
East of England -20 39 £450 -7.69% 47
Yorkshire -71 38 £550 +10.00% 20
East Midlands -15 9 £404 +49.44% 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 87 (9.11%) Confluence
2 67 (7.02%) Apache Spark
3 60 (6.28%) Apache Airflow
4 55 (5.76%) Apache
5 29 (3.04%) Jupyter
6 15 (1.57%) SAS
7 13 (1.36%) nginx
8 12 (1.26%) Camunda
9 5 (0.52%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.31%) CICS
10 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.21%) Traefik
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.10%) CMS
12 1 (0.10%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.42%) Trello
2 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.10%) CATIA
2 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Simulink
2 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 631 (66.07%) AWS
2 310 (32.46%) Azure
3 300 (31.41%) GitHub
4 206 (21.57%) GitHub Actions
5 156 (16.34%) GCP
6 148 (15.50%) Azure DevOps
7 121 (12.67%) Amazon S3
8 118 (12.36%) Amazon EKS
9 117 (12.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 113 (11.83%) Serverless
11 104 (10.89%) AWS Lambda
12 94 (9.84%) Amazon EC2
13 57 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
13 57 (5.97%) OpenShift
14 56 (5.86%) AWS CloudFormation
15 55 (5.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 42 (4.40%) Amazon SQS
17 39 (4.08%) Amazon EMR
18 36 (3.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 34 (3.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.82%) Firewall
2 38 (3.98%) DNS
3 30 (3.14%) BGP
3 30 (3.14%) Ethernet VPN
3 30 (3.14%) Network Security
3 30 (3.14%) VXLAN
4 29 (3.04%) TCP/IP
5 28 (2.93%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (2.30%) WAN
7 21 (2.20%) SD-WAN
8 20 (2.09%) BIG-IP
8 20 (2.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 20 (2.09%) OSPF
9 17 (1.78%) VPN
10 13 (1.36%) 5G
10 13 (1.36%) Broadband
10 13 (1.36%) IPv4
10 13 (1.36%) IPv6
11 12 (1.26%) 4G
12 11 (1.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (9.53%) MongoDB
2 79 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (5.03%) Amazon RDS
4 46 (4.82%) Relational Database
5 42 (4.40%) Amazon Athena
5 42 (4.40%) NoSQL
6 37 (3.87%) Pentaho
7 36 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
9 33 (3.46%) Oracle Database
10 32 (3.35%) Data Lake
10 32 (3.35%) DynamoDB
10 32 (3.35%) SQL Server
11 31 (3.25%) MySQL
11 31 (3.25%) Power BI
12 29 (3.04%) Big Data
12 29 (3.04%) Redis
13 26 (2.72%) RDBMS
14 17 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.36%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 377 (39.48%) Jenkins
2 263 (27.54%) Git
3 123 (12.88%) JIRA
4 87 (9.11%) JUnit
5 81 (8.48%) Selenium
6 65 (6.81%) Cucumber
7 60 (6.28%) SonarQube
8 57 (5.97%) Maven
9 44 (4.61%) Gatling
10 41 (4.29%) Mockito
11 36 (3.77%) Gradle
12 32 (3.35%) Bitbucket
13 30 (3.14%) REST Assured
13 30 (3.14%) Sonatype Nexus
14 26 (2.72%) Artifactory
15 18 (1.88%) Cypress.io
16 17 (1.78%) JMeter
16 17 (1.78%) WebDriver
17 15 (1.57%) Postman
18 13 (1.36%) Snyk
General
1 192 (20.10%) Social Skills
2 169 (17.70%) Public Sector
3 106 (11.10%) Finance
4 74 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (6.81%) Banking
6 24 (2.51%) Telecoms
7 22 (2.30%) Military
8 20 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.36%) Law
10 12 (1.26%) Aerospace
11 9 (0.94%) Legal
12 8 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.73%) Police
14 6 (0.63%) Back Office
15 5 (0.52%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.52%) Publishing
16 4 (0.42%) Front Office
16 4 (0.42%) Local Government
16 4 (0.42%) Marketing
16 4 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 208 (21.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 170 (17.80%) Senior
3 167 (17.49%) Developer
4 101 (10.58%) AWS Engineer
5 82 (8.59%) Data Engineer
6 65 (6.81%) AWS DevOps
7 58 (6.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 58 (6.07%) Lead
8 49 (5.13%) Java Developer
9 48 (5.03%) Test Engineer
10 47 (4.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 45 (4.71%) Architect
12 44 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
13 43 (4.50%) Java Engineer
13 43 (4.50%) Software Engineer
14 39 (4.08%) Software Developer
15 36 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
15 36 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
16 32 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
17 31 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 486 (50.89%) Terraform
2 148 (15.50%) Kafka
3 137 (14.35%) Spring
4 122 (12.77%) REST
5 117 (12.25%) Spring Boot
6 75 (7.85%) React
7 70 (7.33%) Playwright
8 61 (6.39%) RESTful
9 55 (5.76%) RabbitMQ
10 53 (5.55%) JSON
11 41 (4.29%) PySpark
12 40 (4.19%) Node.js
13 36 (3.77%) HTML
14 35 (3.66%) JPA
15 34 (3.56%) .NET
16 33 (3.46%) YAML
17 32 (3.35%) CSS
18 31 (3.25%) Gherkin
18 31 (3.25%) OpenAPI
18 31 (3.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 192 (20.10%) Cloud Native
2 63 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 37 (3.87%) Data Centre
6 33 (3.46%) Data Structures
7 28 (2.93%) Onboarding
8 23 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.88%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.68%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.68%) PKI
10 16 (1.68%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
12 12 (1.26%) Private Cloud
13 11 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.15%) Mainframe
13 11 (1.15%) Replication
13 11 (1.15%) Security Posture
14 9 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 209 (21.88%) Linux
2 51 (5.34%) Windows
3 41 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 39 (4.08%) Unix
5 16 (1.68%) Ubuntu
6 14 (1.47%) CentOS
6 14 (1.47%) VMS
7 12 (1.26%) AIX
8 10 (1.05%) Windows Server
8 10 (1.05%) zOS
9 2 (0.21%) Debian
9 2 (0.21%) Rocky
9 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Android
10 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 800 (83.77%) CI/CD
2 564 (59.06%) DevOps
3 454 (47.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 374 (39.16%) Agile
5 341 (35.71%) Containerisation
6 305 (31.94%) Test Automation
7 207 (21.68%) Microservices
8 184 (19.27%) Scrum
9 182 (19.06%) Observability
10 152 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 152 (15.92%) Software Engineering
11 133 (13.93%) Platform Engineering
12 131 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
13 129 (13.51%) AI
14 106 (11.10%) Deployment Automation
15 105 (10.99%) DevSecOps
16 103 (10.79%) Stakeholder Management
17 102 (10.68%) Mentoring
18 101 (10.58%) Software Delivery
19 98 (10.26%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 432 (45.24%) Python
2 265 (27.75%) Java
3 228 (23.87%) SQL
4 167 (17.49%) Bash
5 97 (10.16%) JavaScript
6 83 (8.69%) PowerShell
7 68 (7.12%) C#
8 51 (5.34%) TypeScript
9 42 (4.40%) Go
10 40 (4.19%) Shell Script
11 19 (1.99%) Groovy
12 16 (1.68%) Bicep
13 14 (1.47%) PL/SQL
14 12 (1.26%) C++
15 8 (0.84%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.84%) Scala
16 6 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.63%) R
17 5 (0.52%) Cypher
17 5 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 448 (46.91%) Security Cleared
2 340 (35.60%) SC Cleared
3 95 (9.95%) DV Cleared
4 80 (8.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 55 (5.76%) Degree
6 50 (5.24%) AWS Certification
7 38 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 14 (1.47%) CISSP
11 12 (1.26%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.15%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.84%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.52%) GCFA
16 5 (0.52%) GCIH
17 4 (0.42%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (14.14%) QA
2 54 (5.65%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.46%) WCAG
4 32 (3.35%) Data Quality
5 16 (1.68%) NIST
6 13 (1.36%) GDPR
6 13 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.05%) NCSC
8 9 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.52%) FATCA
10 5 (0.52%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.52%) SLA
11 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.10%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.10%) MIL-STD-1553
12 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 411 (43.04%) Docker
2 20 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.88%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.36%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.84%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.52%) Squid
8 4 (0.42%) Firmware
8 4 (0.42%) HDFS
8 4 (0.42%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 438 (45.86%) Kubernetes
2 254 (26.60%) Ansible
3 152 (15.92%) Grafana
4 133 (13.93%) Prometheus
5 41 (4.29%) Argo
6 40 (4.19%) Puppet
7 35 (3.66%) Kibana
8 28 (2.93%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.36%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.36%) Oracle RMAN
9 13 (1.36%) Packer
10 12 (1.26%) Istio
11 9 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.84%) Kustomize
12 8 (0.84%) Podman
13 5 (0.52%) CASB
13 5 (0.52%) HP Fortify
14 4 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.42%) Cilium
14 4 (0.42%) Suricata
Vendors
1 111 (11.62%) Oracle
2 68 (7.12%) Google
3 66 (6.91%) Microsoft
4 55 (5.76%) Splunk
5 48 (5.03%) Talend
6 45 (4.71%) Informatica
7 39 (4.08%) VMware
8 33 (3.46%) Dynatrace
9 29 (3.04%) Databricks
10 27 (2.83%) ServiceNow
11 24 (2.51%) IBM
12 23 (2.41%) Red Hat
13 22 (2.30%) Palo Alto
14 21 (2.20%) F5
15 18 (1.88%) Arista
15 18 (1.88%) Aruba
16 16 (1.68%) Denodo
16 16 (1.68%) Trend Micro
17 15 (1.57%) Cloudera
18 14 (1.47%) Veracode