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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 143 230
Rank change year-on-year +26 +87 -44
Contract jobs citing GitLab 809 505 381
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.28% 1.96% 1.02%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.29% 14.69% 8.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 331 290
10th Percentile £386 £363 £413
25th Percentile £431 £436 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £561
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.00% -6.46%
75th Percentile £578 £656 £675
90th Percentile £673 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 3
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.33 £61.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £70.83 £65.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £79.72 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.01% +6.29% +22.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £89.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £80.65 £92.75 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £79.72 £67.50
% change year-on-year -31.01% +18.10% +28.57%

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 4,966 3,438 4,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.01% 13.37% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,401 2,192 3,076
10th Percentile £342 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -5.14% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £636 £638
90th Percentile £695 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 59 202
10th Percentile £36.46 £27.25 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.62 £47.19
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 £75.19
90th Percentile £83.00 £80.00 £88.31
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -15 329 £525 -8.70% 78
North of England +7 236 £500 -3.85% 43
North West +10 113 £445 -6.32% 21
Midlands +28 111 £491 +2.94% 10
West Midlands +23 100 £492 +1.86% 9
Yorkshire -4 93 £500 -21.57% 13
South East -22 51 £500 -20.13% 52
South West +5 47 £525 -15.15% 24
North East -10 37 £500 -3.85% 9
East of England -15 21 £478 +6.22% 15
East Midlands -17 11 £401 +28.94% 1
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 60 (7.42%) Confluence
2 36 (4.45%) SAS
3 25 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.10%) Apache
5 15 (1.85%) OpenStack
6 12 (1.48%) Apache Spark
7 9 (1.11%) nginx
8 5 (0.62%) Appian
9 3 (0.37%) CICS
9 3 (0.37%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.37%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) FileNet
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.12%) Actimize
3 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.12%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.12%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.12%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 480 (59.33%) AWS
2 220 (27.19%) GitHub
3 207 (25.59%) Azure
4 162 (20.02%) GCP
5 137 (16.93%) GitHub Actions
6 119 (14.71%) Serverless
7 100 (12.36%) Amazon S3
8 85 (10.51%) Amazon EC2
9 84 (10.38%) AWS Lambda
10 83 (10.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 83 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
11 81 (10.01%) OpenShift
12 73 (9.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 64 (7.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 59 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
15 49 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
16 24 (2.97%) Datadog
17 23 (2.84%) Azure AKS
17 23 (2.84%) Entra ID
18 20 (2.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 51 (6.30%) Firewall
2 41 (5.07%) DNS
3 38 (4.70%) VPN
4 31 (3.83%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.47%) Network Security
6 14 (1.73%) SSL
7 6 (0.74%) WAN
8 5 (0.62%) HTTP
8 5 (0.62%) Multicast
8 5 (0.62%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.49%) BGP
9 4 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.49%) SAN
9 4 (0.49%) VSAN
10 3 (0.37%) DHCP
10 3 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.37%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.37%) NAS
10 3 (0.37%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.25%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (11.50%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (7.91%) NoSQL
3 63 (7.79%) MongoDB
4 42 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (3.21%) DynamoDB
5 26 (3.21%) MySQL
6 25 (3.09%) Relational Database
7 20 (2.47%) Redis
8 19 (2.35%) Data Lake
9 18 (2.22%) Big Data
9 18 (2.22%) SQL Server
10 17 (2.10%) Power BI
11 16 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (1.73%) Oracle Database
13 13 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (1.36%) DocumentDB
15 10 (1.24%) Spark SQL
16 9 (1.11%) Hadoop
16 9 (1.11%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 405 (50.06%) Jenkins
2 191 (23.61%) Git
3 117 (14.46%) JIRA
4 84 (10.38%) Selenium
5 73 (9.02%) JUnit
6 52 (6.43%) Cucumber
7 37 (4.57%) Postman
8 30 (3.71%) Artifactory
8 30 (3.71%) Maven
9 29 (3.58%) SonarQube
10 27 (3.34%) JMeter
10 27 (3.34%) REST Assured
11 26 (3.21%) CircleCI
12 25 (3.09%) Bitbucket
12 25 (3.09%) Gatling
13 24 (2.97%) Cypress.io
13 24 (2.97%) Gradle
14 23 (2.84%) Liquibase
15 22 (2.72%) Mockito
16 20 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 235 (29.05%) Social Skills
2 128 (15.82%) Finance
2 128 (15.82%) Public Sector
3 93 (11.50%) Banking
4 52 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (2.97%) Financial Institution
6 21 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (1.98%) Military
8 14 (1.73%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.36%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (0.99%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.87%) Retail
13 5 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.49%) Games
14 4 (0.49%) Law
15 3 (0.37%) Local Government
15 3 (0.37%) Marketing
15 3 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 181 (22.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 153 (18.91%) Developer
3 125 (15.45%) Senior
4 78 (9.64%) AWS Engineer
5 64 (7.91%) Lead
6 61 (7.54%) AWS DevOps
7 56 (6.92%) Software Engineer
8 50 (6.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 46 (5.69%) Cloud Engineer
9 46 (5.69%) Data Engineer
10 45 (5.56%) Java Developer
11 42 (5.19%) Architect
11 42 (5.19%) Test Engineer
12 40 (4.94%) Senior DevOps
12 40 (4.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 31 (3.83%) GCP Engineer
14 28 (3.46%) Platform Engineer
15 25 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
16 23 (2.84%) Java Engineer
17 22 (2.72%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (17.55%) REST
2 113 (13.97%) Kafka
3 112 (13.84%) Spring
4 102 (12.61%) Spring Boot
5 86 (10.63%) Elastic Stack
6 81 (10.01%) RESTful
7 77 (9.52%) Node.js
8 61 (7.54%) React
9 54 (6.67%) Playwright
10 35 (4.33%) pytest
11 34 (4.20%) HTML
12 30 (3.71%) OpenTelemetry
12 30 (3.71%) RabbitMQ
13 28 (3.46%) JSON
13 28 (3.46%) YAML
14 27 (3.34%) OpenID
15 26 (3.21%) Jest
16 25 (3.09%) AngularJS
16 25 (3.09%) LDAP
17 23 (2.84%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 127 (15.70%) Cloud Native
2 69 (8.53%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (5.69%) Public Cloud
4 42 (5.19%) Product Ownership
5 23 (2.84%) Onboarding
6 15 (1.85%) Data Centre
7 14 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (1.61%) Private Cloud
9 12 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.11%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.11%) Management Information System
12 8 (0.99%) PKI
12 8 (0.99%) Security Posture
13 7 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.87%) DataPower
13 7 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (0.87%) NHS
13 7 (0.87%) Synthetic Data
13 7 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 161 (19.90%) Linux
2 52 (6.43%) Windows
3 29 (3.58%) Unix
4 25 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.61%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.24%) Apple iOS
6 10 (1.24%) CentOS
7 9 (1.11%) Android
8 8 (0.99%) VMS
9 5 (0.62%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.62%) zOS
10 3 (0.37%) Solaris
11 2 (0.25%) Debian
11 2 (0.25%) Rocky
12 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (79.11%) CI/CD
2 494 (61.06%) DevOps
3 302 (37.33%) Agile
4 300 (37.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 278 (34.36%) Containerisation
6 246 (30.41%) Test Automation
7 178 (22.00%) Microservices
8 156 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
9 139 (17.18%) Observability
10 123 (15.20%) Software Engineering
11 97 (11.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 90 (11.12%) Scrum
13 85 (10.51%) Analytics
14 74 (9.15%) DevSecOps
15 70 (8.65%) Test Strategy
16 68 (8.41%) TDD
17 66 (8.16%) Infrastructure Automation
17 66 (8.16%) Platform Engineering
18 62 (7.66%) Root Cause Analysis
19 61 (7.54%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 365 (45.12%) Python
2 241 (29.79%) Java
3 146 (18.05%) SQL
4 134 (16.56%) Bash
5 99 (12.24%) JavaScript
6 74 (9.15%) Go
7 70 (8.65%) PowerShell
7 70 (8.65%) TypeScript
8 42 (5.19%) Shell Script
9 17 (2.10%) Kotlin
10 16 (1.98%) C#
11 14 (1.73%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.48%) Ruby
13 10 (1.24%) Bicep
14 7 (0.87%) C++
14 7 (0.87%) Groovy
14 7 (0.87%) Korn
14 7 (0.87%) MATLAB
14 7 (0.87%) Scala
15 6 (0.74%) C
Qualifications
1 312 (38.57%) Security Cleared
2 250 (30.90%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.05%) Degree
4 52 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (4.08%) AWS Certification
6 29 (3.58%) DV Cleared
6 29 (3.58%) Master's Degree
7 25 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.11%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.11%) CISSP
11 8 (0.99%) CISM
12 7 (0.87%) OCA
12 7 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.49%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (13.47%) QA
2 49 (6.06%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.60%) WCAG
4 18 (2.22%) GDPR
5 14 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.73%) NIST
5 14 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 14 (1.73%) SLA
6 11 (1.36%) NCSC
7 10 (1.24%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.49%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.25%) HL7
11 1 (0.12%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.12%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 358 (44.25%) Docker
2 22 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.62%) HDFS
6 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.37%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.37%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) Squid
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 419 (51.79%) Kubernetes
2 378 (46.72%) Terraform
3 214 (26.45%) Ansible
4 201 (24.85%) Grafana
5 154 (19.04%) Prometheus
6 40 (4.94%) Argo
7 19 (2.35%) Istio
8 18 (2.22%) Podman
8 18 (2.22%) Puppet
9 17 (2.10%) Kibana
10 16 (1.98%) Progress Chef
11 13 (1.61%) Packer
12 9 (1.11%) Fluentd
12 9 (1.11%) Red Hat Satellite
13 8 (0.99%) linkerd
14 7 (0.87%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.87%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.87%) Sysdig
15 6 (0.74%) Nagios
16 5 (0.62%) Rancher
Vendors
1 96 (11.87%) Splunk
2 64 (7.91%) Oracle
3 63 (7.79%) Microsoft
4 46 (5.69%) Google
4 46 (5.69%) Red Hat
5 32 (3.96%) VMware
6 29 (3.58%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.35%) Dynatrace
8 17 (2.10%) Databricks
9 15 (1.85%) F5
9 15 (1.85%) Informatica
9 15 (1.85%) Palo Alto
9 15 (1.85%) Salesforce
10 14 (1.73%) Atlassian
10 14 (1.73%) CheckPoint
10 14 (1.73%) Talend
10 14 (1.73%) Veracode
11 13 (1.61%) Cisco
12 11 (1.36%) IBM
13 10 (1.24%) Cribl.io