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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 142 189
Rank change year-on-year -2 +47 +52
Contract jobs citing GitLab 871 534 433
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.90% 1.93% 1.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.40% 13.28% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 358 297
10th Percentile £381 £363 £335
25th Percentile £429 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% -5.61% -0.90%
75th Percentile £601 £602 £650
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 8 8
10th Percentile - £61.60 £62.30
25th Percentile - £64.56 £70.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.58
90th Percentile £91.00 £71.79 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +86.87%

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 5,310 4,021 4,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.61% 14.56% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,383 2,781 2,842
10th Percentile £355 £320 £356
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £631
90th Percentile £695 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 95 182
10th Percentile £36.25 £40.90 £33.01
25th Percentile £58.25 £51.03 £54.09
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £73.98
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +6 372 £525 - 151
North of England -32 181 £500 +2.56% 73
Midlands +31 137 £469 -10.67% 29
West Midlands +34 130 £469 -12.91% 21
South East -41 82 £550 +7.32% 48
North East +9 76 £413 -12.70% 16
North West -34 74 £575 +18.56% 43
South West -20 58 £550 -8.33% 47
Yorkshire -46 44 £550 +10.00% 14
East of England -17 33 £475 +2.70% 18
East Midlands -17 7 £459 +69.81% 8
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 81 (9.30%) Confluence
2 61 (7.00%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (6.08%) Apache Spark
4 45 (5.17%) Apache
5 31 (3.56%) SAS
6 29 (3.33%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.69%) Camunda
7 6 (0.69%) CICS
7 6 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.23%) CMS
9 2 (0.23%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.23%) nginx
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 586 (67.28%) AWS
2 304 (34.90%) GitHub
3 301 (34.56%) Azure
4 224 (25.72%) GitHub Actions
5 157 (18.03%) GCP
6 145 (16.65%) Azure DevOps
7 115 (13.20%) Amazon S3
8 113 (12.97%) Serverless
9 112 (12.86%) Amazon EKS
10 103 (11.83%) AWS Lambda
11 99 (11.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 81 (9.30%) Amazon EC2
13 60 (6.89%) AWS CloudFormation
14 56 (6.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 43 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
16 42 (4.82%) OpenShift
17 39 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (4.02%) Datadog
19 34 (3.90%) OCI
20 32 (3.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 49 (5.63%) Firewall
2 29 (3.33%) BGP
2 29 (3.33%) DNS
3 27 (3.10%) Ethernet VPN
3 27 (3.10%) Network Security
3 27 (3.10%) VXLAN
4 23 (2.64%) WAN
5 22 (2.53%) SD-WAN
6 21 (2.41%) OSPF
7 19 (2.18%) BIG-IP
7 19 (2.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 19 (2.18%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (1.49%) VPN
10 11 (1.26%) HTTP
10 11 (1.26%) WLAN
11 8 (0.92%) NX-OS
12 7 (0.80%) SSL
13 6 (0.69%) DHCP
14 5 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (8.04%) MongoDB
3 49 (5.63%) Relational Database
4 40 (4.59%) Amazon Athena
4 40 (4.59%) Amazon Redshift
5 37 (4.25%) Amazon RDS
6 35 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
6 35 (4.02%) DynamoDB
7 34 (3.90%) NoSQL
8 33 (3.79%) Pentaho
9 31 (3.56%) SQL Server
10 29 (3.33%) Power BI
11 27 (3.10%) Oracle Database
12 26 (2.99%) Redis
13 25 (2.87%) MySQL
14 24 (2.76%) Data Lake
14 24 (2.76%) RDBMS
15 21 (2.41%) Big Data
16 13 (1.49%) Oracle Exadata
17 11 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 368 (42.25%) Jenkins
2 215 (24.68%) Git
3 104 (11.94%) JIRA
4 65 (7.46%) Selenium
5 64 (7.35%) JUnit
6 41 (4.71%) Cucumber
7 37 (4.25%) Bitbucket
7 37 (4.25%) SonarQube
8 29 (3.33%) Gradle
9 28 (3.21%) Artifactory
10 27 (3.10%) Maven
11 25 (2.87%) Gatling
11 25 (2.87%) Mockito
12 22 (2.53%) JMeter
12 22 (2.53%) REST Assured
12 22 (2.53%) WebDriver
13 19 (2.18%) Sonatype Nexus
14 18 (2.07%) Postman
15 16 (1.84%) Snyk
16 11 (1.26%) Cypress.io
General
1 169 (19.40%) Social Skills
2 149 (17.11%) Public Sector
3 97 (11.14%) Finance
4 63 (7.23%) Banking
5 55 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.07%) Military
7 16 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.61%) Law
9 11 (1.26%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.26%) Legal
10 6 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.57%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.57%) Police
11 5 (0.57%) Publishing
11 5 (0.57%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.46%) Marketing
12 4 (0.46%) Retail
13 3 (0.34%) Back Office
13 3 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 184 (21.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 172 (19.75%) Senior
3 135 (15.50%) Developer
4 104 (11.94%) AWS Engineer
5 86 (9.87%) Data Engineer
6 67 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
7 63 (7.23%) Lead
8 60 (6.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 56 (6.43%) Software Engineer
10 46 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 40 (4.59%) Java Developer
12 37 (4.25%) Platform Engineer
13 36 (4.13%) Test Engineer
14 33 (3.79%) Architect
15 31 (3.56%) Senior DevOps
16 30 (3.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 27 (3.10%) Software Developer
18 26 (2.99%) Senior Developer
18 26 (2.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (14.47%) Kafka
2 100 (11.48%) REST
3 98 (11.25%) Spring
4 87 (9.99%) Spring Boot
5 54 (6.20%) React
5 54 (6.20%) RESTful
6 43 (4.94%) PySpark
7 42 (4.82%) JSON
7 42 (4.82%) Node.js
8 40 (4.59%) Playwright
9 36 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
10 34 (3.90%) YAML
11 25 (2.87%) Elastic Stack
11 25 (2.87%) WireMock
12 23 (2.64%) .NET
12 23 (2.64%) OAuth
13 22 (2.53%) HTML
13 22 (2.53%) Keycloak
13 22 (2.53%) pytest
14 20 (2.30%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 174 (19.98%) Cloud Native
2 60 (6.89%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.40%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.90%) Data Centre
4 34 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (2.53%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.95%) Algorithms
8 17 (1.95%) Distributed Architecture
9 15 (1.72%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.61%) Mainframe
11 13 (1.49%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.03%) Private Cloud
14 7 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
14 7 (0.80%) PKI
15 6 (0.69%) DataPower
15 6 (0.69%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 164 (18.83%) Linux
2 42 (4.82%) Unix
3 38 (4.36%) Windows
4 35 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.49%) Ubuntu
5 13 (1.49%) zOS
6 12 (1.38%) AIX
7 10 (1.15%) CentOS
8 7 (0.80%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.57%) VMS
10 4 (0.46%) Debian
10 4 (0.46%) Rocky
11 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.23%) Android
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 721 (82.78%) CI/CD
2 515 (59.13%) DevOps
3 400 (45.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 317 (36.39%) Agile
5 309 (35.48%) Containerisation
6 264 (30.31%) Test Automation
7 166 (19.06%) Microservices
8 156 (17.91%) Observability
9 150 (17.22%) Software Engineering
10 135 (15.50%) Scrum
11 127 (14.58%) Platform Engineering
12 123 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 119 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
14 106 (12.17%) AI
15 100 (11.48%) DevSecOps
16 88 (10.10%) ETL
17 86 (9.87%) Migration
18 85 (9.76%) Event-Driven
19 80 (9.18%) Deployment Automation
19 80 (9.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 379 (43.51%) Python
2 203 (23.31%) Java
3 202 (23.19%) SQL
4 158 (18.14%) Bash
5 82 (9.41%) PowerShell
6 74 (8.50%) JavaScript
7 62 (7.12%) C#
8 56 (6.43%) TypeScript
9 32 (3.67%) Go
10 25 (2.87%) Shell Script
11 20 (2.30%) Bicep
12 18 (2.07%) PL/SQL
13 15 (1.72%) C++
14 9 (1.03%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.92%) Groovy
15 8 (0.92%) Scala
16 6 (0.69%) JCL
16 6 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.69%) R
17 5 (0.57%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 416 (47.76%) Security Cleared
2 341 (39.15%) SC Cleared
3 62 (7.12%) DV Cleared
4 45 (5.17%) Degree
5 41 (4.71%) AWS Certification
6 35 (4.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (2.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 18 (2.07%) Azure Certification
10 15 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 14 (1.61%) CISSP
12 13 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (1.26%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (1.15%) ISTQB
15 9 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 5 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.57%) GCFA
16 5 (0.57%) GCIH
17 4 (0.46%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (10.45%) QA
2 34 (3.90%) Accessibility
2 34 (3.90%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.38%) NIST
3 12 (1.38%) WCAG
4 11 (1.26%) GDPR
5 10 (1.15%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.15%) SLA
6 8 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.69%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.57%) FATCA
9 4 (0.46%) NCSC
10 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.11%) GRC
11 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
11 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.11%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 370 (42.48%) Docker
2 20 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.49%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.69%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.57%) HDFS
5 5 (0.57%) Squid
6 3 (0.34%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.11%) iptables
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 433 (49.71%) Terraform
2 394 (45.24%) Kubernetes
3 230 (26.41%) Ansible
4 146 (16.76%) Grafana
5 126 (14.47%) Prometheus
6 45 (5.17%) Argo
7 39 (4.48%) Puppet
8 27 (3.10%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.61%) Istio
10 13 (1.49%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.49%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (1.26%) Packer
12 9 (1.03%) Podman
12 9 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.69%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.57%) CASB
14 5 (0.57%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.57%) linkerd
14 5 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.57%) Salt
Vendors
1 100 (11.48%) Oracle
2 68 (7.81%) Microsoft
3 56 (6.43%) Google
4 51 (5.86%) Splunk
5 48 (5.51%) Talend
6 47 (5.40%) Informatica
7 34 (3.90%) Databricks
8 32 (3.67%) VMware
9 28 (3.21%) ServiceNow
10 27 (3.10%) Dynatrace
11 24 (2.76%) Red Hat
12 22 (2.53%) Denodo
13 21 (2.41%) Palo Alto
14 20 (2.30%) F5
15 18 (2.07%) Arista
15 18 (2.07%) Aruba
16 17 (1.95%) IBM
17 16 (1.84%) Trend Micro
18 11 (1.26%) Cisco
19 8 (0.92%) Veracode