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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 147 212
Rank change year-on-year +4 +65 +48
Contract jobs citing GitLab 823 521 410
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.84% 1.92% 1.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.66% 13.54% 9.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 334 291
10th Percentile £368 £356 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -9.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £597 £650
90th Percentile £688 £650 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 8
10th Percentile £63.88 £61.55 £62.30
25th Percentile - £63.63 £70.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.73% +24.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £75.63
90th Percentile £81.75 £73.38 £77.50
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 5,255 3,848 4,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.74% 14.16% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,372 2,627 3,031
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 91 228
10th Percentile £28.08 £30.75 £32.61
25th Percentile £57.63 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +2 348 £525 - 59
North of England -19 189 £453 -3.62% 42
Midlands +21 132 £469 -6.20% 19
West Midlands +23 125 £466 -9.12% 13
North West -26 86 £525 +8.25% 25
South East -34 69 £550 +4.71% 26
North East +6 68 £413 -11.29% 12
Yorkshire -43 50 £550 +15.79% 5
South West -12 49 £538 -10.42% 21
East of England -11 32 £483 +7.22% 9
East Midlands -11 7 £470 +74.07% 6
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 92 (11.18%) Confluence
2 53 (6.44%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (5.35%) Apache Spark
4 39 (4.74%) Apache
5 33 (4.01%) SAS
6 27 (3.28%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.85%) CICS
8 6 (0.73%) Camunda
8 6 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.49%) nginx
9 4 (0.49%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 540 (65.61%) AWS
2 264 (32.08%) GitHub
3 245 (29.77%) Azure
4 191 (23.21%) GitHub Actions
5 132 (16.04%) GCP
6 125 (15.19%) Amazon S3
7 119 (14.46%) Serverless
8 109 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
9 107 (13.00%) AWS Lambda
10 100 (12.15%) Amazon EKS
11 90 (10.94%) Amazon EC2
12 89 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 57 (6.93%) AWS CloudFormation
13 57 (6.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 40 (4.86%) OpenShift
15 37 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
16 33 (4.01%) Amazon SQS
16 33 (4.01%) OCI
17 29 (3.52%) Amazon EMR
17 29 (3.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.86%) Firewall
2 21 (2.55%) BGP
2 21 (2.55%) Network Security
2 21 (2.55%) WAN
3 20 (2.43%) OSPF
4 19 (2.31%) BIG-IP
4 19 (2.31%) Ethernet VPN
4 19 (2.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 19 (2.31%) SD-WAN
4 19 (2.31%) VXLAN
5 18 (2.19%) DNS
6 15 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (1.70%) VPN
8 11 (1.34%) WLAN
9 8 (0.97%) HTTP
10 5 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.49%) MQTT
11 4 (0.49%) SSL
12 3 (0.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (7.05%) MongoDB
3 49 (5.95%) Relational Database
4 41 (4.98%) Amazon Athena
4 41 (4.98%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (4.13%) Amazon RDS
6 33 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (4.01%) DynamoDB
7 29 (3.52%) Oracle Database
7 29 (3.52%) Pentaho
8 26 (3.16%) NoSQL
8 26 (3.16%) Power BI
8 26 (3.16%) SQL Server
9 20 (2.43%) Big Data
9 20 (2.43%) RDBMS
10 19 (2.31%) Data Lake
11 18 (2.19%) MySQL
12 15 (1.82%) Redis
13 12 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (1.34%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 343 (41.68%) Jenkins
2 195 (23.69%) Git
3 121 (14.70%) JIRA
4 70 (8.51%) Selenium
5 63 (7.65%) JUnit
6 40 (4.86%) Cucumber
7 37 (4.50%) SonarQube
8 33 (4.01%) Bitbucket
9 29 (3.52%) Artifactory
10 28 (3.40%) Gradle
10 28 (3.40%) Mockito
10 28 (3.40%) REST Assured
11 25 (3.04%) JMeter
12 24 (2.92%) Postman
12 24 (2.92%) WebDriver
13 23 (2.79%) Gatling
14 21 (2.55%) Maven
15 13 (1.58%) Serenity BDD
15 13 (1.58%) Snyk
16 12 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 161 (19.56%) Public Sector
2 159 (19.32%) Social Skills
3 88 (10.69%) Finance
4 63 (7.65%) Banking
5 45 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.19%) Military
7 17 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.70%) Law
9 12 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.34%) Legal
11 8 (0.97%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.73%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.61%) Police
15 4 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.49%) Publishing
16 3 (0.36%) Retail
17 2 (0.24%) Back Office
17 2 (0.24%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 185 (22.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 155 (18.83%) Senior
3 119 (14.46%) Developer
4 98 (11.91%) AWS Engineer
5 82 (9.96%) Data Engineer
6 70 (8.51%) AWS DevOps
7 63 (7.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 58 (7.05%) Lead
9 47 (5.71%) Software Engineer
10 40 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 39 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
12 38 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
13 37 (4.50%) Java Developer
13 37 (4.50%) Test Engineer
14 31 (3.77%) Architect
14 31 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
15 30 (3.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
16 26 (3.16%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 23 (2.79%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (13.61%) Kafka
2 90 (10.94%) Spring
3 86 (10.45%) REST
4 83 (10.09%) Spring Boot
5 61 (7.41%) RESTful
6 54 (6.56%) React
7 43 (5.22%) PySpark
8 40 (4.86%) Playwright
9 38 (4.62%) Node.js
10 37 (4.50%) YAML
11 30 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
12 27 (3.28%) JSON
13 25 (3.04%) Elastic Stack
14 24 (2.92%) AWS CDK
14 24 (2.92%) WireMock
15 23 (2.79%) SOAP
16 20 (2.43%) Keycloak
16 20 (2.43%) pytest
17 19 (2.31%) OAuth
18 17 (2.07%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 153 (18.59%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.47%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.65%) Data Centre
5 26 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (2.79%) Public Cloud
8 19 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (2.19%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (1.94%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.82%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.34%) Mainframe
13 9 (1.09%) NHS
13 9 (1.09%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.97%) AI Agents
15 7 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (0.85%) DataPower
16 6 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
16 6 (0.73%) Online Banking
16 6 (0.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 157 (19.08%) Linux
2 37 (4.50%) Windows
3 35 (4.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 35 (4.25%) Unix
4 12 (1.46%) zOS
5 11 (1.34%) AIX
6 9 (1.09%) CentOS
7 8 (0.97%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.49%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.36%) Debian
9 3 (0.36%) Rocky
9 3 (0.36%) VMS
10 2 (0.24%) Android
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 675 (82.02%) CI/CD
2 481 (58.44%) DevOps
3 357 (43.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 304 (36.94%) Agile
5 275 (33.41%) Containerisation
6 258 (31.35%) Test Automation
7 158 (19.20%) Microservices
8 138 (16.77%) Observability
9 124 (15.07%) Scrum
10 123 (14.95%) Software Engineering
11 119 (14.46%) Platform Engineering
12 107 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 107 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
13 92 (11.18%) AI
14 84 (10.21%) DevSecOps
15 78 (9.48%) ETL
15 78 (9.48%) Migration
16 74 (8.99%) Event-Driven
17 68 (8.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 67 (8.14%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 340 (41.31%) Python
2 191 (23.21%) Java
3 182 (22.11%) SQL
4 127 (15.43%) Bash
5 68 (8.26%) JavaScript
6 56 (6.80%) PowerShell
6 56 (6.80%) TypeScript
7 48 (5.83%) C#
8 32 (3.89%) Go
9 27 (3.28%) Shell Script
10 17 (2.07%) Bicep
11 16 (1.94%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.58%) C++
13 6 (0.73%) JCL
13 6 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.73%) Scala
14 5 (0.61%) C
14 5 (0.61%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.61%) Ruby
15 4 (0.49%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 398 (48.36%) Security Cleared
2 335 (40.70%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.71%) DV Cleared
4 39 (4.74%) Degree
5 38 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (4.50%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 16 (1.94%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 11 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.34%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (1.09%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.61%) CISSP
13 4 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.49%) CSSLP
13 4 (0.49%) GIAC
14 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (9.48%) QA
2 33 (4.01%) Accessibility
2 33 (4.01%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.34%) SLA
4 10 (1.22%) WCAG
5 5 (0.61%) FATCA
5 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.49%) NIST
7 3 (0.36%) GDPR
7 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.12%) GRC
9 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
9 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
9 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 344 (41.80%) Docker
2 22 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.46%) Oracle RAC
3 12 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.61%) HDFS
5 5 (0.61%) Squid
6 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
6 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.12%) iptables
7 1 (0.12%) vSphere
7 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 408 (49.57%) Terraform
2 347 (42.16%) Kubernetes
3 190 (23.09%) Ansible
4 151 (18.35%) Grafana
5 131 (15.92%) Prometheus
6 45 (5.47%) Argo
7 34 (4.13%) Puppet
8 17 (2.07%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.70%) Istio
10 12 (1.46%) Data Guard
10 12 (1.46%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (1.22%) Packer
11 10 (1.22%) Podman
12 8 (0.97%) Red Hat Satellite
13 6 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.61%) Check_MK
14 5 (0.61%) Kibana
14 5 (0.61%) linkerd
14 5 (0.61%) Salt
15 4 (0.49%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 99 (12.03%) Oracle
2 51 (6.20%) Microsoft
3 48 (5.83%) Talend
4 45 (5.47%) Informatica
4 45 (5.47%) Splunk
5 44 (5.35%) Google
6 24 (2.92%) Databricks
7 23 (2.79%) Denodo
7 23 (2.79%) Red Hat
8 22 (2.67%) VMware
9 21 (2.55%) F5
10 20 (2.43%) Palo Alto
11 18 (2.19%) Arista
11 18 (2.19%) Aruba
11 18 (2.19%) Salesforce
11 18 (2.19%) ServiceNow
12 17 (2.07%) Dynatrace
12 17 (2.07%) IBM
13 15 (1.82%) Trend Micro
13 15 (1.82%) Veracode