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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 148 221
Rank change year-on-year +7 +73 +34
Contract jobs citing GitLab 837 498 411
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.91% 1.94% 1.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.08% 13.68% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 311 293
10th Percentile £371 £358 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £551
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -5.90% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £656
90th Percentile £688 £660 £748
UK median daily rate £495 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -5.71% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 8
10th Percentile £52.50 £63.42 £62.30
25th Percentile £62.19 £66.68 £70.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.73 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% -2.01% +24.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £78.16 £75.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.04 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% -5.41% +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 5,206 3,640 4,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.88% 14.20% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,359 2,476 3,012
10th Percentile £350 £335 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £709 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 78 234
10th Percentile £28.97 £28.27 £33.02
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +4.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -5 355 £525 - 75
North of England -5 193 £453 -5.63% 42
Midlands +25 134 £463 -7.50% 24
West Midlands +28 126 £463 -11.90% 17
North West -10 87 £500 +4.17% 22
North East +7 67 £400 -13.98% 13
South East -37 66 £550 +9.89% 30
Yorkshire -29 55 £540 +5.37% 7
South West -7 54 £500 -13.04% 35
East of England 0 35 £480 +1.11% 12
East Midlands -11 8 £459 +69.81% 7
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 89 (10.63%) Confluence
2 51 (6.09%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (5.14%) Apache Spark
4 40 (4.78%) Apache
5 36 (4.30%) SAS
6 27 (3.23%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.84%) CICS
8 6 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.60%) Camunda
10 4 (0.48%) nginx
10 4 (0.48%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.24%) CMS
12 2 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
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
1 543 (64.87%) AWS
2 260 (31.06%) GitHub
3 249 (29.75%) Azure
4 184 (21.98%) GitHub Actions
5 131 (15.65%) GCP
6 128 (15.29%) Amazon S3
7 120 (14.34%) Serverless
8 107 (12.78%) AWS Lambda
9 103 (12.31%) Amazon EKS
10 98 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
11 94 (11.23%) Amazon EC2
12 89 (10.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 62 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 59 (7.05%) AWS CloudFormation
15 42 (5.02%) OpenShift
16 41 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
17 31 (3.70%) Power Platform
18 30 (3.58%) Amazon SQS
19 29 (3.46%) Amazon EMR
19 29 (3.46%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.90%) Firewall
2 21 (2.51%) BGP
2 21 (2.51%) Network Security
2 21 (2.51%) WAN
3 20 (2.39%) OSPF
4 19 (2.27%) BIG-IP
4 19 (2.27%) Ethernet VPN
4 19 (2.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 19 (2.27%) SD-WAN
4 19 (2.27%) VXLAN
5 17 (2.03%) DNS
6 15 (1.79%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (1.43%) VPN
8 11 (1.31%) WLAN
9 8 (0.96%) HTTP
10 6 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.48%) MQTT
11 4 (0.48%) SSL
12 3 (0.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (7.05%) MongoDB
1 59 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (5.50%) Relational Database
3 41 (4.90%) Amazon Redshift
4 40 (4.78%) Amazon Athena
5 34 (4.06%) DynamoDB
6 33 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
6 33 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (3.58%) NoSQL
8 29 (3.46%) Pentaho
9 28 (3.35%) Power BI
10 26 (3.11%) Oracle Database
11 24 (2.87%) SQL Server
12 20 (2.39%) Big Data
12 20 (2.39%) Data Lake
12 20 (2.39%) MySQL
13 16 (1.91%) RDBMS
14 15 (1.79%) Redis
15 12 (1.43%) DocumentDB
16 10 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 353 (42.17%) Jenkins
2 193 (23.06%) Git
3 122 (14.58%) JIRA
4 72 (8.60%) Selenium
5 65 (7.77%) JUnit
6 41 (4.90%) Cucumber
7 31 (3.70%) SonarQube
8 30 (3.58%) Artifactory
8 30 (3.58%) Bitbucket
8 30 (3.58%) Mockito
9 29 (3.46%) REST Assured
10 28 (3.35%) Gradle
10 28 (3.35%) JMeter
10 28 (3.35%) Postman
11 25 (2.99%) Gatling
12 23 (2.75%) WebDriver
13 20 (2.39%) Maven
14 14 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
15 13 (1.55%) CircleCI
15 13 (1.55%) Snyk
General
1 164 (19.59%) Social Skills
2 161 (19.24%) Public Sector
3 92 (10.99%) Finance
4 65 (7.77%) Banking
5 44 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.03%) Military
8 14 (1.67%) Law
9 12 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.08%) Legal
11 8 (0.96%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.96%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.84%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.60%) Police
14 4 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.48%) Publishing
15 3 (0.36%) Retail
16 2 (0.24%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 190 (22.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 148 (17.68%) Senior
3 124 (14.81%) Developer
4 97 (11.59%) AWS Engineer
5 85 (10.16%) Data Engineer
6 70 (8.36%) AWS DevOps
7 63 (7.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 58 (6.93%) Lead
9 48 (5.73%) Software Engineer
10 41 (4.90%) Java Developer
11 39 (4.66%) Test Engineer
12 38 (4.54%) Cloud Engineer
12 38 (4.54%) Platform Engineer
13 36 (4.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 33 (3.94%) Architect
15 31 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
16 30 (3.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 26 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
18 23 (2.75%) Tester
19 22 (2.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (13.38%) Kafka
2 100 (11.95%) Spring
3 88 (10.51%) REST
3 88 (10.51%) Spring Boot
4 65 (7.77%) RESTful
5 52 (6.21%) React
6 45 (5.38%) PySpark
7 44 (5.26%) Playwright
8 40 (4.78%) Node.js
9 35 (4.18%) YAML
10 29 (3.46%) Elastic Stack
11 26 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
12 25 (2.99%) AWS CDK
12 25 (2.99%) JSON
13 24 (2.87%) WireMock
14 23 (2.75%) SOAP
15 21 (2.51%) Keycloak
15 21 (2.51%) pytest
16 20 (2.39%) LDAP
16 20 (2.39%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 156 (18.64%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.93%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (5.73%) Product Ownership
4 35 (4.18%) Data Centre
5 27 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (2.39%) Public Cloud
9 18 (2.15%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.79%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.67%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.19%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.08%) NHS
13 9 (1.08%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.96%) Mainframe
15 7 (0.84%) AI Agents
15 7 (0.84%) DataPower
15 7 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
16 6 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
16 6 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 160 (19.12%) Linux
2 41 (4.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 38 (4.54%) Unix
3 38 (4.54%) Windows
4 12 (1.43%) CentOS
5 9 (1.08%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.96%) zOS
7 7 (0.84%) AIX
8 5 (0.60%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.48%) Debian
9 4 (0.48%) Rocky
10 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.36%) VMS
11 2 (0.24%) Android
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (80.76%) CI/CD
2 485 (57.95%) DevOps
3 345 (41.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 304 (36.32%) Agile
5 278 (33.21%) Containerisation
6 263 (31.42%) Test Automation
7 159 (19.00%) Microservices
8 136 (16.25%) Observability
9 123 (14.70%) Scrum
9 123 (14.70%) Software Engineering
10 117 (13.98%) Platform Engineering
11 111 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 110 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
13 92 (10.99%) AI
14 84 (10.04%) DevSecOps
14 84 (10.04%) ETL
15 74 (8.84%) Event-Driven
16 72 (8.60%) Migration
17 68 (8.12%) Data Engineering
18 66 (7.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 339 (40.50%) Python
2 207 (24.73%) Java
3 188 (22.46%) SQL
4 123 (14.70%) Bash
5 68 (8.12%) JavaScript
6 61 (7.29%) TypeScript
7 52 (6.21%) PowerShell
8 47 (5.62%) C#
9 33 (3.94%) Go
10 32 (3.82%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.03%) Bicep
12 16 (1.91%) PL/SQL
13 13 (1.55%) C++
14 10 (1.19%) Scala
15 8 (0.96%) MATLAB
16 7 (0.84%) Cypher
16 7 (0.84%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.84%) Ruby
17 6 (0.72%) JCL
18 5 (0.60%) C
Qualifications
1 408 (48.75%) Security Cleared
2 347 (41.46%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.38%) DV Cleared
4 40 (4.78%) Degree
5 39 (4.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (4.18%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 13 (1.55%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.31%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (1.08%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.48%) CISSP
13 4 (0.48%) GIAC
14 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.36%) CSSLP
14 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.24%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (9.68%) QA
2 33 (3.94%) Accessibility
2 33 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 14 (1.67%) SLA
4 10 (1.19%) WCAG
5 6 (0.72%) GDPR
5 6 (0.72%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.60%) FATCA
6 5 (0.60%) NIST
6 5 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.12%) GRC
9 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
9 1 (0.12%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
9 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 349 (41.70%) Docker
2 26 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.96%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.60%) Squid
7 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 4 (0.48%) HDFS
8 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.12%) iptables
10 1 (0.12%) vSphere
10 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 403 (48.15%) Terraform
2 356 (42.53%) Kubernetes
3 186 (22.22%) Ansible
4 151 (18.04%) Grafana
5 133 (15.89%) Prometheus
6 43 (5.14%) Argo
7 31 (3.70%) Puppet
8 14 (1.67%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.55%) Podman
10 12 (1.43%) Istio
11 11 (1.31%) Red Hat Satellite
12 10 (1.19%) Packer
13 8 (0.96%) Check_MK
13 8 (0.96%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.96%) Oracle RMAN
14 7 (0.84%) Kibana
14 7 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.72%) Salt
16 5 (0.60%) linkerd
17 4 (0.48%) Suricata
Vendors
1 95 (11.35%) Oracle
2 54 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 49 (5.85%) Talend
4 46 (5.50%) Informatica
5 45 (5.38%) Splunk
6 39 (4.66%) Google
7 29 (3.46%) Red Hat
8 26 (3.11%) Databricks
8 26 (3.11%) VMware
9 24 (2.87%) ServiceNow
10 23 (2.75%) Denodo
11 21 (2.51%) F5
12 20 (2.39%) Palo Alto
13 18 (2.15%) Arista
13 18 (2.15%) Aruba
13 18 (2.15%) Dynatrace
13 18 (2.15%) Salesforce
14 15 (1.79%) Trend Micro
15 14 (1.67%) Veracode
16 12 (1.43%) IBM