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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 134 244
Rank change year-on-year +5 +110 -52
Contract jobs citing GitLab 786 492 370
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.09% 2.03% 0.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.52% 15.02% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 324 269
10th Percentile £387 £368 £413
25th Percentile £431 £439 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -6.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £641 £688
90th Percentile £660 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £563
% change year-on-year -5.66% -5.78% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 5
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.59 £57.10
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £58.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -33.70% +11.45% +21.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £77.50
90th Percentile £80.65 £92.59 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £82.96 £62.00
% change year-on-year -33.70% +33.81% +27.18%

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 5,065 3,276 4,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.49% 13.50% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,411 2,185 2,926
10th Percentile £340 £340 £360
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 66 170
10th Percentile £39.37 £26.15 £37.50
25th Percentile £59.25 £52.26 £48.85
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.94
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.36 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -14 334 £525 -4.55% 56
North of England 0 204 £500 -4.76% 49
Midlands +16 111 £478 -1.09% 19
North West 0 105 £450 -10.00% 16
West Midlands +7 99 £481 -2.78% 12
Yorkshire -3 81 £500 -13.04% 14
South East -30 55 £500 -21.57% 39
South West +9 52 £523 +4.50% 36
North East -10 26 £463 -10.19% 19
East of England -13 21 £477 +5.89% 12
East Midlands -23 12 £402 +29.99% 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 63 (8.02%) Confluence
2 36 (4.58%) SAS
3 26 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.67%) Apache
5 14 (1.78%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.78%) OpenStack
6 9 (1.15%) nginx
7 4 (0.51%) CICS
8 3 (0.38%) CMS
8 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.13%) FileNet
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Actimize
2 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 470 (59.80%) AWS
2 255 (32.44%) GitHub
3 218 (27.74%) Azure
4 163 (20.74%) GCP
5 162 (20.61%) GitHub Actions
6 122 (15.52%) Serverless
7 107 (13.61%) Amazon S3
8 93 (11.83%) AWS Lambda
9 90 (11.45%) Amazon EKS
10 83 (10.56%) Amazon EC2
10 83 (10.56%) OpenShift
11 75 (9.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 74 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
13 71 (9.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 57 (7.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 44 (5.60%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (3.44%) Datadog
17 23 (2.93%) Azure AKS
18 21 (2.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 21 (2.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.09%) Firewall
2 30 (3.82%) DNS
3 28 (3.56%) VPN
4 22 (2.80%) TCP/IP
5 16 (2.04%) Network Security
6 8 (1.02%) HTTP
7 7 (0.89%) WAN
8 6 (0.76%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.76%) SSL
9 5 (0.64%) BGP
9 5 (0.64%) Multicast
10 4 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.51%) SAN
10 4 (0.51%) VSAN
11 3 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
11 3 (0.38%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.38%) NAS
11 3 (0.38%) OSPF
11 3 (0.38%) VXLAN
12 2 (0.25%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (12.21%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (7.38%) NoSQL
3 56 (7.12%) MongoDB
4 40 (5.09%) Amazon RDS
5 31 (3.94%) Relational Database
6 29 (3.69%) DynamoDB
7 25 (3.18%) MySQL
8 22 (2.80%) SQL Server
9 21 (2.67%) Data Lake
9 21 (2.67%) Redis
10 18 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
10 18 (2.29%) Big Data
11 17 (2.16%) Power BI
12 16 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.91%) Oracle Database
14 14 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
15 11 (1.40%) DocumentDB
16 10 (1.27%) Spark SQL
17 9 (1.15%) Aerospike
Development Applications
1 403 (51.27%) Jenkins
2 188 (23.92%) Git
3 118 (15.01%) JIRA
4 83 (10.56%) Selenium
5 77 (9.80%) JUnit
6 50 (6.36%) Cucumber
7 35 (4.45%) Postman
8 32 (4.07%) JMeter
9 30 (3.82%) Bitbucket
10 29 (3.69%) Artifactory
11 28 (3.56%) REST Assured
12 26 (3.31%) CircleCI
13 25 (3.18%) Maven
13 25 (3.18%) Mockito
14 22 (2.80%) Gatling
15 20 (2.54%) Gradle
15 20 (2.54%) SonarQube
16 19 (2.42%) Cypress.io
17 16 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
18 15 (1.91%) IntelliJ
General
1 230 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 122 (15.52%) Finance
3 121 (15.39%) Public Sector
4 89 (11.32%) Banking
5 47 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.42%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.40%) Aerospace
8 11 (1.40%) Military
9 10 (1.27%) Investment Banking
10 7 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (0.89%) Retail
11 6 (0.76%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.64%) Law
13 4 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.38%) Games
14 3 (0.38%) Legal
14 3 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 167 (21.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 142 (18.07%) Developer
3 117 (14.89%) Senior
4 75 (9.54%) AWS Engineer
5 62 (7.89%) Lead
6 59 (7.51%) AWS DevOps
7 51 (6.49%) Data Engineer
8 49 (6.23%) Software Engineer
9 47 (5.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 44 (5.60%) Java Developer
11 42 (5.34%) Architect
12 41 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
12 41 (5.22%) Test Engineer
13 32 (4.07%) GCP Engineer
14 31 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
15 30 (3.82%) Senior DevOps
15 30 (3.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 25 (3.18%) Java Engineer
17 23 (2.93%) Test Automation Engineer
18 22 (2.80%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (17.56%) REST
2 115 (14.63%) Spring
3 114 (14.50%) Kafka
4 101 (12.85%) Spring Boot
5 74 (9.41%) Elastic Stack
6 73 (9.29%) RESTful
7 72 (9.16%) Node.js
8 58 (7.38%) React
9 54 (6.87%) Playwright
10 36 (4.58%) pytest
11 34 (4.33%) RabbitMQ
12 32 (4.07%) YAML
13 31 (3.94%) OpenTelemetry
14 29 (3.69%) HTML
15 26 (3.31%) OpenID
15 26 (3.31%) PySpark
16 25 (3.18%) AngularJS
16 25 (3.18%) LDAP
17 24 (3.05%) Jest
17 24 (3.05%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 118 (15.01%) Cloud Native
2 67 (8.52%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.98%) Product Ownership
4 40 (5.09%) Public Cloud
5 21 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (1.91%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (1.53%) Private Cloud
10 10 (1.27%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.15%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.02%) DataPower
12 8 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
12 8 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (0.89%) NHS
14 6 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (0.76%) Mobile App
14 6 (0.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 150 (19.08%) Linux
2 53 (6.74%) Windows
3 26 (3.31%) Unix
4 25 (3.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.15%) Android
6 9 (1.15%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.02%) CentOS
7 8 (1.02%) VMS
8 6 (0.76%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.76%) zOS
9 3 (0.38%) Debian
9 3 (0.38%) Rocky
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.13%) AIX
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 626 (79.64%) CI/CD
2 469 (59.67%) DevOps
3 297 (37.79%) Agile
4 282 (35.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 278 (35.37%) Containerisation
6 245 (31.17%) Test Automation
7 165 (20.99%) Microservices
8 155 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
9 141 (17.94%) Observability
10 106 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 104 (13.23%) Software Engineering
12 94 (11.96%) Scrum
13 81 (10.31%) Analytics
13 81 (10.31%) Platform Engineering
14 73 (9.29%) DevSecOps
15 68 (8.65%) TDD
16 67 (8.52%) Test Strategy
17 63 (8.02%) Data Pipeline
18 61 (7.76%) Stakeholder Management
19 59 (7.51%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 346 (44.02%) Python
2 235 (29.90%) Java
3 155 (19.72%) SQL
4 126 (16.03%) Bash
5 86 (10.94%) JavaScript
6 72 (9.16%) PowerShell
7 71 (9.03%) TypeScript
8 61 (7.76%) Go
9 37 (4.71%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.29%) Kotlin
11 17 (2.16%) Bicep
11 17 (2.16%) C#
12 13 (1.65%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.40%) Ruby
14 9 (1.15%) Scala
15 8 (1.02%) C++
16 7 (0.89%) C
16 7 (0.89%) Groovy
16 7 (0.89%) Korn
16 7 (0.89%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 308 (39.19%) Security Cleared
2 248 (31.55%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.36%) Degree
4 45 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.82%) AWS Certification
5 30 (3.82%) DV Cleared
6 24 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (2.67%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.78%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.02%) CISSP
12 6 (0.76%) CISM
12 6 (0.76%) OCA
12 6 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.51%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.38%) CCNP
14 3 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (13.99%) QA
2 46 (5.85%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.42%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.42%) WCAG
4 18 (2.29%) GDPR
5 16 (2.04%) SLA
6 14 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.40%) NIST
8 9 (1.15%) NCSC
9 6 (0.76%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.51%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.25%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 341 (43.38%) Docker
2 22 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.64%) HDFS
6 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.25%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.13%) Squid
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 408 (51.91%) Kubernetes
2 354 (45.04%) Terraform
3 196 (24.94%) Grafana
4 187 (23.79%) Ansible
5 159 (20.23%) Prometheus
6 48 (6.11%) Argo
7 21 (2.67%) Istio
7 21 (2.67%) Puppet
8 19 (2.42%) Progress Chef
9 17 (2.16%) Kibana
9 17 (2.16%) Podman
10 10 (1.27%) Packer
11 9 (1.15%) linkerd
11 9 (1.15%) Red Hat Satellite
12 7 (0.89%) Check_MK
12 7 (0.89%) Fluentd
12 7 (0.89%) Karpenter
12 7 (0.89%) Sysdig
13 6 (0.76%) Nagios
14 5 (0.64%) Rancher
Vendors
1 85 (10.81%) Splunk
2 63 (8.02%) Oracle
3 59 (7.51%) Microsoft
4 46 (5.85%) Google
5 44 (5.60%) Red Hat
6 32 (4.07%) VMware
7 30 (3.82%) ServiceNow
8 25 (3.18%) Databricks
9 18 (2.29%) Salesforce
10 16 (2.04%) Informatica
11 15 (1.91%) Dynatrace
12 14 (1.78%) Talend
13 13 (1.65%) IBM
14 12 (1.53%) Atlassian
15 11 (1.40%) Veracode
16 8 (1.02%) Cisco
16 8 (1.02%) Cribl.io
17 7 (0.89%) AppDynamics
18 5 (0.64%) F5
18 5 (0.64%) PagerDuty