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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 133 219
Rank change year-on-year +17 +86 -33
Contract jobs citing GitLab 760 515 394
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.38% 1.95% 1.07%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.23% 14.48% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 336 301
10th Percentile £385 £363 £413
25th Percentile £447 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £569 £558
Median % change year-on-year -9.93% +2.06% -7.08%
75th Percentile £588 £678 £645
90th Percentile £675 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.35% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 5 1
10th Percentile £39.53 £65.60 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £74.00 £58.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £74.44 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +24.07% -22.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £87.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £80.65 £92.00 -
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £74.44 £60.00
% change year-on-year -24.44% +24.07% -7.69%

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 4,682 3,556 4,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.66% 13.43% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,258 2,206 3,130
10th Percentile £335 £336 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -6.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 66 203
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.16 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.75 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -5 308 £525 -12.50% 61
North of England 0 219 £500 -1.48% 62
North West 0 95 £430 -14.00% 34
Yorkshire +5 93 £513 -2.38% 23
Midlands +25 90 £525 +8.70% 29
West Midlands +27 82 £525 +7.25% 14
South East -18 53 £500 -2.44% 92
South West +25 48 £523 -22.45% 42
North East -6 37 £488 -7.14% 5
East of England 0 25 £478 +9.26% 37
East Midlands -21 8 £400 +20.57% 15
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 48 (6.32%) Confluence
2 28 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (3.68%) SAS
3 16 (2.11%) Apache
4 14 (1.84%) OpenStack
5 11 (1.45%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.92%) Appian
7 6 (0.79%) nginx
8 4 (0.53%) CMS
8 4 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.39%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.39%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) Documentum
11 1 (0.13%) FileNet
11 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Actimize
3 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.13%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 459 (60.39%) AWS
2 205 (26.97%) GitHub
3 202 (26.58%) Azure
4 155 (20.39%) GCP
5 131 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
6 104 (13.68%) Serverless
7 92 (12.11%) Amazon S3
8 90 (11.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 78 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
10 75 (9.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 74 (9.74%) OpenShift
12 73 (9.61%) Amazon EKS
13 71 (9.34%) AWS Lambda
14 63 (8.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 53 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
16 49 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
17 33 (4.34%) Datadog
18 25 (3.29%) Azure AKS
19 23 (3.03%) Amazon ELB
20 21 (2.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 51 (6.71%) Firewall
2 46 (6.05%) DNS
3 40 (5.26%) VPN
4 34 (4.47%) TCP/IP
5 22 (2.89%) Network Security
6 20 (2.63%) SSL
7 5 (0.66%) BGP
7 5 (0.66%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.66%) WAN
8 4 (0.53%) HTTP
8 4 (0.53%) Multicast
8 4 (0.53%) VXLAN
9 3 (0.39%) DHCP
9 3 (0.39%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (0.39%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.39%) OSPF
9 3 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.39%) VSAN
10 2 (0.26%) MPLS
10 2 (0.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (10.79%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (8.55%) MongoDB
3 64 (8.42%) NoSQL
4 45 (5.92%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 22 (2.89%) DynamoDB
6 22 (2.89%) MySQL
7 21 (2.76%) Redis
8 17 (2.24%) Big Data
8 17 (2.24%) SQL Server
9 16 (2.11%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (1.58%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (1.45%) Oracle Database
12 11 (1.45%) Power BI
12 11 (1.45%) SAS Enterprise Guide
13 8 (1.05%) DocumentDB
14 7 (0.92%) Aerospike
14 7 (0.92%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 374 (49.21%) Jenkins
2 174 (22.89%) Git
3 105 (13.82%) JIRA
4 70 (9.21%) Selenium
5 56 (7.37%) JUnit
6 44 (5.79%) Cucumber
7 39 (5.13%) Maven
8 32 (4.21%) Artifactory
9 30 (3.95%) Cypress.io
9 30 (3.95%) Postman
10 29 (3.82%) Gradle
11 28 (3.68%) SonarQube
12 27 (3.55%) CircleCI
13 25 (3.29%) Sonatype Nexus
14 21 (2.76%) Liquibase
15 20 (2.63%) REST Assured
16 19 (2.50%) Bitbucket
16 19 (2.50%) JMeter
17 16 (2.11%) Gatling
18 15 (1.97%) Mockito
General
1 209 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 117 (15.39%) Finance
3 112 (14.74%) Public Sector
4 83 (10.92%) Banking
5 50 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (3.03%) Financial Institution
7 20 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.84%) Military
10 11 (1.45%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.05%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.92%) Games
12 7 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.79%) Retail
14 4 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.53%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.39%) Law
15 3 (0.39%) Local Government
15 3 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 174 (22.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 148 (19.47%) Developer
3 120 (15.79%) Senior
4 75 (9.87%) AWS Engineer
5 61 (8.03%) Lead
6 59 (7.76%) AWS DevOps
7 52 (6.84%) Software Engineer
8 49 (6.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 45 (5.92%) Java Developer
10 40 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 36 (4.74%) Senior DevOps
11 36 (4.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 36 (4.74%) Test Engineer
12 35 (4.61%) Architect
12 35 (4.61%) Data Engineer
13 30 (3.95%) Automation Engineer
14 28 (3.68%) GCP Engineer
15 24 (3.16%) Java Engineer
15 24 (3.16%) Senior Developer
16 23 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (17.24%) REST
2 109 (14.34%) Kafka
3 95 (12.50%) Spring
4 90 (11.84%) Spring Boot
5 85 (11.18%) Elastic Stack
6 79 (10.39%) Node.js
7 67 (8.82%) RESTful
8 50 (6.58%) React
9 43 (5.66%) Playwright
10 31 (4.08%) HTML
11 30 (3.95%) OpenID
12 29 (3.82%) JSON
12 29 (3.82%) OpenTelemetry
13 28 (3.68%) RabbitMQ
14 27 (3.55%) pytest
15 24 (3.16%) Jest
16 23 (3.03%) LDAP
17 21 (2.76%) AngularJS
18 18 (2.37%) CSS
18 18 (2.37%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 114 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 62 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.79%) Product Ownership
4 40 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.89%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 15 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.97%) Private Cloud
8 12 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (1.45%) PKI
10 10 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.18%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.18%) Synthetic Data
12 8 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (1.05%) Security Posture
13 7 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
14 6 (0.79%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 153 (20.13%) Linux
2 48 (6.32%) Windows
3 24 (3.16%) Unix
4 22 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.58%) CentOS
5 12 (1.58%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.18%) Android
6 9 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.92%) VMS
8 3 (0.39%) Solaris
8 3 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.13%) Debian
9 1 (0.13%) Rocky
9 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 599 (78.82%) CI/CD
2 479 (63.03%) DevOps
3 295 (38.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 273 (35.92%) Containerisation
5 261 (34.34%) Agile
6 214 (28.16%) Test Automation
7 169 (22.24%) Microservices
8 148 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
9 127 (16.71%) Observability
10 121 (15.92%) Software Engineering
11 81 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 76 (10.00%) DevSecOps
13 74 (9.74%) Analytics
13 74 (9.74%) Infrastructure Automation
13 74 (9.74%) Scrum
14 71 (9.34%) High Availability
15 67 (8.82%) Migration
16 62 (8.16%) Root Cause Analysis
17 58 (7.63%) Data Pipeline
17 58 (7.63%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 354 (46.58%) Python
2 219 (28.82%) Java
3 147 (19.34%) Bash
4 129 (16.97%) SQL
5 96 (12.63%) JavaScript
6 81 (10.66%) Go
7 68 (8.95%) PowerShell
8 62 (8.16%) TypeScript
9 39 (5.13%) Shell Script
10 17 (2.24%) C#
11 16 (2.11%) Kotlin
12 13 (1.71%) PL/SQL
13 10 (1.32%) Ruby
14 8 (1.05%) C
15 7 (0.92%) C++
15 7 (0.92%) Groovy
15 7 (0.92%) Korn
15 7 (0.92%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.92%) Rust
16 6 (0.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 279 (36.71%) Security Cleared
2 221 (29.08%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.97%) Degree
4 47 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (4.74%) DV Cleared
6 29 (3.82%) Master's Degree
7 27 (3.55%) AWS Certification
8 21 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.18%) CISSP
10 9 (1.18%) OCA
10 9 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (1.05%) CISM
12 5 (0.66%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.39%) CCNP
14 3 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.39%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (13.82%) QA
2 39 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.76%) GDPR
4 18 (2.37%) WCAG
5 15 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.84%) NIST
6 14 (1.84%) SLA
7 13 (1.71%) NCSC
7 13 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.53%) Def Stans
10 3 (0.39%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.26%) 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%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 339 (44.61%) Docker
2 18 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.53%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 4 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.39%) vSphere
7 2 (0.26%) HDFS
8 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) Squid
Systems Management
1 403 (53.03%) Kubernetes
2 370 (48.68%) Terraform
3 224 (29.47%) Ansible
4 187 (24.61%) Grafana
5 147 (19.34%) Prometheus
6 33 (4.34%) Argo
7 23 (3.03%) Puppet
8 20 (2.63%) Istio
8 20 (2.63%) Podman
9 18 (2.37%) Progress Chef
10 15 (1.97%) Kibana
11 13 (1.71%) Packer
12 10 (1.32%) Fluentd
12 10 (1.32%) NetBackup
13 8 (1.05%) linkerd
13 8 (1.05%) Red Hat Satellite
14 7 (0.92%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.92%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.92%) Sysdig
15 6 (0.79%) Rancher
Vendors
1 97 (12.76%) Splunk
2 64 (8.42%) Microsoft
3 56 (7.37%) Oracle
4 52 (6.84%) Red Hat
5 44 (5.79%) Google
6 35 (4.61%) VMware
7 25 (3.29%) ServiceNow
8 23 (3.03%) Dynatrace
9 21 (2.76%) Palo Alto
10 20 (2.63%) CheckPoint
10 20 (2.63%) F5
11 17 (2.24%) Databricks
12 16 (2.11%) Cisco
13 13 (1.71%) Atlassian
14 11 (1.45%) Veritas
15 10 (1.32%) Commvault
15 10 (1.32%) Cribl.io
16 9 (1.18%) IBM
17 8 (1.05%) Veracode
18 6 (0.79%) Okta