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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 135 242
Rank change year-on-year +8 +107 -50
Contract jobs citing GitLab 785 497 375
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.07% 2.03% 1.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.53% 14.95% 8.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 324 272
10th Percentile £387 £368 £413
25th Percentile £431 £440 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £539 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.15% -6.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £688
90th Percentile £663 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £526 £563
% change year-on-year -4.94% -6.49% -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 5,054 3,324 4,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.33% 13.59% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,396 2,218 2,943
10th Percentile £340 £340 £358
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -5.86%
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 201 67 165
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.17 £34.50
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.72 £46.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.28 £86.25
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -14 328 £525 -4.55% 56
North of England -8 205 £500 -4.76% 49
Midlands +14 112 £480 -0.72% 19
North West -3 104 £450 -10.00% 16
West Midlands +13 100 £486 -1.89% 12
Yorkshire -13 83 £500 -13.04% 14
South East -26 60 £500 -21.57% 39
South West +8 51 £510 +6.25% 36
North East -12 26 £463 -4.39% 19
East of England -14 21 £477 +5.89% 12
East Midlands -26 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 (8.03%) Confluence
2 37 (4.71%) SAS
3 26 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.55%) 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%) 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%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) FileNet
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
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%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 472 (60.13%) AWS
2 255 (32.48%) GitHub
3 223 (28.41%) Azure
4 162 (20.64%) GCP
4 162 (20.64%) GitHub Actions
5 123 (15.67%) Serverless
6 107 (13.63%) Amazon S3
7 94 (11.97%) AWS Lambda
8 89 (11.34%) Amazon EKS
9 83 (10.57%) Amazon EC2
9 83 (10.57%) OpenShift
10 74 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
11 73 (9.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 71 (9.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 57 (7.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 44 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (3.18%) Datadog
16 23 (2.93%) Azure AKS
17 20 (2.55%) AWS KMS
17 20 (2.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.10%) Firewall
2 30 (3.82%) DNS
3 28 (3.57%) 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 97 (12.36%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (7.64%) NoSQL
3 57 (7.26%) MongoDB
4 40 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
5 33 (4.20%) Relational Database
6 31 (3.95%) DynamoDB
7 26 (3.31%) MySQL
8 22 (2.80%) Redis
8 22 (2.80%) SQL Server
9 20 (2.55%) Data Lake
10 18 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
10 18 (2.29%) Big Data
11 17 (2.17%) 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%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 10 (1.27%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 402 (51.21%) Jenkins
2 193 (24.59%) Git
3 116 (14.78%) JIRA
4 85 (10.83%) Selenium
5 79 (10.06%) JUnit
6 50 (6.37%) Cucumber
7 35 (4.46%) Postman
8 32 (4.08%) JMeter
9 30 (3.82%) Bitbucket
10 28 (3.57%) Artifactory
10 28 (3.57%) REST Assured
11 26 (3.31%) CircleCI
12 25 (3.18%) Maven
12 25 (3.18%) Mockito
13 22 (2.80%) Gatling
14 20 (2.55%) SonarQube
15 19 (2.42%) Cypress.io
15 19 (2.42%) Gradle
16 16 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
17 15 (1.91%) IntelliJ
General
1 226 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 120 (15.29%) Public Sector
3 118 (15.03%) Finance
4 88 (11.21%) Banking
5 47 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (2.42%) Financial Institution
7 11 (1.40%) Aerospace
8 10 (1.27%) Investment Banking
8 10 (1.27%) Military
9 7 (0.89%) Retail
10 6 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.76%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.64%) Law
12 4 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.38%) Games
13 3 (0.38%) Legal
13 3 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 163 (20.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 140 (17.83%) Developer
3 116 (14.78%) Senior
4 75 (9.55%) AWS Engineer
5 63 (8.03%) Lead
6 59 (7.52%) AWS DevOps
7 55 (7.01%) Software Engineer
8 51 (6.50%) Data Engineer
9 47 (5.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 44 (5.61%) Java Developer
11 41 (5.22%) Architect
11 41 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
11 41 (5.22%) Test Engineer
12 32 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
13 30 (3.82%) GCP Engineer
14 29 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
14 29 (3.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.18%) Java Engineer
16 23 (2.93%) Test Automation Engineer
17 22 (2.80%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (17.32%) REST
2 117 (14.90%) Kafka
3 115 (14.65%) Spring
4 101 (12.87%) Spring Boot
5 75 (9.55%) RESTful
6 74 (9.43%) Elastic Stack
7 71 (9.04%) Node.js
8 59 (7.52%) React
9 54 (6.88%) Playwright
10 38 (4.84%) pytest
11 35 (4.46%) RabbitMQ
12 32 (4.08%) YAML
13 31 (3.95%) OpenTelemetry
14 30 (3.82%) HTML
15 26 (3.31%) OpenID
15 26 (3.31%) PySpark
16 25 (3.18%) AngularJS
16 25 (3.18%) LDAP
17 24 (3.06%) Jest
17 24 (3.06%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 118 (15.03%) Cloud Native
2 67 (8.54%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.73%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.97%) Public Cloud
5 20 (2.55%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (1.91%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (1.53%) Private Cloud
9 10 (1.27%) Mainframe
10 9 (1.15%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.02%) DataPower
11 8 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (1.02%) NHS
12 6 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (0.76%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.76%) PKI
12 6 (0.76%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 150 (19.11%) Linux
2 53 (6.75%) 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
1 627 (79.87%) CI/CD
2 466 (59.36%) DevOps
3 296 (37.71%) Agile
4 280 (35.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 275 (35.03%) Containerisation
6 244 (31.08%) Test Automation
7 167 (21.27%) Microservices
8 151 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
9 140 (17.83%) Observability
10 108 (13.76%) Software Engineering
11 102 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 94 (11.97%) Scrum
13 82 (10.45%) Analytics
13 82 (10.45%) Platform Engineering
14 70 (8.92%) DevSecOps
15 69 (8.79%) TDD
16 67 (8.54%) Test Strategy
17 63 (8.03%) Data Pipeline
18 59 (7.52%) ETL
18 59 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 347 (44.20%) Python
2 234 (29.81%) Java
3 155 (19.75%) SQL
4 125 (15.92%) Bash
5 84 (10.70%) JavaScript
6 71 (9.04%) PowerShell
7 70 (8.92%) TypeScript
8 61 (7.77%) Go
9 37 (4.71%) Shell Script
10 20 (2.55%) C#
11 18 (2.29%) Kotlin
12 17 (2.17%) Bicep
13 13 (1.66%) PL/SQL
14 10 (1.27%) Ruby
15 9 (1.15%) Scala
16 8 (1.02%) C++
17 7 (0.89%) C
17 7 (0.89%) Groovy
17 7 (0.89%) MATLAB
18 6 (0.76%) Korn
Qualifications
1 312 (39.75%) Security Cleared
2 253 (32.23%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.50%) Degree
4 46 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.95%) AWS Certification
6 29 (3.69%) DV Cleared
7 24 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (2.68%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.91%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.02%) CISSP
12 6 (0.76%) CISM
12 6 (0.76%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.76%) OCA
12 6 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
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
1 106 (13.50%) QA
2 44 (5.61%) 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 (43.44%) 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
1 406 (51.72%) Kubernetes
2 351 (44.71%) Terraform
3 192 (24.46%) Grafana
4 181 (23.06%) Ansible
5 157 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 49 (6.24%) Argo
7 21 (2.68%) Istio
7 21 (2.68%) Puppet
8 19 (2.42%) Progress Chef
9 17 (2.17%) Kibana
9 17 (2.17%) 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 (10.83%) Splunk
2 64 (8.15%) Oracle
3 58 (7.39%) Microsoft
4 44 (5.61%) Google
5 43 (5.48%) Red Hat
6 32 (4.08%) 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 (1.66%) 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