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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 137 230
Rank change year-on-year -1 +93 -30
Contract jobs citing GitLab 744 488 389
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.87% 1.98% 1.04%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.83% 14.51% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 321 284
10th Percentile £385 £370 £387
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -2.54%
75th Percentile £580 £638 £675
90th Percentile £675 £725 £746
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £553
% change year-on-year -5.12% -4.70% -3.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 3 6
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.59 £57.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £62.19
Median hourly rate £60.25 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -27.37% +11.45% +65.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £76.74
90th Percentile £77.95 £92.59 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £82.96 £68.22
% change year-on-year -26.47% +21.61% +51.60%

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 5,017 3,364 4,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.63% 13.68% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,360 2,265 2,909
10th Percentile £340 £342 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -3.09%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £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 213 60 173
10th Percentile £37.71 £27.35 £31.97
25th Percentile £59.00 £51.77 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +6.25%
75th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.90 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% - +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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -17 325 £525 -2.78% 84
North of England -19 169 £487 -7.19% 40
Midlands +6 94 £466 -2.36% 19
North West -11 90 £475 -5.00% 15
West Midlands -1 80 £469 -4.20% 11
South East -35 61 £538 +2.33% 46
Yorkshire -23 59 £500 -13.04% 6
South West +6 55 £510 +11.60% 26
North East -11 28 £451 -12.38% 19
East of England -16 22 £478 +6.22% 25
East Midlands -24 14 £402 +38.38% 8
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 51 (6.85%) Confluence
2 25 (3.36%) SAS
3 23 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.42%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.15%) Apache
6 13 (1.75%) OpenStack
7 10 (1.34%) nginx
8 5 (0.67%) CICS
9 3 (0.40%) Camunda
9 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 2 (0.27%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Actimize
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 440 (59.14%) AWS
2 237 (31.85%) GitHub
3 221 (29.70%) Azure
4 153 (20.56%) GitHub Actions
5 130 (17.47%) GCP
6 111 (14.92%) Serverless
7 105 (14.11%) Amazon S3
8 97 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
9 90 (12.10%) Amazon EKS
10 76 (10.22%) Amazon EC2
11 70 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
12 68 (9.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 67 (9.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 65 (8.74%) OpenShift
15 54 (7.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 39 (5.24%) Amazon ECS
17 22 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
18 21 (2.82%) Azure AKS
18 21 (2.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 19 (2.55%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.44%) Firewall
2 25 (3.36%) DNS
3 18 (2.42%) VPN
4 17 (2.28%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.61%) Network Security
6 10 (1.34%) HTTP
7 6 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.54%) BGP
8 4 (0.54%) Multicast
8 4 (0.54%) SAN
8 4 (0.54%) SSL
9 3 (0.40%) NAS
9 3 (0.40%) OSPF
9 3 (0.40%) VSAN
9 3 (0.40%) WAN
10 2 (0.27%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.27%) DHCP
10 2 (0.27%) IPv6
10 2 (0.27%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.27%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (10.48%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (6.45%) MongoDB
3 41 (5.51%) NoSQL
4 34 (4.57%) Relational Database
5 33 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
6 32 (4.30%) DynamoDB
7 28 (3.76%) MySQL
8 24 (3.23%) Redis
9 22 (2.96%) Amazon Athena
10 21 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
10 21 (2.82%) SQL Server
11 18 (2.42%) Big Data
11 18 (2.42%) Data Lake
12 16 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
12 16 (2.15%) Power BI
13 15 (2.02%) Pentaho
14 11 (1.48%) DocumentDB
15 10 (1.34%) Amazon QuickSight
15 10 (1.34%) Spark SQL
16 9 (1.21%) Aerospike
Development Applications
1 342 (45.97%) Jenkins
2 167 (22.45%) Git
3 104 (13.98%) JIRA
4 64 (8.60%) Selenium
5 61 (8.20%) JUnit
6 40 (5.38%) Cucumber
7 33 (4.44%) Postman
8 28 (3.76%) Bitbucket
9 27 (3.63%) CircleCI
9 27 (3.63%) JMeter
9 27 (3.63%) REST Assured
10 22 (2.96%) Artifactory
11 21 (2.82%) Gradle
11 21 (2.82%) Mockito
11 21 (2.82%) SonarQube
12 17 (2.28%) Gatling
13 16 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
14 14 (1.88%) Maven
15 13 (1.75%) Cypress.io
15 13 (1.75%) IntelliJ
General
1 182 (24.46%) Social Skills
2 124 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 94 (12.63%) Finance
4 64 (8.60%) Banking
5 41 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.48%) Military
8 10 (1.34%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.08%) Retail
10 7 (0.94%) Financial Institution
10 7 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.94%) Investment Banking
10 7 (0.94%) Law
11 6 (0.81%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.54%) Legal
13 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.40%) Local Government
14 3 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 157 (21.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 130 (17.47%) Developer
3 102 (13.71%) Senior
4 68 (9.14%) AWS Engineer
5 59 (7.93%) Data Engineer
5 59 (7.93%) Lead
6 57 (7.66%) AWS DevOps
6 57 (7.66%) Software Engineer
7 49 (6.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 42 (5.65%) Architect
8 42 (5.65%) Java Developer
9 31 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 31 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
9 31 (4.17%) Test Engineer
10 28 (3.76%) Senior DevOps
10 28 (3.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 25 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
12 22 (2.96%) Java Engineer
13 18 (2.42%) Administrator
13 18 (2.42%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (14.78%) Spring
2 109 (14.65%) Kafka
3 94 (12.63%) Spring Boot
4 90 (12.10%) REST
5 66 (8.87%) Node.js
6 61 (8.20%) RESTful
7 56 (7.53%) React
8 45 (6.05%) Elastic Stack
9 39 (5.24%) Playwright
10 33 (4.44%) OpenTelemetry
11 28 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
11 28 (3.76%) YAML
12 27 (3.63%) LDAP
13 26 (3.49%) AngularJS
14 25 (3.36%) Jest
15 23 (3.09%) OpenID
15 23 (3.09%) PySpark
15 23 (3.09%) pytest
16 21 (2.82%) HTML
16 21 (2.82%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 108 (14.52%) Cloud Native
2 49 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.78%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.36%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.42%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.28%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.48%) Mainframe
8 11 (1.48%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.48%) Private Cloud
9 10 (1.34%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.21%) DataPower
10 9 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
10 9 (1.21%) NHS
11 8 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.94%) Synthetic Data
13 6 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.67%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 135 (18.15%) Linux
2 48 (6.45%) Windows
3 34 (4.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 28 (3.76%) Unix
5 11 (1.48%) CentOS
6 8 (1.08%) Android
6 8 (1.08%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.08%) VMS
6 8 (1.08%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.94%) zOS
8 6 (0.81%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.40%) Debian
9 3 (0.40%) Rocky
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.13%) AIX
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 584 (78.49%) CI/CD
2 411 (55.24%) DevOps
3 261 (35.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 253 (34.01%) Agile
5 245 (32.93%) Containerisation
6 217 (29.17%) Test Automation
7 144 (19.35%) Microservices
8 138 (18.55%) Observability
9 124 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 111 (14.92%) Software Engineering
11 94 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 92 (12.37%) Scrum
13 88 (11.83%) Platform Engineering
14 70 (9.41%) ETL
15 69 (9.27%) DevSecOps
16 66 (8.87%) TDD
17 65 (8.74%) Analytics
18 59 (7.93%) AI
19 58 (7.80%) Migration
20 57 (7.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 290 (38.98%) Python
2 221 (29.70%) Java
3 161 (21.64%) SQL
4 118 (15.86%) Bash
5 83 (11.16%) JavaScript
6 65 (8.74%) TypeScript
7 64 (8.60%) PowerShell
8 39 (5.24%) Shell Script
9 38 (5.11%) Go
10 29 (3.90%) C#
11 19 (2.55%) Kotlin
12 18 (2.42%) Bicep
13 14 (1.88%) C++
13 14 (1.88%) PL/SQL
14 11 (1.48%) Scala
15 10 (1.34%) Ruby
16 9 (1.21%) MATLAB
17 8 (1.08%) C
18 7 (0.94%) Groovy
18 7 (0.94%) PHP
Qualifications
1 309 (41.53%) Security Cleared
2 255 (34.27%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.84%) Degree
4 31 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (4.03%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (3.36%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.02%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (0.94%) CISSP
11 6 (0.81%) CISM
11 6 (0.81%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.81%) OCA
11 6 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.54%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
13 3 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (12.23%) QA
2 36 (4.84%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.42%) GDPR
4 18 (2.42%) SLA
5 13 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 12 (1.61%) WCAG
7 11 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.48%) NIST
8 7 (0.94%) NCSC
9 6 (0.81%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.67%) FATCA
11 4 (0.54%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.27%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.13%) MiFID
13 1 (0.13%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 317 (42.61%) Docker
2 24 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.67%) HDFS
6 4 (0.54%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.27%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) iptables
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.13%) Squid
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 365 (49.06%) Kubernetes
2 319 (42.88%) Terraform
3 160 (21.51%) Ansible
4 158 (21.24%) Grafana
5 135 (18.15%) Prometheus
6 52 (6.99%) Argo
7 24 (3.23%) Puppet
8 22 (2.96%) Istio
9 16 (2.15%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.88%) Podman
11 12 (1.61%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.48%) Kibana
13 9 (1.21%) Check_MK
13 9 (1.21%) linkerd
14 8 (1.08%) Packer
15 7 (0.94%) Fluentd
16 6 (0.81%) Karpenter
16 6 (0.81%) Nagios
16 6 (0.81%) Rancher
16 6 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 75 (10.08%) Oracle
2 65 (8.74%) Splunk
3 57 (7.66%) Microsoft
4 42 (5.65%) Red Hat
5 37 (4.97%) Google
6 32 (4.30%) VMware
7 31 (4.17%) ServiceNow
8 25 (3.36%) Databricks
8 25 (3.36%) Talend
9 22 (2.96%) Informatica
10 18 (2.42%) Salesforce
11 15 (2.02%) Dynatrace
12 12 (1.61%) IBM
13 11 (1.48%) Veracode
14 8 (1.08%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.94%) AppDynamics
15 7 (0.94%) Denodo
16 6 (0.81%) Cribl.io
17 5 (0.67%) Cisco
17 5 (0.67%) Fortinet