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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 128 155
Rank change year-on-year -8 +27 +108
Contract jobs citing GitLab 952 599 511
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.06% 2.14% 1.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.87% 14.01% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 428 344
10th Percentile £385 £373 £352
25th Percentile £437 £438 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £520 £541
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% -3.93% -1.59%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 7 7
10th Percentile £61.25 £61.55 £70.40
25th Percentile £65.00 £63.63 -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% -9.46% -7.50%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.72
90th Percentile £95.00 - £80.00
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +1.81% -9.46% +48.59%

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 5,328 4,275 4,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.52% 15.24% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,374 2,970 2,733
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £522
% change year-on-year - -4.21% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 96 164
10th Percentile £22.68 £33.38 £39.03
25th Percentile £51.21 £50.00 £54.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £76.25 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.17% -1.15% -

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 +9 409 £520 -0.95% 347
North of England -49 184 £500 +5.26% 115
Midlands +40 163 £475 -10.29% 46
West Midlands +36 154 £475 -12.04% 34
North West -36 79 £569 +41.90% 65
North East -2 78 £413 -24.31% 28
South East -37 75 £543 +8.50% 57
South West -4 61 £550 -8.33% 68
East of England -26 39 £450 -7.69% 48
Yorkshire -67 38 £550 +10.00% 22
East Midlands -10 9 £404 +49.44% 12
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 87 (9.14%) Confluence
2 67 (7.04%) Apache Spark
3 60 (6.30%) Apache Airflow
4 55 (5.78%) Apache
5 29 (3.05%) Jupyter
6 15 (1.58%) SAS
7 13 (1.37%) nginx
8 12 (1.26%) Camunda
9 5 (0.53%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.32%) CICS
10 3 (0.32%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.21%) Traefik
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.11%) CMS
12 1 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.42%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) CATIA
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Simulink
2 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 628 (65.97%) AWS
2 308 (32.35%) Azure
3 299 (31.41%) GitHub
4 205 (21.53%) GitHub Actions
5 155 (16.28%) GCP
6 149 (15.65%) Azure DevOps
7 121 (12.71%) Amazon S3
8 118 (12.39%) Amazon EKS
9 117 (12.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 113 (11.87%) Serverless
11 104 (10.92%) AWS Lambda
12 94 (9.87%) Amazon EC2
13 58 (6.09%) OpenShift
14 57 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
15 56 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
16 55 (5.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 42 (4.41%) Amazon SQS
18 39 (4.10%) Amazon EMR
19 35 (3.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 34 (3.57%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.83%) Firewall
2 38 (3.99%) DNS
3 30 (3.15%) BGP
3 30 (3.15%) Ethernet VPN
3 30 (3.15%) Network Security
3 30 (3.15%) VXLAN
4 29 (3.05%) TCP/IP
5 28 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (2.31%) WAN
7 21 (2.21%) SD-WAN
8 20 (2.10%) BIG-IP
8 20 (2.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 20 (2.10%) OSPF
9 17 (1.79%) VPN
10 13 (1.37%) 5G
10 13 (1.37%) Broadband
10 13 (1.37%) IPv4
10 13 (1.37%) IPv6
11 12 (1.26%) 4G
12 11 (1.16%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (9.56%) MongoDB
2 79 (8.30%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
4 46 (4.83%) Relational Database
5 42 (4.41%) Amazon Athena
6 41 (4.31%) NoSQL
7 37 (3.89%) Pentaho
8 36 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
9 35 (3.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 33 (3.47%) Oracle Database
11 32 (3.36%) Data Lake
11 32 (3.36%) DynamoDB
11 32 (3.36%) SQL Server
12 31 (3.26%) MySQL
12 31 (3.26%) Power BI
13 29 (3.05%) Big Data
14 28 (2.94%) Redis
15 26 (2.73%) RDBMS
16 17 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
17 13 (1.37%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 375 (39.39%) Jenkins
2 264 (27.73%) Git
3 123 (12.92%) JIRA
4 87 (9.14%) JUnit
5 80 (8.40%) Selenium
6 65 (6.83%) Cucumber
7 60 (6.30%) SonarQube
8 57 (5.99%) Maven
9 44 (4.62%) Gatling
10 41 (4.31%) Mockito
11 36 (3.78%) Gradle
12 32 (3.36%) Bitbucket
13 30 (3.15%) REST Assured
13 30 (3.15%) Sonatype Nexus
14 26 (2.73%) Artifactory
15 18 (1.89%) Cypress.io
16 17 (1.79%) JMeter
16 17 (1.79%) WebDriver
17 15 (1.58%) Postman
18 13 (1.37%) Snyk
General
1 192 (20.17%) Social Skills
2 169 (17.75%) Public Sector
3 106 (11.13%) Finance
4 74 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (6.83%) Banking
6 24 (2.52%) Telecoms
7 22 (2.31%) Military
8 20 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.37%) Law
10 12 (1.26%) Aerospace
11 9 (0.95%) Legal
12 8 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.74%) Police
14 6 (0.63%) Back Office
15 5 (0.53%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.53%) Publishing
16 4 (0.42%) Front Office
16 4 (0.42%) Local Government
16 4 (0.42%) Marketing
16 4 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 209 (21.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 169 (17.75%) Senior
3 166 (17.44%) Developer
4 101 (10.61%) AWS Engineer
5 82 (8.61%) Data Engineer
6 65 (6.83%) AWS DevOps
7 58 (6.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 58 (6.09%) Lead
8 49 (5.15%) Java Developer
9 48 (5.04%) Test Engineer
10 47 (4.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 45 (4.73%) Architect
12 43 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
12 43 (4.52%) Java Engineer
12 43 (4.52%) Software Engineer
13 39 (4.10%) Software Developer
14 36 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
15 35 (3.68%) Full-Stack Developer
16 32 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
17 31 (3.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 486 (51.05%) Terraform
2 148 (15.55%) Kafka
3 137 (14.39%) Spring
4 122 (12.82%) REST
5 117 (12.29%) Spring Boot
6 74 (7.77%) React
7 70 (7.35%) Playwright
8 61 (6.41%) RESTful
9 55 (5.78%) RabbitMQ
10 53 (5.57%) JSON
11 41 (4.31%) PySpark
12 39 (4.10%) Node.js
13 36 (3.78%) HTML
14 35 (3.68%) JPA
15 34 (3.57%) .NET
16 33 (3.47%) YAML
17 32 (3.36%) CSS
18 31 (3.26%) OpenAPI
18 31 (3.26%) WireMock
19 30 (3.15%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 191 (20.06%) Cloud Native
2 63 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 37 (3.89%) Data Centre
6 33 (3.47%) Data Structures
7 28 (2.94%) Onboarding
8 23 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.89%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.68%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.68%) PKI
10 16 (1.68%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
12 12 (1.26%) Private Cloud
13 11 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.16%) Mainframe
13 11 (1.16%) Replication
13 11 (1.16%) Security Posture
14 9 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 210 (22.06%) Linux
2 51 (5.36%) Windows
3 42 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 39 (4.10%) Unix
5 17 (1.79%) Ubuntu
6 15 (1.58%) CentOS
7 14 (1.47%) VMS
8 12 (1.26%) AIX
9 10 (1.05%) Windows Server
9 10 (1.05%) zOS
10 2 (0.21%) Debian
10 2 (0.21%) Rocky
10 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Android
11 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 798 (83.82%) CI/CD
2 564 (59.24%) DevOps
3 454 (47.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 371 (38.97%) Agile
5 340 (35.71%) Containerisation
6 303 (31.83%) Test Automation
7 206 (21.64%) Microservices
8 183 (19.22%) Scrum
9 181 (19.01%) Observability
10 152 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 151 (15.86%) Software Engineering
12 133 (13.97%) Platform Engineering
13 131 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
14 129 (13.55%) AI
15 106 (11.13%) Deployment Automation
16 104 (10.92%) DevSecOps
17 103 (10.82%) Stakeholder Management
18 102 (10.71%) Mentoring
19 101 (10.61%) Software Delivery
20 98 (10.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 432 (45.38%) Python
2 265 (27.84%) Java
3 227 (23.84%) SQL
4 168 (17.65%) Bash
5 96 (10.08%) JavaScript
6 83 (8.72%) PowerShell
7 68 (7.14%) C#
8 50 (5.25%) TypeScript
9 42 (4.41%) Go
10 40 (4.20%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.00%) Groovy
12 16 (1.68%) Bicep
13 14 (1.47%) PL/SQL
14 12 (1.26%) C++
15 8 (0.84%) Scala
16 7 (0.74%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.63%) R
18 5 (0.53%) Cypher
18 5 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 448 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 339 (35.61%) SC Cleared
3 96 (10.08%) DV Cleared
4 80 (8.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 55 (5.78%) Degree
6 50 (5.25%) AWS Certification
7 38 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 14 (1.47%) CISSP
11 12 (1.26%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.16%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.84%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.53%) GCFA
16 5 (0.53%) GCIH
17 4 (0.42%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (14.08%) QA
2 53 (5.57%) Accessibility
3 32 (3.36%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.36%) WCAG
4 16 (1.68%) NIST
5 13 (1.37%) GDPR
5 13 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.05%) NCSC
7 9 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.53%) FATCA
9 5 (0.53%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.53%) SLA
10 3 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
11 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.11%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 410 (43.07%) Docker
2 20 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.89%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.37%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.84%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.53%) Squid
8 4 (0.42%) Firmware
8 4 (0.42%) HDFS
8 4 (0.42%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 437 (45.90%) Kubernetes
2 255 (26.79%) Ansible
3 151 (15.86%) Grafana
4 132 (13.87%) Prometheus
5 41 (4.31%) Argo
6 40 (4.20%) Puppet
7 35 (3.68%) Kibana
8 28 (2.94%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.37%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
9 13 (1.37%) Packer
10 12 (1.26%) Istio
11 9 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.84%) Kustomize
12 8 (0.84%) Podman
13 5 (0.53%) CASB
13 5 (0.53%) HP Fortify
14 4 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.42%) Suricata
15 3 (0.32%) Cilium
Vendors
1 111 (11.66%) Oracle
2 67 (7.04%) Google
3 66 (6.93%) Microsoft
4 55 (5.78%) Splunk
5 48 (5.04%) Talend
6 45 (4.73%) Informatica
7 39 (4.10%) VMware
8 33 (3.47%) Dynatrace
9 29 (3.05%) Databricks
10 27 (2.84%) ServiceNow
11 24 (2.52%) IBM
12 23 (2.42%) Red Hat
13 22 (2.31%) Palo Alto
14 21 (2.21%) F5
15 18 (1.89%) Arista
15 18 (1.89%) Aruba
16 16 (1.68%) Denodo
16 16 (1.68%) Trend Micro
17 15 (1.58%) Cloudera
18 14 (1.47%) Veracode