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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 136 183
Rank change year-on-year -4 +47 +66
Contract jobs citing GitLab 901 566 458
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.94% 2.03% 1.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.06% 13.66% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 385 320
10th Percentile £376 £368 £350
25th Percentile £430 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.50% +0.05%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £700 £685 £714
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 8 6
10th Percentile - £61.60 £60.50
25th Percentile £65.00 £64.56 £67.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £71.79 £74.72
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +86.87%

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 5,281 4,143 4,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 14.89% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,353 2,870 2,828
10th Percentile £358 £325 £355
25th Percentile £416 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £635
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 95 171
10th Percentile £36.25 £44.30 £36.25
25th Percentile £53.34 £54.88 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £82.98 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 +6 386 £507 -4.25% 227
North of England -38 182 £473 -1.56% 80
Midlands +21 135 £473 -12.50% 32
West Midlands +28 128 £474 -13.86% 26
South East -21 83 £543 +7.11% 50
North East +5 76 £413 -11.29% 19
North West -31 76 £569 +21.32% 36
South West -22 65 £550 -8.33% 49
Yorkshire -57 41 £550 +10.00% 25
East of England -26 38 £463 -5.13% 31
East Midlands -12 7 £425 +57.41% 6
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 86 (9.54%) Confluence
2 61 (6.77%) Apache Airflow
3 57 (6.33%) Apache Spark
4 46 (5.11%) Apache
5 30 (3.33%) Jupyter
6 23 (2.55%) SAS
7 12 (1.33%) Camunda
8 5 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.44%) CICS
9 4 (0.44%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.33%) nginx
10 3 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.11%) CMS
12 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 593 (65.82%) AWS
2 311 (34.52%) Azure
3 306 (33.96%) GitHub
4 219 (24.31%) GitHub Actions
5 156 (17.31%) Azure DevOps
6 150 (16.65%) GCP
7 115 (12.76%) Amazon S3
7 115 (12.76%) Serverless
8 111 (12.32%) Amazon EKS
9 106 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
10 105 (11.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 82 (9.10%) Amazon EC2
12 59 (6.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 54 (5.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 49 (5.44%) OpenShift
15 46 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
16 41 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
17 36 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
18 35 (3.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 34 (3.77%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.22%) Firewall
2 33 (3.66%) DNS
3 30 (3.33%) Network Security
4 27 (3.00%) BGP
4 27 (3.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 27 (3.00%) VXLAN
5 22 (2.44%) TCP/IP
5 22 (2.44%) WAN
6 21 (2.33%) SD-WAN
7 20 (2.22%) OSPF
7 20 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
8 19 (2.11%) BIG-IP
8 19 (2.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 13 (1.44%) VPN
10 11 (1.22%) WLAN
11 10 (1.11%) HTTP
12 8 (0.89%) DHCP
12 8 (0.89%) NX-OS
13 7 (0.78%) 5G
13 7 (0.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (8.44%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (8.32%) MongoDB
3 52 (5.77%) Relational Database
4 43 (4.77%) Amazon Athena
5 42 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
6 38 (4.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 37 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
8 36 (4.00%) NoSQL
9 35 (3.88%) DynamoDB
10 34 (3.77%) SQL Server
11 33 (3.66%) Oracle Database
12 29 (3.22%) Power BI
13 28 (3.11%) MySQL
13 28 (3.11%) Redis
14 27 (3.00%) Pentaho
15 26 (2.89%) Data Lake
15 26 (2.89%) RDBMS
16 25 (2.77%) Big Data
17 13 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
17 13 (1.44%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 369 (40.95%) Jenkins
2 237 (26.30%) Git
3 117 (12.99%) JIRA
4 73 (8.10%) JUnit
5 69 (7.66%) Selenium
6 51 (5.66%) SonarQube
7 47 (5.22%) Cucumber
8 44 (4.88%) Maven
9 36 (4.00%) Gradle
10 35 (3.88%) Mockito
11 33 (3.66%) Bitbucket
12 30 (3.33%) Gatling
13 29 (3.22%) REST Assured
14 27 (3.00%) Artifactory
15 25 (2.77%) Sonatype Nexus
16 20 (2.22%) JMeter
17 19 (2.11%) WebDriver
18 17 (1.89%) Postman
19 15 (1.66%) Snyk
20 14 (1.55%) Cypress.io
General
1 175 (19.42%) Social Skills
2 159 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 102 (11.32%) Finance
4 68 (7.55%) Banking
5 63 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.33%) Military
7 18 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.44%) Law
10 12 (1.33%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.22%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.11%) Legal
13 7 (0.78%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.67%) Police
15 5 (0.55%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.44%) Back Office
16 4 (0.44%) Marketing
16 4 (0.44%) Publishing
16 4 (0.44%) Retail
17 3 (0.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 195 (21.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 163 (18.09%) Senior
3 152 (16.87%) Developer
4 101 (11.21%) AWS Engineer
5 78 (8.66%) Data Engineer
6 65 (7.21%) AWS DevOps
7 59 (6.55%) Lead
8 57 (6.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 51 (5.66%) Software Engineer
10 49 (5.44%) Cloud Engineer
11 46 (5.11%) Java Developer
12 45 (4.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 42 (4.66%) Test Engineer
14 38 (4.22%) Platform Engineer
15 37 (4.11%) Architect
16 34 (3.77%) Software Developer
17 33 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
18 27 (3.00%) Java Engineer
18 27 (3.00%) Senior DevOps
18 27 (3.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 455 (50.50%) Terraform
2 139 (15.43%) Kafka
3 117 (12.99%) Spring
4 107 (11.88%) Spring Boot
5 101 (11.21%) REST
6 67 (7.44%) React
7 62 (6.88%) RESTful
8 54 (5.99%) Playwright
9 46 (5.11%) RabbitMQ
10 43 (4.77%) JSON
11 42 (4.66%) PySpark
12 41 (4.55%) Node.js
13 36 (4.00%) HTML
13 36 (4.00%) YAML
14 31 (3.44%) CSS
15 28 (3.11%) JPA
16 27 (3.00%) OAuth
17 25 (2.77%) .NET
18 24 (2.66%) Keycloak
18 24 (2.66%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 184 (20.42%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (5.44%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (4.00%) Data Centre
6 28 (3.11%) Data Structures
7 25 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (2.77%) Onboarding
8 17 (1.89%) AI Agents
8 17 (1.89%) Algorithms
9 16 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.66%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.33%) Mainframe
12 11 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.22%) PKI
12 11 (1.22%) Private Cloud
13 10 (1.11%) Security Posture
14 8 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
15 7 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 181 (20.09%) Linux
2 41 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 40 (4.44%) Unix
3 40 (4.44%) Windows
4 14 (1.55%) Ubuntu
5 13 (1.44%) CentOS
6 12 (1.33%) AIX
7 11 (1.22%) zOS
8 10 (1.11%) Windows Server
9 9 (1.00%) VMS
10 3 (0.33%) Debian
10 3 (0.33%) Rocky
11 2 (0.22%) Android
11 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 760 (84.35%) CI/CD
2 543 (60.27%) DevOps
3 433 (48.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 340 (37.74%) Agile
5 321 (35.63%) Containerisation
6 280 (31.08%) Test Automation
7 181 (20.09%) Microservices
8 161 (17.87%) Observability
9 157 (17.43%) Scrum
9 157 (17.43%) Software Engineering
10 135 (14.98%) Platform Engineering
11 131 (14.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 122 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
13 118 (13.10%) AI
14 104 (11.54%) DevSecOps
15 92 (10.21%) Event-Driven
16 91 (10.10%) Migration
17 88 (9.77%) Deployment Automation
18 87 (9.66%) Software Delivery
19 86 (9.54%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 395 (43.84%) Python
2 229 (25.42%) Java
3 209 (23.20%) SQL
4 162 (17.98%) Bash
5 87 (9.66%) JavaScript
6 84 (9.32%) PowerShell
7 66 (7.33%) C#
8 56 (6.22%) TypeScript
9 37 (4.11%) Go
10 31 (3.44%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.11%) Bicep
12 15 (1.66%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.55%) C++
14 10 (1.11%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.89%) Groovy
15 8 (0.89%) Scala
16 6 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.67%) R
17 5 (0.55%) Cypher
17 5 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 434 (48.17%) Security Cleared
2 343 (38.07%) SC Cleared
3 78 (8.66%) DV Cleared
4 53 (5.88%) Degree
5 52 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 45 (4.99%) AWS Certification
7 40 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 16 (1.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (1.66%) CISSP
12 14 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (1.33%) ISTQB
14 11 (1.22%) SAFe Agilist
15 9 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 5 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
17 5 (0.55%) GCFA
17 5 (0.55%) GCIH
18 4 (0.44%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (12.43%) QA
2 41 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 35 (3.88%) Data Quality
4 21 (2.33%) WCAG
5 15 (1.66%) NIST
6 11 (1.22%) GDPR
7 10 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.00%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.78%) SLA
11 6 (0.67%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.67%) NCSC
12 5 (0.55%) FATCA
13 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
14 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.11%) OpenSCAP
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 384 (42.62%) Docker
2 20 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.44%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.67%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.55%) Squid
6 3 (0.33%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.22%) HDFS
7 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.11%) iptables
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 409 (45.39%) Kubernetes
2 240 (26.64%) Ansible
3 145 (16.09%) Grafana
4 126 (13.98%) Prometheus
5 43 (4.77%) Argo
6 41 (4.55%) Puppet
7 30 (3.33%) Progress Chef
8 13 (1.44%) Data Guard
8 13 (1.44%) Kibana
8 13 (1.44%) Oracle RMAN
9 11 (1.22%) Istio
10 10 (1.11%) Podman
10 10 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (1.00%) Packer
12 7 (0.78%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.55%) CASB
13 5 (0.55%) Cilium
13 5 (0.55%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (0.44%) Check_MK
14 4 (0.44%) Salt
Vendors
1 101 (11.21%) Oracle
2 67 (7.44%) Microsoft
3 62 (6.88%) Google
4 47 (5.22%) Splunk
5 43 (4.77%) Talend
6 40 (4.44%) Informatica
7 39 (4.33%) VMware
8 33 (3.66%) Databricks
9 30 (3.33%) Dynatrace
10 26 (2.89%) Red Hat
11 24 (2.66%) IBM
12 23 (2.55%) ServiceNow
13 21 (2.33%) Palo Alto
14 20 (2.22%) F5
15 19 (2.11%) Denodo
16 18 (2.00%) Arista
16 18 (2.00%) Aruba
17 16 (1.78%) Trend Micro
18 14 (1.55%) Veracode
19 11 (1.22%) Cisco