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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 150 204
Rank change year-on-year +13 +54 +21
Contract jobs citing GitLab 775 463 402
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.89% 1.90% 1.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.65% 13.83% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 297 297
10th Percentile £393 £380 £363
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.30% -2.55%
75th Percentile £581 £619 £650
90th Percentile £670 £693 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £558
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.83% -3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 2 6
10th Percentile £43.42 £84.16 £57.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £85.97 £62.19
Median hourly rate £62.50 £88.98 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -29.76% +19.53% +87.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £91.99 £76.74
90th Percentile £80.65 £93.80 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £88.98 £68.22
% change year-on-year -29.76% +30.43% +72.27%

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 4,951 3,348 4,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.06% 13.76% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,268 2,254 2,916
10th Percentile £344 £344 £353
25th Percentile £409 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £527
Median % change year-on-year - -5.12% -4.18%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £638
90th Percentile £688 £737 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 63 192
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.59 £31.84
25th Percentile £58.75 £49.00 £54.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.38 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £78.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.40% -9.42% +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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -10 316 £525 -0.94% 74
North of England -9 189 £500 - 67
Midlands +15 114 £463 -11.90% 27
West Midlands +13 99 £469 -11.68% 17
North West -3 95 £513 +2.50% 31
Yorkshire -18 66 £494 -8.19% 16
South West +11 57 £500 +8.70% 21
South East -42 55 £550 +4.71% 45
North East -3 40 £450 -12.62% 20
East of England -5 32 £483 +7.22% 12
East Midlands -20 15 £414 +32.96% 10
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 58 (7.48%) Confluence
2 29 (3.74%) SAS
3 24 (3.10%) Apache
4 23 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.97%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.29%) OpenStack
6 9 (1.16%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.65%) CICS
7 5 (0.65%) nginx
8 3 (0.39%) Camunda
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) 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
1 458 (59.10%) AWS
2 243 (31.35%) GitHub
3 238 (30.71%) Azure
4 169 (21.81%) GitHub Actions
5 134 (17.29%) GCP
6 110 (14.19%) Amazon S3
7 108 (13.94%) Serverless
8 96 (12.39%) Amazon EKS
9 95 (12.26%) AWS Lambda
10 80 (10.32%) Amazon EC2
11 79 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
12 76 (9.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 70 (9.03%) AWS CloudFormation
14 57 (7.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 56 (7.23%) OpenShift
16 40 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
17 27 (3.48%) Amazon SQS
17 27 (3.48%) Azure AKS
18 25 (3.23%) Power Platform
19 24 (3.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 41 (5.29%) Firewall
2 27 (3.48%) DNS
3 21 (2.71%) TCP/IP
4 18 (2.32%) BGP
5 17 (2.19%) OSPF
6 16 (2.06%) Ethernet VPN
6 16 (2.06%) VXLAN
6 16 (2.06%) WAN
7 15 (1.94%) Network Security
8 14 (1.81%) BIG-IP
8 14 (1.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 14 (1.81%) SD-WAN
9 13 (1.68%) VPN
10 11 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (1.29%) HTTP
12 7 (0.90%) WLAN
13 6 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (0.52%) Multicast
14 4 (0.52%) SAN
14 4 (0.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (9.16%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (6.71%) MongoDB
3 43 (5.55%) Relational Database
4 34 (4.39%) DynamoDB
4 34 (4.39%) NoSQL
5 30 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
6 27 (3.48%) Amazon Athena
6 27 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 26 (3.35%) MySQL
7 26 (3.35%) Redis
8 24 (3.10%) Power BI
9 23 (2.97%) Pentaho
9 23 (2.97%) SQL Server
10 21 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
11 19 (2.45%) Data Lake
12 17 (2.19%) Big Data
13 16 (2.06%) Oracle Database
14 14 (1.81%) DocumentDB
15 10 (1.29%) Amazon QuickSight
15 10 (1.29%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 341 (44.00%) Jenkins
2 178 (22.97%) Git
3 102 (13.16%) JIRA
4 69 (8.90%) Selenium
5 60 (7.74%) JUnit
6 39 (5.03%) Cucumber
7 32 (4.13%) Gradle
7 32 (4.13%) REST Assured
8 30 (3.87%) Postman
9 28 (3.61%) Artifactory
10 26 (3.35%) Bitbucket
10 26 (3.35%) JMeter
11 23 (2.97%) Mockito
12 22 (2.84%) CircleCI
12 22 (2.84%) Gatling
13 18 (2.32%) SonarQube
14 16 (2.06%) Maven
15 13 (1.68%) IntelliJ
16 12 (1.55%) Cypress.io
16 12 (1.55%) WebDriver
General
1 166 (21.42%) Social Skills
2 142 (18.32%) Public Sector
3 87 (11.23%) Finance
4 58 (7.48%) Banking
5 40 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.68%) Military
8 11 (1.42%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.03%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.03%) Law
9 8 (1.03%) Retail
10 7 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.77%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.77%) Legal
12 4 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.52%) Police
12 4 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.39%) Local Government
14 2 (0.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 158 (20.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 134 (17.29%) Developer
3 127 (16.39%) Senior
4 68 (8.77%) AWS Engineer
5 67 (8.65%) Data Engineer
6 59 (7.61%) Software Engineer
7 56 (7.23%) Lead
8 46 (5.94%) Architect
8 46 (5.94%) Java Developer
9 45 (5.81%) AWS DevOps
10 40 (5.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 36 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
12 34 (4.39%) Test Engineer
13 30 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
14 26 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
14 26 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
15 25 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 24 (3.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 22 (2.84%) Java Engineer
18 20 (2.58%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (15.10%) Spring
2 116 (14.97%) Kafka
3 105 (13.55%) Spring Boot
4 93 (12.00%) REST
5 61 (7.87%) Node.js
5 61 (7.87%) RESTful
6 54 (6.97%) React
7 41 (5.29%) Playwright
8 34 (4.39%) Elastic Stack
8 34 (4.39%) OpenTelemetry
9 29 (3.74%) LDAP
10 28 (3.61%) PySpark
10 28 (3.61%) YAML
11 26 (3.35%) RabbitMQ
12 24 (3.10%) AngularJS
13 23 (2.97%) Jest
13 23 (2.97%) OAuth
14 22 (2.84%) OpenID
14 22 (2.84%) pytest
15 21 (2.71%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 129 (16.65%) Cloud Native
2 50 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.81%) Product Ownership
4 34 (4.39%) Data Centre
5 24 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.19%) Public Cloud
8 13 (1.68%) Private Cloud
9 12 (1.55%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.55%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.42%) NHS
11 9 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (1.16%) Mainframe
12 8 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (0.90%) DataPower
14 6 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.77%) PKI
15 5 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
15 5 (0.65%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 129 (16.65%) Linux
2 43 (5.55%) Windows
3 42 (5.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (4.13%) Unix
5 14 (1.81%) CentOS
6 8 (1.03%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.03%) VMS
7 7 (0.90%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.90%) zOS
8 6 (0.77%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.65%) Android
10 4 (0.52%) Debian
10 4 (0.52%) Rocky
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.13%) AIX
12 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 613 (79.10%) CI/CD
2 429 (55.35%) DevOps
3 284 (36.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 263 (33.94%) Agile
5 250 (32.26%) Containerisation
6 232 (29.94%) Test Automation
7 152 (19.61%) Microservices
8 145 (18.71%) Observability
9 125 (16.13%) Software Engineering
10 111 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
11 105 (13.55%) Scrum
12 99 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 98 (12.65%) Platform Engineering
14 81 (10.45%) ETL
15 78 (10.06%) DevSecOps
16 66 (8.52%) TDD
17 65 (8.39%) Migration
18 64 (8.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 63 (8.13%) Analytics
20 60 (7.74%) AI
Programming Languages
1 289 (37.29%) Python
2 224 (28.90%) Java
3 171 (22.06%) SQL
4 117 (15.10%) Bash
5 79 (10.19%) JavaScript
6 65 (8.39%) TypeScript
7 62 (8.00%) PowerShell
8 39 (5.03%) Shell Script
9 36 (4.65%) Go
10 33 (4.26%) C#
11 19 (2.45%) Bicep
11 19 (2.45%) Kotlin
12 16 (2.06%) PL/SQL
13 15 (1.94%) C++
14 12 (1.55%) Scala
15 11 (1.42%) MATLAB
16 8 (1.03%) C
16 8 (1.03%) Ruby
17 7 (0.90%) PHP
18 6 (0.77%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 343 (44.26%) Security Cleared
2 280 (36.13%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.65%) Degree
4 30 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 30 (3.87%) DV Cleared
5 26 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 22 (2.84%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.68%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.29%) SAFe Agilist
9 8 (1.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.90%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.39%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.26%) OCA
14 2 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (10.58%) QA
2 40 (5.16%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.71%) SLA
4 19 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.81%) GDPR
6 12 (1.55%) WCAG
7 11 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.29%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.65%) FATCA
9 5 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.65%) NCSC
9 5 (0.65%) NIST
10 4 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.26%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) OpenSCAP
12 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 321 (41.42%) Docker
2 24 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.77%) Squid
6 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.52%) HDFS
7 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.26%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) iptables
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.13%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 345 (44.52%) Kubernetes
2 338 (43.61%) Terraform
3 178 (22.97%) Ansible
4 161 (20.77%) Grafana
5 132 (17.03%) Prometheus
6 48 (6.19%) Argo
7 27 (3.48%) Puppet
8 19 (2.45%) Istio
9 17 (2.19%) Progress Chef
10 15 (1.94%) Podman
11 14 (1.81%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.42%) Check_MK
12 11 (1.42%) Kibana
13 9 (1.16%) linkerd
14 7 (0.90%) Packer
15 6 (0.77%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.65%) Nagios
16 5 (0.65%) Rancher
17 4 (0.52%) Suricata
Vendors
1 82 (10.58%) Oracle
2 60 (7.74%) Splunk
3 56 (7.23%) Microsoft
4 44 (5.68%) Red Hat
5 37 (4.77%) Google
6 35 (4.52%) Talend
7 34 (4.39%) ServiceNow
7 34 (4.39%) VMware
8 29 (3.74%) Informatica
9 27 (3.48%) Databricks
10 22 (2.84%) Dynatrace
11 18 (2.32%) Denodo
11 18 (2.32%) Salesforce
12 17 (2.19%) Arista
13 16 (2.06%) F5
14 15 (1.94%) Palo Alto
15 13 (1.68%) Aruba
16 10 (1.29%) IBM
16 10 (1.29%) Veracode
17 6 (0.77%) AppDynamics