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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 147 221
Rank change year-on-year +5 +74 +33
Contract jobs citing GitLab 835 495 412
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.92% 1.94% 1.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.15% 13.68% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 311 293
10th Percentile £371 £358 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £551
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -5.67% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £656
90th Percentile £688 £669 £748
UK median daily rate £494 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -6.00% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 1 8
10th Percentile £52.50 - £62.30
25th Percentile £62.19 - £70.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £82.96 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year -21.65% +11.78% +24.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 - £75.63
90th Percentile £75.00 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £74.00
% change year-on-year -15.01% +3.35% +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 5,169 3,618 4,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.89% 14.21% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,341 2,460 3,031
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 76 237
10th Percentile £27.19 £28.18 £33.04
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 28 June 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 +1 354 £525 - 52
North of England +1 192 £453 -5.63% 30
Midlands +20 133 £463 -7.50% 16
West Midlands +21 124 £463 -11.90% 12
North West -20 86 £500 +5.26% 15
North East +6 67 £400 -13.98% 9
South East -32 66 £550 +9.89% 25
Yorkshire -26 55 £540 +5.37% 6
South West -12 54 £500 -13.04% 26
East of England -4 36 £483 +1.58% 14
East Midlands -11 9 £447 +65.56% 4
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 88 (10.54%) Confluence
2 51 (6.11%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (5.15%) Apache Spark
4 40 (4.79%) Apache
5 36 (4.31%) SAS
6 27 (3.23%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.84%) CICS
8 6 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.60%) Camunda
10 4 (0.48%) nginx
10 4 (0.48%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.24%) CMS
12 2 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 539 (64.55%) AWS
2 259 (31.02%) GitHub
3 247 (29.58%) Azure
4 183 (21.92%) GitHub Actions
5 130 (15.57%) Amazon S3
5 130 (15.57%) GCP
6 123 (14.73%) Serverless
7 110 (13.17%) AWS Lambda
8 102 (12.22%) Amazon EKS
9 96 (11.50%) Azure DevOps
10 92 (11.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 92 (11.02%) Amazon EC2
11 64 (7.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 60 (7.19%) AWS CloudFormation
13 43 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
13 43 (5.15%) OpenShift
14 33 (3.95%) Amazon SQS
15 31 (3.71%) Power Platform
16 29 (3.47%) Amazon EMR
17 28 (3.35%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.91%) Firewall
2 21 (2.51%) BGP
2 21 (2.51%) Network Security
2 21 (2.51%) WAN
3 20 (2.40%) DNS
3 20 (2.40%) OSPF
4 19 (2.28%) BIG-IP
4 19 (2.28%) Ethernet VPN
4 19 (2.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 19 (2.28%) SD-WAN
4 19 (2.28%) VXLAN
5 15 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 15 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (1.44%) VPN
7 11 (1.32%) WLAN
8 8 (0.96%) HTTP
9 6 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.48%) MQTT
10 4 (0.48%) SAN
10 4 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (6.95%) MongoDB
3 45 (5.39%) Relational Database
4 41 (4.91%) Amazon Athena
4 41 (4.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 38 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 36 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
7 33 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (3.95%) NoSQL
8 29 (3.47%) Pentaho
9 28 (3.35%) Power BI
10 25 (2.99%) Oracle Database
11 24 (2.87%) SQL Server
12 23 (2.75%) MySQL
13 20 (2.40%) Big Data
14 19 (2.28%) Data Lake
14 19 (2.28%) Redis
15 15 (1.80%) DocumentDB
15 15 (1.80%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.20%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 354 (42.40%) Jenkins
2 192 (22.99%) Git
3 121 (14.49%) JIRA
4 72 (8.62%) Selenium
5 66 (7.90%) JUnit
6 41 (4.91%) Cucumber
7 31 (3.71%) SonarQube
8 30 (3.59%) Artifactory
8 30 (3.59%) Bitbucket
8 30 (3.59%) Mockito
9 29 (3.47%) REST Assured
10 28 (3.35%) Gradle
10 28 (3.35%) JMeter
10 28 (3.35%) Postman
11 24 (2.87%) Gatling
12 23 (2.75%) WebDriver
13 19 (2.28%) Maven
14 15 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
15 13 (1.56%) CircleCI
15 13 (1.56%) Serenity BDD
General
1 165 (19.76%) Social Skills
2 159 (19.04%) Public Sector
3 90 (10.78%) Finance
4 63 (7.54%) Banking
5 44 (5.27%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.04%) Military
8 14 (1.68%) Law
9 12 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.08%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.08%) Legal
11 7 (0.84%) Financial Institution
11 7 (0.84%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.60%) Police
13 4 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.48%) Publishing
14 3 (0.36%) Retail
15 2 (0.24%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 188 (22.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 147 (17.60%) Senior
3 124 (14.85%) Developer
4 96 (11.50%) AWS Engineer
5 86 (10.30%) Data Engineer
6 69 (8.26%) AWS DevOps
7 62 (7.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 55 (6.59%) Lead
9 48 (5.75%) Software Engineer
10 41 (4.91%) Java Developer
11 39 (4.67%) Test Engineer
12 37 (4.43%) Cloud Engineer
13 35 (4.19%) Architect
13 35 (4.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 35 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
14 31 (3.71%) Senior DevOps
15 30 (3.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
17 23 (2.75%) Tester
18 21 (2.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (13.77%) Kafka
2 101 (12.10%) Spring
3 91 (10.90%) REST
4 90 (10.78%) Spring Boot
5 68 (8.14%) RESTful
6 51 (6.11%) React
7 45 (5.39%) PySpark
8 43 (5.15%) Playwright
9 41 (4.91%) Node.js
10 34 (4.07%) YAML
11 30 (3.59%) Elastic Stack
12 26 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
13 25 (2.99%) AWS CDK
13 25 (2.99%) JSON
14 24 (2.87%) WireMock
15 23 (2.75%) OAuth
15 23 (2.75%) SOAP
16 21 (2.51%) Keycloak
16 21 (2.51%) LDAP
16 21 (2.51%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 157 (18.80%) Cloud Native
2 62 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (5.75%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.31%) Data Centre
5 26 (3.11%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.28%) Public Cloud
9 18 (2.16%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.80%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.68%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.32%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.08%) NHS
14 8 (0.96%) Mainframe
14 8 (0.96%) Private Cloud
15 7 (0.84%) DataPower
15 7 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
16 6 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
16 6 (0.72%) Online Banking
16 6 (0.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 159 (19.04%) Linux
2 42 (5.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 38 (4.55%) Unix
3 38 (4.55%) Windows
4 13 (1.56%) CentOS
5 9 (1.08%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.96%) zOS
7 6 (0.72%) AIX
8 5 (0.60%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.48%) Debian
9 4 (0.48%) Rocky
10 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.36%) VMS
11 2 (0.24%) Android
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 674 (80.72%) CI/CD
2 485 (58.08%) DevOps
3 343 (41.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 303 (36.29%) Agile
5 275 (32.93%) Containerisation
6 263 (31.50%) Test Automation
7 163 (19.52%) Microservices
8 137 (16.41%) Observability
9 123 (14.73%) Scrum
9 123 (14.73%) Software Engineering
10 114 (13.65%) Platform Engineering
11 111 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 111 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
12 91 (10.90%) AI
13 85 (10.18%) DevSecOps
13 85 (10.18%) ETL
14 77 (9.22%) Event-Driven
15 72 (8.62%) Migration
16 69 (8.26%) Data Engineering
17 66 (7.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 336 (40.24%) Python
2 208 (24.91%) Java
3 192 (22.99%) SQL
4 122 (14.61%) Bash
5 68 (8.14%) JavaScript
6 60 (7.19%) TypeScript
7 50 (5.99%) PowerShell
8 47 (5.63%) C#
9 33 (3.95%) Go
9 33 (3.95%) Shell Script
10 16 (1.92%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.80%) Bicep
12 13 (1.56%) C++
13 10 (1.20%) Scala
14 9 (1.08%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.84%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.84%) Ruby
16 6 (0.72%) Cypher
16 6 (0.72%) JCL
17 5 (0.60%) C
Qualifications
1 409 (48.98%) Security Cleared
2 348 (41.68%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.27%) DV Cleared
4 40 (4.79%) Degree
5 39 (4.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (4.19%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 13 (1.56%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.32%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (1.08%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.48%) CISSP
13 4 (0.48%) GIAC
14 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.36%) CSSLP
14 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.24%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (9.94%) QA
2 33 (3.95%) Accessibility
2 33 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 15 (1.80%) SLA
4 10 (1.20%) WCAG
5 9 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.96%) NIST
7 7 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.72%) GDPR
9 5 (0.60%) FATCA
9 5 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
11 1 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
11 1 (0.12%) NCSC
11 1 (0.12%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 347 (41.56%) Docker
2 27 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.60%) Squid
7 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 4 (0.48%) HDFS
8 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.24%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.12%) iptables
10 1 (0.12%) vSphere
10 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 400 (47.90%) Terraform
2 352 (42.16%) Kubernetes
3 183 (21.92%) Ansible
4 151 (18.08%) Grafana
5 134 (16.05%) Prometheus
6 42 (5.03%) Argo
7 31 (3.71%) Puppet
8 14 (1.68%) Podman
8 14 (1.68%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.44%) Istio
9 12 (1.44%) Red Hat Satellite
10 9 (1.08%) Check_MK
10 9 (1.08%) Packer
11 7 (0.84%) Data Guard
11 7 (0.84%) Kibana
11 7 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
11 7 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.72%) Salt
13 5 (0.60%) linkerd
14 4 (0.48%) Suricata
Vendors
1 94 (11.26%) Oracle
2 53 (6.35%) Microsoft
3 49 (5.87%) Talend
4 46 (5.51%) Informatica
5 45 (5.39%) Splunk
6 39 (4.67%) Google
7 30 (3.59%) Red Hat
8 27 (3.23%) Databricks
8 27 (3.23%) VMware
9 24 (2.87%) ServiceNow
10 23 (2.75%) Denodo
11 21 (2.51%) F5
12 20 (2.40%) Palo Alto
13 19 (2.28%) Dynatrace
14 18 (2.16%) Arista
14 18 (2.16%) Aruba
14 18 (2.16%) Salesforce
15 15 (1.80%) Trend Micro
16 14 (1.68%) Veracode
17 12 (1.44%) IBM