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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 130 236
Rank change year-on-year 0 +106 -47
Contract jobs citing GitLab 760 501 374
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.94% 2.06% 1.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.00% 15.15% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 327 272
10th Percentile £385 £370 £401
25th Percentile £428 £450 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £644 £676
90th Percentile £670 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £558
% change year-on-year -5.66% -4.93% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 3 5
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.59 £57.10
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £58.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -30.69% +11.45% +65.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £77.50
90th Percentile £79.30 £92.59 -
UK median hourly rate £59.25 £82.96 £62.00
% change year-on-year -28.58% +33.81% +37.78%

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 5,066 3,307 4,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.92% 13.58% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,384 2,219 2,905
10th Percentile £338 £342 £356
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.63%
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 64 159
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.63 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.95 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +3.20% +1.63%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.51 £83.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +5.47% +6.67% -2.44%

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 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 10 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 10 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 -23 321 £525 -4.55% 56
North of England -24 175 £500 -4.76% 49
Midlands +11 108 £474 -0.68% 19
West Midlands +1 95 £478 -2.40% 12
North West -4 95 £475 -5.00% 16
Yorkshire -23 61 £500 -13.04% 14
South East -30 59 £513 -19.61% 39
South West +10 56 £523 +14.33% 36
North East -12 27 £450 -12.62% 19
East of England -14 25 £477 +5.89% 12
East Midlands -22 13 £402 +29.99% 7
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 54 (7.11%) Confluence
2 45 (5.92%) SAS
3 23 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.24%) Apache
5 14 (1.84%) Apache Spark
6 13 (1.71%) OpenStack
7 9 (1.18%) nginx
8 4 (0.53%) CICS
9 3 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.39%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.13%) Camunda
11 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
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
Cloud Services
1 447 (58.82%) AWS
2 236 (31.05%) GitHub
3 221 (29.08%) Azure
4 153 (20.13%) GitHub Actions
5 133 (17.50%) GCP
6 111 (14.61%) Serverless
7 106 (13.95%) Amazon S3
8 96 (12.63%) AWS Lambda
9 90 (11.84%) Amazon EKS
10 79 (10.39%) Amazon EC2
10 79 (10.39%) OpenShift
11 69 (9.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 69 (9.08%) Azure DevOps
12 65 (8.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 54 (7.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 39 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (2.89%) Azure AKS
16 20 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
16 20 (2.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 20 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.47%) Firewall
2 25 (3.29%) DNS
3 20 (2.63%) VPN
4 16 (2.11%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.58%) Network Security
6 8 (1.05%) HTTP
7 6 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.53%) BGP
8 4 (0.53%) Multicast
8 4 (0.53%) SAN
9 3 (0.39%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.39%) NAS
9 3 (0.39%) OSPF
9 3 (0.39%) SSL
9 3 (0.39%) VSAN
10 2 (0.26%) Calico
10 2 (0.26%) DHCP
10 2 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
10 2 (0.26%) VXLAN
10 2 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (10.66%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (6.32%) MongoDB
3 44 (5.79%) NoSQL
4 35 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
5 34 (4.47%) Relational Database
6 31 (4.08%) DynamoDB
7 28 (3.68%) MySQL
8 23 (3.03%) Redis
9 21 (2.76%) SQL Server
10 20 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
11 18 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (2.37%) Data Lake
12 17 (2.24%) Big Data
12 17 (2.24%) Power BI
13 16 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (2.11%) Oracle Database
14 13 (1.71%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 11 (1.45%) DocumentDB
16 10 (1.32%) Spark SQL
17 9 (1.18%) Aerospike
Development Applications
1 368 (48.42%) Jenkins
2 193 (25.39%) Git
3 107 (14.08%) JIRA
4 87 (11.45%) Selenium
5 80 (10.53%) JUnit
6 46 (6.05%) Cucumber
7 35 (4.61%) Postman
8 29 (3.82%) JMeter
8 29 (3.82%) REST Assured
9 27 (3.55%) Bitbucket
10 26 (3.42%) Artifactory
11 25 (3.29%) CircleCI
11 25 (3.29%) Mockito
12 21 (2.76%) SonarQube
13 20 (2.63%) Gradle
13 20 (2.63%) Maven
14 18 (2.37%) Gatling
15 15 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
16 14 (1.84%) Cypress.io
17 13 (1.71%) IntelliJ
General
1 208 (27.37%) Social Skills
2 122 (16.05%) Public Sector
3 96 (12.63%) Finance
4 70 (9.21%) Banking
5 43 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.45%) Military
8 10 (1.32%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 7 (0.92%) Financial Institution
10 7 (0.92%) Law
10 7 (0.92%) Retail
11 6 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.79%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.39%) Legal
14 3 (0.39%) Local Government
14 3 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 155 (20.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 133 (17.50%) Developer
3 105 (13.82%) Senior
4 66 (8.68%) AWS Engineer
5 58 (7.63%) Lead
6 56 (7.37%) AWS DevOps
6 56 (7.37%) Data Engineer
7 51 (6.71%) Software Engineer
8 47 (6.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 43 (5.66%) Java Developer
10 40 (5.26%) Architect
11 35 (4.61%) Test Engineer
12 33 (4.34%) Cloud Engineer
12 33 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
13 27 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
13 27 (3.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 23 (3.03%) Java Engineer
15 22 (2.89%) Full-Stack Developer
15 22 (2.89%) Test Specialist
16 20 (2.63%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (15.26%) Spring
2 111 (14.61%) REST
3 107 (14.08%) Kafka
4 99 (13.03%) Spring Boot
5 68 (8.95%) Node.js
6 61 (8.03%) React
7 60 (7.89%) RESTful
8 47 (6.18%) Elastic Stack
9 46 (6.05%) Playwright
10 39 (5.13%) pytest
11 33 (4.34%) OpenTelemetry
12 30 (3.95%) YAML
13 28 (3.68%) HTML
13 28 (3.68%) RabbitMQ
14 27 (3.55%) LDAP
15 26 (3.42%) AngularJS
15 26 (3.42%) OpenID
15 26 (3.42%) PySpark
16 24 (3.16%) Jest
16 24 (3.16%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 112 (14.74%) Cloud Native
2 49 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.66%) Product Ownership
4 22 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 17 (2.24%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.45%) Management Information System
8 10 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (1.32%) Mainframe
8 10 (1.32%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.18%) NHS
10 8 (1.05%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.05%) DataPower
10 8 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
10 8 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (0.92%) Synthetic Data
12 6 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.79%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 137 (18.03%) Linux
2 53 (6.97%) Windows
3 29 (3.82%) Unix
4 28 (3.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.32%) CentOS
6 9 (1.18%) Android
6 9 (1.18%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.18%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.05%) VMS
8 6 (0.79%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.79%) zOS
9 3 (0.39%) Debian
9 3 (0.39%) Rocky
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.13%) AIX
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 604 (79.47%) CI/CD
2 432 (56.84%) DevOps
3 282 (37.11%) Agile
4 258 (33.95%) Containerisation
5 257 (33.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 230 (30.26%) Test Automation
7 150 (19.74%) Microservices
8 143 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
9 138 (18.16%) Observability
10 105 (13.82%) Software Engineering
11 98 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 96 (12.63%) Scrum
13 88 (11.58%) Platform Engineering
14 82 (10.79%) Analytics
15 69 (9.08%) TDD
16 67 (8.82%) DevSecOps
17 63 (8.29%) ETL
18 62 (8.16%) Data Pipeline
19 61 (8.03%) Test Strategy
20 57 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 316 (41.58%) Python
2 228 (30.00%) Java
3 156 (20.53%) SQL
4 117 (15.39%) Bash
5 85 (11.18%) JavaScript
6 68 (8.95%) PowerShell
7 66 (8.68%) TypeScript
8 39 (5.13%) Go
8 39 (5.13%) Shell Script
9 22 (2.89%) C#
10 20 (2.63%) Kotlin
11 18 (2.37%) Bicep
12 14 (1.84%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.58%) C++
14 10 (1.32%) Ruby
15 9 (1.18%) MATLAB
15 9 (1.18%) Scala
16 8 (1.05%) C
17 7 (0.92%) Groovy
18 6 (0.79%) Korn
Qualifications
1 317 (41.71%) Security Cleared
2 264 (34.74%) SC Cleared
3 34 (4.47%) Degree
4 31 (4.08%) AWS Certification
5 29 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.42%) DV Cleared
7 25 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (1.97%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (0.92%) CISSP
11 6 (0.79%) CISM
11 6 (0.79%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.79%) OCA
11 6 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
12 5 (0.66%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (12.63%) QA
2 38 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.37%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.37%) GDPR
3 18 (2.37%) SLA
3 18 (2.37%) WCAG
4 13 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.45%) NIST
6 7 (0.92%) NCSC
7 6 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.26%) HL7
8 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.13%) GRC
9 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.13%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 329 (43.29%) Docker
2 25 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.66%) HDFS
6 4 (0.53%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.26%) 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
1 387 (50.92%) Kubernetes
2 323 (42.50%) Terraform
3 166 (21.84%) Grafana
4 160 (21.05%) Ansible
5 136 (17.89%) Prometheus
6 51 (6.71%) Argo
7 23 (3.03%) Puppet
8 22 (2.89%) Istio
9 18 (2.37%) Podman
9 18 (2.37%) Progress Chef
10 16 (2.11%) Kibana
11 11 (1.45%) Red Hat Satellite
12 9 (1.18%) Check_MK
12 9 (1.18%) linkerd
13 8 (1.05%) Packer
14 7 (0.92%) Fluentd
14 7 (0.92%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.92%) Nagios
15 6 (0.79%) Rancher
16 5 (0.66%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 75 (9.87%) Oracle
2 65 (8.55%) Splunk
3 59 (7.76%) Microsoft
4 44 (5.79%) Red Hat
5 38 (5.00%) Google
6 33 (4.34%) VMware
7 30 (3.95%) ServiceNow
8 25 (3.29%) Databricks
9 18 (2.37%) Salesforce
10 17 (2.24%) Informatica
10 17 (2.24%) Talend
11 14 (1.84%) Dynatrace
12 13 (1.71%) IBM
13 11 (1.45%) Veracode
14 9 (1.18%) Atlassian
15 8 (1.05%) Cribl.io
16 7 (0.92%) AppDynamics
16 7 (0.92%) Denodo
17 5 (0.66%) Cisco
17 5 (0.66%) Fortinet