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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 137 228
Rank change year-on-year +6 +91 -37
Contract jobs citing GitLab 754 497 373
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.92% 2.04% 1.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.00% 14.93% 9.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 324 270
10th Percentile £385 £370 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £675
90th Percentile £674 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £492 £530 £558
% change year-on-year -7.17% -4.93% -5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 3 5
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.59 £57.10
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £58.75
Median hourly rate £58.50 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -29.48% +11.45% +65.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £77.50
90th Percentile £78.85 £92.59 -
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £82.96 £62.00
% change year-on-year -28.28% +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 5,027 3,329 4,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.82% 13.65% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,360 2,226 2,878
10th Percentile £336 £341 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
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 212 66 160
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.88 £31.34
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.05 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +1.63%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.31
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.36 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -14 322 £525 -3.89% 57
North of England -26 167 £487 -7.24% 41
Midlands +9 107 £471 -1.26% 16
West Midlands +2 94 £475 -3.06% 11
North West -16 93 £475 -6.84% 16
South East -26 61 £525 -17.65% 35
Yorkshire -25 58 £500 -13.04% 8
South West +10 56 £523 +14.33% 21
East of England -9 24 £477 +5.89% 8
North East -17 24 £450 -12.62% 17
East Midlands -20 13 £402 +30.73% 5
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 52 (6.90%) Confluence
2 45 (5.97%) SAS
3 23 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.12%) Apache
5 15 (1.99%) Apache Spark
6 13 (1.72%) OpenStack
7 9 (1.19%) nginx
8 4 (0.53%) CICS
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.40%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.27%) Camunda
10 2 (0.27%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.40%) 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
1 441 (58.49%) AWS
2 235 (31.17%) GitHub
3 220 (29.18%) Azure
4 152 (20.16%) GitHub Actions
5 131 (17.37%) GCP
6 110 (14.59%) Serverless
7 106 (14.06%) Amazon S3
8 95 (12.60%) AWS Lambda
9 90 (11.94%) Amazon EKS
10 78 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
11 76 (10.08%) OpenShift
12 69 (9.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 69 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
13 65 (8.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 53 (7.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 37 (4.91%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (2.92%) Azure AKS
17 20 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
17 20 (2.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 19 (2.52%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.38%) Firewall
2 24 (3.18%) DNS
3 18 (2.39%) VPN
4 16 (2.12%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.59%) Network Security
6 8 (1.06%) HTTP
7 6 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.53%) BGP
8 4 (0.53%) Multicast
8 4 (0.53%) SAN
9 3 (0.40%) NAS
9 3 (0.40%) OSPF
9 3 (0.40%) SSL
9 3 (0.40%) VSAN
10 2 (0.27%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.27%) DHCP
10 2 (0.27%) IPv6
10 2 (0.27%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.27%) LAN
10 2 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (6.37%) MongoDB
3 44 (5.84%) NoSQL
4 34 (4.51%) Relational Database
5 33 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
6 31 (4.11%) DynamoDB
7 28 (3.71%) MySQL
8 23 (3.05%) Redis
9 21 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
9 21 (2.79%) SQL Server
10 19 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (2.39%) Data Lake
12 17 (2.25%) Big Data
12 17 (2.25%) Power BI
13 16 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
14 14 (1.86%) Oracle Database
15 13 (1.72%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 11 (1.46%) DocumentDB
17 10 (1.33%) Pentaho
17 10 (1.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 362 (48.01%) Jenkins
2 187 (24.80%) Git
3 105 (13.93%) JIRA
4 84 (11.14%) Selenium
5 77 (10.21%) JUnit
6 42 (5.57%) Cucumber
7 34 (4.51%) Postman
8 28 (3.71%) JMeter
8 28 (3.71%) REST Assured
9 27 (3.58%) Bitbucket
10 26 (3.45%) CircleCI
11 24 (3.18%) Artifactory
12 22 (2.92%) Mockito
13 21 (2.79%) SonarQube
14 20 (2.65%) Gradle
15 17 (2.25%) Gatling
16 16 (2.12%) Maven
17 14 (1.86%) Cypress.io
17 14 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
18 13 (1.72%) IntelliJ
General
1 203 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 122 (16.18%) Public Sector
3 96 (12.73%) Finance
4 68 (9.02%) Banking
5 42 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.46%) Military
8 10 (1.33%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.06%) Investment Banking
10 7 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 7 (0.93%) Law
10 7 (0.93%) Retail
11 6 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.80%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.40%) Legal
14 3 (0.40%) Marketing
14 3 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 153 (20.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 129 (17.11%) Developer
3 103 (13.66%) Senior
4 67 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
5 59 (7.82%) Lead
6 58 (7.69%) Data Engineer
7 56 (7.43%) AWS DevOps
8 52 (6.90%) Software Engineer
9 48 (6.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 41 (5.44%) Architect
10 41 (5.44%) Java Developer
11 33 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
11 33 (4.38%) Test Engineer
12 32 (4.24%) Cloud Engineer
13 27 (3.58%) Senior DevOps
13 27 (3.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 23 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
14 23 (3.05%) Java Engineer
15 22 (2.92%) Test Specialist
16 20 (2.65%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (14.85%) Spring
2 109 (14.46%) Kafka
2 109 (14.46%) REST
3 96 (12.73%) Spring Boot
4 67 (8.89%) Node.js
5 60 (7.96%) RESTful
6 58 (7.69%) React
7 47 (6.23%) Elastic Stack
8 42 (5.57%) Playwright
9 39 (5.17%) pytest
10 33 (4.38%) OpenTelemetry
11 30 (3.98%) YAML
12 27 (3.58%) RabbitMQ
13 26 (3.45%) AngularJS
13 26 (3.45%) LDAP
13 26 (3.45%) PySpark
14 24 (3.18%) HTML
14 24 (3.18%) Jest
15 23 (3.05%) OpenID
16 21 (2.79%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 110 (14.59%) Cloud Native
2 47 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.70%) Product Ownership
4 22 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (2.52%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.25%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.46%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.33%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.33%) Private Cloud
10 9 (1.19%) NHS
11 8 (1.06%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.06%) DataPower
11 8 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.93%) Synthetic Data
13 6 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.80%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 136 (18.04%) Linux
2 51 (6.76%) Windows
3 29 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (3.85%) Unix
4 10 (1.33%) CentOS
5 9 (1.19%) Android
5 9 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.06%) VMS
6 8 (1.06%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.80%) zOS
8 3 (0.40%) Debian
8 3 (0.40%) Rocky
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 602 (79.84%) CI/CD
2 425 (56.37%) DevOps
3 279 (37.00%) Agile
4 257 (34.08%) Containerisation
4 257 (34.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 231 (30.64%) Test Automation
6 148 (19.63%) Microservices
7 142 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
8 136 (18.04%) Observability
9 103 (13.66%) Software Engineering
10 96 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 96 (12.73%) Scrum
11 88 (11.67%) Platform Engineering
12 83 (11.01%) Analytics
13 69 (9.15%) TDD
14 67 (8.89%) DevSecOps
15 66 (8.75%) ETL
16 62 (8.22%) Data Pipeline
17 60 (7.96%) Test Strategy
18 57 (7.56%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 312 (41.38%) Python
2 224 (29.71%) Java
3 160 (21.22%) SQL
4 118 (15.65%) Bash
5 84 (11.14%) JavaScript
6 66 (8.75%) PowerShell
6 66 (8.75%) TypeScript
7 39 (5.17%) Shell Script
8 38 (5.04%) Go
9 23 (3.05%) C#
10 20 (2.65%) Kotlin
11 18 (2.39%) Bicep
12 14 (1.86%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.59%) C++
14 10 (1.33%) Ruby
14 10 (1.33%) Scala
15 9 (1.19%) MATLAB
16 8 (1.06%) C
17 6 (0.80%) Korn
17 6 (0.80%) PHP
Qualifications
1 317 (42.04%) Security Cleared
2 264 (35.01%) SC Cleared
3 35 (4.64%) Degree
4 30 (3.98%) AWS Certification
4 30 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 24 (3.18%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.99%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (0.93%) CISSP
11 6 (0.80%) CISM
11 6 (0.80%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.80%) OCA
11 6 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
12 5 (0.66%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.40%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (12.60%) QA
2 38 (5.04%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.39%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.39%) GDPR
3 18 (2.39%) SLA
4 15 (1.99%) WCAG
5 13 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.46%) NIST
7 7 (0.93%) NCSC
8 6 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.40%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.27%) HL7
10 2 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 327 (43.37%) Docker
2 24 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.66%) HDFS
6 4 (0.53%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.27%) 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
1 382 (50.66%) Kubernetes
2 319 (42.31%) Terraform
3 164 (21.75%) Grafana
4 158 (20.95%) Ansible
5 137 (18.17%) Prometheus
6 51 (6.76%) Argo
7 23 (3.05%) Puppet
8 22 (2.92%) Istio
9 16 (2.12%) Podman
10 15 (1.99%) Progress Chef
11 13 (1.72%) Kibana
12 12 (1.59%) Red Hat Satellite
13 9 (1.19%) Check_MK
13 9 (1.19%) linkerd
13 9 (1.19%) Packer
14 7 (0.93%) Fluentd
14 7 (0.93%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.80%) Nagios
15 6 (0.80%) Rancher
16 5 (0.66%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 76 (10.08%) Oracle
2 62 (8.22%) Splunk
3 56 (7.43%) Microsoft
4 43 (5.70%) Red Hat
5 38 (5.04%) Google
6 33 (4.38%) VMware
7 31 (4.11%) ServiceNow
8 25 (3.32%) Databricks
9 20 (2.65%) Talend
10 18 (2.39%) Informatica
10 18 (2.39%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.86%) Dynatrace
12 13 (1.72%) IBM
13 11 (1.46%) Veracode
14 9 (1.19%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.93%) AppDynamics
15 7 (0.93%) Denodo
16 6 (0.80%) Cribl.io
17 5 (0.66%) Cisco
17 5 (0.66%) Fortinet