GitLab Contracts in England

GitLab
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring GitLab skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitLab over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 216 224
Rank change year-on-year +71 +8 -57
Contract jobs citing GitLab 464 401 566
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.90% 1.10% 1.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.74% 9.43% 8.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 296 373
10th Percentile £380 £363 £448
25th Percentile £450 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £573 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% -0.43% -1.71%
75th Percentile £618 £650 £656
90th Percentile £691 £744 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £558 £575
% change year-on-year -5.83% -3.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £84.16 £57.38 -
25th Percentile £85.97 £62.19 -
Median hourly rate £88.98 £74.44 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.53% +87.98% -23.66%
75th Percentile £91.99 £76.74 -
90th Percentile £93.80 £77.50 -
UK median hourly rate £88.98 £68.22 £39.60
% change year-on-year +30.43% +72.27% -20.00%

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 3,376 4,251 7,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.79% 11.68% 14.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,278 2,907 5,015
10th Percentile £340 £352 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £612 £638 £675
90th Percentile £736 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 192 203
10th Percentile £27.59 £31.84 £43.17
25th Percentile £49.00 £54.38 £53.13
Median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +5.69% +17.14%
75th Percentile £74.38 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £82.37 £78.68 £84.44
UK median hourly rate £58.88 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -9.42% +5.69% +17.04%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in England

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in England.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in England

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in England

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in England.

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in England

GitLab
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitLab in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

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 17 May 2025. 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 +61 246 £530 -7.83% 179
North of England +37 100 £500 -13.04% 98
North West +21 54 £500 -16.67% 56
South East +16 36 £525 -12.09% 39
Yorkshire +20 30 £538 -6.32% 32
Midlands +38 28 £525 +38.80% 32
West Midlands +26 23 £531 +37.03% 18
South West +44 21 £460 -13.70% 73
North East +11 19 £515 +19.77% 10
East of England +31 9 £450 +80.00% 25
East Midlands +12 5 £311 -17.78% 14
GitLab
UK

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 35 (7.54%) Confluence
2 12 (2.59%) nginx
3 11 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.16%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.94%) Apache
6 4 (0.86%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.86%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.65%) Documentum
7 3 (0.65%) FileNet
7 3 (0.65%) Traefik
8 2 (0.43%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.43%) IIS
8 2 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.43%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 247 (53.23%) AWS
2 130 (28.02%) Azure
3 67 (14.44%) GCP
4 58 (12.50%) GitHub
5 47 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (8.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 31 (6.68%) Amazon S3
7 31 (6.68%) Serverless
8 24 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
9 23 (4.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (3.88%) PaaS
13 17 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (3.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 15 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (2.80%) AWS Fargate
16 12 (2.59%) OpenShift
17 11 (2.37%) AWS CodePipeline
17 11 (2.37%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.96%) Firewall
2 20 (4.31%) DNS
3 15 (3.23%) HTTP
4 12 (2.59%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.16%) Network Security
6 8 (1.72%) DHCP
7 7 (1.51%) SAN
8 6 (1.29%) BGP
9 5 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (1.08%) VPN
9 5 (1.08%) WAN
10 4 (0.86%) LAN
10 4 (0.86%) NAS
10 4 (0.86%) OSPF
10 4 (0.86%) SSL
10 4 (0.86%) Wireless
11 3 (0.65%) DMZ
11 3 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (0.65%) SNMP
11 3 (0.65%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.48%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (6.68%) MongoDB
3 26 (5.60%) MySQL
4 21 (4.53%) NoSQL
5 18 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (3.66%) SQL Server
7 16 (3.45%) Relational Database
8 10 (2.16%) Apache Hive
8 10 (2.16%) Oracle Database
9 7 (1.51%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (1.51%) Power BI
10 6 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.29%) Apache Iceberg
10 6 (1.29%) Big Data
11 5 (1.08%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.08%) Parquet
11 5 (1.08%) Presto
12 4 (0.86%) BusinessObjects
12 4 (0.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 205 (44.18%) Jenkins
2 72 (15.52%) Git
3 70 (15.09%) JIRA
4 48 (10.34%) Selenium
5 32 (6.90%) Maven
6 29 (6.25%) SonarQube
7 28 (6.03%) Bitbucket
8 27 (5.82%) REST Assured
9 26 (5.60%) Cucumber
10 23 (4.96%) JUnit
11 21 (4.53%) Postman
12 18 (3.88%) Sonatype Nexus
13 15 (3.23%) Cypress.io
13 15 (3.23%) Liquibase
14 14 (3.02%) Mockito
14 14 (3.02%) TeamCity
15 13 (2.80%) CircleCI
15 13 (2.80%) Gradle
15 13 (2.80%) JMeter
16 11 (2.37%) TestNG
General
1 106 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 69 (14.87%) Finance
3 67 (14.44%) Public Sector
4 37 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (5.82%) Telecoms
6 25 (5.39%) Banking
7 19 (4.09%) Marketing
8 16 (3.45%) Electronics
8 16 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.94%) Law
9 9 (1.94%) Military
10 6 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.86%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.86%) Police
12 3 (0.65%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.65%) Retail
13 2 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 135 (29.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 81 (17.46%) Developer
3 75 (16.16%) Senior
4 48 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
5 38 (8.19%) AWS DevOps
6 37 (7.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 36 (7.76%) Architect
8 31 (6.68%) Software Engineer
9 27 (5.82%) Senior DevOps
10 25 (5.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 24 (5.17%) Java Engineer
12 23 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
12 23 (4.96%) Java Developer
12 23 (4.96%) Lead
13 20 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
14 17 (3.66%) Test Engineer
15 16 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
16 15 (3.23%) Automation Engineer
16 15 (3.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 14 (3.02%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (10.56%) React
2 42 (9.05%) REST
3 41 (8.84%) Spring
4 40 (8.62%) Kafka
5 39 (8.41%) Spring Boot
6 30 (6.47%) RESTful
7 23 (4.96%) Node.js
8 21 (4.53%) Playwright
9 19 (4.09%) JSON
10 17 (3.66%) AngularJS
10 17 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
11 15 (3.23%) Java EE
11 15 (3.23%) Swagger
12 14 (3.02%) OpenAPI
12 14 (3.02%) Web Services
13 13 (2.80%) CSS
13 13 (2.80%) HTML
14 11 (2.37%) OAuth
15 10 (2.16%) pytest
15 10 (2.16%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 20 (4.31%) Cloud Native
3 15 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (3.23%) PKI
4 13 (2.80%) Data Centre
5 9 (1.94%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.72%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.08%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.08%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.86%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.65%) DataPower
10 3 (0.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 111 (23.92%) Linux
2 35 (7.54%) Windows
3 33 (7.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (4.96%) Unix
5 18 (3.88%) CentOS
6 15 (3.23%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.51%) Android
8 4 (0.86%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.65%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.65%) Rocky
10 2 (0.43%) SUSE
11 1 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.22%) Solaris
11 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (62.72%) CI/CD
2 264 (56.90%) DevOps
3 133 (28.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 129 (27.80%) Agile
5 121 (26.08%) Containerisation
6 93 (20.04%) Test Automation
7 87 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 86 (18.53%) Microservices
9 76 (16.38%) Software Engineering
10 64 (13.79%) Configuration Management
11 56 (12.07%) Migration
12 55 (11.85%) Continuous Integration
13 50 (10.78%) Infrastructure Automation
14 39 (8.41%) Observability
15 37 (7.97%) Scrum
16 34 (7.33%) Event-Driven
17 32 (6.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 31 (6.68%) DevSecOps
19 30 (6.47%) Mentoring
20 29 (6.25%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 194 (41.81%) Python
2 132 (28.45%) Java
3 78 (16.81%) Bash
4 74 (15.95%) SQL
5 68 (14.66%) JavaScript
6 46 (9.91%) PowerShell
7 38 (8.19%) TypeScript
8 23 (4.96%) C#
9 22 (4.74%) Shell Script
10 21 (4.53%) Go
11 10 (2.16%) C++
12 8 (1.72%) Ruby
13 5 (1.08%) PHP
13 5 (1.08%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.86%) Perl
14 4 (0.86%) Rust
14 4 (0.86%) Scala
15 3 (0.65%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.65%) XPath
16 2 (0.43%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 158 (34.05%) Security Cleared
2 135 (29.09%) SC Cleared
3 29 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 22 (4.74%) Degree
5 15 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (1.51%) SANS
9 5 (1.08%) CISSP
9 5 (1.08%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.86%) CCNP
10 4 (0.86%) CEH
10 4 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.86%) OCP
10 4 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.65%) CCNA
12 2 (0.43%) CISM
12 2 (0.43%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.11%) QA
2 7 (1.51%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.29%) GDPR
3 6 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.29%) NCSC
3 6 (1.29%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.08%) WCAG
5 4 (0.86%) NIST
5 4 (0.86%) SLA
6 3 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.65%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.65%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.43%) COBIT
7 2 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.22%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 149 (32.11%) Docker
2 18 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.08%) vSphere
5 4 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.86%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.65%) FreeRADIUS
6 3 (0.65%) iptables
7 2 (0.43%) Ceph
7 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.43%) RACF
Systems Management
1 215 (46.34%) Terraform
2 184 (39.66%) Kubernetes
3 133 (28.66%) Ansible
4 52 (11.21%) Grafana
5 50 (10.78%) Prometheus
6 36 (7.76%) Puppet
7 16 (3.45%) Packer
8 14 (3.02%) Podman
9 12 (2.59%) Progress Chef
10 11 (2.37%) Argo
11 10 (2.16%) Istio
12 9 (1.94%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (1.72%) ZABBIX
14 7 (1.51%) Consul
15 6 (1.29%) Nagios
15 6 (1.29%) Rancher
16 5 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
17 4 (0.86%) Kibana
17 4 (0.86%) logstash
17 4 (0.86%) vRealize
Vendors
1 34 (7.33%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.90%) Google
3 28 (6.03%) Oracle
4 24 (5.17%) SAP
4 24 (5.17%) Splunk
5 17 (3.66%) VMware
6 16 (3.45%) Atlassian
6 16 (3.45%) Databricks
7 14 (3.02%) Cisco
8 13 (2.80%) Red Hat
9 10 (2.16%) Fortinet
9 10 (2.16%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.94%) Infoblox
11 8 (1.72%) CheckPoint
11 8 (1.72%) IBM
11 8 (1.72%) Veracode
12 7 (1.51%) F5
12 7 (1.51%) Talend
12 7 (1.51%) Virgin Media
13 6 (1.29%) PagerDuty