GitLab Contract Job Trends

GitLab
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 142 219
Rank change year-on-year +1 +77 +33
Contract jobs citing GitLab 982 638 477
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.87% 1.97% 1.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.81% 13.53% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 672 402 333
10th Percentile £368 £356 £381
25th Percentile £414 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £593 £650
90th Percentile £688 £660 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 10
10th Percentile £63.88 £61.60 £40.00
25th Percentile - £64.56 £58.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.38 £74.86
90th Percentile £81.75 £75.64 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.22
% change year-on-year -2.99% -9.73% +23.70%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,212 4,717 5,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.81% 14.54% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,004 3,168 3,532
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £689 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 101 247
10th Percentile £26.05 £22.05 £29.95
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +5.69%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitLab relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

GitLab job vacancy trend in the UK

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GitLab.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GitLab

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GitLab.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GitLab

GitLab
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitLab over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the UK over the 6 months to 15 July 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
England -2 826 £500 -0.10% 262
UK excluding London 0 478 £475 -5.00% 244
London 0 348 £525 - 73
Work from Home +10 343 £475 -9.52% 219
North of England -14 191 £453 -3.67% 67
Midlands +29 133 £466 -6.85% 40
West Midlands +19 126 £463 -9.76% 20
North West -18 87 £525 +8.25% 38
North East +7 69 £406 -12.63% 13
South East -39 67 £550 +9.89% 46
South West -15 50 £538 -10.42% 26
Yorkshire -46 50 £550 +15.79% 16
East of England -11 32 £483 +7.22% 26
Scotland -11 21 £401 -0.37% 23
East Midlands -12 7 £470 +74.07% 20
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 9

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 108 (11.00%) Confluence
2 57 (5.80%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (5.19%) Apache Spark
4 42 (4.28%) Apache
5 40 (4.07%) SAS
6 29 (2.95%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.71%) CICS
8 6 (0.61%) nginx
8 6 (0.61%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.51%) Camunda
10 4 (0.41%) CMS
11 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
12 2 (0.20%) WordPress
13 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 652 (66.40%) AWS
2 334 (34.01%) GitHub
3 314 (31.98%) Azure
4 240 (24.44%) GitHub Actions
5 156 (15.89%) GCP
6 148 (15.07%) Serverless
7 147 (14.97%) Amazon S3
8 133 (13.54%) Azure DevOps
9 132 (13.44%) AWS Lambda
10 119 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
11 109 (11.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 104 (10.59%) Amazon EC2
13 81 (8.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 68 (6.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 49 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
16 43 (4.38%) OpenShift
17 42 (4.28%) Amazon EMR
18 36 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
19 34 (3.46%) OCI
20 33 (3.36%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.07%) Firewall
2 25 (2.55%) Network Security
3 21 (2.14%) BGP
3 21 (2.14%) WAN
4 20 (2.04%) OSPF
5 19 (1.93%) BIG-IP
5 19 (1.93%) Ethernet VPN
5 19 (1.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 19 (1.93%) SD-WAN
5 19 (1.93%) VXLAN
6 18 (1.83%) DNS
7 16 (1.63%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (1.22%) VPN
10 11 (1.12%) WLAN
11 9 (0.92%) HTTP
12 6 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.41%) MQTT
13 4 (0.41%) SSL
14 3 (0.31%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (6.42%) MongoDB
3 54 (5.50%) Relational Database
4 50 (5.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 49 (4.99%) Amazon Athena
6 45 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
7 40 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
7 40 (4.07%) DynamoDB
8 37 (3.77%) NoSQL
9 31 (3.16%) Pentaho
10 30 (3.05%) Oracle Database
10 30 (3.05%) Power BI
11 29 (2.95%) SQL Server
12 27 (2.75%) Big Data
13 24 (2.44%) Data Lake
14 23 (2.34%) MySQL
15 20 (2.04%) RDBMS
16 17 (1.73%) Redis
17 14 (1.43%) Metadata
18 13 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 428 (43.58%) Jenkins
2 217 (22.10%) Git
3 149 (15.17%) JIRA
4 89 (9.06%) Selenium
5 70 (7.13%) JUnit
6 50 (5.09%) Cucumber
7 46 (4.68%) SonarQube
8 39 (3.97%) Postman
9 38 (3.87%) Bitbucket
10 37 (3.77%) REST Assured
11 35 (3.56%) Artifactory
11 35 (3.56%) JMeter
12 31 (3.16%) Gradle
12 31 (3.16%) Mockito
13 29 (2.95%) WebDriver
14 28 (2.85%) Gatling
15 25 (2.55%) Maven
16 20 (2.04%) Snyk
17 14 (1.43%) Serenity BDD
17 14 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 195 (19.86%) Public Sector
2 187 (19.04%) Social Skills
3 97 (9.88%) Finance
4 64 (6.52%) Banking
5 58 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (1.93%) Military
8 14 (1.43%) Law
9 13 (1.32%) Legal
10 10 (1.02%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.71%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.61%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.61%) Publishing
13 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.51%) Police
13 5 (0.51%) Retail
14 4 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.20%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 222 (22.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 172 (17.52%) Senior
3 150 (15.27%) Developer
4 123 (12.53%) AWS Engineer
5 101 (10.29%) Data Engineer
6 83 (8.45%) AWS DevOps
7 75 (7.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 64 (6.52%) Lead
9 51 (5.19%) Java Developer
10 50 (5.09%) Platform Engineer
11 49 (4.99%) Software Engineer
12 45 (4.58%) Cloud Engineer
13 44 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 44 (4.48%) Test Engineer
14 36 (3.67%) Architect
15 32 (3.26%) Tester
16 31 (3.16%) Senior DevOps
17 30 (3.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 26 (2.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 26 (2.65%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (12.73%) Kafka
2 111 (11.30%) Spring
3 105 (10.69%) REST
4 100 (10.18%) Spring Boot
5 79 (8.04%) RESTful
6 59 (6.01%) React
7 54 (5.50%) PySpark
8 49 (4.99%) Node.js
9 48 (4.89%) Playwright
10 38 (3.87%) YAML
11 35 (3.56%) Elastic Stack
11 35 (3.56%) JSON
12 32 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
13 27 (2.75%) WireMock
14 26 (2.65%) AWS CDK
15 25 (2.55%) pytest
16 23 (2.34%) HTML
16 23 (2.34%) Keycloak
16 23 (2.34%) OAuth
16 23 (2.34%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 185 (18.84%) Cloud Native
2 68 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (5.70%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.46%) Onboarding
5 31 (3.16%) Data Centre
6 25 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (2.34%) Public Cloud
8 20 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.53%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.53%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.12%) Mainframe
12 10 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.02%) Private Cloud
13 9 (0.92%) AI Agents
13 9 (0.92%) NHS
14 8 (0.81%) PKI
15 7 (0.71%) DataPower
15 7 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
16 6 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 189 (19.25%) Linux
2 48 (4.89%) Unix
3 41 (4.18%) Windows
4 36 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.22%) zOS
6 11 (1.12%) AIX
7 9 (0.92%) CentOS
8 8 (0.81%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.31%) Debian
10 3 (0.31%) Rocky
10 3 (0.31%) VMS
11 2 (0.20%) Android
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 811 (82.59%) CI/CD
2 580 (59.06%) DevOps
3 409 (41.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 378 (38.49%) Agile
5 328 (33.40%) Containerisation
6 307 (31.26%) Test Automation
7 192 (19.55%) Microservices
8 161 (16.40%) Observability
9 149 (15.17%) Scrum
10 140 (14.26%) Platform Engineering
10 140 (14.26%) Software Engineering
11 135 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 130 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
13 105 (10.69%) AI
14 96 (9.78%) DevSecOps
15 91 (9.27%) ETL
15 91 (9.27%) Migration
16 85 (8.66%) Data Modelling
17 84 (8.55%) Event-Driven
18 81 (8.25%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 406 (41.34%) Python
2 227 (23.12%) Java
3 220 (22.40%) SQL
4 152 (15.48%) Bash
5 80 (8.15%) JavaScript
6 66 (6.72%) TypeScript
7 64 (6.52%) PowerShell
8 50 (5.09%) C#
9 36 (3.67%) Go
10 32 (3.26%) Shell Script
11 22 (2.24%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.04%) Bicep
13 13 (1.32%) C++
14 8 (0.81%) Scala
15 6 (0.61%) C
15 6 (0.61%) Groovy
15 6 (0.61%) JCL
15 6 (0.61%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.61%) Ruby
16 5 (0.51%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 466 (47.45%) Security Cleared
2 398 (40.53%) SC Cleared
3 64 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 47 (4.79%) DV Cleared
5 43 (4.38%) Degree
6 42 (4.28%) AWS Certification
7 29 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.83%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 16 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.02%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.92%) CISSP
15 6 (0.61%) CSSLP
16 5 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
17 4 (0.41%) GIAC
17 4 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
18 3 (0.31%) CISM
18 3 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (9.57%) QA
2 49 (4.99%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.58%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.12%) SLA
4 11 (1.12%) WCAG
5 9 (0.92%) NIST
6 5 (0.51%) FATCA
6 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.41%) GDPR
7 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.31%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.20%) NCSC
9 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.10%) GRC
10 1 (0.10%) MIL-STD-1553
10 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
10 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 404 (41.14%) Docker
2 23 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (1.22%) Oracle RAC
6 7 (0.71%) HDFS
7 5 (0.51%) Squid
8 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.20%) iptables
8 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.10%) vSphere
9 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 473 (48.17%) Terraform
2 426 (43.38%) Kubernetes
3 205 (20.88%) Ansible
4 186 (18.94%) Grafana
5 164 (16.70%) Prometheus
6 51 (5.19%) Argo
7 35 (3.56%) Puppet
8 18 (1.83%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.32%) Istio
10 12 (1.22%) Data Guard
10 12 (1.22%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (1.02%) Packer
11 10 (1.02%) Podman
12 8 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
13 6 (0.61%) Cilium
13 6 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.51%) Check_MK
14 5 (0.51%) Kibana
14 5 (0.51%) linkerd
14 5 (0.51%) Salt
Vendors
1 114 (11.61%) Oracle
2 56 (5.70%) Microsoft
3 55 (5.60%) Talend
4 54 (5.50%) Informatica
4 54 (5.50%) Splunk
5 51 (5.19%) Google
6 30 (3.05%) Denodo
7 27 (2.75%) Databricks
8 26 (2.65%) VMware
9 24 (2.44%) Dynatrace
9 24 (2.44%) Red Hat
10 22 (2.24%) F5
11 20 (2.04%) Palo Alto
11 20 (2.04%) Salesforce
11 20 (2.04%) ServiceNow
12 18 (1.83%) Arista
12 18 (1.83%) Aruba
13 17 (1.73%) Trend Micro
14 16 (1.63%) IBM
15 14 (1.43%) Veracode