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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 135 185
Rank change year-on-year -6 +50 +55
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,065 698 516
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.95% 2.11% 1.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.98% 13.90% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 737 465 355
10th Percentile £379 £375 £360
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -0.50% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 10 6
10th Percentile - £60.50 £60.50
25th Percentile £65.00 £62.69 £67.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £73.55 £74.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.22 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +1.81% -9.46% +23.33%

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 6,271 5,023 5,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.49% 15.21% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,024 3,390 3,273
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £414 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 111 178
10th Percentile £33.74 £30.75 £27.40
25th Percentile £52.29 £50.50 £50.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.10 £87.50 £71.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -4 901 £500 -3.85% 449
UK excluding London -15 511 £498 -0.50% 285
London +6 386 £507 -4.25% 227
Work from Home +1 367 £487 -7.26% 803
North of England -38 182 £473 -1.56% 81
Midlands +21 135 £473 -12.50% 32
West Midlands +28 128 £474 -13.86% 26
South East -21 83 £543 +7.11% 48
North East +5 76 £413 -11.29% 19
North West -31 76 £569 +21.32% 36
South West -22 65 £550 -8.33% 50
Yorkshire -57 41 £550 +10.00% 26
East of England -26 38 £463 -5.13% 30
Scotland -19 23 £438 +6.71% 34
East Midlands -12 7 £425 +57.41% 6
Northern Ireland -1 1 - - 5

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
1 104 (9.77%) Confluence
2 69 (6.48%) Apache Spark
3 68 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
4 53 (4.98%) Apache
5 34 (3.19%) Jupyter
6 30 (2.82%) SAS
7 12 (1.13%) Camunda
8 5 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.38%) CICS
9 4 (0.38%) nginx
9 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.28%) CMS
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.19%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.19%) WordPress
12 1 (0.094%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.094%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.094%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 4 (0.38%) Trello
2 1 (0.094%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.094%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.094%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.094%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 703 (66.01%) AWS
2 369 (34.65%) Azure
3 365 (34.27%) GitHub
4 259 (24.32%) GitHub Actions
5 180 (16.90%) Azure DevOps
6 171 (16.06%) GCP
7 143 (13.43%) Serverless
8 142 (13.33%) Amazon S3
9 132 (12.39%) Amazon EKS
9 132 (12.39%) AWS Lambda
10 128 (12.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 100 (9.39%) Amazon EC2
12 79 (7.42%) AWS CloudFormation
13 65 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
14 64 (6.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 53 (4.98%) OpenShift
16 49 (4.60%) Amazon EMR
17 48 (4.51%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (3.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 36 (3.38%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.41%) Firewall
2 36 (3.38%) DNS
3 31 (2.91%) Network Security
4 27 (2.54%) BGP
4 27 (2.54%) Ethernet VPN
4 27 (2.54%) VXLAN
5 23 (2.16%) TCP/IP
6 22 (2.07%) WAN
7 21 (1.97%) SD-WAN
8 20 (1.88%) OSPF
8 20 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
9 19 (1.78%) BIG-IP
9 19 (1.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 13 (1.22%) VPN
11 11 (1.03%) HTTP
11 11 (1.03%) WLAN
12 9 (0.85%) SSL
13 8 (0.75%) DHCP
13 8 (0.75%) NX-OS
14 7 (0.66%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (9.01%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (7.98%) MongoDB
3 58 (5.45%) Relational Database
4 53 (4.98%) Amazon Athena
5 50 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
6 48 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (4.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 47 (4.41%) NoSQL
8 43 (4.04%) DynamoDB
9 38 (3.57%) SQL Server
10 35 (3.29%) Oracle Database
11 33 (3.10%) Big Data
11 33 (3.10%) Data Lake
11 33 (3.10%) MySQL
11 33 (3.10%) Power BI
12 31 (2.91%) Redis
13 30 (2.82%) Pentaho
14 27 (2.54%) RDBMS
15 14 (1.31%) Apache Hive
15 14 (1.31%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 434 (40.75%) Jenkins
2 257 (24.13%) Git
3 147 (13.80%) JIRA
4 85 (7.98%) Selenium
5 79 (7.42%) JUnit
6 60 (5.63%) SonarQube
7 59 (5.54%) Cucumber
8 49 (4.60%) Maven
9 39 (3.66%) Gradle
10 38 (3.57%) Bitbucket
10 38 (3.57%) Mockito
11 35 (3.29%) REST Assured
12 34 (3.19%) Gatling
13 33 (3.10%) JMeter
14 32 (3.00%) Artifactory
15 27 (2.54%) Postman
15 27 (2.54%) Sonatype Nexus
16 21 (1.97%) WebDriver
17 16 (1.50%) Cypress.io
17 16 (1.50%) Snyk
General
1 206 (19.34%) Social Skills
2 197 (18.50%) Public Sector
3 107 (10.05%) Finance
4 70 (6.57%) Banking
5 69 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (2.07%) Military
8 17 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.22%) Law
9 13 (1.22%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.13%) Legal
11 11 (1.03%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.66%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.56%) Police
13 6 (0.56%) Publishing
14 5 (0.47%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.38%) Back Office
15 4 (0.38%) Marketing
15 4 (0.38%) Retail
16 3 (0.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 241 (22.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 190 (17.84%) Developer
3 184 (17.28%) Senior
4 128 (12.02%) AWS Engineer
5 96 (9.01%) Data Engineer
6 80 (7.51%) AWS DevOps
7 72 (6.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 72 (6.76%) Lead
8 61 (5.73%) Java Developer
9 56 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 53 (4.98%) Software Engineer
11 51 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
12 49 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 48 (4.51%) Test Engineer
14 43 (4.04%) Software Developer
15 40 (3.76%) Architect
16 36 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
17 30 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
17 30 (2.82%) Senior DevOps
18 29 (2.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 523 (49.11%) Terraform
2 157 (14.74%) Kafka
3 142 (13.33%) Spring
4 130 (12.21%) Spring Boot
5 123 (11.55%) REST
6 76 (7.14%) RESTful
7 75 (7.04%) React
8 66 (6.20%) Playwright
9 55 (5.16%) Node.js
10 52 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
11 50 (4.69%) JSON
12 49 (4.60%) PySpark
13 41 (3.85%) HTML
14 37 (3.47%) YAML
15 36 (3.38%) CSS
16 35 (3.29%) OAuth
17 30 (2.82%) JPA
17 30 (2.82%) pytest
18 29 (2.72%) Keycloak
19 27 (2.54%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 216 (20.28%) Cloud Native
2 63 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (3.38%) Data Centre
6 31 (2.91%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.72%) Data Structures
8 26 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.88%) AI Agents
10 17 (1.60%) Algorithms
11 16 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
12 15 (1.41%) PKI
12 15 (1.41%) Public Cloud
13 13 (1.22%) Mainframe
14 11 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.03%) Private Cloud
15 10 (0.94%) Security Posture
16 9 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
17 7 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 206 (19.34%) Linux
2 50 (4.69%) Unix
3 45 (4.23%) Windows
4 41 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.31%) Ubuntu
6 13 (1.22%) CentOS
7 12 (1.13%) AIX
8 11 (1.03%) zOS
9 10 (0.94%) Windows Server
10 9 (0.85%) VMS
11 3 (0.28%) Debian
11 3 (0.28%) Rocky
12 2 (0.19%) Android
12 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.094%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.094%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 903 (84.79%) CI/CD
2 640 (60.09%) DevOps
3 489 (45.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 427 (40.09%) Agile
5 364 (34.18%) Containerisation
6 330 (30.99%) Test Automation
7 215 (20.19%) Microservices
8 192 (18.03%) Observability
9 178 (16.71%) Software Engineering
10 177 (16.62%) Scrum
11 162 (15.21%) Platform Engineering
12 160 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 140 (13.15%) AI
13 140 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
14 114 (10.70%) DevSecOps
15 106 (9.95%) Migration
16 105 (9.86%) Mentoring
17 104 (9.77%) Event-Driven
18 102 (9.58%) ETL
19 100 (9.39%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 462 (43.38%) Python
2 266 (24.98%) Java
3 242 (22.72%) SQL
4 189 (17.75%) Bash
5 103 (9.67%) JavaScript
6 93 (8.73%) PowerShell
7 69 (6.48%) TypeScript
8 67 (6.29%) C#
9 44 (4.13%) Go
10 36 (3.38%) Shell Script
11 22 (2.07%) Bicep
12 21 (1.97%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.31%) C++
14 10 (0.94%) Groovy
14 10 (0.94%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.94%) Scala
15 6 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.56%) R
16 5 (0.47%) Cypher
16 5 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 519 (48.73%) Security Cleared
2 420 (39.44%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.32%) DV Cleared
4 76 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 54 (5.07%) Degree
6 49 (4.60%) AWS Certification
7 40 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (1.88%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 16 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 16 (1.50%) CISSP
11 14 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (1.22%) ISTQB
13 11 (1.03%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.56%) CSSLP
17 5 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
17 5 (0.47%) GCFA
17 5 (0.47%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (12.02%) QA
2 54 (5.07%) Accessibility
3 43 (4.04%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.07%) WCAG
5 16 (1.50%) NIST
6 11 (1.03%) GDPR
7 10 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.85%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.66%) NCSC
10 7 (0.66%) SLA
11 6 (0.56%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.47%) FATCA
13 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.094%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.094%) GRC
14 1 (0.094%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.094%) MIL-STD-1553
14 1 (0.094%) NIST 800
System Software
1 445 (41.78%) Docker
2 24 (2.25%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.22%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.56%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.47%) Squid
7 4 (0.38%) HDFS
8 3 (0.28%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.19%) iptables
9 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.094%) Firmware
10 1 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.094%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 491 (46.10%) Kubernetes
2 256 (24.04%) Ansible
3 176 (16.53%) Grafana
4 152 (14.27%) Prometheus
5 52 (4.88%) Argo
6 42 (3.94%) Puppet
7 31 (2.91%) Progress Chef
8 16 (1.50%) Kibana
9 14 (1.31%) Istio
10 13 (1.22%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.22%) Oracle RMAN
11 12 (1.13%) Packer
12 10 (0.94%) Podman
12 10 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.85%) Cilium
13 9 (0.85%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.47%) CASB
14 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.38%) Check_MK
15 4 (0.38%) Salt
Vendors
1 121 (11.36%) Oracle
2 72 (6.76%) Google
3 71 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 54 (5.07%) Talend
5 53 (4.98%) Splunk
6 50 (4.69%) Informatica
7 43 (4.04%) VMware
8 40 (3.76%) Databricks
9 37 (3.47%) Dynatrace
10 26 (2.44%) Denodo
10 26 (2.44%) Red Hat
11 24 (2.25%) IBM
11 24 (2.25%) ServiceNow
12 21 (1.97%) Palo Alto
13 20 (1.88%) F5
14 18 (1.69%) Arista
14 18 (1.69%) Aruba
14 18 (1.69%) Trend Micro
15 14 (1.31%) Veracode
16 12 (1.13%) Cisco