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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 137 196
Rank change year-on-year -8 +59 +32
Contract jobs citing GitLab 984 664 495
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.85% 2.02% 1.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.78% 13.56% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 432 338
10th Percentile £368 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £645
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -3.65% -2.91% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 10
10th Percentile £64.63 £60.50 £54.40
25th Percentile - £62.69 £66.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.86
90th Percentile £77.25 £73.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -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 6,235 4,896 5,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.72% 14.88% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,998 3,319 3,304
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 109 214
10th Percentile £27.19 £25.24 £26.59
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.20
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.34 £84.05 £73.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +2.46%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -14 836 £500 -3.80% 354
UK excluding London -1 472 £482 -3.65% 198
London +4 361 £525 -0.47% 179
Work from Home +12 344 £475 -10.38% 179
North of England -22 171 £475 - 59
Midlands +28 139 £469 -6.20% 27
West Midlands +26 132 £469 -11.68% 19
South East -36 75 £550 - 39
North East +9 71 £413 -11.29% 11
North West -38 71 £575 +18.56% 41
South West -33 51 £550 -8.33% 44
Yorkshire -47 42 £550 +12.82% 7
East of England -10 33 £475 - 15
Scotland -15 19 £400 - 15
East Midlands -9 7 £470 +74.07% 8
Northern Ireland +4 1 - - 2

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 99 (10.06%) Confluence
2 60 (6.10%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (5.69%) Apache Spark
4 46 (4.67%) Apache
5 38 (3.86%) SAS
6 30 (3.05%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.61%) Camunda
7 6 (0.61%) CICS
7 6 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.41%) CMS
8 4 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.30%) nginx
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
10 2 (0.20%) WordPress
11 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Trello
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
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
1 663 (67.38%) AWS
2 341 (34.65%) GitHub
3 337 (34.25%) Azure
4 250 (25.41%) GitHub Actions
5 167 (16.97%) GCP
6 150 (15.24%) Azure DevOps
7 141 (14.33%) Amazon S3
8 134 (13.62%) Serverless
9 129 (13.11%) Amazon EKS
10 122 (12.40%) AWS Lambda
11 115 (11.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 96 (9.76%) Amazon EC2
13 84 (8.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 68 (6.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 54 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
16 44 (4.47%) Amazon EMR
17 41 (4.17%) OpenShift
18 39 (3.96%) Amazon SQS
19 37 (3.76%) Power Platform
20 35 (3.56%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.47%) Firewall
2 28 (2.85%) DNS
3 24 (2.44%) Network Security
4 22 (2.24%) BGP
4 22 (2.24%) WAN
5 21 (2.13%) OSPF
5 21 (2.13%) SD-WAN
6 20 (2.03%) Ethernet VPN
6 20 (2.03%) VXLAN
7 19 (1.93%) BIG-IP
7 19 (1.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 19 (1.93%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (1.32%) VPN
10 12 (1.22%) HTTP
11 11 (1.12%) WLAN
12 6 (0.61%) SSL
13 4 (0.41%) DHCP
13 4 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.41%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (8.74%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (7.72%) MongoDB
3 50 (5.08%) Relational Database
4 48 (4.88%) Amazon Athena
4 48 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 47 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
6 43 (4.37%) NoSQL
7 42 (4.27%) DynamoDB
8 39 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
9 35 (3.56%) Pentaho
10 34 (3.46%) Power BI
11 32 (3.25%) SQL Server
12 30 (3.05%) MySQL
13 27 (2.74%) Big Data
13 27 (2.74%) Data Lake
13 27 (2.74%) Oracle Database
14 25 (2.54%) Redis
15 23 (2.34%) RDBMS
16 14 (1.42%) Metadata
17 12 (1.22%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 419 (42.58%) Jenkins
2 228 (23.17%) Git
3 133 (13.52%) JIRA
4 81 (8.23%) Selenium
5 70 (7.11%) JUnit
6 52 (5.28%) Cucumber
7 47 (4.78%) SonarQube
8 45 (4.57%) Bitbucket
9 35 (3.56%) Artifactory
10 33 (3.35%) JMeter
11 32 (3.25%) Gradle
12 29 (2.95%) Gatling
12 29 (2.95%) Maven
12 29 (2.95%) Postman
13 26 (2.64%) Mockito
13 26 (2.64%) REST Assured
14 24 (2.44%) WebDriver
15 20 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
16 19 (1.93%) Snyk
17 11 (1.12%) MLflow
General
1 192 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 183 (18.60%) Public Sector
3 97 (9.86%) Finance
4 65 (6.61%) Banking
5 58 (5.89%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (2.03%) Military
8 18 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.42%) Law
10 13 (1.32%) Legal
11 9 (0.91%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.81%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.71%) Publishing
14 6 (0.61%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.51%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.51%) Police
16 4 (0.41%) Marketing
16 4 (0.41%) Retail
17 3 (0.30%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 211 (21.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 183 (18.60%) Senior
3 159 (16.16%) Developer
4 122 (12.40%) AWS Engineer
5 104 (10.57%) Data Engineer
6 75 (7.62%) AWS DevOps
7 69 (7.01%) Lead
8 68 (6.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 58 (5.89%) Software Engineer
10 52 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
10 52 (5.28%) Platform Engineer
11 49 (4.98%) Java Developer
12 43 (4.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 39 (3.96%) Test Engineer
14 33 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
15 32 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 30 (3.05%) Architect
16 30 (3.05%) Software Developer
16 30 (3.05%) Tester
17 29 (2.95%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (13.11%) Kafka
2 118 (11.99%) Spring
3 108 (10.98%) REST
4 103 (10.47%) Spring Boot
5 65 (6.61%) RESTful
6 60 (6.10%) React
7 57 (5.79%) Node.js
8 56 (5.69%) PySpark
9 52 (5.28%) Playwright
10 40 (4.07%) JSON
11 39 (3.96%) RabbitMQ
12 33 (3.35%) Elastic Stack
13 29 (2.95%) WireMock
14 28 (2.85%) HTML
14 28 (2.85%) OAuth
15 26 (2.64%) CSS
15 26 (2.64%) pytest
15 26 (2.64%) YAML
16 25 (2.54%) AWS CDK
17 24 (2.44%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 192 (19.51%) Cloud Native
2 69 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (5.39%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (2.95%) Data Centre
7 21 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (2.03%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
9 18 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 17 (1.73%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.22%) Mainframe
12 11 (1.12%) AI Agents
13 9 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (0.91%) PKI
13 9 (0.91%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 182 (18.50%) Linux
2 48 (4.88%) Unix
3 41 (4.17%) Windows
4 36 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.22%) AIX
5 12 (1.22%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.22%) zOS
6 8 (0.81%) CentOS
6 8 (0.81%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.41%) Debian
7 4 (0.41%) Rocky
8 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.20%) Android
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 811 (82.42%) CI/CD
2 579 (58.84%) DevOps
3 421 (42.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 391 (39.74%) Agile
5 326 (33.13%) Containerisation
6 300 (30.49%) Test Automation
7 188 (19.11%) Microservices
8 168 (17.07%) Observability
9 157 (15.96%) Scrum
9 157 (15.96%) Software Engineering
10 152 (15.45%) Platform Engineering
11 144 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 128 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
13 118 (11.99%) AI
14 103 (10.47%) DevSecOps
15 98 (9.96%) ETL
16 90 (9.15%) Data Pipeline
17 89 (9.04%) Migration
18 85 (8.64%) Data Modelling
18 85 (8.64%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 416 (42.28%) Python
2 232 (23.58%) SQL
3 228 (23.17%) Java
4 168 (17.07%) Bash
5 85 (8.64%) JavaScript
6 80 (8.13%) PowerShell
7 69 (7.01%) TypeScript
8 55 (5.59%) C#
9 34 (3.46%) Go
10 31 (3.15%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.34%) Bicep
11 23 (2.34%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.42%) C++
13 9 (0.91%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.81%) Groovy
14 8 (0.81%) Scala
15 6 (0.61%) C
15 6 (0.61%) JCL
15 6 (0.61%) R
16 5 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 467 (47.46%) Security Cleared
2 399 (40.55%) SC Cleared
3 57 (5.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 52 (5.28%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.78%) Degree
6 41 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 34 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (1.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 19 (1.93%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 13 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.12%) CISSP
11 11 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.91%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.61%) CSSLP
15 4 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.41%) GIAC
16 3 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
16 3 (0.30%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (10.57%) QA
2 50 (5.08%) Accessibility
3 46 (4.67%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.42%) WCAG
5 10 (1.02%) SLA
6 9 (0.91%) GDPR
7 8 (0.81%) NIST
7 8 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.51%) FATCA
8 5 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.30%) NCSC
11 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.10%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.10%) GRC
12 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
12 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 411 (41.77%) Docker
2 22 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.32%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.71%) HDFS
7 5 (0.51%) Squid
8 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.20%) iptables
9 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.10%) vSphere
10 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 474 (48.17%) Terraform
2 437 (44.41%) Kubernetes
3 226 (22.97%) Ansible
4 177 (17.99%) Grafana
5 153 (15.55%) Prometheus
6 49 (4.98%) Argo
7 37 (3.76%) Puppet
8 23 (2.34%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.52%) Istio
10 13 (1.32%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (1.02%) Packer
11 10 (1.02%) Podman
12 8 (0.81%) Kibana
13 6 (0.61%) Cilium
14 5 (0.51%) linkerd
14 5 (0.51%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.51%) Salt
14 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.41%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 113 (11.48%) Oracle
2 66 (6.71%) Microsoft
3 61 (6.20%) Google
4 55 (5.59%) Informatica
4 55 (5.59%) Splunk
4 55 (5.59%) Talend
5 34 (3.46%) Dynatrace
6 33 (3.35%) Databricks
7 30 (3.05%) VMware
8 29 (2.95%) Denodo
9 21 (2.13%) Palo Alto
9 21 (2.13%) ServiceNow
10 20 (2.03%) F5
11 18 (1.83%) Arista
11 18 (1.83%) Aruba
12 17 (1.73%) IBM
12 17 (1.73%) Red Hat
12 17 (1.73%) Trend Micro
13 9 (0.91%) Tenable
14 8 (0.81%) Salesforce