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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 140 217
Rank change year-on-year +8 +77 +33
Contract jobs citing GitLab 992 599 479
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.96% 2.01% 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.51% 13.68% 9.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 369 339
10th Percentile £371 £358 £400
25th Percentile £415 £440 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £650
90th Percentile £686 £670 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £533
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.19% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 2 9
10th Percentile - £69.05 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.37 £56.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.01% +3.35% +86.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £80.35 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.00 £81.91 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £74.44
% change year-on-year -15.01% +2.74% +24.07%

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 6,010 4,378 5,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.87% 14.66% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,888 2,927 3,523
10th Percentile £350 £331 £355
25th Percentile £410 £409 £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 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 84 248
10th Percentile £26.25 £20.85 £27.40
25th Percentile £56.25 £46.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.07 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -7.69% +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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +4 835 £500 -2.44% 123
UK excluding London +16 484 £475 -5.00% 105
London +4 354 £525 - 38
Work from Home +17 330 £475 -8.65% 53
North of England -14 193 £459 -3.87% 29
Midlands +15 132 £459 -8.20% 12
West Midlands +16 122 £461 -12.24% 9
North West -18 89 £500 +6.50% 15
South East -36 64 £550 +9.89% 24
North East +3 63 £400 -13.98% 9
Yorkshire -37 56 £525 +2.44% 5
South West -5 53 £500 -13.04% 20
East of England -10 38 £483 +7.22% 13
Scotland -10 20 £412 +2.43% 3
East Midlands -14 10 £436 +61.48% 3
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 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 (10.48%) Confluence
2 51 (5.14%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (4.94%) Apache Spark
4 43 (4.33%) SAS
5 41 (4.13%) Apache
6 28 (2.82%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.81%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.71%) CICS
9 6 (0.60%) nginx
9 6 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.50%) Camunda
11 3 (0.30%) CMS
11 3 (0.30%) 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
13 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.10%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
2 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
1 636 (64.11%) AWS
2 327 (32.96%) GitHub
3 324 (32.66%) Azure
4 232 (23.39%) GitHub Actions
5 154 (15.52%) GCP
6 152 (15.32%) Serverless
7 150 (15.12%) Amazon S3
8 133 (13.41%) AWS Lambda
9 124 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
10 122 (12.30%) Amazon EKS
11 114 (11.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 104 (10.48%) Amazon EC2
13 79 (7.96%) AWS CloudFormation
14 72 (7.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 53 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
16 47 (4.74%) OpenShift
17 39 (3.93%) Amazon EMR
18 38 (3.83%) Power Platform
19 35 (3.53%) Amazon SQS
20 32 (3.23%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (4.33%) Firewall
2 25 (2.52%) Network Security
3 24 (2.42%) DNS
4 21 (2.12%) BGP
4 21 (2.12%) WAN
5 20 (2.02%) OSPF
6 19 (1.92%) BIG-IP
6 19 (1.92%) Ethernet VPN
6 19 (1.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 19 (1.92%) SD-WAN
6 19 (1.92%) VXLAN
7 18 (1.81%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (1.21%) VPN
10 11 (1.11%) WLAN
11 9 (0.91%) HTTP
12 7 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.40%) MQTT
13 4 (0.40%) SAN
13 4 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (6.45%) MongoDB
3 51 (5.14%) Amazon Athena
3 51 (5.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 47 (4.74%) Relational Database
5 45 (4.54%) NoSQL
6 44 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
7 43 (4.33%) DynamoDB
8 42 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
9 35 (3.53%) Power BI
10 30 (3.02%) Pentaho
11 29 (2.92%) MySQL
12 27 (2.72%) Big Data
12 27 (2.72%) Data Lake
13 26 (2.62%) SQL Server
14 23 (2.32%) Oracle Database
15 22 (2.22%) Redis
16 16 (1.61%) DocumentDB
17 14 (1.41%) Metadata
18 13 (1.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 435 (43.85%) Jenkins
2 218 (21.98%) Git
3 150 (15.12%) JIRA
4 90 (9.07%) Selenium
5 73 (7.36%) JUnit
6 53 (5.34%) Cucumber
7 44 (4.44%) Postman
8 40 (4.03%) JMeter
8 40 (4.03%) REST Assured
9 39 (3.93%) SonarQube
10 36 (3.63%) Artifactory
11 35 (3.53%) Bitbucket
12 33 (3.33%) Gradle
13 31 (3.13%) Mockito
14 28 (2.82%) WebDriver
15 27 (2.72%) Gatling
16 20 (2.02%) Maven
16 20 (2.02%) Snyk
17 16 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
18 15 (1.51%) CircleCI
General
1 193 (19.46%) Public Sector
1 193 (19.46%) Social Skills
2 97 (9.78%) Finance
3 68 (6.85%) Banking
4 57 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (1.81%) Military
7 14 (1.41%) Law
8 11 (1.11%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.01%) Legal
10 9 (0.91%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.71%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.50%) Police
12 5 (0.50%) Publishing
12 5 (0.50%) Retail
13 4 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 220 (22.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 164 (16.53%) Senior
3 151 (15.22%) Developer
4 118 (11.90%) AWS Engineer
5 102 (10.28%) Data Engineer
6 81 (8.17%) AWS DevOps
7 73 (7.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 60 (6.05%) Lead
9 54 (5.44%) Java Developer
9 54 (5.44%) Software Engineer
10 47 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
10 47 (4.74%) Platform Engineer
10 47 (4.74%) Test Engineer
11 43 (4.33%) Architect
12 35 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 32 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
13 32 (3.23%) Tester
14 31 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 29 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
16 23 (2.32%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (12.90%) Kafka
2 124 (12.50%) Spring
3 110 (11.09%) REST
4 107 (10.79%) Spring Boot
5 84 (8.47%) RESTful
6 59 (5.95%) React
7 54 (5.44%) PySpark
8 52 (5.24%) Node.js
9 48 (4.84%) Playwright
10 40 (4.03%) Elastic Stack
11 33 (3.33%) YAML
12 31 (3.13%) JSON
13 27 (2.72%) AWS CDK
13 27 (2.72%) OAuth
13 27 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
13 27 (2.72%) WireMock
14 26 (2.62%) pytest
15 25 (2.52%) OpenAPI
15 25 (2.52%) OpenTelemetry
16 24 (2.42%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 185 (18.65%) Cloud Native
2 69 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (5.85%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.93%) Data Centre
5 34 (3.43%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.81%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (1.81%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.41%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.31%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.31%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.01%) Private Cloud
12 9 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.91%) NHS
13 8 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.81%) Mainframe
13 8 (0.81%) PKI
14 7 (0.71%) AI Agents
14 7 (0.71%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 189 (19.05%) Linux
2 52 (5.24%) Unix
3 45 (4.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (4.44%) Windows
5 15 (1.51%) CentOS
6 9 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.81%) zOS
8 4 (0.40%) AIX
8 4 (0.40%) Debian
8 4 (0.40%) Rocky
8 4 (0.40%) VMS
8 4 (0.40%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.20%) Android
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 805 (81.15%) CI/CD
2 580 (58.47%) DevOps
3 392 (39.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 378 (38.10%) Agile
5 319 (32.16%) Containerisation
6 311 (31.35%) Test Automation
7 198 (19.96%) Microservices
8 164 (16.53%) Observability
9 147 (14.82%) Scrum
10 143 (14.42%) Software Engineering
11 138 (13.91%) Platform Engineering
12 134 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
13 128 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
14 102 (10.28%) AI
15 96 (9.68%) ETL
16 94 (9.48%) DevSecOps
17 83 (8.37%) Data Modelling
17 83 (8.37%) Event-Driven
17 83 (8.37%) Migration
18 81 (8.17%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 393 (39.62%) Python
2 249 (25.10%) Java
3 232 (23.39%) SQL
4 137 (13.81%) Bash
5 82 (8.27%) JavaScript
6 69 (6.96%) TypeScript
7 52 (5.24%) PowerShell
8 48 (4.84%) C#
9 42 (4.23%) Shell Script
10 35 (3.53%) Go
11 22 (2.22%) PL/SQL
12 17 (1.71%) Bicep
13 13 (1.31%) C++
14 12 (1.21%) Scala
15 11 (1.11%) Kotlin
15 11 (1.11%) MATLAB
16 10 (1.01%) Ruby
17 6 (0.60%) C
17 6 (0.60%) JCL
18 5 (0.50%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 473 (47.68%) Security Cleared
2 407 (41.03%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 43 (4.33%) Degree
4 43 (4.33%) DV Cleared
5 38 (3.83%) AWS Certification
6 30 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 14 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 13 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (1.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.11%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.01%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.81%) CISSP
14 5 (0.50%) CSSLP
15 4 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.40%) GIAC
15 4 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.30%) CISM
16 3 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (9.78%) QA
2 45 (4.54%) Accessibility
3 44 (4.44%) Data Quality
4 19 (1.92%) SLA
5 13 (1.31%) NIST
6 11 (1.11%) WCAG
7 9 (0.91%) GDPR
7 9 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.50%) FATCA
11 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.20%) NCSC
12 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.10%) GRC
13 1 (0.10%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 402 (40.52%) Docker
2 30 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.60%) HDFS
6 5 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.50%) Squid
7 4 (0.40%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.20%) iptables
9 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.20%) vSphere
10 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 456 (45.97%) Terraform
2 427 (43.04%) Kubernetes
3 200 (20.16%) Ansible
4 187 (18.85%) Grafana
5 164 (16.53%) Prometheus
6 48 (4.84%) Argo
7 30 (3.02%) Puppet
8 16 (1.61%) Podman
9 15 (1.51%) Istio
10 14 (1.41%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (1.31%) Progress Chef
12 11 (1.11%) Check_MK
13 9 (0.91%) Packer
14 8 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.60%) Cilium
15 6 (0.60%) Kibana
15 6 (0.60%) Salt
16 5 (0.50%) Data Guard
16 5 (0.50%) linkerd
16 5 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 103 (10.38%) Oracle
2 61 (6.15%) Microsoft
3 56 (5.65%) Talend
4 54 (5.44%) Splunk
5 52 (5.24%) Informatica
6 44 (4.44%) Google
7 34 (3.43%) Red Hat
7 34 (3.43%) VMware
8 30 (3.02%) Denodo
9 29 (2.92%) Databricks
10 26 (2.62%) ServiceNow
11 24 (2.42%) Dynatrace
12 22 (2.22%) F5
13 20 (2.02%) Palo Alto
13 20 (2.02%) Salesforce
14 19 (1.92%) Arista
15 18 (1.81%) Aruba
16 16 (1.61%) Trend Micro
17 14 (1.41%) Veracode
18 12 (1.21%) IBM