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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 138 212
Rank change year-on-year -9 +74 +37
Contract jobs citing GitLab 977 638 478
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.86% 1.96% 1.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.74% 13.49% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 404 334
10th Percentile £365 £357 £381
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £650
90th Percentile £688 £659 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -4.60% -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 6,206 4,728 5,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.79% 14.55% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,990 3,170 3,533
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 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 104 245
10th Percentile £26.05 £22.94 £29.30
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.88 £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 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.53 £73.90
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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +4 823 £500 -0.10% 159
UK excluding London +7 473 £477 -4.60% 126
London +2 348 £525 - 59
Work from Home +11 342 £475 -9.52% 83
North of England -19 189 £453 -3.62% 42
Midlands +21 132 £469 -6.20% 19
West Midlands +23 125 £466 -9.12% 13
North West -26 86 £525 +8.25% 25
South East -34 69 £550 +4.71% 26
North East +6 68 £413 -11.29% 12
Yorkshire -43 50 £550 +15.79% 5
South West -12 49 £538 -10.42% 21
East of England -11 32 £483 +7.22% 9
Scotland -15 18 £398 -1.12% 9
East Midlands -11 7 £470 +74.07% 6
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 1

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 (11.05%) Confluence
2 57 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (5.22%) Apache Spark
4 42 (4.30%) Apache
5 40 (4.09%) SAS
6 29 (2.97%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.72%) CICS
8 6 (0.61%) Camunda
8 6 (0.61%) nginx
8 6 (0.61%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.41%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
11 2 (0.20%) WordPress
12 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
1 648 (66.33%) AWS
2 333 (34.08%) GitHub
3 312 (31.93%) Azure
4 239 (24.46%) GitHub Actions
5 157 (16.07%) GCP
6 147 (15.05%) Amazon S3
6 147 (15.05%) Serverless
7 132 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
8 131 (13.41%) Azure DevOps
9 118 (12.08%) Amazon EKS
10 109 (11.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 103 (10.54%) Amazon EC2
12 81 (8.29%) AWS CloudFormation
13 68 (6.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 50 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
15 42 (4.30%) Amazon EMR
15 42 (4.30%) OpenShift
16 36 (3.68%) Amazon SQS
17 34 (3.48%) OCI
18 33 (3.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.09%) Firewall
2 23 (2.35%) Network Security
3 21 (2.15%) BGP
3 21 (2.15%) WAN
4 20 (2.05%) DNS
4 20 (2.05%) OSPF
5 19 (1.94%) BIG-IP
5 19 (1.94%) Ethernet VPN
5 19 (1.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 19 (1.94%) SD-WAN
5 19 (1.94%) VXLAN
6 16 (1.64%) TCP/IP
7 15 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (1.43%) VPN
9 11 (1.13%) WLAN
10 9 (0.92%) HTTP
11 6 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.41%) MQTT
12 4 (0.41%) SSL
13 3 (0.31%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (6.45%) MongoDB
3 54 (5.53%) Relational Database
4 50 (5.12%) Amazon Redshift
5 49 (5.02%) Amazon Athena
6 45 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
7 40 (4.09%) Amazon RDS
8 39 (3.99%) DynamoDB
9 36 (3.68%) NoSQL
10 30 (3.07%) Pentaho
10 30 (3.07%) Power BI
10 30 (3.07%) SQL Server
11 29 (2.97%) Oracle Database
12 27 (2.76%) Big Data
13 24 (2.46%) Data Lake
14 23 (2.35%) MySQL
15 20 (2.05%) RDBMS
16 17 (1.74%) Redis
17 14 (1.43%) Metadata
18 13 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 421 (43.09%) Jenkins
2 217 (22.21%) Git
3 149 (15.25%) JIRA
4 88 (9.01%) Selenium
5 70 (7.16%) JUnit
6 50 (5.12%) Cucumber
7 47 (4.81%) SonarQube
8 39 (3.99%) Postman
9 38 (3.89%) Bitbucket
9 38 (3.89%) REST Assured
10 35 (3.58%) Artifactory
10 35 (3.58%) JMeter
11 32 (3.28%) Gradle
12 31 (3.17%) Mockito
13 28 (2.87%) Gatling
13 28 (2.87%) WebDriver
14 26 (2.66%) Maven
15 18 (1.84%) Snyk
16 14 (1.43%) Serenity BDD
16 14 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 194 (19.86%) Public Sector
2 186 (19.04%) Social Skills
3 94 (9.62%) Finance
4 65 (6.65%) Banking
5 58 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (1.94%) Military
8 14 (1.43%) Law
9 13 (1.33%) Legal
10 10 (1.02%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.72%) 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
1 220 (22.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 172 (17.60%) Senior
3 150 (15.35%) Developer
4 123 (12.59%) AWS Engineer
5 100 (10.24%) Data Engineer
6 83 (8.50%) AWS DevOps
7 75 (7.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 64 (6.55%) Lead
9 51 (5.22%) Platform Engineer
10 50 (5.12%) Java Developer
11 49 (5.02%) Software Engineer
12 47 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
13 44 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 44 (4.50%) Test Engineer
14 35 (3.58%) Architect
15 32 (3.28%) Tester
16 31 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
17 30 (3.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 26 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
18 26 (2.66%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (12.79%) Kafka
2 110 (11.26%) Spring
3 105 (10.75%) REST
4 100 (10.24%) Spring Boot
5 78 (7.98%) RESTful
6 60 (6.14%) React
7 54 (5.53%) PySpark
8 49 (5.02%) Node.js
9 48 (4.91%) Playwright
10 38 (3.89%) YAML
11 35 (3.58%) JSON
12 33 (3.38%) Elastic Stack
13 32 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
14 27 (2.76%) WireMock
15 26 (2.66%) AWS CDK
16 25 (2.56%) pytest
17 24 (2.46%) HTML
18 23 (2.35%) Keycloak
18 23 (2.35%) OAuth
18 23 (2.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 181 (18.53%) Cloud Native
2 67 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (5.73%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.38%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.07%) Data Centre
6 25 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (2.35%) Public Cloud
8 19 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (1.64%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.54%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.13%) Mainframe
13 10 (1.02%) Private Cloud
14 9 (0.92%) AI Agents
14 9 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (0.92%) NHS
15 8 (0.82%) PKI
16 7 (0.72%) DataPower
17 6 (0.61%) Online Banking
17 6 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 187 (19.14%) Linux
2 47 (4.81%) Unix
3 41 (4.20%) Windows
4 35 (3.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.23%) zOS
6 11 (1.13%) AIX
7 9 (0.92%) CentOS
8 8 (0.82%) 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
1 806 (82.50%) CI/CD
2 576 (58.96%) DevOps
3 410 (41.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 380 (38.89%) Agile
5 324 (33.16%) Containerisation
6 306 (31.32%) Test Automation
7 188 (19.24%) Microservices
8 162 (16.58%) Observability
9 149 (15.25%) Scrum
10 141 (14.43%) Platform Engineering
11 139 (14.23%) Software Engineering
12 135 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
13 129 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
14 105 (10.75%) AI
15 96 (9.83%) DevSecOps
16 91 (9.31%) ETL
17 90 (9.21%) Migration
18 84 (8.60%) Data Modelling
19 82 (8.39%) Event-Driven
20 81 (8.29%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 406 (41.56%) Python
2 226 (23.13%) Java
3 220 (22.52%) SQL
4 151 (15.46%) Bash
5 80 (8.19%) JavaScript
6 66 (6.76%) TypeScript
7 63 (6.45%) PowerShell
8 49 (5.02%) C#
9 36 (3.68%) Go
10 32 (3.28%) Shell Script
11 22 (2.25%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.05%) Bicep
13 13 (1.33%) C++
14 8 (0.82%) 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 (47.70%) Security Cleared
2 398 (40.74%) SC Cleared
3 64 (6.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 47 (4.81%) DV Cleared
5 41 (4.20%) AWS Certification
5 41 (4.20%) Degree
6 30 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.84%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 16 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.13%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.02%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.72%) CISSP
14 6 (0.61%) CSSLP
15 5 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.41%) GIAC
17 3 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
18 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
18 2 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (9.62%) QA
2 49 (5.02%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.61%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.13%) SLA
4 11 (1.13%) WCAG
5 6 (0.61%) NIST
6 5 (0.51%) FATCA
6 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.41%) GDPR
8 3 (0.31%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
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%) NCSC
10 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
10 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 403 (41.25%) Docker
2 23 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
6 7 (0.72%) 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
1 472 (48.31%) Terraform
2 422 (43.19%) Kubernetes
3 206 (21.08%) Ansible
4 184 (18.83%) Grafana
5 162 (16.58%) Prometheus
6 51 (5.22%) Argo
7 35 (3.58%) Puppet
8 18 (1.84%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.54%) Istio
10 12 (1.23%) Data Guard
10 12 (1.23%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (1.02%) Packer
11 10 (1.02%) Podman
12 8 (0.82%) 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
1 113 (11.57%) Oracle
2 56 (5.73%) Microsoft
3 55 (5.63%) Talend
4 54 (5.53%) Informatica
4 54 (5.53%) Splunk
5 53 (5.42%) Google
6 30 (3.07%) Denodo
7 27 (2.76%) Databricks
8 26 (2.66%) VMware
9 24 (2.46%) Dynatrace
10 23 (2.35%) Red Hat
11 22 (2.25%) F5
12 20 (2.05%) Palo Alto
12 20 (2.05%) Salesforce
12 20 (2.05%) ServiceNow
13 18 (1.84%) Arista
13 18 (1.84%) Aruba
14 17 (1.74%) IBM
14 17 (1.74%) Trend Micro
15 15 (1.54%) Veracode