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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 145 194
Rank change year-on-year -5 +49 +41
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,001 660 490
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.87% 2.01% 1.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.00% 13.45% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 429 334
10th Percentile £369 £361 £354
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £645
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -2.71% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 9
10th Percentile £64.63 £60.50 £52.80
25th Percentile - £62.69 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.44
90th Percentile £77.25 £73.55 £75.50
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 6,257 4,907 4,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.71% 14.93% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,013 3,322 3,280
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 £598 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 110 213
10th Percentile £31.50 £25.64 £28.65
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.25
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 £83.90 £73.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - +0.97%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -2 849 £500 -3.85% 320
UK excluding London +6 479 £486 -2.71% 173
London +6 366 £525 -0.94% 164
Work from Home +16 350 £475 -9.52% 143
North of England -26 177 £475 -0.52% 52
Midlands +27 139 £469 -9.55% 21
West Midlands +23 133 £469 -12.42% 15
North East +9 76 £413 -11.29% 12
South East -37 74 £550 - 37
North West -28 71 £575 +18.56% 31
South West -19 53 £550 -8.33% 37
Yorkshire -40 43 £550 +12.82% 9
East of England -16 33 £475 - 14
Scotland -15 19 £400 - 12
East Midlands -14 6 £470 +74.07% 6
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 98 (9.79%) Confluence
2 62 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (5.79%) Apache Spark
4 48 (4.80%) Apache
5 38 (3.80%) SAS
6 32 (3.20%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.60%) Camunda
7 6 (0.60%) CICS
7 6 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.40%) CMS
8 4 (0.40%) 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 (0.100%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Trello
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.100%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.100%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.100%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.100%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 675 (67.43%) AWS
2 347 (34.67%) GitHub
3 345 (34.47%) Azure
4 255 (25.47%) GitHub Actions
5 170 (16.98%) GCP
6 154 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
7 141 (14.09%) Amazon S3
8 135 (13.49%) Serverless
9 132 (13.19%) Amazon EKS
10 123 (12.29%) AWS Lambda
11 118 (11.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 96 (9.59%) Amazon EC2
13 84 (8.39%) AWS CloudFormation
14 68 (6.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 56 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
16 43 (4.30%) Amazon EMR
17 41 (4.10%) OpenShift
18 40 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
19 37 (3.70%) Power Platform
20 35 (3.50%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.70%) Firewall
2 31 (3.10%) DNS
3 26 (2.60%) Network Security
4 23 (2.30%) WAN
5 22 (2.20%) BGP
5 22 (2.20%) SD-WAN
6 21 (2.10%) OSPF
7 20 (2.00%) Ethernet VPN
7 20 (2.00%) TCP/IP
7 20 (2.00%) VXLAN
8 19 (1.90%) BIG-IP
8 19 (1.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 15 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (1.40%) VPN
11 12 (1.20%) HTTP
12 11 (1.10%) WLAN
13 7 (0.70%) SSL
14 4 (0.40%) DHCP
14 4 (0.40%) MQTT
14 4 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (8.69%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (7.59%) MongoDB
3 51 (5.09%) Relational Database
4 48 (4.80%) Amazon Athena
4 48 (4.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 46 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (4.40%) NoSQL
7 42 (4.20%) DynamoDB
8 41 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
9 36 (3.60%) Pentaho
10 34 (3.40%) Power BI
11 32 (3.20%) SQL Server
12 30 (3.00%) MySQL
13 29 (2.90%) Data Lake
14 27 (2.70%) Big Data
14 27 (2.70%) Oracle Database
15 25 (2.50%) Redis
16 23 (2.30%) RDBMS
17 13 (1.30%) Metadata
18 12 (1.20%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 423 (42.26%) Jenkins
2 227 (22.68%) Git
3 133 (13.29%) JIRA
4 82 (8.19%) Selenium
5 70 (6.99%) JUnit
6 53 (5.29%) Cucumber
7 49 (4.90%) SonarQube
8 46 (4.60%) Bitbucket
9 35 (3.50%) Artifactory
10 32 (3.20%) JMeter
11 31 (3.10%) Gradle
12 29 (2.90%) Maven
12 29 (2.90%) Postman
13 28 (2.80%) Gatling
14 26 (2.60%) Mockito
15 25 (2.50%) REST Assured
16 24 (2.40%) WebDriver
17 21 (2.10%) Sonatype Nexus
18 20 (2.00%) Snyk
19 11 (1.10%) MLflow
General
1 196 (19.58%) Social Skills
2 187 (18.68%) Public Sector
3 102 (10.19%) Finance
4 67 (6.69%) Banking
5 60 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (2.00%) Military
8 19 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.40%) Law
10 13 (1.30%) Legal
11 9 (0.90%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.80%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.70%) Publishing
14 6 (0.60%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.50%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.50%) Police
16 4 (0.40%) Marketing
16 4 (0.40%) Retail
17 3 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 217 (21.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 185 (18.48%) Senior
3 162 (16.18%) Developer
4 124 (12.39%) AWS Engineer
5 104 (10.39%) Data Engineer
6 76 (7.59%) AWS DevOps
7 72 (7.19%) Lead
8 69 (6.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 58 (5.79%) Software Engineer
10 52 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
10 52 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
11 49 (4.90%) Java Developer
12 43 (4.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 39 (3.90%) Test Engineer
14 33 (3.30%) Senior DevOps
15 32 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 32 (3.20%) Software Developer
16 30 (3.00%) Tester
17 29 (2.90%) Architect
17 29 (2.90%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (13.19%) Kafka
2 118 (11.79%) Spring
3 109 (10.89%) REST
4 103 (10.29%) Spring Boot
5 65 (6.49%) RESTful
6 60 (5.99%) React
7 57 (5.69%) Node.js
8 55 (5.49%) PySpark
9 52 (5.19%) Playwright
10 40 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
11 39 (3.90%) JSON
12 33 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
13 29 (2.90%) OAuth
13 29 (2.90%) pytest
13 29 (2.90%) WireMock
14 28 (2.80%) HTML
15 26 (2.60%) CSS
16 25 (2.50%) AWS CDK
16 25 (2.50%) Keycloak
16 25 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 194 (19.38%) Cloud Native
2 70 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (5.59%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.50%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 28 (2.80%) Data Centre
7 21 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (2.00%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
9 18 (1.80%) Public Cloud
10 17 (1.70%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.30%) Mainframe
12 11 (1.10%) AI Agents
13 9 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (0.90%) PKI
13 9 (0.90%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
16 6 (0.60%) NHS
16 6 (0.60%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 183 (18.28%) Linux
2 50 (5.00%) Unix
3 41 (4.10%) Windows
4 36 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.30%) zOS
6 12 (1.20%) AIX
6 12 (1.20%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.90%) CentOS
8 8 (0.80%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.40%) Debian
9 4 (0.40%) Rocky
10 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.20%) Android
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 825 (82.42%) CI/CD
2 591 (59.04%) DevOps
3 429 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 395 (39.46%) Agile
5 333 (33.27%) Containerisation
6 308 (30.77%) Test Automation
7 191 (19.08%) Microservices
8 171 (17.08%) Observability
9 160 (15.98%) Software Engineering
10 159 (15.88%) Scrum
11 153 (15.28%) Platform Engineering
12 147 (14.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 130 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
14 120 (11.99%) AI
15 105 (10.49%) DevSecOps
16 99 (9.89%) ETL
17 92 (9.19%) Data Pipeline
18 88 (8.79%) Migration
19 87 (8.69%) Event-Driven
19 87 (8.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 432 (43.16%) Python
2 235 (23.48%) SQL
3 231 (23.08%) Java
4 175 (17.48%) Bash
5 86 (8.59%) JavaScript
6 82 (8.19%) PowerShell
7 70 (6.99%) TypeScript
8 57 (5.69%) C#
9 35 (3.50%) Go
10 32 (3.20%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.30%) PL/SQL
12 22 (2.20%) Bicep
13 14 (1.40%) C++
14 9 (0.90%) Groovy
14 9 (0.90%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.80%) Scala
16 6 (0.60%) C
16 6 (0.60%) JCL
16 6 (0.60%) R
17 5 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 477 (47.65%) Security Cleared
2 405 (40.46%) SC Cleared
3 59 (5.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 53 (5.29%) DV Cleared
5 46 (4.60%) Degree
6 43 (4.30%) AWS Certification
7 33 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (2.10%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (1.20%) CISSP
13 11 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
14 9 (0.90%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.60%) CSSLP
17 4 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 4 (0.40%) GCFA
17 4 (0.40%) GCIH
17 4 (0.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (10.59%) QA
2 49 (4.90%) Accessibility
3 46 (4.60%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.40%) WCAG
5 12 (1.20%) GDPR
6 10 (1.00%) SLA
7 9 (0.90%) NIST
7 9 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.50%) FATCA
9 5 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.30%) NCSC
12 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.100%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.100%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.100%) GRC
13 1 (0.100%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.100%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.100%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 421 (42.06%) Docker
2 23 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.70%) HDFS
7 5 (0.50%) 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 (0.100%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.100%) vSphere
10 1 (0.100%) zsh
Systems Management
1 485 (48.45%) Terraform
2 443 (44.26%) Kubernetes
3 230 (22.98%) Ansible
4 180 (17.98%) Grafana
5 156 (15.58%) Prometheus
6 50 (5.00%) Argo
7 38 (3.80%) Puppet
8 26 (2.60%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.50%) Istio
10 13 (1.30%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.30%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (1.10%) Packer
12 10 (1.00%) Podman
13 8 (0.80%) Kibana
13 8 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.60%) Cilium
15 5 (0.50%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.50%) linkerd
15 5 (0.50%) Red Hat Satellite
15 5 (0.50%) Salt
Vendors
1 113 (11.29%) Oracle
2 68 (6.79%) Microsoft
3 62 (6.19%) Google
4 57 (5.69%) Splunk
5 55 (5.49%) Talend
6 54 (5.39%) Informatica
7 35 (3.50%) Dynatrace
8 34 (3.40%) Databricks
9 30 (3.00%) VMware
10 29 (2.90%) Denodo
11 21 (2.10%) Palo Alto
11 21 (2.10%) ServiceNow
12 20 (2.00%) F5
13 18 (1.80%) Arista
13 18 (1.80%) Aruba
13 18 (1.80%) IBM
13 18 (1.80%) Trend Micro
14 17 (1.70%) Red Hat
15 9 (0.90%) Tenable
16 8 (0.80%) Salesforce