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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 145 193
Rank change year-on-year -6 +48 +44
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,012 659 489
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.89% 2.00% 1.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.03% 13.44% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 692 431 332
10th Percentile £374 £361 £351
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.91% -2.68%
75th Percentile £588 £601 £645
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -3.11% -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 6,312 4,903 4,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.78% 14.91% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,046 3,312 3,269
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 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 112 214
10th Percentile £31.50 £26.23 £28.98
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.34 £85.10 £73.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - +4.00%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -1 859 £500 -3.85% 327
UK excluding London +13 482 £484 -3.11% 173
London +1 373 £525 -0.47% 169
Work from Home +15 354 £475 -10.38% 144
North of England -28 177 £475 -0.52% 53
Midlands +34 140 £469 -9.55% 19
West Midlands +35 134 £469 -12.42% 14
North East +8 76 £413 -11.29% 12
South East -31 74 £550 - 37
North West -33 71 £575 +18.56% 32
South West -26 55 £550 -8.33% 38
Yorkshire -40 43 £550 +12.82% 9
East of England -11 33 £475 - 16
Scotland -14 19 £400 - 11
East Midlands -11 6 £470 +74.07% 5
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 (9.68%) Confluence
2 63 (6.23%) Apache Airflow
3 59 (5.83%) Apache Spark
4 49 (4.84%) Apache
5 38 (3.75%) SAS
6 32 (3.16%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.59%) Camunda
7 6 (0.59%) CICS
7 6 (0.59%) 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 (0.099%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Trello
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.099%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.099%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.099%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 683 (67.49%) AWS
2 354 (34.98%) GitHub
3 352 (34.78%) Azure
4 259 (25.59%) GitHub Actions
5 174 (17.19%) GCP
6 157 (15.51%) Azure DevOps
7 141 (13.93%) Amazon S3
8 136 (13.44%) Amazon EKS
8 136 (13.44%) Serverless
9 123 (12.15%) AWS Lambda
10 118 (11.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 98 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
12 85 (8.40%) AWS CloudFormation
13 68 (6.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 56 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
15 43 (4.25%) Amazon EMR
16 41 (4.05%) OpenShift
17 40 (3.95%) Amazon SQS
18 37 (3.66%) Power Platform
19 35 (3.46%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.74%) Firewall
2 34 (3.36%) DNS
3 26 (2.57%) Network Security
4 24 (2.37%) BGP
5 23 (2.27%) WAN
6 22 (2.17%) Ethernet VPN
6 22 (2.17%) SD-WAN
6 22 (2.17%) VXLAN
7 21 (2.08%) OSPF
7 21 (2.08%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.88%) BIG-IP
8 19 (1.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 15 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (1.38%) VPN
11 12 (1.19%) HTTP
12 11 (1.09%) WLAN
13 7 (0.69%) SSL
14 5 (0.49%) DHCP
15 4 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
15 4 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (7.61%) MongoDB
3 51 (5.04%) Relational Database
4 48 (4.74%) Amazon Athena
4 48 (4.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 47 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 42 (4.15%) DynamoDB
8 41 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
9 36 (3.56%) Pentaho
10 34 (3.36%) Power BI
11 32 (3.16%) SQL Server
12 30 (2.96%) Data Lake
12 30 (2.96%) MySQL
13 27 (2.67%) Big Data
13 27 (2.67%) Oracle Database
14 25 (2.47%) Redis
15 23 (2.27%) RDBMS
16 13 (1.28%) Metadata
17 12 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 426 (42.09%) Jenkins
2 232 (22.92%) Git
3 133 (13.14%) JIRA
4 84 (8.30%) Selenium
5 71 (7.02%) JUnit
6 54 (5.34%) Cucumber
7 49 (4.84%) SonarQube
8 46 (4.55%) Bitbucket
9 35 (3.46%) Artifactory
10 32 (3.16%) JMeter
11 31 (3.06%) Gradle
12 30 (2.96%) Postman
13 29 (2.87%) Gatling
13 29 (2.87%) Maven
14 26 (2.57%) Mockito
15 25 (2.47%) REST Assured
16 24 (2.37%) WebDriver
17 21 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
18 20 (1.98%) Snyk
19 12 (1.19%) Cypress.io
General
1 202 (19.96%) Social Skills
2 189 (18.68%) Public Sector
3 102 (10.08%) Finance
4 67 (6.62%) Banking
5 60 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (1.98%) Military
8 19 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.38%) Law
10 13 (1.28%) Legal
11 9 (0.89%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.79%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.69%) Publishing
14 6 (0.59%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.49%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.49%) Police
16 4 (0.40%) Marketing
16 4 (0.40%) Retail
17 3 (0.30%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 220 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 186 (18.38%) Senior
3 162 (16.01%) Developer
4 126 (12.45%) AWS Engineer
5 105 (10.38%) Data Engineer
6 77 (7.61%) AWS DevOps
7 72 (7.11%) Lead
8 70 (6.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 58 (5.73%) Software Engineer
10 53 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (5.14%) Platform Engineer
12 49 (4.84%) Java Developer
13 43 (4.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 40 (3.95%) Test Engineer
15 34 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
16 33 (3.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 32 (3.16%) Architect
17 32 (3.16%) Software Developer
18 31 (3.06%) Tester
19 29 (2.87%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (13.34%) Kafka
2 119 (11.76%) Spring
3 111 (10.97%) REST
4 103 (10.18%) Spring Boot
5 65 (6.42%) RESTful
6 63 (6.23%) React
7 57 (5.63%) Node.js
8 55 (5.43%) PySpark
9 54 (5.34%) Playwright
10 42 (4.15%) JSON
11 41 (4.05%) RabbitMQ
12 33 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
13 31 (3.06%) OAuth
14 29 (2.87%) pytest
14 29 (2.87%) WireMock
15 28 (2.77%) HTML
15 28 (2.77%) YAML
16 26 (2.57%) CSS
17 25 (2.47%) AWS CDK
17 25 (2.47%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 199 (19.66%) Cloud Native
2 70 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (5.53%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.46%) Onboarding
5 30 (2.96%) Data Centre
5 30 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (2.08%) Data Structures
6 21 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
7 18 (1.78%) Public Cloud
8 17 (1.68%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.28%) Mainframe
10 12 (1.19%) AI Agents
11 9 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (0.89%) PKI
11 9 (0.89%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (0.59%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 185 (18.28%) Linux
2 51 (5.04%) Unix
3 42 (4.15%) Windows
4 36 (3.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.28%) zOS
6 12 (1.19%) AIX
6 12 (1.19%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.89%) CentOS
8 8 (0.79%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.40%) Debian
9 4 (0.40%) Rocky
9 4 (0.40%) VMS
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 835 (82.51%) CI/CD
2 598 (59.09%) DevOps
3 436 (43.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 400 (39.53%) Agile
5 338 (33.40%) Containerisation
6 313 (30.93%) Test Automation
7 194 (19.17%) Microservices
8 176 (17.39%) Observability
9 161 (15.91%) Scrum
9 161 (15.91%) Software Engineering
10 154 (15.22%) Platform Engineering
11 150 (14.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 132 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
13 122 (12.06%) AI
14 105 (10.38%) DevSecOps
15 100 (9.88%) ETL
16 94 (9.29%) Migration
17 92 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
18 89 (8.79%) Event-Driven
18 89 (8.79%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 440 (43.48%) Python
2 236 (23.32%) SQL
3 233 (23.02%) Java
4 177 (17.49%) Bash
5 90 (8.89%) JavaScript
6 85 (8.40%) PowerShell
7 71 (7.02%) TypeScript
8 58 (5.73%) C#
9 35 (3.46%) Go
10 32 (3.16%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.27%) PL/SQL
12 22 (2.17%) Bicep
13 14 (1.38%) C++
14 9 (0.89%) Groovy
14 9 (0.89%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.89%) Scala
15 6 (0.59%) C
15 6 (0.59%) JCL
15 6 (0.59%) R
16 5 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 482 (47.63%) Security Cleared
2 406 (40.12%) SC Cleared
3 59 (5.83%) BPSS Clearance
4 54 (5.34%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.64%) Degree
6 44 (4.35%) AWS Certification
7 33 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (2.08%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (1.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 14 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (1.19%) CISSP
13 11 (1.09%) SAFe Agilist
14 9 (0.89%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.59%) 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
1 108 (10.67%) QA
2 50 (4.94%) Accessibility
3 46 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 15 (1.48%) WCAG
5 12 (1.19%) GDPR
6 10 (0.99%) SLA
7 9 (0.89%) NIST
7 9 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.49%) FATCA
9 5 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.30%) NCSC
12 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.099%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.099%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.099%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.099%) GRC
13 1 (0.099%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.099%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 424 (41.90%) Docker
2 23 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.28%) Oracle RAC
5 10 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.69%) HDFS
7 5 (0.49%) Squid
8 4 (0.40%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.20%) iptables
10 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.099%) vSphere
11 1 (0.099%) zsh
Systems Management
1 492 (48.62%) Terraform
2 450 (44.47%) Kubernetes
3 233 (23.02%) Ansible
4 180 (17.79%) Grafana
5 156 (15.42%) Prometheus
6 50 (4.94%) Argo
7 39 (3.85%) Puppet
8 26 (2.57%) Progress Chef
9 17 (1.68%) Istio
10 13 (1.28%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.28%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (1.09%) Packer
12 10 (0.99%) Podman
13 8 (0.79%) Kibana
13 8 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.59%) Cilium
14 6 (0.59%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.49%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.49%) Red Hat Satellite
15 5 (0.49%) Salt
Vendors
1 114 (11.26%) Oracle
2 71 (7.02%) Microsoft
3 63 (6.23%) Google
4 59 (5.83%) Splunk
5 56 (5.53%) Talend
6 55 (5.43%) Informatica
7 35 (3.46%) Databricks
7 35 (3.46%) Dynatrace
8 32 (3.16%) VMware
9 29 (2.87%) Denodo
10 23 (2.27%) ServiceNow
11 21 (2.08%) Palo Alto
12 20 (1.98%) F5
13 19 (1.88%) Red Hat
14 18 (1.78%) Arista
14 18 (1.78%) Aruba
14 18 (1.78%) IBM
14 18 (1.78%) Trend Micro
15 9 (0.89%) Tenable
16 8 (0.79%) Veracode