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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 146 221
Rank change year-on-year +10 +75 -13
Contract jobs citing GitLab 907 578 472
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.92% 1.98% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.57% 14.11% 9.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 639 380 337
10th Percentile £381 £379 £381
25th Percentile £416 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £529 £555
Median % change year-on-year -5.44% -4.73% -3.48%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £650
90th Percentile £675 £716 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -3.35% -9.05% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 3 8
10th Percentile £40.83 £64.59 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £52.00
Median hourly rate £61.75 £82.96 £68.22
Median % change year-on-year -25.57% +21.61% +51.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £75.21
90th Percentile £81.55 £92.59 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.00 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -26.47% +11.45% +65.42%

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 5,825 4,097 5,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.35% 14.02% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,858 2,742 3,476
10th Percentile £347 £340 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £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 £716 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 66 195
10th Percentile £37.93 £26.77 £32.23
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.30 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.69 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £86.38 £81.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.40% -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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +4 755 £500 -5.66% 231
UK excluding London +21 447 £484 -3.35% 171
London -11 319 £525 -2.78% 83
Work from Home -1 263 £469 -10.67% 141
North of England -17 175 £488 -7.58% 44
Midlands +6 102 £466 +1.25% 25
North West -7 92 £500 - 22
West Midlands +4 88 £469 -11.68% 16
Yorkshire -27 60 £500 -13.04% 5
South West +8 57 £520 +13.79% 23
South East -33 57 £550 +4.71% 49
Scotland +5 34 £405 -7.43% 3
North East -6 33 £450 -14.29% 17
East of England -16 27 £478 +6.22% 26
East Midlands -18 14 £402 +38.38% 9
Northern Ireland +5 3 - - 4

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 66 (7.28%) Confluence
2 32 (3.53%) SAS
3 29 (3.20%) Apache Spark
4 26 (2.87%) Apache
5 25 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
6 19 (2.09%) nginx
7 15 (1.65%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.66%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.55%) CICS
10 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.33%) Camunda
11 3 (0.33%) CMS
11 3 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.11%) FileNet
Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (0.33%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 556 (61.30%) AWS
2 303 (33.41%) GitHub
3 296 (32.64%) Azure
4 208 (22.93%) GitHub Actions
5 155 (17.09%) Serverless
6 149 (16.43%) GCP
7 136 (14.99%) Amazon S3
8 131 (14.44%) AWS Lambda
9 122 (13.45%) Amazon EKS
10 105 (11.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 102 (11.25%) Azure DevOps
12 98 (10.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 97 (10.69%) Amazon EC2
14 75 (8.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 70 (7.72%) OpenShift
16 59 (6.50%) Amazon ECS
17 32 (3.53%) Azure AKS
18 31 (3.42%) Amazon SQS
19 27 (2.98%) AWS CodePipeline
19 27 (2.98%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 45 (4.96%) Firewall
2 27 (2.98%) DNS
3 20 (2.21%) VPN
4 17 (1.87%) Network Security
4 17 (1.87%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.32%) BGP
6 11 (1.21%) HTTP
6 11 (1.21%) OSPF
7 10 (1.10%) Ethernet VPN
7 10 (1.10%) Reverse Proxy
7 10 (1.10%) VXLAN
7 10 (1.10%) WAN
8 8 (0.88%) BIG-IP
8 8 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (0.88%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.55%) WLAN
11 4 (0.44%) Multicast
11 4 (0.44%) SAN
11 4 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (9.48%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (5.73%) MongoDB
3 48 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
4 46 (5.07%) NoSQL
5 44 (4.85%) DynamoDB
6 40 (4.41%) Amazon Athena
7 39 (4.30%) Relational Database
8 33 (3.64%) MySQL
9 32 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
10 31 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
11 30 (3.31%) Data Lake
12 29 (3.20%) Redis
13 25 (2.76%) Big Data
13 25 (2.76%) Power BI
14 24 (2.65%) SQL Server
15 21 (2.32%) Pentaho
16 12 (1.32%) Hadoop
16 12 (1.32%) Metadata
17 11 (1.21%) Delta Lake
17 11 (1.21%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 411 (45.31%) Jenkins
2 199 (21.94%) Git
3 128 (14.11%) JIRA
4 80 (8.82%) Selenium
5 68 (7.50%) JUnit
6 53 (5.84%) Cucumber
7 47 (5.18%) Postman
8 39 (4.30%) JMeter
9 38 (4.19%) Bitbucket
9 38 (4.19%) REST Assured
10 31 (3.42%) SonarQube
11 29 (3.20%) Gradle
12 26 (2.87%) CircleCI
13 24 (2.65%) Gatling
13 24 (2.65%) Mockito
14 22 (2.43%) Artifactory
15 19 (2.09%) Sonatype Nexus
15 19 (2.09%) WebDriver
16 15 (1.65%) Cypress.io
16 15 (1.65%) Snyk
General
1 192 (21.17%) Social Skills
2 158 (17.42%) Public Sector
3 113 (12.46%) Finance
4 68 (7.50%) Banking
5 61 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.32%) Military
8 11 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.21%) Retail
9 10 (1.10%) Aerospace
10 9 (0.99%) Investment Banking
11 8 (0.88%) Law
12 7 (0.77%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.77%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.44%) Legal
14 4 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.44%) Police
14 4 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 191 (21.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 163 (17.97%) Developer
3 132 (14.55%) Senior
4 91 (10.03%) AWS Engineer
5 75 (8.27%) Data Engineer
6 67 (7.39%) AWS DevOps
7 65 (7.17%) Lead
8 58 (6.39%) Software Engineer
9 57 (6.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 54 (5.95%) Java Developer
11 48 (5.29%) Architect
12 39 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
12 39 (4.30%) Test Engineer
13 34 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
14 27 (2.98%) Senior DevOps
14 27 (2.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 26 (2.87%) Full-Stack Developer
16 25 (2.76%) Tester
17 23 (2.54%) Java Engineer
18 21 (2.32%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (14.00%) Spring
2 126 (13.89%) Kafka
3 109 (12.02%) REST
3 109 (12.02%) Spring Boot
4 81 (8.93%) Node.js
5 78 (8.60%) RESTful
6 63 (6.95%) React
7 57 (6.28%) Elastic Stack
8 44 (4.85%) Playwright
9 38 (4.19%) PySpark
10 35 (3.86%) OpenTelemetry
11 32 (3.53%) RabbitMQ
12 31 (3.42%) LDAP
13 30 (3.31%) Jest
14 29 (3.20%) YAML
15 28 (3.09%) OAuth
16 27 (2.98%) HTML
16 27 (2.98%) OpenID
16 27 (2.98%) pytest
17 26 (2.87%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 142 (15.66%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.39%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.20%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.76%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.98%) Public Cloud
8 17 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (1.32%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.32%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.21%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.10%) Mainframe
12 9 (0.99%) NHS
12 9 (0.99%) PKI
13 8 (0.88%) DataPower
13 8 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
13 8 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 172 (18.96%) Linux
2 57 (6.28%) Windows
3 37 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 36 (3.97%) Unix
5 11 (1.21%) CentOS
6 9 (0.99%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.88%) Android
7 8 (0.88%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.77%) VMS
8 7 (0.77%) zOS
9 4 (0.44%) Debian
9 4 (0.44%) Rocky
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.11%) AIX
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 720 (79.38%) CI/CD
2 508 (56.01%) DevOps
3 334 (36.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 322 (35.50%) Agile
5 310 (34.18%) Containerisation
6 268 (29.55%) Test Automation
7 175 (19.29%) Microservices
8 167 (18.41%) Observability
9 140 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
10 133 (14.66%) Scrum
11 127 (14.00%) Software Engineering
12 123 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 108 (11.91%) Platform Engineering
14 89 (9.81%) Analytics
15 84 (9.26%) DevSecOps
16 83 (9.15%) ETL
17 82 (9.04%) TDD
18 73 (8.05%) AI
18 73 (8.05%) Migration
19 69 (7.61%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 368 (40.57%) Python
2 263 (29.00%) Java
3 193 (21.28%) SQL
4 143 (15.77%) Bash
5 95 (10.47%) JavaScript
6 79 (8.71%) TypeScript
7 70 (7.72%) PowerShell
8 47 (5.18%) Shell Script
9 41 (4.52%) Go
10 31 (3.42%) C#
11 19 (2.09%) Bicep
11 19 (2.09%) Kotlin
12 15 (1.65%) Ruby
13 14 (1.54%) C++
13 14 (1.54%) PL/SQL
14 11 (1.21%) Scala
15 9 (0.99%) C
15 9 (0.99%) MATLAB
16 8 (0.88%) Groovy
16 8 (0.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 386 (42.56%) Security Cleared
2 323 (35.61%) SC Cleared
3 44 (4.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 42 (4.63%) Degree
5 37 (4.08%) AWS Certification
6 34 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.98%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.21%) CISSP
11 10 (1.10%) CISM
12 7 (0.77%) SAFe Agilist
13 6 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.66%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.55%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.55%) OCA
15 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (11.25%) QA
2 48 (5.29%) Accessibility
3 31 (3.42%) Data Quality
4 18 (1.98%) GDPR
4 18 (1.98%) SLA
5 16 (1.76%) NIST
6 14 (1.54%) WCAG
7 13 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.88%) NCSC
9 8 (0.88%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.55%) FATCA
11 4 (0.44%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.22%) HL7
12 2 (0.22%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) GRC
13 1 (0.11%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.11%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 378 (41.68%) Docker
2 25 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.77%) HDFS
6 4 (0.44%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.33%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.22%) iptables
8 2 (0.22%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.11%) Squid
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 434 (47.85%) Kubernetes
2 393 (43.33%) Terraform
3 204 (22.49%) Grafana
4 190 (20.95%) Ansible
5 168 (18.52%) Prometheus
6 57 (6.28%) Argo
7 25 (2.76%) Puppet
8 21 (2.32%) Istio
9 16 (1.76%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.54%) Podman
11 12 (1.32%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.21%) Kibana
13 9 (0.99%) Check_MK
13 9 (0.99%) linkerd
14 7 (0.77%) Fluentd
14 7 (0.77%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.77%) Packer
14 7 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.66%) Nagios
15 6 (0.66%) Rancher
Vendors
1 83 (9.15%) Oracle
2 68 (7.50%) Splunk
3 63 (6.95%) Microsoft
4 43 (4.74%) Red Hat
5 39 (4.30%) Google
6 34 (3.75%) Databricks
6 34 (3.75%) VMware
7 33 (3.64%) ServiceNow
8 31 (3.42%) Informatica
9 26 (2.87%) Talend
10 23 (2.54%) Dynatrace
11 20 (2.21%) Salesforce
12 14 (1.54%) Denodo
13 11 (1.21%) Arista
13 11 (1.21%) F5
13 11 (1.21%) IBM
13 11 (1.21%) Veracode
14 9 (0.99%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.88%) AppDynamics
15 8 (0.88%) Atlassian