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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 146 214
Rank change year-on-year +11 +68 +2
Contract jobs citing GitLab 929 574 465
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.95% 1.97% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.95% 13.86% 9.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 370 336
10th Percentile £381 £370 £381
25th Percentile £416 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% -5.83% -3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £620 £650
90th Percentile £670 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 3 8
10th Percentile £43.42 £64.59 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £52.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £68.22
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +21.61% +72.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £75.21
90th Percentile £82.70 £92.59 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.75 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -25.57% +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 5,826 4,141 5,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.21% 14.20% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,828 2,767 3,440
10th Percentile £349 £340 £353
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 £704 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 71 204
10th Percentile £36.45 £27.50 £33.60
25th Percentile £59.63 £49.00 £46.63
Median hourly rate £67.00 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% -6.92% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.38 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +15 773 £500 -4.76% 210
UK excluding London +24 462 £480 -4.00% 151
London -8 323 £525 -0.94% 65
Work from Home +4 274 £475 -9.52% 95
North of England -11 179 £487 -7.68% 53
Midlands +15 115 £466 +1.25% 29
West Midlands +12 100 £469 -11.68% 18
North West -4 92 £485 -3.00% 22
Yorkshire -20 62 £500 -13.04% 12
South East -48 57 £550 +9.89% 39
South West -1 55 £500 +8.70% 17
North East -3 35 £450 -14.29% 19
Scotland +5 33 £404 -7.77% 2
East of England -16 30 £478 +7.72% 11
East Midlands -22 15 £414 +32.96% 11
Northern Ireland +6 3 - - 3

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 70 (7.53%) Confluence
2 32 (3.44%) Apache Spark
3 31 (3.34%) SAS
4 29 (3.12%) Apache
5 27 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.61%) nginx
6 15 (1.61%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.97%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.54%) CICS
9 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.32%) Camunda
10 3 (0.32%) CMS
10 3 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (0.32%) 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
1 562 (60.50%) AWS
2 309 (33.26%) GitHub
3 306 (32.94%) Azure
4 220 (23.68%) GitHub Actions
5 155 (16.68%) Serverless
6 146 (15.72%) GCP
7 138 (14.85%) Amazon S3
8 131 (14.10%) AWS Lambda
9 125 (13.46%) Amazon EKS
10 112 (12.06%) Azure DevOps
11 103 (11.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 99 (10.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 99 (10.66%) Amazon EC2
13 76 (8.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 65 (7.00%) OpenShift
15 57 (6.14%) Amazon ECS
16 35 (3.77%) Azure AKS
17 34 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
18 28 (3.01%) AWS CodePipeline
18 28 (3.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.98%) Firewall
2 27 (2.91%) DNS
3 18 (1.94%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.83%) Network Security
5 15 (1.61%) VPN
6 13 (1.40%) BGP
7 12 (1.29%) OSPF
8 11 (1.18%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (1.18%) HTTP
8 11 (1.18%) VXLAN
8 11 (1.18%) WAN
9 10 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
10 9 (0.97%) BIG-IP
10 9 (0.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 9 (0.97%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.54%) WLAN
13 4 (0.43%) Multicast
13 4 (0.43%) SAN
13 4 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (8.83%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (5.71%) MongoDB
3 46 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
4 43 (4.63%) DynamoDB
5 41 (4.41%) Relational Database
6 40 (4.31%) Amazon Athena
6 40 (4.31%) NoSQL
7 32 (3.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 32 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (3.44%) MySQL
8 31 (3.34%) Data Lake
9 30 (3.23%) Redis
10 27 (2.91%) Power BI
11 25 (2.69%) Big Data
11 25 (2.69%) SQL Server
12 23 (2.48%) Pentaho
13 13 (1.40%) DocumentDB
13 13 (1.40%) Oracle Database
14 12 (1.29%) Metadata
15 11 (1.18%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 412 (44.35%) Jenkins
2 199 (21.42%) Git
3 134 (14.42%) JIRA
4 81 (8.72%) Selenium
5 70 (7.53%) JUnit
6 54 (5.81%) Cucumber
7 47 (5.06%) Postman
8 39 (4.20%) JMeter
9 38 (4.09%) REST Assured
10 33 (3.55%) Bitbucket
11 32 (3.44%) Gradle
12 31 (3.34%) SonarQube
13 28 (3.01%) Artifactory
14 26 (2.80%) CircleCI
14 26 (2.80%) Mockito
15 25 (2.69%) Gatling
16 19 (2.05%) WebDriver
17 17 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
18 16 (1.72%) Maven
18 16 (1.72%) Snyk
General
1 184 (19.81%) Social Skills
2 165 (17.76%) Public Sector
3 115 (12.38%) Finance
4 66 (7.10%) Banking
5 56 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.40%) Military
8 11 (1.18%) Aerospace
8 11 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.18%) Retail
9 8 (0.86%) Financial Institution
9 8 (0.86%) Investment Banking
9 8 (0.86%) Law
10 7 (0.75%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.54%) Legal
12 4 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.43%) Police
12 4 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 193 (20.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 167 (17.98%) Developer
3 147 (15.82%) Senior
4 96 (10.33%) AWS Engineer
5 79 (8.50%) Data Engineer
6 67 (7.21%) Lead
7 66 (7.10%) AWS DevOps
8 61 (6.57%) Software Engineer
9 58 (6.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 56 (6.03%) Java Developer
11 53 (5.71%) Architect
12 39 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
12 39 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
13 38 (4.09%) Test Engineer
14 29 (3.12%) Full-Stack Developer
14 29 (3.12%) Senior DevOps
14 29 (3.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 26 (2.80%) Senior Developer
16 25 (2.69%) Tester
17 24 (2.58%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (14.21%) Kafka
1 132 (14.21%) Spring
2 114 (12.27%) Spring Boot
3 112 (12.06%) REST
4 81 (8.72%) Node.js
4 81 (8.72%) RESTful
5 67 (7.21%) React
6 55 (5.92%) Elastic Stack
7 44 (4.74%) Playwright
8 41 (4.41%) PySpark
9 36 (3.88%) OpenTelemetry
10 33 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
11 32 (3.44%) LDAP
12 30 (3.23%) Jest
12 30 (3.23%) YAML
13 29 (3.12%) OAuth
14 27 (2.91%) HTML
14 27 (2.91%) OpenID
14 27 (2.91%) pytest
15 26 (2.80%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 152 (16.36%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (6.35%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 28 (3.01%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 13 (1.40%) Algorithms
8 13 (1.40%) Private Cloud
9 12 (1.29%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.18%) NHS
11 10 (1.08%) Mainframe
12 9 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (0.97%) PKI
13 8 (0.86%) DataPower
13 8 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 171 (18.41%) Linux
2 54 (5.81%) Windows
3 41 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 40 (4.31%) Unix
5 13 (1.40%) CentOS
6 9 (0.97%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.86%) Android
7 8 (0.86%) VMS
7 8 (0.86%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.75%) zOS
9 4 (0.43%) Debian
9 4 (0.43%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 738 (79.44%) CI/CD
2 512 (55.11%) DevOps
3 338 (36.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 334 (35.95%) Agile
5 315 (33.91%) Containerisation
6 286 (30.79%) Test Automation
7 184 (19.81%) Microservices
8 168 (18.08%) Observability
9 140 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
10 135 (14.53%) Scrum
11 133 (14.32%) Software Engineering
12 123 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 115 (12.38%) Platform Engineering
14 90 (9.69%) DevSecOps
14 90 (9.69%) ETL
15 84 (9.04%) TDD
16 83 (8.93%) Analytics
17 78 (8.40%) Migration
18 75 (8.07%) AI
19 73 (7.86%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 366 (39.40%) Python
2 269 (28.96%) Java
3 203 (21.85%) SQL
4 138 (14.85%) Bash
5 97 (10.44%) JavaScript
6 84 (9.04%) TypeScript
7 68 (7.32%) PowerShell
8 49 (5.27%) Shell Script
9 43 (4.63%) Go
10 36 (3.88%) C#
11 21 (2.26%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.15%) Bicep
13 19 (2.05%) Kotlin
14 14 (1.51%) C++
15 13 (1.40%) Ruby
16 12 (1.29%) Scala
17 10 (1.08%) MATLAB
18 9 (0.97%) C
19 8 (0.86%) Groovy
19 8 (0.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 394 (42.41%) Security Cleared
2 331 (35.63%) SC Cleared
3 45 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 44 (4.74%) Degree
5 35 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (3.66%) AWS Certification
7 26 (2.80%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.51%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (0.97%) SAFe Agilist
12 7 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (0.75%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.54%) CISSP
14 5 (0.54%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.54%) OCA
15 4 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (11.19%) QA
2 49 (5.27%) Accessibility
3 31 (3.34%) Data Quality
4 20 (2.15%) SLA
5 18 (1.94%) GDPR
6 14 (1.51%) WCAG
7 11 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.08%) NIST
9 9 (0.97%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.86%) NCSC
11 6 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 5 (0.54%) FATCA
13 4 (0.43%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.22%) HL7
14 2 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
15 1 (0.11%) GRC
15 1 (0.11%) IEC 61508
15 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
15 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 384 (41.33%) Docker
2 25 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.75%) HDFS
6 4 (0.43%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.32%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.22%) iptables
8 2 (0.22%) Squid
8 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.22%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 430 (46.29%) Kubernetes
2 400 (43.06%) Terraform
3 204 (21.96%) Grafana
4 197 (21.21%) Ansible
5 167 (17.98%) Prometheus
6 59 (6.35%) Argo
7 26 (2.80%) Puppet
8 21 (2.26%) Istio
9 17 (1.83%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.51%) Podman
11 13 (1.40%) Red Hat Satellite
12 12 (1.29%) Kibana
13 10 (1.08%) Check_MK
14 9 (0.97%) linkerd
15 7 (0.75%) Packer
15 7 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
16 6 (0.65%) Karpenter
17 5 (0.54%) Nagios
17 5 (0.54%) Rancher
18 4 (0.43%) Cilium
Vendors
1 93 (10.01%) Oracle
2 64 (6.89%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.89%) Splunk
3 45 (4.84%) Red Hat
4 41 (4.41%) Google
5 37 (3.98%) VMware
6 36 (3.88%) Talend
7 34 (3.66%) Databricks
8 33 (3.55%) Informatica
8 33 (3.55%) ServiceNow
9 23 (2.48%) Dynatrace
10 21 (2.26%) Denodo
11 20 (2.15%) Salesforce
12 12 (1.29%) Arista
12 12 (1.29%) F5
13 11 (1.18%) IBM
13 11 (1.18%) Veracode
14 10 (1.08%) Palo Alto
15 9 (0.97%) Tenable
16 8 (0.86%) Aruba