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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 142 200
Rank change year-on-year -6 +58 +33
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,024 661 491
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.91% 2.01% 1.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.42% 13.39% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 432 330
10th Percentile £381 £375 £361
25th Percentile £425 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £650
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -2.25% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 9
10th Percentile - £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 £91.00 £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 6,238 4,937 5,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.65% 15.04% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,008 3,326 3,277
10th Percentile £354 £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 £595 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 113 198
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.03 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.44
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.93 £84.80 £73.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +3 869 £500 -3.85% 345
UK excluding London +3 492 £489 -2.25% 225
London +10 373 £525 -0.47% 152
Work from Home +13 357 £475 -11.21% 163
North of England -28 183 £500 +2.30% 68
Midlands +34 134 £469 -10.67% 28
West Midlands +25 127 £469 -13.15% 20
South East -39 82 £550 +7.32% 47
North East +8 78 £413 -12.70% 16
North West -39 74 £575 +18.56% 41
South West -24 56 £550 -8.33% 45
Yorkshire -47 44 £550 +10.00% 11
East of England -21 33 £475 +2.70% 17
Scotland -15 19 £401 +0.13% 13
East Midlands -14 7 £459 +69.81% 8
Northern Ireland +6 1 - - 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 94 (9.18%) Confluence
2 69 (6.74%) Apache Airflow
3 66 (6.45%) Apache Spark
4 50 (4.88%) Apache
5 36 (3.52%) SAS
6 34 (3.32%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.59%) Camunda
7 6 (0.59%) CICS
7 6 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.39%) CMS
9 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) nginx
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
10 2 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Trello
2 1 (0.098%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.098%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.098%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.098%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 693 (67.68%) AWS
2 364 (35.55%) Azure
3 362 (35.35%) GitHub
4 262 (25.59%) GitHub Actions
5 179 (17.48%) GCP
6 170 (16.60%) Azure DevOps
7 143 (13.96%) Amazon S3
8 142 (13.87%) Serverless
9 135 (13.18%) Amazon EKS
10 130 (12.70%) AWS Lambda
11 122 (11.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 99 (9.67%) Amazon EC2
13 81 (7.91%) AWS CloudFormation
14 66 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 57 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
16 46 (4.49%) Amazon EMR
16 46 (4.49%) OpenShift
17 44 (4.30%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (3.52%) Azure AKS
18 36 (3.52%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.88%) Firewall
2 33 (3.22%) DNS
3 29 (2.83%) BGP
3 29 (2.83%) Network Security
4 27 (2.64%) Ethernet VPN
4 27 (2.64%) VXLAN
5 23 (2.25%) WAN
6 22 (2.15%) SD-WAN
7 21 (2.05%) OSPF
8 20 (1.95%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.86%) BIG-IP
9 19 (1.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 15 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (1.27%) VPN
12 12 (1.17%) HTTP
13 11 (1.07%) WLAN
14 8 (0.78%) NX-OS
14 8 (0.78%) SSL
15 6 (0.59%) DHCP
16 5 (0.49%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (7.42%) MongoDB
3 53 (5.18%) Relational Database
4 51 (4.98%) Amazon Athena
5 50 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 46 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
7 45 (4.39%) NoSQL
8 44 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
8 44 (4.30%) DynamoDB
9 36 (3.52%) Pentaho
10 35 (3.42%) SQL Server
11 33 (3.22%) Power BI
12 31 (3.03%) Data Lake
12 31 (3.03%) MySQL
13 30 (2.93%) Big Data
14 29 (2.83%) Redis
15 27 (2.64%) Oracle Database
16 24 (2.34%) RDBMS
17 14 (1.37%) Apache Hive
17 14 (1.37%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 436 (42.58%) Jenkins
2 236 (23.05%) Git
3 130 (12.70%) JIRA
4 83 (8.11%) Selenium
5 68 (6.64%) JUnit
6 51 (4.98%) Cucumber
7 49 (4.79%) SonarQube
8 42 (4.10%) Bitbucket
9 33 (3.22%) Artifactory
9 33 (3.22%) JMeter
10 32 (3.13%) Gradle
10 32 (3.13%) Maven
11 31 (3.03%) Postman
12 28 (2.73%) REST Assured
13 27 (2.64%) Gatling
13 27 (2.64%) Mockito
14 23 (2.25%) WebDriver
15 21 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
16 20 (1.95%) Snyk
17 15 (1.46%) Cypress.io
General
1 199 (19.43%) Social Skills
2 192 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 100 (9.77%) Finance
4 66 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (6.25%) Banking
6 24 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (1.86%) Military
8 14 (1.37%) Law
9 13 (1.27%) Legal
10 10 (0.98%) Aerospace
11 7 (0.68%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.68%) Publishing
12 6 (0.59%) Police
12 6 (0.59%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.49%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.49%) Retail
14 4 (0.39%) Marketing
15 3 (0.29%) Back Office
15 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 226 (22.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 189 (18.46%) Senior
3 169 (16.50%) Developer
4 129 (12.60%) AWS Engineer
5 102 (9.96%) Data Engineer
6 79 (7.71%) AWS DevOps
7 74 (7.23%) Lead
8 72 (7.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 57 (5.57%) Software Engineer
10 54 (5.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (5.08%) Java Developer
12 49 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
13 44 (4.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 43 (4.20%) Test Engineer
15 36 (3.52%) Architect
16 35 (3.42%) Software Developer
17 34 (3.32%) Senior DevOps
18 33 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 31 (3.03%) Tester
20 29 (2.83%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (13.96%) Kafka
2 120 (11.72%) REST
3 119 (11.62%) Spring
4 107 (10.45%) Spring Boot
5 71 (6.93%) RESTful
6 62 (6.05%) React
7 59 (5.76%) Node.js
8 52 (5.08%) Playwright
9 51 (4.98%) PySpark
10 50 (4.88%) JSON
11 42 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
12 35 (3.42%) YAML
13 33 (3.22%) OAuth
14 32 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
15 29 (2.83%) pytest
16 27 (2.64%) HTML
16 27 (2.64%) WireMock
17 26 (2.54%) Keycloak
18 25 (2.44%) .NET
19 24 (2.34%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 204 (19.92%) Cloud Native
2 67 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (5.37%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.42%) Data Centre
4 35 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (3.22%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (2.05%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.66%) Algorithms
9 16 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.46%) Mainframe
10 15 (1.46%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.37%) AI Agents
12 10 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (0.88%) PKI
13 9 (0.88%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 188 (18.36%) Linux
2 49 (4.79%) Unix
3 42 (4.10%) Windows
4 34 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.27%) zOS
6 12 (1.17%) AIX
6 12 (1.17%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.98%) CentOS
8 8 (0.78%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.49%) VMS
10 3 (0.29%) Debian
10 3 (0.29%) Rocky
11 2 (0.20%) Android
11 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.098%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 854 (83.40%) CI/CD
2 612 (59.77%) DevOps
3 454 (44.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 390 (38.09%) Agile
5 354 (34.57%) Containerisation
6 312 (30.47%) Test Automation
7 198 (19.34%) Microservices
8 182 (17.77%) Observability
9 165 (16.11%) Software Engineering
10 157 (15.33%) Scrum
11 152 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 150 (14.65%) Platform Engineering
13 140 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
14 120 (11.72%) AI
15 113 (11.04%) DevSecOps
16 105 (10.25%) ETL
17 101 (9.86%) Migration
18 97 (9.47%) Event-Driven
19 91 (8.89%) Data Pipeline
19 91 (8.89%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 444 (43.36%) Python
2 238 (23.24%) Java
3 234 (22.85%) SQL
4 186 (18.16%) Bash
5 92 (8.98%) PowerShell
6 89 (8.69%) JavaScript
7 68 (6.64%) TypeScript
8 63 (6.15%) C#
9 36 (3.52%) Go
10 30 (2.93%) Shell Script
11 25 (2.44%) PL/SQL
12 23 (2.25%) Bicep
13 15 (1.46%) C++
14 11 (1.07%) Groovy
15 9 (0.88%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.88%) Scala
16 6 (0.59%) JCL
16 6 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.59%) R
17 5 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 500 (48.83%) Security Cleared
2 416 (40.63%) SC Cleared
3 64 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 56 (5.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 48 (4.69%) AWS Certification
6 44 (4.30%) Degree
7 29 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (2.05%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (1.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 15 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (1.46%) CISSP
12 12 (1.17%) ISTQB
13 11 (1.07%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.59%) CSSLP
16 5 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.49%) GCFA
16 5 (0.49%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (10.25%) QA
2 47 (4.59%) Accessibility
3 43 (4.20%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.27%) NIST
4 13 (1.27%) WCAG
5 12 (1.17%) GDPR
6 10 (0.98%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.98%) SLA
7 9 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.59%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.49%) FATCA
10 5 (0.49%) NCSC
11 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.098%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.098%) GRC
13 1 (0.098%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.098%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 434 (42.38%) Docker
2 24 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.15%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.27%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.68%) HDFS
7 6 (0.59%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.49%) Squid
9 3 (0.29%) 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 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.098%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.098%) vSphere
11 1 (0.098%) zsh
Systems Management
1 501 (48.93%) Terraform
2 468 (45.70%) Kubernetes
3 247 (24.12%) Ansible
4 180 (17.58%) Grafana
5 155 (15.14%) Prometheus
6 53 (5.18%) Argo
7 40 (3.91%) Puppet
8 29 (2.83%) Progress Chef
9 17 (1.66%) Istio
10 13 (1.27%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.27%) Oracle RMAN
11 12 (1.17%) Packer
12 10 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.88%) Podman
14 8 (0.78%) Kibana
14 8 (0.78%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.59%) Cilium
16 5 (0.49%) CASB
16 5 (0.49%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.49%) linkerd
Vendors
1 114 (11.13%) Oracle
2 73 (7.13%) Microsoft
3 66 (6.45%) Google
4 59 (5.76%) Splunk
5 56 (5.47%) Informatica
6 55 (5.37%) Talend
7 39 (3.81%) Databricks
8 36 (3.52%) VMware
9 35 (3.42%) Dynatrace
10 30 (2.93%) ServiceNow
11 29 (2.83%) Denodo
12 23 (2.25%) Red Hat
13 21 (2.05%) Palo Alto
14 20 (1.95%) F5
15 18 (1.76%) Arista
15 18 (1.76%) Aruba
15 18 (1.76%) Trend Micro
16 17 (1.66%) IBM
17 12 (1.17%) Cisco
18 9 (0.88%) Tenable