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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 143 200
Rank change year-on-year -3 +57 +33
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,009 655 492
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.89% 1.99% 1.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.19% 13.38% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 695 429 336
10th Percentile £370 £362 £350
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 £600 £646
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -3.50% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 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 - £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 6,233 4,897 5,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.68% 14.87% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,001 3,301 3,288
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £596 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 111 209
10th Percentile £34.54 £27.94 £27.60
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £48.00
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 £87.58 £85.25 £73.80
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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +1 858 £500 -3.68% 315
UK excluding London -3 488 £483 -3.50% 171
London +3 368 £525 - 159
Work from Home +19 354 £475 -9.52% 160
North of England -20 180 £500 +4.17% 50
Midlands +30 137 £469 -10.11% 20
West Midlands +35 130 £469 -12.42% 14
South East -28 77 £550 - 31
North East +8 76 £413 -11.29% 13
North West -30 73 £575 +19.79% 26
South West -19 56 £550 -8.33% 39
Yorkshire -43 44 £550 +10.00% 11
East of England -15 33 £475 - 17
Scotland -12 20 £400 +0.06% 13
East Midlands -15 7 £459 +69.81% 6
Northern Ireland +6 1 - - 1

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 95 (9.42%) Confluence
2 64 (6.34%) Apache Airflow
3 61 (6.05%) Apache Spark
4 50 (4.96%) Apache
5 38 (3.77%) SAS
6 32 (3.17%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.59%) Camunda
7 6 (0.59%) CICS
7 6 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.40%) CMS
9 3 (0.30%) nginx
9 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
10 2 (0.20%) WordPress
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
1 682 (67.59%) AWS
2 357 (35.38%) GitHub
3 352 (34.89%) Azure
4 263 (26.07%) GitHub Actions
5 177 (17.54%) GCP
6 157 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
7 140 (13.88%) Amazon S3
8 138 (13.68%) Serverless
9 135 (13.38%) Amazon EKS
10 126 (12.49%) AWS Lambda
11 118 (11.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 97 (9.61%) Amazon EC2
13 83 (8.23%) AWS CloudFormation
14 67 (6.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 58 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
16 43 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
16 43 (4.26%) OpenShift
17 42 (4.16%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (3.57%) Datadog
19 35 (3.47%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.76%) Firewall
2 33 (3.27%) DNS
3 26 (2.58%) Network Security
4 25 (2.48%) BGP
5 23 (2.28%) Ethernet VPN
5 23 (2.28%) VXLAN
5 23 (2.28%) WAN
6 22 (2.18%) SD-WAN
7 21 (2.08%) OSPF
8 20 (1.98%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.88%) BIG-IP
9 19 (1.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 15 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (1.29%) VPN
12 12 (1.19%) HTTP
13 11 (1.09%) WLAN
14 8 (0.79%) SSL
15 6 (0.59%) DHCP
16 5 (0.50%) VLAN
17 4 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (9.12%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (7.73%) MongoDB
3 53 (5.25%) Relational Database
4 48 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
4 48 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 46 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (4.36%) NoSQL
7 42 (4.16%) Amazon RDS
7 42 (4.16%) DynamoDB
8 36 (3.57%) Pentaho
9 35 (3.47%) SQL Server
10 31 (3.07%) Power BI
11 30 (2.97%) Data Lake
11 30 (2.97%) MySQL
12 28 (2.78%) Big Data
13 27 (2.68%) Oracle Database
13 27 (2.68%) Redis
14 24 (2.38%) RDBMS
15 13 (1.29%) Apache Hive
15 13 (1.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 430 (42.62%) Jenkins
2 233 (23.09%) Git
3 129 (12.78%) JIRA
4 82 (8.13%) Selenium
5 69 (6.84%) JUnit
6 51 (5.05%) Cucumber
7 49 (4.86%) SonarQube
8 44 (4.36%) Bitbucket
9 35 (3.47%) Artifactory
10 32 (3.17%) Gradle
10 32 (3.17%) JMeter
10 32 (3.17%) Maven
11 31 (3.07%) Postman
12 27 (2.68%) Gatling
12 27 (2.68%) Mockito
13 26 (2.58%) REST Assured
14 23 (2.28%) WebDriver
15 21 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
16 20 (1.98%) Snyk
17 13 (1.29%) Cypress.io
General
1 196 (19.43%) Social Skills
2 186 (18.43%) Public Sector
3 101 (10.01%) Finance
4 63 (6.24%) Banking
5 62 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (1.98%) Military
8 18 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.39%) Law
10 13 (1.29%) Legal
11 10 (0.99%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.69%) Publishing
13 6 (0.59%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.50%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.50%) Police
14 5 (0.50%) Retail
15 4 (0.40%) Marketing
15 4 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.30%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 217 (21.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 185 (18.33%) Senior
3 166 (16.45%) Developer
4 126 (12.49%) AWS Engineer
5 104 (10.31%) Data Engineer
6 79 (7.83%) AWS DevOps
7 72 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 72 (7.14%) Lead
8 57 (5.65%) Software Engineer
9 53 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
10 52 (5.15%) Java Developer
11 49 (4.86%) Platform Engineer
12 44 (4.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 41 (4.06%) Test Engineer
14 34 (3.37%) Architect
15 33 (3.27%) Senior DevOps
15 33 (3.27%) Software Developer
16 32 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 32 (3.17%) Tester
17 29 (2.87%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (13.68%) Kafka
2 121 (11.99%) Spring
3 113 (11.20%) REST
4 107 (10.60%) Spring Boot
5 68 (6.74%) RESTful
6 63 (6.24%) React
7 58 (5.75%) Node.js
8 52 (5.15%) PySpark
9 51 (5.05%) Playwright
10 45 (4.46%) JSON
11 42 (4.16%) RabbitMQ
12 32 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
13 31 (3.07%) OAuth
14 30 (2.97%) HTML
14 30 (2.97%) YAML
15 29 (2.87%) WireMock
16 28 (2.78%) pytest
17 27 (2.68%) CSS
18 26 (2.58%) Keycloak
19 24 (2.38%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 199 (19.72%) Cloud Native
2 69 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.65%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.27%) Onboarding
5 32 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 31 (3.07%) Data Centre
7 24 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (2.18%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
10 17 (1.68%) Algorithms
11 15 (1.49%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.29%) AI Agents
12 13 (1.29%) Mainframe
13 10 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (0.89%) PKI
14 9 (0.89%) Private Cloud
15 8 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
17 6 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 187 (18.53%) Linux
2 51 (5.05%) Unix
3 41 (4.06%) Windows
4 36 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.29%) zOS
6 12 (1.19%) AIX
6 12 (1.19%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.89%) CentOS
8 7 (0.69%) 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%) Android
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.099%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 832 (82.46%) CI/CD
2 596 (59.07%) DevOps
3 433 (42.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 391 (38.75%) Agile
5 341 (33.80%) Containerisation
6 307 (30.43%) Test Automation
7 194 (19.23%) Microservices
8 176 (17.44%) Observability
9 164 (16.25%) Software Engineering
10 158 (15.66%) Scrum
11 149 (14.77%) Platform Engineering
12 147 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 134 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
14 121 (11.99%) AI
15 110 (10.90%) DevSecOps
16 102 (10.11%) ETL
17 97 (9.61%) Migration
18 93 (9.22%) Event-Driven
19 90 (8.92%) Data Pipeline
20 89 (8.82%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 431 (42.72%) Python
2 235 (23.29%) Java
2 235 (23.29%) SQL
3 178 (17.64%) Bash
4 90 (8.92%) JavaScript
5 88 (8.72%) PowerShell
6 69 (6.84%) TypeScript
7 59 (5.85%) C#
8 35 (3.47%) Go
9 31 (3.07%) Shell Script
10 23 (2.28%) PL/SQL
11 22 (2.18%) Bicep
12 14 (1.39%) C++
13 11 (1.09%) Groovy
14 10 (0.99%) Scala
15 9 (0.89%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.59%) JCL
16 6 (0.59%) R
17 5 (0.50%) Cypher
17 5 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 486 (48.17%) Security Cleared
2 408 (40.44%) SC Cleared
3 57 (5.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 57 (5.65%) DV Cleared
4 46 (4.56%) Degree
5 45 (4.46%) AWS Certification
6 31 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (1.98%) Azure Certification
8 19 (1.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 17 (1.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 14 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (1.29%) CISSP
12 11 (1.09%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.89%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.59%) CSSLP
15 5 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 4 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
16 4 (0.40%) GCIH
16 4 (0.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (10.41%) QA
2 50 (4.96%) Accessibility
3 43 (4.26%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.29%) WCAG
5 12 (1.19%) GDPR
6 11 (1.09%) NIST
7 10 (0.99%) SLA
8 9 (0.89%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.50%) FATCA
12 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.40%) NCSC
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.099%) GRC
14 1 (0.099%) MIL-STD-1553
14 1 (0.099%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.099%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 426 (42.22%) Docker
2 23 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.18%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.29%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.69%) HDFS
7 5 (0.50%) Squid
7 5 (0.50%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.20%) iptables
9 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.099%) vSphere
10 1 (0.099%) zsh
Systems Management
1 490 (48.56%) Terraform
2 460 (45.59%) Kubernetes
3 235 (23.29%) Ansible
4 180 (17.84%) Grafana
5 156 (15.46%) Prometheus
6 51 (5.05%) Argo
7 40 (3.96%) Puppet
8 26 (2.58%) Progress Chef
9 17 (1.68%) Istio
10 13 (1.29%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.29%) Oracle RMAN
11 12 (1.19%) Packer
12 9 (0.89%) Podman
13 8 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.69%) Kibana
14 7 (0.69%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.59%) Cilium
16 5 (0.50%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.50%) linkerd
16 5 (0.50%) Salt
Vendors
1 115 (11.40%) Oracle
2 70 (6.94%) Microsoft
3 64 (6.34%) Google
4 58 (5.75%) Splunk
5 57 (5.65%) Talend
6 56 (5.55%) Informatica
7 36 (3.57%) Databricks
8 35 (3.47%) Dynatrace
9 34 (3.37%) VMware
10 29 (2.87%) Denodo
11 24 (2.38%) ServiceNow
12 21 (2.08%) Palo Alto
13 20 (1.98%) F5
13 20 (1.98%) 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%) OpenAI