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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 141 214
Rank change year-on-year -2 +73 +37
Contract jobs citing GitLab 974 653 482
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.84% 1.99% 1.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.62% 13.66% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 416 337
10th Percentile £365 £357 £363
25th Percentile £415 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £645
90th Percentile £688 £671 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £518
% change year-on-year -3.80% -3.38% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 10
10th Percentile £63.88 £61.65 £40.00
25th Percentile - £65.50 £58.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.86
90th Percentile £81.75 £74.59 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.22
% change year-on-year -2.99% -9.73% +23.70%

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 6,237 4,781 5,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.78% 14.59% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,008 3,216 3,470
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 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 103 238
10th Percentile £25.68 £22.64 £26.00
25th Percentile £55.94 £49.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.60 £72.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 19 July 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 July 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 July 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 -10 821 £500 -2.44% 154
UK excluding London -7 473 £481 -3.80% 123
Work from Home +12 344 £475 -9.52% 75
London -10 344 £525 - 59
North of England -10 190 £453 -3.62% 44
Midlands +29 132 £469 -6.20% 16
West Midlands +17 125 £466 -9.12% 10
North West -23 89 £525 +8.25% 22
South East -44 69 £550 - 25
North East +6 68 £413 -11.29% 15
South West -21 50 £542 -9.71% 20
Yorkshire -43 48 £550 +15.79% 7
East of England -9 31 £489 +8.61% 10
Scotland -21 18 £398 -1.12% 10
East Midlands -13 7 £470 +74.07% 6
Northern Ireland +2 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
1 107 (10.99%) Confluence
2 57 (5.85%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (5.34%) Apache Spark
4 43 (4.41%) Apache
5 40 (4.11%) SAS
6 29 (2.98%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.72%) CICS
8 6 (0.62%) Camunda
8 6 (0.62%) nginx
8 6 (0.62%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.41%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
11 2 (0.21%) WordPress
12 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Trello
2 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 645 (66.22%) AWS
2 331 (33.98%) GitHub
3 313 (32.14%) Azure
4 237 (24.33%) GitHub Actions
5 158 (16.22%) GCP
6 144 (14.78%) Amazon S3
6 144 (14.78%) Serverless
7 132 (13.55%) Azure DevOps
8 130 (13.35%) AWS Lambda
9 115 (11.81%) Amazon EKS
10 109 (11.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 101 (10.37%) Amazon EC2
12 77 (7.91%) AWS CloudFormation
13 68 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 47 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
15 43 (4.41%) OpenShift
16 42 (4.31%) Amazon EMR
17 37 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (3.70%) OCI
19 33 (3.39%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.11%) Firewall
2 23 (2.36%) Network Security
3 21 (2.16%) BGP
3 21 (2.16%) WAN
4 20 (2.05%) DNS
4 20 (2.05%) OSPF
5 19 (1.95%) BIG-IP
5 19 (1.95%) Ethernet VPN
5 19 (1.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 19 (1.95%) SD-WAN
5 19 (1.95%) VXLAN
6 15 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (1.44%) VPN
8 11 (1.13%) WLAN
9 9 (0.92%) HTTP
10 6 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.41%) MQTT
11 4 (0.41%) SSL
12 3 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (7.70%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (6.78%) MongoDB
3 56 (5.75%) Relational Database
4 50 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 49 (5.03%) Amazon Athena
6 45 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
7 39 (4.00%) DynamoDB
8 38 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
9 36 (3.70%) NoSQL
10 30 (3.08%) Oracle Database
10 30 (3.08%) Pentaho
10 30 (3.08%) Power BI
10 30 (3.08%) SQL Server
11 27 (2.77%) Big Data
12 24 (2.46%) Data Lake
12 24 (2.46%) MySQL
13 22 (2.26%) RDBMS
14 18 (1.85%) Redis
15 14 (1.44%) Metadata
16 13 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 415 (42.61%) Jenkins
2 217 (22.28%) Git
3 147 (15.09%) JIRA
4 87 (8.93%) Selenium
5 70 (7.19%) JUnit
6 49 (5.03%) Cucumber
7 47 (4.83%) SonarQube
8 39 (4.00%) Bitbucket
9 38 (3.90%) Postman
10 37 (3.80%) REST Assured
11 35 (3.59%) Artifactory
11 35 (3.59%) JMeter
12 32 (3.29%) Gradle
13 31 (3.18%) Mockito
14 28 (2.87%) Gatling
14 28 (2.87%) WebDriver
15 26 (2.67%) Maven
16 18 (1.85%) Snyk
17 14 (1.44%) Serenity BDD
17 14 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 193 (19.82%) Public Sector
2 185 (18.99%) Social Skills
3 92 (9.45%) Finance
4 66 (6.78%) Banking
5 58 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (1.95%) Military
8 18 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.44%) Law
10 13 (1.33%) Legal
11 10 (1.03%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.72%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.62%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.62%) Publishing
14 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.51%) Police
14 5 (0.51%) Retail
15 3 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.21%) Corporate Banking
16 2 (0.21%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 219 (22.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 174 (17.86%) Senior
3 152 (15.61%) Developer
4 122 (12.53%) AWS Engineer
5 98 (10.06%) Data Engineer
6 82 (8.42%) AWS DevOps
7 74 (7.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 65 (6.67%) Lead
9 51 (5.24%) Platform Engineer
10 50 (5.13%) Software Engineer
11 49 (5.03%) Java Developer
12 47 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
13 45 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 43 (4.41%) Test Engineer
15 34 (3.49%) Architect
16 33 (3.39%) Senior DevOps
17 32 (3.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 32 (3.29%) Tester
18 28 (2.87%) Full-Stack Developer
19 27 (2.77%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (12.94%) Kafka
2 110 (11.29%) Spring
3 104 (10.68%) REST
4 99 (10.16%) Spring Boot
5 77 (7.91%) RESTful
6 61 (6.26%) React
7 54 (5.54%) PySpark
8 51 (5.24%) Node.js
9 47 (4.83%) Playwright
10 38 (3.90%) YAML
11 36 (3.70%) JSON
12 32 (3.29%) Elastic Stack
12 32 (3.29%) RabbitMQ
13 27 (2.77%) WireMock
14 24 (2.46%) AWS CDK
14 24 (2.46%) HTML
14 24 (2.46%) pytest
15 23 (2.36%) Keycloak
15 23 (2.36%) OAuth
15 23 (2.36%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 178 (18.28%) Cloud Native
2 65 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (5.75%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.98%) Data Centre
6 26 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (2.36%) Public Cloud
8 19 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (1.64%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.23%) Mainframe
12 10 (1.03%) Private Cloud
13 9 (0.92%) AI Agents
13 9 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.82%) NHS
14 8 (0.82%) PKI
15 7 (0.72%) DataPower
15 7 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
16 6 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 185 (18.99%) Linux
2 47 (4.83%) Unix
3 39 (4.00%) Windows
4 34 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.33%) zOS
6 12 (1.23%) AIX
7 8 (0.82%) CentOS
7 8 (0.82%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.31%) Debian
9 3 (0.31%) Rocky
9 3 (0.31%) VMS
10 2 (0.21%) Android
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 806 (82.75%) CI/CD
2 577 (59.24%) DevOps
3 407 (41.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 382 (39.22%) Agile
5 322 (33.06%) Containerisation
6 305 (31.31%) Test Automation
7 185 (18.99%) Microservices
8 161 (16.53%) Observability
9 150 (15.40%) Scrum
10 143 (14.68%) Platform Engineering
11 142 (14.58%) Software Engineering
12 135 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 128 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
14 107 (10.99%) AI
15 97 (9.96%) DevSecOps
16 91 (9.34%) ETL
16 91 (9.34%) Migration
17 84 (8.62%) Data Modelling
18 81 (8.32%) Data Pipeline
19 79 (8.11%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 403 (41.38%) Python
2 223 (22.90%) Java
3 217 (22.28%) SQL
4 151 (15.50%) Bash
5 80 (8.21%) JavaScript
6 66 (6.78%) TypeScript
7 63 (6.47%) PowerShell
8 50 (5.13%) C#
9 36 (3.70%) Go
10 31 (3.18%) Shell Script
11 22 (2.26%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.05%) Bicep
13 13 (1.33%) C++
14 8 (0.82%) Scala
15 7 (0.72%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.62%) C
16 6 (0.62%) Groovy
16 6 (0.62%) JCL
16 6 (0.62%) Ruby
17 4 (0.41%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 467 (47.95%) Security Cleared
2 398 (40.86%) SC Cleared
3 63 (6.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 48 (4.93%) DV Cleared
5 41 (4.21%) Degree
6 39 (4.00%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.85%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 16 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.13%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.03%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.72%) CISSP
14 6 (0.62%) CSSLP
15 5 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.41%) GIAC
17 3 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
18 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
18 2 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (9.55%) QA
2 50 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.62%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.13%) WCAG
5 10 (1.03%) SLA
6 6 (0.62%) NIST
7 5 (0.51%) FATCA
7 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.41%) GDPR
9 3 (0.31%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.10%) GRC
11 1 (0.10%) MIL-STD-1553
11 1 (0.10%) NCSC
11 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 401 (41.17%) Docker
2 22 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.33%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.72%) HDFS
6 5 (0.51%) Squid
7 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.21%) iptables
7 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.10%) vSphere
8 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 471 (48.36%) Terraform
2 423 (43.43%) Kubernetes
3 208 (21.36%) Ansible
4 185 (18.99%) Grafana
5 162 (16.63%) Prometheus
6 52 (5.34%) Argo
7 34 (3.49%) Puppet
8 17 (1.75%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.54%) Istio
10 13 (1.33%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.33%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (1.03%) Packer
12 9 (0.92%) Podman
13 6 (0.62%) Cilium
13 6 (0.62%) Red Hat Satellite
13 6 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.51%) Kibana
14 5 (0.51%) linkerd
14 5 (0.51%) Salt
15 4 (0.41%) Suricata
Vendors
1 114 (11.70%) Oracle
2 56 (5.75%) Microsoft
3 55 (5.65%) Talend
4 54 (5.54%) Informatica
4 54 (5.54%) Splunk
5 53 (5.44%) Google
6 30 (3.08%) Denodo
7 27 (2.77%) Databricks
8 25 (2.57%) VMware
9 24 (2.46%) Dynatrace
10 21 (2.16%) F5
10 21 (2.16%) Palo Alto
10 21 (2.16%) Red Hat
11 20 (2.05%) Salesforce
11 20 (2.05%) ServiceNow
12 18 (1.85%) Arista
12 18 (1.85%) Aruba
12 18 (1.85%) IBM
13 17 (1.75%) Trend Micro
14 15 (1.54%) Veracode