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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 144 216
Rank change year-on-year +9 +72 +19
Contract jobs citing GitLab 936 577 465
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.93% 2.00% 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.15% 13.85% 9.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 364 334
10th Percentile £386 £370 £400
25th Percentile £425 £439 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £650
90th Percentile £666 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £545
% change year-on-year -3.00% -8.26% +0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 1 9
10th Percentile £43.42 - £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £56.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +18.51% +76.77%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £75.00
90th Percentile £80.65 - £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.75 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -25.57% +11.45% +87.98%

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 5,797 4,165 5,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.46% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,787 2,803 3,442
10th Percentile £350 £338 £353
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 72 216
10th Percentile £34.69 £21.27 £29.63
25th Percentile £53.75 £46.44 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.25 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.66 £77.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £58.88 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.95% -9.42% +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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +15 787 £500 -4.76% 188
UK excluding London +19 468 £485 -3.00% 151
London -8 321 £525 -0.94% 54
Work from Home +12 282 £475 -5.00% 93
North of England -3 191 £500 - 65
Midlands +15 113 £463 -6.09% 22
West Midlands +6 101 £469 -10.67% 15
North West -4 94 £500 - 31
Yorkshire -26 67 £500 -4.76% 13
South East -37 61 £550 +9.89% 29
South West +7 58 £500 +8.70% 16
North East -4 42 £450 -14.29% 21
East of England -9 34 £483 +7.22% 8
Scotland -7 24 £401 -7.93% 5
East Midlands -17 12 £436 +40.19% 7
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 5

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 74 (7.91%) Confluence
2 35 (3.74%) SAS
3 29 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (2.88%) Apache Spark
5 25 (2.67%) Apache
6 14 (1.50%) nginx
7 11 (1.18%) Jupyter
7 11 (1.18%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.53%) CICS
9 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.32%) Camunda
10 3 (0.32%) CMS
10 3 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
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
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 563 (60.15%) AWS
2 314 (33.55%) GitHub
3 313 (33.44%) Azure
4 222 (23.72%) GitHub Actions
5 159 (16.99%) GCP
6 138 (14.74%) Serverless
7 129 (13.78%) Amazon S3
8 118 (12.61%) Amazon EKS
9 114 (12.18%) AWS Lambda
10 111 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
11 99 (10.58%) Amazon EC2
12 94 (10.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 90 (9.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 70 (7.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 64 (6.84%) OpenShift
16 47 (5.02%) Amazon ECS
17 38 (4.06%) Amazon SQS
18 37 (3.95%) Azure AKS
19 28 (2.99%) Power Platform
20 27 (2.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.70%) Firewall
2 31 (3.31%) DNS
3 23 (2.46%) TCP/IP
4 20 (2.14%) Network Security
5 19 (2.03%) BGP
6 18 (1.92%) OSPF
7 17 (1.82%) Ethernet VPN
7 17 (1.82%) VXLAN
7 17 (1.82%) WAN
8 15 (1.60%) BIG-IP
8 15 (1.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 15 (1.60%) SD-WAN
8 15 (1.60%) VPN
9 11 (1.18%) HTTP
9 11 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (1.07%) Reverse Proxy
11 7 (0.75%) WLAN
12 4 (0.43%) Multicast
12 4 (0.43%) SAN
12 4 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (8.55%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.62%) MongoDB
3 44 (4.70%) NoSQL
3 44 (4.70%) Relational Database
4 42 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
5 38 (4.06%) DynamoDB
6 34 (3.63%) Amazon Athena
7 33 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 33 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (3.53%) MySQL
8 27 (2.88%) Data Lake
8 27 (2.88%) Power BI
8 27 (2.88%) Redis
9 25 (2.67%) SQL Server
10 24 (2.56%) Big Data
10 24 (2.56%) Pentaho
11 16 (1.71%) Oracle Database
12 14 (1.50%) DocumentDB
13 12 (1.28%) BigQuery
13 12 (1.28%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 413 (44.12%) Jenkins
2 203 (21.69%) Git
3 132 (14.10%) JIRA
4 87 (9.29%) Selenium
5 67 (7.16%) JUnit
6 50 (5.34%) Cucumber
7 46 (4.91%) Postman
8 45 (4.81%) REST Assured
9 38 (4.06%) JMeter
10 36 (3.85%) Gradle
11 32 (3.42%) Artifactory
12 31 (3.31%) Bitbucket
12 31 (3.31%) SonarQube
13 29 (3.10%) Gatling
14 26 (2.78%) Mockito
15 23 (2.46%) CircleCI
16 20 (2.14%) WebDriver
17 17 (1.82%) Snyk
17 17 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
18 15 (1.60%) Maven
General
1 183 (19.55%) Social Skills
2 169 (18.06%) Public Sector
3 97 (10.36%) Finance
4 63 (6.73%) Banking
5 52 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.50%) Military
8 12 (1.28%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.18%) Retail
10 10 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.96%) Investment Banking
12 8 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.85%) Law
13 7 (0.75%) Legal
14 4 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.43%) Police
14 4 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.32%) Local Government
15 3 (0.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 194 (20.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 157 (16.77%) Developer
3 147 (15.71%) Senior
4 95 (10.15%) AWS Engineer
5 83 (8.87%) Data Engineer
6 63 (6.73%) Lead
7 62 (6.62%) AWS DevOps
8 61 (6.52%) Software Engineer
9 56 (5.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 50 (5.34%) Java Developer
11 48 (5.13%) Architect
12 47 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
13 42 (4.49%) Test Engineer
14 41 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
15 30 (3.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 29 (3.10%) Senior DevOps
17 28 (2.99%) Full-Stack Developer
17 28 (2.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 27 (2.88%) GCP Engineer
18 27 (2.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (13.68%) Kafka
1 128 (13.68%) Spring
2 113 (12.07%) REST
3 112 (11.97%) Spring Boot
4 75 (8.01%) RESTful
5 71 (7.59%) Node.js
6 64 (6.84%) React
7 50 (5.34%) Elastic Stack
8 45 (4.81%) Playwright
9 37 (3.95%) OpenTelemetry
9 37 (3.95%) PySpark
10 33 (3.53%) LDAP
11 31 (3.31%) OAuth
12 30 (3.21%) YAML
13 27 (2.88%) JSON
14 26 (2.78%) HTML
14 26 (2.78%) Jest
14 26 (2.78%) OpenID
14 26 (2.78%) pytest
15 25 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 152 (16.24%) Cloud Native
2 55 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 55 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 36 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 32 (3.42%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (1.82%) Public Cloud
7 14 (1.50%) Private Cloud
8 12 (1.28%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.28%) Management Information System
9 11 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
10 10 (1.07%) NHS
10 10 (1.07%) PKI
11 8 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (0.75%) Mainframe
13 6 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.53%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 169 (18.06%) Linux
2 47 (5.02%) Windows
3 45 (4.81%) Unix
4 44 (4.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.60%) CentOS
6 9 (0.96%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.75%) zOS
8 6 (0.64%) VMS
9 5 (0.53%) Android
10 4 (0.43%) Debian
10 4 (0.43%) Rocky
10 4 (0.43%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.11%) AIX
12 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 749 (80.02%) CI/CD
2 528 (56.41%) DevOps
3 349 (37.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 323 (34.51%) Agile
5 307 (32.80%) Containerisation
6 277 (29.59%) Test Automation
7 177 (18.91%) Microservices
8 174 (18.59%) Observability
9 142 (15.17%) Software Engineering
10 133 (14.21%) Scrum
11 124 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
12 123 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
13 122 (13.03%) Platform Engineering
14 92 (9.83%) ETL
15 91 (9.72%) DevSecOps
16 80 (8.55%) TDD
17 77 (8.23%) Analytics
18 76 (8.12%) Migration
19 75 (8.01%) AI
20 72 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 358 (38.25%) Python
2 252 (26.92%) Java
3 208 (22.22%) SQL
4 139 (14.85%) Bash
5 90 (9.62%) JavaScript
6 75 (8.01%) TypeScript
7 62 (6.62%) PowerShell
8 45 (4.81%) Shell Script
9 40 (4.27%) Go
10 36 (3.85%) C#
11 20 (2.14%) Bicep
11 20 (2.14%) PL/SQL
12 17 (1.82%) Kotlin
13 15 (1.60%) C++
14 11 (1.18%) MATLAB
14 11 (1.18%) Ruby
14 11 (1.18%) Scala
15 9 (0.96%) C
16 7 (0.75%) Groovy
16 7 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 410 (43.80%) Security Cleared
2 345 (36.86%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 39 (4.17%) Degree
5 34 (3.63%) DV Cleared
6 29 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.46%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.18%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.07%) ISTQB
9 10 (1.07%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.53%) CISSP
13 4 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.43%) CSSLP
13 4 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.32%) CISM
14 3 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (10.26%) QA
2 53 (5.66%) Accessibility
3 31 (3.31%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.35%) SLA
5 15 (1.60%) GDPR
6 14 (1.50%) WCAG
7 11 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.07%) NIST
8 10 (1.07%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.64%) NCSC
10 5 (0.53%) FATCA
11 4 (0.43%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.11%) GRC
13 1 (0.11%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 378 (40.38%) Docker
2 24 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.64%) HDFS
5 6 (0.64%) Squid
6 4 (0.43%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.32%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.21%) iptables
8 2 (0.21%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.11%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 421 (44.98%) Kubernetes
2 417 (44.55%) Terraform
3 203 (21.69%) Grafana
4 202 (21.58%) Ansible
5 170 (18.16%) Prometheus
6 56 (5.98%) Argo
7 28 (2.99%) Puppet
8 22 (2.35%) Istio
9 16 (1.71%) Podman
9 16 (1.71%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.50%) Red Hat Satellite
11 11 (1.18%) Check_MK
12 10 (1.07%) Kibana
13 9 (0.96%) linkerd
13 9 (0.96%) Packer
14 7 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.64%) Cilium
15 6 (0.64%) Karpenter
16 4 (0.43%) Rancher
16 4 (0.43%) Suricata
Vendors
1 95 (10.15%) Oracle
2 68 (7.26%) Splunk
3 61 (6.52%) Microsoft
4 47 (5.02%) Red Hat
5 46 (4.91%) Google
6 42 (4.49%) Talend
7 38 (4.06%) VMware
8 37 (3.95%) ServiceNow
9 36 (3.85%) Informatica
10 29 (3.10%) Databricks
11 25 (2.67%) Dynatrace
12 24 (2.56%) Denodo
13 20 (2.14%) Salesforce
14 18 (1.92%) Arista
14 18 (1.92%) F5
15 16 (1.71%) Palo Alto
16 14 (1.50%) Aruba
17 10 (1.07%) Tenable
17 10 (1.07%) Veracode
18 8 (0.85%) IBM