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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 144 217
Rank change year-on-year +14 +73 +26
Contract jobs citing GitLab 966 572 467
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.98% 1.98% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.55% 13.52% 9.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 356 333
10th Percentile £385 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% -5.45% -6.38%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £650
90th Percentile £665 £666 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 1 9
10th Percentile £46.02 - £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £56.00
Median hourly rate £63.75 £82.96 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.16% +18.51% +76.77%
75th Percentile £66.25 - £75.00
90th Percentile £82.50 - £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -24.66% +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 5,838 4,232 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.62% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,797 2,835 3,455
10th Percentile £350 £340 £351
25th Percentile £410 £410 £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 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 75 224
10th Percentile £35.00 £20.85 £26.77
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.21 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.78 £77.50
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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +6 812 £500 -3.85% 207
UK excluding London +30 494 £475 -5.00% 157
London 0 323 £525 -0.94% 59
Work from Home +13 298 £475 -5.00% 118
North of England +2 203 £486 -2.80% 47
Midlands +20 127 £461 -7.85% 16
West Midlands +15 115 £463 -11.90% 10
North West +1 97 £513 +2.50% 21
Yorkshire -24 69 £500 -4.76% 10
South East -28 66 £550 +9.89% 36
South West +2 55 £500 +5.26% 27
North East +1 51 £425 -19.05% 16
East of England -11 35 £480 +1.11% 17
Scotland -7 25 £412 -4.80% 6
East Midlands -21 12 £436 +40.19% 6
Northern Ireland +5 2 - - 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 86 (8.90%) Confluence
2 41 (4.24%) SAS
3 37 (3.83%) Apache Spark
4 36 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (3.42%) Apache
6 17 (1.76%) Jupyter
7 12 (1.24%) nginx
8 11 (1.14%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.72%) CICS
10 5 (0.52%) Camunda
10 5 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.31%) CMS
11 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.10%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.10%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 591 (61.18%) AWS
2 325 (33.64%) GitHub
3 324 (33.54%) Azure
4 234 (24.22%) GitHub Actions
5 165 (17.08%) GCP
6 139 (14.39%) Serverless
7 133 (13.77%) Amazon S3
8 123 (12.73%) Amazon EKS
9 118 (12.22%) AWS Lambda
10 117 (12.11%) Azure DevOps
11 105 (10.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 100 (10.35%) Amazon EC2
13 89 (9.21%) AWS CloudFormation
14 69 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 63 (6.52%) OpenShift
16 46 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
17 37 (3.83%) Azure AKS
18 34 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
19 29 (3.00%) Power Platform
20 27 (2.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.87%) Firewall
2 32 (3.31%) DNS
3 21 (2.17%) Network Security
3 21 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.97%) BGP
4 19 (1.97%) WAN
5 18 (1.86%) OSPF
6 17 (1.76%) BIG-IP
6 17 (1.76%) Ethernet VPN
6 17 (1.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 17 (1.76%) SD-WAN
6 17 (1.76%) VXLAN
7 16 (1.66%) VPN
8 13 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (1.14%) HTTP
10 9 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
10 9 (0.93%) WLAN
11 5 (0.52%) SSL
12 4 (0.41%) SAN
12 4 (0.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (6.21%) MongoDB
3 43 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
3 43 (4.45%) NoSQL
3 43 (4.45%) Relational Database
4 42 (4.35%) DynamoDB
5 38 (3.93%) Amazon Athena
6 37 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 35 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (3.31%) MySQL
9 29 (3.00%) Data Lake
10 28 (2.90%) Power BI
11 27 (2.80%) Big Data
11 27 (2.80%) SQL Server
12 25 (2.59%) Pentaho
12 25 (2.59%) Redis
13 17 (1.76%) Oracle Database
14 14 (1.45%) BigQuery
14 14 (1.45%) DocumentDB
15 12 (1.24%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 424 (43.89%) Jenkins
2 206 (21.33%) Git
3 146 (15.11%) JIRA
4 93 (9.63%) Selenium
5 70 (7.25%) JUnit
6 56 (5.80%) Cucumber
7 47 (4.87%) Postman
8 45 (4.66%) REST Assured
9 40 (4.14%) Artifactory
10 39 (4.04%) JMeter
11 38 (3.93%) Gradle
12 34 (3.52%) SonarQube
13 33 (3.42%) Bitbucket
14 28 (2.90%) Gatling
15 26 (2.69%) Mockito
15 26 (2.69%) WebDriver
16 22 (2.28%) CircleCI
17 19 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
18 17 (1.76%) Snyk
19 15 (1.55%) Maven
General
1 194 (20.08%) Social Skills
2 176 (18.22%) Public Sector
3 96 (9.94%) Finance
4 66 (6.83%) Banking
5 56 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.55%) Military
8 13 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.24%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.14%) Retail
11 9 (0.93%) Investment Banking
11 9 (0.93%) Law
12 8 (0.83%) Legal
13 6 (0.62%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.41%) Police
15 4 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.41%) Publishing
16 3 (0.31%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 208 (21.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 153 (15.84%) Developer
2 153 (15.84%) Senior
3 101 (10.46%) AWS Engineer
4 90 (9.32%) Data Engineer
5 67 (6.94%) AWS DevOps
6 66 (6.83%) Lead
7 61 (6.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 61 (6.31%) Software Engineer
8 49 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
9 48 (4.97%) Java Developer
10 47 (4.87%) Architect
11 43 (4.45%) Platform Engineer
11 43 (4.45%) Test Engineer
12 31 (3.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 30 (3.11%) Senior DevOps
14 29 (3.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 29 (3.00%) Tester
15 28 (2.90%) Full-Stack Developer
16 27 (2.80%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (13.25%) Kafka
1 128 (13.25%) Spring
2 116 (12.01%) REST
3 111 (11.49%) Spring Boot
4 75 (7.76%) RESTful
5 66 (6.83%) React
6 63 (6.52%) Node.js
7 49 (5.07%) Elastic Stack
8 47 (4.87%) Playwright
9 42 (4.35%) PySpark
10 37 (3.83%) OpenTelemetry
11 33 (3.42%) LDAP
12 32 (3.31%) OAuth
13 30 (3.11%) JSON
13 30 (3.11%) YAML
14 28 (2.90%) OpenID
15 26 (2.69%) pytest
16 25 (2.59%) AWS CDK
16 25 (2.59%) Jest
16 25 (2.59%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 166 (17.18%) Cloud Native
2 59 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.90%) Product Ownership
4 38 (3.93%) Data Centre
5 31 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 23 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.66%) Distributed Architecture
8 16 (1.66%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.45%) Private Cloud
10 12 (1.24%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.14%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.14%) PKI
12 9 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (0.93%) Mainframe
12 9 (0.93%) NHS
13 7 (0.72%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.72%) DataPower
14 6 (0.62%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 173 (17.91%) Linux
2 54 (5.59%) Unix
3 46 (4.76%) Windows
4 45 (4.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.55%) CentOS
6 10 (1.04%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.93%) zOS
8 6 (0.62%) VMS
9 5 (0.52%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.41%) Debian
10 4 (0.41%) Rocky
10 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.31%) Android
12 2 (0.21%) AIX
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 773 (80.02%) CI/CD
2 551 (57.04%) DevOps
3 370 (38.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 344 (35.61%) Agile
5 314 (32.51%) Containerisation
6 297 (30.75%) Test Automation
7 188 (19.46%) Microservices
8 182 (18.84%) Observability
9 144 (14.91%) Software Engineering
10 143 (14.80%) Scrum
11 130 (13.46%) Platform Engineering
12 127 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
13 125 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
14 96 (9.94%) ETL
15 88 (9.11%) DevSecOps
16 84 (8.70%) TDD
17 82 (8.49%) Migration
18 81 (8.39%) Analytics
19 79 (8.18%) AI
20 77 (7.97%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 378 (39.13%) Python
2 253 (26.19%) Java
3 230 (23.81%) SQL
4 148 (15.32%) Bash
5 85 (8.80%) JavaScript
6 70 (7.25%) TypeScript
7 66 (6.83%) PowerShell
8 48 (4.97%) Shell Script
9 38 (3.93%) C#
9 38 (3.93%) Go
10 27 (2.80%) PL/SQL
11 19 (1.97%) Bicep
12 17 (1.76%) Kotlin
13 15 (1.55%) C++
14 11 (1.14%) MATLAB
14 11 (1.14%) Ruby
14 11 (1.14%) Scala
15 8 (0.83%) C
16 7 (0.72%) Groovy
16 7 (0.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 428 (44.31%) Security Cleared
2 359 (37.16%) SC Cleared
3 52 (5.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 42 (4.35%) Degree
5 34 (3.52%) DV Cleared
6 32 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.69%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.24%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.14%) ISTQB
10 10 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 10 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.52%) CISSP
13 4 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.41%) CSSLP
13 4 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.31%) CISM
14 3 (0.31%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (10.35%) QA
2 51 (5.28%) Accessibility
3 35 (3.62%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.28%) SLA
5 14 (1.45%) GDPR
5 14 (1.45%) WCAG
6 10 (1.04%) NIST
6 10 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.52%) FATCA
9 5 (0.52%) NCSC
10 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.10%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.10%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.10%) GRC
12 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
12 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 387 (40.06%) Docker
2 24 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.62%) HDFS
5 6 (0.62%) Squid
6 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.41%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.31%) vSphere
8 2 (0.21%) iptables
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.10%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 430 (44.51%) Terraform
2 429 (44.41%) Kubernetes
3 204 (21.12%) Grafana
4 202 (20.91%) Ansible
5 171 (17.70%) Prometheus
6 56 (5.80%) Argo
7 30 (3.11%) Puppet
8 24 (2.48%) Istio
9 17 (1.76%) Progress Chef
10 15 (1.55%) Podman
11 14 (1.45%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.14%) Check_MK
13 10 (1.04%) Kibana
14 9 (0.93%) Packer
15 8 (0.83%) linkerd
16 7 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
17 6 (0.62%) Cilium
17 6 (0.62%) Karpenter
18 5 (0.52%) Salt
19 4 (0.41%) Nagios
Vendors
1 104 (10.77%) Oracle
2 64 (6.63%) Splunk
3 61 (6.31%) Microsoft
4 51 (5.28%) Talend
5 46 (4.76%) Google
6 45 (4.66%) Red Hat
7 40 (4.14%) Informatica
8 37 (3.83%) VMware
9 35 (3.62%) ServiceNow
10 30 (3.11%) Databricks
10 30 (3.11%) Denodo
11 25 (2.59%) Dynatrace
12 20 (2.07%) F5
12 20 (2.07%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.86%) Arista
13 18 (1.86%) Palo Alto
14 16 (1.66%) Aruba
15 12 (1.24%) Veracode
16 10 (1.04%) Tenable
17 9 (0.93%) IBM