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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 144 227
Rank change year-on-year +3 +83 -26
Contract jobs citing GitLab 897 579 470
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.90% 1.97% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.44% 14.06% 9.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 378 337
10th Percentile £381 £377 £378
25th Percentile £415 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £529 £551
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% -4.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £645
90th Percentile £672 £716 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £501 £550
% change year-on-year -3.90% -9.00% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 3 8
10th Percentile £40.83 £64.59 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £52.00
Median hourly rate £61.75 £82.96 £68.22
Median % change year-on-year -25.57% +21.61% +51.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £75.21
90th Percentile £81.55 £92.59 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.00 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -26.47% +11.45% +65.42%

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 5,809 4,118 5,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.28% 14.04% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,845 2,748 3,479
10th Percentile £348 £340 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £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 £716 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 68 198
10th Percentile £37.71 £27.06 £32.61
25th Percentile £60.00 £50.80 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.93 £81.45
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 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 2 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 2 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 +8 745 £500 -5.66% 209
UK excluding London +25 441 £481 -3.90% 142
London -19 317 £525 -2.78% 72
Work from Home -7 261 £469 -10.67% 115
North of England -13 171 £487 -8.11% 51
Midlands +4 102 £466 +1.25% 30
West Midlands +2 88 £469 -11.68% 19
North West -9 88 £485 -3.00% 25
Yorkshire -22 60 £500 -13.04% 7
South East -37 57 £550 +4.71% 31
South West +7 55 £500 +9.41% 17
Scotland +6 34 £404 -7.77% 4
North East -8 33 £450 -14.29% 19
East of England -10 27 £478 +6.22% 10
East Midlands -25 14 £402 +38.38% 11
Northern Ireland +6 3 - - 2

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 63 (7.02%) Confluence
2 31 (3.46%) SAS
3 29 (3.23%) Apache Spark
4 26 (2.90%) Apache
5 25 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (1.90%) nginx
7 15 (1.67%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.67%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.56%) CICS
10 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.33%) Camunda
11 3 (0.33%) CMS
11 3 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.11%) FileNet
Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (0.33%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 545 (60.76%) AWS
2 301 (33.56%) GitHub
3 292 (32.55%) Azure
4 211 (23.52%) GitHub Actions
5 153 (17.06%) Serverless
6 143 (15.94%) GCP
7 135 (15.05%) Amazon S3
8 129 (14.38%) AWS Lambda
9 121 (13.49%) Amazon EKS
10 105 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
11 104 (11.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 96 (10.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 96 (10.70%) Amazon EC2
13 74 (8.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 64 (7.13%) OpenShift
15 58 (6.47%) Amazon ECS
16 32 (3.57%) Azure AKS
17 31 (3.46%) Amazon SQS
18 27 (3.01%) AWS CodePipeline
18 27 (3.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (4.01%) Firewall
2 27 (3.01%) DNS
3 17 (1.90%) TCP/IP
4 16 (1.78%) Network Security
5 14 (1.56%) VPN
6 12 (1.34%) BGP
7 11 (1.23%) HTTP
7 11 (1.23%) OSPF
8 10 (1.11%) Ethernet VPN
8 10 (1.11%) Reverse Proxy
8 10 (1.11%) VXLAN
8 10 (1.11%) WAN
9 8 (0.89%) BIG-IP
9 8 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 8 (0.89%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.56%) WLAN
12 4 (0.45%) Multicast
12 4 (0.45%) SAN
12 4 (0.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (5.80%) MongoDB
3 47 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
4 44 (4.91%) DynamoDB
5 43 (4.79%) NoSQL
6 40 (4.46%) Amazon Athena
7 39 (4.35%) Relational Database
8 33 (3.68%) MySQL
9 32 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (3.46%) Data Lake
10 31 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
11 29 (3.23%) Redis
12 26 (2.90%) Power BI
13 25 (2.79%) Big Data
14 24 (2.68%) SQL Server
15 21 (2.34%) Pentaho
16 12 (1.34%) Metadata
17 11 (1.23%) Delta Lake
17 11 (1.23%) DocumentDB
17 11 (1.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 408 (45.48%) Jenkins
2 197 (21.96%) Git
3 125 (13.94%) JIRA
4 81 (9.03%) Selenium
5 68 (7.58%) JUnit
6 54 (6.02%) Cucumber
7 47 (5.24%) Postman
8 39 (4.35%) JMeter
8 39 (4.35%) REST Assured
9 34 (3.79%) Bitbucket
10 31 (3.46%) SonarQube
11 29 (3.23%) Gradle
12 26 (2.90%) CircleCI
13 24 (2.68%) Gatling
13 24 (2.68%) Mockito
14 22 (2.45%) Artifactory
15 19 (2.12%) WebDriver
16 18 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
17 15 (1.67%) Cypress.io
17 15 (1.67%) Snyk
General
1 183 (20.40%) Social Skills
2 158 (17.61%) Public Sector
3 115 (12.82%) Finance
4 70 (7.80%) Banking
5 55 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.34%) Military
8 11 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.23%) Retail
9 10 (1.11%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.00%) Investment Banking
11 8 (0.89%) Financial Institution
11 8 (0.89%) Law
12 7 (0.78%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.45%) Legal
14 4 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.45%) Police
14 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 189 (21.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 164 (18.28%) Developer
3 137 (15.27%) Senior
4 92 (10.26%) AWS Engineer
5 74 (8.25%) Data Engineer
6 67 (7.47%) AWS DevOps
7 65 (7.25%) Lead
8 58 (6.47%) Software Engineer
9 57 (6.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 54 (6.02%) Java Developer
11 47 (5.24%) Architect
12 39 (4.35%) Test Engineer
13 38 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
14 34 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
15 28 (3.12%) Full-Stack Developer
16 27 (3.01%) Senior DevOps
16 27 (3.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 25 (2.79%) Tester
18 23 (2.56%) Java Engineer
18 23 (2.56%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (14.27%) Kafka
2 127 (14.16%) Spring
3 110 (12.26%) REST
4 109 (12.15%) Spring Boot
5 80 (8.92%) Node.js
5 80 (8.92%) RESTful
6 65 (7.25%) React
7 57 (6.35%) Elastic Stack
8 44 (4.91%) Playwright
9 40 (4.46%) PySpark
10 35 (3.90%) OpenTelemetry
11 32 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
12 31 (3.46%) LDAP
13 30 (3.34%) Jest
14 29 (3.23%) YAML
15 28 (3.12%) OAuth
16 27 (3.01%) HTML
16 27 (3.01%) OpenID
16 27 (3.01%) pytest
17 25 (2.79%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 145 (16.16%) Cloud Native
2 60 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (6.02%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.34%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.79%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 12 (1.34%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.34%) Private Cloud
9 11 (1.23%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.11%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (1.00%) NHS
11 9 (1.00%) PKI
12 8 (0.89%) DataPower
12 8 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 168 (18.73%) Linux
2 56 (6.24%) Windows
3 37 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 33 (3.68%) Unix
5 11 (1.23%) CentOS
6 8 (0.89%) Android
6 8 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.89%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.78%) VMS
7 7 (0.78%) zOS
8 4 (0.45%) Debian
8 4 (0.45%) Rocky
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.11%) AIX
10 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 713 (79.49%) CI/CD
2 500 (55.74%) DevOps
3 327 (36.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 316 (35.23%) Agile
5 305 (34.00%) Containerisation
6 271 (30.21%) Test Automation
7 176 (19.62%) Microservices
8 163 (18.17%) Observability
9 137 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
10 131 (14.60%) Scrum
11 127 (14.16%) Software Engineering
12 122 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 108 (12.04%) Platform Engineering
14 87 (9.70%) DevSecOps
15 83 (9.25%) ETL
16 82 (9.14%) Analytics
16 82 (9.14%) TDD
17 75 (8.36%) Migration
18 73 (8.14%) AI
19 71 (7.92%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 362 (40.36%) Python
2 264 (29.43%) Java
3 190 (21.18%) SQL
4 138 (15.38%) Bash
5 97 (10.81%) JavaScript
6 80 (8.92%) TypeScript
7 69 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 47 (5.24%) Shell Script
9 41 (4.57%) Go
10 34 (3.79%) C#
11 19 (2.12%) Kotlin
12 18 (2.01%) Bicep
13 14 (1.56%) C++
13 14 (1.56%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.56%) Ruby
14 11 (1.23%) Scala
15 9 (1.00%) C
15 9 (1.00%) MATLAB
16 8 (0.89%) Groovy
16 8 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 380 (42.36%) Security Cleared
2 318 (35.45%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 42 (4.68%) Degree
5 35 (3.90%) AWS Certification
6 34 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.79%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.56%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.78%) SAFe Agilist
12 6 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.67%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (0.56%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.56%) OCA
14 4 (0.45%) CISSP
14 4 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (11.59%) QA
2 48 (5.35%) Accessibility
3 31 (3.46%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.01%) GDPR
4 18 (2.01%) SLA
5 14 (1.56%) WCAG
6 12 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (1.00%) NIST
8 8 (0.89%) NCSC
8 8 (0.89%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.56%) FATCA
11 4 (0.45%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.22%) HL7
12 2 (0.22%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.11%) GRC
13 1 (0.11%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
System Software
1 375 (41.81%) Docker
2 24 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.78%) HDFS
6 4 (0.45%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.33%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.22%) iptables
8 2 (0.22%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.11%) Squid
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 424 (47.27%) Kubernetes
2 388 (43.26%) Terraform
3 203 (22.63%) Grafana
4 188 (20.96%) Ansible
5 167 (18.62%) Prometheus
6 57 (6.35%) Argo
7 25 (2.79%) Puppet
8 21 (2.34%) Istio
9 16 (1.78%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.56%) Podman
11 12 (1.34%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.23%) Kibana
13 9 (1.00%) Check_MK
13 9 (1.00%) linkerd
14 7 (0.78%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.78%) Packer
14 7 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.56%) Nagios
15 5 (0.56%) Rancher
16 4 (0.45%) Salt
Vendors
1 81 (9.03%) Oracle
2 62 (6.91%) Microsoft
3 61 (6.80%) Splunk
4 43 (4.79%) Red Hat
5 39 (4.35%) Google
6 34 (3.79%) Databricks
6 34 (3.79%) VMware
7 33 (3.68%) ServiceNow
8 31 (3.46%) Informatica
9 26 (2.90%) Talend
10 23 (2.56%) Dynatrace
11 20 (2.23%) Salesforce
12 14 (1.56%) Denodo
13 11 (1.23%) Arista
13 11 (1.23%) F5
13 11 (1.23%) IBM
13 11 (1.23%) Veracode
14 9 (1.00%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.89%) AppDynamics
15 8 (0.89%) Tenable