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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 139 209
Rank change year-on-year -12 +70 +39
Contract jobs citing GitLab 965 651 475
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.83% 2.00% 1.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.57% 13.68% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 414 332
10th Percentile £365 £357 £363
25th Percentile £415 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £539
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -3.02% -6.30%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £645
90th Percentile £688 £670 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -3.63% -3.85% -3.70%
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 6,197 4,759 5,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 14.60% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,974 3,197 3,430
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 £596 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 102 234
10th Percentile £26.20 £22.45 £26.60
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £66.75 £64.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -1.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.68 £73.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - +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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -1 814 £500 -2.44% 203
UK excluding London +2 469 £482 -3.63% 136
London -10 339 £525 - 89
Work from Home +4 337 £475 -9.52% 97
North of England -13 189 £475 +1.06% 42
Midlands +33 132 £469 -6.20% 20
West Midlands +24 125 £466 -9.12% 10
North West -21 85 £525 +8.25% 23
North East +6 71 £413 -11.29% 11
South East -47 69 £550 - 29
South West -22 49 £542 -9.71% 23
Yorkshire -47 48 £550 +15.79% 8
East of England -15 31 £489 +8.61% 12
Scotland -23 16 £398 -1.12% 11
East Midlands -12 7 £470 +74.07% 10
Northern Ireland +1 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
1 106 (10.98%) Confluence
2 57 (5.91%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (5.39%) Apache Spark
4 43 (4.46%) Apache
5 40 (4.15%) SAS
6 29 (3.01%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.73%) CICS
8 6 (0.62%) Camunda
8 6 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.52%) nginx
9 5 (0.52%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.41%) CMS
11 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
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
12 2 (0.21%) WordPress
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
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
1 643 (66.63%) AWS
2 331 (34.30%) GitHub
3 309 (32.02%) Azure
4 238 (24.66%) GitHub Actions
5 158 (16.37%) GCP
6 141 (14.61%) Amazon S3
6 141 (14.61%) Serverless
7 129 (13.37%) Azure DevOps
8 127 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
9 116 (12.02%) Amazon EKS
10 108 (11.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 97 (10.05%) Amazon EC2
12 77 (7.98%) AWS CloudFormation
13 68 (7.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 48 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
15 42 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
16 41 (4.25%) OpenShift
17 40 (4.15%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (3.73%) OCI
19 33 (3.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.04%) Firewall
2 22 (2.28%) Network Security
3 21 (2.18%) BGP
4 20 (2.07%) DNS
4 20 (2.07%) OSPF
4 20 (2.07%) WAN
5 19 (1.97%) BIG-IP
5 19 (1.97%) Ethernet VPN
5 19 (1.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 19 (1.97%) SD-WAN
5 19 (1.97%) VXLAN
6 15 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (1.45%) VPN
8 11 (1.14%) WLAN
9 9 (0.93%) HTTP
10 6 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.41%) MQTT
11 4 (0.41%) SSL
12 3 (0.31%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (7.36%) MongoDB
3 56 (5.80%) Relational Database
4 50 (5.18%) Amazon Redshift
5 47 (4.87%) Amazon Athena
6 45 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
7 41 (4.25%) DynamoDB
8 39 (4.04%) NoSQL
9 37 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (3.11%) Oracle Database
10 30 (3.11%) Pentaho
10 30 (3.11%) Power BI
10 30 (3.11%) SQL Server
11 27 (2.80%) Big Data
11 27 (2.80%) MySQL
12 24 (2.49%) Data Lake
13 22 (2.28%) RDBMS
14 18 (1.87%) Redis
15 14 (1.45%) Metadata
16 13 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 411 (42.59%) Jenkins
2 213 (22.07%) Git
3 142 (14.72%) JIRA
4 84 (8.70%) Selenium
5 68 (7.05%) JUnit
6 48 (4.97%) Cucumber
7 46 (4.77%) SonarQube
8 38 (3.94%) Bitbucket
9 35 (3.63%) Artifactory
9 35 (3.63%) JMeter
9 35 (3.63%) Postman
9 35 (3.63%) REST Assured
10 32 (3.32%) Gradle
11 30 (3.11%) Mockito
12 29 (3.01%) Gatling
13 27 (2.80%) WebDriver
14 26 (2.69%) Maven
15 18 (1.87%) Snyk
16 14 (1.45%) Serenity BDD
16 14 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 189 (19.59%) Public Sector
2 181 (18.76%) Social Skills
3 92 (9.53%) Finance
4 63 (6.53%) Banking
5 55 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (1.97%) Military
8 18 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.45%) Law
10 13 (1.35%) Legal
11 8 (0.83%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.73%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.62%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.62%) Publishing
14 5 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.52%) Police
14 5 (0.52%) Retail
15 3 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.21%) Back Office
16 2 (0.21%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 216 (22.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 175 (18.13%) Senior
3 151 (15.65%) Developer
4 122 (12.64%) AWS Engineer
5 97 (10.05%) Data Engineer
6 80 (8.29%) AWS DevOps
7 72 (7.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 65 (6.74%) Lead
9 52 (5.39%) Software Engineer
10 50 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
11 48 (4.97%) Java Developer
12 47 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
13 44 (4.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 43 (4.46%) Test Engineer
15 34 (3.52%) Architect
16 33 (3.42%) Senior DevOps
17 32 (3.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 31 (3.21%) Tester
19 29 (3.01%) Full-Stack Developer
20 27 (2.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (13.47%) Kafka
2 110 (11.40%) Spring
3 100 (10.36%) REST
4 99 (10.26%) Spring Boot
5 74 (7.67%) RESTful
6 59 (6.11%) React
7 54 (5.60%) PySpark
8 52 (5.39%) Node.js
9 46 (4.77%) Playwright
10 36 (3.73%) JSON
11 34 (3.52%) YAML
12 32 (3.32%) RabbitMQ
13 31 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
14 26 (2.69%) WireMock
15 24 (2.49%) AWS CDK
15 24 (2.49%) HTML
15 24 (2.49%) pytest
16 23 (2.38%) Keycloak
17 22 (2.28%) Jest
17 22 (2.28%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 179 (18.55%) Cloud Native
2 67 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (5.60%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.42%) Onboarding
5 29 (3.01%) Data Centre
6 25 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (2.18%) Public Cloud
8 20 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.87%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.87%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (1.66%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.24%) Mainframe
12 9 (0.93%) AI Agents
13 8 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.83%) NHS
13 8 (0.83%) PKI
13 8 (0.83%) Private Cloud
14 7 (0.73%) DataPower
14 7 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 182 (18.86%) Linux
2 47 (4.87%) Unix
3 38 (3.94%) Windows
4 34 (3.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.35%) zOS
6 12 (1.24%) AIX
7 8 (0.83%) CentOS
7 8 (0.83%) 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
1 798 (82.69%) CI/CD
2 570 (59.07%) DevOps
3 405 (41.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 380 (39.38%) Agile
5 319 (33.06%) Containerisation
6 299 (30.98%) Test Automation
7 189 (19.59%) Microservices
8 163 (16.89%) Observability
9 151 (15.65%) Scrum
10 145 (15.03%) Software Engineering
11 142 (14.72%) Platform Engineering
12 132 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
13 125 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
14 107 (11.09%) AI
15 97 (10.05%) DevSecOps
16 90 (9.33%) ETL
17 89 (9.22%) Migration
18 84 (8.70%) Data Modelling
19 82 (8.50%) Event-Driven
20 80 (8.29%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 399 (41.35%) Python
2 219 (22.69%) Java
3 214 (22.18%) SQL
4 150 (15.54%) Bash
5 78 (8.08%) JavaScript
6 66 (6.84%) TypeScript
7 62 (6.42%) PowerShell
8 48 (4.97%) C#
9 36 (3.73%) Go
10 31 (3.21%) Shell Script
11 22 (2.28%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.07%) Bicep
13 13 (1.35%) C++
14 8 (0.83%) Scala
15 7 (0.73%) 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
1 460 (47.67%) Security Cleared
2 393 (40.73%) SC Cleared
3 63 (6.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 48 (4.97%) DV Cleared
5 40 (4.15%) Degree
6 39 (4.04%) AWS Certification
7 29 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.87%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 16 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.14%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.04%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.73%) CISSP
14 6 (0.62%) CSSLP
15 5 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.41%) GIAC
17 3 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
18 2 (0.21%) GWAPT
18 2 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (9.53%) QA
2 50 (5.18%) Accessibility
3 44 (4.56%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.04%) SLA
4 10 (1.04%) WCAG
5 6 (0.62%) NIST
6 5 (0.52%) FATCA
6 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.41%) GDPR
8 3 (0.31%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.10%) GRC
10 1 (0.10%) MIL-STD-1553
10 1 (0.10%) NCSC
10 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
10 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 399 (41.35%) Docker
2 21 (2.18%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.35%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.73%) HDFS
6 5 (0.52%) 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 NSX
8 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.10%) vSphere
8 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 468 (48.50%) Terraform
2 420 (43.52%) Kubernetes
3 208 (21.55%) Ansible
4 183 (18.96%) Grafana
5 162 (16.79%) Prometheus
6 51 (5.28%) Argo
7 34 (3.52%) Puppet
8 17 (1.76%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.55%) Istio
10 13 (1.35%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.35%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (1.04%) Packer
12 9 (0.93%) Podman
13 6 (0.62%) Cilium
13 6 (0.62%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.52%) linkerd
14 5 (0.52%) Salt
14 5 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.41%) Kibana
15 4 (0.41%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 114 (11.81%) Oracle
2 56 (5.80%) Microsoft
3 55 (5.70%) Talend
4 54 (5.60%) Informatica
4 54 (5.60%) Splunk
5 53 (5.49%) Google
6 30 (3.11%) Denodo
7 27 (2.80%) Databricks
8 25 (2.59%) Dynatrace
9 24 (2.49%) VMware
10 21 (2.18%) Palo Alto
11 20 (2.07%) F5
11 20 (2.07%) Red Hat
11 20 (2.07%) ServiceNow
12 18 (1.87%) Arista
12 18 (1.87%) Aruba
12 18 (1.87%) IBM
13 17 (1.76%) Trend Micro
14 16 (1.66%) Salesforce
15 14 (1.45%) Veracode