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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 141 204
Rank change year-on-year +2 +63 +19
Contract jobs citing GitLab 922 578 473
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.92% 1.98% 1.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.02% 13.85% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 369 342
10th Percentile £385 £375 £376
25th Percentile £425 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -5.83% -3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £645
90th Percentile £669 £688 £736
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -3.25% -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 2 8
10th Percentile £44.72 £84.16 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £85.97 £52.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £88.98 £68.22
Median % change year-on-year -29.76% +30.43% +72.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £91.99 £75.21
90th Percentile £82.60 £93.80 £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 5,755 4,172 5,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.98% 14.29% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,771 2,787 3,456
10th Percentile £350 £338 £355
25th Percentile £408 £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 240 72 205
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.03 £32.23
25th Percentile £58.09 £47.36 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% -9.42% +5.69%
75th Percentile £72.63 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £78.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +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 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 19 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 19 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 +13 775 £500 -4.76% 244
UK excluding London +21 464 £484 -3.25% 171
London -10 316 £525 -0.94% 76
Work from Home -2 268 £475 -5.00% 106
North of England -9 189 £500 - 65
Midlands +15 114 £463 -11.90% 26
West Midlands +13 99 £469 -11.68% 16
North West -3 95 £513 +2.50% 30
Yorkshire -18 66 £494 -8.19% 15
South West +11 57 £500 +8.70% 20
South East -42 55 £550 +4.71% 44
North East -3 40 £450 -12.62% 20
East of England -5 32 £483 +7.22% 12
Scotland -8 27 £418 -4.02% 1
East Midlands -20 15 £414 +32.96% 10
Northern Ireland 0 2 - - 3

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 68 (7.38%) Confluence
2 31 (3.36%) Apache Spark
2 31 (3.36%) SAS
3 28 (3.04%) Apache
4 27 (2.93%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (1.52%) nginx
6 12 (1.30%) OpenStack
7 10 (1.08%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.54%) CICS
9 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.33%) Camunda
10 3 (0.33%) CMS
10 3 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
12 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
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
1 556 (60.30%) AWS
2 309 (33.51%) Azure
3 306 (33.19%) GitHub
4 217 (23.54%) GitHub Actions
5 153 (16.59%) GCP
6 141 (15.29%) Serverless
7 129 (13.99%) Amazon S3
8 122 (13.23%) Amazon EKS
9 117 (12.69%) AWS Lambda
10 110 (11.93%) Azure DevOps
11 97 (10.52%) Amazon EC2
11 97 (10.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 96 (10.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 70 (7.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 62 (6.72%) OpenShift
15 50 (5.42%) Amazon ECS
16 38 (4.12%) Azure AKS
17 35 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
18 28 (3.04%) Power Platform
19 27 (2.93%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 43 (4.66%) Firewall
2 30 (3.25%) DNS
3 22 (2.39%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.06%) Network Security
5 18 (1.95%) BGP
6 17 (1.84%) OSPF
7 16 (1.74%) Ethernet VPN
7 16 (1.74%) VXLAN
7 16 (1.74%) WAN
8 14 (1.52%) BIG-IP
8 14 (1.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 14 (1.52%) SD-WAN
8 14 (1.52%) VPN
9 11 (1.19%) HTTP
9 11 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
11 7 (0.76%) WLAN
12 4 (0.43%) Multicast
12 4 (0.43%) SAN
12 4 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (6.51%) MongoDB
3 45 (4.88%) Relational Database
4 42 (4.56%) NoSQL
5 41 (4.45%) DynamoDB
6 40 (4.34%) Amazon RDS
7 35 (3.80%) Amazon Athena
8 32 (3.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 32 (3.47%) MySQL
9 31 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
10 29 (3.15%) Data Lake
11 28 (3.04%) Redis
12 27 (2.93%) Power BI
13 26 (2.82%) SQL Server
14 24 (2.60%) Big Data
14 24 (2.60%) Pentaho
15 16 (1.74%) Oracle Database
16 14 (1.52%) DocumentDB
17 12 (1.30%) Metadata
18 11 (1.19%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 411 (44.58%) Jenkins
2 200 (21.69%) Git
3 123 (13.34%) JIRA
4 85 (9.22%) Selenium
5 68 (7.38%) JUnit
6 51 (5.53%) Cucumber
7 45 (4.88%) Postman
8 44 (4.77%) REST Assured
9 38 (4.12%) JMeter
10 34 (3.69%) Gradle
11 31 (3.36%) Bitbucket
12 30 (3.25%) Artifactory
13 29 (3.15%) Gatling
14 28 (3.04%) SonarQube
15 26 (2.82%) Mockito
16 23 (2.49%) CircleCI
17 19 (2.06%) WebDriver
18 17 (1.84%) Maven
18 17 (1.84%) Snyk
19 14 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 188 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 170 (18.44%) Public Sector
3 97 (10.52%) Finance
4 62 (6.72%) Banking
5 55 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.52%) Military
8 11 (1.19%) Aerospace
8 11 (1.19%) Retail
9 10 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.98%) Investment Banking
11 8 (0.87%) Financial Institution
11 8 (0.87%) Law
12 6 (0.65%) Legal
13 4 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.43%) Police
13 4 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.33%) Local Government
14 3 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 191 (20.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 162 (17.57%) Developer
3 149 (16.16%) Senior
4 92 (9.98%) AWS Engineer
5 77 (8.35%) Data Engineer
6 65 (7.05%) Lead
7 61 (6.62%) Software Engineer
8 60 (6.51%) AWS DevOps
9 55 (5.97%) Java Developer
10 54 (5.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 50 (5.42%) Architect
12 44 (4.77%) Cloud Engineer
13 41 (4.45%) Test Engineer
14 40 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
15 28 (3.04%) Full-Stack Developer
15 28 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 28 (3.04%) Senior DevOps
16 27 (2.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 26 (2.82%) Senior Developer
18 24 (2.60%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (14.32%) Spring
2 131 (14.21%) Kafka
3 115 (12.47%) Spring Boot
4 111 (12.04%) REST
5 76 (8.24%) Node.js
5 76 (8.24%) RESTful
6 64 (6.94%) React
7 49 (5.31%) Elastic Stack
8 46 (4.99%) Playwright
9 38 (4.12%) PySpark
10 36 (3.90%) OpenTelemetry
11 33 (3.58%) LDAP
12 29 (3.15%) OAuth
12 29 (3.15%) YAML
13 28 (3.04%) Jest
13 28 (3.04%) RabbitMQ
14 27 (2.93%) pytest
15 26 (2.82%) HTML
15 26 (2.82%) OpenAPI
15 26 (2.82%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 153 (16.59%) Cloud Native
2 59 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (5.97%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.80%) Data Centre
5 29 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (1.84%) Public Cloud
8 14 (1.52%) Algorithms
8 14 (1.52%) Private Cloud
9 12 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.19%) NHS
11 10 (1.08%) PKI
12 9 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (0.98%) Mainframe
13 8 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (0.76%) DataPower
14 7 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 166 (18.00%) Linux
2 50 (5.42%) Windows
3 43 (4.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 41 (4.45%) Unix
5 14 (1.52%) CentOS
6 8 (0.87%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.87%) VMS
7 7 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.76%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.76%) zOS
8 5 (0.54%) Android
9 4 (0.43%) Debian
9 4 (0.43%) Rocky
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.11%) AIX
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 738 (80.04%) CI/CD
2 515 (55.86%) DevOps
3 341 (36.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 321 (34.82%) Agile
5 304 (32.97%) Containerisation
6 275 (29.83%) Test Automation
7 178 (19.31%) Microservices
8 172 (18.66%) Observability
9 135 (14.64%) Software Engineering
10 134 (14.53%) Scrum
11 132 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
12 123 (13.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 117 (12.69%) Platform Engineering
14 89 (9.65%) ETL
15 87 (9.44%) DevSecOps
16 81 (8.79%) TDD
17 78 (8.46%) Analytics
18 74 (8.03%) Migration
19 72 (7.81%) AI
19 72 (7.81%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 354 (38.39%) Python
2 259 (28.09%) Java
3 201 (21.80%) SQL
4 141 (15.29%) Bash
5 90 (9.76%) JavaScript
6 79 (8.57%) TypeScript
7 64 (6.94%) PowerShell
8 49 (5.31%) Shell Script
9 41 (4.45%) Go
10 35 (3.80%) C#
11 21 (2.28%) Bicep
12 19 (2.06%) Kotlin
12 19 (2.06%) PL/SQL
13 15 (1.63%) C++
14 12 (1.30%) Scala
15 11 (1.19%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.19%) Ruby
16 9 (0.98%) C
17 8 (0.87%) Groovy
17 8 (0.87%) PHP
Qualifications
1 400 (43.38%) Security Cleared
2 333 (36.12%) SC Cleared
3 46 (4.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 39 (4.23%) Degree
5 30 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.25%) DV Cleared
6 25 (2.71%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.41%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (1.08%) SAFe Agilist
9 8 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (0.76%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.54%) CISSP
12 4 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.43%) CSSLP
12 4 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (10.41%) QA
2 52 (5.64%) Accessibility
3 29 (3.15%) Data Quality
4 21 (2.28%) SLA
5 16 (1.74%) GDPR
6 14 (1.52%) WCAG
7 11 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.08%) NIST
8 10 (1.08%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.65%) NCSC
10 5 (0.54%) FATCA
11 4 (0.43%) 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%) MiFID
System Software
1 379 (41.11%) Docker
2 26 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.65%) HDFS
5 6 (0.65%) Squid
6 4 (0.43%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
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%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 419 (45.44%) Kubernetes
2 405 (43.93%) Terraform
3 204 (22.13%) Grafana
4 198 (21.48%) Ansible
5 170 (18.44%) Prometheus
6 55 (5.97%) Argo
7 27 (2.93%) Puppet
8 20 (2.17%) Istio
9 17 (1.84%) Progress Chef
10 15 (1.63%) Podman
11 14 (1.52%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.19%) Check_MK
12 11 (1.19%) Kibana
13 9 (0.98%) linkerd
14 7 (0.76%) Packer
14 7 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.65%) Karpenter
16 5 (0.54%) Cilium
16 5 (0.54%) Nagios
16 5 (0.54%) Rancher
Vendors
1 89 (9.65%) Oracle
2 67 (7.27%) Splunk
3 63 (6.83%) Microsoft
4 45 (4.88%) Red Hat
5 44 (4.77%) Google
6 38 (4.12%) VMware
7 37 (4.01%) Talend
8 36 (3.90%) ServiceNow
9 34 (3.69%) Informatica
10 33 (3.58%) Databricks
11 25 (2.71%) Dynatrace
12 21 (2.28%) Denodo
13 20 (2.17%) Salesforce
14 17 (1.84%) Arista
14 17 (1.84%) F5
15 15 (1.63%) Palo Alto
16 13 (1.41%) Aruba
17 10 (1.08%) IBM
17 10 (1.08%) Veracode
18 9 (0.98%) Tenable