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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 142 207
Rank change year-on-year +10 +65 +42
Contract jobs citing GitLab 991 597 478
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.95% 1.99% 1.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.40% 13.56% 9.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 368 338
10th Percentile £371 £358 £400
25th Percentile £414 £440 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £650
90th Percentile £686 £671 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £533
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.19% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 2 9
10th Percentile £52.50 £69.05 £40.00
25th Percentile £60.75 £71.37 £56.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.01% +3.35% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.35 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.25 £81.91 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £74.44
% change year-on-year -15.01% +2.74% +24.07%

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 6,042 4,402 5,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.87% 14.66% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,906 2,939 3,518
10th Percentile £350 £331 £355
25th Percentile £409 £409 £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 259 88 251
10th Percentile £26.15 £20.86 £28.00
25th Percentile £56.25 £46.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.89 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +8 835 £500 -2.98% 138
UK excluding London +17 483 £475 -5.00% 109
London +5 355 £525 - 48
Work from Home +6 336 £475 -8.65% 61
North of England -17 188 £453 -4.63% 33
Midlands +25 135 £459 -8.20% 13
West Midlands +21 125 £463 -11.90% 11
North West -24 85 £500 +6.50% 17
South East -33 66 £550 +9.89% 24
North East +6 64 £400 -13.98% 9
Yorkshire -32 54 £540 +5.37% 7
South West -8 53 £500 -13.04% 18
East of England -4 38 £483 +7.22% 14
Scotland -17 19 £401 -0.37% 6
East Midlands -14 10 £436 +61.48% 2
Northern Ireland 0 2 - - 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
1 104 (10.49%) Confluence
2 54 (5.45%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (4.94%) Apache Spark
4 43 (4.34%) SAS
5 42 (4.24%) Apache
6 29 (2.93%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.71%) CICS
8 6 (0.61%) nginx
8 6 (0.61%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.50%) Camunda
10 3 (0.30%) CMS
10 3 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.10%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.30%) 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
1 641 (64.68%) AWS
2 327 (33.00%) GitHub
3 326 (32.90%) Azure
4 233 (23.51%) GitHub Actions
5 154 (15.54%) GCP
6 151 (15.24%) Serverless
7 148 (14.93%) Amazon S3
8 131 (13.22%) AWS Lambda
9 127 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
10 122 (12.31%) Amazon EKS
11 113 (11.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 104 (10.49%) Amazon EC2
13 81 (8.17%) AWS CloudFormation
14 72 (7.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 53 (5.35%) Amazon ECS
16 46 (4.64%) OpenShift
17 40 (4.04%) Amazon EMR
18 38 (3.83%) Power Platform
19 35 (3.53%) Amazon SQS
20 32 (3.23%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.14%) Firewall
2 25 (2.52%) Network Security
3 22 (2.22%) DNS
4 21 (2.12%) BGP
4 21 (2.12%) WAN
5 20 (2.02%) OSPF
6 19 (1.92%) BIG-IP
6 19 (1.92%) Ethernet VPN
6 19 (1.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 19 (1.92%) SD-WAN
6 19 (1.92%) VXLAN
7 16 (1.61%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (1.21%) VPN
10 11 (1.11%) WLAN
11 9 (0.91%) HTTP
12 7 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.40%) MQTT
13 4 (0.40%) SAN
13 4 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.26%) MongoDB
3 50 (5.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 49 (4.94%) Amazon Athena
5 47 (4.74%) Relational Database
6 44 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (4.44%) DynamoDB
6 44 (4.44%) NoSQL
7 42 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
8 35 (3.53%) Power BI
9 30 (3.03%) Pentaho
10 29 (2.93%) MySQL
11 27 (2.72%) Big Data
11 27 (2.72%) Data Lake
11 27 (2.72%) SQL Server
12 23 (2.32%) Oracle Database
13 22 (2.22%) Redis
14 16 (1.61%) DocumentDB
15 14 (1.41%) Metadata
16 13 (1.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 435 (43.90%) Jenkins
2 214 (21.59%) Git
3 150 (15.14%) JIRA
4 91 (9.18%) Selenium
5 75 (7.57%) JUnit
6 54 (5.45%) Cucumber
7 44 (4.44%) Postman
8 40 (4.04%) JMeter
8 40 (4.04%) REST Assured
8 40 (4.04%) SonarQube
9 36 (3.63%) Artifactory
10 35 (3.53%) Bitbucket
11 33 (3.33%) Mockito
12 31 (3.13%) Gradle
13 28 (2.83%) Gatling
13 28 (2.83%) WebDriver
14 22 (2.22%) Maven
15 20 (2.02%) Snyk
16 16 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
17 14 (1.41%) CircleCI
General
1 193 (19.48%) Public Sector
2 191 (19.27%) Social Skills
3 97 (9.79%) Finance
4 66 (6.66%) Banking
5 58 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (1.82%) Military
9 14 (1.41%) Law
10 11 (1.11%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.11%) Legal
11 9 (0.91%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.71%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.61%) Publishing
14 5 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.50%) Police
14 5 (0.50%) Retail
15 4 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 222 (22.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 163 (16.45%) Senior
3 151 (15.24%) Developer
4 120 (12.11%) AWS Engineer
5 102 (10.29%) Data Engineer
6 83 (8.38%) AWS DevOps
7 75 (7.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 61 (6.16%) Lead
9 53 (5.35%) Java Developer
10 51 (5.15%) Software Engineer
11 47 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
11 47 (4.74%) Platform Engineer
11 47 (4.74%) Test Engineer
12 40 (4.04%) Architect
13 36 (3.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 32 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
14 32 (3.23%) Tester
15 31 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 27 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
17 24 (2.42%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (12.71%) Kafka
2 120 (12.11%) Spring
3 110 (11.10%) REST
4 105 (10.60%) Spring Boot
5 85 (8.58%) RESTful
6 58 (5.85%) React
7 55 (5.55%) PySpark
8 49 (4.94%) Node.js
9 48 (4.84%) Playwright
10 41 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
11 35 (3.53%) YAML
12 32 (3.23%) JSON
13 28 (2.83%) RabbitMQ
14 27 (2.72%) AWS CDK
14 27 (2.72%) OAuth
14 27 (2.72%) WireMock
15 26 (2.62%) OpenAPI
15 26 (2.62%) pytest
16 24 (2.42%) Keycloak
16 24 (2.42%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 184 (18.57%) Cloud Native
2 71 (7.16%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (5.85%) Product Ownership
4 38 (3.83%) Data Centre
5 32 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (1.82%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.41%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.31%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.31%) Management Information System
11 9 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (0.91%) NHS
11 9 (0.91%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.81%) Mainframe
12 8 (0.81%) PKI
13 7 (0.71%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.71%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 192 (19.37%) Linux
2 51 (5.15%) Unix
3 45 (4.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (4.24%) Windows
5 15 (1.51%) CentOS
6 9 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.81%) zOS
8 4 (0.40%) AIX
8 4 (0.40%) Debian
8 4 (0.40%) Rocky
8 4 (0.40%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.30%) VMS
10 2 (0.20%) Android
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 806 (81.33%) CI/CD
2 580 (58.53%) DevOps
3 393 (39.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 379 (38.24%) Agile
5 324 (32.69%) Containerisation
6 310 (31.28%) Test Automation
7 196 (19.78%) Microservices
8 163 (16.45%) Observability
9 149 (15.04%) Scrum
10 140 (14.13%) Software Engineering
11 138 (13.93%) Platform Engineering
12 133 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 132 (13.32%) Problem-Solving
14 103 (10.39%) AI
15 97 (9.79%) ETL
16 96 (9.69%) DevSecOps
17 82 (8.27%) Data Modelling
17 82 (8.27%) Event-Driven
18 81 (8.17%) Migration
19 80 (8.07%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 398 (40.16%) Python
2 245 (24.72%) Java
3 229 (23.11%) SQL
4 142 (14.33%) Bash
5 81 (8.17%) JavaScript
6 67 (6.76%) TypeScript
7 53 (5.35%) PowerShell
8 48 (4.84%) C#
9 43 (4.34%) Shell Script
10 37 (3.73%) Go
11 22 (2.22%) PL/SQL
12 18 (1.82%) Bicep
13 13 (1.31%) C++
14 11 (1.11%) MATLAB
14 11 (1.11%) Scala
15 10 (1.01%) Ruby
16 8 (0.81%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.61%) C
17 6 (0.61%) JCL
18 5 (0.50%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 476 (48.03%) Security Cleared
2 410 (41.37%) SC Cleared
3 62 (6.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 44 (4.44%) DV Cleared
5 43 (4.34%) Degree
6 38 (3.83%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (1.41%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.11%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.01%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.81%) CISSP
15 5 (0.50%) CSSLP
16 4 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.40%) GIAC
16 4 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
17 3 (0.30%) CISM
17 3 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (9.79%) QA
2 46 (4.64%) Accessibility
3 44 (4.44%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.72%) SLA
5 13 (1.31%) NIST
6 11 (1.11%) WCAG
7 9 (0.91%) GDPR
7 9 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.50%) FATCA
11 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.20%) NCSC
12 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.10%) GRC
13 1 (0.10%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 406 (40.97%) Docker
2 30 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.61%) HDFS
6 5 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.50%) Squid
7 4 (0.40%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.20%) iptables
9 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.20%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.10%) vSphere
10 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 459 (46.32%) Terraform
2 429 (43.29%) Kubernetes
3 198 (19.98%) Ansible
4 183 (18.47%) Grafana
5 165 (16.65%) Prometheus
6 48 (4.84%) Argo
7 31 (3.13%) Puppet
8 16 (1.61%) Podman
9 14 (1.41%) Istio
9 14 (1.41%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.41%) Red Hat Satellite
10 11 (1.11%) Check_MK
11 9 (0.91%) Packer
12 8 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.71%) Kibana
14 6 (0.61%) Cilium
14 6 (0.61%) Salt
15 5 (0.50%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.50%) linkerd
15 5 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 103 (10.39%) Oracle
2 61 (6.16%) Microsoft
3 56 (5.65%) Talend
4 54 (5.45%) Splunk
5 53 (5.35%) Informatica
6 47 (4.74%) Google
7 33 (3.33%) Red Hat
7 33 (3.33%) VMware
8 30 (3.03%) Databricks
8 30 (3.03%) Denodo
9 26 (2.62%) ServiceNow
10 24 (2.42%) Dynatrace
11 22 (2.22%) F5
12 20 (2.02%) Palo Alto
12 20 (2.02%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.82%) Arista
13 18 (1.82%) Aruba
14 17 (1.72%) Trend Micro
15 14 (1.41%) Veracode
16 12 (1.21%) IBM