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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 147 213
Rank change year-on-year +14 +66 +31
Contract jobs citing GitLab 972 577 474
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.94% 1.95% 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.39% 13.39% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 664 356 335
10th Percentile £381 £360 £400
25th Percentile £419 £440 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% -5.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £650
90th Percentile £675 £672 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £537
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.80% -0.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 2 10
10th Percentile - £69.05 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.37 £56.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.01% +6.22% +81.82%
75th Percentile - £80.35 £74.86
90th Percentile £82.00 £81.91 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £74.22
% change year-on-year -15.01% +3.05% +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 5,931 4,308 5,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.81% 14.54% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,841 2,876 3,504
10th Percentile £350 £331 £353
25th Percentile £410 £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 258 83 243
10th Percentile £26.25 £20.85 £28.65
25th Percentile £57.40 £46.59 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +4.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +9 817 £500 -3.85% 194
UK excluding London +23 479 £475 -5.00% 136
London -4 343 £525 -0.47% 78
Work from Home +19 319 £475 -8.52% 86
North of England -3 187 £475 -3.46% 32
Midlands +22 131 £459 -8.20% 14
West Midlands +17 121 £461 -12.24% 11
North West -8 87 £525 +6.92% 15
South East -30 65 £550 +9.89% 37
North East +5 60 £406 -14.02% 10
Yorkshire -33 55 £525 +2.44% 7
South West -5 53 £500 -13.04% 25
East of England -4 38 £483 +1.58% 17
Scotland -10 21 £412 +2.43% 8
East Midlands -19 10 £436 +50.09% 3
Northern Ireland +3 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 99 (10.19%) Confluence
2 45 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (4.63%) Apache Spark
3 42 (4.32%) SAS
4 38 (3.91%) Apache
5 26 (2.67%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.82%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.72%) CICS
8 6 (0.62%) nginx
8 6 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.51%) Camunda
10 3 (0.31%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
12 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 2 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 616 (63.37%) AWS
2 333 (34.26%) GitHub
3 321 (33.02%) Azure
4 240 (24.69%) GitHub Actions
5 156 (16.05%) GCP
6 147 (15.12%) Serverless
7 146 (15.02%) Amazon S3
8 128 (13.17%) AWS Lambda
9 125 (12.86%) Amazon EKS
10 123 (12.65%) Azure DevOps
11 112 (11.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 101 (10.39%) Amazon EC2
13 82 (8.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 72 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 51 (5.25%) Amazon ECS
15 51 (5.25%) OpenShift
16 37 (3.81%) Power Platform
17 35 (3.60%) Amazon EMR
18 33 (3.40%) Amazon SQS
19 32 (3.29%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.53%) Firewall
2 26 (2.67%) DNS
3 25 (2.57%) Network Security
4 21 (2.16%) BGP
4 21 (2.16%) WAN
5 20 (2.06%) OSPF
6 19 (1.95%) BIG-IP
6 19 (1.95%) Ethernet VPN
6 19 (1.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 19 (1.95%) SD-WAN
6 19 (1.95%) TCP/IP
6 19 (1.95%) VXLAN
7 15 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (1.23%) VPN
9 11 (1.13%) WLAN
10 9 (0.93%) HTTP
11 7 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (0.51%) SSL
13 4 (0.41%) MQTT
13 4 (0.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (6.28%) MongoDB
3 46 (4.73%) Amazon Athena
3 46 (4.73%) Amazon Redshift
4 44 (4.53%) NoSQL
5 43 (4.42%) DynamoDB
5 43 (4.42%) Relational Database
6 42 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
7 41 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (3.50%) Power BI
9 30 (3.09%) MySQL
9 30 (3.09%) Pentaho
10 26 (2.67%) Data Lake
10 26 (2.67%) Redis
11 25 (2.57%) Big Data
12 23 (2.37%) Oracle Database
12 23 (2.37%) SQL Server
13 15 (1.54%) BigQuery
13 15 (1.54%) DocumentDB
14 14 (1.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 425 (43.72%) Jenkins
2 209 (21.50%) Git
3 149 (15.33%) JIRA
4 88 (9.05%) Selenium
5 72 (7.41%) JUnit
6 50 (5.14%) Cucumber
7 41 (4.22%) Postman
7 41 (4.22%) REST Assured
8 39 (4.01%) JMeter
9 38 (3.91%) SonarQube
10 35 (3.60%) Artifactory
10 35 (3.60%) Bitbucket
11 33 (3.40%) Gradle
12 30 (3.09%) WebDriver
13 29 (2.98%) Gatling
13 29 (2.98%) Mockito
14 20 (2.06%) Snyk
15 17 (1.75%) CircleCI
15 17 (1.75%) Maven
16 16 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 191 (19.65%) Social Skills
2 187 (19.24%) Public Sector
3 95 (9.77%) Finance
4 67 (6.89%) Banking
5 60 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.85%) Military
8 17 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.54%) Law
10 11 (1.13%) Retail
11 10 (1.03%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.03%) Legal
12 9 (0.93%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.62%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.51%) Police
14 5 (0.51%) Publishing
15 4 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 214 (22.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 159 (16.36%) Senior
3 147 (15.12%) Developer
4 114 (11.73%) AWS Engineer
5 100 (10.29%) Data Engineer
6 78 (8.02%) AWS DevOps
7 71 (7.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 61 (6.28%) Lead
9 53 (5.45%) Java Developer
10 52 (5.35%) Software Engineer
11 51 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
12 46 (4.73%) Test Engineer
13 45 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
14 43 (4.42%) Architect
15 35 (3.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 31 (3.19%) Senior DevOps
17 30 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
17 30 (3.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 30 (3.09%) Tester
18 27 (2.78%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (13.07%) Kafka
2 125 (12.86%) Spring
3 111 (11.42%) Spring Boot
4 105 (10.80%) REST
5 83 (8.54%) RESTful
6 64 (6.58%) React
7 58 (5.97%) Node.js
8 51 (5.25%) PySpark
9 49 (5.04%) Playwright
10 41 (4.22%) Elastic Stack
11 32 (3.29%) OpenTelemetry
12 29 (2.98%) YAML
13 28 (2.88%) OAuth
14 27 (2.78%) AWS CDK
14 27 (2.78%) JSON
15 26 (2.67%) OpenAPI
15 26 (2.67%) pytest
15 26 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
16 25 (2.57%) AngularJS
17 24 (2.47%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 184 (18.93%) Cloud Native
2 66 (6.79%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (6.07%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.01%) Data Centre
5 33 (3.40%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.23%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.03%) Private Cloud
11 9 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (0.93%) Data Structures
11 9 (0.93%) NHS
11 9 (0.93%) PKI
12 8 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.82%) Mainframe
13 7 (0.72%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.72%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 178 (18.31%) Linux
2 52 (5.35%) Unix
3 46 (4.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 37 (3.81%) Windows
5 15 (1.54%) CentOS
6 10 (1.03%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.82%) zOS
8 4 (0.41%) AIX
8 4 (0.41%) Debian
8 4 (0.41%) Rocky
8 4 (0.41%) VMS
8 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
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
1 789 (81.17%) CI/CD
2 565 (58.13%) DevOps
3 389 (40.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 361 (37.14%) Agile
5 323 (33.23%) Containerisation
6 305 (31.38%) Test Automation
7 201 (20.68%) Microservices
8 176 (18.11%) Observability
9 149 (15.33%) Scrum
10 138 (14.20%) Software Engineering
11 133 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 133 (13.68%) Platform Engineering
12 131 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
13 99 (10.19%) AI
14 96 (9.88%) DevSecOps
14 96 (9.88%) ETL
15 84 (8.64%) Migration
16 81 (8.33%) Data Modelling
17 80 (8.23%) Event-Driven
18 78 (8.02%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 382 (39.30%) Python
2 241 (24.79%) Java
3 230 (23.66%) SQL
4 136 (13.99%) Bash
5 79 (8.13%) JavaScript
6 69 (7.10%) TypeScript
7 51 (5.25%) PowerShell
8 45 (4.63%) Shell Script
9 41 (4.22%) C#
10 37 (3.81%) Go
11 24 (2.47%) PL/SQL
12 17 (1.75%) Bicep
13 12 (1.23%) C++
13 12 (1.23%) Scala
14 11 (1.13%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.13%) MATLAB
15 10 (1.03%) Ruby
16 6 (0.62%) JCL
17 5 (0.51%) C
17 5 (0.51%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 453 (46.60%) Security Cleared
2 391 (40.23%) SC Cleared
3 58 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 41 (4.22%) Degree
5 38 (3.91%) AWS Certification
6 37 (3.81%) DV Cleared
7 29 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (1.44%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.13%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.03%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.72%) CISSP
15 4 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.41%) CSSLP
15 4 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.31%) CISM
16 3 (0.31%) GIAC
16 3 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (9.98%) QA
2 46 (4.73%) Accessibility
3 42 (4.32%) Data Quality
4 20 (2.06%) SLA
5 13 (1.34%) NIST
5 13 (1.34%) WCAG
6 10 (1.03%) GDPR
7 9 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.51%) FATCA
10 5 (0.51%) NCSC
11 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.10%) GRC
13 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 398 (40.95%) Docker
2 22 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.62%) Squid
6 5 (0.51%) HDFS
6 5 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.21%) iptables
9 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.21%) vSphere
10 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 445 (45.78%) Terraform
2 423 (43.52%) Kubernetes
3 195 (20.06%) Ansible
4 189 (19.44%) Grafana
5 166 (17.08%) Prometheus
6 59 (6.07%) Argo
7 28 (2.88%) Puppet
8 24 (2.47%) Istio
9 16 (1.65%) Podman
10 14 (1.44%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (1.34%) Progress Chef
12 11 (1.13%) Check_MK
13 9 (0.93%) linkerd
13 9 (0.93%) Packer
13 9 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.72%) Kibana
15 6 (0.62%) Cilium
16 5 (0.51%) Data Guard
16 5 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.51%) Salt
Vendors
1 106 (10.91%) Oracle
2 60 (6.17%) Splunk
3 57 (5.86%) Microsoft
4 56 (5.76%) Talend
5 49 (5.04%) Informatica
6 46 (4.73%) Google
7 38 (3.91%) Red Hat
7 38 (3.91%) VMware
8 30 (3.09%) Denodo
9 29 (2.98%) Databricks
10 27 (2.78%) ServiceNow
11 25 (2.57%) Dynatrace
12 22 (2.26%) F5
13 20 (2.06%) Palo Alto
13 20 (2.06%) Salesforce
14 19 (1.95%) Arista
15 18 (1.85%) Aruba
16 15 (1.54%) Trend Micro
17 14 (1.44%) Veracode
18 12 (1.23%) Tenable