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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 140 221
Rank change year-on-year +6 +81 +28
Contract jobs citing GitLab 943 582 464
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.93% 2.04% 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.17% 14.04% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 368 334
10th Percentile £386 £374 £400
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £650
90th Percentile £668 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £545
% change year-on-year -3.80% -8.26% +0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 1 9
10th Percentile £44.72 - £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £56.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +18.51% +76.77%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £75.00
90th Percentile £80.20 - £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 5,833 4,144 5,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.50% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,810 2,794 3,436
10th Percentile £350 £340 £353
25th Percentile £409 £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 252 70 215
10th Percentile £35.00 £20.86 £29.30
25th Percentile £54.69 £45.48 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -11.35% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.19 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.04 £77.50
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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -2 797 £500 -4.76% 180
UK excluding London +19 481 £481 -3.80% 143
London -15 320 £525 -0.94% 56
Work from Home +7 288 £475 -5.00% 95
North of England -5 193 £500 - 59
Midlands +6 121 £463 -6.09% 18
West Midlands +13 109 £463 -11.90% 11
North West +1 97 £500 - 28
Yorkshire -20 68 £494 -6.00% 11
South East -29 68 £546 +9.14% 33
South West +5 57 £500 +6.95% 14
North East -3 42 £450 -14.29% 20
East of England -5 35 £480 +6.72% 8
Scotland -7 24 £401 -7.93% 5
East Midlands -24 12 £436 +40.19% 7
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 5

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 80 (8.48%) Confluence
2 39 (4.14%) SAS
3 31 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.29%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.97%) Apache
5 13 (1.38%) nginx
6 11 (1.17%) Jupyter
6 11 (1.17%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.74%) CICS
8 5 (0.53%) Camunda
8 5 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
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
1 574 (60.87%) AWS
2 317 (33.62%) GitHub
3 314 (33.30%) Azure
4 226 (23.97%) GitHub Actions
5 160 (16.97%) GCP
6 137 (14.53%) Serverless
7 131 (13.89%) Amazon S3
8 119 (12.62%) Amazon EKS
9 115 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
10 111 (11.77%) Azure DevOps
11 99 (10.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 97 (10.29%) Amazon EC2
13 87 (9.23%) AWS CloudFormation
14 68 (7.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 64 (6.79%) OpenShift
16 44 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
17 36 (3.82%) Azure AKS
18 35 (3.71%) Amazon SQS
19 28 (2.97%) Power Platform
20 27 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.88%) Firewall
2 30 (3.18%) DNS
3 21 (2.23%) Network Security
3 21 (2.23%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.01%) BGP
4 19 (2.01%) WAN
5 18 (1.91%) OSPF
6 17 (1.80%) BIG-IP
6 17 (1.80%) Ethernet VPN
6 17 (1.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 17 (1.80%) SD-WAN
6 17 (1.80%) VXLAN
7 15 (1.59%) VPN
8 13 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (1.17%) HTTP
10 10 (1.06%) Reverse Proxy
11 9 (0.95%) WLAN
12 4 (0.42%) SAN
12 4 (0.42%) SSL
13 3 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (8.48%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (6.47%) MongoDB
3 44 (4.67%) NoSQL
4 43 (4.56%) Relational Database
5 42 (4.45%) DynamoDB
6 41 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
7 35 (3.71%) Amazon Athena
7 35 (3.71%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 34 (3.61%) MySQL
9 29 (3.08%) Data Lake
10 27 (2.86%) Power BI
10 27 (2.86%) Redis
10 27 (2.86%) SQL Server
11 25 (2.65%) Big Data
12 24 (2.55%) Pentaho
13 16 (1.70%) Oracle Database
14 14 (1.48%) DocumentDB
15 13 (1.38%) BigQuery
16 12 (1.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 413 (43.80%) Jenkins
2 202 (21.42%) Git
3 138 (14.63%) JIRA
4 86 (9.12%) Selenium
5 67 (7.10%) JUnit
6 50 (5.30%) Cucumber
7 47 (4.98%) Postman
8 46 (4.88%) REST Assured
9 37 (3.92%) Gradle
10 36 (3.82%) Artifactory
11 35 (3.71%) JMeter
12 33 (3.50%) SonarQube
13 32 (3.39%) Bitbucket
14 28 (2.97%) Gatling
15 26 (2.76%) Mockito
16 23 (2.44%) CircleCI
17 20 (2.12%) WebDriver
18 18 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
19 17 (1.80%) Snyk
20 15 (1.59%) Maven
General
1 189 (20.04%) Social Skills
2 170 (18.03%) Public Sector
3 98 (10.39%) Finance
4 66 (7.00%) Banking
5 53 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.48%) Military
8 12 (1.27%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.17%) Retail
10 10 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.95%) Investment Banking
12 8 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.85%) Law
12 8 (0.85%) Legal
13 4 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.42%) Police
13 4 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.32%) Local Government
14 3 (0.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 198 (21.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 155 (16.44%) Developer
3 147 (15.59%) Senior
4 100 (10.60%) AWS Engineer
5 86 (9.12%) Data Engineer
6 65 (6.89%) AWS DevOps
7 64 (6.79%) Lead
8 61 (6.47%) Software Engineer
9 59 (6.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 50 (5.30%) Java Developer
11 47 (4.98%) Architect
11 47 (4.98%) Cloud Engineer
12 43 (4.56%) Platform Engineer
13 40 (4.24%) Test Engineer
14 31 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 29 (3.08%) Senior DevOps
16 28 (2.97%) Full-Stack Developer
16 28 (2.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 28 (2.97%) Tester
17 27 (2.86%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (13.89%) Kafka
2 125 (13.26%) Spring
3 114 (12.09%) REST
4 111 (11.77%) Spring Boot
5 77 (8.17%) RESTful
6 65 (6.89%) Node.js
6 65 (6.89%) React
7 48 (5.09%) Elastic Stack
8 47 (4.98%) Playwright
9 41 (4.35%) PySpark
10 37 (3.92%) OpenTelemetry
11 32 (3.39%) LDAP
12 31 (3.29%) OAuth
13 30 (3.18%) JSON
13 30 (3.18%) YAML
14 26 (2.76%) HTML
14 26 (2.76%) OpenID
14 26 (2.76%) pytest
15 25 (2.65%) Jest
16 24 (2.55%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 160 (16.97%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (5.94%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.03%) Data Centre
5 31 (3.29%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.59%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.48%) Private Cloud
10 12 (1.27%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
10 12 (1.27%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.06%) PKI
12 9 (0.95%) Mainframe
12 9 (0.95%) NHS
13 8 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (0.74%) DataPower
15 6 (0.64%) Data Structures
15 6 (0.64%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 169 (17.92%) Linux
2 51 (5.41%) Unix
3 46 (4.88%) Windows
4 44 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.59%) CentOS
6 10 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.95%) zOS
8 6 (0.64%) VMS
9 5 (0.53%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.42%) Debian
10 4 (0.42%) Rocky
10 4 (0.42%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.32%) Android
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.11%) AIX
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 752 (79.75%) CI/CD
2 533 (56.52%) DevOps
3 355 (37.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 330 (34.99%) Agile
5 306 (32.45%) Containerisation
6 284 (30.12%) Test Automation
7 181 (19.19%) Microservices
8 177 (18.77%) Observability
9 143 (15.16%) Software Engineering
10 137 (14.53%) Scrum
11 124 (13.15%) Platform Engineering
12 123 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
13 122 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 94 (9.97%) ETL
15 89 (9.44%) DevSecOps
16 79 (8.38%) TDD
17 78 (8.27%) Analytics
18 76 (8.06%) Migration
19 74 (7.85%) AI
19 74 (7.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 367 (38.92%) Python
2 250 (26.51%) Java
3 222 (23.54%) SQL
4 142 (15.06%) Bash
5 87 (9.23%) JavaScript
6 71 (7.53%) TypeScript
7 63 (6.68%) PowerShell
8 48 (5.09%) Shell Script
9 38 (4.03%) Go
10 37 (3.92%) C#
11 25 (2.65%) PL/SQL
12 18 (1.91%) Bicep
13 17 (1.80%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.59%) C++
15 11 (1.17%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.17%) Ruby
15 11 (1.17%) Scala
16 8 (0.85%) C
17 7 (0.74%) Groovy
17 7 (0.74%) PHP
Qualifications
1 415 (44.01%) Security Cleared
2 348 (36.90%) SC Cleared
3 47 (4.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 42 (4.45%) Degree
5 35 (3.71%) DV Cleared
6 31 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.44%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.17%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.17%) ISTQB
9 10 (1.06%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.53%) CISSP
13 4 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.42%) CSSLP
13 4 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.32%) CISM
14 3 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (10.07%) QA
2 51 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 32 (3.39%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.33%) SLA
5 15 (1.59%) GDPR
6 14 (1.48%) WCAG
7 11 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.06%) NIST
8 10 (1.06%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.64%) NCSC
10 5 (0.53%) FATCA
11 4 (0.42%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
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%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 376 (39.87%) Docker
2 23 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.64%) HDFS
5 6 (0.64%) Squid
6 4 (0.42%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.32%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.21%) iptables
8 2 (0.21%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.11%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 419 (44.43%) Kubernetes
1 419 (44.43%) Terraform
2 203 (21.53%) Grafana
3 202 (21.42%) Ansible
4 170 (18.03%) Prometheus
5 57 (6.04%) Argo
6 29 (3.08%) Puppet
7 23 (2.44%) Istio
8 16 (1.70%) Podman
8 16 (1.70%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
10 11 (1.17%) Check_MK
11 10 (1.06%) Kibana
12 9 (0.95%) linkerd
12 9 (0.95%) Packer
13 7 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.64%) Cilium
14 6 (0.64%) Karpenter
15 4 (0.42%) Rancher
15 4 (0.42%) Suricata
Vendors
1 101 (10.71%) Oracle
2 68 (7.21%) Splunk
3 58 (6.15%) Microsoft
4 48 (5.09%) Talend
5 46 (4.88%) Google
5 46 (4.88%) Red Hat
6 38 (4.03%) Informatica
6 38 (4.03%) VMware
7 37 (3.92%) ServiceNow
8 32 (3.39%) Databricks
9 28 (2.97%) Denodo
10 26 (2.76%) Dynatrace
11 20 (2.12%) F5
11 20 (2.12%) Salesforce
12 18 (1.91%) Arista
12 18 (1.91%) Palo Alto
13 16 (1.70%) Aruba
14 12 (1.27%) Veracode
15 11 (1.17%) Tenable
16 9 (0.95%) IBM