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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 143 217
Rank change year-on-year +1 +74 +30
Contract jobs citing GitLab 998 650 477
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.89% 1.99% 1.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.02% 13.68% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 408 333
10th Percentile £368 £356 £381
25th Percentile £421 £432 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £650
90th Percentile £688 £660 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 10
10th Percentile £60.85 £61.60 £40.00
25th Percentile - £64.56 £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 £68.38 £74.86
90th Percentile £79.50 £75.64 £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 6,229 4,751 5,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 14.54% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,012 3,193 3,531
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 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £690 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 101 247
10th Percentile £26.25 £22.05 £29.95
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.09% -2.31% +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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +3 845 £500 -2.44% 215
UK excluding London +6 490 £475 -5.00% 157
London +1 355 £525 - 88
Work from Home +13 343 £475 -9.52% 100
North of England -13 196 £453 -4.63% 56
Midlands +27 137 £463 -7.50% 20
West Midlands +21 130 £463 -11.90% 13
North West -23 87 £525 +7.14% 37
North East +11 70 £413 -11.29% 11
South East -48 68 £550 +9.89% 20
Yorkshire -39 56 £540 +10.77% 8
South West -14 52 £510 -15.00% 38
East of England -11 32 £483 +7.22% 8
Scotland -17 21 £401 +0.13% 14
East Midlands -14 7 £470 +74.07% 7
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 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
1 107 (10.72%) Confluence
2 57 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (5.11%) Apache Spark
4 43 (4.31%) SAS
5 42 (4.21%) Apache
6 29 (2.91%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.70%) CICS
8 6 (0.60%) nginx
8 6 (0.60%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.50%) Camunda
10 4 (0.40%) CMS
11 3 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
12 2 (0.20%) WordPress
13 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.10%) Trello
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
1 660 (66.13%) AWS
2 329 (32.97%) GitHub
3 317 (31.76%) Azure
4 234 (23.45%) GitHub Actions
5 156 (15.63%) GCP
6 147 (14.73%) Serverless
7 146 (14.63%) Amazon S3
8 131 (13.13%) AWS Lambda
9 127 (12.73%) Azure DevOps
10 120 (12.02%) Amazon EKS
11 108 (10.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 107 (10.72%) Amazon EC2
13 78 (7.82%) AWS CloudFormation
14 70 (7.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 50 (5.01%) Amazon ECS
16 43 (4.31%) OpenShift
17 42 (4.21%) Amazon EMR
18 34 (3.41%) OCI
19 33 (3.31%) Power Platform
20 32 (3.21%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.11%) Firewall
2 25 (2.51%) Network Security
3 21 (2.10%) BGP
3 21 (2.10%) WAN
4 20 (2.00%) OSPF
5 19 (1.90%) BIG-IP
5 19 (1.90%) Ethernet VPN
5 19 (1.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 19 (1.90%) SD-WAN
5 19 (1.90%) VXLAN
6 18 (1.80%) DNS
7 16 (1.60%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (1.20%) VPN
10 11 (1.10%) WLAN
11 9 (0.90%) HTTP
12 7 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.40%) MQTT
13 4 (0.40%) SSL
14 3 (0.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (7.31%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (6.51%) MongoDB
3 53 (5.31%) Relational Database
4 50 (5.01%) Amazon Athena
4 50 (5.01%) Amazon Redshift
5 45 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
6 40 (4.01%) Amazon RDS
7 38 (3.81%) DynamoDB
8 37 (3.71%) NoSQL
9 31 (3.11%) Pentaho
10 30 (3.01%) Oracle Database
10 30 (3.01%) Power BI
11 29 (2.91%) SQL Server
12 27 (2.71%) Big Data
13 24 (2.40%) Data Lake
13 24 (2.40%) MySQL
14 20 (2.00%) RDBMS
15 17 (1.70%) Redis
16 14 (1.40%) Metadata
17 13 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 431 (43.19%) Jenkins
2 218 (21.84%) Git
3 152 (15.23%) JIRA
4 88 (8.82%) Selenium
5 73 (7.31%) JUnit
6 49 (4.91%) Cucumber
7 45 (4.51%) SonarQube
8 43 (4.31%) Postman
9 39 (3.91%) JMeter
10 38 (3.81%) Bitbucket
11 37 (3.71%) REST Assured
12 36 (3.61%) Artifactory
13 34 (3.41%) Mockito
14 31 (3.11%) Gatling
15 30 (3.01%) Gradle
16 29 (2.91%) WebDriver
17 27 (2.71%) Maven
18 20 (2.00%) Snyk
19 15 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
20 14 (1.40%) Serenity BDD
General
1 194 (19.44%) Public Sector
2 191 (19.14%) Social Skills
3 98 (9.82%) Finance
4 68 (6.81%) Banking
5 59 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (1.90%) Military
9 14 (1.40%) Law
10 13 (1.30%) Legal
11 10 (1.00%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.70%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.60%) 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
1 221 (22.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 172 (17.23%) Senior
3 157 (15.73%) Developer
4 123 (12.32%) AWS Engineer
5 104 (10.42%) Data Engineer
6 83 (8.32%) AWS DevOps
7 75 (7.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.61%) Lead
9 54 (5.41%) Java Developer
10 50 (5.01%) Platform Engineer
11 48 (4.81%) Software Engineer
12 46 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
12 46 (4.61%) Test Engineer
13 45 (4.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 36 (3.61%) Architect
15 33 (3.31%) Tester
16 31 (3.11%) Senior DevOps
17 30 (3.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 28 (2.81%) Full-Stack Developer
19 26 (2.61%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (12.42%) Kafka
2 120 (12.02%) Spring
3 108 (10.82%) REST
4 104 (10.42%) Spring Boot
5 82 (8.22%) RESTful
6 64 (6.41%) React
7 54 (5.41%) PySpark
8 53 (5.31%) Node.js
9 52 (5.21%) Playwright
10 38 (3.81%) Elastic Stack
11 37 (3.71%) YAML
12 35 (3.51%) JSON
13 33 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
14 27 (2.71%) AWS CDK
14 27 (2.71%) WireMock
15 26 (2.61%) HTML
16 25 (2.51%) pytest
17 24 (2.40%) CSS
17 24 (2.40%) Keycloak
17 24 (2.40%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 186 (18.64%) Cloud Native
2 67 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (5.61%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.41%) Onboarding
5 31 (3.11%) Data Centre
6 25 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (2.30%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.50%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.50%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.10%) Mainframe
12 10 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.00%) Private Cloud
13 9 (0.90%) AI Agents
13 9 (0.90%) NHS
14 8 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.80%) PKI
15 7 (0.70%) DataPower
15 7 (0.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 193 (19.34%) Linux
2 50 (5.01%) Unix
3 43 (4.31%) Windows
4 36 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.10%) AIX
5 11 (1.10%) zOS
6 9 (0.90%) CentOS
7 8 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.50%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.30%) Debian
9 3 (0.30%) Rocky
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
1 819 (82.06%) CI/CD
2 585 (58.62%) DevOps
3 405 (40.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 378 (37.88%) Agile
5 338 (33.87%) Containerisation
6 311 (31.16%) Test Automation
7 193 (19.34%) Microservices
8 159 (15.93%) Observability
9 151 (15.13%) Scrum
10 143 (14.33%) Platform Engineering
11 141 (14.13%) Software Engineering
12 138 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 132 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
14 105 (10.52%) AI
15 96 (9.62%) ETL
16 95 (9.52%) DevSecOps
17 89 (8.92%) Migration
18 87 (8.72%) Event-Driven
19 84 (8.42%) Data Modelling
20 82 (8.22%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 406 (40.68%) Python
2 240 (24.05%) Java
3 225 (22.55%) SQL
4 148 (14.83%) Bash
5 84 (8.42%) JavaScript
6 70 (7.01%) TypeScript
7 58 (5.81%) PowerShell
8 50 (5.01%) C#
9 38 (3.81%) Go
10 34 (3.41%) Shell Script
11 22 (2.20%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.00%) Bicep
13 13 (1.30%) C++
14 12 (1.20%) Scala
15 8 (0.80%) Cypher
15 8 (0.80%) Ruby
16 6 (0.60%) C
16 6 (0.60%) JCL
16 6 (0.60%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 476 (47.70%) Security Cleared
2 407 (40.78%) SC Cleared
3 65 (6.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 47 (4.71%) DV Cleared
5 43 (4.31%) Degree
6 39 (3.91%) AWS Certification
7 29 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (1.40%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.00%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.90%) CISSP
15 6 (0.60%) CSSLP
16 5 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
17 4 (0.40%) GIAC
17 4 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
18 3 (0.30%) CISM
19 2 (0.20%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (9.52%) QA
2 51 (5.11%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.51%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.10%) SLA
4 11 (1.10%) WCAG
5 9 (0.90%) NIST
6 5 (0.50%) FATCA
6 5 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.40%) GDPR
7 4 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.20%) NCSC
9 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.10%) GRC
10 1 (0.10%) MIL-STD-1553
10 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
10 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 409 (40.98%) Docker
2 24 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
6 7 (0.70%) HDFS
7 5 (0.50%) Squid
8 4 (0.40%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.20%) iptables
10 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.10%) vSphere
11 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 471 (47.19%) Terraform
2 436 (43.69%) Kubernetes
3 206 (20.64%) Ansible
4 181 (18.14%) Grafana
5 163 (16.33%) Prometheus
6 52 (5.21%) Argo
7 35 (3.51%) Puppet
8 17 (1.70%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.30%) Istio
10 12 (1.20%) Data Guard
10 12 (1.20%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (1.00%) Packer
11 10 (1.00%) Podman
12 8 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
13 7 (0.70%) Kibana
13 7 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.60%) Cilium
14 6 (0.60%) Salt
15 5 (0.50%) Check_MK
15 5 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 115 (11.52%) Oracle
2 57 (5.71%) Talend
3 56 (5.61%) Informatica
4 55 (5.51%) Microsoft
5 54 (5.41%) Splunk
6 50 (5.01%) Google
7 30 (3.01%) Denodo
8 27 (2.71%) Databricks
8 27 (2.71%) VMware
9 25 (2.51%) Red Hat
10 24 (2.40%) ServiceNow
11 22 (2.20%) Dynatrace
11 22 (2.20%) F5
12 20 (2.00%) Palo Alto
12 20 (2.00%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.80%) Arista
13 18 (1.80%) Aruba
14 17 (1.70%) Trend Micro
15 15 (1.50%) IBM
16 14 (1.40%) Veracode