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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 147 216
Rank change year-on-year +9 +69 -3
Contract jobs citing GitLab 919 574 462
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.94% 1.97% 1.07%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.86% 13.91% 9.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 368 332
10th Percentile £381 £370 £380
25th Percentile £416 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -5.83% -3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £650
90th Percentile £670 £705 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -3.90% -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 3 8
10th Percentile £42.13 £64.59 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £52.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £68.22
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +21.61% +72.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £75.21
90th Percentile £82.80 £92.59 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.00 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -26.47% +11.45% +65.42%

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 5,796 4,127 5,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.21% 14.18% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,816 2,752 3,431
10th Percentile £348 £340 £353
25th Percentile £406 £413 £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 £712 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 70 202
10th Percentile £36.13 £27.35 £33.20
25th Percentile £59.19 £48.50 £46.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.03% -7.31% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.06 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.90 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +18 764 £500 -5.66% 220
UK excluding London +26 456 £481 -3.90% 165
London -2 320 £525 -0.94% 67
Work from Home +3 271 £475 -8.65% 108
North of England -11 177 £487 -8.11% 53
Midlands +12 113 £463 +0.54% 32
West Midlands +11 98 £469 -11.68% 20
North West -6 93 £493 -1.50% 22
Yorkshire -18 61 £500 -13.04% 11
South East -48 58 £550 +9.89% 42
South West -3 54 £500 +9.41% 19
Scotland -3 33 £404 -7.77% 5
North East -5 33 £450 -14.29% 20
East of England -10 28 £478 +7.72% 12
East Midlands -17 15 £414 +42.34% 12
Northern Ireland +6 3 - - 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 69 (7.51%) Confluence
2 31 (3.37%) SAS
3 30 (3.26%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.94%) Apache
5 25 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.63%) nginx
6 15 (1.63%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.76%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.54%) CICS
9 4 (0.44%) 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
1 3 (0.33%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 558 (60.72%) AWS
2 308 (33.51%) GitHub
3 305 (33.19%) Azure
4 218 (23.72%) GitHub Actions
5 154 (16.76%) Serverless
6 146 (15.89%) GCP
7 137 (14.91%) Amazon S3
8 130 (14.15%) AWS Lambda
9 122 (13.28%) Amazon EKS
10 111 (12.08%) Azure DevOps
11 102 (11.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 96 (10.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 96 (10.45%) Amazon EC2
13 74 (8.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 65 (7.07%) OpenShift
15 56 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
16 35 (3.81%) Azure AKS
17 34 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
18 28 (3.05%) Power Platform
19 27 (2.94%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.92%) Firewall
2 27 (2.94%) DNS
3 17 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 16 (1.74%) Network Security
5 15 (1.63%) VPN
6 13 (1.41%) BGP
7 12 (1.31%) OSPF
8 11 (1.20%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (1.20%) HTTP
8 11 (1.20%) VXLAN
8 11 (1.20%) WAN
9 10 (1.09%) Reverse Proxy
10 9 (0.98%) BIG-IP
10 9 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 9 (0.98%) SD-WAN
11 7 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.54%) WLAN
13 4 (0.44%) Multicast
13 4 (0.44%) SAN
13 4 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (8.92%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (5.77%) MongoDB
3 46 (5.01%) Amazon RDS
4 43 (4.68%) DynamoDB
5 41 (4.46%) Relational Database
6 40 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
6 40 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 32 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 32 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (3.48%) MySQL
8 31 (3.37%) Data Lake
9 30 (3.26%) Redis
10 27 (2.94%) Power BI
11 25 (2.72%) Big Data
11 25 (2.72%) SQL Server
12 22 (2.39%) Pentaho
13 13 (1.41%) DocumentDB
14 12 (1.31%) Metadata
14 12 (1.31%) Oracle Database
15 11 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 409 (44.50%) Jenkins
2 195 (21.22%) Git
3 132 (14.36%) JIRA
4 81 (8.81%) Selenium
5 70 (7.62%) JUnit
6 54 (5.88%) Cucumber
7 47 (5.11%) Postman
8 39 (4.24%) JMeter
9 38 (4.13%) REST Assured
10 32 (3.48%) Bitbucket
11 31 (3.37%) Gradle
11 31 (3.37%) SonarQube
12 27 (2.94%) Artifactory
13 26 (2.83%) CircleCI
13 26 (2.83%) Mockito
14 25 (2.72%) Gatling
15 19 (2.07%) WebDriver
16 17 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
17 16 (1.74%) Maven
17 16 (1.74%) Snyk
General
1 184 (20.02%) Social Skills
2 163 (17.74%) Public Sector
3 115 (12.51%) Finance
4 66 (7.18%) Banking
5 56 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.31%) Military
8 11 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.20%) Retail
9 10 (1.09%) Aerospace
10 8 (0.87%) Financial Institution
10 8 (0.87%) Investment Banking
10 8 (0.87%) Law
11 7 (0.76%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.54%) Legal
13 4 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.44%) Police
13 4 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 192 (20.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 166 (18.06%) Developer
3 147 (16.00%) Senior
4 94 (10.23%) AWS Engineer
5 77 (8.38%) Data Engineer
6 67 (7.29%) Lead
7 66 (7.18%) AWS DevOps
8 60 (6.53%) Software Engineer
9 58 (6.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 55 (5.98%) Java Developer
11 53 (5.77%) Architect
12 38 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
12 38 (4.13%) Test Engineer
13 37 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
14 29 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
14 29 (3.16%) Senior DevOps
14 29 (3.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 26 (2.83%) Senior Developer
16 25 (2.72%) Tester
17 24 (2.61%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (14.36%) Spring
2 131 (14.25%) Kafka
3 113 (12.30%) Spring Boot
4 112 (12.19%) REST
5 81 (8.81%) Node.js
6 80 (8.71%) RESTful
7 67 (7.29%) React
8 56 (6.09%) Elastic Stack
9 44 (4.79%) Playwright
10 41 (4.46%) PySpark
11 36 (3.92%) OpenTelemetry
12 33 (3.59%) RabbitMQ
13 31 (3.37%) LDAP
14 30 (3.26%) Jest
14 30 (3.26%) YAML
15 29 (3.16%) OAuth
16 27 (2.94%) HTML
16 27 (2.94%) OpenID
16 27 (2.94%) pytest
17 26 (2.83%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 150 (16.32%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.75%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (6.31%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.26%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.94%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (1.85%) Public Cloud
8 13 (1.41%) Private Cloud
9 12 (1.31%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.20%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.20%) NHS
11 10 (1.09%) Mainframe
12 9 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (0.98%) PKI
13 8 (0.87%) DataPower
13 8 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 170 (18.50%) Linux
2 54 (5.88%) Windows
3 40 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 40 (4.35%) Unix
4 12 (1.31%) CentOS
5 8 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.87%) VMS
5 8 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.76%) Android
6 7 (0.76%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.76%) zOS
7 4 (0.44%) Debian
7 4 (0.44%) Rocky
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.11%) AIX
9 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 730 (79.43%) CI/CD
2 507 (55.17%) DevOps
3 336 (36.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 330 (35.91%) Agile
5 312 (33.95%) Containerisation
6 282 (30.69%) Test Automation
7 183 (19.91%) Microservices
8 168 (18.28%) Observability
9 140 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
10 133 (14.47%) Scrum
11 131 (14.25%) Software Engineering
12 123 (13.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 113 (12.30%) Platform Engineering
14 89 (9.68%) DevSecOps
15 88 (9.58%) ETL
16 83 (9.03%) Analytics
16 83 (9.03%) TDD
17 79 (8.60%) Migration
18 75 (8.16%) AI
19 73 (7.94%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 361 (39.28%) Python
2 267 (29.05%) Java
3 200 (21.76%) SQL
4 136 (14.80%) Bash
5 96 (10.45%) JavaScript
6 83 (9.03%) TypeScript
7 68 (7.40%) PowerShell
8 48 (5.22%) Shell Script
9 42 (4.57%) Go
10 35 (3.81%) C#
11 21 (2.29%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.18%) Bicep
13 19 (2.07%) Kotlin
14 13 (1.41%) C++
14 13 (1.41%) Ruby
15 11 (1.20%) Scala
16 9 (0.98%) C
16 9 (0.98%) MATLAB
17 8 (0.87%) Groovy
17 8 (0.87%) PHP
Qualifications
1 390 (42.44%) Security Cleared
2 327 (35.58%) SC Cleared
3 45 (4.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 44 (4.79%) Degree
5 35 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (3.70%) AWS Certification
7 26 (2.83%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.52%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (0.87%) SAFe Agilist
12 7 (0.76%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.54%) CISSP
14 5 (0.54%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.54%) OCA
15 4 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (11.10%) QA
2 49 (5.33%) Accessibility
3 31 (3.37%) Data Quality
4 19 (2.07%) SLA
5 18 (1.96%) GDPR
6 14 (1.52%) WCAG
7 11 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.09%) NIST
9 8 (0.87%) NCSC
9 8 (0.87%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.54%) FATCA
12 4 (0.44%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.22%) HL7
13 2 (0.22%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.11%) GRC
14 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.11%) MiFID
14 1 (0.11%) OpenSCAP
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 380 (41.35%) Docker
2 24 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.76%) HDFS
6 4 (0.44%) 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%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.22%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.11%) Squid
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 430 (46.79%) Kubernetes
2 395 (42.98%) Terraform
3 203 (22.09%) Grafana
4 194 (21.11%) Ansible
5 168 (18.28%) Prometheus
6 59 (6.42%) Argo
7 26 (2.83%) Puppet
8 21 (2.29%) Istio
9 17 (1.85%) Progress Chef
10 13 (1.41%) Podman
11 12 (1.31%) Kibana
11 12 (1.31%) Red Hat Satellite
12 9 (0.98%) Check_MK
12 9 (0.98%) linkerd
13 7 (0.76%) Packer
13 7 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.65%) Karpenter
15 5 (0.54%) Nagios
15 5 (0.54%) Rancher
16 4 (0.44%) Salt
Vendors
1 91 (9.90%) Oracle
2 64 (6.96%) Microsoft
3 63 (6.86%) Splunk
4 44 (4.79%) Red Hat
5 41 (4.46%) Google
6 35 (3.81%) VMware
7 34 (3.70%) Databricks
7 34 (3.70%) Talend
8 33 (3.59%) ServiceNow
9 32 (3.48%) Informatica
10 23 (2.50%) Dynatrace
11 21 (2.29%) Denodo
12 20 (2.18%) Salesforce
13 12 (1.31%) Arista
13 12 (1.31%) F5
14 11 (1.20%) IBM
14 11 (1.20%) Veracode
15 10 (1.09%) Palo Alto
16 9 (0.98%) Tenable
17 8 (0.87%) Aruba