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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 159 264
Rank change year-on-year +33 +105 -91
Contract jobs citing GitLab 738 578 464
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.24% 1.54% 0.97%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.53% 11.57% 7.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 386 341
10th Percentile £375 £356 £413
25th Percentile £440 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -5.17%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 4
10th Percentile £59.75 £70.40 -
25th Percentile £61.75 - £39.60
Median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £49.80
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +48.59% -12.44%
75th Percentile - £74.72 £66.88
90th Percentile £68.10 £80.00 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.46% +5.71% +27.27%

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 5,080 4,994 6,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.43% 13.32% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,451 3,116 4,416
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -0.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £645
90th Percentile £688 £721 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £513
% change year-on-year -4.04% -3.41% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 168 246
10th Percentile £16.84 £29.67 £46.18
25th Percentile £42.75 £51.19 £51.75
Median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £68.50 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.88 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Top 17 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 October 2025. 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 +18 602 £520 -3.70% 196
UK excluding London +47 359 £500 - 176
Work from Home +52 232 £525 -2.33% 237
London -9 231 £525 -11.58% 70
North of England +21 173 £476 +11.88% 59
Yorkshire +11 84 £500 +17.65% 13
North West +15 66 £402 +0.50% 35
Midlands +21 57 £530 +17.93% 17
West Midlands +22 52 £538 +9.92% 13
South East +2 43 £500 +6.38% 47
South West +22 36 £600 +5.26% 27
East of England +13 32 £475 +40.74% 8
North East -2 24 £575 +28.64% 11
Scotland 0 23 £441 +10.31% 19
Northern Ireland -4 5 - - 1
East Midlands -11 5 £270 -32.92% 3
Wales +1 4 £495 -6.82% 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 49 (6.64%) Confluence
2 23 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (2.17%) OpenStack
4 11 (1.49%) Apache
5 10 (1.36%) Documentum
6 9 (1.22%) Anypoint
6 9 (1.22%) Apache Spark
6 9 (1.22%) FileNet
6 9 (1.22%) Mule
7 7 (0.95%) Appian
8 6 (0.81%) SAS
9 5 (0.68%) CMS
10 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.41%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.41%) Hyperledger
12 2 (0.27%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.27%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.14%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.14%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 436 (59.08%) AWS
2 207 (28.05%) Azure
3 194 (26.29%) GitHub
4 152 (20.60%) GCP
5 114 (15.45%) GitHub Actions
6 97 (13.14%) Serverless
7 90 (12.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 82 (11.11%) Amazon S3
9 80 (10.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 75 (10.16%) Amazon EC2
11 74 (10.03%) Azure DevOps
12 68 (9.21%) Amazon EKS
13 64 (8.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 60 (8.13%) Amazon ECS
15 53 (7.18%) AWS Lambda
16 33 (4.47%) OpenShift
17 25 (3.39%) Azure AKS
18 24 (3.25%) Datadog
18 24 (3.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 19 (2.57%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 53 (7.18%) DNS
2 49 (6.64%) Firewall
3 36 (4.88%) VPN
4 28 (3.79%) TCP/IP
5 24 (3.25%) Network Security
6 21 (2.85%) SSL
7 9 (1.22%) BGP
7 9 (1.22%) SAN
8 7 (0.95%) AMQP
8 7 (0.95%) DSL
8 7 (0.95%) Ethernet VPN
8 7 (0.95%) WAN
9 6 (0.81%) HTTP
10 5 (0.68%) OpenLDAP
10 5 (0.68%) OSPF
10 5 (0.68%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.54%) iSCSI
11 4 (0.54%) MPLS
11 4 (0.54%) VXLAN
12 3 (0.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (10.43%) MongoDB
2 67 (9.08%) NoSQL
3 62 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
4 59 (7.99%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (3.25%) SQL Server
6 16 (2.17%) Big Data
7 15 (2.03%) MySQL
8 14 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (1.76%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.36%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.08%) Oracle Database
12 8 (1.08%) Power BI
13 7 (0.95%) Redis
13 7 (0.95%) SAP HANA
14 6 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (0.68%) BigQuery
15 5 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.68%) HPCC
16 4 (0.54%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 352 (47.70%) Jenkins
2 166 (22.49%) Git
3 107 (14.50%) JIRA
4 57 (7.72%) Selenium
5 53 (7.18%) Cucumber
5 53 (7.18%) Maven
6 52 (7.05%) SonarQube
7 45 (6.10%) JUnit
8 34 (4.61%) Artifactory
9 32 (4.34%) Cypress.io
9 32 (4.34%) Liquibase
10 30 (4.07%) Bitbucket
11 28 (3.79%) Sonatype Nexus
12 26 (3.52%) Gradle
13 25 (3.39%) Postman
14 23 (3.12%) TeamCity
15 22 (2.98%) JMeter
16 19 (2.57%) REST Assured
17 18 (2.44%) Mockito
18 15 (2.03%) Gatling
General
1 182 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 117 (15.85%) Finance
3 89 (12.06%) Public Sector
4 79 (10.70%) Banking
5 44 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (4.20%) Financial Institution
7 20 (2.71%) Telecoms
8 16 (2.17%) Aerospace
9 13 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.76%) Military
10 8 (1.08%) Games
11 6 (0.81%) Retail Banking
12 5 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.68%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.68%) Marketing
13 4 (0.54%) Retail
14 3 (0.41%) Front Office
14 3 (0.41%) Law
15 2 (0.27%) German Language
15 2 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 183 (24.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 152 (20.60%) Developer
3 130 (17.62%) Senior
4 87 (11.79%) AWS Engineer
5 53 (7.18%) Java Developer
6 52 (7.05%) Software Engineer
7 47 (6.37%) AWS DevOps
8 46 (6.23%) Lead
8 46 (6.23%) Senior DevOps
8 46 (6.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 42 (5.69%) Cloud Engineer
10 41 (5.56%) Architect
10 41 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 30 (4.07%) Test Engineer
12 28 (3.79%) GCP Engineer
12 28 (3.79%) Senior Developer
13 26 (3.52%) Data Engineer
14 25 (3.39%) Automation Engineer
15 23 (3.12%) Consultant
16 22 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (14.50%) REST
2 89 (12.06%) RESTful
3 87 (11.79%) Kafka
4 76 (10.30%) Elastic Stack
5 69 (9.35%) Node.js
6 56 (7.59%) Spring Boot
7 53 (7.18%) Spring
8 52 (7.05%) React
9 44 (5.96%) HTML
10 39 (5.28%) Playwright
11 33 (4.47%) JSON
12 31 (4.20%) CSS
13 27 (3.66%) .NET
14 26 (3.52%) AngularJS
15 23 (3.12%) OAuth
15 23 (3.12%) RabbitMQ
16 22 (2.98%) XML
17 17 (2.30%) Jest
18 16 (2.17%) OAuth2
19 15 (2.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 105 (14.23%) Cloud Native
2 61 (8.27%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.10%) Public Cloud
4 25 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.85%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.90%) Algorithms
8 14 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (1.76%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.63%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.63%) PKI
11 11 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.49%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.22%) Security Posture
13 7 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
14 4 (0.54%) Clustering
14 4 (0.54%) Derivative
14 4 (0.54%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 169 (22.90%) Linux
2 40 (5.42%) Windows
3 34 (4.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 33 (4.47%) Unix
5 19 (2.57%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.76%) CentOS
7 8 (1.08%) Android
7 8 (1.08%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.95%) Solaris
9 6 (0.81%) SUSE
10 5 (0.68%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.27%) VMS
11 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.27%) zOS
12 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (74.66%) CI/CD
2 457 (61.92%) DevOps
3 322 (43.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 280 (37.94%) Containerisation
5 254 (34.42%) Agile
6 182 (24.66%) Microservices
7 174 (23.58%) Test Automation
8 110 (14.91%) Software Engineering
9 109 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
10 105 (14.23%) Infrastructure Automation
11 90 (12.20%) Computer Science
12 87 (11.79%) Migration
13 84 (11.38%) Observability
14 81 (10.98%) DevSecOps
15 75 (10.16%) Scrum
16 74 (10.03%) High Availability
17 71 (9.62%) Continuous Integration
17 71 (9.62%) SDLC
18 63 (8.54%) Mentoring
19 58 (7.86%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 330 (44.72%) Python
2 196 (26.56%) Java
3 147 (19.92%) Bash
4 98 (13.28%) SQL
5 97 (13.14%) JavaScript
6 85 (11.52%) Go
7 59 (7.99%) PowerShell
8 49 (6.64%) TypeScript
9 35 (4.74%) Shell Script
10 32 (4.34%) C#
11 17 (2.30%) Rust
12 13 (1.76%) C++
13 10 (1.36%) C
14 9 (1.22%) DataWeave
15 6 (0.81%) Perl
16 5 (0.68%) Groovy
17 4 (0.54%) Korn
17 4 (0.54%) Ruby
18 3 (0.41%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 250 (33.88%) Security Cleared
2 194 (26.29%) SC Cleared
3 81 (10.98%) Degree
4 67 (9.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (7.59%) AWS Certification
6 39 (5.28%) Master's Degree
7 38 (5.15%) DV Cleared
8 31 (4.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 25 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.22%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.95%) CISSP
12 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.68%) CCNP
12 5 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.68%) CISM
13 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.41%) GWAPT
14 3 (0.41%) OCA
14 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (11.79%) QA
2 28 (3.79%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.30%) PCI DSS
4 16 (2.17%) WCAG
5 15 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.90%) GDPR
7 13 (1.76%) NCSC
8 9 (1.22%) NIST
9 8 (1.08%) Data Quality
10 7 (0.95%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.54%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.54%) SLA
12 3 (0.41%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.27%) MISRA
13 2 (0.27%) MISRA C
14 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 317 (42.95%) Docker
2 22 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.81%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 4 (0.54%) vSphere
7 2 (0.27%) Ceph
7 2 (0.27%) Firmware
7 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.14%) KVM
8 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 388 (52.57%) Terraform
2 357 (48.37%) Kubernetes
3 239 (32.38%) Ansible
4 152 (20.60%) Grafana
5 133 (18.02%) Prometheus
6 38 (5.15%) Puppet
7 35 (4.74%) Argo
8 25 (3.39%) Progress Chef
9 15 (2.03%) Packer
10 13 (1.76%) Istio
11 10 (1.36%) Jamf Pro
11 10 (1.36%) Podman
12 9 (1.22%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.95%) Salt
14 5 (0.68%) Fluentd
14 5 (0.68%) logstash
14 5 (0.68%) Rundeck
14 5 (0.68%) vRealize
15 4 (0.54%) Consul
15 4 (0.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 88 (11.92%) Splunk
2 59 (7.99%) Microsoft
3 49 (6.64%) Google
4 40 (5.42%) Oracle
5 28 (3.79%) Red Hat
6 27 (3.66%) Dynatrace
7 26 (3.52%) VMware
8 24 (3.25%) F5
9 23 (3.12%) Palo Alto
10 22 (2.98%) Cisco
11 20 (2.71%) CheckPoint
11 20 (2.71%) SAP
12 16 (2.17%) IBM
12 16 (2.17%) MuleSoft
13 14 (1.90%) Veracode
14 13 (1.76%) Databricks
14 13 (1.76%) ServiceNow
15 12 (1.63%) Atlassian
16 10 (1.36%) Commvault
17 9 (1.22%) Veritas