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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 146 217
Rank change year-on-year +12 +71 +33
Contract jobs citing GitLab 966 573 477
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.94% 1.95% 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.33% 13.32% 9.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 355 337
10th Percentile £384 £360 £400
25th Percentile £422 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £650
90th Percentile £675 £662 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 1 10
10th Percentile £40.83 - £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £56.69
Median hourly rate £63.75 £82.96 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.16% +15.22% +81.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £74.86
90th Percentile £75.00 - £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £74.22
% change year-on-year -24.66% +11.78% +87.42%

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 5,916 4,302 5,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.86% 14.65% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,826 2,879 3,517
10th Percentile £350 £330 £355
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 £588 £625
90th Percentile £686 £694 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 80 232
10th Percentile £34.85 £20.74 £31.30
25th Percentile £56.40 £45.82 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.04 £77.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -7.69% +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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +9 813 £500 -3.80% 139
UK excluding London +34 487 £475 -5.00% 108
London -13 332 £525 -0.94% 49
Work from Home +12 307 £475 -5.00% 81
North of England -5 197 £485 -1.42% 30
Midlands +11 130 £459 -8.20% 12
West Midlands +17 119 £461 -10.10% 9
North West -5 94 £525 +6.71% 14
Yorkshire -20 64 £500 - 7
South East -31 64 £550 +9.89% 30
North East +6 53 £413 -12.70% 9
South West +1 52 £500 -9.09% 19
East of England +2 38 £483 +1.58% 13
Scotland -11 22 £401 -0.37% 3
East Midlands -22 11 £425 +46.30% 3
Northern Ireland +5 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 93 (9.63%) Confluence
2 43 (4.45%) Apache Spark
3 42 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (4.35%) SAS
4 35 (3.62%) Apache
5 23 (2.38%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.93%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.72%) CICS
8 6 (0.62%) nginx
9 5 (0.52%) Camunda
9 5 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
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%) Apache Solr
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 3 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
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
1 607 (62.84%) AWS
2 326 (33.75%) GitHub
3 320 (33.13%) Azure
4 236 (24.43%) GitHub Actions
5 160 (16.56%) GCP
6 142 (14.70%) Serverless
7 140 (14.49%) Amazon S3
8 126 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
9 123 (12.73%) AWS Lambda
10 119 (12.32%) Azure DevOps
11 107 (11.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 98 (10.14%) Amazon EC2
13 84 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
14 71 (7.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 54 (5.59%) OpenShift
16 51 (5.28%) Amazon ECS
17 34 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
17 34 (3.52%) Azure AKS
18 31 (3.21%) Amazon EMR
18 31 (3.21%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.87%) Firewall
2 27 (2.80%) DNS
3 23 (2.38%) Network Security
4 21 (2.17%) BGP
4 21 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 21 (2.17%) WAN
5 20 (2.07%) OSPF
6 19 (1.97%) BIG-IP
6 19 (1.97%) Ethernet VPN
6 19 (1.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 19 (1.97%) SD-WAN
6 19 (1.97%) VXLAN
7 15 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (1.24%) VPN
9 11 (1.14%) WLAN
10 9 (0.93%) HTTP
11 7 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (0.52%) SSL
13 4 (0.41%) SAN
13 4 (0.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (6.21%) MongoDB
3 44 (4.55%) DynamoDB
4 43 (4.45%) NoSQL
5 42 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
5 42 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
5 42 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 42 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 37 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (3.62%) MySQL
8 30 (3.11%) Power BI
9 29 (3.00%) Pentaho
10 28 (2.90%) SQL Server
11 26 (2.69%) Big Data
11 26 (2.69%) Data Lake
12 25 (2.59%) Redis
13 21 (2.17%) Oracle Database
14 15 (1.55%) DocumentDB
15 14 (1.45%) BigQuery
16 12 (1.24%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 428 (44.31%) Jenkins
2 205 (21.22%) Git
3 153 (15.84%) JIRA
4 93 (9.63%) Selenium
5 68 (7.04%) JUnit
6 54 (5.59%) Cucumber
7 47 (4.87%) Postman
8 46 (4.76%) REST Assured
9 39 (4.04%) JMeter
10 35 (3.62%) Artifactory
10 35 (3.62%) SonarQube
11 34 (3.52%) Bitbucket
11 34 (3.52%) Gradle
12 28 (2.90%) Gatling
13 27 (2.80%) Mockito
13 27 (2.80%) WebDriver
14 19 (1.97%) CircleCI
15 18 (1.86%) Snyk
16 17 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
17 14 (1.45%) Serenity BDD
General
1 193 (19.98%) Social Skills
2 185 (19.15%) Public Sector
3 98 (10.14%) Finance
4 66 (6.83%) Banking
5 58 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (1.76%) Military
8 15 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.55%) Law
9 11 (1.14%) Retail
10 10 (1.04%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.04%) Legal
11 9 (0.93%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.62%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.52%) Police
13 5 (0.52%) Publishing
14 4 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.31%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 213 (22.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 154 (15.94%) Senior
3 144 (14.91%) Developer
4 113 (11.70%) AWS Engineer
5 95 (9.83%) Data Engineer
6 78 (8.07%) AWS DevOps
7 71 (7.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 65 (6.73%) Lead
9 57 (5.90%) Software Engineer
10 51 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
11 49 (5.07%) Java Developer
12 47 (4.87%) Test Engineer
13 45 (4.66%) Platform Engineer
14 44 (4.55%) Architect
15 34 (3.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 32 (3.31%) Senior DevOps
17 31 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 29 (3.00%) Full-Stack Developer
18 29 (3.00%) Tester
19 27 (2.80%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (12.94%) Kafka
1 125 (12.94%) Spring
2 111 (11.49%) REST
2 111 (11.49%) Spring Boot
3 78 (8.07%) RESTful
4 62 (6.42%) React
5 56 (5.80%) Node.js
6 46 (4.76%) Playwright
6 46 (4.76%) PySpark
7 40 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
8 35 (3.62%) OpenTelemetry
9 31 (3.21%) LDAP
10 29 (3.00%) OAuth
11 28 (2.90%) OpenID
11 28 (2.90%) YAML
12 27 (2.80%) AWS CDK
12 27 (2.80%) pytest
13 26 (2.69%) AngularJS
14 25 (2.59%) JSON
14 25 (2.59%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 178 (18.43%) Cloud Native
2 64 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (6.11%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.04%) Data Centre
5 32 (3.31%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
7 18 (1.86%) Public Cloud
8 17 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.24%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.24%) Private Cloud
10 10 (1.04%) Algorithms
11 9 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (0.93%) NHS
11 9 (0.93%) PKI
12 8 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.83%) Mainframe
13 7 (0.72%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.72%) DataPower
13 7 (0.72%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 178 (18.43%) Linux
2 54 (5.59%) Unix
3 46 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 39 (4.04%) Windows
5 15 (1.55%) CentOS
6 10 (1.04%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.83%) zOS
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%) AIX
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
1 781 (80.85%) CI/CD
2 557 (57.66%) DevOps
3 376 (38.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 355 (36.75%) Agile
5 321 (33.23%) Containerisation
6 303 (31.37%) Test Automation
7 197 (20.39%) Microservices
8 178 (18.43%) Observability
9 146 (15.11%) Scrum
10 141 (14.60%) Software Engineering
11 133 (13.77%) Platform Engineering
12 129 (13.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 127 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
14 101 (10.46%) ETL
15 95 (9.83%) DevSecOps
16 92 (9.52%) AI
17 86 (8.90%) Migration
18 81 (8.39%) Data Modelling
19 78 (8.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 77 (7.97%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 376 (38.92%) Python
2 249 (25.78%) Java
3 234 (24.22%) SQL
4 136 (14.08%) Bash
5 85 (8.80%) JavaScript
6 69 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 54 (5.59%) PowerShell
8 47 (4.87%) Shell Script
9 41 (4.24%) C#
10 37 (3.83%) Go
11 26 (2.69%) PL/SQL
12 18 (1.86%) Bicep
13 14 (1.45%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.24%) C++
15 11 (1.14%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.14%) Ruby
15 11 (1.14%) Scala
16 7 (0.72%) PHP
17 6 (0.62%) C
17 6 (0.62%) JCL
Qualifications
1 440 (45.55%) Security Cleared
2 379 (39.23%) SC Cleared
3 52 (5.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 41 (4.24%) Degree
5 36 (3.73%) DV Cleared
6 34 (3.52%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 13 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 13 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.14%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.04%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.62%) CISSP
13 4 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.41%) CSSLP
13 4 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.31%) CISM
14 3 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.31%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (10.14%) QA
2 43 (4.45%) Accessibility
3 38 (3.93%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.28%) SLA
5 12 (1.24%) WCAG
6 11 (1.14%) GDPR
6 11 (1.14%) NIST
7 9 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.52%) FATCA
10 5 (0.52%) 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
1 390 (40.37%) Docker
2 22 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.62%) Squid
6 5 (0.52%) HDFS
7 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 4 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.41%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.31%) vSphere
9 2 (0.21%) iptables
9 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 435 (45.03%) Terraform
2 424 (43.89%) Kubernetes
3 195 (20.19%) Ansible
4 194 (20.08%) Grafana
5 167 (17.29%) Prometheus
6 57 (5.90%) Argo
7 27 (2.80%) Puppet
8 24 (2.48%) Istio
9 15 (1.55%) Podman
10 14 (1.45%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (1.35%) Progress Chef
12 11 (1.14%) Check_MK
13 9 (0.93%) Packer
13 9 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.83%) linkerd
15 6 (0.62%) Cilium
15 6 (0.62%) Kibana
16 5 (0.52%) Salt
17 4 (0.41%) Data Guard
17 4 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 109 (11.28%) Oracle
2 61 (6.31%) Splunk
3 56 (5.80%) Microsoft
4 55 (5.69%) Talend
5 46 (4.76%) Google
6 44 (4.55%) Informatica
7 40 (4.14%) Red Hat
8 39 (4.04%) VMware
9 36 (3.73%) ServiceNow
10 30 (3.11%) Databricks
10 30 (3.11%) Denodo
11 26 (2.69%) Dynatrace
12 22 (2.28%) F5
13 20 (2.07%) Arista
13 20 (2.07%) Palo Alto
13 20 (2.07%) Salesforce
14 18 (1.86%) Aruba
15 13 (1.35%) Veracode
16 12 (1.24%) Trend Micro
17 11 (1.14%) IBM