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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 140 218
Rank change year-on-year 0 +78 +31
Contract jobs citing GitLab 987 608 479
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.92% 1.98% 1.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.17% 13.54% 9.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 374 336
10th Percentile £368 £358 £391
25th Percentile £415 £440 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £580 £593 £650
90th Percentile £686 £673 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £521
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.03% -3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 3 10
10th Percentile £52.50 £62.50 £40.00
25th Percentile £63.13 £64.38 £58.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -5.41% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £77.73 £74.86
90th Percentile £89.00 £80.87 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £74.22
% change year-on-year -15.01% +3.05% +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 6,103 4,490 5,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.87% 14.60% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,933 2,998 3,522
10th Percentile £350 £331 £353
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £625
90th Percentile £688 £695 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 91 251
10th Percentile £26.20 £20.86 £31.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +7 837 £500 -3.57% 210
UK excluding London +13 485 £475 -5.00% 154
London -5 355 £525 - 75
Work from Home +11 338 £475 -9.52% 113
North of England -5 193 £453 -5.63% 42
Midlands +25 134 £463 -7.50% 24
West Midlands +28 126 £463 -11.90% 17
North West -10 87 £500 +4.17% 22
North East +7 67 £400 -13.98% 13
South East -37 66 £550 +9.89% 30
Yorkshire -29 55 £540 +5.37% 7
South West -7 54 £500 -13.04% 35
East of England 0 35 £480 +1.11% 12
Scotland -10 19 £401 -0.37% 10
East Midlands -11 8 £459 +69.81% 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
1 106 (10.74%) Confluence
2 54 (5.47%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (4.96%) Apache Spark
4 43 (4.36%) SAS
5 42 (4.26%) Apache
6 29 (2.94%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.71%) CICS
8 6 (0.61%) nginx
8 6 (0.61%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.51%) Camunda
10 3 (0.30%) CMS
10 3 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
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
1 645 (65.35%) AWS
2 327 (33.13%) GitHub
3 321 (32.52%) Azure
4 231 (23.40%) GitHub Actions
5 155 (15.70%) GCP
6 146 (14.79%) Amazon S3
6 146 (14.79%) Serverless
7 128 (12.97%) AWS Lambda
8 124 (12.56%) Azure DevOps
9 120 (12.16%) Amazon EKS
10 108 (10.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 106 (10.74%) Amazon EC2
12 79 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 70 (7.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 50 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
15 45 (4.56%) OpenShift
16 42 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
17 36 (3.65%) Power Platform
18 32 (3.24%) Amazon SQS
19 31 (3.14%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.15%) Firewall
2 25 (2.53%) Network Security
3 21 (2.13%) BGP
3 21 (2.13%) WAN
4 20 (2.03%) OSPF
5 19 (1.93%) BIG-IP
5 19 (1.93%) DNS
5 19 (1.93%) Ethernet VPN
5 19 (1.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 19 (1.93%) SD-WAN
5 19 (1.93%) VXLAN
6 16 (1.62%) TCP/IP
7 15 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (1.22%) VPN
9 11 (1.11%) WLAN
10 9 (0.91%) HTTP
11 7 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.41%) MQTT
12 4 (0.41%) SSL
13 3 (0.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (6.38%) MongoDB
3 50 (5.07%) Amazon Redshift
4 48 (4.86%) Amazon Athena
4 48 (4.86%) Relational Database
5 44 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
6 40 (4.05%) DynamoDB
7 39 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
7 39 (3.95%) NoSQL
8 33 (3.34%) Power BI
9 30 (3.04%) Pentaho
10 27 (2.74%) Big Data
10 27 (2.74%) SQL Server
11 26 (2.63%) Oracle Database
12 25 (2.53%) Data Lake
12 25 (2.53%) MySQL
13 17 (1.72%) Redis
14 16 (1.62%) RDBMS
15 14 (1.42%) Metadata
16 13 (1.32%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 429 (43.47%) Jenkins
2 212 (21.48%) Git
3 152 (15.40%) JIRA
4 90 (9.12%) Selenium
5 72 (7.29%) JUnit
6 52 (5.27%) Cucumber
7 44 (4.46%) Postman
8 40 (4.05%) JMeter
8 40 (4.05%) REST Assured
8 40 (4.05%) SonarQube
9 36 (3.65%) Artifactory
10 35 (3.55%) Bitbucket
11 33 (3.34%) Mockito
12 30 (3.04%) Gatling
12 30 (3.04%) Gradle
13 27 (2.74%) WebDriver
14 23 (2.33%) Maven
15 20 (2.03%) Snyk
16 15 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
17 14 (1.42%) Serenity BDD
General
1 193 (19.55%) Public Sector
2 187 (18.95%) Social Skills
3 99 (10.03%) Finance
4 67 (6.79%) Banking
5 58 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (1.82%) Military
9 14 (1.42%) Law
10 11 (1.11%) Legal
11 10 (1.01%) Investment Banking
12 8 (0.81%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.71%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.61%) Publishing
15 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.51%) Police
15 5 (0.51%) Retail
16 4 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 222 (22.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 165 (16.72%) Senior
3 150 (15.20%) Developer
4 120 (12.16%) AWS Engineer
5 102 (10.33%) Data Engineer
6 82 (8.31%) AWS DevOps
7 74 (7.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 63 (6.38%) Lead
9 52 (5.27%) Java Developer
10 50 (5.07%) Platform Engineer
10 50 (5.07%) Software Engineer
11 47 (4.76%) Test Engineer
12 46 (4.66%) Cloud Engineer
13 39 (3.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 37 (3.75%) Architect
15 32 (3.24%) Senior DevOps
15 32 (3.24%) Tester
16 31 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 26 (2.63%) Full-Stack Developer
18 24 (2.43%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (12.16%) Kafka
2 117 (11.85%) Spring
3 107 (10.84%) REST
4 102 (10.33%) Spring Boot
5 81 (8.21%) RESTful
6 58 (5.88%) React
7 55 (5.57%) PySpark
8 51 (5.17%) Playwright
9 48 (4.86%) Node.js
10 38 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
11 36 (3.65%) YAML
12 33 (3.34%) JSON
13 28 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
14 27 (2.74%) AWS CDK
14 27 (2.74%) WireMock
15 26 (2.63%) pytest
16 25 (2.53%) OpenAPI
17 24 (2.43%) Keycloak
17 24 (2.43%) OAuth
18 23 (2.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 183 (18.54%) Cloud Native
2 67 (6.79%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.78%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.55%) Data Centre
5 33 (3.34%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (2.03%) Public Cloud
9 18 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.52%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.42%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.01%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.01%) Private Cloud
13 9 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.91%) NHS
14 8 (0.81%) AI Agents
14 8 (0.81%) Mainframe
14 8 (0.81%) PKI
15 7 (0.71%) DataPower
15 7 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 192 (19.45%) Linux
2 50 (5.07%) Unix
3 42 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 42 (4.26%) Windows
4 12 (1.22%) CentOS
5 9 (0.91%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.81%) zOS
7 7 (0.71%) AIX
8 5 (0.51%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.41%) Debian
9 4 (0.41%) Rocky
10 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.30%) VMS
11 2 (0.20%) Android
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 802 (81.26%) CI/CD
2 577 (58.46%) DevOps
3 396 (40.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 373 (37.79%) Agile
5 326 (33.03%) Containerisation
6 310 (31.41%) Test Automation
7 189 (19.15%) Microservices
8 160 (16.21%) Observability
9 146 (14.79%) Scrum
10 140 (14.18%) Platform Engineering
11 139 (14.08%) Software Engineering
12 133 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 130 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
14 104 (10.54%) AI
15 97 (9.83%) ETL
16 95 (9.63%) DevSecOps
17 84 (8.51%) Migration
18 82 (8.31%) Event-Driven
19 80 (8.11%) Data Modelling
20 79 (8.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 400 (40.53%) Python
2 238 (24.11%) Java
3 224 (22.70%) SQL
4 143 (14.49%) Bash
5 80 (8.11%) JavaScript
6 70 (7.09%) TypeScript
7 56 (5.67%) PowerShell
8 48 (4.86%) C#
9 38 (3.85%) Shell Script
10 37 (3.75%) Go
11 22 (2.23%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.03%) Bicep
13 13 (1.32%) C++
14 11 (1.11%) Scala
15 9 (0.91%) Ruby
16 8 (0.81%) MATLAB
17 7 (0.71%) Cypher
17 7 (0.71%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.61%) C
18 6 (0.61%) JCL
Qualifications
1 474 (48.02%) Security Cleared
2 408 (41.34%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 45 (4.56%) DV Cleared
5 43 (4.36%) Degree
6 38 (3.85%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (1.42%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.11%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.01%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.81%) CISSP
15 5 (0.51%) CSSLP
16 4 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.41%) GIAC
16 4 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
17 3 (0.30%) CISM
17 3 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (9.52%) QA
2 46 (4.66%) Accessibility
3 44 (4.46%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.42%) SLA
5 11 (1.11%) WCAG
6 10 (1.01%) NIST
7 7 (0.71%) GDPR
8 6 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.51%) FATCA
9 5 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.20%) NCSC
11 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.10%) GRC
12 1 (0.10%) MIL-STD-1553
12 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
12 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 403 (40.83%) Docker
2 27 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (0.61%) HDFS
7 5 (0.51%) Squid
8 4 (0.41%) 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
1 463 (46.91%) Terraform
2 429 (43.47%) Kubernetes
3 202 (20.47%) Ansible
4 183 (18.54%) Grafana
5 162 (16.41%) Prometheus
6 50 (5.07%) Argo
7 31 (3.14%) Puppet
8 14 (1.42%) Istio
8 14 (1.42%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.32%) Podman
10 11 (1.11%) Red Hat Satellite
11 10 (1.01%) Packer
12 8 (0.81%) Check_MK
12 8 (0.81%) Data Guard
12 8 (0.81%) Oracle RMAN
12 8 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.71%) Kibana
14 6 (0.61%) Cilium
14 6 (0.61%) Salt
15 5 (0.51%) linkerd
Vendors
1 106 (10.74%) Oracle
2 59 (5.98%) Microsoft
3 56 (5.67%) Talend
4 55 (5.57%) Informatica
5 53 (5.37%) Splunk
6 48 (4.86%) Google
7 30 (3.04%) Denodo
7 30 (3.04%) Red Hat
7 30 (3.04%) VMware
8 29 (2.94%) Databricks
9 26 (2.63%) ServiceNow
10 22 (2.23%) Dynatrace
10 22 (2.23%) F5
11 20 (2.03%) Palo Alto
11 20 (2.03%) Salesforce
12 18 (1.82%) Arista
12 18 (1.82%) Aruba
13 17 (1.72%) Trend Micro
14 14 (1.42%) Veracode
15 12 (1.22%) IBM