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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 144 216
Rank change year-on-year +13 +72 +25
Contract jobs citing GitLab 977 585 473
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.94% 1.97% 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.47% 13.58% 8.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 361 335
10th Percentile £371 £358 £400
25th Percentile £415 £440 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £650
90th Percentile £676 £675 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £537
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.80% -0.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 2 10
10th Percentile - £69.05 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.37 £56.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.01% +6.22% +81.82%
75th Percentile - £80.35 £74.86
90th Percentile £83.75 £81.91 £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 5,932 4,307 5,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.79% 14.51% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,845 2,875 3,506
10th Percentile £350 £331 £354
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 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 83 243
10th Percentile £26.25 £20.85 £28.65
25th Percentile £56.71 £46.59 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +1 818 £500 -3.82% 430
UK excluding London +30 479 £475 -5.00% 465
London -1 343 £525 - 72
Work from Home +10 322 £475 -8.65% 422
North of England -1 191 £465 -5.49% 99
Midlands +20 131 £459 -8.20% 52
West Midlands +20 121 £461 -12.24% 28
North West -5 88 £525 +6.92% 41
North East +6 63 £400 -15.34% 26
South East -32 62 £550 +9.89% 103
Yorkshire -35 55 £525 +2.44% 32
South West -4 52 £500 -13.04% 49
East of England -3 38 £483 +7.22% 70
Scotland -12 21 £412 +2.43% 56
East Midlands -17 10 £436 +61.48% 24
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 17

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
1 103 (10.54%) Confluence
2 47 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (4.81%) Apache Spark
3 42 (4.30%) SAS
4 40 (4.09%) Apache
5 28 (2.87%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.82%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.72%) CICS
8 6 (0.61%) nginx
8 6 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.51%) Camunda
10 3 (0.31%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) 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 (0.31%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Oracle 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
1 620 (63.46%) AWS
2 331 (33.88%) GitHub
3 322 (32.96%) Azure
4 237 (24.26%) GitHub Actions
5 157 (16.07%) GCP
6 148 (15.15%) Serverless
7 147 (15.05%) Amazon S3
8 129 (13.20%) AWS Lambda
9 123 (12.59%) Azure DevOps
10 122 (12.49%) Amazon EKS
11 114 (11.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 102 (10.44%) Amazon EC2
13 80 (8.19%) AWS CloudFormation
14 71 (7.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 52 (5.32%) Amazon ECS
16 48 (4.91%) OpenShift
17 38 (3.89%) Amazon EMR
18 37 (3.79%) Power Platform
19 34 (3.48%) Amazon SQS
20 32 (3.28%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.50%) Firewall
2 25 (2.56%) DNS
2 25 (2.56%) Network Security
3 21 (2.15%) BGP
3 21 (2.15%) WAN
4 20 (2.05%) OSPF
5 19 (1.94%) BIG-IP
5 19 (1.94%) Ethernet VPN
5 19 (1.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 19 (1.94%) SD-WAN
5 19 (1.94%) TCP/IP
5 19 (1.94%) VXLAN
6 15 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (1.23%) VPN
8 11 (1.13%) WLAN
9 9 (0.92%) HTTP
10 7 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.51%) SSL
12 4 (0.41%) MQTT
12 4 (0.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (8.19%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (6.45%) MongoDB
3 49 (5.02%) Amazon Redshift
4 48 (4.91%) Amazon Athena
5 46 (4.71%) NoSQL
6 44 (4.50%) Relational Database
7 43 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
7 43 (4.40%) DynamoDB
8 42 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
9 34 (3.48%) Power BI
10 30 (3.07%) MySQL
10 30 (3.07%) Pentaho
11 26 (2.66%) Big Data
11 26 (2.66%) Data Lake
12 24 (2.46%) SQL Server
13 23 (2.35%) Oracle Database
13 23 (2.35%) Redis
14 16 (1.64%) DocumentDB
15 15 (1.54%) BigQuery
16 14 (1.43%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 430 (44.01%) Jenkins
2 214 (21.90%) Git
3 152 (15.56%) JIRA
4 91 (9.31%) Selenium
5 74 (7.57%) JUnit
6 53 (5.42%) Cucumber
7 44 (4.50%) Postman
8 42 (4.30%) REST Assured
9 41 (4.20%) JMeter
10 38 (3.89%) SonarQube
11 35 (3.58%) Artifactory
11 35 (3.58%) Bitbucket
12 33 (3.38%) Gradle
13 30 (3.07%) Mockito
13 30 (3.07%) WebDriver
14 29 (2.97%) Gatling
15 20 (2.05%) Snyk
16 19 (1.94%) Maven
17 17 (1.74%) CircleCI
18 16 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 194 (19.86%) Social Skills
2 193 (19.75%) Public Sector
3 95 (9.72%) Finance
4 67 (6.86%) Banking
5 60 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (1.84%) Military
8 15 (1.54%) Law
9 11 (1.13%) Retail
10 10 (1.02%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.02%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.02%) Legal
11 7 (0.72%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.51%) Police
12 5 (0.51%) Publishing
13 4 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 211 (21.60%) DevOps Engineer
2 164 (16.79%) Senior
3 150 (15.35%) Developer
4 114 (11.67%) AWS Engineer
5 101 (10.34%) Data Engineer
6 79 (8.09%) AWS DevOps
7 71 (7.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 61 (6.24%) Lead
9 55 (5.63%) Java Developer
10 51 (5.22%) Software Engineer
11 50 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
12 48 (4.91%) Test Engineer
13 46 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
14 42 (4.30%) Architect
15 35 (3.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 32 (3.28%) Tester
17 31 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
18 30 (3.07%) Full-Stack Developer
18 30 (3.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 27 (2.76%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (13.20%) Spring
2 127 (13.00%) Kafka
3 113 (11.57%) Spring Boot
4 108 (11.05%) REST
5 85 (8.70%) RESTful
6 65 (6.65%) React
7 59 (6.04%) Node.js
8 53 (5.42%) PySpark
9 49 (5.02%) Playwright
10 40 (4.09%) Elastic Stack
11 31 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
12 29 (2.97%) YAML
13 28 (2.87%) JSON
13 28 (2.87%) OAuth
14 27 (2.76%) AWS CDK
14 27 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
15 26 (2.66%) OpenAPI
15 26 (2.66%) pytest
16 25 (2.56%) AngularJS
16 25 (2.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 185 (18.94%) Cloud Native
2 67 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (6.04%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.99%) Data Centre
5 34 (3.48%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 20 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (1.84%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.23%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.02%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.02%) Private Cloud
11 9 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (0.92%) NHS
11 9 (0.92%) PKI
12 8 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.82%) Mainframe
13 7 (0.72%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.72%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 178 (18.22%) Linux
2 52 (5.32%) Unix
3 46 (4.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 37 (3.79%) Windows
5 15 (1.54%) CentOS
6 10 (1.02%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.82%) zOS
8 4 (0.41%) AIX
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%) Apple iOS
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
1 793 (81.17%) CI/CD
2 569 (58.24%) DevOps
3 390 (39.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 372 (38.08%) Agile
5 324 (33.16%) Containerisation
6 313 (32.04%) Test Automation
7 203 (20.78%) Microservices
8 171 (17.50%) Observability
9 150 (15.35%) Scrum
10 140 (14.33%) Software Engineering
11 133 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 133 (13.61%) Platform Engineering
11 133 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
12 100 (10.24%) AI
13 95 (9.72%) ETL
14 94 (9.62%) DevSecOps
15 84 (8.60%) Migration
16 83 (8.50%) Data Modelling
17 81 (8.29%) Event-Driven
18 80 (8.19%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 383 (39.20%) Python
2 247 (25.28%) Java
3 232 (23.75%) SQL
4 135 (13.82%) Bash
5 81 (8.29%) JavaScript
6 71 (7.27%) TypeScript
7 52 (5.32%) PowerShell
8 44 (4.50%) Shell Script
9 42 (4.30%) C#
10 37 (3.79%) Go
11 23 (2.35%) PL/SQL
12 17 (1.74%) Bicep
13 12 (1.23%) Scala
14 11 (1.13%) C++
14 11 (1.13%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.13%) MATLAB
15 10 (1.02%) Ruby
16 6 (0.61%) JCL
17 5 (0.51%) C
17 5 (0.51%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 457 (46.78%) Security Cleared
2 394 (40.33%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 41 (4.20%) Degree
5 38 (3.89%) AWS Certification
5 38 (3.89%) DV Cleared
6 29 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 14 (1.43%) Azure Certification
9 13 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.13%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.02%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.72%) CISSP
14 4 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.41%) CSSLP
14 4 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.31%) CISM
15 3 (0.31%) GIAC
15 3 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (10.13%) QA
2 47 (4.81%) Accessibility
3 44 (4.50%) Data Quality
4 20 (2.05%) SLA
5 13 (1.33%) NIST
5 13 (1.33%) WCAG
6 10 (1.02%) GDPR
7 9 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.51%) FATCA
11 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.31%) NCSC
13 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.10%) GRC
14 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
14 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 401 (41.04%) Docker
2 22 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.61%) Squid
6 5 (0.51%) HDFS
6 5 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.20%) iptables
9 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.20%) vSphere
10 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 447 (45.75%) Terraform
2 424 (43.40%) Kubernetes
3 194 (19.86%) Ansible
4 187 (19.14%) Grafana
5 164 (16.79%) Prometheus
6 55 (5.63%) Argo
7 28 (2.87%) Puppet
8 21 (2.15%) Istio
9 16 (1.64%) Podman
10 14 (1.43%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (1.33%) Progress Chef
12 11 (1.13%) Check_MK
13 9 (0.92%) Packer
13 9 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.61%) Cilium
14 6 (0.61%) Kibana
14 6 (0.61%) linkerd
15 5 (0.51%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.51%) Salt
Vendors
1 105 (10.75%) Oracle
2 57 (5.83%) Microsoft
3 56 (5.73%) Splunk
3 56 (5.73%) Talend
4 51 (5.22%) Informatica
5 45 (4.61%) Google
6 35 (3.58%) Red Hat
6 35 (3.58%) VMware
7 30 (3.07%) Denodo
8 29 (2.97%) Databricks
9 27 (2.76%) ServiceNow
10 25 (2.56%) Dynatrace
11 22 (2.25%) F5
12 20 (2.05%) Palo Alto
12 20 (2.05%) Salesforce
13 19 (1.94%) Arista
14 18 (1.84%) Aruba
15 16 (1.64%) Trend Micro
16 14 (1.43%) Veracode
17 12 (1.23%) Tenable