GitLab Contracts

GitLab
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring GitLab skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitLab over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 221 207
Rank change year-on-year +73 -14 -37
Contract jobs citing GitLab 578 472 767
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.98% 1.08% 1.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.10% 9.12% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 337 513
10th Percentile £379 £381 £461
25th Percentile £450 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% -3.48% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £656
90th Percentile £716 £730 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -9.05% +1.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile £64.59 £40.00 £38.80
25th Percentile £71.48 £52.00 £40.95
Median hourly rate £82.96 £68.22 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.61% +51.60% -5.96%
75th Percentile £88.98 £75.21 £51.56
90th Percentile £92.59 £77.50 £69.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.96 £74.44 £45.00
% change year-on-year +11.45% +65.42% -2.60%

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 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab.

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitLab over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Top 17 Contract 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 30 April 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 +75 468 £530 -7.83% 343
London +76 258 £540 -6.09% 151
UK excluding London +53 219 £500 -9.05% 202
Work from Home +62 213 £525 -8.70% 273
North of England +44 103 £528 -8.26% 52
North West +17 56 £500 -17.53% 29
South East +10 40 £525 -11.35% 28
Yorkshire +22 30 £575 +0.44% 19
Scotland +14 28 £438 -5.41% 12
Midlands +42 24 £460 -3.16% 27
West Midlands +31 20 £531 +37.03% 14
North East +15 20 £525 +22.09% 4
South West +45 17 £457 -12.95% 63
East of England +34 5 £450 +80.00% 15
East Midlands +13 4 £291 -44.13% 13
Wales -4 1 £425 -22.02% 2
Northern Ireland -8 1 £500 -21.88% 5

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 40 (6.92%) Confluence
2 25 (4.33%) nginx
3 17 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.42%) Apache Spark
5 12 (2.08%) Traefik
6 10 (1.73%) Apache
7 6 (1.04%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.87%) Documentum
8 5 (0.87%) FileNet
8 5 (0.87%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.69%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.52%) SAS
10 3 (0.52%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.35%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.35%) IIS
11 2 (0.35%) Mattermost
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.35%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 320 (55.36%) AWS
2 151 (26.12%) Azure
3 79 (13.67%) GitHub
4 78 (13.49%) GCP
5 68 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 63 (10.90%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (9.69%) Amazon S3
7 56 (9.69%) Serverless
8 46 (7.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 41 (7.09%) AWS Lambda
10 39 (6.75%) Amazon EC2
11 34 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 30 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (4.67%) AWS Fargate
13 27 (4.67%) PaaS
14 24 (4.15%) Amazon EKS
15 23 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (3.81%) AWS CodePipeline
16 22 (3.81%) OpenShift
17 18 (3.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.19%) DNS
2 24 (4.15%) Firewall
3 23 (3.98%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.42%) HTTP
5 9 (1.56%) SSL
6 8 (1.38%) DHCP
6 8 (1.38%) Network Security
7 7 (1.21%) BGP
7 7 (1.21%) VPN
8 6 (1.04%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (1.04%) SAN
9 5 (0.87%) WAN
10 4 (0.69%) Ethernet VPN
10 4 (0.69%) LAN
10 4 (0.69%) NAS
10 4 (0.69%) OSPF
10 4 (0.69%) SSH
10 4 (0.69%) Wireless
11 3 (0.52%) IPsec
11 3 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (11.42%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (8.48%) MongoDB
3 35 (6.06%) MySQL
4 29 (5.02%) Amazon RDS
5 27 (4.67%) NoSQL
6 18 (3.11%) SQL Server
7 17 (2.94%) Relational Database
8 15 (2.60%) Apache Hive
9 14 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (2.25%) Oracle Database
11 10 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.73%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.56%) Big Data
12 9 (1.56%) Hadoop
13 8 (1.38%) Power BI
14 7 (1.21%) Metadata
15 6 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
15 6 (1.04%) Apache Iceberg
16 5 (0.87%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 259 (44.81%) Jenkins
2 84 (14.53%) Git
3 76 (13.15%) JIRA
4 45 (7.79%) Selenium
5 35 (6.06%) Maven
6 33 (5.71%) Bitbucket
7 30 (5.19%) SonarQube
8 26 (4.50%) REST Assured
9 23 (3.98%) Cucumber
10 22 (3.81%) JUnit
11 21 (3.63%) Postman
11 21 (3.63%) Sonatype Nexus
12 17 (2.94%) Mockito
12 17 (2.94%) TeamCity
13 14 (2.42%) Artifactory
13 14 (2.42%) Cypress.io
13 14 (2.42%) Liquibase
14 13 (2.25%) CircleCI
14 13 (2.25%) JMeter
15 12 (2.08%) Gradle
General
1 126 (21.80%) Social Skills
2 87 (15.05%) Finance
3 84 (14.53%) Public Sector
4 42 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (5.88%) Banking
6 26 (4.50%) Telecoms
7 17 (2.94%) Electronics
7 17 (2.94%) Marketing
8 16 (2.77%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.90%) Military
10 10 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.56%) Law
12 6 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.87%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.69%) Police
15 3 (0.52%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.52%) Retail
16 2 (0.35%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 181 (31.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 97 (16.78%) Senior
3 87 (15.05%) Developer
4 58 (10.03%) AWS Engineer
5 50 (8.65%) Senior DevOps
6 46 (7.96%) AWS DevOps
7 45 (7.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 42 (7.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 38 (6.57%) Architect
10 37 (6.40%) Software Engineer
11 34 (5.88%) Lead
12 28 (4.84%) Java Engineer
13 27 (4.67%) Data Engineer
13 27 (4.67%) Java Developer
14 26 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
15 24 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
16 19 (3.29%) Automation Engineer
16 19 (3.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 18 (3.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 17 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (10.90%) Kafka
2 58 (10.03%) REST
2 58 (10.03%) Spring
3 56 (9.69%) React
3 56 (9.69%) Spring Boot
4 30 (5.19%) RESTful
5 28 (4.84%) Node.js
6 24 (4.15%) cloud-init
7 22 (3.81%) Elastic Stack
8 20 (3.46%) JSON
9 18 (3.11%) AngularJS
10 16 (2.77%) Keycloak
10 16 (2.77%) Playwright
10 16 (2.77%) Swagger
11 15 (2.60%) Java EE
12 14 (2.42%) OAuth
12 14 (2.42%) OpenAPI
13 13 (2.25%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (2.25%) SOAP
14 12 (2.08%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.06%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.67%) Onboarding
3 23 (3.98%) PKI
4 16 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 10 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.56%) Public Cloud
8 8 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.38%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.87%) Hedge funds
10 5 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (0.87%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.69%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.69%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.69%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.69%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.69%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 150 (25.95%) Linux
2 61 (10.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 41 (7.09%) Unix
4 35 (6.06%) Windows
5 33 (5.71%) CentOS
6 14 (2.42%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.21%) Android
8 6 (1.04%) SUSE
9 4 (0.69%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.69%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.52%) Rocky
11 1 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.17%) Solaris
11 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (66.96%) CI/CD
2 350 (60.55%) DevOps
3 167 (28.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 162 (28.03%) Agile
5 144 (24.91%) Containerisation
6 109 (18.86%) Microservices
7 106 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
8 103 (17.82%) Test Automation
9 90 (15.57%) Software Engineering
10 84 (14.53%) Continuous Integration
11 73 (12.63%) Migration
12 72 (12.46%) Configuration Management
13 64 (11.07%) Infrastructure Automation
14 54 (9.34%) Observability
14 54 (9.34%) Scrum
15 43 (7.44%) Cloud Security
16 41 (7.09%) Event-Driven
16 41 (7.09%) High Availability
16 41 (7.09%) Mentoring
16 41 (7.09%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 257 (44.46%) Python
2 146 (25.26%) Java
3 109 (18.86%) Bash
4 97 (16.78%) SQL
5 74 (12.80%) JavaScript
6 53 (9.17%) PowerShell
7 49 (8.48%) TypeScript
8 39 (6.75%) Go
9 23 (3.98%) C#
10 20 (3.46%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.73%) C++
12 8 (1.38%) Ruby
13 7 (1.21%) PHP
13 7 (1.21%) Rust
14 6 (1.04%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.69%) Groovy
15 4 (0.69%) Perl
15 4 (0.69%) Scala
16 3 (0.52%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.52%) XPath
Qualifications
1 181 (31.31%) Security Cleared
2 155 (26.82%) SC Cleared
3 45 (7.79%) AWS Certification
4 31 (5.36%) Degree
5 22 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.60%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (1.21%) SANS
9 6 (1.04%) OCP
9 6 (1.04%) Oracle Certification
10 5 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.87%) CISSP
10 5 (0.87%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.69%) CCNP
11 4 (0.69%) CEH
11 4 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.52%) CCNA
13 2 (0.35%) CISM
13 2 (0.35%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.09%) QA
2 16 (2.77%) NCSC
3 9 (1.56%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.52%) GDPR
5 3 (0.52%) NIST
5 3 (0.52%) SLA
6 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.35%) COBIT
6 2 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.17%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 197 (34.08%) Docker
2 15 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.87%) vSphere
6 4 (0.69%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 3 (0.52%) FreeRADIUS
7 3 (0.52%) iptables
7 3 (0.52%) RACF
8 2 (0.35%) Ceph
9 1 (0.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 286 (49.48%) Terraform
2 252 (43.60%) Kubernetes
3 162 (28.03%) Ansible
4 79 (13.67%) Grafana
5 76 (13.15%) Prometheus
6 34 (5.88%) Puppet
7 32 (5.54%) Packer
8 27 (4.67%) Argo
9 24 (4.15%) Istio
10 21 (3.63%) Consul
11 18 (3.11%) ZABBIX
12 17 (2.94%) Progress Chef
12 17 (2.94%) Rancher
13 15 (2.60%) Jamf Pro
13 15 (2.60%) linkerd
14 14 (2.42%) Podman
15 12 (2.08%) HAProxy
16 9 (1.56%) Docker Swarm
17 8 (1.38%) logstash
18 6 (1.04%) Kibana
Vendors
1 43 (7.44%) Splunk
2 42 (7.27%) Oracle
3 41 (7.09%) Google
4 34 (5.88%) SAP
5 33 (5.71%) Microsoft
6 17 (2.94%) VMware
7 16 (2.77%) Cisco
7 16 (2.77%) Databricks
8 15 (2.60%) Atlassian
8 15 (2.60%) Okta
8 15 (2.60%) Red Hat
9 13 (2.25%) Apple
9 13 (2.25%) ESET
10 12 (2.08%) IBM
11 11 (1.90%) Informatica
12 10 (1.73%) Fortinet
13 9 (1.56%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.56%) Infoblox
14 8 (1.38%) Talend
14 8 (1.38%) Veracode