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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 146 217
Rank change year-on-year +3 +71 +32
Contract jobs citing GitLab 987 618 487
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.91% 1.96% 1.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.20% 13.43% 9.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 676 382 339
10th Percentile £369 £356 £381
25th Percentile £422 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £650
90th Percentile £688 £668 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 3 10
10th Percentile £53.18 £62.50 £40.00
25th Percentile - £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 £90.75 £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 6,094 4,601 5,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.81% 14.58% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,918 3,085 3,567
10th Percentile £350 £331 £355
25th Percentile £413 £408 £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 £688 £694 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 92 248
10th Percentile £26.10 £20.98 £30.28
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.36 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% -8.46% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.81 £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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +6 841 £500 -2.44% 215
UK excluding London +20 490 £475 -5.00% 146
London +5 352 £525 - 80
Work from Home +12 338 £475 -9.52% 110
North of England -7 197 £453 -4.63% 42
Midlands +23 135 £469 -6.20% 22
West Midlands +22 128 £466 -11.29% 17
North West -14 88 £500 +6.38% 22
North East +8 69 £400 -13.98% 11
South East -28 68 £550 +9.89% 30
Yorkshire -34 57 £540 +8.00% 9
South West -9 54 £510 -11.30% 34
East of England -10 33 £479 +0.79% 13
Scotland -16 19 £401 -0.37% 7
East Midlands -15 7 £470 +74.07% 5
Northern Ireland +1 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 55 (5.57%) 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%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
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
1 649 (65.75%) AWS
2 325 (32.93%) GitHub
3 318 (32.22%) Azure
4 230 (23.30%) GitHub Actions
5 155 (15.70%) GCP
6 146 (14.79%) Amazon S3
7 145 (14.69%) Serverless
8 128 (12.97%) AWS Lambda
9 125 (12.66%) Azure DevOps
10 118 (11.96%) Amazon EKS
11 106 (10.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 106 (10.74%) Amazon EC2
12 78 (7.90%) AWS CloudFormation
13 70 (7.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 49 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
15 46 (4.66%) OpenShift
16 42 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
17 33 (3.34%) Power Platform
18 32 (3.24%) Amazon SQS
19 31 (3.14%) OCI
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 69 (6.99%) 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 39 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
6 39 (3.95%) DynamoDB
6 39 (3.95%) NoSQL
7 30 (3.04%) Pentaho
7 30 (3.04%) Power BI
8 28 (2.84%) Oracle Database
9 27 (2.74%) Big Data
9 27 (2.74%) SQL Server
10 25 (2.53%) MySQL
11 23 (2.33%) Data Lake
12 18 (1.82%) RDBMS
13 16 (1.62%) Redis
14 14 (1.42%) Metadata
15 13 (1.32%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 426 (43.16%) Jenkins
2 209 (21.18%) Git
3 153 (15.50%) JIRA
4 88 (8.92%) Selenium
5 71 (7.19%) JUnit
6 50 (5.07%) Cucumber
7 43 (4.36%) Postman
8 40 (4.05%) SonarQube
9 39 (3.95%) JMeter
9 39 (3.95%) REST Assured
10 36 (3.65%) Artifactory
10 36 (3.65%) Bitbucket
11 33 (3.34%) Mockito
12 30 (3.04%) Gatling
13 29 (2.94%) Gradle
14 27 (2.74%) WebDriver
15 23 (2.33%) Maven
16 20 (2.03%) Snyk
17 15 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
18 14 (1.42%) CircleCI
General
1 191 (19.35%) Public Sector
2 185 (18.74%) Social Skills
3 97 (9.83%) Finance
4 67 (6.79%) Banking
5 58 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (1.93%) Military
8 14 (1.42%) Law
9 13 (1.32%) Legal
10 10 (1.01%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.71%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.61%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.61%) Publishing
13 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.51%) Police
13 5 (0.51%) Retail
14 4 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 223 (22.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 167 (16.92%) Senior
3 148 (14.99%) Developer
4 121 (12.26%) AWS Engineer
5 102 (10.33%) Data Engineer
6 83 (8.41%) AWS DevOps
7 75 (7.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 63 (6.38%) Lead
9 52 (5.27%) Java Developer
10 49 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
10 49 (4.96%) Software Engineer
11 47 (4.76%) Test Engineer
12 45 (4.56%) Cloud Engineer
13 43 (4.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 37 (3.75%) Architect
15 31 (3.14%) Senior DevOps
15 31 (3.14%) Tester
16 30 (3.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 27 (2.74%) Full-Stack Developer
18 24 (2.43%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (11.96%) Kafka
2 117 (11.85%) Spring
3 107 (10.84%) REST
4 102 (10.33%) Spring Boot
5 80 (8.11%) RESTful
6 58 (5.88%) React
7 53 (5.37%) PySpark
8 52 (5.27%) Playwright
9 48 (4.86%) Node.js
10 39 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
11 37 (3.75%) 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 24 (2.43%) Keycloak
16 24 (2.43%) OAuth
16 24 (2.43%) OpenAPI
17 23 (2.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 184 (18.64%) Cloud Native
2 68 (6.89%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (5.67%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.34%) Data Centre
4 33 (3.34%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.13%) Public Cloud
7 18 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
8 15 (1.52%) Algorithms
9 14 (1.42%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.11%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.01%) Mainframe
12 9 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.91%) NHS
13 8 (0.81%) AI Agents
13 8 (0.81%) Management Information System
13 8 (0.81%) PKI
14 7 (0.71%) DataPower
14 7 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 194 (19.66%) Linux
2 50 (5.07%) Unix
3 42 (4.26%) Windows
4 40 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.01%) CentOS
5 10 (1.01%) zOS
6 9 (0.91%) AIX
6 9 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.51%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.41%) Debian
8 4 (0.41%) Rocky
9 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.30%) VMS
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
1 804 (81.46%) CI/CD
2 580 (58.76%) DevOps
3 398 (40.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 369 (37.39%) Agile
5 331 (33.54%) Containerisation
6 307 (31.10%) Test Automation
7 188 (19.05%) Microservices
8 158 (16.01%) Observability
9 145 (14.69%) Scrum
10 140 (14.18%) Platform Engineering
11 139 (14.08%) Software Engineering
12 133 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 129 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
14 103 (10.44%) AI
15 96 (9.73%) DevSecOps
15 96 (9.73%) ETL
16 87 (8.81%) Migration
17 82 (8.31%) Event-Driven
18 80 (8.11%) Data Modelling
19 78 (7.90%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 400 (40.53%) Python
2 234 (23.71%) Java
3 222 (22.49%) SQL
4 146 (14.79%) Bash
5 79 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 71 (7.19%) TypeScript
7 58 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 48 (4.86%) C#
9 39 (3.95%) Go
10 35 (3.55%) Shell Script
11 22 (2.23%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.03%) Bicep
13 13 (1.32%) C++
14 11 (1.11%) Scala
15 8 (0.81%) Cypher
15 8 (0.81%) Ruby
16 6 (0.61%) C
16 6 (0.61%) JCL
16 6 (0.61%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.61%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 475 (48.13%) Security Cleared
2 406 (41.13%) SC Cleared
3 59 (5.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 47 (4.76%) 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 45 (4.56%) Accessibility
3 44 (4.46%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.22%) SLA
5 11 (1.11%) WCAG
6 10 (1.01%) NIST
7 6 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.51%) FATCA
8 5 (0.51%) GDPR
8 5 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.20%) NCSC
10 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.10%) GRC
11 1 (0.10%) MIL-STD-1553
11 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 403 (40.83%) Docker
2 25 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.01%) 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
1 466 (47.21%) Terraform
2 429 (43.47%) Kubernetes
3 205 (20.77%) Ansible
4 183 (18.54%) Grafana
5 162 (16.41%) Prometheus
6 52 (5.27%) Argo
7 33 (3.34%) Puppet
8 16 (1.62%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.42%) Istio
10 11 (1.11%) Podman
11 10 (1.01%) Data Guard
11 10 (1.01%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (1.01%) Packer
12 9 (0.91%) Red Hat Satellite
13 8 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.71%) Kibana
15 6 (0.61%) Check_MK
15 6 (0.61%) Cilium
15 6 (0.61%) Salt
16 5 (0.51%) linkerd
Vendors
1 108 (10.94%) Oracle
2 57 (5.78%) Microsoft
3 56 (5.67%) Talend
4 55 (5.57%) Informatica
5 54 (5.47%) Splunk
6 51 (5.17%) Google
7 30 (3.04%) Denodo
8 28 (2.84%) Red Hat
8 28 (2.84%) VMware
9 27 (2.74%) Databricks
10 26 (2.63%) ServiceNow
11 22 (2.23%) F5
12 21 (2.13%) Dynatrace
13 20 (2.03%) Palo Alto
13 20 (2.03%) Salesforce
14 18 (1.82%) Arista
14 18 (1.82%) Aruba
15 17 (1.72%) Trend Micro
16 14 (1.42%) IBM
16 14 (1.42%) Veracode