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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 141 194
Rank change year-on-year -7 +53 +37
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,026 660 488
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.91% 1.99% 1.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.33% 13.32% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 708 431 330
10th Percentile £375 £375 £350
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -2.62% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 9
10th Percentile - £60.50 £52.80
25th Percentile - £62.69 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.44
90th Percentile £93.00 £73.55 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +23.33%

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 6,281 4,954 5,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.70% 14.97% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,030 3,337 3,295
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 112 204
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.99 £26.59
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £47.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.03 £73.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +1 872 £500 -3.68% 306
UK excluding London +7 496 £487 -2.62% 178
London +8 373 £525 - 148
Work from Home +11 358 £475 -11.21% 161
North of England -30 182 £500 +3.36% 47
Midlands +37 138 £469 -10.67% 20
West Midlands +26 131 £469 -12.91% 15
South East -40 81 £550 +7.32% 32
North East +9 76 £413 -12.70% 13
North West -27 74 £575 +19.79% 27
South West -27 57 £550 -8.33% 41
Yorkshire -45 45 £550 +10.00% 7
East of England -17 33 £475 - 16
Scotland -13 20 £400 +0.06% 14
East Midlands -16 7 £459 +69.81% 5
Northern Ireland +4 1 - - 9

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 96 (9.36%) Confluence
2 67 (6.53%) Apache Airflow
3 63 (6.14%) Apache Spark
4 50 (4.87%) Apache
5 38 (3.70%) SAS
6 32 (3.12%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.58%) Camunda
7 6 (0.58%) CICS
7 6 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.39%) CMS
9 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.19%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.19%) nginx
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.19%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere Portal
10 2 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Trello
2 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.097%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.097%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.097%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 692 (67.45%) AWS
2 365 (35.58%) GitHub
3 361 (35.19%) Azure
4 266 (25.93%) GitHub Actions
5 182 (17.74%) GCP
6 163 (15.89%) Azure DevOps
7 142 (13.84%) Amazon S3
8 141 (13.74%) Serverless
9 135 (13.16%) Amazon EKS
10 129 (12.57%) AWS Lambda
11 120 (11.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 98 (9.55%) Amazon EC2
13 83 (8.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 68 (6.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 58 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
16 46 (4.48%) OpenShift
17 45 (4.39%) Amazon EMR
18 43 (4.19%) Amazon SQS
19 36 (3.51%) Datadog
19 36 (3.51%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.78%) Firewall
2 32 (3.12%) DNS
3 28 (2.73%) BGP
3 28 (2.73%) Network Security
4 26 (2.53%) Ethernet VPN
4 26 (2.53%) VXLAN
5 23 (2.24%) WAN
6 22 (2.14%) SD-WAN
7 21 (2.05%) OSPF
8 20 (1.95%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.85%) BIG-IP
9 19 (1.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 15 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (1.27%) VPN
12 12 (1.17%) HTTP
13 11 (1.07%) WLAN
14 8 (0.78%) SSL
15 7 (0.68%) NX-OS
16 6 (0.58%) DHCP
17 5 (0.49%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (7.60%) MongoDB
3 53 (5.17%) Relational Database
4 50 (4.87%) Amazon Athena
4 50 (4.87%) Amazon Redshift
5 47 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (4.29%) NoSQL
7 43 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
7 43 (4.19%) DynamoDB
8 36 (3.51%) Pentaho
9 35 (3.41%) SQL Server
10 33 (3.22%) Power BI
11 30 (2.92%) Data Lake
11 30 (2.92%) MySQL
12 28 (2.73%) Big Data
12 28 (2.73%) Redis
13 27 (2.63%) Oracle Database
14 24 (2.34%) RDBMS
15 14 (1.36%) Oracle Exadata
16 13 (1.27%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 436 (42.50%) Jenkins
2 238 (23.20%) Git
3 130 (12.67%) JIRA
4 84 (8.19%) Selenium
5 69 (6.73%) JUnit
6 52 (5.07%) Cucumber
7 49 (4.78%) SonarQube
8 44 (4.29%) Bitbucket
9 34 (3.31%) Artifactory
10 33 (3.22%) JMeter
11 32 (3.12%) Gradle
11 32 (3.12%) Maven
12 31 (3.02%) Postman
13 27 (2.63%) Gatling
13 27 (2.63%) Mockito
14 26 (2.53%) REST Assured
15 23 (2.24%) WebDriver
16 21 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
17 20 (1.95%) Snyk
18 13 (1.27%) Cypress.io
General
1 200 (19.49%) Social Skills
2 187 (18.23%) Public Sector
3 101 (9.84%) Finance
4 64 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (6.14%) Banking
6 23 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (1.95%) Military
8 18 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.36%) Law
10 13 (1.27%) Legal
11 10 (0.97%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.68%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.68%) Publishing
13 6 (0.58%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.49%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.49%) Police
14 5 (0.49%) Retail
15 4 (0.39%) Marketing
15 4 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.29%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 220 (21.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 188 (18.32%) Senior
3 168 (16.37%) Developer
4 129 (12.57%) AWS Engineer
5 105 (10.23%) Data Engineer
6 79 (7.70%) AWS DevOps
7 74 (7.21%) Lead
8 72 (7.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 58 (5.65%) Software Engineer
10 54 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (5.07%) Java Developer
12 49 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
13 44 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 42 (4.09%) Test Engineer
15 36 (3.51%) Architect
16 33 (3.22%) Senior DevOps
16 33 (3.22%) Software Developer
16 33 (3.22%) Tester
17 32 (3.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 29 (2.83%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (13.84%) Kafka
2 122 (11.89%) Spring
3 118 (11.50%) REST
4 108 (10.53%) Spring Boot
5 70 (6.82%) RESTful
6 64 (6.24%) React
7 58 (5.65%) Node.js
8 53 (5.17%) Playwright
8 53 (5.17%) PySpark
9 49 (4.78%) JSON
10 41 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
11 34 (3.31%) YAML
12 32 (3.12%) Elastic Stack
12 32 (3.12%) OAuth
13 30 (2.92%) HTML
13 30 (2.92%) pytest
14 29 (2.83%) WireMock
15 27 (2.63%) CSS
16 26 (2.53%) Keycloak
17 25 (2.44%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 202 (19.69%) Cloud Native
2 69 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.31%) Data Centre
5 33 (3.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (3.22%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (2.14%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
9 17 (1.66%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.46%) Mainframe
10 15 (1.46%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.36%) AI Agents
12 10 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (0.88%) PKI
13 9 (0.88%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 189 (18.42%) Linux
2 51 (4.97%) Unix
3 42 (4.09%) Windows
4 36 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.27%) Ubuntu
5 13 (1.27%) zOS
6 12 (1.17%) AIX
7 10 (0.97%) CentOS
8 7 (0.68%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.49%) VMS
10 4 (0.39%) Debian
10 4 (0.39%) Rocky
11 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.19%) Android
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.097%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 850 (82.85%) CI/CD
2 606 (59.06%) DevOps
3 448 (43.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 393 (38.30%) Agile
5 347 (33.82%) Containerisation
6 313 (30.51%) Test Automation
7 198 (19.30%) Microservices
8 182 (17.74%) Observability
9 167 (16.28%) Software Engineering
10 157 (15.30%) Scrum
11 151 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 149 (14.52%) Platform Engineering
13 137 (13.35%) Problem-Solving
14 122 (11.89%) AI
15 112 (10.92%) DevSecOps
16 104 (10.14%) ETL
17 101 (9.84%) Migration
18 95 (9.26%) Event-Driven
19 90 (8.77%) Data Pipeline
20 89 (8.67%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 444 (43.27%) Python
2 239 (23.29%) SQL
3 237 (23.10%) Java
4 183 (17.84%) Bash
5 90 (8.77%) JavaScript
5 90 (8.77%) PowerShell
6 69 (6.73%) TypeScript
7 60 (5.85%) C#
8 36 (3.51%) Go
9 31 (3.02%) Shell Script
10 25 (2.44%) PL/SQL
11 22 (2.14%) Bicep
12 14 (1.36%) C++
13 11 (1.07%) Groovy
14 10 (0.97%) Scala
15 9 (0.88%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.58%) JCL
16 6 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.58%) R
17 5 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 493 (48.05%) Security Cleared
2 411 (40.06%) SC Cleared
3 61 (5.95%) DV Cleared
4 56 (5.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 46 (4.48%) Degree
6 45 (4.39%) AWS Certification
7 31 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (1.95%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (1.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 14 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (1.36%) CISSP
12 11 (1.07%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.88%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.58%) CSSLP
15 5 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.49%) GCFA
15 5 (0.49%) GCIH
16 4 (0.39%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (10.33%) QA
2 51 (4.97%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.39%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.27%) GDPR
4 13 (1.27%) WCAG
5 12 (1.17%) NIST
6 10 (0.97%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.97%) SLA
7 9 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.49%) FATCA
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.39%) NCSC
11 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.097%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.097%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.097%) MIL-STD-1553
12 1 (0.097%) NIST 800
System Software
1 432 (42.11%) Docker
2 24 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.14%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.27%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.68%) HDFS
7 6 (0.58%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.49%) Squid
9 3 (0.29%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.19%) iptables
10 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.097%) vSphere
11 1 (0.097%) zsh
Systems Management
1 500 (48.73%) Terraform
2 467 (45.52%) Kubernetes
3 243 (23.68%) Ansible
4 182 (17.74%) Grafana
5 156 (15.20%) Prometheus
6 53 (5.17%) Argo
7 40 (3.90%) Puppet
8 27 (2.63%) Progress Chef
9 17 (1.66%) Istio
10 13 (1.27%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.27%) Oracle RMAN
11 12 (1.17%) Packer
12 9 (0.88%) Podman
12 9 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
13 8 (0.78%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.68%) Kibana
15 6 (0.58%) Cilium
16 5 (0.49%) linkerd
16 5 (0.49%) Red Hat Satellite
16 5 (0.49%) Salt
Vendors
1 116 (11.31%) Oracle
2 72 (7.02%) Microsoft
3 66 (6.43%) Google
4 60 (5.85%) Splunk
5 58 (5.65%) Informatica
6 57 (5.56%) Talend
7 38 (3.70%) Databricks
8 37 (3.61%) VMware
9 35 (3.41%) Dynatrace
10 29 (2.83%) Denodo
11 27 (2.63%) ServiceNow
12 23 (2.24%) Red Hat
13 21 (2.05%) Palo Alto
14 20 (1.95%) F5
15 18 (1.75%) Arista
15 18 (1.75%) Aruba
15 18 (1.75%) Trend Micro
16 17 (1.66%) IBM
17 11 (1.07%) Cisco
18 9 (0.88%) Tenable