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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 144 216
Rank change year-on-year +8 +72 +29
Contract jobs citing GitLab 944 576 465
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.94% 2.01% 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.23% 13.95% 9.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 363 334
10th Percentile £386 £370 £400
25th Percentile £425 £439 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £575 £592 £650
90th Percentile £668 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £500 £545
% change year-on-year -3.60% -8.26% +0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 1 9
10th Percentile £43.42 - £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £56.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +18.51% +76.77%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £75.00
90th Percentile £80.65 - £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.75 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -25.57% +11.45% +87.98%

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 5,818 4,129 5,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.98% 14.44% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,803 2,781 3,438
10th Percentile £350 £336 £353
25th Percentile £410 £410 £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 249 70 215
10th Percentile £34.90 £20.86 £29.30
25th Percentile £55.00 £45.48 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -11.35% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.04 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +9 796 £500 -4.76% 183
UK excluding London +21 478 £482 -3.60% 145
London -15 320 £525 -0.94% 54
Work from Home +14 285 £475 -5.00% 92
North of England -2 192 £500 - 63
Midlands +13 120 £463 -6.09% 20
West Midlands +12 108 £463 -11.90% 13
North West +6 96 £513 +2.50% 30
Yorkshire -21 67 £500 -4.76% 12
South East -34 67 £550 +9.89% 27
South West +6 58 £500 +8.70% 16
North East -1 43 £450 -14.29% 21
East of England -13 34 £483 +7.22% 8
Scotland -9 24 £401 -7.93% 5
East Midlands -22 12 £436 +40.19% 7
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 5

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 78 (8.26%) Confluence
2 39 (4.13%) SAS
3 30 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (2.97%) Apache Spark
5 26 (2.75%) Apache
6 13 (1.38%) nginx
7 12 (1.27%) Jupyter
8 11 (1.17%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.74%) CICS
10 5 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.32%) Camunda
11 3 (0.32%) CMS
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.11%) FileNet
Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 575 (60.91%) AWS
2 316 (33.47%) Azure
3 315 (33.37%) GitHub
4 224 (23.73%) GitHub Actions
5 161 (17.06%) GCP
6 140 (14.83%) Serverless
7 130 (13.77%) Amazon S3
8 118 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
9 115 (12.18%) AWS Lambda
10 111 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
11 100 (10.59%) Amazon EC2
12 97 (10.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 89 (9.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 70 (7.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 64 (6.78%) OpenShift
16 46 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
17 38 (4.03%) Amazon SQS
18 37 (3.92%) Azure AKS
19 28 (2.97%) Power Platform
20 27 (2.86%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.87%) Firewall
2 30 (3.18%) DNS
3 21 (2.22%) Network Security
3 21 (2.22%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.01%) BGP
4 19 (2.01%) WAN
5 18 (1.91%) OSPF
6 17 (1.80%) BIG-IP
6 17 (1.80%) Ethernet VPN
6 17 (1.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 17 (1.80%) SD-WAN
6 17 (1.80%) VXLAN
7 15 (1.59%) VPN
8 13 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (1.17%) HTTP
10 10 (1.06%) Reverse Proxy
11 9 (0.95%) WLAN
12 4 (0.42%) SAN
12 4 (0.42%) SSL
13 3 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.57%) MongoDB
3 45 (4.77%) NoSQL
4 44 (4.66%) Relational Database
5 42 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
6 40 (4.24%) DynamoDB
7 35 (3.71%) Amazon Athena
8 34 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
9 33 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 33 (3.50%) MySQL
10 27 (2.86%) Data Lake
10 27 (2.86%) Power BI
10 27 (2.86%) Redis
11 25 (2.65%) SQL Server
12 24 (2.54%) Big Data
12 24 (2.54%) Pentaho
13 16 (1.69%) Oracle Database
14 14 (1.48%) DocumentDB
15 12 (1.27%) BigQuery
15 12 (1.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 412 (43.64%) Jenkins
2 202 (21.40%) Git
3 135 (14.30%) JIRA
4 85 (9.00%) Selenium
5 67 (7.10%) JUnit
6 49 (5.19%) Cucumber
7 46 (4.87%) Postman
8 45 (4.77%) REST Assured
9 36 (3.81%) Artifactory
9 36 (3.81%) Gradle
10 35 (3.71%) JMeter
11 31 (3.28%) Bitbucket
11 31 (3.28%) SonarQube
12 28 (2.97%) Gatling
13 26 (2.75%) Mockito
14 23 (2.44%) CircleCI
15 20 (2.12%) WebDriver
16 17 (1.80%) Snyk
16 17 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
17 14 (1.48%) Serenity BDD
General
1 187 (19.81%) Social Skills
2 168 (17.80%) Public Sector
3 96 (10.17%) Finance
4 64 (6.78%) Banking
5 51 (5.40%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.48%) Military
8 12 (1.27%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.17%) Retail
10 10 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.95%) Investment Banking
12 8 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.85%) Law
13 7 (0.74%) Legal
14 4 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.42%) Police
14 4 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.32%) Local Government
15 3 (0.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 195 (20.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 162 (17.16%) Developer
3 147 (15.57%) Senior
4 96 (10.17%) AWS Engineer
5 85 (9.00%) Data Engineer
6 62 (6.57%) AWS DevOps
6 62 (6.57%) Lead
7 61 (6.46%) Software Engineer
8 56 (5.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 51 (5.40%) Java Developer
10 48 (5.08%) Architect
11 47 (4.98%) Cloud Engineer
12 43 (4.56%) Platform Engineer
13 39 (4.13%) Test Engineer
14 31 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 29 (3.07%) Senior DevOps
16 28 (2.97%) Full-Stack Developer
16 28 (2.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 27 (2.86%) GCP Engineer
17 27 (2.86%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (13.67%) Kafka
2 128 (13.56%) Spring
3 114 (12.08%) REST
4 112 (11.86%) Spring Boot
5 79 (8.37%) RESTful
6 70 (7.42%) Node.js
7 64 (6.78%) React
8 49 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
9 45 (4.77%) Playwright
10 40 (4.24%) PySpark
11 37 (3.92%) OpenTelemetry
12 32 (3.39%) LDAP
13 31 (3.28%) OAuth
14 30 (3.18%) JSON
14 30 (3.18%) YAML
15 26 (2.75%) OpenID
15 26 (2.75%) pytest
16 25 (2.65%) HTML
16 25 (2.65%) Jest
16 25 (2.65%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 155 (16.42%) Cloud Native
2 56 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (5.72%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.03%) Data Centre
5 32 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.59%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.48%) Private Cloud
10 12 (1.27%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.27%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
12 10 (1.06%) NHS
13 9 (0.95%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.95%) PKI
14 8 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (0.74%) DataPower
15 7 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
16 6 (0.64%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 169 (17.90%) Linux
2 51 (5.40%) Unix
3 46 (4.87%) Windows
4 44 (4.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.59%) CentOS
6 9 (0.95%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.95%) zOS
7 6 (0.64%) VMS
8 5 (0.53%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.42%) Debian
9 4 (0.42%) Rocky
9 4 (0.42%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.32%) Android
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.11%) AIX
12 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 752 (79.66%) CI/CD
2 529 (56.04%) DevOps
3 354 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 326 (34.53%) Agile
5 309 (32.73%) Containerisation
6 279 (29.56%) Test Automation
7 179 (18.96%) Microservices
8 174 (18.43%) Observability
9 142 (15.04%) Software Engineering
10 133 (14.09%) Scrum
11 124 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 122 (12.92%) Platform Engineering
13 121 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
14 93 (9.85%) ETL
15 91 (9.64%) DevSecOps
16 80 (8.47%) TDD
17 78 (8.26%) Analytics
18 76 (8.05%) Migration
19 75 (7.94%) AI
19 75 (7.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 365 (38.67%) Python
2 251 (26.59%) Java
3 219 (23.20%) SQL
4 140 (14.83%) Bash
5 88 (9.32%) JavaScript
6 72 (7.63%) TypeScript
7 62 (6.57%) PowerShell
8 48 (5.08%) Shell Script
9 41 (4.34%) Go
10 36 (3.81%) C#
11 25 (2.65%) PL/SQL
12 19 (2.01%) Bicep
13 17 (1.80%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.59%) C++
15 11 (1.17%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.17%) Ruby
15 11 (1.17%) Scala
16 8 (0.85%) C
17 7 (0.74%) Groovy
17 7 (0.74%) PHP
Qualifications
1 418 (44.28%) Security Cleared
2 352 (37.29%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 40 (4.24%) Degree
5 35 (3.71%) DV Cleared
6 29 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.44%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.17%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.17%) ISTQB
9 10 (1.06%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.53%) CISSP
13 4 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.42%) CSSLP
13 4 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.32%) CISM
14 3 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (9.96%) QA
2 51 (5.40%) Accessibility
3 30 (3.18%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.33%) SLA
5 15 (1.59%) GDPR
6 14 (1.48%) WCAG
7 11 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.06%) NIST
8 10 (1.06%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.64%) NCSC
10 5 (0.53%) FATCA
11 4 (0.42%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.11%) GRC
13 1 (0.11%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.11%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 377 (39.94%) Docker
2 23 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.64%) HDFS
5 6 (0.64%) Squid
6 4 (0.42%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.32%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.21%) iptables
8 2 (0.21%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.11%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 421 (44.60%) Terraform
2 420 (44.49%) Kubernetes
3 205 (21.72%) Grafana
4 203 (21.50%) Ansible
5 172 (18.22%) Prometheus
6 56 (5.93%) Argo
7 29 (3.07%) Puppet
8 22 (2.33%) Istio
9 17 (1.80%) Podman
10 16 (1.69%) Progress Chef
11 14 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.17%) Check_MK
13 10 (1.06%) Kibana
14 9 (0.95%) linkerd
14 9 (0.95%) Packer
15 7 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
16 6 (0.64%) Cilium
16 6 (0.64%) Karpenter
17 4 (0.42%) Rancher
17 4 (0.42%) Suricata
Vendors
1 102 (10.81%) Oracle
2 68 (7.20%) Splunk
3 59 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 48 (5.08%) Talend
5 47 (4.98%) Red Hat
6 46 (4.87%) Google
7 38 (4.03%) Informatica
7 38 (4.03%) VMware
8 37 (3.92%) ServiceNow
9 31 (3.28%) Databricks
10 28 (2.97%) Denodo
11 26 (2.75%) Dynatrace
12 20 (2.12%) F5
12 20 (2.12%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.91%) Arista
13 18 (1.91%) Palo Alto
14 16 (1.69%) Aruba
15 11 (1.17%) Tenable
16 10 (1.06%) Veracode
17 8 (0.85%) IBM