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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 139 198
Rank change year-on-year -11 +59 +40
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,016 664 494
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.90% 2.03% 1.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.40% 13.44% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 702 436 331
10th Percentile £375 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £650
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -1.50% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 10 9
10th Percentile - £60.50 £52.80
25th Percentile £65.00 £62.69 £65.00
Median hourly rate £66.61 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.44
90th Percentile £89.00 £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 6,196 4,939 5,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.57% 15.07% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,980 3,328 3,270
10th Percentile £354 £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 £590 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 114 200
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.08 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.97 £84.58 £73.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +2.46%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -8 862 £500 -3.85% 158
UK excluding London 0 478 £493 -1.50% 125
London +14 376 £525 -0.47% 42
Work from Home +8 356 £475 -11.38% 78
North of England -30 180 £500 +2.56% 38
Midlands +26 127 £469 -10.67% 22
West Midlands +22 120 £469 -13.15% 17
South East -34 79 £550 +7.32% 24
North East +11 76 £413 -12.70% 13
North West -29 75 £575 +19.79% 18
South West -29 57 £550 -8.33% 30
Yorkshire -46 42 £550 +10.00% 7
East of England -10 33 £475 +2.70% 10
Scotland -21 17 £412 +2.94% 1
East Midlands -17 7 £436 +61.48% 5
Northern Ireland +1 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 96 (9.45%) Confluence
2 71 (6.99%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (6.59%) Apache Spark
4 52 (5.12%) Apache
5 34 (3.35%) Jupyter
5 34 (3.35%) SAS
6 6 (0.59%) Camunda
6 6 (0.59%) CICS
6 6 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.39%) CMS
8 3 (0.30%) nginx
8 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.20%) PowerExchange
9 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
9 2 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Trello
2 1 (0.098%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.098%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.098%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.098%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 693 (68.21%) AWS
2 360 (35.43%) Azure
2 360 (35.43%) GitHub
3 262 (25.79%) GitHub Actions
4 176 (17.32%) GCP
5 168 (16.54%) Azure DevOps
6 145 (14.27%) Serverless
7 143 (14.07%) Amazon S3
8 135 (13.29%) Amazon EKS
9 132 (12.99%) AWS Lambda
10 125 (12.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 100 (9.84%) Amazon EC2
12 81 (7.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 67 (6.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 58 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
15 48 (4.72%) Amazon EMR
16 45 (4.43%) Amazon SQS
17 42 (4.13%) OpenShift
18 37 (3.64%) Power Platform
19 36 (3.54%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.92%) Firewall
2 33 (3.25%) DNS
3 29 (2.85%) BGP
3 29 (2.85%) Network Security
4 27 (2.66%) Ethernet VPN
4 27 (2.66%) VXLAN
5 23 (2.26%) WAN
6 22 (2.17%) SD-WAN
7 21 (2.07%) OSPF
8 20 (1.97%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.87%) BIG-IP
9 19 (1.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 15 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (1.38%) VPN
12 12 (1.18%) HTTP
13 11 (1.08%) WLAN
14 8 (0.79%) NX-OS
14 8 (0.79%) SSL
15 6 (0.59%) DHCP
16 5 (0.49%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (7.68%) MongoDB
3 54 (5.31%) Amazon Athena
3 54 (5.31%) Relational Database
4 52 (5.12%) Amazon Redshift
5 47 (4.63%) NoSQL
6 46 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
7 45 (4.43%) Amazon RDS
7 45 (4.43%) DynamoDB
8 35 (3.44%) Power BI
9 34 (3.35%) SQL Server
10 33 (3.25%) Pentaho
11 32 (3.15%) Big Data
11 32 (3.15%) MySQL
12 30 (2.95%) Data Lake
12 30 (2.95%) Oracle Database
12 30 (2.95%) Redis
13 25 (2.46%) RDBMS
14 14 (1.38%) Apache Hive
14 14 (1.38%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 432 (42.52%) Jenkins
2 232 (22.83%) Git
3 134 (13.19%) JIRA
4 80 (7.87%) Selenium
5 65 (6.40%) JUnit
6 52 (5.12%) Cucumber
7 51 (5.02%) SonarQube
8 42 (4.13%) Bitbucket
9 34 (3.35%) JMeter
10 33 (3.25%) Artifactory
10 33 (3.25%) Gradle
10 33 (3.25%) Maven
11 31 (3.05%) Postman
12 29 (2.85%) REST Assured
13 27 (2.66%) Gatling
13 27 (2.66%) Mockito
14 23 (2.26%) WebDriver
15 21 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
16 20 (1.97%) Snyk
17 16 (1.57%) Cypress.io
General
1 198 (19.49%) Public Sector
2 195 (19.19%) Social Skills
3 99 (9.74%) Finance
4 64 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (6.30%) Banking
5 24 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (1.97%) Military
7 19 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.38%) Law
9 12 (1.18%) Legal
10 10 (0.98%) Aerospace
11 7 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.69%) Publishing
11 7 (0.69%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.59%) Police
13 5 (0.49%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.49%) Retail
14 4 (0.39%) Marketing
15 3 (0.30%) Back Office
15 3 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 227 (22.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 187 (18.41%) Senior
3 169 (16.63%) Developer
4 128 (12.60%) AWS Engineer
5 99 (9.74%) Data Engineer
6 80 (7.87%) AWS DevOps
7 75 (7.38%) Lead
8 73 (7.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 57 (5.61%) Software Engineer
10 53 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (5.12%) Java Developer
12 48 (4.72%) Platform Engineer
13 44 (4.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 43 (4.23%) Test Engineer
15 36 (3.54%) Software Developer
16 35 (3.44%) Architect
17 32 (3.15%) Tester
18 31 (3.05%) Senior DevOps
19 30 (2.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 29 (2.85%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 499 (49.11%) Terraform
2 145 (14.27%) Kafka
3 121 (11.91%) Spring
4 118 (11.61%) REST
5 109 (10.73%) Spring Boot
6 74 (7.28%) RESTful
7 63 (6.20%) React
8 58 (5.71%) Node.js
9 53 (5.22%) Playwright
10 52 (5.12%) PySpark
11 50 (4.92%) JSON
12 42 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
13 36 (3.54%) YAML
14 32 (3.15%) OAuth
15 29 (2.85%) HTML
16 28 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
17 27 (2.66%) Keycloak
17 27 (2.66%) WireMock
18 26 (2.56%) .NET
18 26 (2.56%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 202 (19.88%) Cloud Native
2 64 (6.30%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.44%) Data Centre
4 35 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (2.17%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.67%) Algorithms
9 16 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.48%) Mainframe
11 14 (1.38%) AI Agents
11 14 (1.38%) Public Cloud
12 10 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (0.89%) PKI
13 9 (0.89%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 186 (18.31%) Linux
2 51 (5.02%) Unix
3 43 (4.23%) Windows
4 34 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.28%) zOS
6 12 (1.18%) AIX
6 12 (1.18%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.98%) CentOS
8 8 (0.79%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.59%) VMS
10 3 (0.30%) Debian
10 3 (0.30%) Rocky
11 2 (0.20%) Android
11 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.098%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 857 (84.35%) CI/CD
2 606 (59.65%) DevOps
3 456 (44.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 390 (38.39%) Agile
5 353 (34.74%) Containerisation
6 309 (30.41%) Test Automation
7 199 (19.59%) Microservices
8 182 (17.91%) Observability
9 167 (16.44%) Software Engineering
10 153 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 152 (14.96%) Scrum
12 150 (14.76%) Platform Engineering
13 140 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
14 123 (12.11%) AI
15 114 (11.22%) DevSecOps
16 103 (10.14%) ETL
17 102 (10.04%) Migration
18 98 (9.65%) Event-Driven
19 93 (9.15%) Deployment Automation
20 91 (8.96%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 445 (43.80%) Python
2 241 (23.72%) Java
3 235 (23.13%) SQL
4 183 (18.01%) Bash
5 92 (9.06%) PowerShell
6 90 (8.86%) JavaScript
7 69 (6.79%) TypeScript
8 65 (6.40%) C#
9 35 (3.44%) Go
10 33 (3.25%) Shell Script
11 25 (2.46%) PL/SQL
12 24 (2.36%) Bicep
13 15 (1.48%) C++
14 12 (1.18%) Groovy
15 9 (0.89%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.89%) Scala
16 6 (0.59%) JCL
16 6 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.59%) R
17 5 (0.49%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 493 (48.52%) Security Cleared
2 408 (40.16%) SC Cleared
3 63 (6.20%) DV Cleared
4 59 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 50 (4.92%) AWS Certification
6 44 (4.33%) Degree
7 29 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (2.17%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 19 (1.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 15 (1.48%) CISSP
11 12 (1.18%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.08%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.59%) CSSLP
15 5 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.49%) GCFA
15 5 (0.49%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (10.83%) QA
2 46 (4.53%) Accessibility
3 43 (4.23%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.28%) NIST
4 13 (1.28%) WCAG
5 12 (1.18%) GDPR
6 10 (0.98%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.98%) SLA
7 9 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.59%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.49%) FATCA
10 5 (0.49%) NCSC
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.098%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.098%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.098%) GRC
13 1 (0.098%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 436 (42.91%) Docker
2 23 (2.26%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.28%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.69%) HDFS
6 6 (0.59%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.49%) Squid
8 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.20%) iptables
9 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.098%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.098%) vSphere
10 1 (0.098%) zsh
Systems Management
1 462 (45.47%) Kubernetes
2 246 (24.21%) Ansible
3 181 (17.81%) Grafana
4 155 (15.26%) Prometheus
5 54 (5.31%) Argo
6 40 (3.94%) Puppet
7 29 (2.85%) Progress Chef
8 17 (1.67%) Istio
9 13 (1.28%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.28%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (0.98%) Packer
10 10 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.89%) Kibana
11 9 (0.89%) Podman
12 8 (0.79%) Kustomize
13 6 (0.59%) Cilium
14 5 (0.49%) CASB
14 5 (0.49%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.49%) linkerd
14 5 (0.49%) Salt
Vendors
1 118 (11.61%) Oracle
2 74 (7.28%) Microsoft
3 66 (6.50%) Google
4 58 (5.71%) Splunk
5 54 (5.31%) Informatica
5 54 (5.31%) Talend
6 38 (3.74%) Databricks
7 35 (3.44%) VMware
8 32 (3.15%) Dynatrace
9 29 (2.85%) Denodo
10 27 (2.66%) ServiceNow
11 23 (2.26%) Red Hat
12 21 (2.07%) Palo Alto
13 20 (1.97%) F5
14 18 (1.77%) Arista
14 18 (1.77%) Aruba
14 18 (1.77%) Trend Micro
15 17 (1.67%) IBM
16 12 (1.18%) Cisco
17 9 (0.89%) Veracode