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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 217 250
Rank change year-on-year +74 +33 -84
Contract jobs citing GitLab 618 484 582
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.97% 1.11% 1.04%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.53% 9.03% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 341 380
10th Percentile £356 £381 £438
25th Percentile £438 £456 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £590 £650 £650
90th Percentile £668 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 6
10th Percentile £62.50 £40.00 £38.80
25th Percentile £64.38 £58.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £74.00 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +86.87% -27.00%
75th Percentile £77.73 £74.86 £56.78
90th Percentile £80.87 £77.50 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.48 £74.22 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.05% +23.70% +17.94%

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 4,567 5,362 7,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.58% 12.33% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,063 3,565 5,520
10th Percentile £331 £355 £363
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £693 £725 £757
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 248 232
10th Percentile £20.98 £30.28 £46.19
25th Percentile £47.36 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £59.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +4.00% +18.72%
75th Percentile £72.81 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £86.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

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 3 July 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 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Top 16 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 3 July 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 +66 506 £513 -6.86% 548
UK excluding London +51 250 £500 -3.85% 372
London +50 249 £525 -8.30% 223
Work from Home +75 223 £525 -4.59% 308
North of England +40 104 £475 -6.40% 91
North West +36 57 £470 -8.29% 49
South East +17 40 £501 -15.88% 69
Yorkshire +9 37 £500 +6.67% 30
Midlands +33 35 £500 +11.36% 47
South West +38 31 £575 +5.99% 60
West Midlands +31 28 £525 +35.48% 34
Scotland +3 24 £402 -13.08% 37
East of England +35 14 £475 - 54
North East +7 13 £465 +8.14% 12
East Midlands -1 7 £270 -39.87% 13
Northern Ireland - 2 £500 - 17

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 41 (6.63%) Confluence
2 15 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.10%) Documentum
3 13 (2.10%) FileNet
4 11 (1.78%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.29%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.13%) Apache
7 6 (0.97%) nginx
8 5 (0.81%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.81%) Mule
9 4 (0.65%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.65%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.65%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.49%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.16%) Camunda
12 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.16%) Mattermost
12 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.32%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 334 (54.05%) AWS
2 183 (29.61%) Azure
3 125 (20.23%) GitHub
4 98 (15.86%) GCP
5 63 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (10.03%) Serverless
7 52 (8.41%) Amazon S3
8 47 (7.61%) Amazon EC2
9 46 (7.44%) GitHub Actions
10 45 (7.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 39 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
12 38 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (5.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 27 (4.37%) Amazon ECS
15 20 (3.24%) PaaS
16 19 (3.07%) Amazon SQS
17 14 (2.27%) AWS CodePipeline
18 13 (2.10%) AWS Fargate
18 13 (2.10%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.53%) DNS
2 26 (4.21%) Firewall
3 14 (2.27%) Network Security
4 11 (1.78%) HTTP
5 10 (1.62%) SAN
6 9 (1.46%) VPN
7 7 (1.13%) BGP
8 6 (0.97%) Ethernet VPN
8 6 (0.97%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.97%) WAN
9 5 (0.81%) LAN
9 5 (0.81%) OSPF
10 4 (0.65%) Calico
10 4 (0.65%) DHCP
10 4 (0.65%) iSCSI
10 4 (0.65%) Multicast
10 4 (0.65%) NAS
11 3 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
11 3 (0.49%) VSAN
11 3 (0.49%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (10.03%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (7.61%) MongoDB
3 38 (6.15%) MySQL
4 35 (5.66%) NoSQL
5 29 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (4.21%) SQL Server
7 16 (2.59%) Relational Database
8 15 (2.43%) Oracle Database
9 11 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (1.62%) Big Data
11 9 (1.46%) Power BI
12 7 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.13%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.13%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.97%) Apache Hive
13 6 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.97%) Metadata
13 6 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.81%) DB2
Development Applications
1 270 (43.69%) Jenkins
2 116 (18.77%) Git
3 93 (15.05%) JIRA
4 50 (8.09%) Selenium
5 45 (7.28%) SonarQube
6 43 (6.96%) Bitbucket
6 43 (6.96%) JUnit
7 41 (6.63%) Maven
8 36 (5.83%) Cucumber
9 31 (5.02%) REST Assured
10 29 (4.69%) Sonatype Nexus
11 25 (4.05%) TeamCity
12 24 (3.88%) Mockito
12 24 (3.88%) Postman
13 20 (3.24%) Gradle
14 19 (3.07%) Cypress.io
15 18 (2.91%) JMeter
16 17 (2.75%) Artifactory
16 17 (2.75%) Liquibase
17 15 (2.43%) CircleCI
General
1 144 (23.30%) Social Skills
2 90 (14.56%) Finance
3 80 (12.94%) Public Sector
4 54 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (6.47%) Banking
6 22 (3.56%) Telecoms
7 15 (2.43%) Marketing
8 12 (1.94%) Electronics
8 12 (1.94%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.46%) Law
10 8 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.29%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.97%) Military
11 6 (0.97%) Retail
12 5 (0.81%) Police
12 5 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.49%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.32%) German Language
15 2 (0.32%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 152 (24.60%) DevOps Engineer
2 129 (20.87%) Developer
3 85 (13.75%) Senior
4 65 (10.52%) AWS Engineer
5 46 (7.44%) Java Developer
6 43 (6.96%) AWS DevOps
7 42 (6.80%) Architect
8 41 (6.63%) Software Engineer
9 39 (6.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 31 (5.02%) Java Engineer
10 31 (5.02%) Lead
11 30 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
12 26 (4.21%) Senior DevOps
13 25 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 24 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
16 20 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
16 20 (3.24%) Test Engineer
17 19 (3.07%) Data Engineer
18 18 (2.91%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (10.03%) React
2 59 (9.55%) Spring
3 57 (9.22%) REST
3 57 (9.22%) Spring Boot
4 55 (8.90%) Kafka
5 47 (7.61%) RESTful
6 41 (6.63%) Node.js
7 29 (4.69%) HTML
8 26 (4.21%) Elastic Stack
8 26 (4.21%) Playwright
9 25 (4.05%) CSS
10 24 (3.88%) AngularJS
11 20 (3.24%) Hibernate
12 19 (3.07%) JSON
12 19 (3.07%) OAuth
13 17 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
14 16 (2.59%) Swagger
15 14 (2.27%) Java EE
15 14 (2.27%) Web Services
15 14 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.47%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 18 (2.91%) Data Centre
4 15 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (2.43%) Public Cloud
5 14 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (2.10%) PKI
7 12 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.62%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (0.97%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.81%) Hedge funds
11 5 (0.81%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.65%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.65%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 136 (22.01%) Linux
2 38 (6.15%) Windows
3 34 (5.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 28 (4.53%) Unix
5 17 (2.75%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.94%) Android
6 12 (1.94%) CentOS
7 8 (1.29%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.97%) SUSE
9 4 (0.65%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.49%) Rocky
10 3 (0.49%) Solaris
11 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (64.72%) CI/CD
2 333 (53.88%) DevOps
3 196 (31.72%) Agile
4 187 (30.26%) Containerisation
5 186 (30.10%) Infrastructure as Code
6 133 (21.52%) Microservices
7 121 (19.58%) Test Automation
8 120 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
9 91 (14.72%) Software Engineering
10 82 (13.27%) Migration
11 68 (11.00%) Configuration Management
12 67 (10.84%) Infrastructure Automation
13 61 (9.87%) Scrum
14 55 (8.90%) Continuous Integration
15 49 (7.93%) Mentoring
16 47 (7.61%) TDD
17 46 (7.44%) DevSecOps
18 45 (7.28%) SDLC
19 43 (6.96%) Cloud Security
19 43 (6.96%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 242 (39.16%) Python
2 190 (30.74%) Java
3 107 (17.31%) SQL
4 98 (15.86%) Bash
5 89 (14.40%) JavaScript
6 53 (8.58%) PowerShell
7 45 (7.28%) TypeScript
8 32 (5.18%) Shell Script
9 23 (3.72%) C#
10 22 (3.56%) Go
11 15 (2.43%) C++
11 15 (2.43%) Rust
12 8 (1.29%) Ruby
13 7 (1.13%) PHP
14 6 (0.97%) C
15 5 (0.81%) DataWeave
15 5 (0.81%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.81%) Scala
16 4 (0.65%) Groovy
16 4 (0.65%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 206 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 168 (27.18%) SC Cleared
3 47 (7.61%) AWS Certification
4 42 (6.80%) Degree
5 27 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (4.05%) DV Cleared
7 20 (3.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.97%) OCP
10 6 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
11 5 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.81%) CCNP
11 5 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.81%) CISSP
12 4 (0.65%) CCNA
12 4 (0.65%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.65%) SANS
13 3 (0.49%) CEH
14 2 (0.32%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.74%) QA
2 16 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.43%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.62%) GDPR
5 7 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.97%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.97%) SOC 2
6 6 (0.97%) WCAG
7 5 (0.81%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.65%) NCSC
8 4 (0.65%) SLA
9 3 (0.49%) NIST
10 2 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.16%) FedRAMP
11 1 (0.16%) GRC
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.16%) MISRA
11 1 (0.16%) MISRA C
System Software
1 213 (34.47%) Docker
2 20 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.97%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.81%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.81%) vSphere
6 4 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 3 (0.49%) FreeRADIUS
7 3 (0.49%) iptables
8 2 (0.32%) Ceph
8 2 (0.32%) Firmware
9 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 285 (46.12%) Terraform
2 243 (39.32%) Kubernetes
3 180 (29.13%) Ansible
4 64 (10.36%) Grafana
5 61 (9.87%) Prometheus
6 51 (8.25%) Puppet
7 26 (4.21%) Argo
8 21 (3.40%) Progress Chef
9 15 (2.43%) Podman
10 10 (1.62%) Istio
11 9 (1.46%) Docker Swarm
12 7 (1.13%) Consul
12 7 (1.13%) logstash
12 7 (1.13%) Packer
12 7 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.81%) HP Fortify
13 5 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.81%) Nagios
13 5 (0.81%) Nessus
13 5 (0.81%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 48 (7.77%) Google
2 46 (7.44%) Microsoft
3 45 (7.28%) Oracle
4 37 (5.99%) Splunk
5 31 (5.02%) SAP
6 21 (3.40%) VMware
7 17 (2.75%) Cisco
8 15 (2.43%) IBM
8 15 (2.43%) ServiceNow
9 14 (2.27%) Databricks
10 13 (2.10%) Atlassian
10 13 (2.10%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.94%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.94%) Veracode
12 8 (1.29%) Informatica
12 8 (1.29%) MuleSoft
13 7 (1.13%) Talend
14 6 (0.97%) F5
14 6 (0.97%) PagerDuty
14 6 (0.97%) Virgin Media