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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 140 196
Rank change year-on-year -6 +56 +37
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,026 667 492
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.91% 2.04% 1.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.71% 13.48% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 438 330
10th Percentile £381 £363 £374
25th Percentile £425 £449 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £594 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £675 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 9
10th Percentile - £60.50 £52.80
25th Percentile £65.00 £62.69 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.22 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.44
90th Percentile £95.00 £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 6,139 4,948 5,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.44% 15.11% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,942 3,334 3,262
10th Percentile £355 £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 £594 £600 £623
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 258 115 191
10th Percentile £35.88 £28.13 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £50.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £74.69 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.35 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -6 871 £503 -3.37% 196
UK excluding London +3 490 £500 - 166
London +7 374 £525 - 54
Work from Home +8 357 £478 -10.75% 93
North of England -26 183 £500 +2.56% 59
Midlands +21 133 £470 -10.54% 20
West Midlands +27 125 £471 -12.74% 16
South East -32 81 £550 +7.32% 30
North West -26 78 £575 +19.79% 30
North East +9 76 £413 -12.70% 15
South West -21 58 £550 -8.33% 40
Yorkshire -42 42 £550 +10.00% 14
East of England -18 32 £475 - 12
Scotland -15 18 £412 +2.94% 5
East Midlands -16 8 £436 +61.48% 4
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 97 (9.45%) Confluence
2 71 (6.92%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (6.53%) Apache Spark
4 52 (5.07%) Apache
5 34 (3.31%) Jupyter
6 31 (3.02%) SAS
7 9 (0.88%) Camunda
8 6 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.49%) CICS
10 4 (0.39%) CMS
10 4 (0.39%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.29%) nginx
11 3 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.19%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.19%) PowerExchange
12 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.19%) WebSphere Portal
12 2 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Trello
2 1 (0.097%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.097%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.097%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.097%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 701 (68.32%) AWS
2 362 (35.28%) GitHub
3 359 (34.99%) Azure
4 262 (25.54%) GitHub Actions
5 177 (17.25%) GCP
6 167 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
7 145 (14.13%) Serverless
8 141 (13.74%) Amazon S3
9 135 (13.16%) Amazon EKS
10 132 (12.87%) AWS Lambda
11 124 (12.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 98 (9.55%) Amazon EC2
13 83 (8.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 66 (6.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 60 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
16 48 (4.68%) Amazon EMR
17 45 (4.39%) Amazon SQS
17 45 (4.39%) OpenShift
18 36 (3.51%) Azure AKS
18 36 (3.51%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.78%) Firewall
2 34 (3.31%) DNS
3 29 (2.83%) BGP
3 29 (2.83%) Network Security
4 27 (2.63%) Ethernet VPN
4 27 (2.63%) VXLAN
5 23 (2.24%) WAN
6 22 (2.14%) SD-WAN
7 21 (2.05%) OSPF
7 21 (2.05%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.85%) BIG-IP
8 19 (1.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 15 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (1.36%) VPN
11 13 (1.27%) HTTP
12 11 (1.07%) WLAN
13 10 (0.97%) SSL
14 8 (0.78%) NX-OS
15 6 (0.58%) DHCP
16 5 (0.49%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (7.70%) MongoDB
3 56 (5.46%) Relational Database
4 52 (5.07%) Amazon Athena
5 48 (4.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 48 (4.68%) NoSQL
6 45 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
6 45 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (4.29%) DynamoDB
8 37 (3.61%) SQL Server
9 32 (3.12%) Big Data
9 32 (3.12%) Power BI
10 31 (3.02%) Oracle Database
10 31 (3.02%) Redis
11 30 (2.92%) Data Lake
11 30 (2.92%) MySQL
12 29 (2.83%) Pentaho
13 27 (2.63%) RDBMS
14 14 (1.36%) Oracle Exadata
15 13 (1.27%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 431 (42.01%) Jenkins
2 240 (23.39%) Git
3 134 (13.06%) JIRA
4 86 (8.38%) Selenium
5 78 (7.60%) JUnit
6 59 (5.75%) SonarQube
7 56 (5.46%) Cucumber
8 42 (4.09%) Maven
9 39 (3.80%) Bitbucket
10 36 (3.51%) Gradle
11 34 (3.31%) JMeter
12 33 (3.22%) Mockito
13 32 (3.12%) Artifactory
13 32 (3.12%) Gatling
13 32 (3.12%) REST Assured
14 30 (2.92%) Postman
15 24 (2.34%) Sonatype Nexus
16 23 (2.24%) WebDriver
17 20 (1.95%) Snyk
18 16 (1.56%) Cypress.io
General
1 198 (19.30%) Social Skills
2 197 (19.20%) Public Sector
3 102 (9.94%) Finance
4 67 (6.53%) Banking
5 64 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (1.95%) Military
8 18 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.27%) Law
10 12 (1.17%) Legal
11 10 (0.97%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.78%) Investment Banking
12 8 (0.78%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.68%) Publishing
14 6 (0.58%) Police
15 5 (0.49%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.49%) Retail
16 4 (0.39%) Marketing
17 3 (0.29%) Back Office
17 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 228 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 188 (18.32%) Senior
3 177 (17.25%) Developer
4 127 (12.38%) AWS Engineer
5 95 (9.26%) Data Engineer
6 79 (7.70%) AWS DevOps
7 75 (7.31%) Lead
8 72 (7.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 56 (5.46%) Java Developer
10 55 (5.36%) Software Engineer
11 53 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
12 48 (4.68%) Platform Engineer
13 44 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 43 (4.19%) Test Engineer
15 36 (3.51%) Architect
15 36 (3.51%) Software Developer
16 32 (3.12%) Senior DevOps
17 31 (3.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 31 (3.02%) Tester
18 29 (2.83%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 501 (48.83%) Terraform
2 149 (14.52%) Kafka
3 134 (13.06%) Spring
4 121 (11.79%) REST
5 120 (11.70%) Spring Boot
6 74 (7.21%) RESTful
7 67 (6.53%) React
8 60 (5.85%) Playwright
9 58 (5.65%) Node.js
10 52 (5.07%) PySpark
11 49 (4.78%) JSON
12 45 (4.39%) RabbitMQ
13 35 (3.41%) OAuth
13 35 (3.41%) YAML
14 33 (3.22%) HTML
15 31 (3.02%) WireMock
16 30 (2.92%) CSS
17 29 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
18 28 (2.73%) Keycloak
19 26 (2.53%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 202 (19.69%) Cloud Native
2 64 (6.24%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.41%) Data Centre
4 35 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (3.22%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 25 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (1.66%) Algorithms
7 17 (1.66%) Distributed Architecture
8 14 (1.36%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.36%) Mainframe
8 14 (1.36%) Public Cloud
9 10 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (0.97%) PKI
10 9 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (0.88%) Private Cloud
11 8 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 187 (18.23%) Linux
2 47 (4.58%) Unix
3 41 (4.00%) Windows
4 35 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.17%) AIX
5 12 (1.17%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.17%) zOS
6 11 (1.07%) CentOS
7 8 (0.78%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.58%) VMS
9 3 (0.29%) Debian
9 3 (0.29%) Rocky
10 2 (0.19%) Android
10 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.097%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 865 (84.31%) CI/CD
2 608 (59.26%) DevOps
3 460 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 402 (39.18%) Agile
5 354 (34.50%) Containerisation
6 315 (30.70%) Test Automation
7 212 (20.66%) Microservices
8 186 (18.13%) Observability
9 166 (16.18%) Software Engineering
10 161 (15.69%) Scrum
11 155 (15.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 151 (14.72%) Platform Engineering
13 139 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
14 122 (11.89%) AI
15 114 (11.11%) DevSecOps
16 102 (9.94%) Migration
17 98 (9.55%) ETL
17 98 (9.55%) Event-Driven
18 95 (9.26%) Deployment Automation
19 92 (8.97%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 443 (43.18%) Python
2 254 (24.76%) Java
3 236 (23.00%) SQL
4 185 (18.03%) Bash
5 94 (9.16%) JavaScript
6 93 (9.06%) PowerShell
7 69 (6.73%) TypeScript
8 64 (6.24%) C#
9 36 (3.51%) Go
9 36 (3.51%) Shell Script
10 24 (2.34%) Bicep
11 22 (2.14%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.46%) C++
13 12 (1.17%) Groovy
14 9 (0.88%) Scala
15 8 (0.78%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.58%) R
17 5 (0.49%) Ruby
17 5 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 491 (47.86%) Security Cleared
2 405 (39.47%) SC Cleared
3 68 (6.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 64 (6.24%) DV Cleared
5 50 (4.87%) AWS Certification
6 47 (4.58%) Degree
7 33 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (2.14%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 19 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 15 (1.46%) CISSP
11 12 (1.17%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.07%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.58%) CSSLP
15 5 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.49%) GCFA
15 5 (0.49%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (11.11%) QA
2 51 (4.97%) Accessibility
3 43 (4.19%) Data Quality
4 18 (1.75%) WCAG
5 13 (1.27%) NIST
6 12 (1.17%) GDPR
7 10 (0.97%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.97%) SLA
8 9 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.58%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.49%) FATCA
11 5 (0.49%) NCSC
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.097%) GRC
14 1 (0.097%) MIL-STD-1553
14 1 (0.097%) OpenSCAP
14 1 (0.097%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 443 (43.18%) Docker
2 23 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.14%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.27%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.49%) Squid
8 4 (0.39%) HDFS
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
1 468 (45.61%) Kubernetes
2 243 (23.68%) Ansible
3 182 (17.74%) Grafana
4 159 (15.50%) Prometheus
5 54 (5.26%) Argo
6 40 (3.90%) Puppet
7 29 (2.83%) Progress Chef
8 17 (1.66%) Istio
9 13 (1.27%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.27%) Kibana
9 13 (1.27%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (0.97%) Packer
10 10 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.88%) Podman
12 8 (0.78%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.68%) Cilium
14 5 (0.49%) CASB
14 5 (0.49%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.49%) linkerd
14 5 (0.49%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 113 (11.01%) Oracle
2 73 (7.12%) Microsoft
3 67 (6.53%) Google
4 58 (5.65%) Splunk
5 51 (4.97%) Talend
6 50 (4.87%) Informatica
7 38 (3.70%) Databricks
8 36 (3.51%) VMware
9 35 (3.41%) Dynatrace
10 27 (2.63%) ServiceNow
11 26 (2.53%) Denodo
12 23 (2.24%) Red Hat
13 21 (2.05%) Palo Alto
14 20 (1.95%) F5
14 20 (1.95%) IBM
15 18 (1.75%) Arista
15 18 (1.75%) Aruba
15 18 (1.75%) Trend Micro
16 12 (1.17%) Cisco
16 12 (1.17%) Veracode