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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 146 189
Rank change year-on-year -1 +43 +47
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,022 663 492
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.91% 2.02% 1.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.44% 13.39% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 710 435 330
10th Percentile £381 £367 £361
25th Percentile £425 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £650
90th Percentile £688 £675 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -1.00% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 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 £91.00 £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 6,218 4,950 5,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.62% 15.08% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,000 3,338 3,271
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 £597 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 114 199
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.08 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.63
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.97 £84.58 £73.80
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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -9 868 £500 -3.85% 235
UK excluding London -4 485 £495 -1.00% 185
London +14 376 £525 - 86
Work from Home +13 358 £475 -11.21% 113
North of England -14 182 £500 +2.56% 50
Midlands +23 129 £469 -10.67% 27
West Midlands +23 122 £469 -13.15% 21
South East -23 82 £550 +7.32% 33
North East +9 78 £413 -12.70% 15
North West -23 74 £575 +19.79% 25
South West -17 57 £550 -8.33% 35
Yorkshire -44 43 £550 +10.00% 10
East of England -15 33 £475 +2.70% 13
Scotland -18 17 £412 +2.94% 26
East Midlands -16 7 £459 +69.81% 6
Northern Ireland +5 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 95 (9.30%) Confluence
2 70 (6.85%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (6.56%) Apache Spark
4 51 (4.99%) Apache
5 34 (3.33%) Jupyter
6 32 (3.13%) SAS
7 6 (0.59%) Camunda
7 6 (0.59%) CICS
7 6 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.39%) CMS
9 3 (0.29%) nginx
9 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
10 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
1 695 (68.00%) AWS
2 365 (35.71%) Azure
3 362 (35.42%) GitHub
4 263 (25.73%) GitHub Actions
5 178 (17.42%) GCP
6 171 (16.73%) Azure DevOps
7 143 (13.99%) Serverless
8 142 (13.89%) Amazon S3
9 136 (13.31%) Amazon EKS
10 130 (12.72%) AWS Lambda
11 123 (12.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 99 (9.69%) Amazon EC2
13 81 (7.93%) AWS CloudFormation
14 66 (6.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 58 (5.68%) Amazon ECS
16 45 (4.40%) Amazon EMR
16 45 (4.40%) Amazon SQS
17 42 (4.11%) OpenShift
18 37 (3.62%) Azure AKS
19 36 (3.52%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.89%) Firewall
2 33 (3.23%) DNS
3 29 (2.84%) BGP
3 29 (2.84%) Network Security
4 27 (2.64%) Ethernet VPN
4 27 (2.64%) VXLAN
5 23 (2.25%) WAN
6 22 (2.15%) SD-WAN
7 21 (2.05%) OSPF
8 20 (1.96%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.86%) BIG-IP
9 19 (1.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 15 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (1.37%) VPN
12 12 (1.17%) HTTP
13 11 (1.08%) WLAN
14 8 (0.78%) NX-OS
14 8 (0.78%) SSL
15 6 (0.59%) DHCP
16 5 (0.49%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (7.63%) MongoDB
3 53 (5.19%) Relational Database
4 52 (5.09%) Amazon Athena
5 50 (4.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 46 (4.50%) NoSQL
7 45 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
8 44 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (4.31%) DynamoDB
9 35 (3.42%) SQL Server
10 34 (3.33%) Pentaho
11 33 (3.23%) Power BI
12 32 (3.13%) MySQL
13 30 (2.94%) Big Data
13 30 (2.94%) Data Lake
13 30 (2.94%) Redis
14 28 (2.74%) Oracle Database
15 24 (2.35%) RDBMS
16 14 (1.37%) Apache Hive
16 14 (1.37%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 434 (42.47%) Jenkins
2 232 (22.70%) Git
3 131 (12.82%) JIRA
4 79 (7.73%) Selenium
5 65 (6.36%) JUnit
6 52 (5.09%) Cucumber
7 50 (4.89%) SonarQube
8 42 (4.11%) Bitbucket
9 34 (3.33%) JMeter
10 33 (3.23%) Artifactory
11 32 (3.13%) Gradle
11 32 (3.13%) Maven
12 31 (3.03%) Postman
13 29 (2.84%) REST Assured
14 27 (2.64%) Gatling
14 27 (2.64%) Mockito
15 23 (2.25%) WebDriver
16 21 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
17 20 (1.96%) Snyk
18 15 (1.47%) Cypress.io
General
1 196 (19.18%) Social Skills
2 195 (19.08%) Public Sector
3 99 (9.69%) Finance
4 65 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (6.16%) Banking
6 24 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (1.96%) Military
8 19 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.37%) Law
10 13 (1.27%) Legal
11 10 (0.98%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.68%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.68%) Publishing
12 7 (0.68%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.59%) Police
14 5 (0.49%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.49%) Retail
15 4 (0.39%) Marketing
16 3 (0.29%) Back Office
16 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 229 (22.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 188 (18.40%) Senior
3 171 (16.73%) Developer
4 130 (12.72%) AWS Engineer
5 100 (9.78%) Data Engineer
6 80 (7.83%) AWS DevOps
7 75 (7.34%) Lead
8 73 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 57 (5.58%) Software Engineer
10 53 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (5.09%) Java Developer
12 49 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
13 44 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 43 (4.21%) Test Engineer
15 36 (3.52%) Architect
15 36 (3.52%) Software Developer
16 33 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
17 32 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 31 (3.03%) Tester
19 29 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 502 (49.12%) Terraform
2 145 (14.19%) Kafka
3 120 (11.74%) REST
3 120 (11.74%) Spring
4 108 (10.57%) Spring Boot
5 72 (7.05%) RESTful
6 62 (6.07%) React
7 59 (5.77%) Node.js
8 53 (5.19%) Playwright
9 50 (4.89%) JSON
9 50 (4.89%) PySpark
10 42 (4.11%) RabbitMQ
11 36 (3.52%) YAML
12 33 (3.23%) OAuth
13 31 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
14 28 (2.74%) HTML
15 27 (2.64%) Keycloak
15 27 (2.64%) WireMock
16 26 (2.54%) .NET
17 25 (2.45%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 204 (19.96%) Cloud Native
2 65 (6.36%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.42%) Data Centre
4 35 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (2.05%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.66%) Algorithms
9 16 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.47%) Mainframe
11 14 (1.37%) AI Agents
11 14 (1.37%) Public Cloud
12 10 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (0.88%) PKI
13 9 (0.88%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 189 (18.49%) Linux
2 49 (4.79%) Unix
3 43 (4.21%) Windows
4 34 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.27%) zOS
6 12 (1.17%) AIX
6 12 (1.17%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.98%) CentOS
8 8 (0.78%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.59%) VMS
10 3 (0.29%) Debian
10 3 (0.29%) 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
1 856 (83.76%) CI/CD
2 611 (59.78%) DevOps
3 456 (44.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 390 (38.16%) Agile
5 351 (34.34%) Containerisation
6 307 (30.04%) Test Automation
7 198 (19.37%) Microservices
8 183 (17.91%) Observability
9 166 (16.24%) Software Engineering
10 154 (15.07%) Scrum
11 153 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 152 (14.87%) Platform Engineering
13 141 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
14 120 (11.74%) AI
15 115 (11.25%) DevSecOps
16 104 (10.18%) ETL
17 100 (9.78%) Migration
18 97 (9.49%) Event-Driven
19 94 (9.20%) Deployment Automation
20 93 (9.10%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 445 (43.54%) Python
2 240 (23.48%) Java
3 233 (22.80%) SQL
4 187 (18.30%) Bash
5 93 (9.10%) PowerShell
6 90 (8.81%) JavaScript
7 69 (6.75%) TypeScript
8 65 (6.36%) C#
9 35 (3.42%) Go
10 31 (3.03%) Shell Script
11 25 (2.45%) PL/SQL
12 24 (2.35%) Bicep
13 15 (1.47%) C++
14 12 (1.17%) Groovy
15 9 (0.88%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.88%) Scala
16 6 (0.59%) JCL
16 6 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.59%) R
17 5 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 498 (48.73%) Security Cleared
2 413 (40.41%) SC Cleared
3 65 (6.36%) DV Cleared
4 59 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 48 (4.70%) AWS Certification
6 45 (4.40%) Degree
7 30 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (2.15%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (1.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 15 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (1.47%) CISSP
12 12 (1.17%) ISTQB
13 11 (1.08%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.59%) CSSLP
16 5 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.49%) GCFA
16 5 (0.49%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (10.57%) QA
2 46 (4.50%) Accessibility
3 42 (4.11%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.27%) NIST
4 13 (1.27%) WCAG
5 12 (1.17%) GDPR
6 10 (0.98%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.98%) SLA
7 9 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.59%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.49%) FATCA
10 5 (0.49%) NCSC
11 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.29%) 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
1 438 (42.86%) Docker
2 23 (2.25%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.27%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.68%) HDFS
6 6 (0.59%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.49%) Squid
8 3 (0.29%) 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
1 466 (45.60%) Kubernetes
2 249 (24.36%) Ansible
3 181 (17.71%) Grafana
4 155 (15.17%) Prometheus
5 54 (5.28%) Argo
6 40 (3.91%) Puppet
7 29 (2.84%) Progress Chef
8 17 (1.66%) Istio
9 13 (1.27%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.27%) Oracle RMAN
9 13 (1.27%) Packer
10 10 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.88%) Kibana
11 9 (0.88%) Podman
12 8 (0.78%) 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
1 116 (11.35%) Oracle
2 74 (7.24%) Microsoft
3 66 (6.46%) Google
4 58 (5.68%) Splunk
5 55 (5.38%) Talend
6 53 (5.19%) Informatica
7 40 (3.91%) Databricks
8 35 (3.42%) Dynatrace
8 35 (3.42%) VMware
9 30 (2.94%) ServiceNow
10 29 (2.84%) Denodo
11 23 (2.25%) Red Hat
12 21 (2.05%) Palo Alto
13 20 (1.96%) F5
14 18 (1.76%) Arista
14 18 (1.76%) Aruba
14 18 (1.76%) Trend Micro
15 17 (1.66%) IBM
16 12 (1.17%) Cisco
17 9 (0.88%) Veracode