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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 133 174
Rank change year-on-year -8 +41 +73
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,086 692 538
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.99% 2.13% 1.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.22% 13.99% 10.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 763 464 366
10th Percentile £382 £375 £356
25th Percentile £426 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.23% -1.36%
75th Percentile £599 £603 £650
90th Percentile £688 £691 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 9 7
10th Percentile - £59.75 £70.40
25th Percentile £65.00 £61.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.72
90th Percentile £95.00 £68.10 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.22 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +1.81% -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 6,305 4,948 5,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.55% 15.23% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,030 3,327 3,222
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £414 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 108 176
10th Percentile £24.08 £29.00 £28.62
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.90 £73.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 22 September 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 22 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Top 17 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 22 September 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 -5 915 £500 -4.76% 624
UK excluding London -18 522 £500 - 388
London +12 390 £513 -3.30% 279
Work from Home +12 378 £494 -6.78% 289
North of England -41 180 £475 -2.81% 114
Midlands +34 144 £474 -12.27% 46
West Midlands +35 135 £475 -13.64% 39
South East -24 84 £550 +9.89% 60
North East -2 77 £413 -17.50% 28
North West -36 75 £569 +21.84% 60
South West -9 64 £550 -8.33% 79
Yorkshire -66 39 £550 +10.00% 26
East of England -25 38 £463 -5.13% 39
Scotland -24 25 £424 +0.95% 31
East Midlands -11 9 £405 +50.00% 7
Wales -9 2 - - 7
Northern Ireland +1 1 - - 13

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
1 103 (9.48%) Confluence
2 79 (7.27%) Apache Spark
3 73 (6.72%) Apache Airflow
4 58 (5.34%) Apache
5 35 (3.22%) Jupyter
6 30 (2.76%) SAS
7 12 (1.10%) Camunda
8 6 (0.55%) nginx
9 5 (0.46%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.37%) CICS
11 3 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.28%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.18%) CMS
12 2 (0.18%) PowerExchange
12 2 (0.18%) Traefik
13 1 (0.092%) IBM HTTP Server
13 1 (0.092%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 1 (0.092%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.092%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (0.37%) Trello
2 1 (0.092%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.092%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.092%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.092%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 716 (65.93%) AWS
2 369 (33.98%) Azure
3 351 (32.32%) GitHub
4 245 (22.56%) GitHub Actions
5 176 (16.21%) Azure DevOps
6 171 (15.75%) GCP
7 143 (13.17%) Amazon S3
8 140 (12.89%) Serverless
9 135 (12.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 132 (12.15%) Amazon EKS
11 129 (11.88%) AWS Lambda
12 105 (9.67%) Amazon EC2
13 78 (7.18%) AWS CloudFormation
14 69 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
15 67 (6.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 58 (5.34%) OpenShift
17 55 (5.06%) Amazon EMR
18 48 (4.42%) Amazon SQS
19 37 (3.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 36 (3.31%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.24%) Firewall
2 38 (3.50%) DNS
3 29 (2.67%) BGP
3 29 (2.67%) Ethernet VPN
3 29 (2.67%) Network Security
3 29 (2.67%) VXLAN
4 26 (2.39%) TCP/IP
5 23 (2.12%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (2.03%) WAN
7 21 (1.93%) SD-WAN
8 20 (1.84%) OSPF
9 19 (1.75%) BIG-IP
9 19 (1.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 12 (1.10%) HTTP
10 12 (1.10%) VPN
11 11 (1.01%) WLAN
12 10 (0.92%) 5G
12 10 (0.92%) NX-OS
13 9 (0.83%) 4G
13 9 (0.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (8.29%) MongoDB
3 56 (5.16%) Amazon Athena
4 55 (5.06%) Relational Database
5 52 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
6 50 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
7 47 (4.33%) NoSQL
8 45 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 42 (3.87%) Data Lake
9 42 (3.87%) DynamoDB
10 37 (3.41%) SQL Server
11 36 (3.31%) Oracle Database
12 35 (3.22%) Redis
13 34 (3.13%) Power BI
14 33 (3.04%) Big Data
14 33 (3.04%) MySQL
15 30 (2.76%) Pentaho
16 27 (2.49%) RDBMS
17 15 (1.38%) BigQuery
17 15 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 428 (39.41%) Jenkins
2 265 (24.40%) Git
3 147 (13.54%) JIRA
4 90 (8.29%) Selenium
5 86 (7.92%) JUnit
6 64 (5.89%) SonarQube
7 63 (5.80%) Cucumber
8 56 (5.16%) Maven
9 43 (3.96%) Mockito
10 40 (3.68%) Gradle
11 39 (3.59%) Gatling
12 36 (3.31%) Bitbucket
13 33 (3.04%) REST Assured
14 30 (2.76%) Artifactory
14 30 (2.76%) JMeter
15 27 (2.49%) Sonatype Nexus
16 23 (2.12%) Postman
17 18 (1.66%) WebDriver
18 17 (1.57%) Cypress.io
19 16 (1.47%) Snyk
General
1 210 (19.34%) Social Skills
2 206 (18.97%) Public Sector
3 108 (9.94%) Finance
4 72 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (6.17%) Banking
6 32 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (2.12%) Military
8 18 (1.66%) Telecoms
9 16 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (1.29%) Law
11 11 (1.01%) Aerospace
11 11 (1.01%) Legal
12 7 (0.64%) Publishing
13 6 (0.55%) Back Office
13 6 (0.55%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.55%) Police
14 4 (0.37%) Local Government
14 4 (0.37%) Marketing
14 4 (0.37%) Retail
15 3 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 244 (22.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 191 (17.59%) Developer
3 183 (16.85%) Senior
4 126 (11.60%) AWS Engineer
5 98 (9.02%) Data Engineer
6 80 (7.37%) AWS DevOps
7 73 (6.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 71 (6.54%) Lead
9 61 (5.62%) Java Developer
10 55 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
11 51 (4.70%) Software Engineer
12 49 (4.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 48 (4.42%) Test Engineer
14 47 (4.33%) Architect
14 47 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
15 45 (4.14%) Software Developer
16 36 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
17 33 (3.04%) Java Engineer
18 31 (2.85%) Senior DevOps
19 30 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 531 (48.90%) Terraform
2 162 (14.92%) Kafka
3 149 (13.72%) Spring
4 133 (12.25%) Spring Boot
5 127 (11.69%) REST
6 76 (7.00%) React
7 75 (6.91%) RESTful
8 74 (6.81%) Playwright
9 55 (5.06%) RabbitMQ
10 53 (4.88%) JSON
10 53 (4.88%) Node.js
10 53 (4.88%) PySpark
11 41 (3.78%) HTML
12 36 (3.31%) CSS
12 36 (3.31%) JPA
13 34 (3.13%) OAuth
13 34 (3.13%) OpenAPI
14 33 (3.04%) YAML
15 31 (2.85%) pytest
16 30 (2.76%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 216 (19.89%) Cloud Native
2 59 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (4.79%) Product Ownership
4 38 (3.50%) Data Centre
5 36 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
6 31 (2.85%) Data Structures
6 31 (2.85%) Onboarding
7 30 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (1.93%) AI Agents
9 17 (1.57%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.47%) PKI
11 14 (1.29%) Distributed Architecture
11 14 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.29%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.20%) Mainframe
13 12 (1.10%) Private Cloud
14 10 (0.92%) Replication
14 10 (0.92%) Security Posture
15 9 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
16 8 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 218 (20.07%) Linux
2 53 (4.88%) Unix
3 49 (4.51%) Windows
4 44 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.57%) CentOS
6 15 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.10%) AIX
7 12 (1.10%) VMS
8 11 (1.01%) zOS
9 10 (0.92%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.18%) Debian
10 2 (0.18%) Rocky
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.092%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.092%) Android
11 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.092%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.092%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 914 (84.16%) CI/CD
2 644 (59.30%) DevOps
3 502 (46.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 440 (40.52%) Agile
5 370 (34.07%) Containerisation
6 329 (30.29%) Test Automation
7 218 (20.07%) Microservices
8 198 (18.23%) Observability
9 188 (17.31%) Scrum
10 178 (16.39%) Software Engineering
11 162 (14.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 156 (14.36%) Platform Engineering
13 149 (13.72%) AI
14 144 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
15 113 (10.41%) Mentoring
15 113 (10.41%) Migration
16 111 (10.22%) Deployment Automation
16 111 (10.22%) DevSecOps
17 108 (9.94%) Event-Driven
18 105 (9.67%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 473 (43.55%) Python
2 273 (25.14%) Java
3 252 (23.20%) SQL
4 187 (17.22%) Bash
5 99 (9.12%) JavaScript
6 88 (8.10%) PowerShell
7 66 (6.08%) C#
8 64 (5.89%) TypeScript
9 47 (4.33%) Go
10 44 (4.05%) Shell Script
11 21 (1.93%) PL/SQL
12 19 (1.75%) Bicep
13 14 (1.29%) C++
13 14 (1.29%) Groovy
14 12 (1.10%) Scala
15 9 (0.83%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.64%) R
17 6 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.46%) Cypher
18 5 (0.46%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 520 (47.88%) Security Cleared
2 418 (38.49%) SC Cleared
3 88 (8.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 80 (7.37%) DV Cleared
5 53 (4.88%) Degree
6 52 (4.79%) AWS Certification
7 39 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 16 (1.47%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.47%) CISSP
9 15 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 15 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.20%) ISTQB
11 9 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.74%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.46%) CSSLP
14 5 (0.46%) GCFA
14 5 (0.46%) GCIH
14 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (12.71%) QA
2 60 (5.52%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.14%) Data Quality
4 26 (2.39%) WCAG
5 19 (1.75%) NIST
6 14 (1.29%) GDPR
6 14 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.01%) NCSC
8 10 (0.92%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.64%) SLA
11 6 (0.55%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.46%) FATCA
13 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.092%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.092%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.092%) MIL-STD-1553
14 1 (0.092%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.092%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 453 (41.71%) Docker
2 26 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (2.21%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
5 10 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.74%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.46%) Squid
8 4 (0.37%) HDFS
9 3 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.28%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.18%) Firmware
10 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.18%) iptables
10 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.092%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 493 (45.40%) Kubernetes
2 261 (24.03%) Ansible
3 180 (16.57%) Grafana
4 156 (14.36%) Prometheus
5 50 (4.60%) Argo
6 38 (3.50%) Puppet
7 27 (2.49%) Progress Chef
8 26 (2.39%) Kibana
9 15 (1.38%) Istio
10 14 (1.29%) Packer
11 13 (1.20%) Data Guard
11 13 (1.20%) Oracle RMAN
12 10 (0.92%) Podman
12 10 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.83%) Cilium
13 9 (0.83%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.46%) CASB
14 5 (0.46%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.37%) Control-M
Vendors
1 124 (11.42%) Oracle
2 75 (6.91%) Google
3 72 (6.63%) Microsoft
4 59 (5.43%) Splunk
5 55 (5.06%) Talend
6 48 (4.42%) Informatica
7 46 (4.24%) VMware
8 38 (3.50%) Dynatrace
9 35 (3.22%) Databricks
10 26 (2.39%) Denodo
10 26 (2.39%) Red Hat
11 24 (2.21%) IBM
11 24 (2.21%) ServiceNow
12 21 (1.93%) Palo Alto
13 20 (1.84%) F5
14 18 (1.66%) Arista
14 18 (1.66%) Aruba
14 18 (1.66%) Trend Micro
15 14 (1.29%) Cisco
16 13 (1.20%) Veracode