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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 141 218
Rank change year-on-year +10 +77 +20
Contract jobs citing GitLab 985 598 481
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.95% 2.01% 1.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.46% 13.73% 9.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 677 370 341
10th Percentile £371 £358 £400
25th Percentile £416 £440 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £580 £589 £650
90th Percentile £686 £669 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £533
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.19% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 2 9
10th Percentile - £69.05 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.37 £56.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.01% +3.35% +86.87%
75th Percentile - £80.35 £75.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £81.91 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £74.44
% change year-on-year -15.01% +2.74% +24.07%

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 5,984 4,355 5,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.84% 14.60% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,879 2,912 3,533
10th Percentile £350 £331 £355
25th Percentile £410 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £695 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 84 245
10th Percentile £26.25 £20.85 £29.30
25th Percentile £56.56 £46.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +4.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.07 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +5.69%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +8 828 £500 -2.44% 157
UK excluding London +19 479 £475 -5.00% 127
London -4 352 £525 - 52
Work from Home +11 326 £475 -8.65% 73
North of England -3 192 £465 -2.11% 34
Midlands +20 131 £459 -8.20% 13
West Midlands +15 121 £461 -12.24% 10
North West -8 88 £513 +9.28% 18
North East +3 63 £400 -13.98% 11
South East -41 62 £550 +9.89% 28
Yorkshire -37 56 £525 +2.44% 5
South West -1 52 £500 -13.04% 32
East of England -5 38 £483 +7.22% 13
Scotland -11 20 £412 +2.43% 7
East Midlands -14 10 £436 +61.48% 3
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 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
1 103 (10.46%) Confluence
2 49 (4.97%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (4.87%) Apache Spark
4 43 (4.37%) SAS
5 40 (4.06%) Apache
6 28 (2.84%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.81%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.71%) CICS
9 6 (0.61%) nginx
9 6 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.51%) Camunda
11 3 (0.30%) CMS
11 3 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 631 (64.06%) AWS
2 325 (32.99%) GitHub
3 323 (32.79%) Azure
4 231 (23.45%) GitHub Actions
5 154 (15.63%) GCP
6 150 (15.23%) Serverless
7 148 (15.03%) Amazon S3
8 131 (13.30%) AWS Lambda
9 124 (12.59%) Azure DevOps
10 122 (12.39%) Amazon EKS
11 113 (11.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 103 (10.46%) Amazon EC2
13 79 (8.02%) AWS CloudFormation
14 72 (7.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 53 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
16 47 (4.77%) OpenShift
17 38 (3.86%) Amazon EMR
18 37 (3.76%) Power Platform
19 35 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
20 32 (3.25%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (4.37%) Firewall
2 25 (2.54%) Network Security
3 24 (2.44%) DNS
4 21 (2.13%) BGP
4 21 (2.13%) WAN
5 20 (2.03%) OSPF
6 19 (1.93%) BIG-IP
6 19 (1.93%) Ethernet VPN
6 19 (1.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 19 (1.93%) SD-WAN
6 19 (1.93%) VXLAN
7 18 (1.83%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (1.22%) VPN
10 11 (1.12%) WLAN
11 9 (0.91%) HTTP
12 7 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.41%) MQTT
13 4 (0.41%) SAN
13 4 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (7.82%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (6.40%) MongoDB
3 50 (5.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 49 (4.97%) Amazon Athena
5 46 (4.67%) Relational Database
6 45 (4.57%) NoSQL
7 43 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (4.26%) DynamoDB
9 41 (4.16%) Amazon RDS
10 34 (3.45%) Power BI
11 30 (3.05%) Pentaho
12 29 (2.94%) MySQL
13 27 (2.74%) Big Data
13 27 (2.74%) Data Lake
14 25 (2.54%) SQL Server
15 23 (2.34%) Oracle Database
16 22 (2.23%) Redis
17 16 (1.62%) DocumentDB
18 14 (1.42%) Metadata
19 13 (1.32%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 432 (43.86%) Jenkins
2 215 (21.83%) Git
3 149 (15.13%) JIRA
4 90 (9.14%) Selenium
5 72 (7.31%) JUnit
6 52 (5.28%) Cucumber
7 43 (4.37%) Postman
8 40 (4.06%) JMeter
8 40 (4.06%) REST Assured
9 39 (3.96%) SonarQube
10 36 (3.65%) Artifactory
11 35 (3.55%) Bitbucket
12 33 (3.35%) Gradle
13 30 (3.05%) Mockito
14 28 (2.84%) WebDriver
15 27 (2.74%) Gatling
16 20 (2.03%) Maven
16 20 (2.03%) Snyk
17 16 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
18 15 (1.52%) CircleCI
General
1 192 (19.49%) Public Sector
1 192 (19.49%) Social Skills
2 96 (9.75%) Finance
3 67 (6.80%) Banking
4 55 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (1.83%) Military
7 14 (1.42%) Law
8 10 (1.02%) Aerospace
8 10 (1.02%) Legal
9 9 (0.91%) Investment Banking
10 7 (0.71%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.51%) Police
11 5 (0.51%) Publishing
11 5 (0.51%) Retail
12 4 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 219 (22.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 164 (16.65%) Senior
3 150 (15.23%) Developer
4 117 (11.88%) AWS Engineer
5 101 (10.25%) Data Engineer
6 80 (8.12%) AWS DevOps
7 72 (7.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 60 (6.09%) Lead
9 54 (5.48%) Java Developer
10 53 (5.38%) Software Engineer
11 47 (4.77%) Cloud Engineer
11 47 (4.77%) Platform Engineer
11 47 (4.77%) Test Engineer
12 43 (4.37%) Architect
13 35 (3.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 32 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
14 32 (3.25%) Tester
15 31 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 29 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
17 23 (2.34%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (12.79%) Kafka
2 123 (12.49%) Spring
3 110 (11.17%) REST
4 106 (10.76%) Spring Boot
5 84 (8.53%) RESTful
6 59 (5.99%) React
7 53 (5.38%) PySpark
8 52 (5.28%) Node.js
9 48 (4.87%) Playwright
10 40 (4.06%) Elastic Stack
11 30 (3.05%) JSON
11 30 (3.05%) YAML
12 27 (2.74%) AWS CDK
12 27 (2.74%) OAuth
12 27 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
13 26 (2.64%) pytest
13 26 (2.64%) WireMock
14 25 (2.54%) OpenAPI
14 25 (2.54%) OpenTelemetry
15 24 (2.44%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 183 (18.58%) Cloud Native
2 69 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (5.89%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.96%) Data Centre
5 34 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (1.83%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.32%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.22%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.02%) Private Cloud
12 9 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.91%) NHS
13 8 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.81%) Mainframe
13 8 (0.81%) PKI
14 7 (0.71%) AI Agents
14 7 (0.71%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 186 (18.88%) Linux
2 52 (5.28%) Unix
3 45 (4.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (4.47%) Windows
5 15 (1.52%) CentOS
6 9 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.81%) zOS
8 4 (0.41%) AIX
8 4 (0.41%) Debian
8 4 (0.41%) Rocky
8 4 (0.41%) VMS
8 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.20%) Android
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 800 (81.22%) CI/CD
2 577 (58.58%) DevOps
3 390 (39.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 373 (37.87%) Agile
5 317 (32.18%) Containerisation
6 309 (31.37%) Test Automation
7 198 (20.10%) Microservices
8 164 (16.65%) Observability
9 147 (14.92%) Scrum
10 141 (14.31%) Software Engineering
11 138 (14.01%) Platform Engineering
12 132 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 127 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
14 101 (10.25%) AI
15 95 (9.64%) ETL
16 92 (9.34%) DevSecOps
17 83 (8.43%) Data Modelling
17 83 (8.43%) Migration
18 82 (8.32%) Event-Driven
19 80 (8.12%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 390 (39.59%) Python
2 247 (25.08%) Java
3 230 (23.35%) SQL
4 135 (13.71%) Bash
5 82 (8.32%) JavaScript
6 69 (7.01%) TypeScript
7 51 (5.18%) PowerShell
8 46 (4.67%) C#
9 42 (4.26%) Shell Script
10 35 (3.55%) Go
11 22 (2.23%) PL/SQL
12 17 (1.73%) Bicep
13 12 (1.22%) C++
13 12 (1.22%) Scala
14 11 (1.12%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.12%) MATLAB
15 10 (1.02%) Ruby
16 6 (0.61%) C
16 6 (0.61%) JCL
17 5 (0.51%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 468 (47.51%) Security Cleared
2 402 (40.81%) SC Cleared
3 59 (5.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 43 (4.37%) Degree
4 43 (4.37%) DV Cleared
5 38 (3.86%) AWS Certification
6 30 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 14 (1.42%) Azure Certification
9 13 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.02%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.81%) CISSP
14 5 (0.51%) CSSLP
15 4 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.41%) GIAC
15 4 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.30%) CISM
16 3 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (9.85%) QA
2 45 (4.57%) Accessibility
3 43 (4.37%) Data Quality
4 19 (1.93%) SLA
5 13 (1.32%) NIST
6 11 (1.12%) WCAG
7 9 (0.91%) GDPR
7 9 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.51%) FATCA
11 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.20%) NCSC
12 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.10%) GRC
13 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 398 (40.41%) Docker
2 30 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.61%) HDFS
6 5 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.51%) Squid
7 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.20%) iptables
9 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.20%) vSphere
10 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 454 (46.09%) Terraform
2 423 (42.94%) Kubernetes
3 198 (20.10%) Ansible
4 186 (18.88%) Grafana
5 163 (16.55%) Prometheus
6 48 (4.87%) Argo
7 30 (3.05%) Puppet
8 16 (1.62%) Podman
9 15 (1.52%) Istio
10 14 (1.42%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (1.32%) Progress Chef
12 11 (1.12%) Check_MK
13 9 (0.91%) Packer
14 8 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.61%) Cilium
15 6 (0.61%) Kibana
15 6 (0.61%) Salt
16 5 (0.51%) Data Guard
16 5 (0.51%) linkerd
16 5 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 103 (10.46%) Oracle
2 59 (5.99%) Microsoft
3 56 (5.69%) Talend
4 54 (5.48%) Splunk
5 51 (5.18%) Informatica
6 42 (4.26%) Google
7 34 (3.45%) Red Hat
7 34 (3.45%) VMware
8 30 (3.05%) Denodo
9 29 (2.94%) Databricks
10 26 (2.64%) ServiceNow
11 24 (2.44%) Dynatrace
12 22 (2.23%) F5
13 20 (2.03%) Palo Alto
13 20 (2.03%) Salesforce
14 19 (1.93%) Arista
15 18 (1.83%) Aruba
16 16 (1.62%) Trend Micro
17 14 (1.42%) Veracode
18 12 (1.22%) Tenable