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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 147 201
Rank change year-on-year -7 +54 +40
Contract jobs citing GitLab 980 655 483
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.85% 2.00% 1.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.78% 13.52% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 422 330
10th Percentile £368 £358 £361
25th Percentile £425 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £645
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £492 £520
% change year-on-year -0.91% -5.38% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 10
10th Percentile £63.88 £61.65 £54.40
25th Percentile - £65.50 £66.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.86
90th Percentile £81.75 £74.59 £77.50
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 6,211 4,843 5,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.70% 14.77% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,984 3,286 3,316
10th Percentile £350 £322 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 107 221
10th Percentile £26.15 £24.44 £28.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.86 £84.35 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.84%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -6 829 £500 -0.55% 219
UK excluding London +9 465 £488 -0.91% 143
London +3 361 £525 - 100
Work from Home +14 341 £475 -9.52% 104
North of England -23 172 £475 +1.28% 47
Midlands +32 136 £469 -6.20% 18
West Midlands +23 129 £469 -8.49% 14
South East -35 74 £550 - 29
North East +6 70 £413 -11.29% 13
North West -41 70 £575 +19.79% 27
South West -26 50 £550 -8.33% 26
Yorkshire -46 45 £550 +18.92% 7
East of England -15 31 £489 +2.89% 14
Scotland -13 18 £400 +0.06% 10
East Midlands -12 7 £470 +74.07% 4
Northern Ireland -1 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
1 101 (10.31%) Confluence
2 61 (6.22%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (5.61%) Apache Spark
4 45 (4.59%) Apache
5 39 (3.98%) SAS
6 30 (3.06%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.71%) CICS
8 6 (0.61%) Camunda
8 6 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.41%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) nginx
10 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
11 2 (0.20%) WordPress
12 1 (0.10%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Trello
2 1 (0.10%) 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
1 656 (66.94%) AWS
2 341 (34.80%) GitHub
3 333 (33.98%) Azure
4 250 (25.51%) GitHub Actions
5 168 (17.14%) GCP
6 146 (14.90%) Azure DevOps
7 139 (14.18%) Amazon S3
8 134 (13.67%) Serverless
9 125 (12.76%) Amazon EKS
10 121 (12.35%) AWS Lambda
11 113 (11.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 93 (9.49%) Amazon EC2
13 81 (8.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 69 (7.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 51 (5.20%) Amazon ECS
16 46 (4.69%) OpenShift
17 44 (4.49%) Amazon EMR
18 38 (3.88%) Amazon SQS
19 37 (3.78%) Power Platform
20 35 (3.57%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.49%) Firewall
2 25 (2.55%) DNS
3 23 (2.35%) Network Security
4 22 (2.24%) BGP
4 22 (2.24%) WAN
5 21 (2.14%) OSPF
5 21 (2.14%) SD-WAN
6 20 (2.04%) Ethernet VPN
6 20 (2.04%) VXLAN
7 19 (1.94%) BIG-IP
7 19 (1.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 16 (1.63%) TCP/IP
9 15 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (1.43%) VPN
11 11 (1.12%) WLAN
12 9 (0.92%) HTTP
13 6 (0.61%) SSL
14 4 (0.41%) DHCP
14 4 (0.41%) MQTT
14 4 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (7.24%) MongoDB
3 51 (5.20%) Relational Database
4 50 (5.10%) Amazon Redshift
5 49 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
6 48 (4.90%) Amazon Athena
7 43 (4.39%) DynamoDB
8 42 (4.29%) NoSQL
9 36 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
10 34 (3.47%) Power BI
11 32 (3.27%) SQL Server
12 31 (3.16%) Pentaho
13 28 (2.86%) Oracle Database
14 27 (2.76%) Data Lake
14 27 (2.76%) MySQL
15 26 (2.65%) Big Data
16 23 (2.35%) RDBMS
17 21 (2.14%) Redis
18 14 (1.43%) Metadata
19 12 (1.22%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 426 (43.47%) Jenkins
2 223 (22.76%) Git
3 135 (13.78%) JIRA
4 84 (8.57%) Selenium
5 73 (7.45%) JUnit
6 54 (5.51%) Cucumber
7 47 (4.80%) SonarQube
8 43 (4.39%) Bitbucket
9 36 (3.67%) Artifactory
10 35 (3.57%) JMeter
11 33 (3.37%) Gradle
12 32 (3.27%) Postman
13 30 (3.06%) Gatling
14 29 (2.96%) Maven
14 29 (2.96%) REST Assured
15 28 (2.86%) Mockito
16 25 (2.55%) WebDriver
17 19 (1.94%) Snyk
17 19 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
18 12 (1.22%) Zephyr
General
1 189 (19.29%) Public Sector
2 188 (19.18%) Social Skills
3 96 (9.80%) Finance
4 63 (6.43%) Banking
5 58 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (1.94%) Military
8 17 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.43%) Law
10 13 (1.33%) Legal
11 8 (0.82%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.71%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.71%) Publishing
13 6 (0.61%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.51%) Police
15 4 (0.41%) Marketing
15 4 (0.41%) Retail
16 3 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 210 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 178 (18.16%) Senior
3 154 (15.71%) Developer
4 116 (11.84%) AWS Engineer
5 98 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 74 (7.55%) AWS DevOps
7 67 (6.84%) Lead
8 66 (6.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 55 (5.61%) Software Engineer
10 52 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
11 50 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
11 50 (5.10%) Java Developer
12 43 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 40 (4.08%) Test Engineer
14 35 (3.57%) Architect
15 33 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
16 32 (3.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 32 (3.27%) Tester
17 29 (2.96%) Software Developer
18 27 (2.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (13.16%) Kafka
2 117 (11.94%) Spring
3 104 (10.61%) REST
4 103 (10.51%) Spring Boot
5 65 (6.63%) RESTful
6 61 (6.22%) React
7 56 (5.71%) PySpark
8 54 (5.51%) Node.js
9 50 (5.10%) Playwright
10 41 (4.18%) JSON
11 36 (3.67%) RabbitMQ
12 32 (3.27%) Elastic Stack
13 29 (2.96%) WireMock
14 28 (2.86%) OAuth
15 27 (2.76%) YAML
16 25 (2.55%) HTML
17 24 (2.45%) AWS CDK
17 24 (2.45%) Keycloak
17 24 (2.45%) pytest
18 23 (2.35%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 192 (19.59%) Cloud Native
2 70 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.96%) Data Centre
6 28 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (2.04%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
9 18 (1.84%) Public Cloud
10 17 (1.73%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.43%) Mainframe
12 11 (1.12%) AI Agents
13 9 (0.92%) PKI
13 9 (0.92%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (0.71%) DataPower
16 6 (0.61%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 179 (18.27%) Linux
2 44 (4.49%) Unix
2 44 (4.49%) Windows
3 35 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (1.43%) zOS
5 12 (1.22%) AIX
6 11 (1.12%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.82%) CentOS
7 8 (0.82%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.31%) Debian
8 3 (0.31%) Rocky
9 2 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.20%) Android
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 810 (82.65%) CI/CD
2 580 (59.18%) DevOps
3 419 (42.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 389 (39.69%) Agile
5 327 (33.37%) Containerisation
6 306 (31.22%) Test Automation
7 190 (19.39%) Microservices
8 170 (17.35%) Observability
9 157 (16.02%) Scrum
10 154 (15.71%) Software Engineering
11 149 (15.20%) Platform Engineering
12 143 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 124 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
14 117 (11.94%) AI
15 102 (10.41%) DevSecOps
16 97 (9.90%) ETL
17 90 (9.18%) Data Pipeline
17 90 (9.18%) Migration
18 86 (8.78%) Event-Driven
19 84 (8.57%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 416 (42.45%) Python
2 230 (23.47%) Java
3 226 (23.06%) SQL
4 161 (16.43%) Bash
5 83 (8.47%) JavaScript
6 75 (7.65%) PowerShell
7 67 (6.84%) TypeScript
8 55 (5.61%) C#
9 36 (3.67%) Go
10 29 (2.96%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.35%) PL/SQL
12 21 (2.14%) Bicep
13 14 (1.43%) C++
14 8 (0.82%) Groovy
14 8 (0.82%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.82%) Scala
15 6 (0.61%) C
15 6 (0.61%) JCL
15 6 (0.61%) R
15 6 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 466 (47.55%) Security Cleared
2 397 (40.51%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 53 (5.41%) DV Cleared
5 41 (4.18%) AWS Certification
6 40 (4.08%) Degree
7 29 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (1.94%) Azure Certification
9 18 (1.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (1.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 14 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.02%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.82%) CISSP
15 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.61%) CSSLP
17 4 (0.41%) GIAC
18 3 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 3 (0.31%) CCNP
19 2 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (10.51%) QA
2 52 (5.31%) Accessibility
3 47 (4.80%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.43%) WCAG
5 10 (1.02%) SLA
6 7 (0.71%) NIST
7 6 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.51%) FATCA
8 5 (0.51%) GDPR
9 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.20%) NCSC
11 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.10%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.10%) GRC
12 1 (0.10%) MIL-STD-1553
12 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
12 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 407 (41.53%) Docker
2 23 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.33%) Oracle RAC
5 11 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.71%) HDFS
7 5 (0.51%) Squid
8 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.20%) iptables
9 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.10%) vSphere
10 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 476 (48.57%) Terraform
2 439 (44.80%) Kubernetes
3 225 (22.96%) Ansible
4 180 (18.37%) Grafana
5 154 (15.71%) Prometheus
6 49 (5.00%) Argo
7 37 (3.78%) Puppet
8 21 (2.14%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.43%) Istio
10 13 (1.33%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.33%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (1.02%) Packer
11 10 (1.02%) Podman
12 8 (0.82%) Kibana
13 6 (0.61%) Cilium
14 5 (0.51%) linkerd
14 5 (0.51%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.51%) Salt
14 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.41%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 116 (11.84%) Oracle
2 63 (6.43%) Microsoft
3 62 (6.33%) Google
4 55 (5.61%) Informatica
4 55 (5.61%) Splunk
4 55 (5.61%) Talend
5 33 (3.37%) Databricks
6 32 (3.27%) Dynatrace
7 30 (3.06%) VMware
8 29 (2.96%) Denodo
9 22 (2.24%) Palo Alto
9 22 (2.24%) ServiceNow
10 20 (2.04%) F5
11 19 (1.94%) IBM
11 19 (1.94%) Red Hat
12 18 (1.84%) Arista
12 18 (1.84%) Aruba
13 17 (1.73%) Trend Micro
14 10 (1.02%) Salesforce
15 9 (0.92%) Tenable