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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 143 223
Rank change year-on-year +2 +80 -15
Contract jobs citing GitLab 899 583 467
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.91% 1.99% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.46% 14.18% 9.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 636 387 335
10th Percentile £380 £368 £400
25th Percentile £413 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £527 £558
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -5.47% -3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £650
90th Percentile £674 £715 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -3.80% -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 3 8
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.59 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £52.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £82.96 £68.22
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +21.61% +51.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £75.21
90th Percentile £82.00 £92.59 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.25 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -27.37% +11.45% +65.42%

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 5,814 4,111 5,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.38% 14.00% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,857 2,759 3,445
10th Percentile £343 £340 £356
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 67 190
10th Percentile £37.05 £26.92 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.53 £46.20
Median hourly rate £67.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £73.00 £75.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £86.15 £82.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +6 746 £500 -5.66% 248
UK excluding London +24 439 £481 -3.80% 184
London -8 320 £525 -2.78% 79
Work from Home +4 260 £463 -11.90% 135
North of England -20 171 £487 -7.24% 61
Midlands +5 100 £466 +1.25% 27
North West -1 92 £475 -5.00% 34
West Midlands +2 86 £469 -11.68% 18
Yorkshire -32 59 £500 -13.04% 7
South East -44 59 £550 +4.71% 39
South West +2 56 £510 +11.60% 34
Scotland +4 34 £405 -7.43% 3
North East -13 30 £450 -12.62% 20
East of England -13 23 £478 +6.22% 14
East Midlands -26 14 £402 +38.38% 9
Northern Ireland +7 3 - - 4
Wales -11 1 £375 -11.76% 6

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 65 (7.23%) Confluence
2 31 (3.45%) SAS
3 28 (3.11%) Apache Spark
4 27 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (2.56%) Apache
6 19 (2.11%) nginx
7 15 (1.67%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.56%) CICS
9 4 (0.44%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.33%) Camunda
10 3 (0.33%) CMS
10 3 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (0.33%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 549 (61.07%) AWS
2 298 (33.15%) GitHub
3 293 (32.59%) Azure
4 201 (22.36%) GitHub Actions
5 154 (17.13%) Serverless
6 144 (16.02%) GCP
7 133 (14.79%) Amazon S3
8 130 (14.46%) AWS Lambda
9 120 (13.35%) Amazon EKS
10 105 (11.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 101 (11.23%) Azure DevOps
12 98 (10.90%) Amazon EC2
13 96 (10.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 74 (8.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 71 (7.90%) OpenShift
16 58 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
17 32 (3.56%) Azure AKS
18 30 (3.34%) Amazon SQS
19 26 (2.89%) AWS CodePipeline
20 25 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.89%) Firewall
2 29 (3.23%) DNS
3 20 (2.22%) VPN
4 18 (2.00%) TCP/IP
5 16 (1.78%) Network Security
6 11 (1.22%) HTTP
7 10 (1.11%) Reverse Proxy
8 8 (0.89%) BGP
9 7 (0.78%) OSPF
10 6 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
10 6 (0.67%) VXLAN
10 6 (0.67%) WAN
11 4 (0.44%) BIG-IP
11 4 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 4 (0.44%) Multicast
11 4 (0.44%) SAN
11 4 (0.44%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.44%) SSL
12 3 (0.33%) NAS
12 3 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (9.79%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (5.90%) MongoDB
3 49 (5.45%) NoSQL
4 46 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
5 43 (4.78%) DynamoDB
6 38 (4.23%) Relational Database
7 37 (4.12%) Amazon Athena
8 34 (3.78%) MySQL
9 32 (3.56%) Data Lake
10 30 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
11 29 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 28 (3.11%) Redis
13 25 (2.78%) Big Data
14 24 (2.67%) SQL Server
15 23 (2.56%) Power BI
16 19 (2.11%) Pentaho
17 12 (1.33%) Hadoop
17 12 (1.33%) Metadata
18 11 (1.22%) Delta Lake
18 11 (1.22%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 409 (45.49%) Jenkins
2 195 (21.69%) Git
3 129 (14.35%) JIRA
4 81 (9.01%) Selenium
5 68 (7.56%) JUnit
6 53 (5.90%) Cucumber
7 49 (5.45%) Postman
8 39 (4.34%) JMeter
9 38 (4.23%) Bitbucket
9 38 (4.23%) REST Assured
10 31 (3.45%) SonarQube
11 26 (2.89%) CircleCI
12 24 (2.67%) Gatling
12 24 (2.67%) Gradle
13 23 (2.56%) Mockito
14 21 (2.34%) Artifactory
15 19 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
15 19 (2.11%) WebDriver
16 15 (1.67%) Cypress.io
16 15 (1.67%) Maven
General
1 195 (21.69%) Social Skills
2 153 (17.02%) Public Sector
3 115 (12.79%) Finance
4 69 (7.68%) Banking
5 61 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.22%) Military
7 11 (1.22%) Retail
8 10 (1.11%) Aerospace
8 10 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.11%) Investment Banking
9 7 (0.78%) Law
9 7 (0.78%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.44%) Legal
12 4 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.44%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 189 (21.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 160 (17.80%) Developer
3 126 (14.02%) Senior
4 93 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
5 74 (8.23%) Data Engineer
6 70 (7.79%) AWS DevOps
7 66 (7.34%) Lead
8 60 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 58 (6.45%) Software Engineer
10 53 (5.90%) Java Developer
11 48 (5.34%) Architect
12 39 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
12 39 (4.34%) Test Engineer
13 36 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
14 27 (3.00%) Full-Stack Developer
14 27 (3.00%) Senior DevOps
14 27 (3.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 25 (2.78%) Tester
16 23 (2.56%) Java Engineer
17 21 (2.34%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (14.13%) Kafka
2 126 (14.02%) Spring
3 109 (12.12%) REST
4 107 (11.90%) Spring Boot
5 83 (9.23%) Node.js
6 77 (8.57%) RESTful
7 65 (7.23%) React
8 57 (6.34%) Elastic Stack
9 45 (5.01%) Playwright
10 38 (4.23%) PySpark
11 34 (3.78%) OpenTelemetry
12 31 (3.45%) LDAP
13 30 (3.34%) Jest
14 29 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
14 29 (3.23%) YAML
15 28 (3.11%) HTML
16 27 (3.00%) AngularJS
16 27 (3.00%) pytest
17 26 (2.89%) OAuth
17 26 (2.89%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 135 (15.02%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (6.01%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.34%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.45%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.00%) Public Cloud
8 14 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (1.33%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.33%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.22%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.11%) Mainframe
12 9 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (1.00%) NHS
12 9 (1.00%) PKI
13 8 (0.89%) DataPower
13 8 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 171 (19.02%) Linux
2 57 (6.34%) Windows
3 37 (4.12%) Unix
4 36 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.22%) CentOS
6 10 (1.11%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.89%) Android
7 8 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.89%) VMS
8 7 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.78%) zOS
9 4 (0.44%) Debian
9 4 (0.44%) Rocky
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.11%) AIX
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (79.42%) CI/CD
2 498 (55.39%) DevOps
3 325 (36.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 318 (35.37%) Agile
5 305 (33.93%) Containerisation
6 264 (29.37%) Test Automation
7 172 (19.13%) Microservices
8 166 (18.46%) Observability
9 141 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
10 130 (14.46%) Scrum
11 123 (13.68%) Software Engineering
12 121 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 108 (12.01%) Platform Engineering
14 89 (9.90%) Analytics
15 84 (9.34%) DevSecOps
16 82 (9.12%) ETL
17 81 (9.01%) TDD
18 73 (8.12%) AI
19 71 (7.90%) Data Pipeline
19 71 (7.90%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 363 (40.38%) Python
2 260 (28.92%) Java
3 189 (21.02%) SQL
4 140 (15.57%) Bash
5 96 (10.68%) JavaScript
6 80 (8.90%) TypeScript
7 69 (7.68%) PowerShell
8 46 (5.12%) Shell Script
9 40 (4.45%) Go
10 32 (3.56%) C#
11 19 (2.11%) Bicep
11 19 (2.11%) Kotlin
12 15 (1.67%) Ruby
13 14 (1.56%) C++
13 14 (1.56%) PL/SQL
14 11 (1.22%) Scala
15 9 (1.00%) MATLAB
16 8 (0.89%) C
16 8 (0.89%) Groovy
16 8 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 371 (41.27%) Security Cleared
2 312 (34.71%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.01%) BPSS Clearance
4 41 (4.56%) Degree
5 37 (4.12%) AWS Certification
6 33 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.78%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.67%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.22%) CISSP
11 10 (1.11%) CISM
12 6 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.67%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (0.67%) SAFe Agilist
13 5 (0.56%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.56%) OCA
14 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (11.46%) QA
2 48 (5.34%) Accessibility
3 31 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.00%) GDPR
4 18 (2.00%) SLA
5 16 (1.78%) NIST
6 14 (1.56%) WCAG
7 13 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.89%) NCSC
9 7 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.56%) FATCA
11 4 (0.44%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.22%) HL7
12 2 (0.22%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) GRC
13 1 (0.11%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.11%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 378 (42.05%) Docker
2 26 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.78%) HDFS
6 4 (0.44%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.33%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.22%) iptables
8 2 (0.22%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.11%) Squid
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 434 (48.28%) Kubernetes
2 388 (43.16%) Terraform
3 204 (22.69%) Grafana
4 180 (20.02%) Ansible
5 170 (18.91%) Prometheus
6 57 (6.34%) Argo
7 24 (2.67%) Puppet
8 21 (2.34%) Istio
9 16 (1.78%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.56%) Podman
11 12 (1.33%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.22%) Kibana
13 9 (1.00%) Check_MK
13 9 (1.00%) linkerd
14 8 (0.89%) Fluentd
14 8 (0.89%) Packer
15 7 (0.78%) Karpenter
15 7 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
16 6 (0.67%) Nagios
16 6 (0.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 82 (9.12%) Oracle
2 70 (7.79%) Splunk
3 66 (7.34%) Microsoft
4 42 (4.67%) Red Hat
5 40 (4.45%) Google
6 35 (3.89%) VMware
7 34 (3.78%) Databricks
8 33 (3.67%) ServiceNow
9 29 (3.23%) Informatica
10 26 (2.89%) Talend
11 21 (2.34%) Dynatrace
12 20 (2.22%) Salesforce
13 12 (1.33%) Denodo
14 11 (1.22%) IBM
14 11 (1.22%) Veracode
15 8 (0.89%) AppDynamics
15 8 (0.89%) Arista
15 8 (0.89%) Atlassian
15 8 (0.89%) Cribl.io
15 8 (0.89%) Tenable