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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 150 221
Rank change year-on-year +7 +71 +31
Contract jobs citing GitLab 992 626 485
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.90% 1.96% 1.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.15% 13.45% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 390 338
10th Percentile £368 £358 £379
25th Percentile £423 £438 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £650
90th Percentile £688 £669 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 10
10th Percentile £59.25 £62.50 £40.00
25th Percentile - £64.38 £58.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -5.41% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £77.73 £74.86
90th Percentile £92.50 £80.87 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £74.22
% change year-on-year -15.01% +3.05% +23.70%

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 6,143 4,655 5,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.77% 14.57% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,952 3,119 3,566
10th Percentile £350 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £408 £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 £690 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 95 251
10th Percentile £26.15 £21.34 £31.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.40% -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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +11 844 £500 -2.44% 188
UK excluding London +15 493 £475 -5.00% 150
London -8 352 £525 - 60
Work from Home +17 340 £475 -9.52% 143
North of England -14 200 £453 -5.63% 49
Midlands +22 136 £466 -6.85% 23
West Midlands +24 129 £463 -11.90% 15
North West -24 88 £513 +4.59% 25
North East +7 71 £406 -12.63% 11
South East -36 68 £550 +9.89% 22
Yorkshire -23 58 £540 +8.00% 13
South West -14 53 £510 -11.30% 26
East of England -6 33 £479 +0.79% 13
Scotland -16 19 £401 -0.37% 12
East Midlands -13 7 £470 +74.07% 8
Northern Ireland +5 2 - - 4

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
1 107 (10.79%) Confluence
2 55 (5.54%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (4.94%) Apache Spark
4 43 (4.33%) SAS
5 42 (4.23%) Apache
6 29 (2.92%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.71%) CICS
8 6 (0.60%) nginx
8 6 (0.60%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.50%) Camunda
10 4 (0.40%) 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
12 2 (0.20%) WordPress
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
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
1 654 (65.93%) AWS
2 329 (33.17%) GitHub
3 320 (32.26%) Azure
4 233 (23.49%) GitHub Actions
5 156 (15.73%) GCP
6 148 (14.92%) Amazon S3
6 148 (14.92%) Serverless
7 131 (13.21%) AWS Lambda
8 126 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
9 120 (12.10%) Amazon EKS
10 108 (10.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 108 (10.89%) Amazon EC2
11 78 (7.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 70 (7.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 49 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
14 45 (4.54%) OpenShift
15 42 (4.23%) Amazon EMR
16 33 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
16 33 (3.33%) Power Platform
17 32 (3.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.13%) Firewall
2 25 (2.52%) Network Security
3 21 (2.12%) BGP
3 21 (2.12%) WAN
4 20 (2.02%) OSPF
5 19 (1.92%) BIG-IP
5 19 (1.92%) DNS
5 19 (1.92%) Ethernet VPN
5 19 (1.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 19 (1.92%) SD-WAN
5 19 (1.92%) VXLAN
6 16 (1.61%) TCP/IP
7 15 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (1.21%) VPN
9 11 (1.11%) WLAN
10 9 (0.91%) HTTP
11 7 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.40%) MQTT
12 4 (0.40%) SSL
13 3 (0.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (7.16%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (6.35%) MongoDB
3 50 (5.04%) Amazon Athena
3 50 (5.04%) Amazon Redshift
4 49 (4.94%) Relational Database
5 44 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
6 41 (4.13%) Amazon RDS
7 39 (3.93%) DynamoDB
7 39 (3.93%) NoSQL
8 31 (3.13%) Pentaho
9 30 (3.02%) Power BI
10 29 (2.92%) Oracle Database
11 27 (2.72%) Big Data
11 27 (2.72%) SQL Server
12 25 (2.52%) MySQL
13 23 (2.32%) Data Lake
14 19 (1.92%) RDBMS
15 17 (1.71%) Redis
16 14 (1.41%) Metadata
17 13 (1.31%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 428 (43.15%) Jenkins
2 211 (21.27%) Git
3 153 (15.42%) JIRA
4 89 (8.97%) Selenium
5 71 (7.16%) JUnit
6 50 (5.04%) Cucumber
7 44 (4.44%) Postman
8 40 (4.03%) SonarQube
9 39 (3.93%) JMeter
9 39 (3.93%) REST Assured
10 38 (3.83%) Bitbucket
11 36 (3.63%) Artifactory
12 33 (3.33%) Mockito
13 30 (3.02%) Gatling
14 29 (2.92%) Gradle
15 28 (2.82%) WebDriver
16 23 (2.32%) Maven
17 20 (2.02%) Snyk
18 14 (1.41%) Serenity BDD
18 14 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 194 (19.56%) Public Sector
2 186 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 99 (9.98%) Finance
4 67 (6.75%) Banking
5 58 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (1.92%) Military
9 14 (1.41%) Law
10 13 (1.31%) Legal
11 10 (1.01%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.71%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.60%) Publishing
14 5 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.50%) Police
14 5 (0.50%) Retail
15 4 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 221 (22.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 170 (17.14%) Senior
3 151 (15.22%) Developer
4 122 (12.30%) AWS Engineer
5 104 (10.48%) Data Engineer
6 82 (8.27%) AWS DevOps
7 74 (7.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 63 (6.35%) Lead
9 52 (5.24%) Java Developer
10 49 (4.94%) Platform Engineer
10 49 (4.94%) Software Engineer
11 47 (4.74%) Test Engineer
12 45 (4.54%) Cloud Engineer
13 44 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 37 (3.73%) Architect
15 32 (3.23%) Tester
16 31 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
17 30 (3.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 27 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
19 25 (2.52%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (12.10%) Kafka
2 118 (11.90%) Spring
3 110 (11.09%) REST
4 103 (10.38%) Spring Boot
5 81 (8.17%) RESTful
6 59 (5.95%) React
7 53 (5.34%) PySpark
8 52 (5.24%) Playwright
9 49 (4.94%) Node.js
10 38 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
11 37 (3.73%) YAML
12 34 (3.43%) JSON
13 30 (3.02%) RabbitMQ
14 27 (2.72%) AWS CDK
14 27 (2.72%) WireMock
15 26 (2.62%) pytest
16 24 (2.42%) Keycloak
16 24 (2.42%) OAuth
16 24 (2.42%) OpenAPI
17 23 (2.32%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 187 (18.85%) Cloud Native
2 68 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (5.65%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.43%) Onboarding
5 33 (3.33%) Data Centre
6 25 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 22 (2.22%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.81%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.51%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.41%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.11%) Private Cloud
13 10 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.01%) Mainframe
14 9 (0.91%) AI Agents
14 9 (0.91%) NHS
15 8 (0.81%) Management Information System
15 8 (0.81%) PKI
16 7 (0.71%) DataPower
16 7 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 196 (19.76%) Linux
2 50 (5.04%) Unix
3 43 (4.33%) Windows
4 40 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.01%) AIX
5 10 (1.01%) CentOS
5 10 (1.01%) zOS
6 9 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.50%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.40%) Debian
8 4 (0.40%) Rocky
9 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.30%) VMS
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
1 810 (81.65%) CI/CD
2 581 (58.57%) DevOps
3 402 (40.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 372 (37.50%) Agile
5 332 (33.47%) Containerisation
6 310 (31.25%) Test Automation
7 189 (19.05%) Microservices
8 161 (16.23%) Observability
9 147 (14.82%) Scrum
10 144 (14.52%) Platform Engineering
11 141 (14.21%) Software Engineering
12 135 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
13 130 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
14 104 (10.48%) AI
15 97 (9.78%) ETL
16 95 (9.58%) DevSecOps
17 88 (8.87%) Migration
18 86 (8.67%) Event-Driven
19 82 (8.27%) Data Modelling
20 80 (8.06%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 402 (40.52%) Python
2 236 (23.79%) Java
3 227 (22.88%) SQL
4 146 (14.72%) Bash
5 80 (8.06%) JavaScript
6 71 (7.16%) TypeScript
7 58 (5.85%) PowerShell
8 49 (4.94%) C#
9 39 (3.93%) Go
10 35 (3.53%) Shell Script
11 22 (2.22%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.02%) Bicep
13 13 (1.31%) C++
14 11 (1.11%) Scala
15 8 (0.81%) Cypher
15 8 (0.81%) Ruby
16 6 (0.60%) C
16 6 (0.60%) JCL
16 6 (0.60%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.60%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 475 (47.88%) Security Cleared
2 406 (40.93%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 47 (4.74%) DV Cleared
5 43 (4.33%) Degree
6 38 (3.83%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (1.41%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.11%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.01%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.81%) CISSP
15 5 (0.50%) CSSLP
16 4 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.40%) GIAC
16 4 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
17 3 (0.30%) CISM
17 3 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (9.58%) QA
2 47 (4.74%) Accessibility
3 44 (4.44%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.21%) SLA
5 11 (1.11%) WCAG
6 10 (1.01%) NIST
7 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.50%) FATCA
8 5 (0.50%) GDPR
8 5 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.20%) NCSC
10 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.10%) GRC
11 1 (0.10%) MIL-STD-1553
11 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 405 (40.83%) Docker
2 25 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.11%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (0.60%) HDFS
7 5 (0.50%) Squid
8 4 (0.40%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.20%) iptables
10 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.10%) vSphere
11 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 470 (47.38%) Terraform
2 432 (43.55%) Kubernetes
3 206 (20.77%) Ansible
4 183 (18.45%) Grafana
5 162 (16.33%) Prometheus
6 52 (5.24%) Argo
7 33 (3.33%) Puppet
8 16 (1.61%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.41%) Istio
10 11 (1.11%) Data Guard
10 11 (1.11%) Oracle RMAN
10 11 (1.11%) Podman
11 10 (1.01%) Packer
12 9 (0.91%) Red Hat Satellite
13 8 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.71%) Kibana
15 6 (0.60%) Check_MK
15 6 (0.60%) Cilium
15 6 (0.60%) Salt
16 5 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 110 (11.09%) Oracle
2 57 (5.75%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.75%) Talend
3 56 (5.65%) Informatica
4 54 (5.44%) Splunk
5 51 (5.14%) Google
6 30 (3.02%) Denodo
7 28 (2.82%) VMware
8 27 (2.72%) Databricks
8 27 (2.72%) Red Hat
9 26 (2.62%) ServiceNow
10 22 (2.22%) Dynatrace
10 22 (2.22%) F5
11 20 (2.02%) Palo Alto
11 20 (2.02%) Salesforce
12 18 (1.81%) Arista
12 18 (1.81%) Aruba
13 17 (1.71%) Trend Micro
14 14 (1.41%) IBM
14 14 (1.41%) Veracode