GitLab Contract Job Trends

GitLab
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring GitLab skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 183 247
Rank change year-on-year +49 +64 -80
Contract jobs citing GitLab 690 521 519
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.11% 1.36% 1.03%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.86% 10.23% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 355 355
10th Percentile £375 £358 £413
25th Percentile £449 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £603 £650 £641
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £59.75 £69.50 -
25th Percentile £61.75 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +86.87% -28.00%
75th Percentile - £74.44 £62.50
90th Percentile £68.10 £74.72 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.46% +23.33% +17.07%

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 4,977 5,094 6,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.23% 13.27% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,351 3,272 4,736
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 177 247
10th Percentile £30.75 £29.14 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.50 £51.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £76.77
90th Percentile £87.50 £72.63 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab 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 14 September 2025.

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 14 September 2025.

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 14 September 2025. 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 +37 554 £525 -4.55% 212
UK excluding London +61 323 £500 -3.38% 157
Work from Home +64 235 £525 -8.70% 173
London +3 223 £530 -11.67% 88
North of England +17 135 £484 +7.50% 50
Yorkshire +3 62 £500 +17.65% 11
North West +21 61 £480 -1.54% 28
Midlands +16 47 £540 +32.03% 9
South East +1 43 £507 -3.52% 47
West Midlands +18 41 £550 +55.15% 8
South West +37 38 £600 +7.14% 30
East of England +33 32 £488 +62.50% 6
Scotland +16 26 £410 -11.26% 13
North East -6 13 £465 -18.06% 11
East Midlands -7 6 £270 -39.87% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £500 - 1
Wales -4 1 £375 -28.57% 1

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 42 (6.09%) Confluence
2 15 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (2.03%) Documentum
3 14 (2.03%) OpenStack
4 13 (1.88%) FileNet
5 10 (1.45%) Apache Spark
6 9 (1.30%) Anypoint
6 9 (1.30%) Mule
7 7 (1.01%) Apache
8 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.58%) Appian
9 4 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.58%) SAS
10 3 (0.43%) CMS
11 2 (0.29%) CICS
11 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.29%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.29%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 394 (57.10%) AWS
2 204 (29.57%) Azure
3 149 (21.59%) GitHub
4 119 (17.25%) GCP
5 83 (12.03%) GitHub Actions
6 78 (11.30%) Serverless
7 76 (11.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 76 (11.01%) Amazon S3
8 71 (10.29%) Amazon EC2
9 66 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
10 64 (9.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 54 (7.83%) Amazon EKS
12 53 (7.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 46 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
13 46 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
14 24 (3.48%) Amazon SQS
14 24 (3.48%) OpenShift
15 22 (3.19%) Azure AKS
16 18 (2.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 17 (2.46%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 49 (7.10%) DNS
2 38 (5.51%) Firewall
3 29 (4.20%) VPN
4 21 (3.04%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.90%) Network Security
6 17 (2.46%) SSL
7 13 (1.88%) SAN
8 9 (1.30%) BGP
8 9 (1.30%) HTTP
9 7 (1.01%) AMQP
9 7 (1.01%) DSL
9 7 (1.01%) NAS
10 6 (0.87%) Ethernet VPN
10 6 (0.87%) OSPF
11 5 (0.72%) MPLS
11 5 (0.72%) OpenLDAP
11 5 (0.72%) WAN
12 4 (0.58%) iSCSI
12 4 (0.58%) LAN
12 4 (0.58%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (8.84%) MongoDB
2 55 (7.97%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (7.54%) NoSQL
4 46 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (3.77%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.48%) MySQL
7 16 (2.32%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (1.88%) Big Data
9 12 (1.74%) DynamoDB
9 12 (1.74%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.16%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.01%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.01%) Power BI
12 5 (0.72%) HPCC
12 5 (0.72%) Metadata
12 5 (0.72%) SAP HANA
13 4 (0.58%) SAS Data Integration Studio
13 4 (0.58%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 317 (45.94%) Jenkins
2 150 (21.74%) Git
3 106 (15.36%) JIRA
4 58 (8.41%) Selenium
4 58 (8.41%) SonarQube
5 47 (6.81%) Cucumber
6 46 (6.67%) JUnit
6 46 (6.67%) Maven
7 34 (4.93%) Bitbucket
8 32 (4.64%) Artifactory
9 31 (4.49%) REST Assured
10 30 (4.35%) Liquibase
10 30 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
11 28 (4.06%) Gradle
12 25 (3.62%) Cypress.io
13 24 (3.48%) Mockito
14 23 (3.33%) Postman
14 23 (3.33%) TeamCity
15 17 (2.46%) JMeter
16 13 (1.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 168 (24.35%) Social Skills
2 106 (15.36%) Finance
3 87 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 53 (7.68%) Banking
5 47 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.91%) Telecoms
7 18 (2.61%) Financial Institution
8 15 (2.17%) Marketing
9 13 (1.88%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.59%) Electronics
10 11 (1.59%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.45%) Law
12 9 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.30%) Military
13 6 (0.87%) Retail
14 5 (0.72%) Police
15 4 (0.58%) Games
15 4 (0.58%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.29%) German Language
16 2 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 164 (23.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 142 (20.58%) Developer
3 108 (15.65%) Senior
4 71 (10.29%) AWS Engineer
5 56 (8.12%) Java Developer
6 50 (7.25%) Software Engineer
7 39 (5.65%) AWS DevOps
8 37 (5.36%) Lead
9 36 (5.22%) Architect
9 36 (5.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 34 (4.93%) Senior DevOps
10 34 (4.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 29 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
12 25 (3.62%) Consultant
12 25 (3.62%) Full-Stack Developer
13 23 (3.33%) Data Engineer
14 22 (3.19%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 22 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 22 (3.19%) Test Engineer
15 21 (3.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (12.17%) REST
2 76 (11.01%) Kafka
3 75 (10.87%) RESTful
4 64 (9.28%) Node.js
5 62 (8.99%) React
6 60 (8.70%) Spring
7 59 (8.55%) Spring Boot
8 46 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
9 41 (5.94%) HTML
10 32 (4.64%) CSS
11 30 (4.35%) AngularJS
12 25 (3.62%) JSON
12 25 (3.62%) OAuth
12 25 (3.62%) Playwright
13 19 (2.75%) Swagger
13 19 (2.75%) XML
14 18 (2.61%) .NET
14 18 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
15 15 (2.17%) SOAP
15 15 (2.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 85 (12.32%) Cloud Native
2 38 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (3.48%) Public Cloud
4 21 (3.04%) Data Protection Act
4 21 (3.04%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.90%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.61%) PKI
7 15 (2.17%) Algorithms
7 15 (2.17%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.59%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.30%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.01%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.87%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.58%) Clustering
13 4 (0.58%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (0.58%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 151 (21.88%) Linux
2 37 (5.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 37 (5.36%) Windows
3 29 (4.20%) Unix
4 18 (2.61%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.74%) CentOS
6 8 (1.16%) Android
7 7 (1.01%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.87%) Solaris
8 6 (0.87%) SUSE
9 4 (0.58%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.29%) VMS
10 2 (0.29%) zOS
11 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (72.32%) CI/CD
2 416 (60.29%) DevOps
3 266 (38.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 248 (35.94%) Containerisation
5 233 (33.77%) Agile
6 167 (24.20%) Microservices
7 145 (21.01%) Test Automation
8 110 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
9 104 (15.07%) Software Engineering
10 97 (14.06%) Infrastructure Automation
11 94 (13.62%) Migration
12 78 (11.30%) DevSecOps
13 73 (10.58%) Scrum
14 69 (10.00%) Computer Science
14 69 (10.00%) Observability
15 66 (9.57%) SDLC
16 63 (9.13%) Configuration Management
17 62 (8.99%) Continuous Integration
18 57 (8.26%) TDD
19 56 (8.12%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 289 (41.88%) Python
2 198 (28.70%) Java
3 137 (19.86%) Bash
4 99 (14.35%) SQL
5 95 (13.77%) JavaScript
6 58 (8.41%) Go
6 58 (8.41%) PowerShell
7 49 (7.10%) TypeScript
8 34 (4.93%) Shell Script
9 31 (4.49%) C#
10 16 (2.32%) Rust
11 13 (1.88%) C++
12 10 (1.45%) C
13 9 (1.30%) DataWeave
14 5 (0.72%) Groovy
15 4 (0.58%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.58%) Perl
16 3 (0.43%) Korn
17 2 (0.29%) Scala
17 2 (0.29%) XPath
Qualifications
1 239 (34.64%) Security Cleared
2 190 (27.54%) SC Cleared
3 63 (9.13%) Degree
4 56 (8.12%) AWS Certification
5 50 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (5.22%) DV Cleared
7 30 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (3.33%) Master's Degree
9 20 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.30%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.01%) CISSP
12 5 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.72%) CISM
13 4 (0.58%) CCNP
13 4 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.43%) GWAPT
14 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (9.71%) QA
2 18 (2.61%) Accessibility
2 18 (2.61%) PCI DSS
3 15 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.88%) GDPR
5 11 (1.59%) NCSC
6 9 (1.30%) WCAG
7 8 (1.16%) NIST
8 7 (1.01%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.01%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.72%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.43%) SLA
11 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.29%) MISRA
11 2 (0.29%) MISRA C
12 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.14%) GRC
12 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 279 (40.43%) Docker
2 24 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.30%) VMware NSX
4 9 (1.30%) vSphere
5 8 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.72%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.58%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.29%) Ceph
8 2 (0.29%) Firmware
9 1 (0.14%) KVM
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 350 (50.72%) Terraform
2 303 (43.91%) Kubernetes
3 221 (32.03%) Ansible
4 100 (14.49%) Grafana
5 95 (13.77%) Prometheus
6 42 (6.09%) Puppet
7 32 (4.64%) Argo
8 23 (3.33%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.88%) Istio
9 13 (1.88%) Podman
10 12 (1.74%) Packer
11 9 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (1.30%) vRealize
12 8 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (1.16%) NetBackup
12 8 (1.16%) vCenter Server
13 7 (1.01%) Salt
14 6 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.72%) Fluentd
15 5 (0.72%) logstash
Vendors
1 60 (8.70%) Splunk
2 52 (7.54%) Microsoft
3 44 (6.38%) Google
4 39 (5.65%) Oracle
5 29 (4.20%) SAP
5 29 (4.20%) VMware
6 25 (3.62%) Red Hat
7 24 (3.48%) Dynatrace
8 23 (3.33%) F5
9 20 (2.90%) Cisco
9 20 (2.90%) Palo Alto
10 19 (2.75%) CheckPoint
11 18 (2.61%) IBM
12 15 (2.17%) MuleSoft
13 14 (2.03%) ServiceNow
14 12 (1.74%) Databricks
14 12 (1.74%) Veracode
15 9 (1.30%) Commvault
16 8 (1.16%) Veritas
17 7 (1.01%) Atlassian