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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 142 188
Rank change year-on-year -9 +46 +58
Contract jobs citing GitLab 980 662 494
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.84% 2.00% 1.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.73% 13.48% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 428 338
10th Percentile £368 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £645
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -3.50% -2.91% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 10
10th Percentile £63.88 £60.50 £54.40
25th Percentile - £62.69 £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 £73.55 £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 6,229 4,911 4,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.72% 14.83% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,994 3,324 3,304
10th Percentile £350 £325 £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 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 109 214
10th Percentile £26.25 £25.24 £26.59
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.20
Median hourly rate £65.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.58 £84.05 £73.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -6 828 £500 -0.99% 276
UK excluding London -1 464 £483 -3.50% 170
London +6 362 £525 - 133
Work from Home +6 340 £475 -9.52% 151
North of England -27 170 £464 -1.28% 47
Midlands +35 137 £469 -6.20% 21
West Midlands +29 130 £469 -8.49% 14
South East -40 74 £550 - 33
North East +8 71 £413 -11.29% 9
North West -40 70 £575 +19.79% 32
South West -24 50 £550 -8.33% 41
Yorkshire -45 42 £550 +15.79% 6
East of England -12 30 £483 +1.58% 11
Scotland -9 19 £400 - 13
East Midlands -15 7 £470 +74.07% 7
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 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
1 100 (10.20%) Confluence
2 60 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (5.61%) Apache Spark
4 45 (4.59%) Apache
5 38 (3.88%) SAS
6 30 (3.06%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.61%) Camunda
7 6 (0.61%) CICS
7 6 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.41%) CMS
9 3 (0.31%) nginx
9 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
10 2 (0.20%) WordPress
11 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.41%) 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
1 663 (67.65%) AWS
2 342 (34.90%) GitHub
3 331 (33.78%) Azure
4 251 (25.61%) GitHub Actions
5 168 (17.14%) GCP
6 146 (14.90%) Azure DevOps
7 142 (14.49%) Amazon S3
8 138 (14.08%) Serverless
9 131 (13.37%) Amazon EKS
10 125 (12.76%) AWS Lambda
11 117 (11.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 96 (9.80%) Amazon EC2
13 82 (8.37%) AWS CloudFormation
14 69 (7.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 55 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
16 44 (4.49%) Amazon EMR
17 41 (4.18%) OpenShift
18 39 (3.98%) Amazon SQS
19 37 (3.78%) Power Platform
20 35 (3.57%) OCI
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 73 (7.45%) MongoDB
3 51 (5.20%) Relational Database
4 49 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 48 (4.90%) Amazon Athena
6 47 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
7 43 (4.39%) DynamoDB
8 42 (4.29%) NoSQL
9 39 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
10 34 (3.47%) Power BI
11 33 (3.37%) Pentaho
12 32 (3.27%) SQL Server
13 27 (2.76%) Data Lake
13 27 (2.76%) MySQL
13 27 (2.76%) Oracle Database
14 26 (2.65%) Big Data
15 23 (2.35%) RDBMS
16 22 (2.24%) Redis
17 14 (1.43%) Metadata
18 12 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 420 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 226 (23.06%) Git
3 133 (13.57%) JIRA
4 80 (8.16%) Selenium
5 71 (7.24%) JUnit
6 53 (5.41%) Cucumber
7 47 (4.80%) SonarQube
8 45 (4.59%) Bitbucket
9 36 (3.67%) Artifactory
10 33 (3.37%) Gradle
10 33 (3.37%) JMeter
11 30 (3.06%) Gatling
11 30 (3.06%) Postman
12 29 (2.96%) Maven
13 28 (2.86%) REST Assured
14 27 (2.76%) Mockito
15 25 (2.55%) WebDriver
16 19 (1.94%) Snyk
16 19 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
17 11 (1.12%) Zephyr
General
1 189 (19.29%) Social Skills
2 188 (19.18%) Public Sector
3 96 (9.80%) Finance
4 65 (6.63%) Banking
5 58 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (2.04%) 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 5 (0.51%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.51%) Police
14 4 (0.41%) Marketing
14 4 (0.41%) Retail
15 3 (0.31%) Back Office
15 3 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 212 (21.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 180 (18.37%) Senior
3 157 (16.02%) Developer
4 120 (12.24%) AWS Engineer
5 101 (10.31%) Data Engineer
6 75 (7.65%) AWS DevOps
7 68 (6.94%) Lead
8 67 (6.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 57 (5.82%) Software Engineer
10 52 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
11 51 (5.20%) Java Developer
12 50 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
13 43 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 39 (3.98%) Test Engineer
15 33 (3.37%) Architect
15 33 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
16 32 (3.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 31 (3.16%) Tester
18 30 (3.06%) Software Developer
19 29 (2.96%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (13.06%) Kafka
2 120 (12.24%) Spring
3 105 (10.71%) REST
3 105 (10.71%) Spring Boot
4 64 (6.53%) RESTful
5 61 (6.22%) React
6 56 (5.71%) PySpark
7 55 (5.61%) Node.js
8 50 (5.10%) Playwright
9 40 (4.08%) JSON
10 37 (3.78%) RabbitMQ
11 32 (3.27%) Elastic Stack
12 29 (2.96%) WireMock
13 27 (2.76%) OAuth
14 26 (2.65%) YAML
15 25 (2.55%) HTML
16 24 (2.45%) AWS CDK
16 24 (2.45%) Keycloak
17 23 (2.35%) CSS
17 23 (2.35%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 193 (19.69%) Cloud Native
2 70 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.96%) Data Centre
6 28 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 22 (2.24%) 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 12 (1.22%) 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 6 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (0.61%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 178 (18.16%) Linux
2 46 (4.69%) Unix
3 41 (4.18%) Windows
4 35 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.22%) AIX
5 12 (1.22%) zOS
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
1 809 (82.55%) CI/CD
2 577 (58.88%) DevOps
3 419 (42.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 390 (39.80%) Agile
5 324 (33.06%) Containerisation
6 301 (30.71%) Test Automation
7 191 (19.49%) Microservices
8 167 (17.04%) Observability
9 157 (16.02%) Scrum
10 156 (15.92%) Software Engineering
11 150 (15.31%) Platform Engineering
12 144 (14.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 126 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
14 118 (12.04%) AI
15 102 (10.41%) DevSecOps
16 95 (9.69%) ETL
17 90 (9.18%) Data Pipeline
18 89 (9.08%) Migration
19 84 (8.57%) Data Modelling
19 84 (8.57%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 410 (41.84%) Python
2 231 (23.57%) Java
3 226 (23.06%) SQL
4 163 (16.63%) Bash
5 84 (8.57%) JavaScript
6 75 (7.65%) PowerShell
7 68 (6.94%) TypeScript
8 55 (5.61%) C#
9 34 (3.47%) Go
10 28 (2.86%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.35%) PL/SQL
12 21 (2.14%) Bicep
13 14 (1.43%) C++
14 9 (0.92%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.82%) Groovy
15 8 (0.82%) Scala
16 6 (0.61%) C
16 6 (0.61%) JCL
16 6 (0.61%) R
17 5 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 467 (47.65%) Security Cleared
2 399 (40.71%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 52 (5.31%) DV Cleared
5 41 (4.18%) AWS Certification
5 41 (4.18%) Degree
6 30 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (1.94%) Azure Certification
8 18 (1.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 17 (1.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 14 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.92%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.82%) CISSP
14 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.61%) CSSLP
16 4 (0.41%) GIAC
17 3 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 3 (0.31%) CCNP
18 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (10.31%) QA
2 51 (5.20%) Accessibility
3 46 (4.69%) 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 9 (0.92%) 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
1 475 (48.47%) Terraform
2 437 (44.59%) Kubernetes
3 224 (22.86%) Ansible
4 177 (18.06%) Grafana
5 153 (15.61%) 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%) Suricata
Vendors
1 114 (11.63%) Oracle
2 63 (6.43%) Microsoft
3 61 (6.22%) Google
4 55 (5.61%) Informatica
4 55 (5.61%) Talend
5 54 (5.51%) Splunk
6 33 (3.37%) Databricks
6 33 (3.37%) Dynatrace
7 30 (3.06%) VMware
8 29 (2.96%) Denodo
9 22 (2.24%) Palo Alto
10 21 (2.14%) ServiceNow
11 20 (2.04%) F5
12 18 (1.84%) Arista
12 18 (1.84%) Aruba
13 17 (1.73%) IBM
13 17 (1.73%) Red Hat
13 17 (1.73%) Trend Micro
14 10 (1.02%) Salesforce
15 9 (0.92%) Tenable