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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 141 192
Rank change year-on-year -7 +51 +50
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,027 665 496
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.91% 2.03% 1.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.78% 13.44% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 714 437 335
10th Percentile £378 £375 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £677 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 8
10th Percentile - £60.50 £51.20
25th Percentile £65.00 £62.69 £62.75
Median hourly rate £69.11 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.44
90th Percentile £95.00 £73.55 £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.61 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -0.59% -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 6,120 4,947 5,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.40% 15.10% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,928 3,335 3,261
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £623
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 114 184
10th Percentile £35.13 £28.59 £28.98
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.58 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -5 875 £500 -3.85% 347
UK excluding London -2 489 £500 - 231
London +10 378 £524 -0.71% 148
Work from Home +5 355 £475 -9.52% 171
North of England -21 184 £475 -1.81% 77
Midlands +21 131 £473 -11.52% 24
West Midlands +26 124 £475 -12.04% 15
South East -21 81 £550 +8.59% 36
North West -31 79 £569 +17.32% 41
North East +8 76 £413 -11.29% 19
South West -19 60 £550 -8.33% 58
Yorkshire -52 42 £550 +10.00% 17
East of England -20 31 £475 - 16
Scotland -19 17 £423 +5.75% 15
East Midlands -14 7 £436 +61.48% 9
Northern Ireland 0 1 - - 3

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 98 (9.54%) Confluence
2 70 (6.82%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (6.52%) Apache Spark
4 52 (5.06%) Apache
5 34 (3.31%) Jupyter
6 30 (2.92%) SAS
7 10 (0.97%) Camunda
8 6 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.39%) CICS
9 4 (0.39%) CMS
9 4 (0.39%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.29%) nginx
10 3 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.19%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.19%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere Portal
11 2 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Trello
2 1 (0.097%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.097%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.097%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.097%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 697 (67.87%) AWS
2 358 (34.86%) Azure
3 355 (34.57%) GitHub
4 253 (24.63%) GitHub Actions
5 171 (16.65%) GCP
6 170 (16.55%) Azure DevOps
7 143 (13.92%) Serverless
8 142 (13.83%) Amazon S3
9 133 (12.95%) Amazon EKS
10 130 (12.66%) AWS Lambda
11 123 (11.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 98 (9.54%) Amazon EC2
13 77 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 65 (6.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 60 (5.84%) Amazon ECS
16 50 (4.87%) OpenShift
17 48 (4.67%) Amazon EMR
18 45 (4.38%) Amazon SQS
19 36 (3.51%) Datadog
19 36 (3.51%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.67%) Firewall
2 34 (3.31%) DNS
3 31 (3.02%) Network Security
4 28 (2.73%) BGP
5 27 (2.63%) Ethernet VPN
5 27 (2.63%) VXLAN
6 23 (2.24%) WAN
7 22 (2.14%) SD-WAN
8 21 (2.04%) OSPF
8 21 (2.04%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.85%) BIG-IP
9 19 (1.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 15 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (1.27%) HTTP
11 13 (1.27%) VPN
12 11 (1.07%) WLAN
13 10 (0.97%) SSL
14 8 (0.78%) NX-OS
15 6 (0.58%) DHCP
16 5 (0.49%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (7.79%) MongoDB
3 60 (5.84%) Relational Database
4 52 (5.06%) Amazon Athena
5 48 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 48 (4.67%) NoSQL
6 46 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
6 46 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
7 43 (4.19%) DynamoDB
8 38 (3.70%) SQL Server
9 34 (3.31%) Oracle Database
10 32 (3.12%) Big Data
10 32 (3.12%) Power BI
11 31 (3.02%) MySQL
11 31 (3.02%) Redis
12 30 (2.92%) Data Lake
13 29 (2.82%) Pentaho
14 28 (2.73%) RDBMS
15 15 (1.46%) Oracle Exadata
16 13 (1.27%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 428 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 240 (23.37%) Git
3 135 (13.15%) JIRA
4 87 (8.47%) Selenium
5 78 (7.59%) JUnit
6 57 (5.55%) SonarQube
7 56 (5.45%) Cucumber
8 43 (4.19%) Maven
9 39 (3.80%) Bitbucket
10 36 (3.51%) Gradle
11 34 (3.31%) Mockito
12 33 (3.21%) JMeter
12 33 (3.21%) REST Assured
13 32 (3.12%) Artifactory
13 32 (3.12%) Gatling
14 28 (2.73%) Postman
15 25 (2.43%) Sonatype Nexus
16 23 (2.24%) WebDriver
17 16 (1.56%) Cypress.io
17 16 (1.56%) Snyk
General
1 198 (19.28%) Social Skills
2 192 (18.70%) Public Sector
3 102 (9.93%) Finance
4 66 (6.43%) Banking
5 64 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (1.95%) Military
8 18 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.27%) Law
10 12 (1.17%) Legal
11 10 (0.97%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.78%) Investment Banking
12 8 (0.78%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.68%) Publishing
14 6 (0.58%) Police
15 5 (0.49%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.49%) Retail
16 4 (0.39%) Marketing
17 3 (0.29%) Back Office
17 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 226 (22.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 187 (18.21%) Senior
3 181 (17.62%) Developer
4 126 (12.27%) AWS Engineer
5 97 (9.44%) Data Engineer
6 78 (7.59%) AWS DevOps
7 76 (7.40%) Lead
8 71 (6.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 57 (5.55%) Java Developer
10 55 (5.36%) Software Engineer
11 54 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
12 48 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
13 46 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 44 (4.28%) Test Engineer
15 38 (3.70%) Software Developer
16 36 (3.51%) Architect
17 31 (3.02%) Full-Stack Developer
18 30 (2.92%) Senior DevOps
18 30 (2.92%) Tester
19 29 (2.82%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 501 (48.78%) Terraform
2 153 (14.90%) Kafka
3 135 (13.15%) Spring
4 122 (11.88%) Spring Boot
5 120 (11.68%) REST
6 72 (7.01%) RESTful
7 69 (6.72%) React
8 61 (5.94%) Playwright
9 58 (5.65%) Node.js
10 52 (5.06%) PySpark
11 48 (4.67%) JSON
12 46 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
13 36 (3.51%) HTML
13 36 (3.51%) YAML
14 34 (3.31%) OAuth
15 32 (3.12%) CSS
16 30 (2.92%) WireMock
17 29 (2.82%) Keycloak
18 26 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
18 26 (2.53%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 200 (19.47%) Cloud Native
2 63 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (3.51%) Data Centre
6 33 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.63%) Data Structures
8 25 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.66%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.66%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.46%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.36%) AI Agents
12 13 (1.27%) Mainframe
13 12 (1.17%) PKI
14 10 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (0.88%) Private Cloud
16 7 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
16 7 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 191 (18.60%) Linux
2 46 (4.48%) Unix
3 41 (3.99%) Windows
4 36 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.27%) AIX
5 13 (1.27%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.07%) CentOS
6 11 (1.07%) zOS
7 9 (0.88%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.58%) VMS
9 3 (0.29%) Debian
9 3 (0.29%) Rocky
10 2 (0.19%) Android
10 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.097%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 866 (84.32%) CI/CD
2 608 (59.20%) DevOps
3 461 (44.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 407 (39.63%) Agile
5 350 (34.08%) Containerisation
6 315 (30.67%) Test Automation
7 215 (20.93%) Microservices
8 184 (17.92%) Observability
9 166 (16.16%) Software Engineering
10 163 (15.87%) Scrum
11 152 (14.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 149 (14.51%) Platform Engineering
13 137 (13.34%) Problem-Solving
14 123 (11.98%) AI
15 113 (11.00%) DevSecOps
16 107 (10.42%) Migration
17 101 (9.83%) ETL
18 97 (9.44%) Event-Driven
19 96 (9.35%) Deployment Automation
20 94 (9.15%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 442 (43.04%) Python
2 258 (25.12%) Java
3 238 (23.17%) SQL
4 185 (18.01%) Bash
5 95 (9.25%) JavaScript
6 92 (8.96%) PowerShell
7 69 (6.72%) TypeScript
8 65 (6.33%) C#
9 38 (3.70%) Go
10 35 (3.41%) Shell Script
11 22 (2.14%) Bicep
11 22 (2.14%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.46%) C++
13 12 (1.17%) Groovy
14 9 (0.88%) Scala
15 8 (0.78%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.58%) R
17 5 (0.49%) Cypher
17 5 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 494 (48.10%) Security Cleared
2 406 (39.53%) SC Cleared
3 71 (6.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 67 (6.52%) DV Cleared
5 49 (4.77%) AWS Certification
5 49 (4.77%) Degree
6 35 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (1.95%) Azure Certification
8 19 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 17 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 15 (1.46%) CISSP
11 13 (1.27%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.07%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.58%) CSSLP
15 5 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.49%) GCFA
15 5 (0.49%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (11.39%) QA
2 52 (5.06%) Accessibility
3 44 (4.28%) Data Quality
4 19 (1.85%) WCAG
5 14 (1.36%) NIST
6 11 (1.07%) GDPR
7 10 (0.97%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.97%) SLA
8 9 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.58%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.49%) FATCA
11 5 (0.49%) NCSC
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.097%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.097%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.097%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.097%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.097%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 439 (42.75%) Docker
2 24 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.14%) Active Directory
4 14 (1.36%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.49%) Squid
8 4 (0.39%) HDFS
9 3 (0.29%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.19%) iptables
10 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.097%) vSphere
11 1 (0.097%) zsh
Systems Management
1 465 (45.28%) Kubernetes
2 245 (23.86%) Ansible
3 175 (17.04%) Grafana
4 153 (14.90%) Prometheus
5 53 (5.16%) Argo
6 40 (3.89%) Puppet
7 29 (2.82%) Progress Chef
8 15 (1.46%) Istio
9 14 (1.36%) Data Guard
9 14 (1.36%) Kibana
9 14 (1.36%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (0.97%) Packer
10 10 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.88%) Podman
12 8 (0.78%) Cilium
12 8 (0.78%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.49%) CASB
13 5 (0.49%) HP Fortify
13 5 (0.49%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (0.39%) Salt
Vendors
1 115 (11.20%) Oracle
2 72 (7.01%) Microsoft
3 68 (6.62%) Google
4 57 (5.55%) Splunk
5 52 (5.06%) Talend
6 49 (4.77%) Informatica
7 39 (3.80%) VMware
8 38 (3.70%) Databricks
9 35 (3.41%) Dynatrace
10 27 (2.63%) ServiceNow
11 26 (2.53%) Denodo
12 24 (2.34%) Red Hat
13 21 (2.04%) IBM
13 21 (2.04%) Palo Alto
14 20 (1.95%) F5
15 18 (1.75%) Arista
15 18 (1.75%) Aruba
15 18 (1.75%) Trend Micro
16 13 (1.27%) Veracode
17 12 (1.17%) Cisco