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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 140 188
Rank change year-on-year -8 +48 +60
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,028 667 499
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.91% 2.04% 1.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.76% 13.50% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 714 436 340
10th Percentile £381 £375 £362
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 £678 £701
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 6,134 4,940 5,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.41% 15.10% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,932 3,326 3,277
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £599 £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 256 113 183
10th Percentile £35.63 £28.53 £28.65
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 £73.19 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.92 £84.80 £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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -4 876 £500 -3.85% 542
UK excluding London -3 489 £500 - 329
London -1 379 £525 -0.47% 273
Work from Home +12 355 £475 -9.95% 256
North of England -30 184 £475 -1.04% 98
Midlands +28 132 £474 -11.53% 33
West Midlands +25 125 £475 -12.84% 22
South East -24 80 £546 +7.85% 64
North West -29 78 £569 +18.54% 50
North East +7 77 £413 -11.29% 24
South West -7 60 £550 -8.33% 69
Yorkshire -49 42 £550 +10.00% 24
East of England -18 31 £475 - 26
Scotland -15 17 £423 +5.75% 34
East Midlands -16 7 £436 +61.48% 11
Northern Ireland +1 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 99 (9.63%) Confluence
2 70 (6.81%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (6.52%) Apache Spark
4 53 (5.16%) Apache
5 34 (3.31%) Jupyter
6 30 (2.92%) SAS
7 11 (1.07%) 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%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 695 (67.61%) AWS
2 358 (34.82%) Azure
3 353 (34.34%) GitHub
4 252 (24.51%) GitHub Actions
5 169 (16.44%) Azure DevOps
5 169 (16.44%) GCP
6 142 (13.81%) Serverless
7 141 (13.72%) Amazon S3
8 131 (12.74%) Amazon EKS
9 129 (12.55%) AWS Lambda
10 123 (11.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 97 (9.44%) Amazon EC2
12 77 (7.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 65 (6.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 60 (5.84%) Amazon ECS
15 52 (5.06%) OpenShift
16 48 (4.67%) Amazon EMR
17 45 (4.38%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (3.50%) Datadog
18 36 (3.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.67%) Firewall
2 34 (3.31%) DNS
3 31 (3.02%) Network Security
4 28 (2.72%) 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 (1.26%) VPN
12 12 (1.17%) HTTP
13 11 (1.07%) WLAN
14 10 (0.97%) SSL
15 8 (0.78%) NX-OS
16 6 (0.58%) DHCP
17 5 (0.49%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (9.34%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (7.78%) 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 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
6 46 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
7 43 (4.18%) DynamoDB
8 39 (3.79%) SQL Server
9 34 (3.31%) Oracle Database
10 32 (3.11%) Big Data
10 32 (3.11%) 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 (2.72%) RDBMS
15 15 (1.46%) Oracle Exadata
16 13 (1.26%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 430 (41.83%) Jenkins
2 239 (23.25%) Git
3 137 (13.33%) JIRA
4 87 (8.46%) Selenium
5 79 (7.68%) JUnit
6 58 (5.64%) SonarQube
7 55 (5.35%) Cucumber
8 44 (4.28%) Maven
9 39 (3.79%) Bitbucket
10 37 (3.60%) Gradle
11 35 (3.40%) Mockito
12 34 (3.31%) JMeter
12 34 (3.31%) REST Assured
13 33 (3.21%) Artifactory
14 32 (3.11%) Gatling
15 28 (2.72%) Postman
16 26 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
17 23 (2.24%) WebDriver
18 16 (1.56%) Cypress.io
18 16 (1.56%) Snyk
General
1 200 (19.46%) Social Skills
2 192 (18.68%) Public Sector
3 104 (10.12%) Finance
4 67 (6.52%) Banking
5 64 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (1.95%) Military
8 18 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.26%) 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%) Local Government
17 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 227 (22.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 183 (17.80%) Senior
3 181 (17.61%) Developer
4 126 (12.26%) AWS Engineer
5 97 (9.44%) Data Engineer
6 78 (7.59%) AWS DevOps
7 75 (7.30%) Lead
8 71 (6.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 57 (5.54%) Java Developer
10 55 (5.35%) Software Engineer
11 54 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
12 48 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
13 46 (4.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 44 (4.28%) Test Engineer
15 38 (3.70%) Software Developer
16 37 (3.60%) Architect
17 32 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
18 30 (2.92%) Tester
19 29 (2.82%) Java Engineer
19 29 (2.82%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 505 (49.12%) Terraform
2 155 (15.08%) Kafka
3 136 (13.23%) Spring
4 123 (11.96%) Spring Boot
5 120 (11.67%) REST
6 72 (7.00%) RESTful
7 70 (6.81%) React
8 61 (5.93%) Playwright
9 58 (5.64%) Node.js
10 52 (5.06%) PySpark
11 48 (4.67%) JSON
12 46 (4.47%) RabbitMQ
13 37 (3.60%) HTML
14 36 (3.50%) YAML
15 33 (3.21%) CSS
15 33 (3.21%) OAuth
16 30 (2.92%) WireMock
17 29 (2.82%) Keycloak
18 27 (2.63%) .NET
18 27 (2.63%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 203 (19.75%) Cloud Native
2 63 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (5.35%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (3.50%) Data Centre
6 33 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.72%) Data Structures
8 25 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.65%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.46%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.46%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.26%) Mainframe
12 12 (1.17%) PKI
13 10 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (0.88%) Private Cloud
15 8 (0.78%) Security Posture
16 7 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 193 (18.77%) Linux
2 46 (4.47%) Unix
3 43 (4.18%) Windows
4 38 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.26%) AIX
5 13 (1.26%) 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
1 869 (84.53%) CI/CD
2 610 (59.34%) DevOps
3 464 (45.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 408 (39.69%) Agile
5 351 (34.14%) Containerisation
6 316 (30.74%) Test Automation
7 217 (21.11%) Microservices
8 186 (18.09%) Observability
9 167 (16.25%) Software Engineering
10 163 (15.86%) Scrum
11 153 (14.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 150 (14.59%) Platform Engineering
13 136 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
14 123 (11.96%) AI
15 114 (11.09%) DevSecOps
16 107 (10.41%) Migration
17 101 (9.82%) ETL
18 97 (9.44%) Deployment Automation
19 96 (9.34%) Event-Driven
20 94 (9.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 446 (43.39%) Python
2 256 (24.90%) Java
3 241 (23.44%) SQL
4 186 (18.09%) Bash
5 95 (9.24%) JavaScript
6 94 (9.14%) PowerShell
7 69 (6.71%) TypeScript
8 66 (6.42%) C#
9 38 (3.70%) Go
10 36 (3.50%) 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
1 498 (48.44%) Security Cleared
2 409 (39.79%) SC Cleared
3 71 (6.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 68 (6.61%) DV Cleared
5 50 (4.86%) Degree
6 48 (4.67%) AWS Certification
7 36 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (1.95%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 16 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 16 (1.56%) CISSP
11 15 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (1.26%) ISTQB
13 11 (1.07%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.58%) CSSLP
17 5 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
17 5 (0.49%) GCFA
17 5 (0.49%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (11.48%) QA
2 52 (5.06%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.38%) Data Quality
4 19 (1.85%) WCAG
5 16 (1.56%) NIST
6 11 (1.07%) GDPR
7 10 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.97%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.97%) SLA
8 8 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.68%) NCSC
10 6 (0.58%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.49%) FATCA
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.097%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.097%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.097%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.097%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.097%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 438 (42.61%) Docker
2 24 (2.33%) 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
1 467 (45.43%) Kubernetes
2 248 (24.12%) Ansible
3 175 (17.02%) Grafana
4 153 (14.88%) 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 11 (1.07%) Packer
11 10 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.88%) Podman
13 8 (0.78%) Cilium
13 8 (0.78%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.49%) CASB
14 5 (0.49%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.49%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.39%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 115 (11.19%) Oracle
2 73 (7.10%) Microsoft
3 68 (6.61%) Google
4 58 (5.64%) Splunk
5 52 (5.06%) Talend
6 49 (4.77%) Informatica
7 39 (3.79%) VMware
8 38 (3.70%) Databricks
9 35 (3.40%) Dynatrace
10 26 (2.53%) Denodo
10 26 (2.53%) Red Hat
10 26 (2.53%) ServiceNow
11 22 (2.14%) IBM
12 21 (2.04%) Palo Alto
13 20 (1.95%) F5
14 18 (1.75%) Arista
14 18 (1.75%) Aruba
14 18 (1.75%) Trend Micro
15 14 (1.36%) Veracode
16 12 (1.17%) Cisco