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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 145 214
Rank change year-on-year +9 +69 +35
Contract jobs citing GitLab 946 573 466
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.94% 2.00% 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.15% 13.76% 9.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 360 335
10th Percentile £387 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £650
90th Percentile £663 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -3.90% -7.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 1 9
10th Percentile £44.72 - £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £56.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +18.51% +76.77%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £75.00
90th Percentile £80.20 - £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -24.66% +11.45% +87.98%

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 5,859 4,163 5,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.00% 14.53% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,817 2,807 3,450
10th Percentile £350 £340 £351
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 71 216
10th Percentile £35.00 £20.86 £29.63
25th Percentile £55.00 £45.96 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.56 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.96 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 28 May 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 May 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 May 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 +12 797 £500 -4.76% 169
UK excluding London +33 483 £481 -3.90% 140
London -9 318 £525 -0.94% 48
Work from Home +8 291 £475 -5.00% 83
North of England -2 196 £500 - 55
Midlands +13 121 £463 -6.09% 15
West Midlands +13 109 £463 -11.90% 10
North West +6 97 £513 +2.50% 26
Yorkshire -24 68 £494 -6.00% 11
South East -27 68 £546 +9.14% 34
South West +9 56 £500 +6.95% 19
North East -3 45 £450 -14.29% 18
East of England -5 35 £480 +6.72% 7
Scotland -10 24 £401 -7.93% 4
East Midlands -19 12 £436 +40.19% 5
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 5

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 80 (8.46%) Confluence
2 39 (4.12%) SAS
3 32 (3.38%) Apache Spark
4 31 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (2.96%) Apache
6 13 (1.37%) nginx
7 12 (1.27%) Jupyter
8 11 (1.16%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.74%) CICS
10 5 (0.53%) Camunda
10 5 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.32%) CMS
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 579 (61.21%) AWS
2 318 (33.62%) GitHub
3 316 (33.40%) Azure
4 228 (24.10%) GitHub Actions
5 160 (16.91%) GCP
6 135 (14.27%) Serverless
7 130 (13.74%) Amazon S3
8 120 (12.68%) Amazon EKS
9 114 (12.05%) AWS Lambda
10 113 (11.95%) Azure DevOps
11 99 (10.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 97 (10.25%) Amazon EC2
13 87 (9.20%) AWS CloudFormation
14 67 (7.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 64 (6.77%) OpenShift
16 43 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
17 36 (3.81%) Azure AKS
18 35 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
19 28 (2.96%) Power Platform
20 27 (2.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.86%) Firewall
2 31 (3.28%) DNS
3 21 (2.22%) Network Security
3 21 (2.22%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.01%) BGP
4 19 (2.01%) WAN
5 18 (1.90%) OSPF
6 17 (1.80%) BIG-IP
6 17 (1.80%) Ethernet VPN
6 17 (1.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 17 (1.80%) SD-WAN
6 17 (1.80%) VXLAN
7 15 (1.59%) VPN
8 13 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (1.16%) HTTP
10 10 (1.06%) Reverse Proxy
11 9 (0.95%) WLAN
12 4 (0.42%) SAN
12 4 (0.42%) SSL
13 3 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (8.35%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (6.45%) MongoDB
3 44 (4.65%) NoSQL
4 43 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 42 (4.44%) DynamoDB
6 41 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
7 35 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 34 (3.59%) Amazon Athena
8 34 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
9 33 (3.49%) MySQL
10 29 (3.07%) Data Lake
11 27 (2.85%) Power BI
11 27 (2.85%) Redis
11 27 (2.85%) SQL Server
12 26 (2.75%) Big Data
13 24 (2.54%) Pentaho
14 17 (1.80%) Oracle Database
15 14 (1.48%) BigQuery
15 14 (1.48%) DocumentDB
16 12 (1.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 414 (43.76%) Jenkins
2 201 (21.25%) Git
3 138 (14.59%) JIRA
4 88 (9.30%) Selenium
5 67 (7.08%) JUnit
6 52 (5.50%) Cucumber
7 47 (4.97%) Postman
8 45 (4.76%) REST Assured
9 37 (3.91%) Gradle
10 36 (3.81%) Artifactory
11 35 (3.70%) JMeter
12 33 (3.49%) SonarQube
13 32 (3.38%) Bitbucket
14 28 (2.96%) Gatling
15 26 (2.75%) Mockito
16 23 (2.43%) CircleCI
17 22 (2.33%) WebDriver
18 18 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
19 17 (1.80%) Snyk
20 15 (1.59%) Maven
General
1 189 (19.98%) Social Skills
2 172 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 96 (10.15%) Finance
4 65 (6.87%) Banking
5 53 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.59%) Military
8 12 (1.27%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.16%) Retail
10 10 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.95%) Investment Banking
12 8 (0.85%) Law
12 8 (0.85%) Legal
13 6 (0.63%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.42%) Police
14 4 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.32%) Local Government
15 3 (0.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 200 (21.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 154 (16.28%) Developer
3 150 (15.86%) Senior
4 101 (10.68%) AWS Engineer
5 86 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 66 (6.98%) AWS DevOps
7 63 (6.66%) Lead
8 61 (6.45%) Software Engineer
9 60 (6.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 50 (5.29%) Java Developer
11 47 (4.97%) Architect
11 47 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
12 43 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
13 40 (4.23%) Test Engineer
14 31 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 29 (3.07%) Senior DevOps
16 28 (2.96%) Full-Stack Developer
16 28 (2.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 28 (2.96%) Tester
17 27 (2.85%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (13.95%) Kafka
2 124 (13.11%) Spring
3 115 (12.16%) REST
4 110 (11.63%) Spring Boot
5 75 (7.93%) RESTful
6 66 (6.98%) React
7 64 (6.77%) Node.js
8 48 (5.07%) Elastic Stack
9 47 (4.97%) Playwright
10 40 (4.23%) PySpark
11 37 (3.91%) OpenTelemetry
12 32 (3.38%) LDAP
12 32 (3.38%) OAuth
13 30 (3.17%) JSON
13 30 (3.17%) YAML
14 27 (2.85%) OpenID
15 26 (2.75%) HTML
15 26 (2.75%) pytest
16 25 (2.64%) Jest
17 24 (2.54%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 162 (17.12%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (6.03%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.02%) Data Centre
5 31 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.48%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
11 12 (1.27%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.16%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.06%) PKI
14 9 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (0.95%) Mainframe
14 9 (0.95%) NHS
15 8 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
16 7 (0.74%) DataPower
17 6 (0.63%) Data Structures
17 6 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 170 (17.97%) Linux
2 51 (5.39%) Unix
3 46 (4.86%) Windows
4 44 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.59%) CentOS
6 10 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.95%) zOS
8 6 (0.63%) VMS
9 5 (0.53%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.42%) Debian
10 4 (0.42%) Rocky
10 4 (0.42%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.32%) Android
12 2 (0.21%) AIX
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 756 (79.92%) CI/CD
2 537 (56.77%) DevOps
3 359 (37.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 330 (34.88%) Agile
5 306 (32.35%) Containerisation
6 286 (30.23%) Test Automation
7 181 (19.13%) Microservices
8 179 (18.92%) Observability
9 144 (15.22%) Software Engineering
10 139 (14.69%) Scrum
11 127 (13.42%) Platform Engineering
12 123 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 122 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
14 95 (10.04%) ETL
15 88 (9.30%) DevSecOps
16 80 (8.46%) TDD
17 78 (8.25%) Analytics
18 77 (8.14%) Migration
19 73 (7.72%) AI
19 73 (7.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 370 (39.11%) Python
2 252 (26.64%) Java
3 222 (23.47%) SQL
4 144 (15.22%) Bash
5 87 (9.20%) JavaScript
6 70 (7.40%) TypeScript
7 65 (6.87%) PowerShell
8 48 (5.07%) Shell Script
9 38 (4.02%) Go
10 37 (3.91%) C#
11 25 (2.64%) PL/SQL
12 19 (2.01%) Bicep
13 17 (1.80%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.59%) C++
15 11 (1.16%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.16%) Ruby
15 11 (1.16%) Scala
16 8 (0.85%) C
17 7 (0.74%) Groovy
17 7 (0.74%) PHP
Qualifications
1 417 (44.08%) Security Cleared
2 348 (36.79%) SC Cleared
3 49 (5.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 41 (4.33%) Degree
5 34 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 31 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.43%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.27%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.16%) ISTQB
10 10 (1.06%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (0.53%) CISSP
14 4 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.42%) CSSLP
14 4 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.32%) CISM
15 3 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (10.25%) QA
2 51 (5.39%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.49%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.33%) SLA
5 14 (1.48%) GDPR
5 14 (1.48%) WCAG
6 10 (1.06%) NIST
6 10 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.63%) NCSC
9 5 (0.53%) FATCA
10 4 (0.42%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.11%) GRC
12 1 (0.11%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.11%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 376 (39.75%) Docker
2 23 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.63%) HDFS
5 6 (0.63%) Squid
6 4 (0.42%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.32%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.21%) iptables
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.21%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 421 (44.50%) Terraform
2 420 (44.40%) Kubernetes
3 202 (21.35%) Grafana
4 200 (21.14%) Ansible
5 169 (17.86%) Prometheus
6 57 (6.03%) Argo
7 28 (2.96%) Puppet
8 24 (2.54%) Istio
9 16 (1.69%) Progress Chef
10 15 (1.59%) Podman
11 14 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.16%) Check_MK
13 10 (1.06%) Kibana
14 9 (0.95%) linkerd
14 9 (0.95%) Packer
15 7 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
16 6 (0.63%) Cilium
16 6 (0.63%) Karpenter
17 4 (0.42%) Rancher
17 4 (0.42%) Suricata
Vendors
1 101 (10.68%) Oracle
2 66 (6.98%) Splunk
3 60 (6.34%) Microsoft
4 48 (5.07%) Talend
5 46 (4.86%) Google
5 46 (4.86%) Red Hat
6 38 (4.02%) Informatica
6 38 (4.02%) VMware
7 35 (3.70%) ServiceNow
8 31 (3.28%) Databricks
9 28 (2.96%) Denodo
10 24 (2.54%) Dynatrace
11 20 (2.11%) F5
11 20 (2.11%) Salesforce
12 18 (1.90%) Arista
12 18 (1.90%) Palo Alto
13 16 (1.69%) Aruba
14 12 (1.27%) Veracode
15 10 (1.06%) Tenable
16 9 (0.95%) IBM