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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 141 221
Rank change year-on-year -2 +80 -23
Contract jobs citing GitLab 891 583 469
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.90% 1.99% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.33% 14.18% 9.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 387 337
10th Percentile £380 £368 £400
25th Percentile £413 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £527 £555
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -5.05% -3.48%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £650
90th Percentile £674 £715 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -3.78% -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 3 8
10th Percentile £39.53 £64.59 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £52.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £82.96 £68.22
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +21.61% +51.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £75.21
90th Percentile £82.00 £92.59 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.25 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -27.37% +11.45% +65.42%

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 5,811 4,111 5,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.41% 14.00% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,866 2,759 3,462
10th Percentile £343 £340 £356
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £625
90th Percentile £687 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 67 192
10th Percentile £36.95 £26.92 £31.84
25th Percentile £59.19 £51.53 £46.11
Median hourly rate £66.75 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £73.19 £75.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £86.15 £84.75
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 27 April 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 April 2026.

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 27 April 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 +2 739 £500 -5.66% 194
UK excluding London +26 431 £481 -3.78% 138
London -14 321 £525 -2.78% 64
Work from Home 0 257 £463 -11.90% 165
North of England -19 167 £487 -7.24% 44
Midlands +8 95 £463 +0.54% 20
North West -7 90 £475 -5.00% 17
West Midlands +2 81 £469 -11.68% 11
South East -42 60 £550 +4.71% 33
Yorkshire -35 58 £500 -13.04% 7
South West +9 55 £510 +11.60% 20
Scotland +12 34 £405 -7.43% 4
North East -14 27 £450 -12.62% 20
East of England -16 22 £478 +6.22% 15
East Midlands -27 14 £402 +38.38% 9
Northern Ireland +4 3 - - 4
Wales -8 1 £375 -11.76% 1

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 61 (6.85%) Confluence
2 29 (3.25%) SAS
3 28 (3.14%) Apache Spark
4 27 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (2.47%) Apache
6 19 (2.13%) nginx
7 15 (1.68%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.56%) CICS
9 4 (0.45%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.34%) Camunda
10 3 (0.34%) CMS
10 3 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.11%) FileNet
Applications
1 3 (0.34%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (0.34%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 541 (60.72%) AWS
2 292 (32.77%) GitHub
3 286 (32.10%) Azure
4 196 (22.00%) GitHub Actions
5 151 (16.95%) Serverless
6 146 (16.39%) GCP
7 132 (14.81%) Amazon S3
8 127 (14.25%) AWS Lambda
9 118 (13.24%) Amazon EKS
10 103 (11.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 99 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
12 98 (11.00%) Amazon EC2
13 91 (10.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 74 (8.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 71 (7.97%) OpenShift
16 56 (6.29%) Amazon ECS
17 32 (3.59%) Azure AKS
18 30 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
19 24 (2.69%) AWS CodePipeline
20 23 (2.58%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.49%) Firewall
2 29 (3.25%) DNS
3 20 (2.24%) VPN
4 18 (2.02%) TCP/IP
5 16 (1.80%) Network Security
6 11 (1.23%) HTTP
7 10 (1.12%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.45%) BGP
8 4 (0.45%) Multicast
8 4 (0.45%) SAN
8 4 (0.45%) SSL
9 3 (0.34%) FTP
9 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.34%) NAS
9 3 (0.34%) OSPF
9 3 (0.34%) VSAN
9 3 (0.34%) WAN
10 2 (0.22%) Calico
10 2 (0.22%) DHCP
10 2 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (6.29%) MongoDB
3 49 (5.50%) NoSQL
4 45 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
5 41 (4.60%) DynamoDB
6 37 (4.15%) Relational Database
7 36 (4.04%) MySQL
8 35 (3.93%) Amazon Athena
9 30 (3.37%) Data Lake
10 28 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
10 28 (3.14%) Redis
11 27 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
12 25 (2.81%) Big Data
13 23 (2.58%) SQL Server
14 20 (2.24%) Power BI
15 17 (1.91%) Pentaho
16 12 (1.35%) Hadoop
16 12 (1.35%) Metadata
17 11 (1.23%) Delta Lake
17 11 (1.23%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 407 (45.68%) Jenkins
2 193 (21.66%) Git
3 127 (14.25%) JIRA
4 81 (9.09%) Selenium
5 67 (7.52%) JUnit
6 53 (5.95%) Cucumber
7 49 (5.50%) Postman
8 39 (4.38%) JMeter
9 38 (4.26%) REST Assured
10 36 (4.04%) Bitbucket
11 31 (3.48%) SonarQube
12 28 (3.14%) CircleCI
13 24 (2.69%) Gatling
14 22 (2.47%) Gradle
14 22 (2.47%) Mockito
15 21 (2.36%) Artifactory
16 19 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
16 19 (2.13%) WebDriver
17 15 (1.68%) Cypress.io
17 15 (1.68%) Maven
General
1 194 (21.77%) Social Skills
2 151 (16.95%) Public Sector
3 114 (12.79%) Finance
4 70 (7.86%) Banking
5 60 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.23%) Retail
8 10 (1.12%) Aerospace
8 10 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.12%) Investment Banking
8 10 (1.12%) Military
9 7 (0.79%) Law
9 7 (0.79%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.45%) Legal
12 4 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.45%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 190 (21.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 158 (17.73%) Developer
3 120 (13.47%) Senior
4 91 (10.21%) AWS Engineer
5 72 (8.08%) Data Engineer
6 70 (7.86%) AWS DevOps
7 68 (7.63%) Lead
8 61 (6.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 57 (6.40%) Software Engineer
10 52 (5.84%) Java Developer
11 48 (5.39%) Architect
12 39 (4.38%) Test Engineer
13 38 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
14 35 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
15 28 (3.14%) Senior DevOps
15 28 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 26 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
17 25 (2.81%) Tester
18 22 (2.47%) Java Engineer
19 21 (2.36%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (14.25%) Kafka
2 125 (14.03%) Spring
3 107 (12.01%) REST
4 105 (11.78%) Spring Boot
5 83 (9.32%) Node.js
6 76 (8.53%) RESTful
7 63 (7.07%) React
8 57 (6.40%) Elastic Stack
9 45 (5.05%) Playwright
10 37 (4.15%) PySpark
11 35 (3.93%) OpenTelemetry
12 31 (3.48%) LDAP
13 30 (3.37%) Jest
14 29 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
14 29 (3.25%) YAML
15 28 (3.14%) HTML
16 27 (3.03%) AngularJS
16 27 (3.03%) pytest
17 26 (2.92%) OAuth
17 26 (2.92%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 131 (14.70%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (5.95%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.02%) Data Centre
6 18 (2.02%) Public Cloud
7 12 (1.35%) Algorithms
7 12 (1.35%) Private Cloud
8 11 (1.23%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.12%) Mainframe
10 9 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
10 9 (1.01%) NHS
10 9 (1.01%) PKI
11 8 (0.90%) DataPower
11 8 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.79%) Synthetic Data
13 6 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 170 (19.08%) Linux
2 57 (6.40%) Windows
3 37 (4.15%) Unix
4 35 (3.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.23%) CentOS
6 10 (1.12%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.90%) Android
7 8 (0.90%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.90%) VMS
8 7 (0.79%) zOS
9 6 (0.67%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.34%) Debian
10 3 (0.34%) Rocky
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.11%) AIX
12 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 706 (79.24%) CI/CD
2 493 (55.33%) DevOps
3 320 (35.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 313 (35.13%) Agile
5 301 (33.78%) Containerisation
6 261 (29.29%) Test Automation
7 170 (19.08%) Microservices
8 165 (18.52%) Observability
9 142 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
10 126 (14.14%) Scrum
11 119 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 119 (13.36%) Software Engineering
12 105 (11.78%) Platform Engineering
13 86 (9.65%) Analytics
14 81 (9.09%) DevSecOps
14 81 (9.09%) ETL
15 79 (8.87%) TDD
16 73 (8.19%) AI
17 71 (7.97%) Migration
18 69 (7.74%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 356 (39.96%) Python
2 258 (28.96%) Java
3 187 (20.99%) SQL
4 141 (15.82%) Bash
5 94 (10.55%) JavaScript
6 78 (8.75%) TypeScript
7 69 (7.74%) PowerShell
8 46 (5.16%) Shell Script
9 41 (4.60%) Go
10 31 (3.48%) C#
11 19 (2.13%) Bicep
11 19 (2.13%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.80%) PL/SQL
13 15 (1.68%) Ruby
14 14 (1.57%) C++
15 11 (1.23%) Scala
16 9 (1.01%) MATLAB
17 8 (0.90%) C
17 8 (0.90%) Groovy
17 8 (0.90%) PHP
Qualifications
1 363 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 306 (34.34%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 40 (4.49%) Degree
5 37 (4.15%) AWS Certification
6 32 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.81%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.68%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.23%) CISSP
11 10 (1.12%) CISM
12 8 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.79%) OCA
14 6 (0.67%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.56%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.45%) SAFe Agilist
16 4 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (11.78%) QA
2 48 (5.39%) Accessibility
3 31 (3.48%) Data Quality
4 20 (2.24%) GDPR
5 18 (2.02%) SLA
6 16 (1.80%) NIST
7 14 (1.57%) WCAG
8 13 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.90%) NCSC
10 6 (0.67%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.56%) FATCA
12 4 (0.45%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.22%) HL7
13 2 (0.22%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
14 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.11%) GRC
14 1 (0.11%) IEC 61508
14 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
System Software
1 374 (41.98%) Docker
2 26 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.79%) HDFS
6 4 (0.45%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.34%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.22%) iptables
8 2 (0.22%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.11%) Squid
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 433 (48.60%) Kubernetes
2 382 (42.87%) Terraform
3 201 (22.56%) Grafana
4 177 (19.87%) Ansible
5 171 (19.19%) Prometheus
6 58 (6.51%) Argo
7 24 (2.69%) Puppet
8 22 (2.47%) Istio
9 16 (1.80%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.57%) Podman
11 12 (1.35%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.23%) Kibana
13 9 (1.01%) Check_MK
13 9 (1.01%) linkerd
14 8 (0.90%) Fluentd
14 8 (0.90%) Packer
15 7 (0.79%) Karpenter
15 7 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
16 6 (0.67%) Nagios
16 6 (0.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 84 (9.43%) Oracle
2 72 (8.08%) Splunk
3 66 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 42 (4.71%) Red Hat
5 40 (4.49%) Google
6 35 (3.93%) VMware
7 34 (3.82%) Databricks
8 33 (3.70%) ServiceNow
9 28 (3.14%) Informatica
10 26 (2.92%) Talend
11 20 (2.24%) Salesforce
12 19 (2.13%) Dynatrace
13 11 (1.23%) IBM
13 11 (1.23%) Veracode
14 10 (1.12%) Denodo
15 8 (0.90%) AppDynamics
15 8 (0.90%) Atlassian
15 8 (0.90%) Cribl.io
15 8 (0.90%) Tenable
16 7 (0.79%) SAP