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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 139 172
Rank change year-on-year 0 +33 +74
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,108 703 548
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.02% 2.13% 1.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.49% 13.96% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 780 472 375
10th Percentile £375 £375 £356
25th Percentile £425 £449 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% -1.09%
75th Percentile £594 £603 £650
90th Percentile £688 £692 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £514
% change year-on-year - -2.68% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 9 7
10th Percentile - £59.75 £70.40
25th Percentile £65.00 £61.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.72
90th Percentile £95.00 £68.10 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.22 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +1.81% -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 6,334 5,035 5,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.54% 15.26% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,048 3,387 3,232
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
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 262 111 176
10th Percentile £22.81 £29.00 £28.62
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £73.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 0 932 £500 -4.76% 713
UK excluding London -10 541 £500 - 428
London +11 389 £521 -3.02% 333
Work from Home +7 382 £492 -7.17% 331
North of England -32 187 £475 -2.56% 128
Midlands +41 152 £471 -12.74% 51
West Midlands +45 143 £475 -13.64% 43
South East -35 83 £550 +9.89% 64
North East -3 79 £413 -17.50% 27
North West -35 79 £550 +19.63% 79
South West -7 64 £550 -8.33% 86
East of England -23 41 £450 -7.69% 36
Yorkshire -57 40 £550 +10.00% 22
Scotland -27 27 £424 -3.91% 38
East Midlands -8 9 £405 +50.00% 8
Wales -14 2 - - 8
Northern Ireland -1 1 - - 18

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
1 105 (9.48%) Confluence
2 79 (7.13%) Apache Spark
3 74 (6.68%) Apache Airflow
4 59 (5.32%) Apache
5 35 (3.16%) Jupyter
6 30 (2.71%) SAS
7 13 (1.17%) Camunda
8 8 (0.72%) nginx
9 5 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.36%) CICS
11 3 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.18%) CMS
12 2 (0.18%) PowerExchange
12 2 (0.18%) Traefik
12 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.090%) Appian
13 1 (0.090%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.090%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.090%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Trello
2 1 (0.090%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.090%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.090%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.090%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 734 (66.25%) AWS
2 370 (33.39%) Azure
3 355 (32.04%) GitHub
4 244 (22.02%) GitHub Actions
5 174 (15.70%) Azure DevOps
6 171 (15.43%) GCP
7 149 (13.45%) Amazon S3
8 145 (13.09%) Serverless
9 140 (12.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 135 (12.18%) Amazon EKS
11 134 (12.09%) AWS Lambda
12 107 (9.66%) Amazon EC2
13 80 (7.22%) AWS CloudFormation
14 74 (6.68%) Amazon ECS
15 68 (6.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 59 (5.32%) OpenShift
17 54 (4.87%) Amazon EMR
18 53 (4.78%) Amazon SQS
19 38 (3.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 36 (3.25%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.24%) Firewall
2 39 (3.52%) DNS
3 30 (2.71%) BGP
3 30 (2.71%) Ethernet VPN
3 30 (2.71%) Network Security
3 30 (2.71%) VXLAN
4 26 (2.35%) TCP/IP
4 26 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
5 22 (1.99%) WAN
6 21 (1.90%) SD-WAN
7 20 (1.81%) OSPF
8 19 (1.71%) BIG-IP
8 19 (1.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 14 (1.26%) VPN
10 12 (1.08%) 5G
11 11 (0.99%) 4G
11 11 (0.99%) HTTP
11 11 (0.99%) IPv4
11 11 (0.99%) NX-OS
11 11 (0.99%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (9.12%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (8.84%) MongoDB
3 57 (5.14%) Amazon Athena
4 55 (4.96%) Relational Database
5 53 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
6 51 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
7 48 (4.33%) NoSQL
8 45 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 43 (3.88%) Data Lake
10 42 (3.79%) DynamoDB
11 39 (3.52%) SQL Server
12 36 (3.25%) Oracle Database
12 36 (3.25%) Redis
13 35 (3.16%) MySQL
14 34 (3.07%) Power BI
15 31 (2.80%) Big Data
16 30 (2.71%) Pentaho
17 27 (2.44%) RDBMS
18 16 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
19 15 (1.35%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 431 (38.90%) Jenkins
2 282 (25.45%) Git
3 151 (13.63%) JIRA
4 94 (8.48%) Selenium
5 92 (8.30%) JUnit
6 69 (6.23%) Cucumber
7 67 (6.05%) SonarQube
8 58 (5.23%) Maven
9 45 (4.06%) Gatling
10 44 (3.97%) Mockito
11 41 (3.70%) Gradle
12 36 (3.25%) Bitbucket
13 34 (3.07%) REST Assured
14 31 (2.80%) Artifactory
15 30 (2.71%) JMeter
15 30 (2.71%) Sonatype Nexus
16 24 (2.17%) Postman
17 18 (1.62%) WebDriver
18 17 (1.53%) Cypress.io
19 16 (1.44%) Snyk
General
1 218 (19.68%) Social Skills
2 212 (19.13%) Public Sector
3 109 (9.84%) Finance
4 73 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (6.32%) Banking
6 34 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (2.08%) Military
7 23 (2.08%) Telecoms
8 16 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.17%) Law
10 11 (0.99%) Aerospace
10 11 (0.99%) Legal
11 8 (0.72%) Publishing
12 7 (0.63%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.54%) Back Office
14 5 (0.45%) Police
15 4 (0.36%) Local Government
15 4 (0.36%) Retail
16 3 (0.27%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 247 (22.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 198 (17.87%) Developer
3 186 (16.79%) Senior
4 128 (11.55%) AWS Engineer
5 96 (8.66%) Data Engineer
6 81 (7.31%) AWS DevOps
7 74 (6.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 71 (6.41%) Lead
9 62 (5.60%) Java Developer
10 54 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (4.69%) Software Engineer
12 51 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 51 (4.60%) Test Engineer
13 50 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
14 49 (4.42%) Architect
15 48 (4.33%) Software Developer
16 38 (3.43%) Full-Stack Developer
17 34 (3.07%) Java Engineer
18 32 (2.89%) Senior DevOps
19 31 (2.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 541 (48.83%) Terraform
2 166 (14.98%) Kafka
3 153 (13.81%) Spring
4 135 (12.18%) Spring Boot
5 131 (11.82%) REST
6 80 (7.22%) Playwright
6 80 (7.22%) React
7 77 (6.95%) RESTful
8 57 (5.14%) JSON
9 56 (5.05%) Node.js
10 55 (4.96%) RabbitMQ
11 51 (4.60%) PySpark
12 42 (3.79%) HTML
13 38 (3.43%) JPA
14 37 (3.34%) CSS
15 36 (3.25%) OAuth
15 36 (3.25%) OpenAPI
16 33 (2.98%) YAML
17 31 (2.80%) .NET
17 31 (2.80%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 222 (20.04%) Cloud Native
2 58 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (4.87%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.52%) Data Centre
5 36 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 34 (3.07%) Data Structures
7 32 (2.89%) Onboarding
8 30 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.81%) AI Agents
10 17 (1.53%) Algorithms
10 17 (1.53%) PKI
11 15 (1.35%) Public Cloud
12 14 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
12 14 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.17%) Mainframe
14 12 (1.08%) Private Cloud
15 11 (0.99%) Replication
16 10 (0.90%) Security Posture
17 9 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
18 8 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 225 (20.31%) Linux
2 52 (4.69%) Unix
3 51 (4.60%) Windows
4 44 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.62%) CentOS
6 15 (1.35%) Ubuntu
7 13 (1.17%) VMS
8 12 (1.08%) AIX
9 11 (0.99%) zOS
10 10 (0.90%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.18%) Debian
11 2 (0.18%) Rocky
11 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.090%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.090%) Android
12 1 (0.090%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 932 (84.12%) CI/CD
2 648 (58.48%) DevOps
3 510 (46.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 450 (40.61%) Agile
5 378 (34.12%) Containerisation
6 346 (31.23%) Test Automation
7 225 (20.31%) Microservices
8 205 (18.50%) Observability
9 195 (17.60%) Scrum
10 180 (16.25%) Software Engineering
11 166 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 159 (14.35%) Platform Engineering
13 151 (13.63%) AI
14 145 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
15 117 (10.56%) Mentoring
16 114 (10.29%) Deployment Automation
16 114 (10.29%) Migration
17 111 (10.02%) DevSecOps
18 109 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
19 108 (9.75%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 481 (43.41%) Python
2 283 (25.54%) Java
3 255 (23.01%) SQL
4 189 (17.06%) Bash
5 106 (9.57%) JavaScript
6 88 (7.94%) PowerShell
7 69 (6.23%) C#
8 66 (5.96%) TypeScript
9 47 (4.24%) Go
10 45 (4.06%) Shell Script
11 21 (1.90%) PL/SQL
12 19 (1.71%) Bicep
13 15 (1.35%) C++
14 14 (1.26%) Groovy
14 14 (1.26%) Scala
15 9 (0.81%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.63%) R
17 6 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.45%) Cypher
18 5 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 527 (47.56%) Security Cleared
2 422 (38.09%) SC Cleared
3 98 (8.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 82 (7.40%) DV Cleared
5 53 (4.78%) AWS Certification
5 53 (4.78%) Degree
6 39 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 16 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (1.44%) CISSP
8 15 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 15 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 13 (1.17%) ISTQB
10 9 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.72%) SAFe Agilist
12 7 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.45%) GCFA
14 5 (0.45%) GCIH
15 4 (0.36%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (13.00%) QA
2 64 (5.78%) Accessibility
3 44 (3.97%) Data Quality
4 30 (2.71%) WCAG
5 19 (1.71%) NIST
6 15 (1.35%) GDPR
7 14 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.99%) NCSC
9 10 (0.90%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.72%) SLA
11 6 (0.54%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.45%) FATCA
13 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.090%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.090%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.090%) MIL-STD-1553
14 1 (0.090%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.090%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 469 (42.33%) Docker
2 27 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (2.26%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.17%) Oracle RAC
5 11 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.81%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.45%) HDFS
7 5 (0.45%) Squid
8 3 (0.27%) Firmware
8 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.27%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.18%) iptables
9 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.090%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 507 (45.76%) Kubernetes
2 261 (23.56%) Ansible
3 184 (16.61%) Grafana
4 160 (14.44%) Prometheus
5 51 (4.60%) Argo
6 39 (3.52%) Puppet
7 29 (2.62%) Kibana
8 27 (2.44%) Progress Chef
9 16 (1.44%) Istio
10 14 (1.26%) Packer
11 13 (1.17%) Data Guard
11 13 (1.17%) Oracle RMAN
12 11 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
13 10 (0.90%) Podman
14 9 (0.81%) Cilium
14 9 (0.81%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.45%) CASB
15 5 (0.45%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
16 4 (0.36%) Salt
Vendors
1 126 (11.37%) Oracle
2 76 (6.86%) Google
3 72 (6.50%) Microsoft
4 60 (5.42%) Splunk
5 55 (4.96%) Talend
6 47 (4.24%) Informatica
6 47 (4.24%) VMware
7 40 (3.61%) Dynatrace
8 33 (2.98%) Databricks
9 27 (2.44%) ServiceNow
10 26 (2.35%) Denodo
10 26 (2.35%) Red Hat
11 24 (2.17%) IBM
12 21 (1.90%) Palo Alto
13 20 (1.81%) F5
14 18 (1.62%) Arista
14 18 (1.62%) Aruba
14 18 (1.62%) Trend Micro
15 15 (1.35%) Cisco
16 14 (1.26%) Veracode