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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 145 212
Rank change year-on-year -2 +67 +42
Contract jobs citing GitLab 998 638 486
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.90% 1.97% 1.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.03% 13.62% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 398 336
10th Percentile £368 £357 £378
25th Percentile £422 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £650
90th Percentile £688 £661 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 10
10th Percentile £59.25 £61.60 £40.00
25th Percentile - £64.56 £58.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.38 £74.86
90th Percentile £92.50 £75.64 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.22
% change year-on-year -2.99% -9.73% +23.70%

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 6,225 4,683 5,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.83% 14.47% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,012 3,148 3,569
10th Percentile £350 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £689 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 100 251
10th Percentile £26.20 £21.93 £31.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.75 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £63.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.08% +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 10 July 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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +14 845 £500 -0.99% 182
UK excluding London +2 493 £475 -5.00% 134
London -2 352 £525 - 67
Work from Home +15 343 £475 -9.52% 94
North of England -17 197 £453 -4.74% 48
Midlands +26 137 £463 -7.50% 19
West Midlands +18 130 £463 -11.90% 12
North West -19 87 £525 +7.14% 26
North East +9 71 £406 -12.63% 12
South East -33 68 £550 +9.89% 24
Yorkshire -34 56 £540 +8.00% 10
South West -8 54 £500 -13.04% 28
East of England -21 33 £479 +6.39% 8
Scotland -16 20 £412 +2.43% 7
East Midlands -14 7 £470 +74.07% 7
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 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
1 107 (10.72%) Confluence
2 55 (5.51%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (4.91%) Apache Spark
4 43 (4.31%) SAS
5 42 (4.21%) Apache
6 29 (2.91%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.70%) CICS
8 6 (0.60%) nginx
8 6 (0.60%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.50%) Camunda
10 4 (0.40%) CMS
11 3 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
12 2 (0.20%) WordPress
13 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 657 (65.83%) AWS
2 329 (32.97%) GitHub
3 320 (32.06%) Azure
4 233 (23.35%) GitHub Actions
5 155 (15.53%) GCP
6 147 (14.73%) Amazon S3
7 146 (14.63%) Serverless
8 130 (13.03%) AWS Lambda
9 128 (12.83%) Azure DevOps
10 120 (12.02%) Amazon EKS
11 108 (10.82%) Amazon EC2
12 107 (10.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 77 (7.72%) AWS CloudFormation
14 70 (7.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 49 (4.91%) Amazon ECS
16 45 (4.51%) OpenShift
17 42 (4.21%) Amazon EMR
18 33 (3.31%) OCI
18 33 (3.31%) Power Platform
19 32 (3.21%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.11%) Firewall
2 25 (2.51%) Network Security
3 21 (2.10%) BGP
3 21 (2.10%) WAN
4 20 (2.00%) OSPF
5 19 (1.90%) BIG-IP
5 19 (1.90%) Ethernet VPN
5 19 (1.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 19 (1.90%) SD-WAN
5 19 (1.90%) VXLAN
6 18 (1.80%) DNS
7 16 (1.60%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (1.20%) VPN
10 11 (1.10%) WLAN
11 9 (0.90%) HTTP
12 7 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.40%) MQTT
13 4 (0.40%) SSL
14 3 (0.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (7.21%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (6.41%) MongoDB
3 52 (5.21%) Relational Database
4 50 (5.01%) Amazon Athena
4 50 (5.01%) Amazon Redshift
5 45 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
6 40 (4.01%) Amazon RDS
7 38 (3.81%) DynamoDB
7 38 (3.81%) NoSQL
8 31 (3.11%) Pentaho
9 30 (3.01%) Power BI
10 29 (2.91%) Oracle Database
10 29 (2.91%) SQL Server
11 27 (2.71%) Big Data
12 24 (2.40%) MySQL
13 23 (2.30%) Data Lake
14 19 (1.90%) RDBMS
15 16 (1.60%) Redis
16 14 (1.40%) Metadata
17 12 (1.20%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 429 (42.99%) Jenkins
2 215 (21.54%) Git
3 152 (15.23%) JIRA
4 89 (8.92%) Selenium
5 73 (7.31%) JUnit
6 49 (4.91%) Cucumber
7 44 (4.41%) Postman
8 41 (4.11%) SonarQube
9 39 (3.91%) JMeter
10 38 (3.81%) Bitbucket
11 37 (3.71%) REST Assured
12 36 (3.61%) Artifactory
13 34 (3.41%) Mockito
14 31 (3.11%) Gatling
14 31 (3.11%) Gradle
15 29 (2.91%) WebDriver
16 25 (2.51%) Maven
17 20 (2.00%) Snyk
18 15 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
19 14 (1.40%) Serenity BDD
General
1 193 (19.34%) Public Sector
2 191 (19.14%) Social Skills
3 99 (9.92%) Finance
4 68 (6.81%) Banking
5 59 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (1.90%) Military
8 14 (1.40%) Law
9 13 (1.30%) Legal
10 10 (1.00%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.70%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.60%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.60%) Publishing
13 5 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.50%) Police
13 5 (0.50%) Retail
14 4 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 223 (22.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 170 (17.03%) Senior
3 153 (15.33%) Developer
4 123 (12.32%) AWS Engineer
5 104 (10.42%) Data Engineer
6 83 (8.32%) AWS DevOps
7 75 (7.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 64 (6.41%) Lead
9 54 (5.41%) Java Developer
10 49 (4.91%) Platform Engineer
10 49 (4.91%) Software Engineer
11 46 (4.61%) Test Engineer
12 45 (4.51%) Cloud Engineer
13 44 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 35 (3.51%) Architect
15 33 (3.31%) Tester
16 31 (3.11%) Senior DevOps
17 30 (3.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 26 (2.61%) Full-Stack Developer
18 26 (2.61%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (12.22%) Kafka
2 118 (11.82%) Spring
3 107 (10.72%) REST
4 103 (10.32%) Spring Boot
5 82 (8.22%) RESTful
6 60 (6.01%) React
7 53 (5.31%) PySpark
8 52 (5.21%) Playwright
9 49 (4.91%) Node.js
10 38 (3.81%) Elastic Stack
11 37 (3.71%) YAML
12 35 (3.51%) JSON
13 31 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
14 27 (2.71%) AWS CDK
14 27 (2.71%) WireMock
15 26 (2.61%) pytest
16 24 (2.40%) Keycloak
16 24 (2.40%) OpenAPI
17 23 (2.30%) HTML
17 23 (2.30%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 187 (18.74%) Cloud Native
2 67 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (5.91%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 33 (3.31%) Data Centre
6 25 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
7 22 (2.20%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.50%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.40%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.10%) Private Cloud
13 10 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.00%) Mainframe
14 9 (0.90%) AI Agents
14 9 (0.90%) NHS
15 8 (0.80%) Management Information System
15 8 (0.80%) PKI
16 7 (0.70%) DataPower
16 7 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 195 (19.54%) Linux
2 50 (5.01%) Unix
3 43 (4.31%) Windows
4 40 (4.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.00%) AIX
5 10 (1.00%) CentOS
5 10 (1.00%) zOS
6 9 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.50%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.40%) Debian
8 4 (0.40%) Rocky
9 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.30%) VMS
10 2 (0.20%) Android
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 816 (81.76%) CI/CD
2 585 (58.62%) DevOps
3 405 (40.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 377 (37.78%) Agile
5 338 (33.87%) Containerisation
6 311 (31.16%) Test Automation
7 191 (19.14%) Microservices
8 160 (16.03%) Observability
9 151 (15.13%) Scrum
10 143 (14.33%) Platform Engineering
11 142 (14.23%) Software Engineering
12 139 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 132 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
14 104 (10.42%) AI
15 98 (9.82%) ETL
16 97 (9.72%) DevSecOps
17 89 (8.92%) Migration
18 85 (8.52%) Event-Driven
19 83 (8.32%) Data Modelling
20 80 (8.02%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 407 (40.78%) Python
2 238 (23.85%) Java
3 225 (22.55%) SQL
4 147 (14.73%) Bash
5 82 (8.22%) JavaScript
6 70 (7.01%) TypeScript
7 58 (5.81%) PowerShell
8 50 (5.01%) C#
9 39 (3.91%) Go
10 35 (3.51%) Shell Script
11 22 (2.20%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.00%) Bicep
13 13 (1.30%) C++
14 12 (1.20%) Scala
15 8 (0.80%) Cypher
15 8 (0.80%) Ruby
16 6 (0.60%) C
16 6 (0.60%) JCL
16 6 (0.60%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.60%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 479 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 410 (41.08%) SC Cleared
3 63 (6.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 47 (4.71%) DV Cleared
5 44 (4.41%) Degree
6 39 (3.91%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (1.40%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.10%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.90%) CISSP
14 6 (0.60%) CSSLP
15 5 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.40%) GIAC
16 4 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
17 3 (0.30%) CISM
18 2 (0.20%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (9.52%) QA
2 49 (4.91%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.51%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.20%) SLA
5 11 (1.10%) WCAG
6 9 (0.90%) NIST
7 5 (0.50%) FATCA
7 5 (0.50%) GDPR
7 5 (0.50%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.20%) NCSC
10 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.10%) GRC
11 1 (0.10%) MIL-STD-1553
11 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 408 (40.88%) Docker
2 25 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.10%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (0.60%) HDFS
7 5 (0.50%) Squid
8 4 (0.40%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.20%) iptables
10 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.10%) vSphere
11 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 472 (47.29%) Terraform
2 438 (43.89%) Kubernetes
3 207 (20.74%) Ansible
4 183 (18.34%) Grafana
5 163 (16.33%) Prometheus
6 53 (5.31%) Argo
7 34 (3.41%) Puppet
8 17 (1.70%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.40%) Istio
10 11 (1.10%) Data Guard
10 11 (1.10%) Oracle RMAN
10 11 (1.10%) Podman
11 10 (1.00%) Packer
12 9 (0.90%) Red Hat Satellite
13 8 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.70%) Kibana
15 6 (0.60%) Check_MK
15 6 (0.60%) Cilium
15 6 (0.60%) Salt
16 5 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 114 (11.42%) Oracle
2 57 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.71%) Talend
3 56 (5.61%) Informatica
4 54 (5.41%) Splunk
5 50 (5.01%) Google
6 30 (3.01%) Denodo
7 28 (2.81%) VMware
8 27 (2.71%) Databricks
8 27 (2.71%) Red Hat
9 24 (2.40%) ServiceNow
10 22 (2.20%) Dynatrace
10 22 (2.20%) F5
11 20 (2.00%) Palo Alto
11 20 (2.00%) Salesforce
12 18 (1.80%) Arista
12 18 (1.80%) Aruba
13 17 (1.70%) Trend Micro
14 14 (1.40%) IBM
14 14 (1.40%) Veracode