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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 131 184
Rank change year-on-year -13 +53 +58
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,060 693 509
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.95% 2.10% 1.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.98% 13.81% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 733 459 348
10th Percentile £381 £375 £359
25th Percentile £425 £440 £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 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -1.00% -3.85% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 10 6
10th Percentile - £60.50 £60.50
25th Percentile £65.00 £62.69 £67.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £73.55 £74.72
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 6,243 5,018 5,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.46% 15.21% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,009 3,389 3,252
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 111 178
10th Percentile £34.59 £30.75 £27.40
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.50 £50.81
Median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.70 £87.50 £71.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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 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 10 September 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 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 -3 896 £500 -3.85% 358
UK excluding London -16 508 £495 -1.00% 226
London +10 384 £513 -3.21% 178
Work from Home +4 364 £486 -7.44% 188
North of England -32 182 £473 -0.74% 67
Midlands +20 137 £470 -12.99% 27
West Midlands +27 129 £473 -14.09% 22
South East -29 81 £541 +6.86% 39
North East +6 76 £413 -11.29% 15
North West -40 76 £569 +21.32% 29
South West -17 65 £550 -8.33% 44
Yorkshire -62 41 £550 +10.00% 23
East of England -25 35 £475 -2.56% 21
Scotland -42 23 £438 +6.71% 23
East Midlands -15 8 £436 +61.48% 5
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
1 105 (9.91%) Confluence
2 70 (6.60%) Apache Spark
3 68 (6.42%) Apache Airflow
4 54 (5.09%) Apache
5 34 (3.21%) Jupyter
6 30 (2.83%) SAS
7 12 (1.13%) Camunda
8 6 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.38%) CICS
9 4 (0.38%) CMS
9 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.28%) nginx
10 3 (0.28%) 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 (0.38%) Trello
2 1 (0.094%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.094%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.094%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.094%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.094%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 704 (66.42%) AWS
2 368 (34.72%) Azure
3 364 (34.34%) GitHub
4 257 (24.25%) GitHub Actions
5 177 (16.70%) Azure DevOps
6 169 (15.94%) GCP
7 143 (13.49%) Serverless
8 142 (13.40%) Amazon S3
9 132 (12.45%) AWS Lambda
10 131 (12.36%) Amazon EKS
11 127 (11.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 99 (9.34%) Amazon EC2
13 75 (7.08%) AWS CloudFormation
14 64 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
15 63 (5.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 50 (4.72%) OpenShift
17 49 (4.62%) Amazon EMR
18 48 (4.53%) Amazon SQS
19 36 (3.40%) OCI
20 35 (3.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.53%) Firewall
2 36 (3.40%) DNS
3 31 (2.92%) Network Security
4 27 (2.55%) BGP
4 27 (2.55%) Ethernet VPN
4 27 (2.55%) VXLAN
5 23 (2.17%) TCP/IP
6 22 (2.08%) WAN
7 21 (1.98%) SD-WAN
8 20 (1.89%) OSPF
9 19 (1.79%) BIG-IP
9 19 (1.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 17 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (1.23%) VPN
12 12 (1.13%) HTTP
13 11 (1.04%) WLAN
14 10 (0.94%) SSL
15 8 (0.75%) DHCP
15 8 (0.75%) NX-OS
16 6 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (8.02%) MongoDB
3 58 (5.47%) Relational Database
4 53 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
5 50 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
6 48 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (4.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 47 (4.43%) NoSQL
8 44 (4.15%) DynamoDB
9 38 (3.58%) SQL Server
10 35 (3.30%) Oracle Database
11 34 (3.21%) Big Data
12 33 (3.11%) Data Lake
12 33 (3.11%) MySQL
12 33 (3.11%) Power BI
13 32 (3.02%) Redis
14 30 (2.83%) Pentaho
15 27 (2.55%) RDBMS
16 14 (1.32%) Apache Hive
16 14 (1.32%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 431 (40.66%) Jenkins
2 251 (23.68%) Git
3 146 (13.77%) JIRA
4 86 (8.11%) Selenium
5 81 (7.64%) JUnit
6 60 (5.66%) Cucumber
6 60 (5.66%) SonarQube
7 49 (4.62%) Maven
8 39 (3.68%) Bitbucket
8 39 (3.68%) Gradle
9 38 (3.58%) Mockito
10 35 (3.30%) REST Assured
11 34 (3.21%) Gatling
11 34 (3.21%) JMeter
12 32 (3.02%) Artifactory
13 27 (2.55%) Postman
13 27 (2.55%) Sonatype Nexus
14 22 (2.08%) WebDriver
15 16 (1.51%) Cypress.io
15 16 (1.51%) Snyk
General
1 208 (19.62%) Social Skills
2 199 (18.77%) Public Sector
3 107 (10.09%) Finance
4 70 (6.60%) Banking
5 64 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (2.08%) Military
8 17 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.23%) Law
10 11 (1.04%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.04%) Legal
11 10 (0.94%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.66%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.66%) Publishing
13 6 (0.57%) Police
14 5 (0.47%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.38%) Back Office
15 4 (0.38%) Marketing
15 4 (0.38%) Retail
16 3 (0.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 237 (22.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 190 (17.92%) Developer
3 186 (17.55%) Senior
4 128 (12.08%) AWS Engineer
5 98 (9.25%) Data Engineer
6 79 (7.45%) AWS DevOps
7 73 (6.89%) Lead
8 72 (6.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 61 (5.75%) Java Developer
10 56 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (5.00%) Software Engineer
12 51 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
13 48 (4.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 47 (4.43%) Test Engineer
15 42 (3.96%) Software Developer
16 38 (3.58%) Architect
17 36 (3.40%) Full-Stack Developer
18 30 (2.83%) Azure Engineer
18 30 (2.83%) Senior DevOps
19 29 (2.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 516 (48.68%) Terraform
2 160 (15.09%) Kafka
3 144 (13.58%) Spring
4 131 (12.36%) Spring Boot
5 125 (11.79%) REST
6 75 (7.08%) React
6 75 (7.08%) RESTful
7 66 (6.23%) Playwright
8 56 (5.28%) Node.js
9 53 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
10 50 (4.72%) JSON
10 50 (4.72%) PySpark
11 41 (3.87%) HTML
12 37 (3.49%) YAML
13 36 (3.40%) CSS
14 35 (3.30%) OAuth
15 31 (2.92%) pytest
16 30 (2.83%) JPA
17 29 (2.74%) Keycloak
18 28 (2.64%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 216 (20.38%) Cloud Native
2 64 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (5.57%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (3.40%) Data Centre
6 32 (3.02%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.74%) Data Structures
8 26 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.89%) AI Agents
10 17 (1.60%) Algorithms
10 17 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
11 15 (1.42%) PKI
12 14 (1.32%) Public Cloud
13 13 (1.23%) Mainframe
14 11 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (0.94%) Security Posture
16 9 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (0.85%) Private Cloud
17 7 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 203 (19.15%) Linux
2 52 (4.91%) Unix
3 46 (4.34%) Windows
4 40 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.23%) Ubuntu
6 12 (1.13%) AIX
6 12 (1.13%) CentOS
7 11 (1.04%) zOS
8 10 (0.94%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.66%) VMS
10 3 (0.28%) Debian
10 3 (0.28%) Rocky
11 2 (0.19%) Android
11 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 900 (84.91%) CI/CD
2 635 (59.91%) DevOps
3 481 (45.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 428 (40.38%) Agile
5 358 (33.77%) Containerisation
6 327 (30.85%) Test Automation
7 217 (20.47%) Microservices
8 191 (18.02%) Observability
9 178 (16.79%) Software Engineering
10 177 (16.70%) Scrum
11 162 (15.28%) Platform Engineering
12 159 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 139 (13.11%) AI
14 135 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
15 115 (10.85%) DevSecOps
16 105 (9.91%) Mentoring
17 104 (9.81%) Event-Driven
17 104 (9.81%) Migration
18 103 (9.72%) ETL
19 101 (9.53%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 458 (43.21%) Python
2 264 (24.91%) Java
3 240 (22.64%) SQL
4 187 (17.64%) Bash
5 102 (9.62%) JavaScript
6 94 (8.87%) PowerShell
7 69 (6.51%) TypeScript
8 67 (6.32%) C#
9 43 (4.06%) Go
10 36 (3.40%) Shell Script
11 21 (1.98%) PL/SQL
12 20 (1.89%) Bicep
13 14 (1.32%) C++
14 10 (0.94%) Groovy
14 10 (0.94%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.94%) Scala
15 6 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.57%) R
16 5 (0.47%) Cypher
16 5 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 518 (48.87%) Security Cleared
2 422 (39.81%) SC Cleared
3 76 (7.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 75 (7.08%) DV Cleared
5 54 (5.09%) Degree
6 47 (4.43%) AWS Certification
7 40 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (1.89%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 16 (1.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 16 (1.51%) CISSP
11 14 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (1.23%) ISTQB
13 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.57%) CSSLP
17 5 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
17 5 (0.47%) GCFA
17 5 (0.47%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (11.98%) QA
2 54 (5.09%) Accessibility
3 43 (4.06%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.08%) WCAG
5 16 (1.51%) NIST
6 12 (1.13%) GDPR
7 10 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.94%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.66%) NCSC
9 7 (0.66%) SLA
10 6 (0.57%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.47%) FATCA
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.094%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.094%) GRC
13 1 (0.094%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.094%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.094%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 441 (41.60%) Docker
2 24 (2.26%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.47%) Squid
7 4 (0.38%) HDFS
8 3 (0.28%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.19%) iptables
9 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.094%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 487 (45.94%) Kubernetes
2 253 (23.87%) Ansible
3 175 (16.51%) Grafana
4 151 (14.25%) Prometheus
5 51 (4.81%) Argo
6 40 (3.77%) Puppet
7 29 (2.74%) Progress Chef
8 16 (1.51%) Kibana
9 14 (1.32%) Istio
10 13 (1.23%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.23%) Oracle RMAN
11 12 (1.13%) Packer
12 10 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.85%) Cilium
13 9 (0.85%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.85%) Podman
14 5 (0.47%) CASB
14 5 (0.47%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.38%) Salt
Vendors
1 122 (11.51%) Oracle
2 72 (6.79%) Microsoft
3 70 (6.60%) Google
4 54 (5.09%) Talend
5 53 (5.00%) Splunk
6 50 (4.72%) Informatica
7 41 (3.87%) VMware
8 40 (3.77%) Databricks
9 35 (3.30%) Dynatrace
10 26 (2.45%) Denodo
10 26 (2.45%) Red Hat
11 24 (2.26%) IBM
11 24 (2.26%) ServiceNow
12 21 (1.98%) Palo Alto
13 20 (1.89%) F5
14 18 (1.70%) Arista
14 18 (1.70%) Aruba
14 18 (1.70%) Trend Micro
15 15 (1.42%) Veracode
16 12 (1.13%) Cisco