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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 135 194
Rank change year-on-year -10 +59 +44
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,033 671 505
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.93% 2.06% 1.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.79% 13.59% 9.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 719 440 347
10th Percentile £375 £375 £358
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 £675 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 10 7
10th Percentile - £60.50 £49.60
25th Percentile £65.00 £62.69 £60.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.22
90th Percentile £95.00 £73.55 £74.66
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 6,153 4,937 5,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.48% 15.18% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,959 3,327 3,279
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £625
90th Percentile £690 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 115 180
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.65 £27.80
25th Percentile £53.00 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.70 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -1 880 £500 -3.54% 553
UK excluding London -8 497 £500 - 321
London +12 376 £513 -2.38% 295
Work from Home +9 357 £480 -8.57% 268
North of England -32 184 £475 -0.11% 95
Midlands +29 135 £471 -12.01% 30
West Midlands +31 128 £474 -13.07% 19
South East -31 81 £543 +7.11% 56
North West -33 77 £569 +21.19% 51
North East +3 76 £413 -11.29% 19
South West -17 61 £550 -8.33% 63
Yorkshire -49 42 £550 +10.00% 25
East of England -20 33 £475 - 27
Scotland -27 18 £423 +3.17% 37
East Midlands -14 7 £436 +61.48% 11
Northern Ireland 0 1 - - 10

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
1 101 (9.78%) Confluence
2 69 (6.68%) Apache Spark
3 68 (6.58%) Apache Airflow
4 54 (5.23%) Apache
5 34 (3.29%) Jupyter
6 30 (2.90%) SAS
7 11 (1.06%) Camunda
8 6 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.39%) CICS
9 4 (0.39%) CMS
9 4 (0.39%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.29%) nginx
10 3 (0.29%) 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 (0.39%) Trello
2 1 (0.097%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.097%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.097%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 692 (66.99%) AWS
2 359 (34.75%) Azure
3 355 (34.37%) GitHub
4 252 (24.39%) GitHub Actions
5 171 (16.55%) Azure DevOps
6 166 (16.07%) GCP
7 141 (13.65%) Amazon S3
8 139 (13.46%) Serverless
9 130 (12.58%) Amazon EKS
10 127 (12.29%) AWS Lambda
11 121 (11.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 96 (9.29%) Amazon EC2
13 76 (7.36%) AWS CloudFormation
14 64 (6.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 60 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
16 51 (4.94%) OpenShift
17 50 (4.84%) Amazon EMR
18 45 (4.36%) Amazon SQS
19 37 (3.58%) OCI
20 34 (3.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.74%) Firewall
2 35 (3.39%) DNS
3 31 (3.00%) Network Security
4 28 (2.71%) BGP
5 27 (2.61%) Ethernet VPN
5 27 (2.61%) VXLAN
6 23 (2.23%) TCP/IP
6 23 (2.23%) WAN
7 22 (2.13%) SD-WAN
8 21 (2.03%) OSPF
9 19 (1.84%) BIG-IP
9 19 (1.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 16 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (1.26%) VPN
12 12 (1.16%) HTTP
13 11 (1.06%) WLAN
14 10 (0.97%) SSL
15 8 (0.77%) NX-OS
16 7 (0.68%) DHCP
17 6 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (7.36%) MongoDB
3 60 (5.81%) Relational Database
4 54 (5.23%) Amazon Athena
5 49 (4.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 47 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
6 47 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
7 46 (4.45%) NoSQL
8 44 (4.26%) DynamoDB
9 36 (3.48%) SQL Server
10 35 (3.39%) Oracle Database
11 34 (3.29%) Big Data
12 32 (3.10%) Data Lake
12 32 (3.10%) Power BI
12 32 (3.10%) Redis
13 31 (3.00%) MySQL
14 30 (2.90%) Pentaho
15 28 (2.71%) RDBMS
16 15 (1.45%) Oracle Exadata
17 13 (1.26%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 423 (40.95%) Jenkins
2 240 (23.23%) Git
3 139 (13.46%) JIRA
4 86 (8.33%) Selenium
5 77 (7.45%) JUnit
6 59 (5.71%) SonarQube
7 55 (5.32%) Cucumber
8 44 (4.26%) Maven
9 39 (3.78%) Bitbucket
10 37 (3.58%) Gradle
11 34 (3.29%) Mockito
11 34 (3.29%) REST Assured
12 33 (3.19%) Gatling
12 33 (3.19%) JMeter
13 32 (3.10%) Artifactory
14 27 (2.61%) Postman
15 25 (2.42%) Sonatype Nexus
16 23 (2.23%) WebDriver
17 16 (1.55%) Cypress.io
17 16 (1.55%) Snyk
General
1 202 (19.55%) Social Skills
2 195 (18.88%) Public Sector
3 103 (9.97%) Finance
4 67 (6.49%) Banking
5 65 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (2.03%) Military
8 18 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.26%) Law
10 12 (1.16%) Legal
11 10 (0.97%) Aerospace
12 9 (0.87%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.77%) Investment Banking
14 7 (0.68%) Publishing
15 6 (0.58%) Police
16 5 (0.48%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.48%) Retail
17 4 (0.39%) Marketing
18 3 (0.29%) Local Government
18 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 231 (22.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 179 (17.33%) Developer
3 178 (17.23%) Senior
4 124 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
5 98 (9.49%) Data Engineer
6 78 (7.55%) AWS DevOps
7 73 (7.07%) Lead
8 71 (6.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 57 (5.52%) Java Developer
10 54 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (5.03%) Software Engineer
12 50 (4.84%) Platform Engineer
13 47 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 45 (4.36%) Test Engineer
15 38 (3.68%) Architect
15 38 (3.68%) Software Developer
16 32 (3.10%) Full-Stack Developer
17 30 (2.90%) Tester
18 29 (2.81%) Senior DevOps
19 28 (2.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 506 (48.98%) Terraform
2 154 (14.91%) Kafka
3 137 (13.26%) Spring
4 123 (11.91%) Spring Boot
5 119 (11.52%) REST
6 71 (6.87%) RESTful
7 69 (6.68%) React
8 62 (6.00%) Playwright
9 56 (5.42%) Node.js
10 52 (5.03%) PySpark
11 49 (4.74%) JSON
12 48 (4.65%) RabbitMQ
13 36 (3.48%) YAML
14 35 (3.39%) HTML
15 33 (3.19%) OAuth
16 32 (3.10%) CSS
17 30 (2.90%) WireMock
18 29 (2.81%) Keycloak
19 27 (2.61%) .NET
19 27 (2.61%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 203 (19.65%) Cloud Native
2 64 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (5.23%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (3.48%) Data Centre
6 32 (3.10%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.71%) Data Structures
8 24 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.65%) AI Agents
9 17 (1.65%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.45%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.26%) Mainframe
11 13 (1.26%) PKI
12 10 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (0.87%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.77%) Security Posture
15 7 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 197 (19.07%) Linux
2 50 (4.84%) Unix
3 44 (4.26%) Windows
4 38 (3.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.26%) AIX
5 13 (1.26%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.06%) CentOS
6 11 (1.06%) zOS
7 9 (0.87%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.58%) VMS
9 3 (0.29%) Debian
9 3 (0.29%) Rocky
10 2 (0.19%) Android
10 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.097%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 874 (84.61%) CI/CD
2 612 (59.24%) DevOps
3 471 (45.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 411 (39.79%) Agile
5 351 (33.98%) Containerisation
6 314 (30.40%) Test Automation
7 210 (20.33%) Microservices
8 186 (18.01%) Observability
9 167 (16.17%) Scrum
10 166 (16.07%) Software Engineering
11 156 (15.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 153 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
13 135 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
14 127 (12.29%) AI
15 114 (11.04%) DevSecOps
16 103 (9.97%) ETL
16 103 (9.97%) Migration
17 98 (9.49%) Event-Driven
18 97 (9.39%) Deployment Automation
19 96 (9.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 443 (42.88%) Python
2 255 (24.69%) Java
3 239 (23.14%) SQL
4 185 (17.91%) Bash
5 95 (9.20%) JavaScript
5 95 (9.20%) PowerShell
6 66 (6.39%) TypeScript
7 65 (6.29%) C#
8 40 (3.87%) Go
9 36 (3.48%) Shell Script
10 21 (2.03%) Bicep
10 21 (2.03%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.36%) C++
12 10 (0.97%) Groovy
12 10 (0.97%) Scala
13 9 (0.87%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.58%) R
15 5 (0.48%) Cypher
15 5 (0.48%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 504 (48.79%) Security Cleared
2 414 (40.08%) SC Cleared
3 70 (6.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 70 (6.78%) DV Cleared
4 51 (4.94%) Degree
5 48 (4.65%) AWS Certification
6 37 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (1.94%) Azure Certification
8 19 (1.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 16 (1.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (1.55%) CISSP
10 15 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (1.26%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.06%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.58%) CSSLP
16 5 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.48%) GCFA
16 5 (0.48%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (11.62%) QA
2 52 (5.03%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.36%) Data Quality
4 20 (1.94%) WCAG
5 16 (1.55%) NIST
6 11 (1.06%) GDPR
7 10 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.68%) NCSC
9 7 (0.68%) SLA
10 6 (0.58%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.48%) FATCA
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.097%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.097%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.097%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.097%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.097%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 433 (41.92%) Docker
2 25 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.13%) Active Directory
4 14 (1.36%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.48%) Squid
8 4 (0.39%) HDFS
9 3 (0.29%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.19%) iptables
10 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.097%) vSphere
11 1 (0.097%) zsh
Systems Management
1 470 (45.50%) Kubernetes
2 250 (24.20%) Ansible
3 173 (16.75%) Grafana
4 152 (14.71%) Prometheus
5 52 (5.03%) Argo
6 40 (3.87%) Puppet
7 29 (2.81%) Progress Chef
8 15 (1.45%) Istio
9 14 (1.36%) Data Guard
9 14 (1.36%) Kibana
9 14 (1.36%) Oracle RMAN
10 11 (1.06%) Packer
11 10 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.87%) Kustomize
12 9 (0.87%) Podman
13 8 (0.77%) Cilium
14 5 (0.48%) CASB
14 5 (0.48%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.39%) Control-M
Vendors
1 118 (11.42%) Oracle
2 72 (6.97%) Microsoft
3 68 (6.58%) Google
4 54 (5.23%) Splunk
5 53 (5.13%) Talend
6 50 (4.84%) Informatica
7 41 (3.97%) VMware
8 40 (3.87%) Databricks
9 34 (3.29%) Dynatrace
10 26 (2.52%) Denodo
10 26 (2.52%) Red Hat
11 25 (2.42%) ServiceNow
12 22 (2.13%) IBM
13 21 (2.03%) Palo Alto
14 20 (1.94%) F5
15 18 (1.74%) Arista
15 18 (1.74%) Aruba
15 18 (1.74%) Trend Micro
16 14 (1.36%) Veracode
17 12 (1.16%) Cisco