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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 137 191
Rank change year-on-year -8 +54 +48
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,042 669 504
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.94% 2.07% 1.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.94% 13.58% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 727 440 346
10th Percentile £379 £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 £688 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -1.00% -3.85% -3.35%
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 6,150 4,925 5,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.46% 15.24% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,968 3,320 3,250
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 £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 248 110 181
10th Percentile £35.00 £29.00 £28.00
25th Percentile £52.88 £50.25 £50.75
Median hourly rate £67.24 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.50 £71.50
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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -4 885 £500 -3.57% 564
UK excluding London -6 503 £495 -1.00% 315
London +7 376 £513 -2.38% 308
Work from Home +5 360 £483 -8.10% 277
North of England -29 183 £475 -0.11% 92
Midlands +32 137 £470 -12.54% 28
West Midlands +32 130 £471 -14.33% 17
South East -34 80 £541 +8.14% 52
North East +8 77 £413 -11.29% 13
North West -31 76 £569 +21.32% 53
South West -18 64 £550 -8.33% 63
Yorkshire -53 41 £550 +10.00% 26
East of England -16 34 £475 -2.56% 34
Scotland -24 20 £425 +3.66% 32
East Midlands -20 7 £436 +61.48% 11
Northern Ireland +1 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
1 104 (9.98%) Confluence
2 69 (6.62%) Apache Airflow
2 69 (6.62%) Apache Spark
3 54 (5.18%) Apache
4 34 (3.26%) Jupyter
5 30 (2.88%) SAS
6 12 (1.15%) Camunda
7 6 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.38%) CICS
8 4 (0.38%) CMS
8 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.29%) nginx
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.19%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.19%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere Portal
10 2 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.38%) Trello
2 1 (0.096%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.096%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.096%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 696 (66.79%) AWS
2 362 (34.74%) Azure
3 355 (34.07%) GitHub
4 253 (24.28%) GitHub Actions
5 174 (16.70%) Azure DevOps
6 165 (15.83%) GCP
7 141 (13.53%) Amazon S3
7 141 (13.53%) Serverless
8 130 (12.48%) AWS Lambda
9 128 (12.28%) Amazon EKS
10 125 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 96 (9.21%) Amazon EC2
12 76 (7.29%) AWS CloudFormation
13 63 (6.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 61 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
15 51 (4.89%) OpenShift
16 49 (4.70%) Amazon EMR
17 47 (4.51%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (3.45%) OCI
19 35 (3.36%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.70%) Firewall
2 36 (3.45%) DNS
3 31 (2.98%) Network Security
4 28 (2.69%) BGP
5 27 (2.59%) Ethernet VPN
5 27 (2.59%) VXLAN
6 23 (2.21%) TCP/IP
6 23 (2.21%) WAN
7 22 (2.11%) SD-WAN
8 21 (2.02%) OSPF
9 19 (1.82%) BIG-IP
9 19 (1.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 17 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (1.25%) VPN
12 12 (1.15%) HTTP
13 11 (1.06%) WLAN
14 10 (0.96%) SSL
15 8 (0.77%) DHCP
15 8 (0.77%) NX-OS
16 6 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (9.12%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (7.58%) MongoDB
3 58 (5.57%) Relational Database
4 53 (5.09%) Amazon Athena
5 47 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
5 47 (4.51%) Amazon Redshift
5 47 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (4.22%) NoSQL
7 43 (4.13%) DynamoDB
8 35 (3.36%) Oracle Database
8 35 (3.36%) SQL Server
9 33 (3.17%) Big Data
9 33 (3.17%) Power BI
10 32 (3.07%) Redis
11 31 (2.98%) Data Lake
11 31 (2.98%) MySQL
12 30 (2.88%) Pentaho
13 27 (2.59%) RDBMS
14 14 (1.34%) Oracle Exadata
15 13 (1.25%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 425 (40.79%) Jenkins
2 247 (23.70%) Git
3 146 (14.01%) JIRA
4 87 (8.35%) Selenium
5 81 (7.77%) JUnit
6 60 (5.76%) SonarQube
7 59 (5.66%) Cucumber
8 47 (4.51%) Maven
9 39 (3.74%) Bitbucket
10 38 (3.65%) Gradle
11 37 (3.55%) Mockito
12 35 (3.36%) JMeter
12 35 (3.36%) REST Assured
13 33 (3.17%) Gatling
14 32 (3.07%) Artifactory
15 27 (2.59%) Postman
15 27 (2.59%) Sonatype Nexus
16 23 (2.21%) WebDriver
17 16 (1.54%) Cypress.io
17 16 (1.54%) Snyk
General
1 203 (19.48%) Social Skills
2 195 (18.71%) Public Sector
3 102 (9.79%) Finance
4 66 (6.33%) Banking
5 63 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (1.92%) Military
8 17 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.25%) Law
10 11 (1.06%) Legal
11 10 (0.96%) Aerospace
11 10 (0.96%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.67%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.67%) Publishing
13 6 (0.58%) Police
14 5 (0.48%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.38%) Marketing
15 4 (0.38%) Retail
16 3 (0.29%) Back Office
16 3 (0.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 232 (22.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 182 (17.47%) Developer
3 181 (17.37%) Senior
4 126 (12.09%) AWS Engineer
5 98 (9.40%) Data Engineer
6 79 (7.58%) AWS DevOps
7 72 (6.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 72 (6.91%) Lead
8 58 (5.57%) Java Developer
9 54 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 52 (4.99%) Software Engineer
11 51 (4.89%) Platform Engineer
12 48 (4.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 45 (4.32%) Test Engineer
14 40 (3.84%) Software Developer
15 37 (3.55%) Architect
16 33 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
17 30 (2.88%) Tester
18 29 (2.78%) Senior DevOps
19 28 (2.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 505 (48.46%) Terraform
2 153 (14.68%) Kafka
3 140 (13.44%) Spring
4 126 (12.09%) Spring Boot
5 120 (11.52%) REST
6 72 (6.91%) React
6 72 (6.91%) RESTful
7 64 (6.14%) Playwright
8 55 (5.28%) Node.js
9 51 (4.89%) PySpark
10 50 (4.80%) JSON
11 49 (4.70%) RabbitMQ
12 38 (3.65%) HTML
13 36 (3.45%) YAML
14 35 (3.36%) OAuth
15 33 (3.17%) CSS
16 29 (2.78%) JPA
16 29 (2.78%) pytest
16 29 (2.78%) WireMock
17 28 (2.69%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 209 (20.06%) Cloud Native
2 62 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (5.37%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (3.45%) Data Centre
6 32 (3.07%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.78%) Data Structures
8 25 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.73%) AI Agents
10 17 (1.63%) Algorithms
10 17 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
11 14 (1.34%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.25%) Mainframe
12 13 (1.25%) PKI
13 11 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (0.86%) Private Cloud
15 9 (0.86%) Security Posture
16 7 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 200 (19.19%) Linux
2 51 (4.89%) Unix
3 45 (4.32%) Windows
4 40 (3.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.25%) Ubuntu
6 12 (1.15%) AIX
6 12 (1.15%) CentOS
7 11 (1.06%) zOS
8 10 (0.96%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.67%) VMS
10 3 (0.29%) Debian
10 3 (0.29%) 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 (0.096%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 883 (84.74%) CI/CD
2 620 (59.50%) DevOps
3 472 (45.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 419 (40.21%) Agile
5 353 (33.88%) Containerisation
6 321 (30.81%) Test Automation
7 213 (20.44%) Microservices
8 187 (17.95%) Observability
9 173 (16.60%) Software Engineering
10 171 (16.41%) Scrum
11 158 (15.16%) Platform Engineering
12 156 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 134 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
14 132 (12.67%) AI
15 115 (11.04%) DevSecOps
16 103 (9.88%) Migration
17 102 (9.79%) ETL
18 101 (9.69%) Mentoring
19 99 (9.50%) Deployment Automation
19 99 (9.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 450 (43.19%) Python
2 258 (24.76%) Java
3 237 (22.74%) SQL
4 185 (17.75%) Bash
5 99 (9.50%) JavaScript
6 92 (8.83%) PowerShell
7 66 (6.33%) C#
7 66 (6.33%) TypeScript
8 41 (3.93%) Go
9 36 (3.45%) Shell Script
10 21 (2.02%) PL/SQL
11 20 (1.92%) Bicep
12 14 (1.34%) C++
13 10 (0.96%) Groovy
14 9 (0.86%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.86%) Scala
15 6 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.58%) R
16 5 (0.48%) Cypher
16 5 (0.48%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 509 (48.85%) Security Cleared
2 416 (39.92%) SC Cleared
3 74 (7.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 73 (7.01%) DV Cleared
5 51 (4.89%) Degree
6 47 (4.51%) AWS Certification
7 37 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (1.92%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 16 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 16 (1.54%) CISSP
11 14 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (1.25%) ISTQB
13 11 (1.06%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.58%) CSSLP
17 5 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
17 5 (0.48%) GCFA
17 5 (0.48%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (11.80%) QA
2 53 (5.09%) Accessibility
3 43 (4.13%) Data Quality
4 21 (2.02%) WCAG
5 16 (1.54%) NIST
6 12 (1.15%) GDPR
7 10 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.96%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.67%) NCSC
9 7 (0.67%) 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 (0.096%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.096%) GRC
13 1 (0.096%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.096%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.096%) NIST 800
System Software
1 434 (41.65%) Docker
2 24 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.25%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.58%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.48%) Squid
7 4 (0.38%) HDFS
8 3 (0.29%) 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 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.096%) vSphere
10 1 (0.096%) zsh
Systems Management
1 480 (46.07%) Kubernetes
2 250 (23.99%) Ansible
3 173 (16.60%) Grafana
4 150 (14.40%) Prometheus
5 52 (4.99%) Argo
6 40 (3.84%) Puppet
7 29 (2.78%) Progress Chef
8 16 (1.54%) Kibana
9 14 (1.34%) Istio
10 13 (1.25%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.25%) Oracle RMAN
11 12 (1.15%) Packer
12 10 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.86%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.86%) Podman
14 8 (0.77%) Cilium
15 5 (0.48%) CASB
15 5 (0.48%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
16 4 (0.38%) Salt
Vendors
1 120 (11.52%) Oracle
2 72 (6.91%) Microsoft
3 68 (6.53%) Google
4 54 (5.18%) Talend
5 53 (5.09%) Splunk
6 50 (4.80%) Informatica
7 40 (3.84%) VMware
8 38 (3.65%) Databricks
9 35 (3.36%) Dynatrace
10 26 (2.50%) Denodo
10 26 (2.50%) Red Hat
11 24 (2.30%) ServiceNow
12 23 (2.21%) IBM
13 21 (2.02%) Palo Alto
14 20 (1.92%) F5
15 18 (1.73%) Arista
15 18 (1.73%) Aruba
15 18 (1.73%) Trend Micro
16 15 (1.44%) Veracode
17 12 (1.15%) Cisco