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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 135 185
Rank change year-on-year -5 +50 +60
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,059 695 518
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.95% 2.11% 1.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.93% 13.88% 10.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 735 463 353
10th Percentile £378 £375 £360
25th Percentile £425 £449 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £603 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £518
% change year-on-year - -3.38% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 9 6
10th Percentile - £59.75 £60.50
25th Percentile £65.00 £61.75 £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 £68.10 £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 6,256 5,009 5,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.51% 15.22% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,008 3,374 3,271
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £424
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 258 111 179
10th Percentile £25.54 £30.75 £30.20
25th Percentile £51.27 £50.50 £51.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £87.50 £71.88
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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -7 893 £500 -4.76% 476
UK excluding London -19 510 £500 - 286
London +1 382 £513 -3.30% 241
Work from Home 0 364 £487 -7.26% 937
North of England -31 180 £475 -2.56% 86
Midlands +24 135 £475 -12.04% 29
West Midlands +25 128 £475 -13.64% 25
South East -24 82 £546 +7.85% 54
North East +6 76 £413 -11.29% 21
North West -41 75 £569 +17.32% 39
South West -16 65 £550 -8.33% 48
Yorkshire -60 40 £550 +10.00% 26
East of England -16 37 £463 -5.13% 29
Scotland -26 25 £413 +0.61% 32
East Midlands -15 7 £425 +57.41% 4
Northern Ireland 0 1 - - 5
Wales -14 1 - - 6

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
1 102 (9.63%) Confluence
2 71 (6.70%) Apache Spark
3 70 (6.61%) Apache Airflow
4 55 (5.19%) Apache
5 34 (3.21%) Jupyter
6 30 (2.83%) SAS
7 12 (1.13%) Camunda
8 5 (0.47%) nginx
8 5 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.38%) CICS
9 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.19%) CMS
11 2 (0.19%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.19%) Traefik
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.094%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.094%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.094%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (0.38%) Trello
2 1 (0.094%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.094%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.094%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.094%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 698 (65.91%) AWS
2 365 (34.47%) Azure
3 355 (33.52%) GitHub
4 255 (24.08%) GitHub Actions
5 179 (16.90%) Azure DevOps
6 169 (15.96%) GCP
7 144 (13.60%) Serverless
8 142 (13.41%) Amazon S3
9 133 (12.56%) AWS Lambda
10 131 (12.37%) Amazon EKS
11 130 (12.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 101 (9.54%) Amazon EC2
13 83 (7.84%) AWS CloudFormation
14 70 (6.61%) Amazon ECS
15 68 (6.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 54 (5.10%) OpenShift
17 48 (4.53%) Amazon EMR
18 46 (4.34%) Amazon SQS
19 36 (3.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 36 (3.40%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.34%) Firewall
2 36 (3.40%) DNS
3 31 (2.93%) Network Security
4 27 (2.55%) BGP
4 27 (2.55%) Ethernet VPN
4 27 (2.55%) VXLAN
5 24 (2.27%) TCP/IP
6 22 (2.08%) WAN
7 21 (1.98%) SD-WAN
8 20 (1.89%) OSPF
8 20 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
9 19 (1.79%) BIG-IP
9 19 (1.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 12 (1.13%) VPN
11 11 (1.04%) HTTP
11 11 (1.04%) WLAN
12 9 (0.85%) SSL
13 8 (0.76%) DHCP
13 8 (0.76%) NX-OS
14 7 (0.66%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (8.12%) MongoDB
3 56 (5.29%) Relational Database
4 54 (5.10%) Amazon Athena
5 49 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
6 48 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
7 46 (4.34%) NoSQL
8 44 (4.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 42 (3.97%) DynamoDB
10 36 (3.40%) SQL Server
11 35 (3.31%) Oracle Database
12 34 (3.21%) Data Lake
13 33 (3.12%) MySQL
14 32 (3.02%) Big Data
14 32 (3.02%) Power BI
14 32 (3.02%) Redis
15 30 (2.83%) Pentaho
16 27 (2.55%) RDBMS
17 14 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
17 14 (1.32%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 431 (40.70%) Jenkins
2 254 (23.98%) Git
3 145 (13.69%) JIRA
4 83 (7.84%) Selenium
5 78 (7.37%) JUnit
6 60 (5.67%) SonarQube
7 58 (5.48%) Cucumber
8 50 (4.72%) Maven
9 39 (3.68%) Gradle
10 38 (3.59%) Mockito
11 36 (3.40%) Bitbucket
12 34 (3.21%) Gatling
12 34 (3.21%) REST Assured
13 32 (3.02%) Artifactory
14 31 (2.93%) JMeter
15 27 (2.55%) Sonatype Nexus
16 25 (2.36%) Postman
17 20 (1.89%) WebDriver
18 17 (1.61%) Cypress.io
19 16 (1.51%) Snyk
General
1 205 (19.36%) Social Skills
2 199 (18.79%) Public Sector
3 105 (9.92%) Finance
4 67 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (6.33%) Banking
5 30 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (2.17%) Military
7 16 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.32%) Law
9 13 (1.23%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.04%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.04%) Legal
11 7 (0.66%) Publishing
12 6 (0.57%) Police
13 4 (0.38%) Back Office
13 4 (0.38%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.38%) Marketing
13 4 (0.38%) Retail
14 3 (0.28%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 240 (22.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 187 (17.66%) Developer
3 184 (17.37%) Senior
4 125 (11.80%) AWS Engineer
5 95 (8.97%) Data Engineer
6 78 (7.37%) AWS DevOps
7 72 (6.80%) Lead
8 70 (6.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 60 (5.67%) Java Developer
10 55 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
11 54 (5.10%) Software Engineer
12 48 (4.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 48 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
13 47 (4.44%) Test Engineer
14 43 (4.06%) Software Developer
15 41 (3.87%) Architect
16 36 (3.40%) Full-Stack Developer
17 32 (3.02%) Senior DevOps
18 31 (2.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 29 (2.74%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 521 (49.20%) Terraform
2 159 (15.01%) Kafka
3 141 (13.31%) Spring
4 130 (12.28%) Spring Boot
5 123 (11.61%) REST
6 76 (7.18%) RESTful
7 74 (6.99%) React
8 67 (6.33%) Playwright
9 55 (5.19%) Node.js
10 51 (4.82%) RabbitMQ
11 50 (4.72%) JSON
11 50 (4.72%) PySpark
12 40 (3.78%) HTML
13 35 (3.31%) CSS
13 35 (3.31%) YAML
14 34 (3.21%) OAuth
15 31 (2.93%) JPA
16 30 (2.83%) Keycloak
16 30 (2.83%) pytest
17 28 (2.64%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 215 (20.30%) Cloud Native
2 61 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (5.48%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (3.40%) Data Centre
6 29 (2.74%) Data Structures
6 29 (2.74%) Onboarding
7 26 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (1.89%) AI Agents
9 17 (1.61%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.51%) PKI
11 15 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
11 15 (1.42%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.23%) Mainframe
13 11 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.04%) Private Cloud
14 10 (0.94%) Security Posture
15 9 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
16 7 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 207 (19.55%) Linux
2 52 (4.91%) Unix
3 45 (4.25%) Windows
4 42 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.32%) CentOS
5 14 (1.32%) Ubuntu
6 12 (1.13%) AIX
7 11 (1.04%) zOS
8 10 (0.94%) Windows Server
9 9 (0.85%) VMS
10 3 (0.28%) Debian
10 3 (0.28%) Rocky
11 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.094%) Android
12 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.094%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.094%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 897 (84.70%) CI/CD
2 640 (60.43%) DevOps
3 490 (46.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 427 (40.32%) Agile
5 360 (33.99%) Containerisation
6 325 (30.69%) Test Automation
7 214 (20.21%) Microservices
8 191 (18.04%) Observability
9 178 (16.81%) Scrum
10 176 (16.62%) Software Engineering
11 160 (15.11%) Platform Engineering
12 156 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 141 (13.31%) AI
14 140 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
15 114 (10.76%) DevSecOps
16 106 (10.01%) Mentoring
17 104 (9.82%) Event-Driven
17 104 (9.82%) Migration
18 102 (9.63%) ETL
19 101 (9.54%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 462 (43.63%) Python
2 264 (24.93%) Java
3 241 (22.76%) SQL
4 187 (17.66%) Bash
5 99 (9.35%) JavaScript
6 93 (8.78%) PowerShell
7 67 (6.33%) C#
8 65 (6.14%) TypeScript
9 45 (4.25%) Go
10 37 (3.49%) Shell Script
11 22 (2.08%) Bicep
12 21 (1.98%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.32%) C++
14 11 (1.04%) Groovy
15 10 (0.94%) Scala
16 9 (0.85%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.57%) R
18 5 (0.47%) Cypher
18 5 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 520 (49.10%) Security Cleared
2 420 (39.66%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.37%) DV Cleared
4 77 (7.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 52 (4.91%) Degree
6 48 (4.53%) AWS Certification
7 39 (3.68%) 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 13 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (1.23%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.57%) CSSLP
16 5 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.47%) GCFA
16 5 (0.47%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (12.09%) QA
2 55 (5.19%) Accessibility
3 44 (4.15%) Data Quality
4 21 (1.98%) WCAG
5 16 (1.51%) NIST
6 13 (1.23%) GDPR
7 12 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.94%) NCSC
9 9 (0.85%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.66%) SLA
12 6 (0.57%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.47%) FATCA
14 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.094%) Disclosure Scotland
15 1 (0.094%) JSP 440
15 1 (0.094%) MIL-STD-1553
15 1 (0.094%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.094%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 441 (41.64%) Docker
2 24 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.27%) 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%) Firmware
10 1 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.094%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 488 (46.08%) Kubernetes
2 255 (24.08%) Ansible
3 177 (16.71%) Grafana
4 153 (14.45%) Prometheus
5 51 (4.82%) Argo
6 42 (3.97%) Puppet
7 31 (2.93%) Progress Chef
8 17 (1.61%) Kibana
9 15 (1.42%) Istio
10 14 (1.32%) Packer
11 13 (1.23%) Data Guard
11 13 (1.23%) Oracle RMAN
12 10 (0.94%) Podman
12 10 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.85%) Cilium
13 9 (0.85%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.47%) CASB
14 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.38%) HP Fortify
15 4 (0.38%) Salt
Vendors
1 121 (11.43%) Oracle
2 71 (6.70%) Google
2 71 (6.70%) Microsoft
3 55 (5.19%) Splunk
4 54 (5.10%) Talend
5 50 (4.72%) Informatica
6 43 (4.06%) VMware
7 40 (3.78%) Databricks
8 36 (3.40%) Dynatrace
9 26 (2.46%) Denodo
9 26 (2.46%) Red Hat
10 23 (2.17%) IBM
11 22 (2.08%) 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 14 (1.32%) Veracode
16 12 (1.13%) Cisco