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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 137 191
Rank change year-on-year -4 +54 +48
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,048 676 501
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.94% 2.08% 1.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.95% 13.67% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 728 443 344
10th Percentile £380 £375 £357
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 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -1.00% -3.85% -3.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 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 £79.69 - £74.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £73.55 £74.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.11 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +3.15% -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 6,183 4,945 5,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.46% 15.20% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,984 3,329 3,246
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 250 110 179
10th Percentile £35.00 £29.00 £27.60
25th Percentile £53.00 £50.25 £50.88
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 £87.50 £71.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - -

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -8 891 £500 -3.57% 437
UK excluding London -6 506 £495 -1.00% 256
London +5 379 £513 -2.84% 233
Work from Home +8 361 £483 -8.10% 204
North of England -32 184 £475 - 70
Midlands +25 137 £470 -12.78% 25
West Midlands +27 130 £471 -14.33% 17
South East -30 82 £540 +7.89% 43
North East +7 77 £413 -11.29% 12
North West -41 77 £569 +21.32% 37
South West -12 64 £550 -8.33% 51
Yorkshire -57 41 £550 +10.00% 21
East of England -20 34 £475 -2.56% 28
Scotland -35 20 £425 +3.66% 28
East Midlands -17 7 £436 +61.48% 8
Northern Ireland +1 1 - - 8

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 (10.02%) Confluence
2 70 (6.68%) Apache Spark
3 69 (6.58%) Apache Airflow
4 54 (5.15%) Apache
5 34 (3.24%) Jupyter
6 30 (2.86%) SAS
7 12 (1.15%) Camunda
8 6 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.38%) CICS
9 4 (0.38%) CMS
9 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.29%) 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 (0.38%) Trello
2 1 (0.095%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.095%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.095%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.095%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.095%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 699 (66.70%) AWS
2 364 (34.73%) Azure
3 358 (34.16%) GitHub
4 253 (24.14%) GitHub Actions
5 175 (16.70%) Azure DevOps
6 166 (15.84%) GCP
7 142 (13.55%) Serverless
8 141 (13.45%) Amazon S3
9 131 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
10 128 (12.21%) Amazon EKS
11 126 (12.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 97 (9.26%) Amazon EC2
13 76 (7.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 63 (6.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 62 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
16 51 (4.87%) OpenShift
17 49 (4.68%) Amazon EMR
18 47 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
19 36 (3.44%) OCI
20 35 (3.34%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.68%) Firewall
2 36 (3.44%) DNS
3 31 (2.96%) Network Security
4 28 (2.67%) BGP
5 27 (2.58%) Ethernet VPN
5 27 (2.58%) VXLAN
6 23 (2.19%) TCP/IP
6 23 (2.19%) WAN
7 22 (2.10%) SD-WAN
8 21 (2.00%) OSPF
9 19 (1.81%) BIG-IP
9 19 (1.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 17 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (1.24%) VPN
12 12 (1.15%) HTTP
13 11 (1.05%) WLAN
14 10 (0.95%) SSL
15 8 (0.76%) DHCP
15 8 (0.76%) NX-OS
16 6 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (7.63%) MongoDB
3 58 (5.53%) Relational Database
4 53 (5.06%) Amazon Athena
5 48 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
6 47 (4.48%) Amazon Redshift
6 47 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (4.20%) DynamoDB
7 44 (4.20%) NoSQL
8 36 (3.44%) SQL Server
9 35 (3.34%) Oracle Database
10 34 (3.24%) Big Data
11 33 (3.15%) Power BI
12 32 (3.05%) MySQL
12 32 (3.05%) Redis
13 31 (2.96%) Data Lake
14 30 (2.86%) Pentaho
15 27 (2.58%) RDBMS
16 14 (1.34%) Apache Hive
16 14 (1.34%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 427 (40.74%) Jenkins
2 250 (23.85%) Git
3 147 (14.03%) JIRA
4 87 (8.30%) Selenium
5 81 (7.73%) JUnit
6 60 (5.73%) SonarQube
7 59 (5.63%) Cucumber
8 48 (4.58%) Maven
9 39 (3.72%) Bitbucket
10 38 (3.63%) Gradle
11 37 (3.53%) Mockito
12 35 (3.34%) JMeter
12 35 (3.34%) REST Assured
13 33 (3.15%) Gatling
14 32 (3.05%) Artifactory
15 28 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
16 27 (2.58%) Postman
17 23 (2.19%) WebDriver
18 16 (1.53%) Cypress.io
18 16 (1.53%) Snyk
General
1 204 (19.47%) Social Skills
2 196 (18.70%) Public Sector
3 103 (9.83%) Finance
4 67 (6.39%) Banking
5 64 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (2.00%) Military
8 17 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.24%) Law
10 11 (1.05%) Legal
11 10 (0.95%) Aerospace
11 10 (0.95%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.67%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.67%) Publishing
13 6 (0.57%) Police
14 5 (0.48%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.38%) Marketing
15 4 (0.38%) Retail
16 3 (0.29%) Local Government
16 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 234 (22.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 184 (17.56%) Developer
3 182 (17.37%) Senior
4 128 (12.21%) AWS Engineer
5 98 (9.35%) Data Engineer
6 80 (7.63%) AWS DevOps
7 73 (6.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 72 (6.87%) Lead
9 58 (5.53%) Java Developer
10 55 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (4.96%) Software Engineer
12 51 (4.87%) Platform Engineer
13 48 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 45 (4.29%) Test Engineer
15 40 (3.82%) Software Developer
16 38 (3.63%) Architect
17 34 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
18 30 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
18 30 (2.86%) Tester
19 29 (2.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 509 (48.57%) Terraform
2 154 (14.69%) Kafka
3 140 (13.36%) Spring
4 126 (12.02%) Spring Boot
5 122 (11.64%) REST
6 74 (7.06%) React
7 73 (6.97%) RESTful
8 64 (6.11%) Playwright
9 55 (5.25%) Node.js
10 51 (4.87%) PySpark
11 50 (4.77%) JSON
11 50 (4.77%) RabbitMQ
12 40 (3.82%) HTML
13 36 (3.44%) YAML
14 35 (3.34%) CSS
14 35 (3.34%) OAuth
15 30 (2.86%) pytest
16 29 (2.77%) JPA
16 29 (2.77%) WireMock
17 28 (2.67%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 210 (20.04%) Cloud Native
2 62 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (5.53%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (3.44%) Data Centre
6 32 (3.05%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.77%) Data Structures
8 25 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.72%) AI Agents
10 17 (1.62%) Algorithms
10 17 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
11 14 (1.34%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.24%) Mainframe
12 13 (1.24%) PKI
13 11 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (0.95%) 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 (19.08%) Linux
2 51 (4.87%) Unix
3 45 (4.29%) Windows
4 40 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.24%) Ubuntu
6 12 (1.15%) AIX
6 12 (1.15%) CentOS
7 11 (1.05%) zOS
8 10 (0.95%) 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 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 889 (84.83%) CI/CD
2 626 (59.73%) DevOps
3 476 (45.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 422 (40.27%) Agile
5 354 (33.78%) Containerisation
6 321 (30.63%) Test Automation
7 214 (20.42%) Microservices
8 187 (17.84%) Observability
9 174 (16.60%) Software Engineering
10 173 (16.51%) Scrum
11 158 (15.08%) Platform Engineering
12 157 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 136 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
14 132 (12.60%) AI
15 115 (10.97%) DevSecOps
16 104 (9.92%) Migration
17 102 (9.73%) ETL
18 101 (9.64%) Mentoring
19 100 (9.54%) Deployment Automation
19 100 (9.54%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 452 (43.13%) Python
2 258 (24.62%) Java
3 238 (22.71%) SQL
4 185 (17.65%) Bash
5 101 (9.64%) JavaScript
6 93 (8.87%) PowerShell
7 68 (6.49%) TypeScript
8 66 (6.30%) C#
9 41 (3.91%) Go
10 36 (3.44%) Shell Script
11 21 (2.00%) PL/SQL
12 20 (1.91%) Bicep
13 14 (1.34%) C++
14 10 (0.95%) Groovy
15 9 (0.86%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.86%) Scala
16 6 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.57%) R
17 5 (0.48%) Cypher
17 5 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 511 (48.76%) Security Cleared
2 417 (39.79%) SC Cleared
3 74 (7.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 74 (7.06%) DV Cleared
4 52 (4.96%) Degree
5 47 (4.48%) AWS Certification
6 38 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (1.91%) Azure Certification
8 19 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 16 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (1.53%) CISSP
10 14 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (1.24%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.05%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.57%) CSSLP
16 5 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.48%) GCFA
16 5 (0.48%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (11.83%) QA
2 54 (5.15%) Accessibility
3 43 (4.10%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.10%) WCAG
5 16 (1.53%) NIST
6 12 (1.15%) GDPR
7 10 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.67%) NCSC
9 7 (0.67%) SLA
10 6 (0.57%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.48%) FATCA
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.095%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.095%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.095%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.095%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.095%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 436 (41.60%) Docker
2 24 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.24%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.57%) 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 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.095%) vSphere
10 1 (0.095%) zsh
Systems Management
1 481 (45.90%) Kubernetes
2 251 (23.95%) Ansible
3 173 (16.51%) Grafana
4 150 (14.31%) Prometheus
5 52 (4.96%) Argo
6 40 (3.82%) Puppet
7 29 (2.77%) Progress Chef
8 16 (1.53%) Kibana
9 14 (1.34%) Istio
10 13 (1.24%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.24%) Oracle RMAN
11 12 (1.15%) Packer
12 10 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.86%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.86%) Podman
14 8 (0.76%) Cilium
15 5 (0.48%) CASB
15 5 (0.48%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
16 4 (0.38%) Control-M
Vendors
1 120 (11.45%) Oracle
2 72 (6.87%) Microsoft
3 68 (6.49%) Google
4 54 (5.15%) Talend
5 53 (5.06%) Splunk
6 50 (4.77%) Informatica
7 41 (3.91%) VMware
8 38 (3.63%) Databricks
9 35 (3.34%) Dynatrace
10 26 (2.48%) Denodo
10 26 (2.48%) Red Hat
11 24 (2.29%) ServiceNow
12 23 (2.19%) IBM
13 21 (2.00%) Palo Alto
14 20 (1.91%) F5
15 18 (1.72%) Arista
15 18 (1.72%) Aruba
15 18 (1.72%) Trend Micro
16 15 (1.43%) Veracode
17 12 (1.15%) Cisco