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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 144 205
Rank change year-on-year -9 +61 +37
Contract jobs citing GitLab 958 657 483
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.82% 2.00% 1.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.62% 13.57% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 422 333
10th Percentile £365 £358 £363
25th Percentile £425 £434 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -5.24%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £645
90th Percentile £688 £670 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £490 £520
% change year-on-year - -5.77% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 10
10th Percentile £63.88 £61.65 £54.40
25th Percentile - £65.50 £66.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.86
90th Percentile £81.75 £74.59 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -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 6,132 4,843 5,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.67% 14.76% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,929 3,281 3,331
10th Percentile £350 £322 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 105 220
10th Percentile £26.05 £23.65 £27.80
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.23
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.42 £84.65 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - +5.69%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -3 812 £500 -0.10% 199
UK excluding London -3 459 £490 - 139
London -1 347 £525 - 85
Work from Home -1 333 £475 -9.52% 94
North of England -22 174 £488 +3.94% 46
Midlands +25 131 £469 -6.20% 21
West Midlands +22 124 £469 -8.49% 17
South East -38 74 £550 - 28
North West -35 72 £575 +21.05% 24
North East +1 70 £413 -11.29% 15
South West -23 50 £548 -8.67% 19
Yorkshire -40 45 £550 +18.92% 7
East of England -14 31 £489 +2.89% 16
Scotland -25 15 £395 -1.74% 10
East Midlands -12 7 £470 +74.07% 4
Northern Ireland -1 1 - - 1

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 (10.54%) Confluence
2 58 (6.05%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (5.53%) Apache Spark
4 44 (4.59%) Apache
5 39 (4.07%) SAS
6 30 (3.13%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.73%) CICS
8 6 (0.63%) Camunda
8 6 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.52%) nginx
10 4 (0.42%) CMS
11 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
12 2 (0.21%) WordPress
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Trello
2 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 639 (66.70%) AWS
2 332 (34.66%) GitHub
3 320 (33.40%) Azure
4 245 (25.57%) GitHub Actions
5 167 (17.43%) GCP
6 137 (14.30%) Amazon S3
7 136 (14.20%) Azure DevOps
7 136 (14.20%) Serverless
8 123 (12.84%) AWS Lambda
9 122 (12.73%) Amazon EKS
10 111 (11.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 93 (9.71%) Amazon EC2
12 80 (8.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 67 (6.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 49 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
15 44 (4.59%) Amazon EMR
16 41 (4.28%) OpenShift
17 39 (4.07%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (3.65%) Datadog
18 35 (3.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.28%) Firewall
2 22 (2.30%) BGP
2 22 (2.30%) DNS
2 22 (2.30%) WAN
3 21 (2.19%) Network Security
3 21 (2.19%) OSPF
3 21 (2.19%) SD-WAN
4 20 (2.09%) Ethernet VPN
4 20 (2.09%) VXLAN
5 19 (1.98%) BIG-IP
5 19 (1.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 16 (1.67%) TCP/IP
7 15 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (1.46%) VPN
9 11 (1.15%) WLAN
10 9 (0.94%) HTTP
11 6 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (0.52%) SSL
13 4 (0.42%) DHCP
13 4 (0.42%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (6.89%) MongoDB
3 52 (5.43%) Relational Database
4 50 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 48 (5.01%) Amazon Athena
6 46 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
7 42 (4.38%) DynamoDB
8 39 (4.07%) NoSQL
9 35 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
10 32 (3.34%) Power BI
10 32 (3.34%) SQL Server
11 31 (3.24%) Pentaho
12 28 (2.92%) Oracle Database
13 26 (2.71%) MySQL
14 25 (2.61%) Data Lake
15 24 (2.51%) Big Data
16 23 (2.40%) RDBMS
17 19 (1.98%) Redis
18 14 (1.46%) Metadata
19 12 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 411 (42.90%) Jenkins
2 214 (22.34%) Git
3 135 (14.09%) JIRA
4 81 (8.46%) Selenium
5 65 (6.78%) JUnit
6 48 (5.01%) Cucumber
7 42 (4.38%) Bitbucket
8 41 (4.28%) SonarQube
9 36 (3.76%) Artifactory
9 36 (3.76%) JMeter
10 33 (3.44%) Gradle
10 33 (3.44%) Postman
11 30 (3.13%) REST Assured
12 27 (2.82%) Maven
12 27 (2.82%) Mockito
13 26 (2.71%) Gatling
13 26 (2.71%) WebDriver
14 19 (1.98%) Snyk
15 18 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
16 12 (1.25%) Zephyr
General
1 181 (18.89%) Public Sector
1 181 (18.89%) Social Skills
2 94 (9.81%) Finance
3 63 (6.58%) Banking
4 56 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (1.98%) Military
7 17 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.46%) Law
9 13 (1.36%) Legal
10 8 (0.84%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.73%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.63%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.63%) Publishing
13 5 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.52%) Police
14 3 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.31%) Retail
14 3 (0.31%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.21%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 208 (21.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 175 (18.27%) Senior
3 147 (15.34%) Developer
4 115 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
5 97 (10.13%) Data Engineer
6 72 (7.52%) AWS DevOps
7 65 (6.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 65 (6.78%) Lead
8 54 (5.64%) Software Engineer
9 52 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
10 50 (5.22%) Java Developer
11 49 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
12 43 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 39 (4.07%) Test Engineer
14 35 (3.65%) Architect
15 33 (3.44%) Senior DevOps
15 33 (3.44%) Tester
16 32 (3.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 29 (3.03%) Software Developer
18 27 (2.82%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (13.26%) Kafka
2 107 (11.17%) Spring
3 99 (10.33%) REST
4 96 (10.02%) Spring Boot
5 62 (6.47%) RESTful
6 56 (5.85%) PySpark
7 55 (5.74%) React
8 49 (5.11%) Node.js
9 42 (4.38%) Playwright
10 39 (4.07%) JSON
11 32 (3.34%) Elastic Stack
12 31 (3.24%) RabbitMQ
13 26 (2.71%) WireMock
13 26 (2.71%) YAML
14 24 (2.51%) AWS CDK
14 24 (2.51%) Keycloak
14 24 (2.51%) OAuth
14 24 (2.51%) pytest
15 23 (2.40%) HTML
16 21 (2.19%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 185 (19.31%) Cloud Native
2 67 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (5.53%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.44%) Onboarding
5 29 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 28 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 20 (2.09%) Data Structures
7 20 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.88%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (1.88%) Public Cloud
9 17 (1.77%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.46%) Mainframe
11 9 (0.94%) AI Agents
11 9 (0.94%) PKI
11 9 (0.94%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (0.84%) NHS
13 7 (0.73%) DataPower
14 6 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 179 (18.68%) Linux
2 43 (4.49%) Unix
3 41 (4.28%) Windows
4 35 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.46%) zOS
6 12 (1.25%) AIX
7 11 (1.15%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.84%) CentOS
9 6 (0.63%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.31%) Debian
10 3 (0.31%) Rocky
10 3 (0.31%) VMS
11 2 (0.21%) Android
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (82.46%) CI/CD
2 569 (59.39%) DevOps
3 413 (43.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 377 (39.35%) Agile
5 322 (33.61%) Containerisation
6 293 (30.58%) Test Automation
7 180 (18.79%) Microservices
8 162 (16.91%) Observability
9 150 (15.66%) Scrum
9 150 (15.66%) Software Engineering
10 146 (15.24%) Platform Engineering
11 138 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 121 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
13 114 (11.90%) AI
14 102 (10.65%) DevSecOps
15 92 (9.60%) ETL
16 90 (9.39%) Migration
17 83 (8.66%) Data Modelling
17 83 (8.66%) Data Pipeline
18 82 (8.56%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 409 (42.69%) Python
2 220 (22.96%) SQL
3 216 (22.55%) Java
4 157 (16.39%) Bash
5 74 (7.72%) JavaScript
6 69 (7.20%) PowerShell
7 62 (6.47%) TypeScript
8 52 (5.43%) C#
9 37 (3.86%) Go
10 29 (3.03%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.40%) PL/SQL
12 21 (2.19%) Bicep
13 14 (1.46%) C++
14 8 (0.84%) Groovy
14 8 (0.84%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.84%) Scala
15 6 (0.63%) C
15 6 (0.63%) JCL
15 6 (0.63%) Ruby
16 5 (0.52%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 460 (48.02%) Security Cleared
2 393 (41.02%) SC Cleared
3 57 (5.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 52 (5.43%) DV Cleared
5 41 (4.28%) AWS Certification
6 39 (4.07%) Degree
7 29 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (1.98%) Azure Certification
9 18 (1.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (1.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 14 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.15%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.04%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.73%) CISSP
15 6 (0.63%) CSSLP
16 4 (0.42%) GIAC
17 3 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 3 (0.31%) CCNP
18 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (10.23%) QA
2 45 (4.70%) Accessibility
2 45 (4.70%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.04%) SLA
3 10 (1.04%) WCAG
4 7 (0.73%) NIST
5 5 (0.52%) FATCA
5 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.42%) GDPR
6 4 (0.42%) ISO 20022
6 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.21%) NCSC
7 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.10%) GRC
8 1 (0.10%) MIL-STD-1553
8 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
8 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 400 (41.75%) Docker
2 22 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.36%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.73%) HDFS
6 5 (0.52%) Squid
7 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.21%) iptables
8 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.10%) vSphere
9 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 469 (48.96%) Terraform
2 428 (44.68%) Kubernetes
3 221 (23.07%) Ansible
4 176 (18.37%) Grafana
5 153 (15.97%) Prometheus
6 50 (5.22%) Argo
7 37 (3.86%) Puppet
8 20 (2.09%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.46%) Istio
10 13 (1.36%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.36%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (1.04%) Packer
11 10 (1.04%) Podman
12 6 (0.63%) Cilium
13 5 (0.52%) linkerd
13 5 (0.52%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.52%) Salt
13 5 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.42%) Check_MK
14 4 (0.42%) Kibana
Vendors
1 114 (11.90%) Oracle
2 60 (6.26%) Google
3 59 (6.16%) Microsoft
4 55 (5.74%) Informatica
4 55 (5.74%) Talend
5 54 (5.64%) Splunk
6 30 (3.13%) Denodo
6 30 (3.13%) Dynatrace
6 30 (3.13%) VMware
7 27 (2.82%) Databricks
8 22 (2.30%) Palo Alto
9 20 (2.09%) F5
9 20 (2.09%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.98%) IBM
11 18 (1.88%) Arista
11 18 (1.88%) Aruba
11 18 (1.88%) Red Hat
12 17 (1.77%) Trend Micro
13 10 (1.04%) Salesforce
14 9 (0.94%) Tenable