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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 147 220
Rank change year-on-year +14 +73 +24
Contract jobs citing GitLab 984 589 476
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.95% 1.98% 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.54% 13.60% 8.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 678 362 336
10th Percentile £371 £356 £400
25th Percentile £417 £440 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £650
90th Percentile £686 £674 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £533
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.19% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 2 10
10th Percentile - £69.05 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.37 £56.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.01% +6.22% +81.82%
75th Percentile - £80.35 £74.86
90th Percentile £83.75 £81.91 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £74.22
% change year-on-year -15.01% +3.05% +23.70%

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 5,949 4,331 5,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.80% 14.55% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,858 2,891 3,530
10th Percentile £350 £331 £355
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 84 245
10th Percentile £26.25 £20.85 £29.30
25th Percentile £56.56 £46.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +4.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.07 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +8 826 £500 -3.57% 137
UK excluding London +25 479 £475 -5.00% 116
London +11 350 £525 - 42
Work from Home +7 326 £475 -8.65% 60
North of England -5 193 £470 -4.28% 34
Midlands +21 131 £459 -8.20% 11
West Midlands +25 121 £461 -12.24% 9
North West -2 89 £525 +6.92% 15
North East +2 63 £400 -13.98% 13
South East -33 61 £550 +9.89% 27
Yorkshire -39 56 £525 +2.44% 6
South West -2 52 £500 -13.04% 20
East of England -4 38 £483 +7.22% 15
Scotland -12 20 £412 +2.43% 4
East Midlands -19 10 £436 +61.48% 2
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 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
1 104 (10.57%) Confluence
2 47 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (4.78%) Apache Spark
3 42 (4.27%) SAS
4 40 (4.07%) Apache
5 28 (2.85%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.81%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.71%) CICS
8 6 (0.61%) nginx
8 6 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.51%) Camunda
10 3 (0.30%) CMS
10 3 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.30%) 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
1 628 (63.82%) AWS
2 327 (33.23%) GitHub
3 319 (32.42%) Azure
4 233 (23.68%) GitHub Actions
5 151 (15.35%) GCP
6 150 (15.24%) Serverless
7 148 (15.04%) Amazon S3
8 131 (13.31%) AWS Lambda
9 123 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
9 123 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
10 113 (11.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 103 (10.47%) Amazon EC2
12 79 (8.03%) AWS CloudFormation
13 73 (7.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 53 (5.39%) Amazon ECS
15 47 (4.78%) OpenShift
16 38 (3.86%) Amazon EMR
17 37 (3.76%) Power Platform
18 35 (3.56%) Amazon SQS
19 32 (3.25%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (4.37%) Firewall
2 25 (2.54%) Network Security
3 24 (2.44%) DNS
4 21 (2.13%) BGP
4 21 (2.13%) WAN
5 20 (2.03%) OSPF
6 19 (1.93%) BIG-IP
6 19 (1.93%) Ethernet VPN
6 19 (1.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 19 (1.93%) SD-WAN
6 19 (1.93%) VXLAN
7 18 (1.83%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (1.22%) VPN
10 11 (1.12%) WLAN
11 9 (0.91%) HTTP
12 7 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (0.51%) SSL
14 4 (0.41%) MQTT
14 4 (0.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (6.40%) MongoDB
3 50 (5.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 49 (4.98%) Amazon Athena
5 46 (4.67%) Relational Database
6 45 (4.57%) NoSQL
7 43 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (4.27%) DynamoDB
9 41 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
10 34 (3.46%) Power BI
11 30 (3.05%) Pentaho
12 29 (2.95%) MySQL
13 26 (2.64%) Big Data
13 26 (2.64%) Data Lake
14 25 (2.54%) SQL Server
15 23 (2.34%) Oracle Database
16 22 (2.24%) Redis
17 16 (1.63%) DocumentDB
18 14 (1.42%) Metadata
19 13 (1.32%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 429 (43.60%) Jenkins
2 215 (21.85%) Git
3 150 (15.24%) JIRA
4 91 (9.25%) Selenium
5 74 (7.52%) JUnit
6 53 (5.39%) Cucumber
7 44 (4.47%) Postman
8 41 (4.17%) JMeter
8 41 (4.17%) REST Assured
9 39 (3.96%) SonarQube
10 36 (3.66%) Artifactory
11 35 (3.56%) Bitbucket
12 33 (3.35%) Gradle
13 30 (3.05%) Mockito
14 29 (2.95%) WebDriver
15 28 (2.85%) Gatling
16 20 (2.03%) Maven
16 20 (2.03%) Snyk
17 16 (1.63%) CircleCI
17 16 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 194 (19.72%) Public Sector
2 193 (19.61%) Social Skills
3 96 (9.76%) Finance
4 67 (6.81%) Banking
5 57 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (1.83%) Military
8 14 (1.42%) Law
9 10 (1.02%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.02%) Legal
10 9 (0.91%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.71%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.61%) Retail
13 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.51%) Police
13 5 (0.51%) Publishing
14 4 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 220 (22.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 166 (16.87%) Senior
3 151 (15.35%) Developer
4 117 (11.89%) AWS Engineer
5 101 (10.26%) Data Engineer
6 80 (8.13%) AWS DevOps
7 72 (7.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 60 (6.10%) Lead
9 55 (5.59%) Java Developer
10 52 (5.28%) Software Engineer
11 48 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 48 (4.88%) Test Engineer
12 46 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
13 42 (4.27%) Architect
14 35 (3.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 33 (3.35%) Tester
16 32 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
17 31 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 30 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
19 23 (2.34%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (12.80%) Kafka
2 125 (12.70%) Spring
3 111 (11.28%) REST
4 108 (10.98%) Spring Boot
5 84 (8.54%) RESTful
6 61 (6.20%) React
7 54 (5.49%) Node.js
8 53 (5.39%) PySpark
9 49 (4.98%) Playwright
10 40 (4.07%) Elastic Stack
11 30 (3.05%) JSON
12 29 (2.95%) YAML
13 28 (2.85%) OAuth
14 27 (2.74%) AWS CDK
14 27 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
15 26 (2.64%) OpenTelemetry
15 26 (2.64%) pytest
15 26 (2.64%) WireMock
16 25 (2.54%) OpenAPI
17 24 (2.44%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 183 (18.60%) Cloud Native
2 69 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (5.89%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.96%) Data Centre
5 34 (3.46%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 20 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (1.83%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.42%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.22%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.22%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.02%) Private Cloud
12 9 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.91%) NHS
12 9 (0.91%) PKI
13 8 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.81%) Mainframe
14 7 (0.71%) DataPower
14 7 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 186 (18.90%) Linux
2 52 (5.28%) Unix
3 46 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (4.47%) Windows
5 15 (1.52%) CentOS
6 10 (1.02%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.81%) zOS
8 4 (0.41%) AIX
8 4 (0.41%) Debian
8 4 (0.41%) Rocky
8 4 (0.41%) VMS
8 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.20%) Android
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 798 (81.10%) CI/CD
2 578 (58.74%) DevOps
3 388 (39.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 374 (38.01%) Agile
5 318 (32.32%) Containerisation
6 312 (31.71%) Test Automation
7 200 (20.33%) Microservices
8 164 (16.67%) Observability
9 148 (15.04%) Scrum
10 139 (14.13%) Software Engineering
11 135 (13.72%) Platform Engineering
12 133 (13.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 129 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
14 102 (10.37%) AI
15 95 (9.65%) ETL
16 91 (9.25%) DevSecOps
17 83 (8.43%) Data Modelling
17 83 (8.43%) Migration
18 82 (8.33%) Event-Driven
19 80 (8.13%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 386 (39.23%) Python
2 246 (25.00%) Java
3 231 (23.48%) SQL
4 135 (13.72%) Bash
5 81 (8.23%) JavaScript
6 70 (7.11%) TypeScript
7 53 (5.39%) PowerShell
8 44 (4.47%) C#
9 42 (4.27%) Shell Script
10 36 (3.66%) Go
11 22 (2.24%) PL/SQL
12 17 (1.73%) Bicep
13 12 (1.22%) Scala
14 11 (1.12%) C++
14 11 (1.12%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.12%) MATLAB
15 10 (1.02%) Ruby
16 6 (0.61%) C
16 6 (0.61%) JCL
17 5 (0.51%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 466 (47.36%) Security Cleared
2 403 (40.96%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 42 (4.27%) Degree
5 40 (4.07%) DV Cleared
6 38 (3.86%) AWS Certification
7 29 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (1.42%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.02%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.81%) CISSP
15 5 (0.51%) CSSLP
16 4 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.41%) GIAC
16 4 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
17 3 (0.30%) CISM
17 3 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (9.96%) QA
2 46 (4.67%) Accessibility
3 43 (4.37%) Data Quality
4 19 (1.93%) SLA
5 13 (1.32%) NIST
6 12 (1.22%) WCAG
7 9 (0.91%) GDPR
7 9 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.51%) FATCA
11 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.20%) NCSC
12 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.10%) GRC
13 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 397 (40.35%) Docker
2 31 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.61%) Squid
6 5 (0.51%) HDFS
6 5 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.20%) iptables
9 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.20%) vSphere
10 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 453 (46.04%) Terraform
2 421 (42.78%) Kubernetes
3 195 (19.82%) Ansible
4 185 (18.80%) Grafana
5 162 (16.46%) Prometheus
6 49 (4.98%) Argo
7 29 (2.95%) Puppet
8 16 (1.63%) Istio
8 16 (1.63%) Podman
9 14 (1.42%) Red Hat Satellite
10 13 (1.32%) Progress Chef
11 11 (1.12%) Check_MK
12 9 (0.91%) Packer
12 9 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.61%) Cilium
13 6 (0.61%) Kibana
13 6 (0.61%) Salt
14 5 (0.51%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.51%) linkerd
14 5 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 103 (10.47%) Oracle
2 58 (5.89%) Microsoft
3 56 (5.69%) Talend
4 54 (5.49%) Splunk
5 51 (5.18%) Informatica
6 41 (4.17%) Google
7 34 (3.46%) Red Hat
7 34 (3.46%) VMware
8 30 (3.05%) Denodo
9 29 (2.95%) Databricks
10 26 (2.64%) ServiceNow
11 24 (2.44%) Dynatrace
12 22 (2.24%) F5
13 20 (2.03%) Palo Alto
13 20 (2.03%) Salesforce
14 19 (1.93%) Arista
15 18 (1.83%) Aruba
16 16 (1.63%) Trend Micro
17 14 (1.42%) Veracode
18 12 (1.22%) Tenable