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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 132 171
Rank change year-on-year -3 +39 +83
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,119 702 553
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.04% 2.12% 1.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.67% 13.87% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 785 472 378
10th Percentile £375 £375 £356
25th Percentile £425 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £594 £603 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £514
% change year-on-year - -2.68% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 9 7
10th Percentile - £59.75 £70.40
25th Percentile £65.00 £61.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.72
90th Percentile £95.00 £68.10 £80.00
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 6,331 5,063 5,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.54% 15.31% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,047 3,408 3,229
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 110 176
10th Percentile £22.68 £28.94 £28.62
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.17 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.75 £73.88
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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -3 942 £500 -3.85% 713
UK excluding London -11 544 £500 - 435
London +16 396 £521 -1.65% 334
Work from Home +2 380 £492 -6.59% 353
North of England -37 187 £500 +4.17% 126
Midlands +46 156 £475 -12.04% 50
West Midlands +43 147 £475 -13.64% 42
South East -34 84 £550 +9.89% 69
North East -3 79 £413 -17.50% 27
North West -27 78 £560 +28.62% 79
South West -13 61 £550 -8.33% 86
East of England -24 41 £450 -7.69% 37
Yorkshire -62 41 £550 +10.00% 20
Scotland -23 27 £424 -3.91% 39
East Midlands -12 9 £405 +50.00% 8
Northern Ireland -3 2 - - 19
Wales -11 2 - - 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
1 105 (9.38%) Confluence
2 79 (7.06%) Apache Spark
3 74 (6.61%) Apache Airflow
4 59 (5.27%) Apache
5 35 (3.13%) Jupyter
6 30 (2.68%) SAS
7 12 (1.07%) Camunda
8 8 (0.71%) nginx
9 5 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.27%) CICS
10 3 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.18%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.18%) Traefik
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.089%) Appian
12 1 (0.089%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.089%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.089%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Trello
2 1 (0.089%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.089%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.089%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.089%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 742 (66.31%) AWS
2 370 (33.07%) Azure
3 355 (31.72%) GitHub
4 245 (21.89%) GitHub Actions
5 174 (15.55%) Azure DevOps
6 173 (15.46%) GCP
7 149 (13.32%) Amazon S3
8 146 (13.05%) Serverless
9 140 (12.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 136 (12.15%) Amazon EKS
11 133 (11.89%) AWS Lambda
12 107 (9.56%) Amazon EC2
13 78 (6.97%) AWS CloudFormation
14 75 (6.70%) Amazon ECS
15 68 (6.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 59 (5.27%) OpenShift
17 55 (4.92%) Amazon SQS
18 54 (4.83%) Amazon EMR
19 38 (3.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 36 (3.22%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.20%) Firewall
2 39 (3.49%) DNS
3 30 (2.68%) BGP
3 30 (2.68%) Ethernet VPN
3 30 (2.68%) Network Security
3 30 (2.68%) VXLAN
4 26 (2.32%) TCP/IP
4 26 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
5 22 (1.97%) WAN
6 21 (1.88%) SD-WAN
7 20 (1.79%) OSPF
8 19 (1.70%) BIG-IP
8 19 (1.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 14 (1.25%) VPN
10 12 (1.07%) 5G
11 11 (0.98%) 4G
11 11 (0.98%) IPv4
11 11 (0.98%) IPv6
11 11 (0.98%) NX-OS
11 11 (0.98%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (9.03%) MongoDB
3 57 (5.09%) Amazon Athena
4 54 (4.83%) Relational Database
5 53 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
6 52 (4.65%) NoSQL
7 51 (4.56%) Amazon RDS
8 45 (4.02%) Amazon Redshift
9 43 (3.84%) Data Lake
10 41 (3.66%) DynamoDB
11 38 (3.40%) SQL Server
12 37 (3.31%) Redis
13 36 (3.22%) Oracle Database
14 35 (3.13%) MySQL
15 34 (3.04%) Power BI
16 31 (2.77%) Big Data
17 30 (2.68%) Pentaho
18 27 (2.41%) RDBMS
19 16 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
20 15 (1.34%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 436 (38.96%) Jenkins
2 283 (25.29%) Git
3 151 (13.49%) JIRA
4 94 (8.40%) Selenium
5 92 (8.22%) JUnit
6 72 (6.43%) Cucumber
7 66 (5.90%) SonarQube
8 58 (5.18%) Maven
9 45 (4.02%) Gatling
10 44 (3.93%) Mockito
11 41 (3.66%) Gradle
12 36 (3.22%) REST Assured
13 35 (3.13%) Bitbucket
14 32 (2.86%) Artifactory
15 31 (2.77%) JMeter
15 31 (2.77%) Sonatype Nexus
16 24 (2.14%) Postman
17 19 (1.70%) Cypress.io
18 18 (1.61%) WebDriver
19 15 (1.34%) Snyk
General
1 223 (19.93%) Social Skills
2 214 (19.12%) Public Sector
3 112 (10.01%) Finance
4 74 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (6.17%) Banking
6 34 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (2.14%) Military
8 23 (2.06%) Telecoms
9 16 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.16%) Law
11 11 (0.98%) Aerospace
11 11 (0.98%) Legal
12 8 (0.71%) Publishing
13 7 (0.63%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.54%) Back Office
14 6 (0.54%) Police
15 4 (0.36%) Front Office
15 4 (0.36%) Local Government
15 4 (0.36%) Retail
16 3 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 247 (22.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 202 (18.05%) Developer
3 190 (16.98%) Senior
4 128 (11.44%) AWS Engineer
5 96 (8.58%) Data Engineer
6 81 (7.24%) AWS DevOps
7 74 (6.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 72 (6.43%) Lead
9 62 (5.54%) Java Developer
10 54 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (4.74%) Software Engineer
11 53 (4.74%) Test Engineer
12 51 (4.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 50 (4.47%) Platform Engineer
14 49 (4.38%) Architect
15 48 (4.29%) Software Developer
16 40 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
17 38 (3.40%) Java Engineer
18 32 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
19 31 (2.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 543 (48.53%) Terraform
2 167 (14.92%) Kafka
3 158 (14.12%) Spring
4 138 (12.33%) Spring Boot
5 134 (11.97%) REST
6 84 (7.51%) Playwright
6 84 (7.51%) React
7 78 (6.97%) RESTful
8 58 (5.18%) JSON
9 57 (5.09%) Node.js
10 56 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
11 51 (4.56%) PySpark
12 41 (3.66%) HTML
13 37 (3.31%) CSS
13 37 (3.31%) JPA
13 37 (3.31%) OAuth
14 35 (3.13%) OpenAPI
15 34 (3.04%) .NET
16 33 (2.95%) YAML
17 31 (2.77%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 228 (20.38%) Cloud Native
2 63 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.49%) Data Centre
5 36 (3.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 34 (3.04%) Data Structures
7 33 (2.95%) Onboarding
8 28 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.79%) AI Agents
10 17 (1.52%) Algorithms
10 17 (1.52%) PKI
11 16 (1.43%) Public Cloud
12 14 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
12 14 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.07%) Mainframe
13 12 (1.07%) Private Cloud
14 11 (0.98%) Replication
15 10 (0.89%) Security Posture
16 9 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
17 8 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 228 (20.38%) Linux
2 53 (4.74%) Unix
3 52 (4.65%) Windows
4 44 (3.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.61%) CentOS
6 15 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 13 (1.16%) VMS
8 12 (1.07%) AIX
9 10 (0.89%) Windows Server
9 10 (0.89%) zOS
10 2 (0.18%) Debian
10 2 (0.18%) Rocky
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.089%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.089%) Android
11 1 (0.089%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 944 (84.36%) CI/CD
2 651 (58.18%) DevOps
3 512 (45.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 458 (40.93%) Agile
5 381 (34.05%) Containerisation
6 347 (31.01%) Test Automation
7 232 (20.73%) Microservices
8 208 (18.59%) Observability
9 200 (17.87%) Scrum
10 184 (16.44%) Software Engineering
11 171 (15.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 163 (14.57%) Platform Engineering
13 153 (13.67%) AI
14 145 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
15 119 (10.63%) Mentoring
16 115 (10.28%) Deployment Automation
17 113 (10.10%) Migration
17 113 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
18 111 (9.92%) DevSecOps
19 110 (9.83%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 485 (43.34%) Python
2 290 (25.92%) Java
3 257 (22.97%) SQL
4 186 (16.62%) Bash
5 110 (9.83%) JavaScript
6 88 (7.86%) PowerShell
7 71 (6.34%) C#
8 67 (5.99%) TypeScript
9 48 (4.29%) Go
10 44 (3.93%) Shell Script
11 21 (1.88%) PL/SQL
12 20 (1.79%) Bicep
13 15 (1.34%) C++
14 14 (1.25%) Groovy
14 14 (1.25%) Scala
15 9 (0.80%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.63%) R
17 6 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.45%) Cypher
18 5 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 528 (47.18%) Security Cleared
2 422 (37.71%) SC Cleared
3 102 (9.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 84 (7.51%) DV Cleared
5 55 (4.92%) AWS Certification
6 53 (4.74%) Degree
7 40 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 16 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 16 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (1.43%) CISSP
9 15 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.25%) ISTQB
11 9 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.71%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.45%) GCFA
15 5 (0.45%) GCIH
16 4 (0.36%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (13.05%) QA
2 65 (5.81%) Accessibility
3 44 (3.93%) Data Quality
4 30 (2.68%) WCAG
5 19 (1.70%) NIST
6 15 (1.34%) GDPR
7 14 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.98%) NCSC
9 10 (0.89%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.80%) SLA
11 8 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.54%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.45%) FATCA
14 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.089%) Disclosure Scotland
15 1 (0.089%) JSP 440
15 1 (0.089%) MIL-STD-1553
15 1 (0.089%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.089%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 476 (42.54%) Docker
2 27 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (2.23%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
5 11 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.80%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.45%) HDFS
7 5 (0.45%) Squid
8 3 (0.27%) Firmware
8 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.27%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.18%) iptables
9 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.089%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 512 (45.76%) Kubernetes
2 263 (23.50%) Ansible
3 187 (16.71%) Grafana
4 162 (14.48%) Prometheus
5 51 (4.56%) Argo
6 39 (3.49%) Puppet
7 31 (2.77%) Kibana
8 27 (2.41%) Progress Chef
9 17 (1.52%) Istio
10 16 (1.43%) Packer
11 13 (1.16%) Data Guard
11 13 (1.16%) Oracle RMAN
12 11 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
13 10 (0.89%) Podman
14 9 (0.80%) Cilium
14 9 (0.80%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.45%) CASB
15 5 (0.45%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
16 4 (0.36%) Salt
Vendors
1 130 (11.62%) Oracle
2 77 (6.88%) Google
3 72 (6.43%) Microsoft
4 63 (5.63%) Splunk
5 55 (4.92%) Talend
6 47 (4.20%) Informatica
6 47 (4.20%) VMware
7 40 (3.57%) Dynatrace
8 33 (2.95%) Databricks
9 27 (2.41%) ServiceNow
10 26 (2.32%) Denodo
10 26 (2.32%) Red Hat
11 24 (2.14%) IBM
12 21 (1.88%) Palo Alto
13 20 (1.79%) F5
14 18 (1.61%) Arista
14 18 (1.61%) Aruba
14 18 (1.61%) Trend Micro
15 15 (1.34%) Cisco
16 14 (1.25%) Veracode