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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 137 193
Rank change year-on-year -11 +56 +36
Contract jobs citing GitLab 995 665 489
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.87% 2.02% 1.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.93% 13.53% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 432 333
10th Percentile £368 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £645
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -2.71% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 9
10th Percentile £64.63 £60.50 £52.80
25th Percentile - £62.69 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.44
90th Percentile £77.25 £73.55 £75.50
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 6,246 4,915 5,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.72% 14.93% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,005 3,328 3,286
10th Percentile £350 £325 £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% -0.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 110 215
10th Percentile £31.87 £25.64 £26.79
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.22
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.09 £83.90 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +2.46%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 +1 845 £500 -3.82% 318
UK excluding London +2 477 £486 -2.71% 168
London -1 365 £525 -0.94% 166
Work from Home +9 346 £475 -11.21% 147
North of England -25 174 £475 - 49
Midlands +29 140 £469 -7.90% 22
West Midlands +28 133 £469 -12.17% 16
North East +6 75 £413 -11.29% 11
South East -26 74 £550 - 35
North West -40 70 £575 +18.56% 30
South West -29 53 £550 -8.33% 36
Yorkshire -48 42 £550 +12.82% 8
East of England -14 33 £475 - 15
Scotland -9 19 £400 - 12
East Midlands -7 7 £470 +74.07% 6
Northern Ireland +3 1 - - 2

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 99 (9.95%) Confluence
2 61 (6.13%) Apache Airflow
3 57 (5.73%) Apache Spark
4 47 (4.72%) Apache
5 38 (3.82%) SAS
6 31 (3.12%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.60%) Camunda
7 6 (0.60%) CICS
7 6 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.40%) CMS
8 4 (0.40%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.30%) nginx
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
10 2 (0.20%) WordPress
11 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Trello
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 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
1 669 (67.24%) AWS
2 347 (34.87%) GitHub
3 343 (34.47%) Azure
4 253 (25.43%) GitHub Actions
5 169 (16.98%) GCP
6 153 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
7 142 (14.27%) Amazon S3
8 136 (13.67%) Serverless
9 131 (13.17%) Amazon EKS
10 124 (12.46%) AWS Lambda
11 118 (11.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 96 (9.65%) Amazon EC2
13 84 (8.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 68 (6.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 55 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
16 44 (4.42%) Amazon EMR
17 41 (4.12%) OpenShift
18 40 (4.02%) Amazon SQS
19 37 (3.72%) Power Platform
20 35 (3.52%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.62%) Firewall
2 31 (3.12%) DNS
3 24 (2.41%) Network Security
4 22 (2.21%) BGP
4 22 (2.21%) WAN
5 21 (2.11%) OSPF
5 21 (2.11%) SD-WAN
6 20 (2.01%) Ethernet VPN
6 20 (2.01%) TCP/IP
6 20 (2.01%) VXLAN
7 19 (1.91%) BIG-IP
7 19 (1.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 15 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (1.31%) HTTP
9 13 (1.31%) VPN
10 11 (1.11%) WLAN
11 7 (0.70%) SSL
12 4 (0.40%) DHCP
12 4 (0.40%) MQTT
12 4 (0.40%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (7.64%) MongoDB
3 51 (5.13%) Relational Database
4 48 (4.82%) Amazon Athena
4 48 (4.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 47 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (4.42%) NoSQL
7 42 (4.22%) DynamoDB
8 41 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
9 36 (3.62%) Pentaho
10 34 (3.42%) Power BI
11 32 (3.22%) SQL Server
12 30 (3.02%) MySQL
13 29 (2.91%) Data Lake
14 27 (2.71%) Big Data
14 27 (2.71%) Oracle Database
15 25 (2.51%) Redis
16 23 (2.31%) RDBMS
17 14 (1.41%) Metadata
18 12 (1.21%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 420 (42.21%) Jenkins
2 229 (23.02%) Git
3 134 (13.47%) JIRA
4 82 (8.24%) Selenium
5 71 (7.14%) JUnit
6 53 (5.33%) Cucumber
7 48 (4.82%) SonarQube
8 46 (4.62%) Bitbucket
9 35 (3.52%) Artifactory
10 33 (3.32%) JMeter
11 32 (3.22%) Gradle
12 30 (3.02%) Maven
12 30 (3.02%) Postman
13 29 (2.91%) Gatling
14 26 (2.61%) Mockito
14 26 (2.61%) REST Assured
15 24 (2.41%) WebDriver
16 21 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
17 19 (1.91%) Snyk
18 11 (1.11%) MLflow
General
1 194 (19.50%) Social Skills
2 186 (18.69%) Public Sector
3 100 (10.05%) Finance
4 65 (6.53%) Banking
5 58 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (2.01%) Military
8 19 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.41%) Law
10 13 (1.31%) Legal
11 9 (0.90%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.80%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.70%) Publishing
14 6 (0.60%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.50%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.50%) Police
16 4 (0.40%) Marketing
16 4 (0.40%) Retail
17 3 (0.30%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 214 (21.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 183 (18.39%) Senior
3 161 (16.18%) Developer
4 124 (12.46%) AWS Engineer
5 105 (10.55%) Data Engineer
6 76 (7.64%) AWS DevOps
7 72 (7.24%) Lead
8 69 (6.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 58 (5.83%) Software Engineer
10 52 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 52 (5.23%) Platform Engineer
11 49 (4.92%) Java Developer
12 43 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 39 (3.92%) Test Engineer
14 33 (3.32%) Senior DevOps
15 32 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 32 (3.22%) Software Developer
16 30 (3.02%) Architect
16 30 (3.02%) Tester
17 29 (2.91%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (13.17%) Kafka
2 118 (11.86%) Spring
3 109 (10.95%) REST
4 103 (10.35%) Spring Boot
5 64 (6.43%) RESTful
6 60 (6.03%) React
7 57 (5.73%) Node.js
8 56 (5.63%) PySpark
9 53 (5.33%) Playwright
10 40 (4.02%) JSON
10 40 (4.02%) RabbitMQ
11 33 (3.32%) Elastic Stack
12 29 (2.91%) WireMock
13 28 (2.81%) HTML
13 28 (2.81%) OAuth
13 28 (2.81%) pytest
14 26 (2.61%) CSS
14 26 (2.61%) YAML
15 25 (2.51%) AWS CDK
15 25 (2.51%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 193 (19.40%) Cloud Native
2 70 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (5.53%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.42%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 28 (2.81%) Data Centre
7 21 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (2.01%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.81%) Distributed Architecture
9 18 (1.81%) Public Cloud
10 17 (1.71%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.21%) Mainframe
12 11 (1.11%) AI Agents
13 9 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (0.90%) PKI
13 9 (0.90%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 183 (18.39%) Linux
2 50 (5.03%) Unix
3 41 (4.12%) Windows
4 36 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.21%) AIX
5 12 (1.21%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.21%) zOS
6 9 (0.90%) CentOS
7 8 (0.80%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.40%) Debian
8 4 (0.40%) Rocky
9 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.20%) Android
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 821 (82.51%) CI/CD
2 586 (58.89%) DevOps
3 427 (42.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 395 (39.70%) Agile
5 330 (33.17%) Containerisation
6 307 (30.85%) Test Automation
7 189 (18.99%) Microservices
8 171 (17.19%) Observability
9 159 (15.98%) Scrum
9 159 (15.98%) Software Engineering
10 153 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
11 147 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 129 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
13 119 (11.96%) AI
14 104 (10.45%) DevSecOps
15 100 (10.05%) ETL
16 92 (9.25%) Data Pipeline
17 89 (8.94%) Migration
18 86 (8.64%) Event-Driven
18 86 (8.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 426 (42.81%) Python
2 235 (23.62%) SQL
3 231 (23.22%) Java
4 173 (17.39%) Bash
5 86 (8.64%) JavaScript
6 82 (8.24%) PowerShell
7 70 (7.04%) TypeScript
8 57 (5.73%) C#
9 35 (3.52%) Go
10 32 (3.22%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.31%) Bicep
11 23 (2.31%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.41%) C++
13 9 (0.90%) Groovy
13 9 (0.90%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.80%) Scala
15 6 (0.60%) C
15 6 (0.60%) JCL
15 6 (0.60%) R
16 5 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 475 (47.74%) Security Cleared
2 403 (40.50%) SC Cleared
3 58 (5.83%) BPSS Clearance
4 53 (5.33%) DV Cleared
5 46 (4.62%) Degree
6 43 (4.32%) AWS Certification
7 33 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (2.11%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (1.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.11%) CISSP
12 11 (1.11%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.90%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.60%) CSSLP
16 4 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 4 (0.40%) GIAC
17 3 (0.30%) CCNP
17 3 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (10.75%) QA
2 49 (4.92%) Accessibility
3 47 (4.72%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.41%) WCAG
5 11 (1.11%) GDPR
6 10 (1.01%) SLA
7 8 (0.80%) NIST
7 8 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.50%) FATCA
9 5 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.30%) NCSC
12 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.10%) GRC
13 1 (0.10%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 415 (41.71%) Docker
2 23 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.31%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.70%) HDFS
7 5 (0.50%) Squid
8 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.20%) iptables
9 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.10%) vSphere
10 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 480 (48.24%) Terraform
2 439 (44.12%) Kubernetes
3 229 (23.02%) Ansible
4 180 (18.09%) Grafana
5 156 (15.68%) Prometheus
6 50 (5.03%) Argo
7 38 (3.82%) Puppet
8 25 (2.51%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.51%) Istio
10 13 (1.31%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.31%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (1.11%) Packer
12 10 (1.01%) Podman
13 8 (0.80%) Kibana
13 8 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.60%) Cilium
15 5 (0.50%) linkerd
15 5 (0.50%) Red Hat Satellite
15 5 (0.50%) Salt
16 4 (0.40%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 113 (11.36%) Oracle
2 68 (6.83%) Microsoft
3 62 (6.23%) Google
4 56 (5.63%) Splunk
5 55 (5.53%) Informatica
5 55 (5.53%) Talend
6 35 (3.52%) Dynatrace
7 34 (3.42%) Databricks
8 30 (3.02%) VMware
9 29 (2.91%) Denodo
10 21 (2.11%) Palo Alto
10 21 (2.11%) ServiceNow
11 20 (2.01%) F5
12 18 (1.81%) Arista
12 18 (1.81%) Aruba
13 17 (1.71%) IBM
13 17 (1.71%) Red Hat
13 17 (1.71%) Trend Micro
14 9 (0.90%) Tenable
15 8 (0.80%) Salesforce