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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 144 205
Rank change year-on-year -3 +61 +37
Contract jobs citing GitLab 980 657 483
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.85% 2.00% 1.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.81% 13.57% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 422 333
10th Percentile £367 £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 £489 £490 £520
% change year-on-year -0.26% -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 6,199 4,843 5,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.70% 14.76% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,977 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 258 105 220
10th Percentile £26.10 £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 £86.15 £84.65 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -1 829 £500 -0.10% 222
UK excluding London +5 469 £489 -0.26% 156
London -2 357 £525 - 91
Work from Home -1 340 £475 -9.52% 102
North of England -23 175 £488 +3.94% 55
Midlands +25 136 £469 -6.20% 21
West Midlands +20 129 £469 -8.49% 15
South East -40 74 £550 - 28
North West -36 73 £575 +21.05% 32
North East +2 70 £413 -11.29% 16
South West -20 51 £550 -8.33% 27
Yorkshire -43 45 £550 +18.92% 7
East of England -11 31 £489 +2.89% 15
Scotland -18 18 £400 -0.44% 11
East Midlands -11 7 £470 +74.07% 6
Northern Ireland -2 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 (10.31%) Confluence
2 60 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (5.61%) Apache Spark
4 44 (4.49%) Apache
5 39 (3.98%) SAS
6 30 (3.06%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.71%) CICS
8 6 (0.61%) Camunda
8 6 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.51%) nginx
10 4 (0.41%) CMS
11 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
12 2 (0.20%) 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
1 654 (66.73%) AWS
2 336 (34.29%) GitHub
3 329 (33.57%) Azure
4 247 (25.20%) GitHub Actions
5 169 (17.24%) GCP
6 141 (14.39%) Azure DevOps
7 139 (14.18%) Amazon S3
8 136 (13.88%) Serverless
9 124 (12.65%) Amazon EKS
10 123 (12.55%) AWS Lambda
11 111 (11.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 93 (9.49%) Amazon EC2
13 80 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 67 (6.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 51 (5.20%) Amazon ECS
16 45 (4.59%) OpenShift
17 44 (4.49%) Amazon EMR
18 39 (3.98%) Amazon SQS
19 36 (3.67%) Power Platform
20 35 (3.57%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 43 (4.39%) Firewall
2 23 (2.35%) DNS
3 22 (2.24%) BGP
3 22 (2.24%) Network Security
3 22 (2.24%) WAN
4 21 (2.14%) OSPF
4 21 (2.14%) SD-WAN
5 20 (2.04%) Ethernet VPN
5 20 (2.04%) VXLAN
6 19 (1.94%) BIG-IP
6 19 (1.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 16 (1.63%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (1.43%) VPN
10 11 (1.12%) WLAN
11 9 (0.92%) HTTP
12 6 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (0.51%) SSL
14 4 (0.41%) DHCP
14 4 (0.41%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (8.88%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 52 (5.31%) Relational Database
4 50 (5.10%) Amazon Redshift
5 48 (4.90%) Amazon Athena
5 48 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
6 42 (4.29%) DynamoDB
7 40 (4.08%) NoSQL
8 35 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
9 33 (3.37%) Power BI
10 32 (3.27%) Pentaho
10 32 (3.27%) SQL Server
11 28 (2.86%) Oracle Database
12 26 (2.65%) Big Data
12 26 (2.65%) MySQL
13 25 (2.55%) Data Lake
14 23 (2.35%) RDBMS
15 19 (1.94%) Redis
16 14 (1.43%) Metadata
17 12 (1.22%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 422 (43.06%) Jenkins
2 221 (22.55%) Git
3 135 (13.78%) JIRA
4 85 (8.67%) Selenium
5 72 (7.35%) JUnit
6 54 (5.51%) Cucumber
7 46 (4.69%) SonarQube
8 42 (4.29%) Bitbucket
9 36 (3.67%) Artifactory
9 36 (3.67%) JMeter
10 33 (3.37%) Gradle
10 33 (3.37%) Postman
11 30 (3.06%) Gatling
11 30 (3.06%) REST Assured
12 28 (2.86%) Maven
12 28 (2.86%) Mockito
13 26 (2.65%) WebDriver
14 19 (1.94%) Snyk
15 18 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
16 12 (1.22%) Zephyr
General
1 189 (19.29%) Public Sector
2 187 (19.08%) Social Skills
3 95 (9.69%) Finance
4 64 (6.53%) Banking
5 58 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (1.94%) Military
8 17 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.43%) Law
10 13 (1.33%) Legal
11 8 (0.82%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.71%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.61%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.61%) Publishing
14 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.51%) Police
15 4 (0.41%) Marketing
15 4 (0.41%) Retail
16 3 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 210 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 178 (18.16%) Senior
3 154 (15.71%) Developer
4 115 (11.73%) AWS Engineer
5 98 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 72 (7.35%) AWS DevOps
7 68 (6.94%) Lead
8 65 (6.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 54 (5.51%) Software Engineer
10 52 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
11 50 (5.10%) Java Developer
12 49 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
13 43 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 40 (4.08%) Test Engineer
15 35 (3.57%) Architect
16 33 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
16 33 (3.37%) Tester
17 32 (3.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 31 (3.16%) Software Developer
19 28 (2.86%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (12.96%) Kafka
2 116 (11.84%) Spring
3 104 (10.61%) REST
4 102 (10.41%) Spring Boot
5 64 (6.53%) RESTful
6 62 (6.33%) React
7 56 (5.71%) PySpark
8 54 (5.51%) Node.js
9 49 (5.00%) Playwright
10 41 (4.18%) JSON
11 36 (3.67%) RabbitMQ
12 32 (3.27%) Elastic Stack
13 28 (2.86%) WireMock
14 27 (2.76%) OAuth
15 26 (2.65%) YAML
16 25 (2.55%) HTML
17 24 (2.45%) AWS CDK
17 24 (2.45%) Keycloak
17 24 (2.45%) pytest
18 23 (2.35%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 194 (19.80%) Cloud Native
2 69 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (5.51%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.47%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.96%) Data Centre
6 28 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (2.04%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
9 18 (1.84%) Public Cloud
10 17 (1.73%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.43%) Mainframe
12 10 (1.02%) AI Agents
13 9 (0.92%) PKI
13 9 (0.92%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (0.82%) NHS
15 7 (0.71%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 180 (18.37%) Linux
2 43 (4.39%) Unix
3 42 (4.29%) Windows
4 35 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.43%) zOS
6 12 (1.22%) AIX
7 11 (1.12%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.82%) CentOS
9 7 (0.71%) 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 (0.20%) Android
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 810 (82.65%) CI/CD
2 581 (59.29%) DevOps
3 420 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 386 (39.39%) Agile
5 330 (33.67%) Containerisation
6 304 (31.02%) Test Automation
7 187 (19.08%) Microservices
8 168 (17.14%) Observability
9 156 (15.92%) Scrum
10 152 (15.51%) Software Engineering
11 147 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
12 143 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 126 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
14 116 (11.84%) AI
15 104 (10.61%) DevSecOps
16 97 (9.90%) ETL
17 90 (9.18%) Migration
18 89 (9.08%) Data Pipeline
19 85 (8.67%) Event-Driven
20 84 (8.57%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 416 (42.45%) Python
2 231 (23.57%) Java
3 225 (22.96%) SQL
4 158 (16.12%) Bash
5 83 (8.47%) JavaScript
6 73 (7.45%) PowerShell
7 67 (6.84%) TypeScript
8 55 (5.61%) C#
9 37 (3.78%) Go
10 30 (3.06%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.35%) PL/SQL
12 21 (2.14%) Bicep
13 14 (1.43%) C++
14 8 (0.82%) Groovy
14 8 (0.82%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.82%) Scala
15 6 (0.61%) C
15 6 (0.61%) JCL
15 6 (0.61%) Ruby
16 5 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 464 (47.35%) Security Cleared
2 395 (40.31%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 53 (5.41%) DV Cleared
5 41 (4.18%) AWS Certification
6 40 (4.08%) Degree
7 29 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (1.94%) Azure Certification
9 18 (1.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (1.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 14 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.02%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.82%) CISSP
15 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.61%) CSSLP
17 4 (0.41%) GIAC
18 3 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 3 (0.31%) CCNP
19 2 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (10.41%) QA
2 51 (5.20%) Accessibility
3 46 (4.69%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.43%) WCAG
5 10 (1.02%) SLA
6 7 (0.71%) NIST
7 6 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.51%) FATCA
8 5 (0.51%) GDPR
9 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.20%) NCSC
11 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.10%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.10%) GRC
12 1 (0.10%) MIL-STD-1553
12 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
12 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 408 (41.63%) Docker
2 22 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.33%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.71%) HDFS
6 5 (0.51%) Squid
7 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.20%) iptables
8 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.10%) vSphere
9 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 477 (48.67%) Terraform
2 438 (44.69%) Kubernetes
3 224 (22.86%) Ansible
4 179 (18.27%) Grafana
5 153 (15.61%) Prometheus
6 50 (5.10%) Argo
7 37 (3.78%) Puppet
8 21 (2.14%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.43%) Istio
10 13 (1.33%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.33%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (1.02%) Packer
11 10 (1.02%) Podman
12 8 (0.82%) Kibana
13 6 (0.61%) Cilium
14 5 (0.51%) linkerd
14 5 (0.51%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.51%) Salt
14 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.41%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 117 (11.94%) Oracle
2 62 (6.33%) Google
2 62 (6.33%) Microsoft
3 56 (5.71%) Informatica
3 56 (5.71%) Talend
4 55 (5.61%) Splunk
5 32 (3.27%) Databricks
6 31 (3.16%) Dynatrace
7 30 (3.06%) Denodo
7 30 (3.06%) VMware
8 22 (2.24%) Palo Alto
9 21 (2.14%) ServiceNow
10 20 (2.04%) F5
11 19 (1.94%) IBM
12 18 (1.84%) Arista
12 18 (1.84%) Aruba
12 18 (1.84%) Red Hat
13 17 (1.73%) Trend Micro
14 10 (1.02%) Salesforce
15 9 (0.92%) Tenable