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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 139 213
Rank change year-on-year -6 +74 +37
Contract jobs citing GitLab 970 644 481
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.84% 1.98% 1.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.65% 13.58% 9.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 408 335
10th Percentile £364 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £431 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -6.09%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £645
90th Percentile £688 £660 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £518
% change year-on-year -4.20% -3.38% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 10
10th Percentile £63.88 £61.65 £40.00
25th Percentile - £65.50 £58.25
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 £74.22
% change year-on-year -2.99% -9.73% +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 6,199 4,744 5,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.77% 14.59% 12.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,981 3,188 3,511
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £689 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 103 239
10th Percentile £26.05 £22.64 £26.00
25th Percentile £56.25 £49.00 £46.22
Median hourly rate £66.50 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.72% -2.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.60 £72.75
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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +1 818 £500 -0.10% 144
UK excluding London +5 470 £479 -4.20% 115
London -9 344 £525 - 55
Work from Home +8 342 £475 -9.52% 70
North of England -19 187 £453 -3.62% 41
Midlands +24 132 £469 -6.20% 16
West Midlands +22 125 £466 -9.12% 10
North West -21 86 £525 +8.25% 21
South East -38 69 £550 - 23
North East +7 68 £413 -11.29% 14
South West -25 50 £542 -9.71% 19
Yorkshire -37 48 £550 +15.79% 6
East of England -14 31 £489 +8.61% 9
Scotland -14 18 £398 -1.12% 9
East Midlands -14 7 £470 +74.07% 6
Northern Ireland 0 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
1 107 (11.03%) Confluence
2 57 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (5.26%) Apache Spark
4 42 (4.33%) Apache
5 40 (4.12%) SAS
6 29 (2.99%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.72%) CICS
8 6 (0.62%) Camunda
8 6 (0.62%) nginx
8 6 (0.62%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.41%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
11 2 (0.21%) WordPress
12 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.21%) 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
1 643 (66.29%) AWS
2 332 (34.23%) GitHub
3 313 (32.27%) Azure
4 238 (24.54%) GitHub Actions
5 158 (16.29%) GCP
6 145 (14.95%) Amazon S3
6 145 (14.95%) Serverless
7 132 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
8 131 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
9 115 (11.86%) Amazon EKS
10 109 (11.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 102 (10.52%) Amazon EC2
12 78 (8.04%) AWS CloudFormation
13 68 (7.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 48 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
15 42 (4.33%) Amazon EMR
15 42 (4.33%) OpenShift
16 37 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
17 35 (3.61%) OCI
18 33 (3.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.12%) Firewall
2 23 (2.37%) Network Security
3 21 (2.16%) BGP
3 21 (2.16%) WAN
4 20 (2.06%) DNS
4 20 (2.06%) OSPF
5 19 (1.96%) BIG-IP
5 19 (1.96%) Ethernet VPN
5 19 (1.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 19 (1.96%) SD-WAN
5 19 (1.96%) VXLAN
6 15 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (1.44%) VPN
8 11 (1.13%) WLAN
9 9 (0.93%) HTTP
10 6 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.41%) MQTT
11 4 (0.41%) SSL
12 3 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (6.70%) MongoDB
3 54 (5.57%) Relational Database
4 50 (5.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 49 (5.05%) Amazon Athena
6 45 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
7 39 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
7 39 (4.02%) DynamoDB
8 36 (3.71%) NoSQL
9 30 (3.09%) Pentaho
9 30 (3.09%) Power BI
9 30 (3.09%) SQL Server
10 29 (2.99%) Oracle Database
11 26 (2.68%) Big Data
12 24 (2.47%) Data Lake
12 24 (2.47%) MySQL
13 20 (2.06%) RDBMS
14 18 (1.86%) Redis
15 14 (1.44%) Metadata
16 13 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 416 (42.89%) Jenkins
2 216 (22.27%) Git
3 147 (15.15%) JIRA
4 87 (8.97%) Selenium
5 70 (7.22%) JUnit
6 49 (5.05%) Cucumber
7 47 (4.85%) SonarQube
8 39 (4.02%) Bitbucket
9 38 (3.92%) Postman
10 37 (3.81%) REST Assured
11 35 (3.61%) Artifactory
11 35 (3.61%) JMeter
12 32 (3.30%) Gradle
13 31 (3.20%) Mockito
14 28 (2.89%) Gatling
14 28 (2.89%) WebDriver
15 26 (2.68%) Maven
16 18 (1.86%) Snyk
17 14 (1.44%) Serenity BDD
17 14 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 192 (19.79%) Public Sector
2 185 (19.07%) Social Skills
3 92 (9.48%) Finance
4 66 (6.80%) Banking
5 58 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (1.96%) Military
8 18 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.44%) Law
10 13 (1.34%) Legal
11 10 (1.03%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.72%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.62%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.62%) Publishing
14 5 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.52%) Police
14 5 (0.52%) Retail
15 3 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.21%) Corporate Banking
16 2 (0.21%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 217 (22.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 171 (17.63%) Senior
3 151 (15.57%) Developer
4 122 (12.58%) AWS Engineer
5 98 (10.10%) Data Engineer
6 82 (8.45%) AWS DevOps
7 74 (7.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 64 (6.60%) Lead
9 51 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
10 50 (5.15%) Java Developer
10 50 (5.15%) Software Engineer
11 47 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
12 44 (4.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 43 (4.43%) Test Engineer
14 34 (3.51%) Architect
15 32 (3.30%) Tester
16 31 (3.20%) Senior DevOps
17 30 (3.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 27 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
18 27 (2.78%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (12.89%) Kafka
2 111 (11.44%) Spring
3 105 (10.82%) REST
4 100 (10.31%) Spring Boot
5 78 (8.04%) RESTful
6 60 (6.19%) React
7 54 (5.57%) PySpark
8 50 (5.15%) Node.js
9 47 (4.85%) Playwright
10 38 (3.92%) YAML
11 35 (3.61%) JSON
12 32 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
12 32 (3.30%) RabbitMQ
13 27 (2.78%) WireMock
14 24 (2.47%) AWS CDK
14 24 (2.47%) HTML
14 24 (2.47%) pytest
15 23 (2.37%) Keycloak
15 23 (2.37%) OAuth
15 23 (2.37%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 179 (18.45%) Cloud Native
2 65 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.99%) Data Centre
6 26 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 22 (2.27%) Public Cloud
8 19 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
10 17 (1.75%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.55%) Algorithms
12 12 (1.24%) Mainframe
13 10 (1.03%) Private Cloud
14 9 (0.93%) AI Agents
14 9 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (0.82%) NHS
15 8 (0.82%) PKI
16 7 (0.72%) DataPower
16 7 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
17 6 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 184 (18.97%) Linux
2 47 (4.85%) Unix
3 39 (4.02%) Windows
4 34 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.34%) zOS
6 11 (1.13%) AIX
7 8 (0.82%) CentOS
7 8 (0.82%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.31%) Debian
9 3 (0.31%) Rocky
9 3 (0.31%) VMS
10 2 (0.21%) Android
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (82.78%) CI/CD
2 575 (59.28%) DevOps
3 406 (41.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 381 (39.28%) Agile
5 321 (33.09%) Containerisation
6 305 (31.44%) Test Automation
7 186 (19.18%) Microservices
8 161 (16.60%) Observability
9 151 (15.57%) Scrum
10 143 (14.74%) Platform Engineering
11 142 (14.64%) Software Engineering
12 135 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 128 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
14 106 (10.93%) AI
15 97 (10.00%) DevSecOps
16 91 (9.38%) ETL
17 90 (9.28%) Migration
18 84 (8.66%) Data Modelling
19 81 (8.35%) Data Pipeline
20 79 (8.14%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 402 (41.44%) Python
2 224 (23.09%) Java
3 217 (22.37%) SQL
4 151 (15.57%) Bash
5 80 (8.25%) JavaScript
6 66 (6.80%) TypeScript
7 63 (6.49%) PowerShell
8 50 (5.15%) C#
9 36 (3.71%) Go
10 31 (3.20%) Shell Script
11 22 (2.27%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.06%) Bicep
13 13 (1.34%) C++
14 8 (0.82%) Scala
15 7 (0.72%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.62%) C
16 6 (0.62%) Groovy
16 6 (0.62%) JCL
16 6 (0.62%) Ruby
17 4 (0.41%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 464 (47.84%) Security Cleared
2 395 (40.72%) SC Cleared
3 63 (6.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 48 (4.95%) DV Cleared
5 41 (4.23%) Degree
6 39 (4.02%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.86%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 16 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.13%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.03%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.72%) CISSP
14 6 (0.62%) CSSLP
15 5 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.41%) GIAC
17 3 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
18 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
18 2 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (9.59%) QA
2 49 (5.05%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.64%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.13%) WCAG
5 10 (1.03%) SLA
6 6 (0.62%) NIST
7 5 (0.52%) FATCA
7 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.41%) GDPR
9 3 (0.31%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.10%) GRC
11 1 (0.10%) MIL-STD-1553
11 1 (0.10%) NCSC
11 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 401 (41.34%) Docker
2 22 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (1.24%) Oracle RAC
6 7 (0.72%) HDFS
7 5 (0.52%) Squid
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
8 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.10%) vSphere
9 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 469 (48.35%) Terraform
2 422 (43.51%) Kubernetes
3 205 (21.13%) Ansible
4 185 (19.07%) Grafana
5 162 (16.70%) Prometheus
6 52 (5.36%) Argo
7 34 (3.51%) Puppet
8 17 (1.75%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.55%) Istio
10 12 (1.24%) Data Guard
10 12 (1.24%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (1.03%) Packer
12 9 (0.93%) Podman
13 6 (0.62%) Cilium
13 6 (0.62%) Red Hat Satellite
13 6 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.52%) Kibana
14 5 (0.52%) linkerd
14 5 (0.52%) Salt
15 4 (0.41%) Suricata
Vendors
1 113 (11.65%) Oracle
2 56 (5.77%) Microsoft
3 55 (5.67%) Talend
4 54 (5.57%) Informatica
4 54 (5.57%) Splunk
5 53 (5.46%) Google
6 30 (3.09%) Denodo
7 27 (2.78%) Databricks
8 25 (2.58%) VMware
9 24 (2.47%) Dynatrace
10 21 (2.16%) F5
10 21 (2.16%) Palo Alto
10 21 (2.16%) Red Hat
11 20 (2.06%) Salesforce
11 20 (2.06%) ServiceNow
12 18 (1.86%) Arista
12 18 (1.86%) Aruba
12 18 (1.86%) IBM
13 17 (1.75%) Trend Micro
14 15 (1.55%) Veracode