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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 137 188
Rank change year-on-year -12 +51 +48
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,018 654 488
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.91% 1.99% 1.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.31% 13.33% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 702 428 329
10th Percentile £374 £370 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £645
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -2.67% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 9
10th Percentile - £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 - £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 6,242 4,906 5,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.69% 14.90% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,004 3,303 3,291
10th Percentile £351 £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 £590 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 111 210
10th Percentile £34.49 £27.94 £27.80
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £47.25
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.83 £85.25 £73.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 0 864 £500 -3.80% 297
UK excluding London +8 492 £487 -2.67% 162
London +15 370 £525 - 148
Work from Home +10 356 £475 -9.52% 151
North of England -21 181 £500 +2.30% 45
Midlands +36 137 £469 -10.11% 20
West Midlands +28 130 £469 -12.42% 14
South East -37 79 £550 +3.53% 31
North East +7 76 £413 -12.70% 13
North West -26 73 £575 +17.35% 25
South West -25 57 £550 -8.33% 38
Yorkshire -41 45 £550 +10.00% 7
East of England -14 33 £475 - 15
Scotland -10 20 £400 +0.06% 13
East Midlands -19 7 £459 +69.81% 6
Northern Ireland +5 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 95 (9.33%) Confluence
2 66 (6.48%) Apache Airflow
3 63 (6.19%) Apache Spark
4 50 (4.91%) Apache
5 38 (3.73%) SAS
6 32 (3.14%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.59%) Camunda
7 6 (0.59%) CICS
7 6 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.39%) CMS
9 3 (0.29%) nginx
9 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
10 2 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Trello
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.098%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.098%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.098%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 687 (67.49%) AWS
2 361 (35.46%) GitHub
3 358 (35.17%) Azure
4 264 (25.93%) GitHub Actions
5 180 (17.68%) GCP
6 161 (15.82%) Azure DevOps
7 142 (13.95%) Amazon S3
8 140 (13.75%) Serverless
9 135 (13.26%) Amazon EKS
10 128 (12.57%) AWS Lambda
11 119 (11.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 97 (9.53%) Amazon EC2
13 83 (8.15%) AWS CloudFormation
14 67 (6.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 58 (5.70%) Amazon ECS
16 45 (4.42%) Amazon EMR
16 45 (4.42%) OpenShift
17 43 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (3.54%) Datadog
19 35 (3.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.72%) Firewall
2 33 (3.24%) DNS
3 26 (2.55%) BGP
3 26 (2.55%) Network Security
4 24 (2.36%) Ethernet VPN
4 24 (2.36%) VXLAN
5 23 (2.26%) WAN
6 22 (2.16%) SD-WAN
7 21 (2.06%) OSPF
8 20 (1.96%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.87%) BIG-IP
9 19 (1.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 15 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (1.28%) VPN
12 12 (1.18%) HTTP
13 11 (1.08%) WLAN
14 8 (0.79%) SSL
15 6 (0.59%) DHCP
16 5 (0.49%) NX-OS
16 5 (0.49%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (7.66%) MongoDB
3 53 (5.21%) Relational Database
4 50 (4.91%) Amazon Athena
4 50 (4.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 47 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (4.32%) NoSQL
7 42 (4.13%) Amazon RDS
7 42 (4.13%) DynamoDB
8 36 (3.54%) Pentaho
9 35 (3.44%) SQL Server
10 32 (3.14%) Power BI
11 30 (2.95%) Data Lake
11 30 (2.95%) MySQL
12 28 (2.75%) Big Data
12 28 (2.75%) Redis
13 27 (2.65%) Oracle Database
14 24 (2.36%) RDBMS
15 14 (1.38%) Oracle Exadata
16 13 (1.28%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 434 (42.63%) Jenkins
2 235 (23.08%) Git
3 129 (12.67%) JIRA
4 83 (8.15%) Selenium
5 69 (6.78%) JUnit
6 52 (5.11%) Cucumber
7 49 (4.81%) SonarQube
8 44 (4.32%) Bitbucket
9 35 (3.44%) Artifactory
10 33 (3.24%) JMeter
11 32 (3.14%) Gradle
11 32 (3.14%) Maven
12 31 (3.05%) Postman
13 27 (2.65%) Gatling
13 27 (2.65%) Mockito
14 26 (2.55%) REST Assured
15 23 (2.26%) WebDriver
16 21 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
17 20 (1.96%) Snyk
18 13 (1.28%) Cypress.io
General
1 198 (19.45%) Social Skills
2 186 (18.27%) Public Sector
3 101 (9.92%) Finance
4 63 (6.19%) Banking
5 62 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (1.96%) Military
8 18 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.38%) Law
10 13 (1.28%) Legal
11 10 (0.98%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.69%) Publishing
13 6 (0.59%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.49%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.49%) Police
14 5 (0.49%) Retail
15 4 (0.39%) Marketing
15 4 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.29%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 219 (21.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 186 (18.27%) Senior
3 167 (16.40%) Developer
4 128 (12.57%) AWS Engineer
5 105 (10.31%) Data Engineer
6 79 (7.76%) AWS DevOps
7 74 (7.27%) Lead
8 72 (7.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 58 (5.70%) Software Engineer
10 53 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (5.11%) Java Developer
12 49 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
13 44 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 41 (4.03%) Test Engineer
15 35 (3.44%) Architect
16 33 (3.24%) Senior DevOps
16 33 (3.24%) Software Developer
16 33 (3.24%) Tester
17 32 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 29 (2.85%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (13.95%) Kafka
2 122 (11.98%) Spring
3 116 (11.39%) REST
4 108 (10.61%) Spring Boot
5 69 (6.78%) RESTful
6 64 (6.29%) React
7 58 (5.70%) Node.js
8 53 (5.21%) PySpark
9 52 (5.11%) Playwright
10 47 (4.62%) JSON
11 42 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
12 32 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
12 32 (3.14%) YAML
13 31 (3.05%) OAuth
14 30 (2.95%) HTML
15 29 (2.85%) WireMock
16 28 (2.75%) pytest
17 27 (2.65%) CSS
18 26 (2.55%) Keycloak
19 25 (2.46%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 201 (19.74%) Cloud Native
2 69 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.60%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.24%) Onboarding
5 32 (3.14%) Data Centre
5 32 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (2.16%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
9 17 (1.67%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.47%) Mainframe
10 15 (1.47%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.38%) AI Agents
12 10 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.88%) PKI
13 9 (0.88%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (0.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 190 (18.66%) Linux
2 51 (5.01%) Unix
3 42 (4.13%) Windows
4 37 (3.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.28%) Ubuntu
5 13 (1.28%) zOS
6 12 (1.18%) AIX
7 10 (0.98%) CentOS
8 7 (0.69%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.39%) Debian
9 4 (0.39%) Rocky
9 4 (0.39%) VMS
10 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.20%) Android
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.098%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 841 (82.61%) CI/CD
2 601 (59.04%) DevOps
3 440 (43.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 392 (38.51%) Agile
5 344 (33.79%) Containerisation
6 310 (30.45%) Test Automation
7 196 (19.25%) Microservices
8 180 (17.68%) Observability
9 166 (16.31%) Software Engineering
10 158 (15.52%) Scrum
11 149 (14.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 149 (14.64%) Platform Engineering
12 135 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
13 121 (11.89%) AI
14 111 (10.90%) DevSecOps
15 104 (10.22%) ETL
16 98 (9.63%) Migration
17 95 (9.33%) Event-Driven
18 89 (8.74%) Data Pipeline
19 88 (8.64%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 436 (42.83%) Python
2 237 (23.28%) Java
2 237 (23.28%) SQL
3 182 (17.88%) Bash
4 90 (8.84%) JavaScript
5 89 (8.74%) PowerShell
6 69 (6.78%) TypeScript
7 60 (5.89%) C#
8 35 (3.44%) Go
9 31 (3.05%) Shell Script
10 25 (2.46%) PL/SQL
11 22 (2.16%) Bicep
12 14 (1.38%) C++
13 11 (1.08%) Groovy
14 10 (0.98%) Scala
15 9 (0.88%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.59%) JCL
16 6 (0.59%) R
17 5 (0.49%) Cypher
17 5 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 490 (48.13%) Security Cleared
2 410 (40.28%) SC Cleared
3 59 (5.80%) DV Cleared
4 56 (5.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 46 (4.52%) Degree
6 45 (4.42%) AWS Certification
7 31 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (1.96%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 14 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (1.28%) CISSP
13 11 (1.08%) SAFe Agilist
14 9 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.88%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.59%) CSSLP
16 5 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 4 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
17 4 (0.39%) GCIH
17 4 (0.39%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (10.31%) QA
2 50 (4.91%) Accessibility
3 44 (4.32%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.28%) WCAG
5 12 (1.18%) GDPR
6 11 (1.08%) NIST
7 10 (0.98%) SLA
8 9 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.49%) FATCA
12 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.39%) NCSC
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.098%) MIL-STD-1553
14 1 (0.098%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.098%) OpenSCAP
14 1 (0.098%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 429 (42.14%) Docker
2 23 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.16%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.28%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.69%) HDFS
7 5 (0.49%) Squid
7 5 (0.49%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.29%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.20%) iptables
9 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.098%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.098%) vSphere
10 1 (0.098%) zsh
Systems Management
1 496 (48.72%) Terraform
2 465 (45.68%) Kubernetes
3 239 (23.48%) Ansible
4 181 (17.78%) Grafana
5 156 (15.32%) Prometheus
6 52 (5.11%) Argo
7 40 (3.93%) Puppet
8 26 (2.55%) Progress Chef
9 17 (1.67%) Istio
10 13 (1.28%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.28%) Oracle RMAN
11 12 (1.18%) Packer
12 9 (0.88%) Podman
13 8 (0.79%) Kustomize
13 8 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.69%) Kibana
15 6 (0.59%) Cilium
16 5 (0.49%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.49%) linkerd
16 5 (0.49%) Salt
Vendors
1 117 (11.49%) Oracle
2 70 (6.88%) Microsoft
3 64 (6.29%) Google
4 58 (5.70%) Informatica
4 58 (5.70%) Splunk
5 57 (5.60%) Talend
6 38 (3.73%) Databricks
7 35 (3.44%) Dynatrace
7 35 (3.44%) VMware
8 29 (2.85%) Denodo
9 25 (2.46%) ServiceNow
10 21 (2.06%) Palo Alto
10 21 (2.06%) Red Hat
11 20 (1.96%) F5
12 18 (1.77%) Arista
12 18 (1.77%) Aruba
12 18 (1.77%) IBM
12 18 (1.77%) Trend Micro
13 9 (0.88%) Cisco
13 9 (0.88%) Tenable