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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 146 217
Rank change year-on-year +12 +71 +33
Contract jobs citing GitLab 957 573 477
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.93% 1.95% 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.35% 13.32% 9.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 355 337
10th Percentile £385 £360 £400
25th Percentile £424 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £650
90th Percentile £672 £662 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 1 10
10th Percentile £39.53 - £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £56.69
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +15.22% +81.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £74.86
90th Percentile £75.00 - £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.00 £82.96 £74.22
% change year-on-year -26.47% +11.78% +87.42%

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 5,853 4,302 5,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.83% 14.65% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,795 2,879 3,517
10th Percentile £350 £330 £355
25th Percentile £410 £409 £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 £686 £694 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 80 232
10th Percentile £34.85 £20.74 £31.30
25th Percentile £56.25 £45.82 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.04 £77.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.83% -7.69% +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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +11 806 £500 -3.80% 181
UK excluding London +35 484 £475 -5.00% 138
London -17 328 £525 -0.94% 56
Work from Home +14 303 £475 -5.00% 104
North of England -3 195 £475 -3.46% 39
Midlands +15 130 £459 -8.20% 14
West Midlands +18 119 £461 -10.10% 10
North West -3 93 £525 +6.71% 18
Yorkshire -23 64 £500 - 10
South East -41 64 £550 +9.89% 41
North East +6 52 £413 -12.70% 11
South West +1 51 £500 -9.09% 19
East of England +2 38 £483 +1.58% 18
Scotland -11 22 £401 -0.37% 6
East Midlands -22 11 £425 +46.30% 4
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 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 93 (9.72%) Confluence
2 42 (4.39%) Apache Spark
2 42 (4.39%) SAS
3 41 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (3.55%) Apache
5 22 (2.30%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.94%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.73%) CICS
8 6 (0.63%) nginx
9 5 (0.52%) Camunda
9 5 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.31%) 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
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.10%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 602 (62.90%) AWS
2 324 (33.86%) GitHub
3 317 (33.12%) Azure
4 234 (24.45%) GitHub Actions
5 159 (16.61%) GCP
6 142 (14.84%) Serverless
7 140 (14.63%) Amazon S3
8 126 (13.17%) Amazon EKS
9 123 (12.85%) AWS Lambda
10 117 (12.23%) Azure DevOps
11 107 (11.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 98 (10.24%) Amazon EC2
13 84 (8.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 71 (7.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 54 (5.64%) OpenShift
16 51 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
17 34 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
17 34 (3.55%) Azure AKS
18 31 (3.24%) Amazon EMR
18 31 (3.24%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.91%) Firewall
2 27 (2.82%) DNS
3 23 (2.40%) Network Security
4 21 (2.19%) BGP
4 21 (2.19%) TCP/IP
4 21 (2.19%) WAN
5 20 (2.09%) OSPF
6 19 (1.99%) BIG-IP
6 19 (1.99%) Ethernet VPN
6 19 (1.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 19 (1.99%) SD-WAN
6 19 (1.99%) VXLAN
7 15 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (1.25%) VPN
9 11 (1.15%) WLAN
10 9 (0.94%) HTTP
11 7 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (0.52%) SSL
13 4 (0.42%) SAN
13 4 (0.42%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (6.27%) MongoDB
3 44 (4.60%) DynamoDB
4 43 (4.49%) NoSQL
5 42 (4.39%) Amazon Athena
5 42 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
5 42 (4.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 41 (4.28%) Relational Database
7 37 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (3.66%) MySQL
9 30 (3.13%) Power BI
10 29 (3.03%) Pentaho
11 28 (2.93%) SQL Server
12 26 (2.72%) Big Data
12 26 (2.72%) Data Lake
13 25 (2.61%) Redis
14 19 (1.99%) Oracle Database
15 15 (1.57%) DocumentDB
16 14 (1.46%) BigQuery
17 12 (1.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 425 (44.41%) Jenkins
2 204 (21.32%) Git
3 151 (15.78%) JIRA
4 93 (9.72%) Selenium
5 67 (7.00%) JUnit
6 54 (5.64%) Cucumber
7 47 (4.91%) Postman
8 46 (4.81%) REST Assured
9 39 (4.08%) JMeter
10 35 (3.66%) Artifactory
10 35 (3.66%) SonarQube
11 34 (3.55%) Bitbucket
11 34 (3.55%) Gradle
12 28 (2.93%) Gatling
13 27 (2.82%) WebDriver
14 26 (2.72%) Mockito
15 19 (1.99%) CircleCI
16 18 (1.88%) Snyk
17 17 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
18 14 (1.46%) Serenity BDD
General
1 193 (20.17%) Social Skills
2 183 (19.12%) Public Sector
3 97 (10.14%) Finance
4 65 (6.79%) Banking
5 58 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (1.67%) Military
8 14 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.46%) Law
9 11 (1.15%) Retail
10 10 (1.04%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.04%) Legal
11 9 (0.94%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.63%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.52%) Publishing
14 4 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.42%) Police
14 4 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.31%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 211 (22.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 152 (15.88%) Senior
3 142 (14.84%) Developer
4 113 (11.81%) AWS Engineer
5 95 (9.93%) Data Engineer
6 78 (8.15%) AWS DevOps
7 71 (7.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 65 (6.79%) Lead
9 56 (5.85%) Software Engineer
10 51 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
11 48 (5.02%) Java Developer
12 47 (4.91%) Test Engineer
13 44 (4.60%) Architect
13 44 (4.60%) Platform Engineer
14 33 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 32 (3.34%) Senior DevOps
16 31 (3.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 29 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
17 29 (3.03%) Tester
18 27 (2.82%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (12.96%) Kafka
1 124 (12.96%) Spring
2 111 (11.60%) REST
3 110 (11.49%) Spring Boot
4 76 (7.94%) RESTful
5 62 (6.48%) React
6 56 (5.85%) Node.js
7 46 (4.81%) Playwright
7 46 (4.81%) PySpark
8 40 (4.18%) Elastic Stack
9 35 (3.66%) OpenTelemetry
10 31 (3.24%) LDAP
11 29 (3.03%) OAuth
12 28 (2.93%) OpenID
12 28 (2.93%) YAML
13 27 (2.82%) AWS CDK
13 27 (2.82%) pytest
14 26 (2.72%) AngularJS
15 25 (2.61%) JSON
15 25 (2.61%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 176 (18.39%) Cloud Native
2 63 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (6.17%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.08%) Data Centre
5 32 (3.34%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (1.88%) Distributed Architecture
8 17 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (1.67%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.25%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.25%) Private Cloud
11 9 (0.94%) Algorithms
11 9 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (0.94%) NHS
11 9 (0.94%) PKI
12 8 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.84%) Mainframe
13 7 (0.73%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.73%) DataPower
13 7 (0.73%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 175 (18.29%) Linux
2 54 (5.64%) Unix
3 46 (4.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 39 (4.08%) Windows
5 15 (1.57%) CentOS
6 10 (1.04%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.84%) zOS
8 4 (0.42%) Debian
8 4 (0.42%) Rocky
8 4 (0.42%) VMS
8 4 (0.42%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.21%) AIX
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
1 774 (80.88%) CI/CD
2 552 (57.68%) DevOps
3 371 (38.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 352 (36.78%) Agile
5 318 (33.23%) Containerisation
6 303 (31.66%) Test Automation
7 196 (20.48%) Microservices
8 178 (18.60%) Observability
9 144 (15.05%) Scrum
10 140 (14.63%) Software Engineering
11 132 (13.79%) Platform Engineering
12 127 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 127 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
13 101 (10.55%) ETL
14 94 (9.82%) DevSecOps
15 92 (9.61%) AI
16 83 (8.67%) Migration
17 81 (8.46%) Data Modelling
18 77 (8.05%) Analytics
18 77 (8.05%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 372 (38.87%) Python
2 247 (25.81%) Java
3 233 (24.35%) SQL
4 136 (14.21%) Bash
5 84 (8.78%) JavaScript
6 68 (7.11%) TypeScript
7 54 (5.64%) PowerShell
8 47 (4.91%) Shell Script
9 39 (4.08%) C#
10 36 (3.76%) Go
11 26 (2.72%) PL/SQL
12 18 (1.88%) Bicep
13 14 (1.46%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.15%) C++
14 11 (1.15%) MATLAB
14 11 (1.15%) Ruby
14 11 (1.15%) Scala
15 7 (0.73%) PHP
16 6 (0.63%) C
16 6 (0.63%) JCL
Qualifications
1 436 (45.56%) Security Cleared
2 375 (39.18%) SC Cleared
3 52 (5.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 41 (4.28%) Degree
5 36 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 34 (3.55%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 13 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 13 (1.36%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.15%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.04%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.63%) CISSP
13 4 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.42%) CSSLP
13 4 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.31%) CISM
14 3 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.31%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (10.24%) QA
2 43 (4.49%) Accessibility
3 38 (3.97%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.30%) SLA
5 12 (1.25%) WCAG
6 11 (1.15%) GDPR
6 11 (1.15%) NIST
7 9 (0.94%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.52%) FATCA
10 5 (0.52%) NCSC
11 4 (0.42%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.10%) GRC
13 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
13 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 386 (40.33%) Docker
2 22 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.63%) Squid
6 5 (0.52%) HDFS
7 4 (0.42%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.31%) vSphere
9 2 (0.21%) iptables
9 2 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 430 (44.93%) Terraform
2 420 (43.89%) Kubernetes
3 194 (20.27%) Grafana
4 191 (19.96%) Ansible
5 167 (17.45%) Prometheus
6 56 (5.85%) Argo
7 27 (2.82%) Puppet
8 24 (2.51%) Istio
9 15 (1.57%) Podman
10 14 (1.46%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (1.36%) Progress Chef
12 11 (1.15%) Check_MK
13 9 (0.94%) Packer
13 9 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.84%) linkerd
15 6 (0.63%) Cilium
15 6 (0.63%) Kibana
16 5 (0.52%) Salt
17 4 (0.42%) Suricata
18 3 (0.31%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 107 (11.18%) Oracle
2 61 (6.37%) Splunk
3 55 (5.75%) Microsoft
3 55 (5.75%) Talend
4 46 (4.81%) Google
5 44 (4.60%) Informatica
6 40 (4.18%) Red Hat
7 38 (3.97%) VMware
8 36 (3.76%) ServiceNow
9 30 (3.13%) Databricks
9 30 (3.13%) Denodo
10 26 (2.72%) Dynatrace
11 22 (2.30%) F5
12 20 (2.09%) Arista
12 20 (2.09%) Palo Alto
12 20 (2.09%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.88%) Aruba
14 13 (1.36%) Veracode
15 11 (1.15%) IBM
15 11 (1.15%) Tenable