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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 137 196
Rank change year-on-year -15 +59 +32
Contract jobs citing GitLab 976 664 495
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.85% 2.02% 1.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.78% 13.56% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 432 338
10th Percentile £368 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £645
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -3.65% -2.91% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 10
10th Percentile £64.63 £60.50 £54.40
25th Percentile - £62.69 £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 £77.25 £73.55 £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 6,185 4,896 5,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.70% 14.88% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,963 3,319 3,304
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 263 109 214
10th Percentile £27.19 £25.24 £26.59
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.20
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 £87.34 £84.05 £73.93
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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -10 828 £500 -3.80% 342
UK excluding London +2 466 £482 -3.65% 195
London +4 360 £525 -0.47% 175
Work from Home +11 342 £475 -10.38% 182
North of England -23 169 £464 -2.32% 58
Midlands +31 139 £469 -6.20% 25
West Midlands +25 132 £469 -11.68% 18
South East -35 75 £550 - 39
North East +8 71 £413 -11.29% 10
North West -40 69 £575 +18.56% 41
South West -31 50 £550 -8.33% 41
Yorkshire -43 42 £550 +12.82% 7
East of England -15 30 £483 +1.58% 14
Scotland -17 19 £400 - 13
East Midlands -8 7 £470 +74.07% 7
Northern Ireland +4 1 - - 7

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 (10.14%) Confluence
2 60 (6.15%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (5.74%) Apache Spark
4 45 (4.61%) Apache
5 38 (3.89%) SAS
6 30 (3.07%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.61%) Camunda
7 6 (0.61%) CICS
7 6 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.41%) CMS
9 3 (0.31%) nginx
9 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
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 (0.41%) Trello
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
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
1 658 (67.42%) AWS
2 339 (34.73%) GitHub
3 333 (34.12%) Azure
4 249 (25.51%) GitHub Actions
5 167 (17.11%) GCP
6 149 (15.27%) Azure DevOps
7 141 (14.45%) Amazon S3
8 134 (13.73%) Serverless
9 128 (13.11%) Amazon EKS
10 122 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
11 115 (11.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 96 (9.84%) Amazon EC2
13 83 (8.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 67 (6.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 54 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
16 44 (4.51%) Amazon EMR
17 41 (4.20%) OpenShift
18 39 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
19 37 (3.79%) Power Platform
20 35 (3.59%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 42 (4.30%) Firewall
2 25 (2.56%) DNS
3 22 (2.25%) BGP
3 22 (2.25%) Network Security
3 22 (2.25%) WAN
4 21 (2.15%) OSPF
4 21 (2.15%) SD-WAN
5 20 (2.05%) Ethernet VPN
5 20 (2.05%) VXLAN
6 19 (1.95%) BIG-IP
6 19 (1.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 16 (1.64%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (1.33%) VPN
10 11 (1.13%) WLAN
11 9 (0.92%) HTTP
12 6 (0.61%) SSL
13 4 (0.41%) DHCP
13 4 (0.41%) MQTT
13 4 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (8.50%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (7.48%) MongoDB
3 50 (5.12%) Relational Database
4 48 (4.92%) Amazon Athena
4 48 (4.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 47 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
6 42 (4.30%) DynamoDB
7 40 (4.10%) NoSQL
8 39 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
9 35 (3.59%) Pentaho
10 34 (3.48%) Power BI
11 32 (3.28%) SQL Server
12 27 (2.77%) Big Data
12 27 (2.77%) Data Lake
12 27 (2.77%) MySQL
12 27 (2.77%) Oracle Database
13 23 (2.36%) RDBMS
14 22 (2.25%) Redis
15 14 (1.43%) Metadata
16 12 (1.23%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 414 (42.42%) Jenkins
2 224 (22.95%) Git
3 133 (13.63%) JIRA
4 79 (8.09%) Selenium
5 70 (7.17%) JUnit
6 52 (5.33%) Cucumber
7 47 (4.82%) SonarQube
8 45 (4.61%) Bitbucket
9 35 (3.59%) Artifactory
10 33 (3.38%) JMeter
11 32 (3.28%) Gradle
12 29 (2.97%) Gatling
12 29 (2.97%) Maven
12 29 (2.97%) Postman
13 26 (2.66%) Mockito
13 26 (2.66%) REST Assured
14 24 (2.46%) WebDriver
15 20 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
16 19 (1.95%) Snyk
17 11 (1.13%) MLflow
General
1 190 (19.47%) Social Skills
2 183 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 95 (9.73%) Finance
4 65 (6.66%) Banking
5 57 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (2.05%) Military
8 16 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.43%) Law
10 13 (1.33%) Legal
11 9 (0.92%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.82%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.72%) Publishing
14 5 (0.51%) Financial Institution
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%) Back Office
16 3 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 211 (21.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 182 (18.65%) Senior
3 156 (15.98%) Developer
4 121 (12.40%) AWS Engineer
5 104 (10.66%) Data Engineer
6 75 (7.68%) AWS DevOps
7 69 (7.07%) Lead
8 68 (6.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 57 (5.84%) Software Engineer
10 52 (5.33%) Platform Engineer
11 50 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
12 49 (5.02%) Java Developer
13 43 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 39 (4.00%) Test Engineer
15 33 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
16 32 (3.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 30 (3.07%) Architect
17 30 (3.07%) Software Developer
17 30 (3.07%) Tester
18 29 (2.97%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (13.01%) Kafka
2 118 (12.09%) Spring
3 105 (10.76%) REST
4 103 (10.55%) Spring Boot
5 62 (6.35%) RESTful
6 60 (6.15%) React
7 57 (5.84%) Node.js
8 56 (5.74%) PySpark
9 50 (5.12%) Playwright
10 40 (4.10%) JSON
11 37 (3.79%) RabbitMQ
12 31 (3.18%) Elastic Stack
13 29 (2.97%) WireMock
14 28 (2.87%) OAuth
15 26 (2.66%) YAML
16 25 (2.56%) HTML
17 24 (2.46%) AWS CDK
17 24 (2.46%) Keycloak
17 24 (2.46%) pytest
18 23 (2.36%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 190 (19.47%) Cloud Native
2 69 (7.07%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.38%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (2.97%) Data Centre
7 21 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (2.05%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
9 18 (1.84%) Public Cloud
10 17 (1.74%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.23%) Mainframe
12 11 (1.13%) 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
15 6 (0.61%) DataPower
15 6 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 178 (18.24%) Linux
2 48 (4.92%) Unix
3 41 (4.20%) Windows
4 35 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.23%) AIX
5 12 (1.23%) zOS
6 11 (1.13%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.82%) CentOS
7 8 (0.82%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.31%) Debian
8 3 (0.31%) Rocky
9 2 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.20%) Android
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (82.27%) CI/CD
2 574 (58.81%) DevOps
3 416 (42.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 388 (39.75%) Agile
5 321 (32.89%) Containerisation
6 298 (30.53%) Test Automation
7 188 (19.26%) Microservices
8 167 (17.11%) Observability
9 156 (15.98%) Software Engineering
10 155 (15.88%) Scrum
11 151 (15.47%) Platform Engineering
12 144 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 127 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
14 117 (11.99%) AI
15 103 (10.55%) DevSecOps
16 98 (10.04%) ETL
17 90 (9.22%) Data Pipeline
18 89 (9.12%) Migration
19 84 (8.61%) Mentoring
20 83 (8.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 410 (42.01%) Python
2 228 (23.36%) Java
3 227 (23.26%) SQL
4 164 (16.80%) Bash
5 85 (8.71%) JavaScript
6 78 (7.99%) PowerShell
7 69 (7.07%) TypeScript
8 55 (5.64%) C#
9 33 (3.38%) Go
10 28 (2.87%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.36%) Bicep
11 23 (2.36%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.43%) C++
13 9 (0.92%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.82%) Groovy
14 8 (0.82%) Scala
15 6 (0.61%) C
15 6 (0.61%) JCL
15 6 (0.61%) R
16 5 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 466 (47.75%) Security Cleared
2 399 (40.88%) SC Cleared
3 57 (5.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 52 (5.33%) DV Cleared
5 41 (4.20%) AWS Certification
5 41 (4.20%) Degree
6 30 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (1.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 19 (1.95%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 13 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.13%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (0.92%) CISSP
11 9 (0.92%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.61%) CSSLP
14 4 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.41%) GIAC
15 3 (0.31%) CCNP
15 3 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (10.35%) QA
2 50 (5.12%) Accessibility
3 46 (4.71%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.43%) WCAG
5 10 (1.02%) SLA
6 8 (0.82%) NIST
7 6 (0.61%) GDPR
7 6 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.51%) FATCA
8 5 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.31%) NCSC
10 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
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
1 406 (41.60%) Docker
2 22 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.33%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.72%) HDFS
7 5 (0.51%) Squid
8 3 (0.31%) 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
1 472 (48.36%) Terraform
2 434 (44.47%) Kubernetes
3 224 (22.95%) Ansible
4 175 (17.93%) Grafana
5 151 (15.47%) Prometheus
6 48 (4.92%) Argo
7 37 (3.79%) Puppet
8 21 (2.15%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.54%) 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%) Suricata
Vendors
1 113 (11.58%) Oracle
2 63 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 61 (6.25%) Google
4 55 (5.64%) Informatica
4 55 (5.64%) Talend
5 53 (5.43%) Splunk
6 34 (3.48%) Dynatrace
7 33 (3.38%) Databricks
8 30 (3.07%) VMware
9 29 (2.97%) Denodo
10 21 (2.15%) Palo Alto
10 21 (2.15%) ServiceNow
11 20 (2.05%) F5
12 18 (1.84%) Arista
12 18 (1.84%) Aruba
13 17 (1.74%) IBM
13 17 (1.74%) Red Hat
13 17 (1.74%) Trend Micro
14 9 (0.92%) Tenable
15 8 (0.82%) OpenAI