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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 127 167
Rank change year-on-year -8 +40 +96
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,152 744 581
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.08% 2.24% 1.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.72% 14.58% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 519 389
10th Percentile £379 £375 £356
25th Percentile £427 £441 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £675 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 7
10th Percentile £56.75 £59.75 £70.40
25th Percentile £64.38 £61.75 -
Median hourly rate £66.61 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% -9.46% +48.59%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.72
90th Percentile £95.00 £68.10 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +5.71%

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 6,500 5,104 5,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 15.37% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,165 3,464 3,138
10th Percentile £354 £326 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 111 168
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £29.67
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.75 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 15 October 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 15 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Top 17 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 15 October 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 0 970 £500 -3.80% 173
UK excluding London -21 552 £500 - 134
London +24 416 £520 -0.95% 50
Work from Home +7 391 £500 -4.76% 101
North of England -49 187 £500 +5.04% 40
Midlands +39 170 £470 -11.26% 26
West Midlands +27 156 £475 -11.63% 20
North West -32 81 £569 +41.54% 26
North East -3 78 £413 -28.26% 7
South East -35 75 £543 +8.50% 18
South West -13 61 £550 -8.33% 33
East of England -20 40 £450 -7.69% 10
Yorkshire -76 39 £550 +10.00% 7
Scotland -15 31 £438 -5.41% 3
East Midlands -2 14 £402 +48.89% 6
Northern Ireland 0 2 £600 - 1
Wales -14 2 - - 3

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
1 108 (9.38%) Confluence
2 84 (7.29%) Apache Spark
3 75 (6.51%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (6.08%) Apache
5 34 (2.95%) Jupyter
6 21 (1.82%) SAS
7 17 (1.48%) nginx
8 11 (0.95%) Camunda
9 5 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.35%) CMS
11 3 (0.26%) CICS
11 3 (0.26%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.17%) PowerExchange
12 2 (0.17%) Traefik
12 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.087%) Appian
13 1 (0.087%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.087%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.35%) Trello
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.087%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.087%) CATIA
3 1 (0.087%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.087%) Simulink
3 1 (0.087%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.087%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 756 (65.63%) AWS
2 374 (32.47%) Azure
3 373 (32.38%) GitHub
4 254 (22.05%) GitHub Actions
5 182 (15.80%) GCP
6 176 (15.28%) Azure DevOps
7 152 (13.19%) Amazon S3
8 148 (12.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 143 (12.41%) Amazon EKS
9 143 (12.41%) Serverless
10 132 (11.46%) AWS Lambda
11 114 (9.90%) Amazon EC2
12 82 (7.12%) Amazon ECS
13 79 (6.86%) AWS CloudFormation
14 70 (6.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 69 (5.99%) OpenShift
16 54 (4.69%) Amazon SQS
17 52 (4.51%) Amazon EMR
18 44 (3.82%) Power Platform
19 39 (3.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.17%) Firewall
2 43 (3.73%) DNS
3 32 (2.78%) Network Security
4 31 (2.69%) TCP/IP
5 30 (2.60%) BGP
5 30 (2.60%) Ethernet VPN
5 30 (2.60%) VXLAN
5 30 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (1.91%) WAN
7 21 (1.82%) BIG-IP
7 21 (1.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 21 (1.82%) SD-WAN
8 20 (1.74%) OSPF
9 18 (1.56%) VPN
10 16 (1.39%) HTTP
11 15 (1.30%) Broadband
11 15 (1.30%) IPv4
11 15 (1.30%) IPv6
12 14 (1.22%) 5G
13 13 (1.13%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (9.29%) MongoDB
2 103 (8.94%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
5 54 (4.69%) Amazon Athena
6 53 (4.60%) Relational Database
7 52 (4.51%) NoSQL
8 45 (3.91%) Data Lake
9 42 (3.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 42 (3.65%) Power BI
10 40 (3.47%) Pentaho
11 39 (3.39%) DynamoDB
11 39 (3.39%) SQL Server
12 37 (3.21%) MySQL
13 35 (3.04%) Big Data
13 35 (3.04%) Oracle Database
14 34 (2.95%) Redis
15 28 (2.43%) RDBMS
16 18 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
17 15 (1.30%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 452 (39.24%) Jenkins
2 306 (26.56%) Git
3 160 (13.89%) JIRA
4 101 (8.77%) JUnit
5 95 (8.25%) Selenium
6 79 (6.86%) Cucumber
7 66 (5.73%) Maven
7 66 (5.73%) SonarQube
8 49 (4.25%) Gatling
9 47 (4.08%) Mockito
10 43 (3.73%) Gradle
11 38 (3.30%) REST Assured
12 35 (3.04%) Bitbucket
12 35 (3.04%) Sonatype Nexus
13 32 (2.78%) Artifactory
14 30 (2.60%) JMeter
15 23 (2.00%) Postman
16 19 (1.65%) Cypress.io
17 18 (1.56%) WebDriver
18 14 (1.22%) Zephyr
General
1 235 (20.40%) Social Skills
2 214 (18.58%) Public Sector
3 131 (11.37%) Finance
4 86 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (6.77%) Banking
6 34 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (2.26%) Telecoms
8 23 (2.00%) Military
9 13 (1.13%) Law
10 12 (1.04%) Aerospace
11 11 (0.95%) Legal
12 9 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.69%) Publishing
14 7 (0.61%) Investment Banking
14 7 (0.61%) Police
15 6 (0.52%) Back Office
16 5 (0.43%) Front Office
17 4 (0.35%) Local Government
17 4 (0.35%) Marketing
17 4 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 265 (23.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 210 (18.23%) Developer
3 194 (16.84%) Senior
4 131 (11.37%) AWS Engineer
5 103 (8.94%) Data Engineer
6 83 (7.20%) AWS DevOps
7 77 (6.68%) Lead
8 76 (6.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 66 (5.73%) Java Developer
10 56 (4.86%) Test Engineer
11 52 (4.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 51 (4.43%) Software Developer
13 50 (4.34%) Cloud Engineer
14 49 (4.25%) Platform Engineer
15 48 (4.17%) Architect
16 45 (3.91%) Java Engineer
16 45 (3.91%) Software Engineer
17 38 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
18 36 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
19 35 (3.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 568 (49.31%) Terraform
2 174 (15.10%) Kafka
3 170 (14.76%) Spring
4 147 (12.76%) Spring Boot
5 145 (12.59%) REST
6 87 (7.55%) Playwright
7 86 (7.47%) React
8 80 (6.94%) RESTful
9 61 (5.30%) JSON
9 61 (5.30%) RabbitMQ
10 56 (4.86%) Node.js
11 51 (4.43%) PySpark
12 40 (3.47%) HTML
12 40 (3.47%) OAuth
13 38 (3.30%) .NET
14 37 (3.21%) JPA
15 36 (3.13%) CSS
15 36 (3.13%) OpenAPI
16 35 (3.04%) Elastic Stack
17 34 (2.95%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 235 (20.40%) Cloud Native
2 70 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 38 (3.30%) Onboarding
6 37 (3.21%) Data Centre
7 34 (2.95%) Data Structures
8 29 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (1.91%) PKI
10 19 (1.65%) AI Agents
11 18 (1.56%) Algorithms
12 16 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
12 16 (1.39%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (1.13%) Private Cloud
15 12 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
15 12 (1.04%) Mainframe
15 12 (1.04%) Replication
16 11 (0.95%) Security Posture
17 9 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 241 (20.92%) Linux
2 59 (5.12%) Windows
3 50 (4.34%) Unix
4 44 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.48%) Ubuntu
6 16 (1.39%) CentOS
7 15 (1.30%) VMS
8 12 (1.04%) AIX
9 10 (0.87%) Windows Server
9 10 (0.87%) zOS
10 2 (0.17%) Debian
10 2 (0.17%) Rocky
10 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.087%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.087%) Android
11 1 (0.087%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 973 (84.46%) CI/CD
2 680 (59.03%) DevOps
3 527 (45.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 478 (41.49%) Agile
5 400 (34.72%) Containerisation
6 362 (31.42%) Test Automation
7 248 (21.53%) Microservices
8 226 (19.62%) Observability
9 206 (17.88%) Scrum
10 192 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 178 (15.45%) Software Engineering
12 174 (15.10%) Platform Engineering
13 162 (14.06%) AI
14 156 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
15 132 (11.46%) Mentoring
16 122 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
17 121 (10.50%) Deployment Automation
17 121 (10.50%) Migration
18 118 (10.24%) DevSecOps
19 116 (10.07%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 509 (44.18%) Python
2 314 (27.26%) Java
3 268 (23.26%) SQL
4 201 (17.45%) Bash
5 114 (9.90%) JavaScript
6 95 (8.25%) PowerShell
7 69 (5.99%) C#
8 64 (5.56%) TypeScript
9 49 (4.25%) Shell Script
10 48 (4.17%) Go
11 23 (2.00%) Groovy
12 20 (1.74%) Bicep
12 20 (1.74%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.22%) Scala
14 12 (1.04%) C++
15 7 (0.61%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.61%) R
16 6 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.43%) Cypher
17 5 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 536 (46.53%) Security Cleared
2 416 (36.11%) SC Cleared
3 113 (9.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 99 (8.59%) DV Cleared
5 61 (5.30%) AWS Certification
6 55 (4.77%) Degree
7 37 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 18 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 17 (1.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 16 (1.39%) CISSP
11 14 (1.22%) Azure Certification
12 12 (1.04%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.69%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.43%) GCFA
16 5 (0.43%) GCIH
17 4 (0.35%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (13.45%) QA
2 71 (6.16%) Accessibility
3 48 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 35 (3.04%) WCAG
5 18 (1.56%) NIST
6 15 (1.30%) GDPR
7 14 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.95%) NCSC
9 10 (0.87%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.52%) SLA
12 4 (0.35%) FATCA
13 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.17%) SEPA
15 1 (0.087%) Disclosure Scotland
15 1 (0.087%) JSP 440
15 1 (0.087%) MIL-STD-1553
15 1 (0.087%) NIST 800
System Software
1 496 (43.06%) Docker
2 22 (1.91%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.13%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.69%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.43%) Firmware
7 5 (0.43%) Squid
8 4 (0.35%) HDFS
8 4 (0.35%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.087%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.087%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 533 (46.27%) Kubernetes
2 273 (23.70%) Ansible
3 187 (16.23%) Grafana
4 162 (14.06%) Prometheus
5 53 (4.60%) Argo
6 43 (3.73%) Kibana
7 41 (3.56%) Puppet
8 30 (2.60%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.56%) Istio
10 16 (1.39%) Packer
11 13 (1.13%) Data Guard
11 13 (1.13%) Oracle RMAN
12 11 (0.95%) Kustomize
13 10 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.69%) Podman
15 7 (0.61%) Cilium
16 5 (0.43%) CASB
16 5 (0.43%) HP Fortify
17 4 (0.35%) Consul
17 4 (0.35%) Control-M
Vendors
1 132 (11.46%) Oracle
2 86 (7.47%) Google
3 70 (6.08%) Microsoft
4 62 (5.38%) Splunk
5 56 (4.86%) Talend
6 53 (4.60%) Informatica
7 41 (3.56%) VMware
8 40 (3.47%) Dynatrace
9 37 (3.21%) Databricks
10 29 (2.52%) ServiceNow
11 26 (2.26%) Red Hat
12 24 (2.08%) IBM
13 22 (1.91%) Denodo
13 22 (1.91%) F5
13 22 (1.91%) Palo Alto
14 18 (1.56%) Arista
14 18 (1.56%) Aruba
14 18 (1.56%) Trend Micro
15 15 (1.30%) Cloudera
16 14 (1.22%) Veracode