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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 145 202
Rank change year-on-year -5 +57 +41
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,018 669 491
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.90% 2.03% 1.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.50% 13.42% 9.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 702 440 329
10th Percentile £375 £363 £374
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £601 £650
90th Percentile £688 £675 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -1.00% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 9
10th Percentile - £60.50 £52.80
25th Percentile £65.00 £62.69 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.22 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.44
90th Percentile £95.00 £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 6,169 4,985 5,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.50% 15.11% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,954 3,364 3,263
10th Percentile £355 £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 £623
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 115 193
10th Percentile £35.38 £28.13 £26.39
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +2.46%
75th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.35 £73.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -6 863 £500 -3.85% 173
UK excluding London -5 482 £495 -1.00% 142
London +12 374 £525 - 47
Work from Home +6 357 £475 -11.21% 79
North of England -21 180 £500 +2.56% 50
Midlands +31 129 £469 -10.67% 20
West Midlands +29 121 £469 -13.15% 15
South East -36 80 £550 +7.32% 28
North East +10 76 £413 -12.70% 15
North West -32 75 £575 +19.79% 23
South West -23 57 £550 -8.33% 33
Yorkshire -42 42 £550 +10.00% 12
East of England -20 33 £475 - 9
Scotland -21 18 £412 +2.94% 2
East Midlands -10 8 £436 +61.48% 5
Northern Ireland +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 96 (9.43%) Confluence
2 71 (6.97%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (6.58%) Apache Spark
4 52 (5.11%) Apache
5 34 (3.34%) Jupyter
6 33 (3.24%) SAS
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 1 (0.098%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.098%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.098%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.098%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 696 (68.37%) AWS
2 362 (35.56%) GitHub
3 359 (35.27%) Azure
4 262 (25.74%) GitHub Actions
5 177 (17.39%) GCP
6 167 (16.40%) Azure DevOps
7 146 (14.34%) Serverless
8 142 (13.95%) Amazon S3
9 135 (13.26%) Amazon EKS
10 133 (13.06%) AWS Lambda
11 125 (12.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 99 (9.72%) Amazon EC2
13 83 (8.15%) AWS CloudFormation
14 66 (6.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 60 (5.89%) Amazon ECS
16 48 (4.72%) Amazon EMR
17 45 (4.42%) Amazon SQS
18 42 (4.13%) OpenShift
19 36 (3.54%) Datadog
19 36 (3.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.81%) Firewall
2 33 (3.24%) DNS
3 29 (2.85%) BGP
3 29 (2.85%) Network Security
4 27 (2.65%) Ethernet VPN
4 27 (2.65%) 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 14 (1.38%) VPN
12 12 (1.18%) HTTP
13 11 (1.08%) WLAN
14 10 (0.98%) SSL
15 8 (0.79%) NX-OS
16 6 (0.59%) DHCP
17 5 (0.49%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (7.66%) MongoDB
3 56 (5.50%) Relational Database
4 53 (5.21%) Amazon Athena
5 50 (4.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 47 (4.62%) NoSQL
7 45 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
7 45 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
7 45 (4.42%) DynamoDB
8 34 (3.34%) Power BI
8 34 (3.34%) SQL Server
9 32 (3.14%) Big Data
10 31 (3.05%) MySQL
10 31 (3.05%) Pentaho
11 30 (2.95%) Data Lake
11 30 (2.95%) Oracle Database
11 30 (2.95%) Redis
12 27 (2.65%) RDBMS
13 14 (1.38%) Oracle Exadata
14 13 (1.28%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 430 (42.24%) Jenkins
2 234 (22.99%) Git
3 134 (13.16%) JIRA
4 83 (8.15%) Selenium
5 68 (6.68%) JUnit
6 55 (5.40%) Cucumber
7 54 (5.30%) SonarQube
8 41 (4.03%) Bitbucket
9 34 (3.34%) JMeter
10 33 (3.24%) Gradle
10 33 (3.24%) Maven
11 32 (3.14%) Artifactory
12 31 (3.05%) Postman
13 30 (2.95%) Gatling
14 29 (2.85%) REST Assured
15 27 (2.65%) Mockito
16 23 (2.26%) WebDriver
17 21 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
18 20 (1.96%) Snyk
19 16 (1.57%) Cypress.io
General
1 196 (19.25%) Public Sector
1 196 (19.25%) Social Skills
2 99 (9.72%) Finance
3 64 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (6.29%) Banking
4 24 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (1.96%) Military
6 18 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.38%) Law
8 12 (1.18%) Legal
9 10 (0.98%) Aerospace
10 7 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 7 (0.69%) Publishing
10 7 (0.69%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.59%) Police
12 5 (0.49%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.49%) Retail
13 4 (0.39%) Marketing
14 3 (0.29%) Back Office
14 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 227 (22.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 187 (18.37%) Senior
3 171 (16.80%) Developer
4 126 (12.38%) AWS Engineer
5 98 (9.63%) Data Engineer
6 79 (7.76%) AWS DevOps
7 75 (7.37%) Lead
8 72 (7.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 56 (5.50%) Software Engineer
10 54 (5.30%) Java Developer
11 52 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
12 48 (4.72%) Platform Engineer
13 44 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 43 (4.22%) Test Engineer
15 36 (3.54%) Architect
15 36 (3.54%) Software Developer
16 32 (3.14%) Tester
17 31 (3.05%) Senior DevOps
18 30 (2.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 29 (2.85%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 498 (48.92%) Terraform
2 146 (14.34%) Kafka
3 126 (12.38%) Spring
4 120 (11.79%) REST
5 111 (10.90%) Spring Boot
6 74 (7.27%) RESTful
7 63 (6.19%) React
8 58 (5.70%) Node.js
9 56 (5.50%) Playwright
10 52 (5.11%) PySpark
11 50 (4.91%) JSON
12 42 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
13 36 (3.54%) YAML
14 32 (3.14%) OAuth
15 30 (2.95%) WireMock
16 29 (2.85%) HTML
17 28 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
17 28 (2.75%) Keycloak
18 26 (2.55%) .NET
18 26 (2.55%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 201 (19.74%) Cloud Native
2 64 (6.29%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (5.40%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.44%) Data Centre
4 35 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (2.16%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.67%) Algorithms
8 17 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
9 15 (1.47%) Mainframe
10 14 (1.38%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.38%) Public Cloud
11 10 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (0.98%) PKI
12 9 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (0.88%) Private Cloud
13 8 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 186 (18.27%) Linux
2 49 (4.81%) Unix
3 42 (4.13%) Windows
4 34 (3.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.28%) zOS
6 12 (1.18%) AIX
6 12 (1.18%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.98%) CentOS
8 8 (0.79%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.59%) VMS
10 3 (0.29%) Debian
10 3 (0.29%) Rocky
11 2 (0.20%) Android
11 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.098%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 857 (84.18%) CI/CD
2 604 (59.33%) DevOps
3 456 (44.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 393 (38.61%) Agile
5 353 (34.68%) Containerisation
6 311 (30.55%) Test Automation
7 203 (19.94%) Microservices
8 182 (17.88%) Observability
9 166 (16.31%) Software Engineering
10 153 (15.03%) Scrum
11 152 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 151 (14.83%) Platform Engineering
13 140 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
14 123 (12.08%) AI
15 114 (11.20%) DevSecOps
16 102 (10.02%) Migration
17 101 (9.92%) ETL
18 97 (9.53%) Event-Driven
19 94 (9.23%) Deployment Automation
20 90 (8.84%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 443 (43.52%) Python
2 245 (24.07%) Java
3 233 (22.89%) SQL
4 182 (17.88%) Bash
5 92 (9.04%) PowerShell
6 90 (8.84%) JavaScript
7 69 (6.78%) TypeScript
8 65 (6.39%) C#
9 36 (3.54%) Go
10 33 (3.24%) Shell Script
11 24 (2.36%) Bicep
11 24 (2.36%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.47%) C++
13 12 (1.18%) Groovy
14 9 (0.88%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.88%) Scala
15 6 (0.59%) JCL
15 6 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.59%) R
16 5 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 492 (48.33%) Security Cleared
2 406 (39.88%) SC Cleared
3 64 (6.29%) DV Cleared
4 61 (5.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 50 (4.91%) AWS Certification
6 44 (4.32%) Degree
7 29 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (2.16%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 19 (1.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 15 (1.47%) CISSP
11 12 (1.18%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.08%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.59%) CSSLP
15 5 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.49%) GCFA
15 5 (0.49%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (11.00%) QA
2 49 (4.81%) Accessibility
3 43 (4.22%) Data Quality
4 16 (1.57%) WCAG
5 13 (1.28%) NIST
6 12 (1.18%) GDPR
7 10 (0.98%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.98%) SLA
8 9 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.59%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.49%) FATCA
11 5 (0.49%) NCSC
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.098%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.098%) GRC
14 1 (0.098%) OpenSCAP
14 1 (0.098%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 441 (43.32%) Docker
2 23 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.16%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.28%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.59%) HDFS
6 6 (0.59%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.49%) Squid
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
1 464 (45.58%) Kubernetes
2 245 (24.07%) Ansible
3 180 (17.68%) Grafana
4 155 (15.23%) Prometheus
5 54 (5.30%) Argo
6 39 (3.83%) Puppet
7 29 (2.85%) Progress Chef
8 17 (1.67%) Istio
9 13 (1.28%) Data Guard
9 13 (1.28%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (0.98%) Packer
10 10 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.88%) Kibana
11 9 (0.88%) Podman
12 8 (0.79%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.69%) Cilium
14 5 (0.49%) CASB
14 5 (0.49%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.49%) linkerd
14 5 (0.49%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 116 (11.39%) Oracle
2 73 (7.17%) Microsoft
3 67 (6.58%) Google
4 58 (5.70%) Splunk
5 52 (5.11%) Informatica
5 52 (5.11%) Talend
6 38 (3.73%) Databricks
7 36 (3.54%) VMware
8 32 (3.14%) Dynatrace
9 28 (2.75%) Denodo
10 27 (2.65%) ServiceNow
11 23 (2.26%) Red Hat
12 21 (2.06%) Palo Alto
13 20 (1.96%) F5
14 18 (1.77%) Arista
14 18 (1.77%) Aruba
14 18 (1.77%) Trend Micro
15 17 (1.67%) IBM
16 12 (1.18%) Cisco
17 9 (0.88%) Veracode