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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 151 264
Rank change year-on-year +24 +113 -92
Contract jobs citing GitLab 793 609 449
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.27% 1.66% 0.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.72% 12.59% 7.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 404 330
10th Percentile £375 £361 £413
25th Percentile £444 £420 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -1.59% -5.50%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £645
90th Percentile £675 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £468 £550
% change year-on-year +6.93% -14.98% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 3
10th Percentile £59.75 £69.50 £43.18
25th Percentile £61.75 - £48.55
Median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +23.33% -9.43%
75th Percentile - £74.86 £71.25
90th Percentile £68.10 £81.25 £76.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.46% +5.71% +5.66%

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 5,389 4,836 6,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.42% 13.17% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,709 3,033 4,247
10th Percentile £327 £348 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £542
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.97% -2.43%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £680 £719 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £506
% change year-on-year -2.56% -3.66% -3.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 138 236
10th Percentile £19.63 £25.16 £45.24
25th Percentile £48.13 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £78.25 £74.13 £85.78
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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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 +12 658 £520 -3.70% 580
UK excluding London +49 402 £500 +6.93% 523
London -25 249 £525 -12.50% 240
Work from Home +39 235 £525 -4.55% 356
North of England +16 184 £478 +18.17% 97
Yorkshire +15 86 £500 +25.00% 12
Midlands +24 77 £525 +10.06% 43
West Midlands +26 74 £525 +7.25% 25
North West -6 71 £402 +0.50% 67
South East -5 44 £500 +6.93% 217
South West +18 42 £600 +4.80% 61
East of England +12 33 £488 +44.44% 11
North East -3 28 £515 +21.18% 18
Scotland +21 27 £420 +5.00% 49
Wales +3 5 £435 -18.12% 16
Northern Ireland -2 5 - - 20
East Midlands -28 3 £270 -24.16% 16

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 60 (7.57%) Confluence
2 29 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (3.53%) SAS
4 13 (1.64%) Apache
5 9 (1.13%) Anypoint
5 9 (1.13%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.13%) Mule
6 8 (1.01%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.88%) Appian
7 7 (0.88%) Documentum
8 6 (0.76%) FileNet
8 6 (0.76%) nginx
9 4 (0.50%) CMS
9 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.13%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 471 (59.39%) AWS
2 220 (27.74%) Azure
3 215 (27.11%) GitHub
4 161 (20.30%) GCP
5 129 (16.27%) GitHub Actions
6 114 (14.38%) Serverless
7 99 (12.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 97 (12.23%) Amazon S3
9 95 (11.98%) Amazon EC2
10 94 (11.85%) AWS CloudFormation
11 82 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
11 82 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
12 72 (9.08%) AWS Lambda
13 71 (8.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 70 (8.83%) Amazon ECS
15 57 (7.19%) OpenShift
16 26 (3.28%) Azure AKS
17 25 (3.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 24 (3.03%) Route 53
19 23 (2.90%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 65 (8.20%) Firewall
2 51 (6.43%) DNS
3 43 (5.42%) VPN
4 30 (3.78%) TCP/IP
5 24 (3.03%) Network Security
6 21 (2.65%) SSL
7 7 (0.88%) AMQP
7 7 (0.88%) BGP
7 7 (0.88%) DSL
7 7 (0.88%) WAN
8 6 (0.76%) SAN
9 5 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (0.63%) HTTP
9 5 (0.63%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (0.63%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.50%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.50%) MPLS
10 4 (0.50%) VXLAN
11 3 (0.38%) DHCP
11 3 (0.38%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (10.47%) MongoDB
2 81 (10.21%) NoSQL
3 73 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
4 71 (8.95%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (2.90%) SQL Server
6 18 (2.27%) Data Lake
7 16 (2.02%) Big Data
8 15 (1.89%) DynamoDB
9 14 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (1.77%) Oracle Database
10 13 (1.64%) MySQL
11 11 (1.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
12 10 (1.26%) Apache Cassandra
12 10 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.01%) Redis
14 7 (0.88%) Power BI
14 7 (0.88%) Relational Database
15 6 (0.76%) Couchbase
15 6 (0.76%) SAS Visual Analytics
16 5 (0.63%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 400 (50.44%) Jenkins
2 202 (25.47%) Git
3 116 (14.63%) JIRA
4 77 (9.71%) Selenium
5 63 (7.94%) JUnit
6 54 (6.81%) Cucumber
6 54 (6.81%) Maven
7 48 (6.05%) SonarQube
8 38 (4.79%) Bitbucket
9 36 (4.54%) Artifactory
10 32 (4.04%) Cypress.io
11 31 (3.91%) Sonatype Nexus
12 30 (3.78%) Liquibase
12 30 (3.78%) Postman
13 25 (3.15%) Gradle
13 25 (3.15%) JMeter
14 22 (2.77%) REST Assured
15 18 (2.27%) Mockito
15 18 (2.27%) TeamCity
16 17 (2.14%) Gatling
General
1 207 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 124 (15.64%) Finance
3 95 (11.98%) Banking
4 92 (11.60%) Public Sector
5 55 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (4.04%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.27%) Telecoms
8 16 (2.02%) Aerospace
9 14 (1.77%) Military
10 11 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.01%) Games
11 8 (1.01%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.88%) Retail Banking
13 5 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.63%) Marketing
14 4 (0.50%) Retail
15 3 (0.38%) Front Office
16 2 (0.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 1 (0.13%) Organisational Skills
17 1 (0.13%) Police
Job Titles
1 193 (24.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 153 (19.29%) Developer
3 128 (16.14%) Senior
4 97 (12.23%) AWS Engineer
5 58 (7.31%) AWS DevOps
6 57 (7.19%) Java Developer
7 53 (6.68%) Lead
8 51 (6.43%) Software Engineer
9 48 (6.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 42 (5.30%) Cloud Engineer
11 41 (5.17%) Senior DevOps
11 41 (5.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 35 (4.41%) Architect
13 33 (4.16%) Test Engineer
14 31 (3.91%) Data Engineer
15 29 (3.66%) Automation Engineer
15 29 (3.66%) GCP Engineer
15 29 (3.66%) Senior Developer
16 27 (3.40%) Platform Engineer
17 23 (2.90%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (16.52%) REST
2 97 (12.23%) Kafka
3 88 (11.10%) RESTful
4 85 (10.72%) Elastic Stack
5 73 (9.21%) Node.js
6 64 (8.07%) Spring Boot
7 61 (7.69%) Spring
8 56 (7.06%) React
9 47 (5.93%) HTML
10 40 (5.04%) Playwright
11 37 (4.67%) JSON
12 32 (4.04%) CSS
13 27 (3.40%) .NET
14 25 (3.15%) RabbitMQ
15 24 (3.03%) AngularJS
16 23 (2.90%) pytest
17 22 (2.77%) XML
18 21 (2.65%) OAuth
19 18 (2.27%) OAuth2
20 16 (2.02%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 105 (13.24%) Cloud Native
2 66 (8.32%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.93%) Public Cloud
4 31 (3.91%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.64%) PKI
9 12 (1.51%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
10 11 (1.39%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.39%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.13%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
13 8 (1.01%) Security Posture
14 5 (0.63%) Virtual Team
15 4 (0.50%) Derivative
15 4 (0.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 181 (22.82%) Linux
2 46 (5.80%) Windows
3 37 (4.67%) Unix
4 25 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (2.52%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.51%) CentOS
7 10 (1.26%) Android
8 9 (1.13%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.76%) Solaris
10 4 (0.50%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.50%) VMS
11 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 613 (77.30%) CI/CD
2 512 (64.56%) DevOps
3 346 (43.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 311 (39.22%) Containerisation
5 301 (37.96%) Agile
6 203 (25.60%) Test Automation
7 193 (24.34%) Microservices
8 138 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
9 113 (14.25%) Software Engineering
10 104 (13.11%) Infrastructure Automation
11 101 (12.74%) Observability
12 97 (12.23%) Scrum
13 86 (10.84%) Migration
14 82 (10.34%) Computer Science
15 75 (9.46%) Continuous Integration
15 75 (9.46%) DevSecOps
15 75 (9.46%) High Availability
16 70 (8.83%) SDLC
17 64 (8.07%) TDD
18 63 (7.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 371 (46.78%) Python
2 207 (26.10%) Java
3 150 (18.92%) Bash
4 112 (14.12%) SQL
5 97 (12.23%) JavaScript
6 95 (11.98%) Go
7 60 (7.57%) PowerShell
8 52 (6.56%) TypeScript
9 35 (4.41%) Shell Script
10 31 (3.91%) C#
11 14 (1.77%) C++
12 13 (1.64%) Rust
13 10 (1.26%) C
13 10 (1.26%) Perl
14 9 (1.13%) DataWeave
15 8 (1.01%) Ruby
16 7 (0.88%) Korn
17 6 (0.76%) Groovy
18 5 (0.63%) PL/SQL
19 4 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 274 (34.55%) Security Cleared
2 219 (27.62%) SC Cleared
3 74 (9.33%) Degree
4 62 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (7.57%) AWS Certification
6 41 (5.17%) DV Cleared
6 41 (5.17%) Master's Degree
7 33 (4.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.77%) CISSP
10 12 (1.51%) CISM
11 10 (1.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (1.26%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.63%) CCNP
13 5 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.63%) OCA
13 5 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.38%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (12.86%) QA
2 30 (3.78%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.40%) WCAG
5 16 (2.02%) NIST
6 15 (1.89%) GDPR
7 13 (1.64%) NCSC
7 13 (1.64%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.01%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.76%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.50%) SLA
11 3 (0.38%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.38%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.25%) MISRA
12 2 (0.25%) MISRA C
13 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 355 (44.77%) Docker
2 23 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (0.76%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.50%) vSphere
6 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.25%) Firmware
8 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.13%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 414 (52.21%) Terraform
2 409 (51.58%) Kubernetes
3 237 (29.89%) Ansible
4 170 (21.44%) Grafana
5 150 (18.92%) Prometheus
6 35 (4.41%) Puppet
7 31 (3.91%) Argo
8 19 (2.40%) Packer
8 19 (2.40%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.89%) Istio
10 13 (1.64%) Fluentd
11 12 (1.51%) Podman
12 10 (1.26%) Jamf Pro
12 10 (1.26%) NetBackup
13 6 (0.76%) Kibana
13 6 (0.76%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.76%) vCenter Server
14 5 (0.63%) Rundeck
14 5 (0.63%) Sysdig
14 5 (0.63%) vRealize
Vendors
1 99 (12.48%) Splunk
2 64 (8.07%) Microsoft
3 50 (6.31%) Google
4 49 (6.18%) Oracle
5 29 (3.66%) Red Hat
5 29 (3.66%) VMware
6 24 (3.03%) F5
7 23 (2.90%) Palo Alto
8 22 (2.77%) Dynatrace
9 20 (2.52%) CheckPoint
10 18 (2.27%) Cisco
11 17 (2.14%) Atlassian
11 17 (2.14%) IBM
12 15 (1.89%) MuleSoft
13 13 (1.64%) Cribl.io
13 13 (1.64%) Veracode
14 12 (1.51%) Databricks
15 11 (1.39%) Commvault
16 10 (1.26%) ServiceNow
16 10 (1.26%) Veritas