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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 135 171
Rank change year-on-year +1 +36 +70
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,122 695 555
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.05% 2.13% 1.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.78% 13.90% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 470 379
10th Percentile £376 £375 £359
25th Percentile £425 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £596 £603 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 9 7
10th Percentile - £59.75 £70.40
25th Percentile £65.00 £61.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.72
90th Percentile £95.00 £68.10 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.22 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +1.81% -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 6,310 4,999 5,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.55% 15.33% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,033 3,371 3,172
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £693 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 111 171
10th Percentile £22.68 £22.05 £31.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £74.00
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 29 September 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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -2 943 £503 -4.24% 618
UK excluding London -3 541 £500 - 377
London +18 399 £523 -1.42% 280
Work from Home +5 384 £500 -5.57% 297
North of England -39 185 £500 +3.36% 110
Midlands +50 160 £474 -12.27% 43
West Midlands +44 151 £475 -13.64% 36
South East -35 81 £550 +9.89% 46
North East +1 79 £413 -24.31% 27
North West -32 78 £560 +28.62% 68
South West -15 59 £550 -8.33% 77
East of England -17 41 £450 -7.69% 38
Yorkshire -59 39 £550 +10.00% 15
Scotland -25 27 £424 -3.91% 35
East Midlands -14 9 £405 +50.00% 7
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 19
Wales -14 2 - - 10

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
1 105 (9.36%) Confluence
2 80 (7.13%) Apache Spark
3 73 (6.51%) Apache Airflow
4 59 (5.26%) Apache
5 35 (3.12%) Jupyter
6 29 (2.58%) SAS
7 12 (1.07%) Camunda
8 8 (0.71%) nginx
9 5 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.27%) CICS
10 3 (0.27%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.18%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.18%) Traefik
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.089%) Appian
12 1 (0.089%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.089%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Trello
2 1 (0.089%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.089%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.089%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.089%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.089%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 744 (66.31%) AWS
2 369 (32.89%) Azure
3 356 (31.73%) GitHub
4 245 (21.84%) GitHub Actions
5 175 (15.60%) Azure DevOps
6 173 (15.42%) GCP
7 149 (13.28%) Amazon S3
8 143 (12.75%) Serverless
9 141 (12.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 136 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
11 131 (11.68%) AWS Lambda
12 107 (9.54%) Amazon EC2
13 79 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 75 (6.68%) Amazon ECS
15 68 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 59 (5.26%) OpenShift
17 55 (4.90%) Amazon EMR
18 53 (4.72%) Amazon SQS
19 38 (3.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 37 (3.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.28%) Firewall
2 40 (3.57%) DNS
3 30 (2.67%) BGP
3 30 (2.67%) Ethernet VPN
3 30 (2.67%) Network Security
3 30 (2.67%) VXLAN
4 27 (2.41%) TCP/IP
5 26 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (1.96%) WAN
7 21 (1.87%) SD-WAN
8 20 (1.78%) OSPF
9 19 (1.69%) BIG-IP
9 19 (1.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 15 (1.34%) VPN
11 12 (1.07%) 5G
12 11 (0.98%) 4G
12 11 (0.98%) HTTP
12 11 (0.98%) IPv4
12 11 (0.98%) IPv6
12 11 (0.98%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (8.91%) MongoDB
3 58 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
4 54 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
5 52 (4.63%) Relational Database
6 51 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
6 51 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 46 (4.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 44 (3.92%) Data Lake
9 39 (3.48%) DynamoDB
10 38 (3.39%) SQL Server
11 36 (3.21%) Oracle Database
11 36 (3.21%) Redis
12 35 (3.12%) Power BI
13 34 (3.03%) MySQL
14 31 (2.76%) Big Data
15 30 (2.67%) Pentaho
16 27 (2.41%) RDBMS
17 17 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
18 15 (1.34%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 435 (38.77%) Jenkins
2 282 (25.13%) Git
3 152 (13.55%) JIRA
4 94 (8.38%) Selenium
5 92 (8.20%) JUnit
6 74 (6.60%) Cucumber
7 68 (6.06%) SonarQube
8 61 (5.44%) Maven
9 46 (4.10%) Gatling
10 44 (3.92%) Mockito
11 41 (3.65%) Gradle
12 36 (3.21%) REST Assured
13 35 (3.12%) Bitbucket
14 33 (2.94%) Artifactory
15 32 (2.85%) Sonatype Nexus
16 31 (2.76%) JMeter
17 24 (2.14%) Postman
18 19 (1.69%) Cypress.io
19 18 (1.60%) WebDriver
20 15 (1.34%) Snyk
General
1 224 (19.96%) Social Skills
2 215 (19.16%) Public Sector
3 113 (10.07%) Finance
4 76 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (6.24%) Banking
6 34 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (2.14%) Military
8 23 (2.05%) Telecoms
9 15 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.16%) Law
11 11 (0.98%) Aerospace
11 11 (0.98%) Legal
12 8 (0.71%) Publishing
13 7 (0.62%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.53%) Back Office
14 6 (0.53%) Police
15 4 (0.36%) Front Office
15 4 (0.36%) Local Government
15 4 (0.36%) Retail
16 3 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 248 (22.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 203 (18.09%) Developer
3 188 (16.76%) Senior
4 128 (11.41%) AWS Engineer
5 97 (8.65%) Data Engineer
6 81 (7.22%) AWS DevOps
7 74 (6.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 72 (6.42%) Lead
9 64 (5.70%) Java Developer
10 54 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (4.72%) Test Engineer
12 51 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 50 (4.46%) Architect
14 49 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
15 48 (4.28%) Software Engineer
16 47 (4.19%) Software Developer
17 41 (3.65%) Full-Stack Developer
18 40 (3.57%) Java Engineer
19 32 (2.85%) Senior DevOps
20 31 (2.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 545 (48.57%) Terraform
2 167 (14.88%) Kafka
3 162 (14.44%) Spring
4 140 (12.48%) Spring Boot
5 134 (11.94%) REST
6 84 (7.49%) Playwright
7 81 (7.22%) React
8 76 (6.77%) RESTful
9 56 (4.99%) JSON
9 56 (4.99%) Node.js
10 55 (4.90%) RabbitMQ
11 51 (4.55%) PySpark
12 40 (3.57%) HTML
13 37 (3.30%) JPA
13 37 (3.30%) OAuth
14 36 (3.21%) CSS
15 35 (3.12%) OpenAPI
16 34 (3.03%) .NET
16 34 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
17 33 (2.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 228 (20.32%) Cloud Native
2 64 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.48%) Data Centre
5 36 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
6 34 (3.03%) Data Structures
7 33 (2.94%) Onboarding
8 27 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.69%) AI Agents
10 18 (1.60%) PKI
11 17 (1.52%) Algorithms
12 16 (1.43%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
13 14 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.07%) Mainframe
14 12 (1.07%) Private Cloud
15 11 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
15 11 (0.98%) Replication
16 10 (0.89%) Security Posture
17 9 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 234 (20.86%) Linux
2 53 (4.72%) Unix
3 52 (4.63%) Windows
4 44 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.60%) CentOS
6 15 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 13 (1.16%) VMS
8 12 (1.07%) AIX
9 10 (0.89%) Windows Server
9 10 (0.89%) zOS
10 2 (0.18%) Debian
10 2 (0.18%) Rocky
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.089%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.089%) Android
11 1 (0.089%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 944 (84.14%) CI/CD
2 651 (58.02%) DevOps
3 514 (45.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 457 (40.73%) Agile
5 384 (34.22%) Containerisation
6 347 (30.93%) Test Automation
7 232 (20.68%) Microservices
8 209 (18.63%) Observability
9 201 (17.91%) Scrum
10 179 (15.95%) Software Engineering
11 175 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 164 (14.62%) Platform Engineering
13 152 (13.55%) AI
14 146 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
15 118 (10.52%) Mentoring
16 116 (10.34%) Deployment Automation
17 114 (10.16%) Stakeholder Management
18 113 (10.07%) DevSecOps
19 112 (9.98%) Migration
20 108 (9.63%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 483 (43.05%) Python
2 299 (26.65%) Java
3 260 (23.17%) SQL
4 187 (16.67%) Bash
5 110 (9.80%) JavaScript
6 88 (7.84%) PowerShell
7 70 (6.24%) C#
8 65 (5.79%) TypeScript
9 48 (4.28%) Go
9 48 (4.28%) Shell Script
10 21 (1.87%) PL/SQL
11 20 (1.78%) Bicep
12 16 (1.43%) C++
13 14 (1.25%) Groovy
13 14 (1.25%) Scala
14 9 (0.80%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.62%) R
16 6 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.45%) Cypher
17 5 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 530 (47.24%) Security Cleared
2 423 (37.70%) SC Cleared
3 105 (9.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 85 (7.58%) DV Cleared
5 55 (4.90%) AWS Certification
6 52 (4.63%) Degree
7 39 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 16 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 16 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (1.43%) CISSP
9 14 (1.25%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.07%) ISTQB
11 9 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.71%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.45%) GCFA
15 5 (0.45%) GCIH
16 4 (0.36%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (13.19%) QA
2 67 (5.97%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.01%) Data Quality
4 32 (2.85%) WCAG
5 19 (1.69%) NIST
6 15 (1.34%) GDPR
7 14 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.98%) NCSC
9 10 (0.89%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.80%) SLA
11 8 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.62%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.45%) FATCA
14 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.089%) Disclosure Scotland
15 1 (0.089%) JSP 440
15 1 (0.089%) MIL-STD-1553
15 1 (0.089%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.089%) SEPA
System Software
1 475 (42.34%) Docker
2 27 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (2.23%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
5 11 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.80%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.45%) HDFS
7 5 (0.45%) Squid
8 3 (0.27%) Firmware
8 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.27%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.18%) iptables
9 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.089%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 516 (45.99%) Kubernetes
2 265 (23.62%) Ansible
3 190 (16.93%) Grafana
4 165 (14.71%) Prometheus
5 53 (4.72%) Argo
6 40 (3.57%) Puppet
7 32 (2.85%) Kibana
8 28 (2.50%) Progress Chef
9 17 (1.52%) Istio
9 17 (1.52%) Packer
10 13 (1.16%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.16%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (0.89%) Podman
13 9 (0.80%) Cilium
13 9 (0.80%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.45%) CASB
14 5 (0.45%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.36%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 133 (11.85%) Oracle
2 78 (6.95%) Google
3 73 (6.51%) Microsoft
4 63 (5.61%) Splunk
5 55 (4.90%) Talend
6 47 (4.19%) Informatica
6 47 (4.19%) VMware
7 40 (3.57%) Dynatrace
8 33 (2.94%) Databricks
9 27 (2.41%) ServiceNow
10 26 (2.32%) Denodo
10 26 (2.32%) Red Hat
11 24 (2.14%) IBM
12 21 (1.87%) Palo Alto
13 20 (1.78%) F5
14 18 (1.60%) Arista
14 18 (1.60%) Aruba
14 18 (1.60%) Trend Micro
15 15 (1.34%) Cisco
16 14 (1.25%) Veracode