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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 146 213
Rank change year-on-year +12 +67 +38
Contract jobs citing GitLab 974 576 479
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.95% 1.95% 1.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.44% 13.43% 9.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 356 337
10th Percentile £381 £360 £400
25th Percentile £417 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £650
90th Percentile £675 £666 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 2 10
10th Percentile - £69.05 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.37 £56.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.01% +6.22% +81.82%
75th Percentile - £80.35 £74.86
90th Percentile £80.25 £81.91 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £74.22
% change year-on-year -15.01% +3.05% +24.11%

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 5,924 4,289 5,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.84% 14.53% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,835 2,870 3,531
10th Percentile £350 £331 £355
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £625
90th Percentile £686 £695 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 83 236
10th Percentile £29.42 £20.85 £31.48
25th Percentile £59.00 £46.59 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £76.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +5.69%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +10 820 £500 -3.85% 186
UK excluding London +30 484 £475 -5.00% 135
London +1 342 £525 -0.47% 70
Work from Home +1 318 £475 -8.52% 98
North of England +1 190 £475 -3.46% 30
Midlands +22 131 £459 -8.20% 12
West Midlands +20 121 £461 -12.24% 9
North West -6 88 £525 +6.71% 15
South East -32 66 £550 +9.89% 35
Yorkshire -28 59 £525 +5.00% 7
North East +5 58 £413 -12.70% 8
South West +1 53 £500 -13.04% 34
East of England -1 38 £483 +1.58% 14
Scotland -13 22 £401 -0.37% 9
East Midlands -15 10 £436 +50.09% 3
Northern Ireland +3 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 98 (10.06%) Confluence
2 44 (4.52%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (4.52%) Apache Spark
3 42 (4.31%) SAS
4 37 (3.80%) Apache
5 25 (2.57%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.82%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.72%) CICS
8 6 (0.62%) nginx
8 6 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.51%) Camunda
10 3 (0.31%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 616 (63.24%) AWS
2 332 (34.09%) GitHub
3 323 (33.16%) Azure
4 241 (24.74%) GitHub Actions
5 160 (16.43%) GCP
6 147 (15.09%) Serverless
7 145 (14.89%) Amazon S3
8 127 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
9 125 (12.83%) Amazon EKS
10 122 (12.53%) Azure DevOps
11 111 (11.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 102 (10.47%) Amazon EC2
13 85 (8.73%) AWS CloudFormation
14 72 (7.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 53 (5.44%) OpenShift
16 51 (5.24%) Amazon ECS
17 36 (3.70%) Power Platform
18 34 (3.49%) Amazon EMR
18 34 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
19 32 (3.29%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.83%) Firewall
2 28 (2.87%) DNS
3 25 (2.57%) Network Security
4 21 (2.16%) BGP
4 21 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 21 (2.16%) WAN
5 20 (2.05%) OSPF
6 19 (1.95%) BIG-IP
6 19 (1.95%) Ethernet VPN
6 19 (1.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 19 (1.95%) SD-WAN
6 19 (1.95%) VXLAN
7 15 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (1.23%) VPN
9 11 (1.13%) WLAN
10 9 (0.92%) HTTP
11 7 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (0.51%) SSL
13 4 (0.41%) MQTT
13 4 (0.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.37%) MongoDB
3 45 (4.62%) Amazon Athena
3 45 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
4 43 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
4 43 (4.41%) DynamoDB
4 43 (4.41%) NoSQL
4 43 (4.41%) Relational Database
5 40 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (3.39%) Power BI
7 30 (3.08%) MySQL
7 30 (3.08%) Pentaho
8 26 (2.67%) Big Data
8 26 (2.67%) Data Lake
8 26 (2.67%) Redis
9 23 (2.36%) Oracle Database
9 23 (2.36%) SQL Server
10 15 (1.54%) BigQuery
10 15 (1.54%) DocumentDB
11 14 (1.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 429 (44.05%) Jenkins
2 213 (21.87%) Git
3 153 (15.71%) JIRA
4 91 (9.34%) Selenium
5 72 (7.39%) JUnit
6 53 (5.44%) Cucumber
7 43 (4.41%) REST Assured
8 42 (4.31%) Postman
9 39 (4.00%) JMeter
10 37 (3.80%) SonarQube
11 36 (3.70%) Bitbucket
12 35 (3.59%) Artifactory
13 34 (3.49%) Gradle
14 30 (3.08%) WebDriver
15 29 (2.98%) Gatling
15 29 (2.98%) Mockito
16 19 (1.95%) CircleCI
16 19 (1.95%) Snyk
17 17 (1.75%) Maven
17 17 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 195 (20.02%) Social Skills
2 187 (19.20%) Public Sector
3 101 (10.37%) Finance
4 69 (7.08%) Banking
5 59 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.85%) Military
8 17 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (1.75%) Law
9 11 (1.13%) Retail
10 10 (1.03%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.03%) Legal
11 9 (0.92%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.62%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.51%) Police
13 5 (0.51%) Publishing
14 4 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 213 (21.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 161 (16.53%) Senior
3 146 (14.99%) Developer
4 115 (11.81%) AWS Engineer
5 99 (10.16%) Data Engineer
6 79 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
7 72 (7.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 64 (6.57%) Lead
9 54 (5.54%) Software Engineer
10 52 (5.34%) Java Developer
11 51 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
12 46 (4.72%) Platform Engineer
12 46 (4.72%) Test Engineer
13 43 (4.41%) Architect
14 35 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 32 (3.29%) Senior DevOps
16 31 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 30 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
17 30 (3.08%) Tester
18 27 (2.77%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (13.24%) Kafka
2 125 (12.83%) Spring
3 111 (11.40%) Spring Boot
4 108 (11.09%) REST
5 82 (8.42%) RESTful
6 64 (6.57%) React
7 58 (5.95%) Node.js
8 50 (5.13%) PySpark
9 48 (4.93%) Playwright
10 40 (4.11%) Elastic Stack
11 33 (3.39%) OpenTelemetry
12 29 (2.98%) OAuth
12 29 (2.98%) YAML
13 27 (2.77%) AWS CDK
13 27 (2.77%) JSON
13 27 (2.77%) pytest
14 26 (2.67%) AngularJS
14 26 (2.67%) LDAP
14 26 (2.67%) OpenAPI
14 26 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 181 (18.58%) Cloud Native
2 66 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (6.16%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 33 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.95%) Public Cloud
8 18 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
9 12 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.23%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.13%) Private Cloud
11 9 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (0.92%) Data Structures
11 9 (0.92%) NHS
11 9 (0.92%) PKI
12 8 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.82%) Mainframe
13 7 (0.72%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.72%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 180 (18.48%) Linux
2 54 (5.54%) Unix
3 46 (4.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 39 (4.00%) Windows
5 15 (1.54%) CentOS
6 10 (1.03%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.82%) zOS
8 4 (0.41%) AIX
8 4 (0.41%) Debian
8 4 (0.41%) Rocky
8 4 (0.41%) VMS
8 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.21%) Android
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 791 (81.21%) CI/CD
2 563 (57.80%) DevOps
3 388 (39.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 360 (36.96%) Agile
5 325 (33.37%) Containerisation
6 306 (31.42%) Test Automation
7 201 (20.64%) Microservices
8 179 (18.38%) Observability
9 149 (15.30%) Scrum
10 138 (14.17%) Software Engineering
11 134 (13.76%) Platform Engineering
12 133 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
13 132 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 97 (9.96%) AI
14 97 (9.96%) DevSecOps
14 97 (9.96%) ETL
15 85 (8.73%) Migration
16 81 (8.32%) Data Modelling
17 80 (8.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 79 (8.11%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 384 (39.43%) Python
2 247 (25.36%) Java
3 233 (23.92%) SQL
4 137 (14.07%) Bash
5 81 (8.32%) JavaScript
6 69 (7.08%) TypeScript
7 54 (5.54%) PowerShell
8 47 (4.83%) Shell Script
9 41 (4.21%) C#
10 38 (3.90%) Go
11 24 (2.46%) PL/SQL
12 17 (1.75%) Bicep
13 12 (1.23%) C++
13 12 (1.23%) Kotlin
13 12 (1.23%) Scala
14 11 (1.13%) MATLAB
14 11 (1.13%) Ruby
15 6 (0.62%) JCL
16 5 (0.51%) C
16 5 (0.51%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 451 (46.30%) Security Cleared
2 388 (39.84%) SC Cleared
3 56 (5.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 41 (4.21%) Degree
5 37 (3.80%) AWS Certification
5 37 (3.80%) DV Cleared
6 29 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 14 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 13 (1.33%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.13%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.03%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.62%) CISSP
13 4 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.41%) CSSLP
13 4 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.31%) CISM
14 3 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.21%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (9.96%) QA
2 45 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 41 (4.21%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.26%) SLA
5 13 (1.33%) WCAG
6 12 (1.23%) NIST
7 11 (1.13%) GDPR
8 9 (0.92%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.51%) FATCA
11 5 (0.51%) NCSC
12 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.10%) GRC
14 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
14 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 398 (40.86%) Docker
2 22 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.62%) Squid
6 5 (0.51%) HDFS
6 5 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.21%) iptables
9 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.21%) vSphere
10 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 444 (45.59%) Terraform
2 426 (43.74%) Kubernetes
3 199 (20.43%) Ansible
4 193 (19.82%) Grafana
5 167 (17.15%) Prometheus
6 58 (5.95%) Argo
7 28 (2.87%) Puppet
8 24 (2.46%) Istio
9 16 (1.64%) Podman
10 14 (1.44%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (1.33%) Progress Chef
12 11 (1.13%) Check_MK
13 9 (0.92%) linkerd
13 9 (0.92%) Packer
13 9 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.72%) Kibana
15 6 (0.62%) Cilium
16 5 (0.51%) Data Guard
16 5 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.51%) Salt
Vendors
1 109 (11.19%) Oracle
2 62 (6.37%) Splunk
3 57 (5.85%) Microsoft
4 56 (5.75%) Talend
5 48 (4.93%) Informatica
6 47 (4.83%) Google
7 39 (4.00%) Red Hat
8 38 (3.90%) VMware
9 31 (3.18%) ServiceNow
10 30 (3.08%) Denodo
11 29 (2.98%) Databricks
12 25 (2.57%) Dynatrace
13 22 (2.26%) F5
14 20 (2.05%) Palo Alto
14 20 (2.05%) Salesforce
15 19 (1.95%) Arista
16 18 (1.85%) Aruba
17 14 (1.44%) Trend Micro
18 13 (1.33%) Veracode
19 12 (1.23%) Tenable