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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 147 204
Rank change year-on-year -5 +57 +38
Contract jobs citing GitLab 966 654 489
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.82% 2.00% 1.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.48% 13.61% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 417 342
10th Percentile £365 £357 £363
25th Percentile £420 £432 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -6.12%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £645
90th Percentile £688 £669 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £492 £520
% change year-on-year -0.20% -5.38% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 10
10th Percentile £63.88 £61.65 £40.00
25th Percentile - £65.50 £58.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.86
90th Percentile £81.75 £74.59 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.22
% change year-on-year -2.99% -9.73% +23.70%

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 6,240 4,806 5,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.78% 14.69% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,006 3,235 3,404
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 105 225
10th Percentile £26.15 £23.65 £26.79
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.65 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -1 815 £500 -0.10% 209
UK excluding London -1 461 £491 -0.20% 152
London -5 347 £525 - 83
Work from Home +3 335 £475 -9.52% 101
North of England -22 180 £500 +6.61% 48
Midlands +26 133 £469 -6.20% 30
West Midlands +26 126 £469 -8.49% 23
North West -35 76 £575 +21.05% 24
North East +6 71 £413 -11.29% 17
South East -48 69 £550 - 31
South West -16 50 £548 -8.67% 19
Yorkshire -42 48 £550 +15.79% 7
East of England -13 31 £489 +5.68% 14
Scotland -23 15 £395 -1.74% 11
East Midlands -14 7 £470 +74.07% 7
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 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
1 101 (10.46%) Confluence
2 58 (6.00%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (5.49%) Apache Spark
4 44 (4.55%) Apache
5 40 (4.14%) SAS
6 30 (3.11%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.72%) CICS
8 6 (0.62%) Camunda
8 6 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.52%) nginx
10 4 (0.41%) CMS
11 3 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
12 2 (0.21%) WordPress
13 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Trello
2 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 643 (66.56%) AWS
2 334 (34.58%) GitHub
3 314 (32.51%) Azure
4 243 (25.16%) GitHub Actions
5 163 (16.87%) GCP
6 138 (14.29%) Amazon S3
6 138 (14.29%) Serverless
7 132 (13.66%) Azure DevOps
8 124 (12.84%) AWS Lambda
9 119 (12.32%) Amazon EKS
10 109 (11.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 94 (9.73%) Amazon EC2
12 77 (7.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 68 (7.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 48 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
15 44 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
16 42 (4.35%) OpenShift
17 39 (4.04%) Amazon SQS
18 37 (3.83%) OCI
19 34 (3.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.24%) Firewall
2 23 (2.38%) Network Security
3 22 (2.28%) BGP
3 22 (2.28%) DNS
3 22 (2.28%) WAN
4 21 (2.17%) OSPF
4 21 (2.17%) SD-WAN
5 20 (2.07%) Ethernet VPN
5 20 (2.07%) VXLAN
6 19 (1.97%) BIG-IP
6 19 (1.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 16 (1.66%) TCP/IP
7 16 (1.66%) VPN
8 15 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (1.14%) WLAN
10 9 (0.93%) HTTP
11 6 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.41%) DHCP
12 4 (0.41%) MQTT
12 4 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (8.07%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 55 (5.69%) Relational Database
4 50 (5.18%) Amazon Redshift
5 48 (4.97%) Amazon Athena
6 46 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
7 42 (4.35%) DynamoDB
8 39 (4.04%) NoSQL
9 37 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (3.21%) Pentaho
10 31 (3.21%) Power BI
11 30 (3.11%) Oracle Database
11 30 (3.11%) SQL Server
12 25 (2.59%) Big Data
12 25 (2.59%) Data Lake
12 25 (2.59%) MySQL
13 22 (2.28%) RDBMS
14 18 (1.86%) Redis
15 14 (1.45%) Metadata
16 12 (1.24%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 419 (43.37%) Jenkins
2 211 (21.84%) Git
3 136 (14.08%) JIRA
4 84 (8.70%) Selenium
5 65 (6.73%) JUnit
6 47 (4.87%) Cucumber
7 43 (4.45%) SonarQube
8 40 (4.14%) Bitbucket
9 36 (3.73%) Artifactory
10 35 (3.62%) REST Assured
11 34 (3.52%) JMeter
11 34 (3.52%) Postman
12 33 (3.42%) Gradle
13 30 (3.11%) Gatling
14 27 (2.80%) Maven
14 27 (2.80%) Mockito
15 26 (2.69%) WebDriver
16 19 (1.97%) Snyk
17 17 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
18 14 (1.45%) Serenity BDD
General
1 187 (19.36%) Public Sector
2 182 (18.84%) Social Skills
3 92 (9.52%) Finance
4 63 (6.52%) Banking
5 54 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (2.07%) Military
8 17 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.45%) Law
10 13 (1.35%) Legal
11 8 (0.83%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.62%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.62%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.62%) Publishing
13 5 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.52%) Police
14 4 (0.41%) Retail
15 3 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.31%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.21%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 214 (22.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 179 (18.53%) Senior
3 151 (15.63%) Developer
4 121 (12.53%) AWS Engineer
5 98 (10.14%) Data Engineer
6 77 (7.97%) AWS DevOps
7 70 (7.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 65 (6.73%) Lead
9 52 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
9 52 (5.38%) Software Engineer
10 50 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 50 (5.18%) Java Developer
11 45 (4.66%) Test Engineer
12 44 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 35 (3.62%) Architect
14 34 (3.52%) Senior DevOps
15 33 (3.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 31 (3.21%) Tester
17 29 (3.00%) Software Developer
18 27 (2.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (13.25%) Kafka
2 112 (11.59%) Spring
3 101 (10.46%) REST
3 101 (10.46%) Spring Boot
4 65 (6.73%) RESTful
5 55 (5.69%) PySpark
5 55 (5.69%) React
6 51 (5.28%) Node.js
7 46 (4.76%) Playwright
8 38 (3.93%) JSON
9 34 (3.52%) Elastic Stack
10 31 (3.21%) RabbitMQ
11 29 (3.00%) YAML
12 26 (2.69%) WireMock
13 24 (2.48%) AWS CDK
13 24 (2.48%) pytest
14 23 (2.38%) HTML
14 23 (2.38%) Keycloak
14 23 (2.38%) OAuth
15 21 (2.17%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 185 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 68 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.42%) Onboarding
5 29 (3.00%) Data Centre
6 27 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 20 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (2.07%) Public Cloud
8 18 (1.86%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
9 16 (1.66%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.35%) Mainframe
11 9 (0.93%) AI Agents
11 9 (0.93%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.83%) NHS
12 8 (0.83%) PKI
13 7 (0.72%) DataPower
13 7 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 183 (18.94%) Linux
2 45 (4.66%) Unix
3 40 (4.14%) Windows
4 35 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.45%) zOS
6 12 (1.24%) AIX
7 10 (1.04%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.83%) CentOS
9 5 (0.52%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.31%) Debian
10 3 (0.31%) Rocky
10 3 (0.31%) VMS
11 2 (0.21%) Android
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 797 (82.51%) CI/CD
2 575 (59.52%) DevOps
3 413 (42.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 375 (38.82%) Agile
5 321 (33.23%) Containerisation
6 295 (30.54%) Test Automation
7 187 (19.36%) Microservices
8 164 (16.98%) Observability
9 150 (15.53%) Software Engineering
10 148 (15.32%) Scrum
11 146 (15.11%) Platform Engineering
12 135 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 122 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
14 111 (11.49%) AI
15 100 (10.35%) DevSecOps
16 91 (9.42%) ETL
17 90 (9.32%) Migration
18 82 (8.49%) Data Modelling
18 82 (8.49%) Data Pipeline
19 81 (8.39%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 405 (41.93%) Python
2 220 (22.77%) SQL
3 217 (22.46%) Java
4 154 (15.94%) Bash
5 72 (7.45%) JavaScript
6 66 (6.83%) PowerShell
7 62 (6.42%) TypeScript
8 49 (5.07%) C#
9 37 (3.83%) Go
10 31 (3.21%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.38%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.07%) Bicep
13 13 (1.35%) C++
14 8 (0.83%) Scala
15 7 (0.72%) Groovy
15 7 (0.72%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.62%) C
16 6 (0.62%) JCL
16 6 (0.62%) Ruby
17 4 (0.41%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 464 (48.03%) Security Cleared
2 397 (41.10%) SC Cleared
3 62 (6.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 51 (5.28%) DV Cleared
5 39 (4.04%) AWS Certification
5 39 (4.04%) Degree
6 29 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.86%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 16 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.14%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.04%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.62%) CISSP
12 6 (0.62%) CSSLP
13 4 (0.41%) GIAC
14 3 (0.31%) CCNP
15 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.21%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (9.73%) QA
2 50 (5.18%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.66%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.04%) SLA
4 10 (1.04%) WCAG
5 6 (0.62%) NIST
6 5 (0.52%) FATCA
6 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.41%) GDPR
8 3 (0.31%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.10%) GRC
10 1 (0.10%) MIL-STD-1553
10 1 (0.10%) NCSC
10 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
10 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 403 (41.72%) Docker
2 21 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.35%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.72%) HDFS
6 5 (0.52%) Squid
7 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.21%) iptables
8 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.10%) vSphere
9 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 472 (48.86%) Terraform
2 427 (44.20%) Kubernetes
3 216 (22.36%) Ansible
4 181 (18.74%) Grafana
5 159 (16.46%) Prometheus
6 51 (5.28%) Argo
7 36 (3.73%) Puppet
8 19 (1.97%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.55%) Istio
10 13 (1.35%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.35%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (1.04%) Packer
11 10 (1.04%) Podman
12 6 (0.62%) Cilium
13 5 (0.52%) linkerd
13 5 (0.52%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.52%) Salt
13 5 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.41%) Check_MK
14 4 (0.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 117 (12.11%) Oracle
2 59 (6.11%) Microsoft
3 57 (5.90%) Google
4 56 (5.80%) Informatica
4 56 (5.80%) Splunk
4 56 (5.80%) Talend
5 30 (3.11%) Denodo
6 27 (2.80%) Databricks
6 27 (2.80%) VMware
7 26 (2.69%) Dynatrace
8 22 (2.28%) Palo Alto
9 20 (2.07%) F5
9 20 (2.07%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.97%) IBM
10 19 (1.97%) Red Hat
11 18 (1.86%) Arista
11 18 (1.86%) Aruba
12 17 (1.76%) Trend Micro
13 9 (0.93%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.93%) Tenable