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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 141 212
Rank change year-on-year -8 +71 +45
Contract jobs citing GitLab 966 653 479
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.83% 1.99% 1.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.60% 13.65% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 416 335
10th Percentile £364 £357 £363
25th Percentile £414 £431 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £645
90th Percentile £688 £671 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -4.60% -3.85% -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 6,194 4,783 5,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.74% 14.58% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,975 3,216 3,453
10th Percentile £350 £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 £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 262 103 236
10th Percentile £25.80 £22.64 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £49.00 £46.11
Median hourly rate £65.75 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% -2.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.60 £73.13
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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -8 814 £500 -2.44% 170
UK excluding London -5 468 £477 -4.60% 118
London -14 341 £525 - 76
Work from Home +12 339 £475 -9.52% 81
North of England -17 186 £453 -3.67% 37
Midlands +35 132 £469 -6.20% 16
West Midlands +18 125 £466 -9.12% 10
North West -23 85 £525 +8.25% 20
South East -45 69 £550 - 28
North East +5 68 £413 -11.29% 11
South West -19 50 £542 -9.71% 21
Yorkshire -47 48 £550 +15.79% 6
East of England -8 31 £489 +8.61% 12
Scotland -22 17 £398 -1.12% 7
East Midlands -13 7 £470 +74.07% 6
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
1 107 (11.08%) Confluence
2 57 (5.90%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (5.38%) Apache Spark
4 43 (4.45%) Apache
5 40 (4.14%) SAS
6 29 (3.00%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.72%) CICS
8 6 (0.62%) Camunda
8 6 (0.62%) nginx
8 6 (0.62%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.41%) 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
11 2 (0.21%) WordPress
12 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
1 640 (66.25%) AWS
2 328 (33.95%) GitHub
3 312 (32.30%) Azure
4 235 (24.33%) GitHub Actions
5 158 (16.36%) GCP
6 142 (14.70%) Amazon S3
7 141 (14.60%) Serverless
8 131 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
9 127 (13.15%) AWS Lambda
10 115 (11.90%) Amazon EKS
11 108 (11.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 98 (10.14%) Amazon EC2
13 77 (7.97%) AWS CloudFormation
14 68 (7.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 47 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
16 43 (4.45%) OpenShift
17 42 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
18 36 (3.73%) OCI
19 35 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
20 33 (3.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.14%) Firewall
2 23 (2.38%) Network Security
3 21 (2.17%) BGP
3 21 (2.17%) WAN
4 20 (2.07%) DNS
4 20 (2.07%) OSPF
5 19 (1.97%) BIG-IP
5 19 (1.97%) Ethernet VPN
5 19 (1.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 19 (1.97%) SD-WAN
5 19 (1.97%) VXLAN
6 15 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (1.45%) VPN
8 11 (1.14%) WLAN
9 9 (0.93%) HTTP
10 6 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.41%) MQTT
11 4 (0.41%) SSL
12 3 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (6.83%) MongoDB
3 56 (5.80%) Relational Database
4 50 (5.18%) Amazon Redshift
5 49 (5.07%) Amazon Athena
6 45 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
7 39 (4.04%) DynamoDB
8 38 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
9 36 (3.73%) NoSQL
10 30 (3.11%) Oracle Database
10 30 (3.11%) Pentaho
10 30 (3.11%) Power BI
10 30 (3.11%) SQL Server
11 27 (2.80%) Big Data
12 24 (2.48%) Data Lake
12 24 (2.48%) MySQL
13 22 (2.28%) RDBMS
14 18 (1.86%) Redis
15 14 (1.45%) Metadata
16 13 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 412 (42.65%) Jenkins
2 213 (22.05%) Git
3 146 (15.11%) JIRA
4 85 (8.80%) Selenium
5 69 (7.14%) JUnit
6 49 (5.07%) Cucumber
7 47 (4.87%) SonarQube
8 39 (4.04%) Bitbucket
9 37 (3.83%) Postman
10 36 (3.73%) REST Assured
11 35 (3.62%) Artifactory
11 35 (3.62%) JMeter
12 32 (3.31%) Gradle
13 31 (3.21%) Mockito
14 28 (2.90%) Gatling
15 27 (2.80%) WebDriver
16 26 (2.69%) Maven
17 18 (1.86%) Snyk
18 14 (1.45%) Serenity BDD
18 14 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 189 (19.57%) Public Sector
2 184 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 91 (9.42%) Finance
4 64 (6.63%) Banking
5 56 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (1.97%) Military
8 18 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.45%) Law
10 13 (1.35%) Legal
11 8 (0.83%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.72%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.62%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.62%) Publishing
14 5 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.52%) Police
15 4 (0.41%) Retail
16 3 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.21%) Back Office
17 2 (0.21%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 217 (22.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 174 (18.01%) Senior
3 150 (15.53%) Developer
4 120 (12.42%) AWS Engineer
5 98 (10.14%) Data Engineer
6 80 (8.28%) AWS DevOps
7 72 (7.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 64 (6.63%) Lead
9 50 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
9 50 (5.18%) Software Engineer
10 49 (5.07%) Java Developer
11 47 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
12 45 (4.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 43 (4.45%) Test Engineer
14 34 (3.52%) Architect
15 33 (3.42%) Senior DevOps
16 32 (3.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 31 (3.21%) Tester
18 27 (2.80%) Full-Stack Developer
18 27 (2.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (13.04%) Kafka
2 108 (11.18%) Spring
3 101 (10.46%) REST
4 97 (10.04%) Spring Boot
5 77 (7.97%) RESTful
6 59 (6.11%) React
7 54 (5.59%) PySpark
8 48 (4.97%) Node.js
9 46 (4.76%) Playwright
10 38 (3.93%) YAML
11 36 (3.73%) JSON
12 32 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
13 31 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
14 27 (2.80%) WireMock
15 24 (2.48%) AWS CDK
15 24 (2.48%) HTML
15 24 (2.48%) pytest
16 23 (2.38%) Keycloak
16 23 (2.38%) OAuth
16 23 (2.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 176 (18.22%) Cloud Native
2 65 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (5.69%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.42%) Onboarding
5 29 (3.00%) Data Centre
6 26 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 22 (2.28%) Public Cloud
8 19 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.86%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (1.66%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.24%) Mainframe
12 10 (1.04%) Private Cloud
13 9 (0.93%) AI Agents
13 9 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.83%) NHS
14 8 (0.83%) PKI
15 7 (0.72%) DataPower
15 7 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
16 6 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 184 (19.05%) Linux
2 47 (4.87%) Unix
3 39 (4.04%) Windows
4 34 (3.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.35%) zOS
6 12 (1.24%) AIX
7 8 (0.83%) CentOS
7 8 (0.83%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.31%) Debian
9 3 (0.31%) Rocky
9 3 (0.31%) VMS
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
1 799 (82.71%) CI/CD
2 572 (59.21%) DevOps
3 405 (41.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 379 (39.23%) Agile
5 319 (33.02%) Containerisation
6 300 (31.06%) Test Automation
7 182 (18.84%) Microservices
8 161 (16.67%) Observability
9 150 (15.53%) Scrum
10 142 (14.70%) Platform Engineering
10 142 (14.70%) Software Engineering
11 132 (13.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 126 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
13 107 (11.08%) AI
14 97 (10.04%) DevSecOps
15 91 (9.42%) ETL
16 90 (9.32%) Migration
17 84 (8.70%) Data Modelling
18 81 (8.39%) Data Pipeline
19 78 (8.07%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 401 (41.51%) Python
2 220 (22.77%) Java
3 216 (22.36%) SQL
4 150 (15.53%) Bash
5 77 (7.97%) JavaScript
6 62 (6.42%) PowerShell
6 62 (6.42%) TypeScript
7 49 (5.07%) C#
8 36 (3.73%) Go
9 31 (3.21%) Shell Script
10 22 (2.28%) PL/SQL
11 20 (2.07%) Bicep
12 13 (1.35%) C++
13 8 (0.83%) Scala
14 7 (0.72%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.62%) C
15 6 (0.62%) Groovy
15 6 (0.62%) JCL
15 6 (0.62%) Ruby
16 4 (0.41%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 464 (48.03%) Security Cleared
2 395 (40.89%) SC Cleared
3 62 (6.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 48 (4.97%) DV Cleared
5 41 (4.24%) Degree
6 39 (4.04%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.86%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 16 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.14%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.04%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.72%) CISSP
14 6 (0.62%) CSSLP
15 5 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.41%) GIAC
17 3 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
18 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
18 2 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (9.42%) QA
2 49 (5.07%) Accessibility
3 44 (4.55%) 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
1 397 (41.10%) Docker
2 22 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.66%) 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 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.21%) iptables
7 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.10%) vSphere
8 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 468 (48.45%) Terraform
2 419 (43.37%) Kubernetes
3 208 (21.53%) Ansible
4 184 (19.05%) Grafana
5 162 (16.77%) Prometheus
6 52 (5.38%) Argo
7 34 (3.52%) Puppet
8 17 (1.76%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.55%) Istio
10 13 (1.35%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.35%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (1.04%) Packer
12 9 (0.93%) Podman
13 6 (0.62%) Cilium
13 6 (0.62%) Red Hat Satellite
13 6 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.52%) Kibana
14 5 (0.52%) linkerd
14 5 (0.52%) Salt
15 4 (0.41%) Suricata
Vendors
1 114 (11.80%) Oracle
2 56 (5.80%) Microsoft
3 55 (5.69%) Talend
4 54 (5.59%) Informatica
4 54 (5.59%) Splunk
5 53 (5.49%) Google
6 30 (3.11%) Denodo
7 27 (2.80%) Databricks
8 25 (2.59%) VMware
9 24 (2.48%) Dynatrace
10 21 (2.17%) F5
10 21 (2.17%) Palo Alto
10 21 (2.17%) Red Hat
11 20 (2.07%) ServiceNow
12 19 (1.97%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.86%) Arista
13 18 (1.86%) Aruba
13 18 (1.86%) IBM
14 17 (1.76%) Trend Micro
15 15 (1.55%) Veracode