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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 142 223
Rank change year-on-year +11 +81 +23
Contract jobs citing GitLab 969 570 463
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.97% 1.97% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.41% 13.50% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 357 331
10th Percentile £385 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% -5.45% -6.38%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £650
90th Percentile £664 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £545
% change year-on-year -4.80% -8.26% +0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 1 9
10th Percentile £46.02 - £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £56.00
Median hourly rate £63.75 £82.96 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.16% +18.51% +76.77%
75th Percentile £66.25 - £75.00
90th Percentile £82.50 - £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -24.66% +11.45% +87.98%

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 5,905 4,222 5,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.02% 14.62% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,847 2,835 3,454
10th Percentile £350 £340 £351
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 73 222
10th Percentile £35.00 £21.69 £28.33
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.20% -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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +22 814 £500 -3.85% 124
UK excluding London +30 494 £476 -4.80% 107
London +1 325 £525 -0.94% 29
Work from Home +6 298 £475 -5.00% 61
North of England +3 203 £486 -2.80% 41
Midlands +18 126 £463 -7.50% 13
West Midlands +9 114 £463 -11.90% 9
North West -1 97 £513 +2.50% 19
Yorkshire -28 69 £500 -4.76% 8
South East -34 66 £550 +9.89% 27
South West -1 56 £500 +6.95% 16
North East +5 51 £425 -19.05% 14
East of England -8 35 £480 +1.11% 6
Scotland -7 25 £412 -4.80% 2
East Midlands -16 12 £436 +40.19% 4
Northern Ireland +6 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 84 (8.67%) Confluence
2 41 (4.23%) SAS
3 37 (3.82%) Apache Spark
4 36 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (3.41%) Apache
6 17 (1.75%) Jupyter
7 13 (1.34%) nginx
8 11 (1.14%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.72%) CICS
10 5 (0.52%) Camunda
10 5 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.31%) CMS
11 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
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
13 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 3 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.10%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 594 (61.30%) AWS
2 326 (33.64%) GitHub
3 323 (33.33%) Azure
4 235 (24.25%) GitHub Actions
5 165 (17.03%) GCP
6 139 (14.34%) Serverless
7 134 (13.83%) Amazon S3
8 124 (12.80%) Amazon EKS
9 118 (12.18%) AWS Lambda
10 117 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
11 104 (10.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 101 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
13 89 (9.18%) AWS CloudFormation
14 70 (7.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 63 (6.50%) OpenShift
16 46 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
17 37 (3.82%) Azure AKS
18 35 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
19 28 (2.89%) Power Platform
20 27 (2.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.85%) Firewall
2 32 (3.30%) DNS
3 21 (2.17%) Network Security
3 21 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.96%) BGP
4 19 (1.96%) WAN
5 18 (1.86%) OSPF
6 17 (1.75%) BIG-IP
6 17 (1.75%) Ethernet VPN
6 17 (1.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 17 (1.75%) SD-WAN
6 17 (1.75%) VXLAN
7 16 (1.65%) VPN
8 13 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (1.14%) HTTP
10 10 (1.03%) Reverse Proxy
11 9 (0.93%) WLAN
12 5 (0.52%) SSL
13 4 (0.41%) SAN
13 4 (0.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.40%) MongoDB
3 44 (4.54%) NoSQL
4 43 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
4 43 (4.44%) DynamoDB
4 43 (4.44%) Relational Database
5 37 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
6 36 (3.72%) Amazon Redshift
7 34 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
8 33 (3.41%) MySQL
9 29 (2.99%) Data Lake
10 28 (2.89%) SQL Server
11 27 (2.79%) Big Data
11 27 (2.79%) Power BI
12 25 (2.58%) Pentaho
12 25 (2.58%) Redis
13 17 (1.75%) Oracle Database
14 14 (1.44%) BigQuery
14 14 (1.44%) DocumentDB
15 12 (1.24%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 426 (43.96%) Jenkins
2 205 (21.16%) Git
3 144 (14.86%) JIRA
4 92 (9.49%) Selenium
5 70 (7.22%) JUnit
6 55 (5.68%) Cucumber
7 47 (4.85%) Postman
8 45 (4.64%) REST Assured
9 40 (4.13%) Artifactory
10 38 (3.92%) Gradle
10 38 (3.92%) JMeter
11 34 (3.51%) SonarQube
12 33 (3.41%) Bitbucket
13 28 (2.89%) Gatling
14 27 (2.79%) Mockito
15 25 (2.58%) WebDriver
16 23 (2.37%) CircleCI
17 19 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
18 17 (1.75%) Snyk
19 15 (1.55%) Maven
General
1 195 (20.12%) Social Skills
2 177 (18.27%) Public Sector
3 97 (10.01%) Finance
4 66 (6.81%) Banking
5 56 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.55%) Military
8 13 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.24%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.14%) Retail
11 9 (0.93%) Investment Banking
11 9 (0.93%) Law
12 8 (0.83%) Legal
13 6 (0.62%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.41%) Police
15 4 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.41%) Publishing
16 3 (0.31%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 207 (21.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 156 (16.10%) Developer
3 154 (15.89%) Senior
4 102 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
5 90 (9.29%) Data Engineer
6 67 (6.91%) AWS DevOps
7 66 (6.81%) Lead
8 61 (6.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 61 (6.30%) Software Engineer
9 49 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
9 49 (5.06%) Java Developer
10 47 (4.85%) Architect
11 43 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
11 43 (4.44%) Test Engineer
12 31 (3.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 30 (3.10%) Senior DevOps
13 30 (3.10%) Tester
14 29 (2.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 28 (2.89%) Full-Stack Developer
16 27 (2.79%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (13.52%) Kafka
2 128 (13.21%) Spring
3 117 (12.07%) REST
4 112 (11.56%) Spring Boot
5 76 (7.84%) RESTful
6 67 (6.91%) React
7 65 (6.71%) Node.js
8 49 (5.06%) Elastic Stack
9 48 (4.95%) Playwright
10 41 (4.23%) PySpark
11 37 (3.82%) OpenTelemetry
12 33 (3.41%) LDAP
13 32 (3.30%) OAuth
14 30 (3.10%) JSON
14 30 (3.10%) YAML
15 28 (2.89%) OpenID
16 26 (2.68%) HTML
16 26 (2.68%) pytest
17 25 (2.58%) Jest
17 25 (2.58%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 166 (17.13%) Cloud Native
2 60 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (5.99%) Product Ownership
4 38 (3.92%) Data Centre
5 31 (3.20%) Onboarding
6 23 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.65%) Public Cloud
9 15 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
10 14 (1.44%) Private Cloud
11 12 (1.24%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.14%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.14%) PKI
13 9 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (0.93%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.93%) NHS
14 7 (0.72%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.72%) DataPower
15 6 (0.62%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 173 (17.85%) Linux
2 54 (5.57%) Unix
3 46 (4.75%) Windows
4 45 (4.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.55%) CentOS
6 10 (1.03%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.93%) zOS
8 6 (0.62%) VMS
9 5 (0.52%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.41%) Debian
10 4 (0.41%) Rocky
10 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.31%) Android
12 2 (0.21%) AIX
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 775 (79.98%) CI/CD
2 551 (56.86%) DevOps
3 370 (38.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 345 (35.60%) Agile
5 315 (32.51%) Containerisation
6 297 (30.65%) Test Automation
7 189 (19.50%) Microservices
8 182 (18.78%) Observability
9 145 (14.96%) Software Engineering
10 143 (14.76%) Scrum
11 130 (13.42%) Platform Engineering
12 127 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 127 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
13 96 (9.91%) ETL
14 88 (9.08%) DevSecOps
15 83 (8.57%) TDD
16 81 (8.36%) Analytics
16 81 (8.36%) Migration
17 78 (8.05%) AI
18 76 (7.84%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 379 (39.11%) Python
2 255 (26.32%) Java
3 230 (23.74%) SQL
4 149 (15.38%) Bash
5 87 (8.98%) JavaScript
6 73 (7.53%) TypeScript
7 66 (6.81%) PowerShell
8 48 (4.95%) Shell Script
9 38 (3.92%) C#
9 38 (3.92%) Go
10 27 (2.79%) PL/SQL
11 19 (1.96%) Bicep
12 17 (1.75%) Kotlin
13 15 (1.55%) C++
14 11 (1.14%) MATLAB
14 11 (1.14%) Ruby
14 11 (1.14%) Scala
15 8 (0.83%) C
16 7 (0.72%) Groovy
16 7 (0.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 429 (44.27%) Security Cleared
2 360 (37.15%) SC Cleared
3 52 (5.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 42 (4.33%) Degree
5 34 (3.51%) DV Cleared
6 32 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.58%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.24%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.14%) ISTQB
10 10 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 10 (1.03%) SAFe Agilist
11 8 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.52%) CISSP
13 4 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.41%) CSSLP
13 4 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.31%) CISM
14 3 (0.31%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (10.32%) QA
2 51 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.51%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.27%) SLA
5 14 (1.44%) GDPR
5 14 (1.44%) WCAG
6 10 (1.03%) NIST
6 10 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.52%) FATCA
9 5 (0.52%) NCSC
10 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.10%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.10%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.10%) GRC
12 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
12 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 389 (40.14%) Docker
2 24 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.62%) HDFS
5 6 (0.62%) Squid
6 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.41%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.31%) vSphere
8 2 (0.21%) iptables
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.10%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 431 (44.48%) Terraform
2 430 (44.38%) Kubernetes
3 205 (21.16%) Grafana
4 204 (21.05%) Ansible
5 173 (17.85%) Prometheus
6 56 (5.78%) Argo
7 30 (3.10%) Puppet
8 24 (2.48%) Istio
9 17 (1.75%) Progress Chef
10 15 (1.55%) Podman
11 14 (1.44%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.14%) Check_MK
13 10 (1.03%) Kibana
14 9 (0.93%) Packer
15 8 (0.83%) linkerd
16 7 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
17 6 (0.62%) Cilium
17 6 (0.62%) Karpenter
18 5 (0.52%) Salt
19 4 (0.41%) Nagios
Vendors
1 104 (10.73%) Oracle
2 65 (6.71%) Splunk
3 61 (6.30%) Microsoft
4 51 (5.26%) Talend
5 46 (4.75%) Google
6 45 (4.64%) Red Hat
7 39 (4.02%) Informatica
8 37 (3.82%) VMware
9 35 (3.61%) ServiceNow
10 31 (3.20%) Databricks
11 30 (3.10%) Denodo
12 24 (2.48%) Dynatrace
13 20 (2.06%) F5
13 20 (2.06%) Salesforce
14 18 (1.86%) Arista
14 18 (1.86%) Palo Alto
15 16 (1.65%) Aruba
16 12 (1.24%) Veracode
17 10 (1.03%) Tenable
18 9 (0.93%) IBM