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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 144 197
Rank change year-on-year -3 +53 +42
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,015 657 491
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.90% 1.99% 1.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.24% 13.40% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 697 431 334
10th Percentile £372 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £645
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -3.11% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 9
10th Percentile - £60.50 £52.80
25th Percentile - £62.69 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.44
90th Percentile - £73.55 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -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 6,249 4,902 5,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.71% 14.87% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,017 3,313 3,280
10th Percentile £350 £322 £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 £598 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 111 213
10th Percentile £34.54 £27.94 £28.65
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £47.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.58 £85.25 £73.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +5 863 £500 -3.82% 480
UK excluding London +9 487 £484 -3.11% 262
London +7 373 £525 - 252
Work from Home +11 356 £475 -9.52% 231
North of England -23 179 £488 +1.56% 78
Midlands +36 139 £469 -10.11% 27
West Midlands +36 132 £469 -12.42% 17
South East -33 77 £550 - 47
North East +8 76 £413 -11.29% 16
North West -33 73 £575 +19.79% 48
South West -23 55 £550 -8.33% 53
Yorkshire -45 43 £550 +10.00% 14
East of England -13 33 £475 - 25
Scotland -11 19 £400 - 25
East Midlands -6 7 £459 +69.81% 10
Northern Ireland +6 1 - - 5

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 97 (9.56%) Confluence
2 64 (6.31%) Apache Airflow
3 61 (6.01%) Apache Spark
4 50 (4.93%) Apache
5 38 (3.74%) SAS
6 32 (3.15%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.59%) Camunda
7 6 (0.59%) CICS
7 6 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.39%) CMS
8 4 (0.39%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.30%) nginx
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
10 2 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Trello
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.099%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.099%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.099%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 685 (67.49%) AWS
2 360 (35.47%) GitHub
3 353 (34.78%) Azure
4 264 (26.01%) GitHub Actions
5 175 (17.24%) GCP
6 157 (15.47%) Azure DevOps
7 142 (13.99%) Amazon S3
8 139 (13.69%) Serverless
9 137 (13.50%) Amazon EKS
10 127 (12.51%) AWS Lambda
11 120 (11.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 99 (9.75%) Amazon EC2
13 85 (8.37%) AWS CloudFormation
14 69 (6.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 59 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
16 43 (4.24%) Amazon EMR
16 43 (4.24%) OpenShift
17 42 (4.14%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (3.55%) Datadog
18 36 (3.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.73%) Firewall
2 33 (3.25%) DNS
3 26 (2.56%) Network Security
4 25 (2.46%) BGP
5 23 (2.27%) Ethernet VPN
5 23 (2.27%) VXLAN
5 23 (2.27%) WAN
6 22 (2.17%) SD-WAN
7 21 (2.07%) OSPF
8 20 (1.97%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.87%) BIG-IP
9 19 (1.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 15 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (1.28%) VPN
12 12 (1.18%) HTTP
13 11 (1.08%) WLAN
14 7 (0.69%) SSL
15 6 (0.59%) DHCP
16 5 (0.49%) VLAN
17 4 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (8.87%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (7.68%) MongoDB
3 53 (5.22%) Relational Database
4 48 (4.73%) Amazon Athena
4 48 (4.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 47 (4.63%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (4.33%) NoSQL
7 42 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
7 42 (4.14%) DynamoDB
8 36 (3.55%) Pentaho
9 34 (3.35%) SQL Server
10 33 (3.25%) Power BI
11 30 (2.96%) Data Lake
11 30 (2.96%) MySQL
12 28 (2.76%) Big Data
13 27 (2.66%) Oracle Database
14 26 (2.56%) Redis
15 24 (2.36%) RDBMS
16 13 (1.28%) Apache Hive
16 13 (1.28%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 432 (42.56%) Jenkins
2 236 (23.25%) Git
3 131 (12.91%) JIRA
4 84 (8.28%) Selenium
5 71 (7.00%) JUnit
6 53 (5.22%) Cucumber
7 50 (4.93%) SonarQube
8 46 (4.53%) Bitbucket
9 35 (3.45%) Artifactory
10 32 (3.15%) Gradle
10 32 (3.15%) JMeter
11 31 (3.05%) Maven
11 31 (3.05%) Postman
12 28 (2.76%) Gatling
13 26 (2.56%) Mockito
13 26 (2.56%) REST Assured
14 23 (2.27%) WebDriver
15 21 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
16 20 (1.97%) Snyk
17 13 (1.28%) Cypress.io
General
1 201 (19.80%) Social Skills
2 189 (18.62%) Public Sector
3 101 (9.95%) Finance
4 63 (6.21%) Banking
5 62 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (1.97%) Military
8 18 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.38%) Law
10 13 (1.28%) Legal
11 10 (0.99%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.69%) Publishing
13 6 (0.59%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.49%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.49%) Police
14 5 (0.49%) Retail
15 4 (0.39%) Marketing
16 3 (0.30%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 218 (21.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 186 (18.33%) Senior
3 165 (16.26%) Developer
4 126 (12.41%) AWS Engineer
5 106 (10.44%) Data Engineer
6 79 (7.78%) AWS DevOps
7 72 (7.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 72 (7.09%) Lead
8 57 (5.62%) Software Engineer
9 53 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
10 51 (5.02%) Java Developer
11 49 (4.83%) Platform Engineer
12 44 (4.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 41 (4.04%) Test Engineer
14 34 (3.35%) Architect
15 33 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
16 32 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 32 (3.15%) Software Developer
16 32 (3.15%) Tester
17 29 (2.86%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (13.50%) Kafka
2 121 (11.92%) Spring
3 112 (11.03%) REST
4 105 (10.34%) Spring Boot
5 67 (6.60%) RESTful
6 63 (6.21%) React
7 58 (5.71%) Node.js
8 54 (5.32%) PySpark
9 53 (5.22%) Playwright
10 44 (4.33%) JSON
11 42 (4.14%) RabbitMQ
12 32 (3.15%) Elastic Stack
13 31 (3.05%) OAuth
14 30 (2.96%) HTML
14 30 (2.96%) WireMock
14 30 (2.96%) YAML
15 28 (2.76%) pytest
16 27 (2.66%) CSS
17 26 (2.56%) Keycloak
18 25 (2.46%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 200 (19.70%) Cloud Native
2 70 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.62%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 32 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
6 31 (3.05%) Data Centre
7 23 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (2.17%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
10 17 (1.67%) Algorithms
11 15 (1.48%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.28%) Mainframe
13 12 (1.18%) AI Agents
14 10 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.89%) PKI
15 9 (0.89%) Private Cloud
16 8 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
17 7 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
17 7 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
18 6 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 187 (18.42%) Linux
2 51 (5.02%) Unix
3 41 (4.04%) Windows
4 36 (3.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.28%) zOS
6 12 (1.18%) AIX
6 12 (1.18%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.89%) CentOS
8 7 (0.69%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.39%) Debian
9 4 (0.39%) Rocky
9 4 (0.39%) VMS
10 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.20%) Android
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 838 (82.56%) CI/CD
2 600 (59.11%) DevOps
3 437 (43.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 398 (39.21%) Agile
5 341 (33.60%) Containerisation
6 311 (30.64%) Test Automation
7 195 (19.21%) Microservices
8 177 (17.44%) Observability
9 163 (16.06%) Software Engineering
10 160 (15.76%) Scrum
11 150 (14.78%) Platform Engineering
12 149 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
13 134 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
14 120 (11.82%) AI
15 109 (10.74%) DevSecOps
16 102 (10.05%) ETL
17 97 (9.56%) Migration
18 92 (9.06%) Data Pipeline
18 92 (9.06%) Event-Driven
19 90 (8.87%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 436 (42.96%) Python
2 237 (23.35%) SQL
3 235 (23.15%) Java
4 178 (17.54%) Bash
5 90 (8.87%) JavaScript
6 88 (8.67%) PowerShell
7 69 (6.80%) TypeScript
8 58 (5.71%) C#
9 35 (3.45%) Go
10 32 (3.15%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.27%) PL/SQL
12 22 (2.17%) Bicep
13 14 (1.38%) C++
14 11 (1.08%) Groovy
15 10 (0.99%) Scala
16 9 (0.89%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.59%) JCL
17 6 (0.59%) R
18 5 (0.49%) Cypher
18 5 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 489 (48.18%) Security Cleared
2 413 (40.69%) SC Cleared
3 59 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 56 (5.52%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.63%) Degree
6 45 (4.43%) AWS Certification
7 32 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (2.07%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 14 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (1.28%) CISSP
13 11 (1.08%) SAFe Agilist
14 9 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.89%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.59%) CSSLP
16 5 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 4 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
17 4 (0.39%) GCIH
17 4 (0.39%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (10.44%) QA
2 51 (5.02%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.43%) Data Quality
4 15 (1.48%) WCAG
5 12 (1.18%) GDPR
6 11 (1.08%) NIST
7 10 (0.99%) SLA
8 9 (0.89%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.49%) FATCA
12 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.39%) NCSC
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.099%) GRC
14 1 (0.099%) MIL-STD-1553
14 1 (0.099%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.099%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 427 (42.07%) Docker
2 23 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.17%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.28%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.69%) HDFS
7 5 (0.49%) Squid
7 5 (0.49%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.20%) iptables
9 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.099%) vSphere
10 1 (0.099%) zsh
Systems Management
1 494 (48.67%) Terraform
2 460 (45.32%) Kubernetes
3 234 (23.05%) Ansible
4 180 (17.73%) Grafana
5 156 (15.37%) Prometheus
6 51 (5.02%) Argo
7 40 (3.94%) Puppet
8 26 (2.56%) Progress Chef
9 17 (1.67%) Istio
10 13 (1.28%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.28%) Oracle RMAN
11 12 (1.18%) Packer
12 9 (0.89%) Podman
13 8 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.69%) Kibana
15 6 (0.59%) Cilium
15 6 (0.59%) Kustomize
16 5 (0.49%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.49%) linkerd
16 5 (0.49%) Salt
Vendors
1 115 (11.33%) Oracle
2 72 (7.09%) Microsoft
3 63 (6.21%) Google
4 58 (5.71%) Splunk
5 57 (5.62%) Talend
6 56 (5.52%) Informatica
7 36 (3.55%) Databricks
8 35 (3.45%) Dynatrace
9 34 (3.35%) VMware
10 29 (2.86%) Denodo
11 24 (2.36%) ServiceNow
12 21 (2.07%) Palo Alto
13 20 (1.97%) F5
13 20 (1.97%) Red Hat
14 18 (1.77%) Arista
14 18 (1.77%) Aruba
14 18 (1.77%) IBM
14 18 (1.77%) Trend Micro
15 9 (0.89%) Tenable
16 8 (0.79%) OpenAI