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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 145 223
Rank change year-on-year +10 +78 -2
Contract jobs citing GitLab 930 578 463
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.95% 1.97% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.97% 13.85% 9.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 371 336
10th Percentile £381 £370 £381
25th Percentile £416 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% -5.83% -3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £650
90th Percentile £668 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 3 8
10th Percentile £43.42 £64.59 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.48 £52.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £68.22
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +21.61% +72.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £88.98 £75.21
90th Percentile £82.70 £92.59 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.75 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -25.57% +11.45% +61.65%

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 5,825 4,174 5,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.19% 14.20% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,825 2,787 3,434
10th Percentile £348 £340 £353
25th Percentile £406 £413 £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 £704 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 72 202
10th Percentile £36.55 £26.19 £33.20
25th Percentile £59.19 £47.88 £46.38
Median hourly rate £66.75 £60.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.79% -7.31% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.19 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £79.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +5 774 £500 -4.76% 209
UK excluding London +17 463 £480 -4.00% 151
London -1 323 £525 -0.94% 60
Work from Home +2 275 £475 -9.52% 102
North of England -8 180 £494 -6.45% 53
Midlands +10 114 £463 -6.09% 31
West Midlands +10 99 £469 -10.67% 20
North West -1 93 £493 -1.50% 22
Yorkshire -24 62 £500 -13.04% 11
South East -47 57 £550 +9.89% 38
South West -3 55 £500 +8.70% 17
North East -3 35 £450 -14.29% 20
Scotland +4 33 £404 -7.77% 1
East of England -9 31 £478 +7.72% 10
East Midlands -24 15 £414 +32.96% 11
Northern Ireland +4 3 - - 3

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 70 (7.53%) Confluence
2 32 (3.44%) Apache Spark
3 31 (3.33%) SAS
4 29 (3.12%) Apache
5 27 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.61%) nginx
6 15 (1.61%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.97%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.54%) CICS
9 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.32%) Camunda
10 3 (0.32%) CMS
10 3 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.11%) FileNet
Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (0.32%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 562 (60.43%) AWS
2 309 (33.23%) GitHub
3 306 (32.90%) Azure
4 220 (23.66%) GitHub Actions
5 155 (16.67%) Serverless
6 146 (15.70%) GCP
7 138 (14.84%) Amazon S3
8 131 (14.09%) AWS Lambda
9 124 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
10 112 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
11 102 (10.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 100 (10.75%) Amazon EC2
13 99 (10.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 77 (8.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 65 (6.99%) OpenShift
16 56 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
17 35 (3.76%) Azure AKS
18 34 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
19 28 (3.01%) Power Platform
20 27 (2.90%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.19%) Firewall
2 27 (2.90%) DNS
3 19 (2.04%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.94%) Network Security
5 15 (1.61%) VPN
6 14 (1.51%) BGP
7 13 (1.40%) OSPF
8 12 (1.29%) Ethernet VPN
8 12 (1.29%) VXLAN
8 12 (1.29%) WAN
9 11 (1.18%) HTTP
10 10 (1.08%) BIG-IP
10 10 (1.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 10 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
10 10 (1.08%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.65%) WLAN
13 4 (0.43%) Multicast
13 4 (0.43%) SAN
13 4 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (5.70%) MongoDB
3 46 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
4 43 (4.62%) DynamoDB
5 41 (4.41%) Relational Database
6 40 (4.30%) Amazon Athena
6 40 (4.30%) NoSQL
7 32 (3.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 32 (3.44%) MySQL
8 31 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
9 30 (3.23%) Data Lake
9 30 (3.23%) Redis
10 27 (2.90%) Power BI
11 25 (2.69%) Big Data
11 25 (2.69%) SQL Server
12 23 (2.47%) Pentaho
13 13 (1.40%) DocumentDB
14 12 (1.29%) Metadata
14 12 (1.29%) Oracle Database
15 11 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 411 (44.19%) Jenkins
2 200 (21.51%) Git
3 134 (14.41%) JIRA
4 81 (8.71%) Selenium
5 70 (7.53%) JUnit
6 54 (5.81%) Cucumber
7 47 (5.05%) Postman
8 39 (4.19%) JMeter
9 38 (4.09%) REST Assured
10 33 (3.55%) Bitbucket
10 33 (3.55%) Gradle
11 31 (3.33%) SonarQube
12 28 (3.01%) Artifactory
13 26 (2.80%) CircleCI
13 26 (2.80%) Mockito
14 25 (2.69%) Gatling
15 19 (2.04%) WebDriver
16 17 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
17 16 (1.72%) Maven
17 16 (1.72%) Snyk
General
1 184 (19.78%) Social Skills
2 167 (17.96%) Public Sector
3 115 (12.37%) Finance
4 66 (7.10%) Banking
5 57 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.40%) Military
8 11 (1.18%) Aerospace
8 11 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.18%) Retail
9 8 (0.86%) Financial Institution
9 8 (0.86%) Investment Banking
9 8 (0.86%) Law
10 7 (0.75%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.54%) Legal
12 4 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.43%) Police
12 4 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 192 (20.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 168 (18.06%) Developer
3 148 (15.91%) Senior
4 95 (10.22%) AWS Engineer
5 79 (8.49%) Data Engineer
6 67 (7.20%) Lead
7 65 (6.99%) AWS DevOps
8 61 (6.56%) Software Engineer
9 57 (6.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 57 (6.13%) Java Developer
10 53 (5.70%) Architect
11 39 (4.19%) Cloud Engineer
11 39 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
12 38 (4.09%) Test Engineer
13 29 (3.12%) Full-Stack Developer
13 29 (3.12%) Senior DevOps
13 29 (3.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 26 (2.80%) Senior Developer
15 25 (2.69%) Tester
16 24 (2.58%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (14.30%) Spring
2 132 (14.19%) Kafka
3 115 (12.37%) Spring Boot
4 112 (12.04%) REST
5 81 (8.71%) Node.js
5 81 (8.71%) RESTful
6 67 (7.20%) React
7 55 (5.91%) Elastic Stack
8 44 (4.73%) Playwright
9 41 (4.41%) PySpark
10 36 (3.87%) OpenTelemetry
11 33 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
12 32 (3.44%) LDAP
13 30 (3.23%) Jest
13 30 (3.23%) YAML
14 29 (3.12%) OAuth
15 27 (2.90%) HTML
15 27 (2.90%) OpenID
15 27 (2.90%) pytest
16 26 (2.80%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 153 (16.45%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (6.34%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 29 (3.12%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.83%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.40%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.40%) Private Cloud
10 12 (1.29%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.18%) NHS
12 10 (1.08%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
13 9 (0.97%) PKI
14 8 (0.86%) DataPower
14 8 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
16 6 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 171 (18.39%) Linux
2 53 (5.70%) Windows
3 41 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 40 (4.30%) Unix
5 13 (1.40%) CentOS
6 9 (0.97%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.86%) Android
7 8 (0.86%) VMS
8 7 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.75%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.75%) zOS
9 4 (0.43%) Debian
9 4 (0.43%) Rocky
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.11%) AIX
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 739 (79.46%) CI/CD
2 513 (55.16%) DevOps
3 337 (36.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 334 (35.91%) Agile
5 315 (33.87%) Containerisation
6 287 (30.86%) Test Automation
7 185 (19.89%) Microservices
8 167 (17.96%) Observability
9 141 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
10 135 (14.52%) Scrum
11 134 (14.41%) Software Engineering
12 122 (13.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 115 (12.37%) Platform Engineering
14 90 (9.68%) DevSecOps
14 90 (9.68%) ETL
15 85 (9.14%) TDD
16 83 (8.92%) Analytics
17 78 (8.39%) Migration
18 75 (8.06%) AI
19 73 (7.85%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 368 (39.57%) Python
2 270 (29.03%) Java
3 203 (21.83%) SQL
4 139 (14.95%) Bash
5 97 (10.43%) JavaScript
6 84 (9.03%) TypeScript
7 68 (7.31%) PowerShell
8 49 (5.27%) Shell Script
9 43 (4.62%) Go
10 36 (3.87%) C#
11 21 (2.26%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.15%) Bicep
13 19 (2.04%) Kotlin
14 14 (1.51%) C++
15 13 (1.40%) Ruby
16 12 (1.29%) Scala
17 10 (1.08%) MATLAB
18 9 (0.97%) C
19 8 (0.86%) Groovy
19 8 (0.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 393 (42.26%) Security Cleared
2 329 (35.38%) SC Cleared
3 45 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 44 (4.73%) Degree
5 35 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.44%) AWS Certification
7 26 (2.80%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.40%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (0.97%) SAFe Agilist
12 7 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (0.75%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.54%) CISSP
14 5 (0.54%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.54%) OCA
15 4 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.43%) CSSLP
15 4 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (11.18%) QA
2 49 (5.27%) Accessibility
3 31 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 20 (2.15%) SLA
5 18 (1.94%) GDPR
6 14 (1.51%) WCAG
7 11 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.08%) NIST
9 9 (0.97%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.86%) NCSC
11 6 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 5 (0.54%) FATCA
13 4 (0.43%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.22%) HL7
14 2 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.11%) GRC
15 1 (0.11%) IEC 61508
15 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
15 1 (0.11%) OpenSCAP
15 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 382 (41.08%) Docker
2 24 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.75%) HDFS
6 4 (0.43%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.32%) Squid
7 3 (0.32%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.22%) iptables
8 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.22%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 429 (46.13%) Kubernetes
2 400 (43.01%) Terraform
3 204 (21.94%) Grafana
4 198 (21.29%) Ansible
5 166 (17.85%) Prometheus
6 59 (6.34%) Argo
7 26 (2.80%) Puppet
8 21 (2.26%) Istio
9 17 (1.83%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.51%) Podman
11 13 (1.40%) Red Hat Satellite
12 12 (1.29%) Kibana
13 10 (1.08%) Check_MK
14 9 (0.97%) linkerd
15 7 (0.75%) Packer
15 7 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
16 6 (0.65%) Karpenter
17 5 (0.54%) Nagios
17 5 (0.54%) Rancher
18 4 (0.43%) Salt
Vendors
1 92 (9.89%) Oracle
2 64 (6.88%) Splunk
3 63 (6.77%) Microsoft
4 45 (4.84%) Red Hat
5 41 (4.41%) Google
6 37 (3.98%) VMware
7 36 (3.87%) Talend
8 34 (3.66%) Databricks
9 33 (3.55%) Informatica
9 33 (3.55%) ServiceNow
10 23 (2.47%) Dynatrace
11 21 (2.26%) Denodo
12 20 (2.15%) Salesforce
13 13 (1.40%) Arista
13 13 (1.40%) F5
14 11 (1.18%) IBM
14 11 (1.18%) Palo Alto
14 11 (1.18%) Veracode
15 9 (0.97%) Aruba
15 9 (0.97%) Tenable