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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 146 220
Rank change year-on-year +10 +74 -1
Contract jobs citing GitLab 913 568 464
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.93% 1.96% 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.94% 13.79% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 639 362 336
10th Percentile £383 £370 £381
25th Percentile £422 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -5.83% -3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £646
90th Percentile £669 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -3.68% -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 3 8
10th Percentile £44.72 £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 £82.60 £92.59 £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 5,727 4,118 5,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.13% 14.21% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,748 2,750 3,428
10th Percentile £347 £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 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 71 202
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.04 £33.20
25th Percentile £59.19 £47.75 £46.38
Median hourly rate £66.75 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.06 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £79.13
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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +11 767 £500 -4.76% 208
UK excluding London +28 453 £482 -3.68% 147
London -12 317 £525 -0.94% 62
Work from Home +1 268 £475 -8.65% 101
North of England -1 180 £500 -4.76% 55
Midlands +17 113 £463 -6.09% 32
West Midlands +9 98 £469 -10.67% 20
North West 0 93 £500 - 23
Yorkshire -15 61 £500 -13.04% 11
South West +3 56 £500 +8.70% 17
South East -35 55 £550 +4.71% 31
North East -3 36 £450 -14.29% 21
East of England -5 32 £478 +7.72% 10
Scotland -1 25 £425 -2.86%
East Midlands -18 15 £414 +32.96% 12
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 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 68 (7.45%) Confluence
2 31 (3.40%) SAS
3 30 (3.29%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.96%) Apache
4 27 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.64%) OpenStack
6 14 (1.53%) nginx
7 9 (0.99%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.55%) CICS
9 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.33%) Camunda
10 3 (0.33%) CMS
10 3 (0.33%) 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 (0.33%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (0.33%) 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
1 548 (60.02%) AWS
2 304 (33.30%) Azure
3 300 (32.86%) GitHub
4 217 (23.77%) GitHub Actions
5 145 (15.88%) GCP
6 144 (15.77%) Serverless
7 131 (14.35%) Amazon S3
8 122 (13.36%) Amazon EKS
9 120 (13.14%) AWS Lambda
10 110 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
11 99 (10.84%) Amazon EC2
12 98 (10.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 95 (10.41%) AWS CloudFormation
14 73 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 63 (6.90%) OpenShift
16 52 (5.70%) Amazon ECS
17 35 (3.83%) Azure AKS
18 34 (3.72%) Amazon SQS
19 28 (3.07%) Power Platform
20 27 (2.96%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.49%) Firewall
2 27 (2.96%) DNS
3 21 (2.30%) TCP/IP
4 20 (2.19%) Network Security
5 16 (1.75%) BGP
6 15 (1.64%) OSPF
6 15 (1.64%) VPN
7 14 (1.53%) Ethernet VPN
7 14 (1.53%) VXLAN
7 14 (1.53%) WAN
8 12 (1.31%) BIG-IP
8 12 (1.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 12 (1.31%) SD-WAN
9 11 (1.20%) HTTP
10 10 (1.10%) Reverse Proxy
11 9 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.66%) WLAN
13 4 (0.44%) Multicast
13 4 (0.44%) SAN
13 4 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (8.65%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (5.59%) MongoDB
3 42 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
3 42 (4.60%) DynamoDB
4 40 (4.38%) Relational Database
5 39 (4.27%) NoSQL
6 35 (3.83%) Amazon Athena
7 32 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 31 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
8 31 (3.40%) MySQL
9 30 (3.29%) Data Lake
10 27 (2.96%) Power BI
10 27 (2.96%) Redis
11 25 (2.74%) Big Data
11 25 (2.74%) SQL Server
12 23 (2.52%) Pentaho
13 13 (1.42%) DocumentDB
14 12 (1.31%) Metadata
14 12 (1.31%) Oracle Database
15 11 (1.20%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 405 (44.36%) Jenkins
2 196 (21.47%) Git
3 130 (14.24%) JIRA
4 79 (8.65%) Selenium
5 69 (7.56%) JUnit
6 52 (5.70%) Cucumber
7 46 (5.04%) Postman
8 39 (4.27%) JMeter
9 38 (4.16%) REST Assured
10 32 (3.50%) Gradle
11 30 (3.29%) Artifactory
11 30 (3.29%) Bitbucket
11 30 (3.29%) SonarQube
12 26 (2.85%) CircleCI
12 26 (2.85%) Mockito
13 24 (2.63%) Gatling
14 19 (2.08%) WebDriver
15 16 (1.75%) Maven
15 16 (1.75%) Snyk
16 15 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 181 (19.82%) Social Skills
2 164 (17.96%) Public Sector
3 105 (11.50%) Finance
4 61 (6.68%) Banking
5 57 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.42%) Military
8 11 (1.20%) Aerospace
8 11 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.20%) Retail
9 8 (0.88%) Financial Institution
9 8 (0.88%) Investment Banking
9 8 (0.88%) Law
10 7 (0.77%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.55%) Legal
12 4 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.44%) Police
12 4 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 190 (20.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 164 (17.96%) Developer
3 145 (15.88%) Senior
4 92 (10.08%) AWS Engineer
5 76 (8.32%) Data Engineer
6 64 (7.01%) Lead
7 62 (6.79%) AWS DevOps
8 60 (6.57%) Software Engineer
9 55 (6.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 55 (6.02%) Java Developer
10 51 (5.59%) Architect
11 42 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
12 39 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
13 37 (4.05%) Test Engineer
14 28 (3.07%) Full-Stack Developer
14 28 (3.07%) Senior DevOps
14 28 (3.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 26 (2.85%) Senior Developer
16 24 (2.63%) Java Engineer
16 24 (2.63%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (14.13%) Spring
2 128 (14.02%) Kafka
3 111 (12.16%) REST
3 111 (12.16%) Spring Boot
4 80 (8.76%) RESTful
5 77 (8.43%) Node.js
6 66 (7.23%) React
7 53 (5.81%) Elastic Stack
8 40 (4.38%) Playwright
9 37 (4.05%) PySpark
10 35 (3.83%) OpenTelemetry
11 33 (3.61%) LDAP
12 32 (3.50%) RabbitMQ
13 30 (3.29%) YAML
14 29 (3.18%) Jest
15 28 (3.07%) OAuth
16 27 (2.96%) pytest
17 26 (2.85%) AngularJS
17 26 (2.85%) OpenAPI
17 26 (2.85%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 150 (16.43%) Cloud Native
2 60 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (6.46%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.50%) Data Centre
5 29 (3.18%) Onboarding
6 20 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.86%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.53%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.42%) Private Cloud
11 12 (1.31%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.20%) NHS
13 10 (1.10%) Mainframe
14 9 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
14 9 (0.99%) PKI
15 8 (0.88%) DataPower
15 8 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
16 7 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
16 7 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
17 6 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 169 (18.51%) Linux
2 52 (5.70%) Windows
3 42 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 40 (4.38%) Unix
5 14 (1.53%) CentOS
6 9 (0.99%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.88%) VMS
8 7 (0.77%) Android
8 7 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.77%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.77%) zOS
9 4 (0.44%) Debian
9 4 (0.44%) 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
1 729 (79.85%) CI/CD
2 505 (55.31%) DevOps
3 331 (36.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 326 (35.71%) Agile
5 308 (33.73%) Containerisation
6 277 (30.34%) Test Automation
7 178 (19.50%) Microservices
8 165 (18.07%) Observability
9 138 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
10 134 (14.68%) Software Engineering
11 131 (14.35%) Scrum
12 119 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
13 114 (12.49%) Platform Engineering
14 87 (9.53%) ETL
15 86 (9.42%) DevSecOps
16 83 (9.09%) TDD
17 78 (8.54%) Analytics
18 73 (8.00%) Migration
19 71 (7.78%) AI
20 69 (7.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 356 (38.99%) Python
2 260 (28.48%) Java
3 199 (21.80%) SQL
4 140 (15.33%) Bash
5 94 (10.30%) JavaScript
6 81 (8.87%) TypeScript
7 63 (6.90%) PowerShell
8 50 (5.48%) Shell Script
9 43 (4.71%) Go
10 36 (3.94%) C#
11 21 (2.30%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.19%) Bicep
13 19 (2.08%) Kotlin
14 14 (1.53%) C++
15 12 (1.31%) Scala
16 11 (1.20%) MATLAB
16 11 (1.20%) Ruby
17 9 (0.99%) C
18 8 (0.88%) Groovy
18 8 (0.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 391 (42.83%) Security Cleared
2 327 (35.82%) SC Cleared
3 45 (4.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 41 (4.49%) Degree
5 32 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.96%) AWS Certification
7 26 (2.85%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (1.42%) Azure Certification
9 9 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (0.99%) SAFe Agilist
10 7 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.77%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
12 5 (0.55%) CISSP
12 5 (0.55%) OCA
13 4 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (11.06%) QA
2 48 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 29 (3.18%) Data Quality
4 21 (2.30%) SLA
5 18 (1.97%) GDPR
6 14 (1.53%) WCAG
7 11 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.10%) NIST
9 9 (0.99%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.77%) NCSC
11 6 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 5 (0.55%) FATCA
13 4 (0.44%) 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
1 377 (41.29%) Docker
2 25 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.77%) HDFS
6 6 (0.66%) Squid
7 4 (0.44%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.22%) iptables
9 2 (0.22%) vSphere
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 418 (45.78%) Kubernetes
2 400 (43.81%) Terraform
3 201 (22.02%) Grafana
4 199 (21.80%) Ansible
5 164 (17.96%) Prometheus
6 55 (6.02%) Argo
7 26 (2.85%) Puppet
8 20 (2.19%) Istio
9 17 (1.86%) Progress Chef
10 15 (1.64%) Podman
11 14 (1.53%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.20%) Check_MK
12 11 (1.20%) Kibana
13 8 (0.88%) linkerd
14 7 (0.77%) Packer
14 7 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.66%) Karpenter
16 5 (0.55%) Nagios
16 5 (0.55%) Rancher
17 4 (0.44%) Suricata
Vendors
1 88 (9.64%) Oracle
2 62 (6.79%) Microsoft
3 61 (6.68%) Splunk
4 45 (4.93%) Red Hat
5 40 (4.38%) Google
6 37 (4.05%) VMware
7 36 (3.94%) Talend
8 33 (3.61%) Informatica
8 33 (3.61%) ServiceNow
9 31 (3.40%) Databricks
10 23 (2.52%) Dynatrace
11 21 (2.30%) Denodo
12 20 (2.19%) Salesforce
13 15 (1.64%) Arista
13 15 (1.64%) F5
14 13 (1.42%) Palo Alto
15 11 (1.20%) Aruba
15 11 (1.20%) IBM
16 10 (1.10%) Veracode
17 9 (0.99%) Tenable