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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 138 199
Rank change year-on-year -12 +61 +40
Contract jobs citing GitLab 1,024 661 490
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.91% 2.00% 1.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.43% 13.34% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 706 431 330
10th Percentile £376 £375 £361
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £694 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -2.56% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 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 £93.00 £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 6,231 4,956 4,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.64% 14.97% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,997 3,338 3,281
10th Percentile £352 £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 £591 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 112 199
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.99 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.63
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.03 £73.80
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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +2 870 £500 -3.68% 172
UK excluding London +3 495 £487 -2.56% 135
London +6 372 £525 - 47
Work from Home +11 356 £475 -11.21% 82
North of England -30 180 £500 +3.36% 41
Midlands +36 138 £469 -10.67% 23
West Midlands +29 131 £469 -12.91% 18
South East -30 81 £550 +7.32% 29
North East +9 76 £413 -12.70% 12
North West -28 73 £575 +19.79% 23
South West -19 58 £550 -8.33% 31
Yorkshire -37 44 £550 +10.00% 6
East of England -15 33 £475 - 10
Scotland -12 20 £400 +0.06% 1
East Midlands -15 7 £459 +69.81% 5
Northern Ireland +4 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 96 (9.38%) Confluence
2 67 (6.54%) Apache Airflow
3 63 (6.15%) Apache Spark
4 50 (4.88%) Apache
5 38 (3.71%) SAS
6 32 (3.13%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.59%) Camunda
7 6 (0.59%) CICS
7 6 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.39%) CMS
9 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) nginx
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
10 2 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Trello
2 1 (0.098%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.098%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.098%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.098%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 691 (67.48%) AWS
2 363 (35.45%) GitHub
3 361 (35.25%) Azure
4 265 (25.88%) GitHub Actions
5 183 (17.87%) GCP
6 163 (15.92%) Azure DevOps
7 140 (13.67%) Amazon S3
7 140 (13.67%) Serverless
8 133 (12.99%) Amazon EKS
9 128 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
10 119 (11.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 96 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
12 82 (8.01%) AWS CloudFormation
13 66 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 57 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
15 46 (4.49%) OpenShift
16 45 (4.39%) Amazon EMR
17 43 (4.20%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (3.52%) Datadog
19 35 (3.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.79%) Firewall
2 32 (3.13%) DNS
3 29 (2.83%) BGP
4 28 (2.73%) Network Security
5 27 (2.64%) Ethernet VPN
5 27 (2.64%) VXLAN
6 23 (2.25%) WAN
7 22 (2.15%) SD-WAN
8 21 (2.05%) OSPF
9 20 (1.95%) TCP/IP
10 19 (1.86%) BIG-IP
10 19 (1.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 15 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (1.27%) VPN
13 12 (1.17%) HTTP
14 11 (1.07%) WLAN
15 8 (0.78%) NX-OS
15 8 (0.78%) SSL
16 6 (0.59%) DHCP
17 5 (0.49%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (7.52%) MongoDB
3 53 (5.18%) Relational Database
4 50 (4.88%) Amazon Athena
4 50 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 47 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
6 45 (4.39%) NoSQL
7 43 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
7 43 (4.20%) DynamoDB
8 36 (3.52%) Pentaho
8 36 (3.52%) SQL Server
9 33 (3.22%) Power BI
10 31 (3.03%) MySQL
11 30 (2.93%) Data Lake
12 28 (2.73%) Big Data
12 28 (2.73%) Redis
13 27 (2.64%) Oracle Database
14 24 (2.34%) RDBMS
15 14 (1.37%) Oracle Exadata
16 13 (1.27%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 435 (42.48%) Jenkins
2 240 (23.44%) Git
3 130 (12.70%) JIRA
4 83 (8.11%) Selenium
5 70 (6.84%) JUnit
6 52 (5.08%) Cucumber
7 49 (4.79%) SonarQube
8 43 (4.20%) Bitbucket
9 34 (3.32%) Artifactory
10 33 (3.22%) JMeter
11 32 (3.13%) Gradle
11 32 (3.13%) Maven
12 31 (3.03%) Postman
13 28 (2.73%) Mockito
14 26 (2.54%) Gatling
15 25 (2.44%) REST Assured
16 23 (2.25%) WebDriver
17 21 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
18 20 (1.95%) Snyk
19 13 (1.27%) Cypress.io
General
1 199 (19.43%) Social Skills
2 186 (18.16%) Public Sector
3 101 (9.86%) Finance
4 64 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (6.15%) Banking
6 23 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (1.86%) Military
8 18 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.37%) Law
10 13 (1.27%) Legal
11 10 (0.98%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.68%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.68%) Publishing
13 6 (0.59%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.49%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.49%) Police
14 5 (0.49%) Retail
15 4 (0.39%) Marketing
16 3 (0.29%) Back Office
16 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 219 (21.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 189 (18.46%) Senior
3 170 (16.60%) Developer
4 129 (12.60%) AWS Engineer
5 105 (10.25%) Data Engineer
6 79 (7.71%) AWS DevOps
7 73 (7.13%) Lead
8 72 (7.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 58 (5.66%) Software Engineer
10 54 (5.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (5.18%) Java Developer
12 48 (4.69%) Platform Engineer
13 44 (4.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 41 (4.00%) Test Engineer
15 36 (3.52%) Architect
16 34 (3.32%) Software Developer
17 33 (3.22%) Senior DevOps
17 33 (3.22%) Tester
18 32 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 29 (2.83%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (13.87%) Kafka
2 122 (11.91%) Spring
3 119 (11.62%) REST
4 108 (10.55%) Spring Boot
5 71 (6.93%) RESTful
6 64 (6.25%) React
7 58 (5.66%) Node.js
8 53 (5.18%) PySpark
9 51 (4.98%) Playwright
10 50 (4.88%) JSON
11 42 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
12 35 (3.42%) YAML
13 33 (3.22%) OAuth
14 32 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
15 30 (2.93%) HTML
15 30 (2.93%) pytest
16 29 (2.83%) WireMock
17 27 (2.64%) CSS
18 26 (2.54%) Keycloak
19 25 (2.44%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 203 (19.82%) Cloud Native
2 69 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.57%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.32%) Data Centre
5 33 (3.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (3.22%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.76%) Distributed Architecture
9 17 (1.66%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.46%) Mainframe
10 15 (1.46%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.37%) AI Agents
12 10 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (0.88%) PKI
13 9 (0.88%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 188 (18.36%) Linux
2 51 (4.98%) Unix
3 42 (4.10%) Windows
4 35 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.27%) Ubuntu
5 13 (1.27%) zOS
6 12 (1.17%) AIX
7 10 (0.98%) CentOS
8 7 (0.68%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.49%) VMS
10 4 (0.39%) Debian
10 4 (0.39%) Rocky
11 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.20%) Android
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.098%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 849 (82.91%) CI/CD
2 603 (58.89%) DevOps
3 448 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 392 (38.28%) Agile
5 348 (33.98%) Containerisation
6 312 (30.47%) Test Automation
7 198 (19.34%) Microservices
8 181 (17.68%) Observability
9 167 (16.31%) Software Engineering
10 157 (15.33%) Scrum
11 150 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 147 (14.36%) Platform Engineering
13 138 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
14 120 (11.72%) AI
15 112 (10.94%) DevSecOps
16 104 (10.16%) ETL
17 101 (9.86%) Migration
18 96 (9.38%) Event-Driven
19 90 (8.79%) Data Pipeline
19 90 (8.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 443 (43.26%) Python
2 238 (23.24%) Java
2 238 (23.24%) SQL
3 183 (17.87%) Bash
4 91 (8.89%) JavaScript
5 90 (8.79%) PowerShell
6 69 (6.74%) TypeScript
7 61 (5.96%) C#
8 36 (3.52%) Go
9 30 (2.93%) Shell Script
10 25 (2.44%) PL/SQL
11 22 (2.15%) Bicep
12 15 (1.46%) C++
13 11 (1.07%) Groovy
14 10 (0.98%) Scala
15 9 (0.88%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.59%) JCL
16 6 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.59%) R
17 5 (0.49%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 492 (48.05%) Security Cleared
2 409 (39.94%) SC Cleared
3 62 (6.05%) DV Cleared
4 56 (5.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 46 (4.49%) Degree
6 45 (4.39%) AWS Certification
7 31 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (1.95%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (1.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 14 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (1.37%) CISSP
12 11 (1.07%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.88%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.59%) CSSLP
15 5 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.49%) GCFA
15 5 (0.49%) GCIH
16 4 (0.39%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (10.25%) QA
2 49 (4.79%) Accessibility
3 44 (4.30%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.27%) GDPR
4 13 (1.27%) WCAG
5 12 (1.17%) NIST
6 10 (0.98%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.98%) SLA
7 9 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.49%) FATCA
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.39%) NCSC
11 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.098%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.098%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.098%) MIL-STD-1553
12 1 (0.098%) NIST 800
System Software
1 430 (41.99%) Docker
2 24 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.15%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.27%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.68%) HDFS
7 6 (0.59%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.49%) Squid
9 3 (0.29%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.20%) iptables
10 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.098%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.098%) vSphere
11 1 (0.098%) zsh
Systems Management
1 498 (48.63%) Terraform
2 467 (45.61%) Kubernetes
3 244 (23.83%) Ansible
4 181 (17.68%) Grafana
5 155 (15.14%) Prometheus
6 53 (5.18%) Argo
7 40 (3.91%) Puppet
8 28 (2.73%) Progress Chef
9 17 (1.66%) Istio
10 13 (1.27%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.27%) Oracle RMAN
11 12 (1.17%) Packer
12 9 (0.88%) Podman
12 9 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
13 8 (0.78%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.68%) Kibana
15 6 (0.59%) Cilium
16 5 (0.49%) CASB
16 5 (0.49%) Red Hat Satellite
16 5 (0.49%) Salt
Vendors
1 116 (11.33%) Oracle
2 72 (7.03%) Microsoft
3 66 (6.45%) Google
4 58 (5.66%) Informatica
4 58 (5.66%) Splunk
5 57 (5.57%) Talend
6 38 (3.71%) Databricks
7 37 (3.61%) VMware
8 35 (3.42%) Dynatrace
9 29 (2.83%) Denodo
10 28 (2.73%) ServiceNow
11 24 (2.34%) Red Hat
12 21 (2.05%) Palo Alto
13 20 (1.95%) F5
14 18 (1.76%) Arista
14 18 (1.76%) Aruba
14 18 (1.76%) Trend Micro
15 17 (1.66%) IBM
16 12 (1.17%) Cisco
17 9 (0.88%) Tenable