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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 145 222
Rank change year-on-year +11 +77 +32
Contract jobs citing GitLab 975 577 476
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.95% 1.96% 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.43% 13.42% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 358 337
10th Percentile £381 £361 £400
25th Percentile £421 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £650
90th Percentile £675 £664 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 2 10
10th Percentile - £69.05 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.37 £56.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £76.48 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.01% +6.22% +81.82%
75th Percentile - £80.35 £74.86
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.91 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £76.48 £74.22
% change year-on-year -18.28% +3.05% +87.42%

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 5,934 4,301 5,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.87% 14.61% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,840 2,874 3,526
10th Percentile £350 £331 £355
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £625
90th Percentile £686 £695 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 81 233
10th Percentile £34.90 £20.85 £31.34
25th Percentile £57.93 £46.92 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.96 £77.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -7.69% +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 12 June 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 June 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 June 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 +17 821 £500 -3.85% 141
UK excluding London +36 488 £475 -5.00% 111
London -1 339 £525 -0.47% 49
Work from Home +8 314 £475 -8.39% 66
North of England +6 197 £475 -3.46% 28
Midlands +15 129 £459 -8.20% 11
West Midlands +16 119 £461 -12.24% 8
North West +3 93 £525 +6.71% 13
South East -44 65 £550 +9.89% 31
Yorkshire -23 63 £513 +2.50% 6
North East +2 56 £413 -12.70% 9
South West -2 53 £500 -13.04% 22
East of England +4 38 £483 +1.58% 13
Scotland -8 22 £401 -0.37% 5
East Midlands -18 10 £436 +50.09% 3
Northern Ireland +3 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 97 (9.95%) Confluence
2 44 (4.51%) Apache Spark
3 43 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
4 42 (4.31%) SAS
5 36 (3.69%) Apache
6 24 (2.46%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.82%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.72%) CICS
9 6 (0.62%) nginx
9 6 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.51%) Camunda
11 3 (0.31%) CMS
11 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
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%) Apache Solr
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 2 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 615 (63.08%) AWS
2 331 (33.95%) GitHub
3 327 (33.54%) Azure
4 240 (24.62%) GitHub Actions
5 163 (16.72%) GCP
6 146 (14.97%) Serverless
7 144 (14.77%) Amazon S3
8 126 (12.92%) AWS Lambda
9 125 (12.82%) Amazon EKS
10 122 (12.51%) Azure DevOps
11 110 (11.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 101 (10.36%) Amazon EC2
13 85 (8.72%) AWS CloudFormation
14 71 (7.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 53 (5.44%) OpenShift
16 51 (5.23%) Amazon ECS
17 36 (3.69%) Power Platform
18 34 (3.49%) Amazon EMR
18 34 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
18 34 (3.49%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.82%) Firewall
2 28 (2.87%) DNS
3 24 (2.46%) Network Security
4 21 (2.15%) BGP
4 21 (2.15%) TCP/IP
4 21 (2.15%) WAN
5 20 (2.05%) OSPF
6 19 (1.95%) BIG-IP
6 19 (1.95%) Ethernet VPN
6 19 (1.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 19 (1.95%) SD-WAN
6 19 (1.95%) VXLAN
7 15 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (1.23%) VPN
9 11 (1.13%) WLAN
10 9 (0.92%) HTTP
11 7 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (0.51%) SSL
13 4 (0.41%) MQTT
13 4 (0.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (8.72%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (6.26%) MongoDB
3 45 (4.62%) Amazon Athena
3 45 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
4 43 (4.41%) DynamoDB
4 43 (4.41%) NoSQL
4 43 (4.41%) Relational Database
5 42 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
6 40 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
7 34 (3.49%) MySQL
8 33 (3.38%) Power BI
9 29 (2.97%) Pentaho
10 27 (2.77%) SQL Server
11 26 (2.67%) Big Data
11 26 (2.67%) Data Lake
12 25 (2.56%) Redis
13 22 (2.26%) Oracle Database
14 15 (1.54%) BigQuery
14 15 (1.54%) DocumentDB
15 14 (1.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 430 (44.10%) Jenkins
2 212 (21.74%) Git
3 156 (16.00%) JIRA
4 94 (9.64%) Selenium
5 70 (7.18%) JUnit
6 55 (5.64%) Cucumber
7 47 (4.82%) REST Assured
8 46 (4.72%) Postman
9 39 (4.00%) JMeter
10 37 (3.79%) SonarQube
11 36 (3.69%) Bitbucket
11 36 (3.69%) Gradle
12 35 (3.59%) Artifactory
13 29 (2.97%) WebDriver
14 28 (2.87%) Gatling
15 27 (2.77%) Mockito
16 19 (1.95%) CircleCI
16 19 (1.95%) Snyk
17 17 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
18 16 (1.64%) Maven
General
1 195 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 185 (18.97%) Public Sector
3 98 (10.05%) Finance
4 67 (6.87%) Banking
5 58 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (1.74%) Military
8 16 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (1.64%) Law
9 11 (1.13%) Retail
10 10 (1.03%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.03%) Legal
11 9 (0.92%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.62%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.51%) Police
13 5 (0.51%) Publishing
14 4 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 212 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 160 (16.41%) Senior
3 144 (14.77%) Developer
4 114 (11.69%) AWS Engineer
5 98 (10.05%) Data Engineer
6 78 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
7 71 (7.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 64 (6.56%) Lead
9 57 (5.85%) Software Engineer
10 51 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
11 50 (5.13%) Java Developer
12 47 (4.82%) Test Engineer
13 46 (4.72%) Platform Engineer
14 43 (4.41%) Architect
15 35 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 32 (3.28%) Senior DevOps
17 31 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 30 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
18 30 (3.08%) Tester
19 27 (2.77%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (13.03%) Spring
2 126 (12.92%) Kafka
3 113 (11.59%) Spring Boot
4 111 (11.38%) REST
5 81 (8.31%) RESTful
6 63 (6.46%) React
7 57 (5.85%) Node.js
8 50 (5.13%) PySpark
9 47 (4.82%) Playwright
10 40 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
11 35 (3.59%) OpenTelemetry
12 30 (3.08%) LDAP
13 29 (2.97%) OAuth
13 29 (2.97%) YAML
14 27 (2.77%) AWS CDK
14 27 (2.77%) JSON
14 27 (2.77%) OpenID
14 27 (2.77%) pytest
15 26 (2.67%) AngularJS
16 25 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 180 (18.46%) Cloud Native
2 64 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (6.15%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 33 (3.38%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (1.95%) Public Cloud
8 18 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.23%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.13%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.13%) Private Cloud
11 9 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (0.92%) NHS
11 9 (0.92%) PKI
12 8 (0.82%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.82%) Mainframe
13 7 (0.72%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.72%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 180 (18.46%) Linux
2 54 (5.54%) Unix
3 46 (4.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 39 (4.00%) Windows
5 15 (1.54%) CentOS
6 10 (1.03%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.82%) zOS
8 4 (0.41%) AIX
8 4 (0.41%) Debian
8 4 (0.41%) Rocky
8 4 (0.41%) VMS
8 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.21%) Android
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 788 (80.82%) CI/CD
2 564 (57.85%) DevOps
3 385 (39.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 359 (36.82%) Agile
5 322 (33.03%) Containerisation
6 307 (31.49%) Test Automation
7 199 (20.41%) Microservices
8 177 (18.15%) Observability
9 147 (15.08%) Scrum
10 142 (14.56%) Software Engineering
11 134 (13.74%) Platform Engineering
12 131 (13.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 131 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
13 101 (10.36%) ETL
14 97 (9.95%) AI
14 97 (9.95%) DevSecOps
15 85 (8.72%) Migration
16 82 (8.41%) Data Modelling
17 80 (8.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 78 (8.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 386 (39.59%) Python
2 251 (25.74%) Java
3 236 (24.21%) SQL
4 136 (13.95%) Bash
5 84 (8.62%) JavaScript
6 69 (7.08%) TypeScript
7 54 (5.54%) PowerShell
8 46 (4.72%) Shell Script
9 41 (4.21%) C#
10 38 (3.90%) Go
11 24 (2.46%) PL/SQL
12 17 (1.74%) Bicep
13 14 (1.44%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.23%) C++
14 12 (1.23%) Scala
15 11 (1.13%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.13%) Ruby
16 6 (0.62%) JCL
16 6 (0.62%) PHP
17 5 (0.51%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 447 (45.85%) Security Cleared
2 385 (39.49%) SC Cleared
3 55 (5.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 42 (4.31%) Degree
5 37 (3.79%) AWS Certification
5 37 (3.79%) DV Cleared
6 30 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 14 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 13 (1.33%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.13%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.03%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.62%) CISSP
13 4 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.41%) CSSLP
13 4 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.31%) CISM
14 3 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.31%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (10.05%) QA
2 44 (4.51%) Accessibility
3 41 (4.21%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.26%) SLA
5 13 (1.33%) WCAG
6 12 (1.23%) NIST
7 11 (1.13%) GDPR
8 9 (0.92%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.51%) FATCA
11 5 (0.51%) NCSC
12 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.10%) GRC
14 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
14 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 395 (40.51%) Docker
2 22 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.62%) Squid
6 5 (0.51%) HDFS
6 5 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.21%) iptables
9 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.21%) vSphere
10 1 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 443 (45.44%) Terraform
2 427 (43.79%) Kubernetes
3 198 (20.31%) Ansible
4 195 (20.00%) Grafana
5 166 (17.03%) Prometheus
6 58 (5.95%) Argo
7 28 (2.87%) Puppet
8 24 (2.46%) Istio
9 16 (1.64%) Podman
10 14 (1.44%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (1.33%) Progress Chef
12 11 (1.13%) Check_MK
13 9 (0.92%) linkerd
13 9 (0.92%) Packer
13 9 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.62%) Cilium
14 6 (0.62%) Kibana
15 5 (0.51%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.51%) Salt
Vendors
1 108 (11.08%) Oracle
2 62 (6.36%) Splunk
3 58 (5.95%) Microsoft
4 55 (5.64%) Talend
5 47 (4.82%) Google
5 47 (4.82%) Informatica
6 39 (4.00%) Red Hat
7 38 (3.90%) VMware
8 35 (3.59%) ServiceNow
9 30 (3.08%) Databricks
9 30 (3.08%) Denodo
10 25 (2.56%) Dynatrace
11 22 (2.26%) F5
12 20 (2.05%) Palo Alto
12 20 (2.05%) Salesforce
13 19 (1.95%) Arista
14 18 (1.85%) Aruba
15 13 (1.33%) Trend Micro
15 13 (1.33%) Veracode
16 12 (1.23%) Tenable