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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 141 210
Rank change year-on-year -7 +69 +43
Contract jobs citing GitLab 969 653 475
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.84% 2.00% 1.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.62% 13.68% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 415 332
10th Percentile £365 £358 £363
25th Percentile £415 £432 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.55% -6.30%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £645
90th Percentile £688 £670 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -2.50% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 10
10th Percentile £63.88 £61.65 £40.00
25th Percentile - £65.50 £58.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +86.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.86
90th Percentile £81.75 £74.59 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.22
% change year-on-year -2.99% -9.73% +23.70%

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 6,204 4,773 5,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.76% 14.63% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,985 3,215 3,430
10th Percentile £350 £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 £588 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 102 234
10th Percentile £26.00 £22.45 £26.60
25th Percentile £55.94 £50.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -1.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.68 £73.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -5 817 £500 -2.44% 213
UK excluding London +2 467 £488 -2.50% 150
London -11 343 £525 - 89
Work from Home +16 339 £475 -9.52% 98
North of England -20 187 £475 +1.06% 45
Midlands +26 133 £469 -6.20% 25
West Midlands +22 126 £469 -8.49% 14
North West -25 83 £525 +8.27% 27
North East +9 71 £413 -11.29% 12
South East -38 69 £550 -4.35% 32
South West -22 48 £542 -9.71% 22
Yorkshire -42 48 £550 +15.79% 6
East of England -14 31 £489 +5.68% 13
Scotland -24 16 £398 -1.12% 14
East Midlands -12 7 £470 +74.07% 11
Northern Ireland +3 1 - - 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
1 106 (10.94%) Confluence
2 58 (5.99%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (5.47%) Apache Spark
4 44 (4.54%) Apache
5 40 (4.13%) SAS
6 30 (3.10%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.72%) CICS
8 6 (0.62%) Camunda
8 6 (0.62%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.52%) nginx
10 4 (0.41%) 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
12 2 (0.21%) WordPress
13 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Trello
2 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 647 (66.77%) AWS
2 336 (34.67%) GitHub
3 312 (32.20%) Azure
4 243 (25.08%) GitHub Actions
5 163 (16.82%) GCP
6 142 (14.65%) Amazon S3
7 141 (14.55%) Serverless
8 131 (13.52%) Azure DevOps
9 127 (13.11%) AWS Lambda
10 119 (12.28%) Amazon EKS
11 109 (11.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 98 (10.11%) Amazon EC2
13 78 (8.05%) AWS CloudFormation
14 68 (7.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 48 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
16 43 (4.44%) Amazon EMR
17 42 (4.33%) OpenShift
18 40 (4.13%) Amazon SQS
19 37 (3.82%) OCI
20 33 (3.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.23%) Firewall
2 24 (2.48%) Network Security
3 22 (2.27%) BGP
3 22 (2.27%) DNS
3 22 (2.27%) WAN
4 21 (2.17%) OSPF
4 21 (2.17%) SD-WAN
5 20 (2.06%) Ethernet VPN
5 20 (2.06%) VXLAN
6 19 (1.96%) BIG-IP
6 19 (1.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 17 (1.75%) TCP/IP
8 16 (1.65%) VPN
9 15 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (1.14%) WLAN
11 9 (0.93%) HTTP
12 6 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.41%) DHCP
13 4 (0.41%) MQTT
13 4 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (7.33%) MongoDB
3 55 (5.68%) Relational Database
4 50 (5.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 48 (4.95%) Amazon Athena
6 45 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
7 42 (4.33%) DynamoDB
8 41 (4.23%) NoSQL
9 37 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (3.10%) Oracle Database
10 30 (3.10%) Pentaho
10 30 (3.10%) Power BI
10 30 (3.10%) SQL Server
11 28 (2.89%) Big Data
12 27 (2.79%) MySQL
13 25 (2.58%) Data Lake
14 22 (2.27%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.86%) Redis
16 14 (1.44%) Metadata
17 12 (1.24%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 418 (43.14%) Jenkins
2 216 (22.29%) Git
3 142 (14.65%) JIRA
4 86 (8.88%) Selenium
5 67 (6.91%) JUnit
6 48 (4.95%) Cucumber
7 46 (4.75%) SonarQube
8 40 (4.13%) Bitbucket
9 36 (3.72%) Artifactory
9 36 (3.72%) Postman
10 35 (3.61%) JMeter
10 35 (3.61%) REST Assured
11 33 (3.41%) Gradle
12 29 (2.99%) Gatling
13 28 (2.89%) Mockito
14 27 (2.79%) Maven
14 27 (2.79%) WebDriver
15 19 (1.96%) Snyk
16 17 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
17 14 (1.44%) Serenity BDD
General
1 190 (19.61%) Public Sector
2 181 (18.68%) Social Skills
3 91 (9.39%) Finance
4 62 (6.40%) Banking
5 55 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (1.96%) Military
8 18 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.44%) Law
10 13 (1.34%) Legal
11 8 (0.83%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.62%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.62%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.62%) Publishing
13 5 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.52%) Police
13 5 (0.52%) Retail
14 3 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.31%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.21%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 216 (22.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 177 (18.27%) Senior
3 149 (15.38%) Developer
4 122 (12.59%) AWS Engineer
5 97 (10.01%) Data Engineer
6 80 (8.26%) AWS DevOps
7 72 (7.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 64 (6.60%) Lead
9 52 (5.37%) Software Engineer
10 50 (5.16%) Platform Engineer
11 48 (4.95%) Java Developer
12 47 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
13 44 (4.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 44 (4.54%) Test Engineer
14 35 (3.61%) Architect
15 33 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
16 32 (3.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 31 (3.20%) Tester
18 27 (2.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 27 (2.79%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (13.42%) Kafka
2 110 (11.35%) Spring
3 101 (10.42%) REST
4 99 (10.22%) Spring Boot
5 71 (7.33%) RESTful
6 58 (5.99%) React
7 54 (5.57%) PySpark
8 53 (5.47%) Node.js
9 47 (4.85%) Playwright
10 38 (3.92%) JSON
11 34 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
12 33 (3.41%) YAML
13 32 (3.30%) RabbitMQ
14 26 (2.68%) WireMock
15 24 (2.48%) AWS CDK
15 24 (2.48%) HTML
15 24 (2.48%) pytest
16 23 (2.37%) Keycloak
17 22 (2.27%) CSS
17 22 (2.27%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 179 (18.47%) Cloud Native
2 67 (6.91%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (5.47%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.41%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.99%) Data Centre
6 27 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (2.17%) Public Cloud
8 20 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.86%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (1.65%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.34%) Mainframe
12 9 (0.93%) AI Agents
12 9 (0.93%) Private Cloud
13 8 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.83%) NHS
13 8 (0.83%) PKI
14 7 (0.72%) DataPower
14 7 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 187 (19.30%) Linux
2 48 (4.95%) Unix
3 40 (4.13%) Windows
4 35 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.44%) zOS
6 12 (1.24%) AIX
7 10 (1.03%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.83%) CentOS
9 5 (0.52%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.31%) Debian
10 3 (0.31%) Rocky
10 3 (0.31%) VMS
11 2 (0.21%) Android
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 801 (82.66%) CI/CD
2 574 (59.24%) DevOps
3 409 (42.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 379 (39.11%) Agile
5 318 (32.82%) Containerisation
6 298 (30.75%) Test Automation
7 190 (19.61%) Microservices
8 165 (17.03%) Observability
9 151 (15.58%) Scrum
10 146 (15.07%) Software Engineering
11 142 (14.65%) Platform Engineering
12 136 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 124 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
14 109 (11.25%) AI
15 99 (10.22%) DevSecOps
16 90 (9.29%) ETL
16 90 (9.29%) Migration
17 83 (8.57%) Data Modelling
18 82 (8.46%) Event-Driven
19 81 (8.36%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 402 (41.49%) Python
2 218 (22.50%) Java
3 217 (22.39%) SQL
4 155 (16.00%) Bash
5 76 (7.84%) JavaScript
6 66 (6.81%) TypeScript
7 65 (6.71%) PowerShell
8 48 (4.95%) C#
9 39 (4.02%) Go
10 31 (3.20%) Shell Script
11 22 (2.27%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.06%) Bicep
13 13 (1.34%) C++
14 8 (0.83%) Scala
15 7 (0.72%) Groovy
15 7 (0.72%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.62%) C
16 6 (0.62%) JCL
16 6 (0.62%) Ruby
17 4 (0.41%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 464 (47.88%) Security Cleared
2 396 (40.87%) SC Cleared
3 63 (6.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 49 (5.06%) DV Cleared
5 40 (4.13%) Degree
6 39 (4.02%) AWS Certification
7 29 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.86%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 16 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.14%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.03%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.72%) CISSP
14 6 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.62%) CSSLP
15 4 (0.41%) GIAC
16 3 (0.31%) CCNP
16 3 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.21%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (9.60%) QA
2 51 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 44 (4.54%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.14%) WCAG
5 10 (1.03%) SLA
6 6 (0.62%) NIST
7 5 (0.52%) FATCA
7 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.41%) GDPR
9 3 (0.31%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.10%) GRC
11 1 (0.10%) MIL-STD-1553
11 1 (0.10%) NCSC
11 1 (0.10%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 402 (41.49%) Docker
2 21 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.34%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.72%) HDFS
6 5 (0.52%) Squid
7 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.21%) iptables
8 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.10%) vSphere
9 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 473 (48.81%) Terraform
2 424 (43.76%) Kubernetes
3 213 (21.98%) Ansible
4 186 (19.20%) Grafana
5 165 (17.03%) Prometheus
6 50 (5.16%) Argo
7 36 (3.72%) Puppet
8 19 (1.96%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.55%) Istio
10 13 (1.34%) Data Guard
10 13 (1.34%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (1.03%) Packer
11 10 (1.03%) Podman
12 6 (0.62%) Cilium
12 6 (0.62%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.52%) linkerd
13 5 (0.52%) Salt
13 5 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.41%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.41%) Suricata
Vendors
1 115 (11.87%) Oracle
2 57 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 56 (5.78%) Splunk
4 55 (5.68%) Google
4 55 (5.68%) Talend
5 54 (5.57%) Informatica
6 30 (3.10%) Denodo
7 27 (2.79%) Databricks
7 27 (2.79%) VMware
8 26 (2.68%) Dynatrace
9 22 (2.27%) Palo Alto
10 21 (2.17%) F5
11 20 (2.06%) Red Hat
11 20 (2.06%) ServiceNow
12 19 (1.96%) IBM
13 18 (1.86%) Arista
13 18 (1.86%) Aruba
14 17 (1.75%) Trend Micro
15 13 (1.34%) Salesforce
15 13 (1.34%) Veracode