GitLab Contract Job Trends in Central London

GitLab
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 85 119
Rank change year-on-year -16 +34 +46
Contract jobs citing GitLab 30 43 22
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.52% 2.01% 0.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.27% 15.58% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 25 15
10th Percentile £330 £485 £513
25th Percentile £405 £555 £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.04% -7.69% +3.59%
75th Percentile £618 £730 £725
90th Percentile £740 £750 £814
London median daily rate £525 £600 £573
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.80% -11.92%

All Development Application Skills
Central London

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 in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 292 276 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 14.79% 12.88% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 158 190
10th Percentile £363 £358 £413
25th Percentile £431 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £688
90th Percentile £772 £741 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.09%
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £56.50 £48.75 £48.75
% change year-on-year +15.90% - -15.22%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitLab relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

GitLab job vacancy trend in Central London

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing GitLab.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing GitLab

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in Central London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in Central London

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Central London region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
City of London -14 27 £550 -8.33% 18
City of Westminster - 3 £475 -
West End of London - 1 £773 -
GitLab
London

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Appian
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 17 (56.67%) AWS
2 10 (33.33%) GCP
3 6 (20.00%) Azure
3 6 (20.00%) GitHub
4 5 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 5 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (10.00%) Apigee
6 3 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (10.00%) Stackdriver
7 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (6.67%) BrowserStack
7 2 (6.67%) Serverless
7 2 (6.67%) Slack
7 2 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (3.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (3.33%) DHCP
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) HTTPS
2 1 (3.33%) Internet
2 1 (3.33%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (3.33%) SSL
2 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Hive
2 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.33%) DB2
2 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.33%) KDB
2 1 (3.33%) Kdb+
2 1 (3.33%) MySQL
2 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.33%) OLTP
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 5 (16.67%) Gradle
2 5 (16.67%) SonarQube
3 4 (13.33%) Git
3 4 (13.33%) JIRA
3 4 (13.33%) Selenium
4 3 (10.00%) Maven
4 3 (10.00%) Postman
5 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.67%) TeamCity
6 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.33%) Gatling
6 1 (3.33%) Hamcrest
6 1 (3.33%) JUnit
6 1 (3.33%) Mocha
6 1 (3.33%) QUnit
6 1 (3.33%) REST Assured
6 1 (3.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 13 (43.33%) Finance
2 9 (30.00%) Banking
3 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.67%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Front Office
6 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Local Government
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Python Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) React Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Node.js
1 4 (13.33%) React
2 3 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (6.67%) .NET
3 2 (6.67%) GraphQL
3 2 (6.67%) JSON
3 2 (6.67%) Kafka
3 2 (6.67%) RESTful
4 1 (3.33%) CSS
4 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.33%) HTML
4 1 (3.33%) LDAP
4 1 (3.33%) OAuth
4 1 (3.33%) OpenID
4 1 (3.33%) PySpark
4 1 (3.33%) Spring
4 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.33%) Swagger
4 1 (3.33%) XML
4 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.33%) IVR
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Code
3 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (76.67%) CI/CD
2 18 (60.00%) DevOps
3 11 (36.67%) Containerisation
3 11 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (26.67%) Software Engineering
4 8 (26.67%) Test Automation
5 7 (23.33%) Agile
6 6 (20.00%) Observability
7 5 (16.67%) Microservices
7 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (13.33%) Generative AI
8 4 (13.33%) GitOps
8 4 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (10.00%) Design Patterns
9 3 (10.00%) Scrum
9 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (6.67%) Migration
10 2 (6.67%) TDD
10 2 (6.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) Python
2 8 (26.67%) Java
3 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.33%) SQL
5 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.67%) Rust
7 1 (3.33%) Bash
7 1 (3.33%) C
7 1 (3.33%) C#
7 1 (3.33%) Go
7 1 (3.33%) Korn
7 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.33%) ProC
7 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.33%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) WCAG
3 1 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (46.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (56.67%) Terraform
2 13 (43.33%) Kubernetes
3 9 (30.00%) Ansible
4 5 (16.67%) Grafana
5 4 (13.33%) Argo
5 4 (13.33%) Istio
6 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 3 (10.00%) Puppet
7 2 (6.67%) Karpenter
8 1 (3.33%) Kibana
8 1 (3.33%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Google
2 5 (16.67%) Splunk
3 4 (13.33%) Oracle
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.67%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.33%) Cisco
6 1 (3.33%) Confluent
6 1 (3.33%) F5
6 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.33%) IBM
6 1 (3.33%) Infoblox
6 1 (3.33%) Informatica
6 1 (3.33%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.33%) StreamSets
6 1 (3.33%) Veracode