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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 86 132
Rank change year-on-year -16 +46 +25
Contract jobs citing GitLab 26 45 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.34% 1.94% 0.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.25% 14.02% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 18
10th Percentile £313 £425 £360
25th Percentile £484 £535 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -2.04% +5.51%
75th Percentile £615 £681 £742
90th Percentile £675 £763 £879
London median daily rate £530 £594 £570
% change year-on-year -10.74% +4.17% -10.76%

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 281 321 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 14.47% 13.81% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 213 287
10th Percentile £347 £375 £387
25th Percentile £414 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £595
Median % change year-on-year - -7.56% -0.83%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £700
90th Percentile £700 £781 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
London median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £68.30
% change year-on-year -2.70% -32.28% +54.84%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 -11 22 £550 -8.33% 15
City of Westminster 0 2 £353 -51.38% 3
GitLab
London

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
1 9 (34.62%) GCP
1 9 (34.62%) GitHub
2 7 (26.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 4 (15.38%) Azure
3 4 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (15.38%) Slack
3 4 (15.38%) Stackdriver
4 3 (11.54%) Apigee
4 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.69%) Azure AKS
5 2 (7.69%) BrowserStack
5 2 (7.69%) Datadog
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (3.85%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
1 1 (3.85%) IGMP
1 1 (3.85%) Multicast
1 1 (3.85%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (3.85%) VXLAN
1 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.69%) Redis
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.85%) KDB
3 1 (3.85%) Kdb+
3 1 (3.85%) MySQL
3 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Gradle
1 7 (26.92%) Maven
2 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 6 (23.08%) Selenium
2 6 (23.08%) SonarQube
3 5 (19.23%) Cypress.io
4 4 (15.38%) Git
4 4 (15.38%) JIRA
4 4 (15.38%) Postman
5 2 (7.69%) JUnit
6 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.85%) Gatling
6 1 (3.85%) git-flow
6 1 (3.85%) Hamcrest
6 1 (3.85%) Mocha
6 1 (3.85%) REST Assured
6 1 (3.85%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.85%) TestNG
General
1 8 (30.77%) Finance
2 6 (23.08%) Telecoms
3 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.85%) Front Office
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.85%) iOS Developer
6 1 (3.85%) KDB Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) Node.js
2 4 (15.38%) GraphQL
3 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 2 (7.69%) JSON
3 2 (7.69%) LDAP
3 2 (7.69%) React
3 2 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (3.85%) boto
4 1 (3.85%) CSS
4 1 (3.85%) HTML
4 1 (3.85%) HTML5
4 1 (3.85%) OAuth
4 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.85%) OpenID
4 1 (3.85%) pytest
4 1 (3.85%) Spring
4 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.85%) Spring MVC
4 1 (3.85%) Swagger
4 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 5 (19.23%) Data Centre
3 3 (11.54%) IVR
4 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.85%) DataPower
4 1 (3.85%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.85%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.85%) Android
3 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) CI/CD
1 20 (76.92%) DevOps
2 13 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (26.92%) Agile
5 6 (23.08%) Microservices
5 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (19.23%) Design Patterns
6 5 (19.23%) Migration
7 4 (15.38%) Application Packaging
7 4 (15.38%) GitOps
7 4 (15.38%) Incident Management
7 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
7 4 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
8 3 (11.54%) Scrum
8 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
8 3 (11.54%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) Java
3 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.54%) Bash
5 2 (7.69%) SQL
6 1 (3.85%) C#
6 1 (3.85%) Go
6 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.69%) WCAG
3 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (53.85%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (57.69%) Terraform
2 14 (53.85%) Kubernetes
3 7 (26.92%) Ansible
4 6 (23.08%) Argo
4 6 (23.08%) Puppet
5 5 (19.23%) Istio
6 3 (11.54%) Grafana
7 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
8 1 (3.85%) Rundeck
8 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Google
2 5 (19.23%) Splunk
3 3 (11.54%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.85%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.85%) F5
4 1 (3.85%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.85%) Plaid
4 1 (3.85%) Tenable