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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 93 97
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +53
Contract jobs citing GitLab 39 31 31
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.59% 1.57% 1.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.29% 11.44% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 23
10th Percentile £314 £393 £513
25th Percentile £371 £438 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -10.87% -17.86%
75th Percentile £634 £644 £668
90th Percentile £651 £750 £735
London median daily rate £525 £530 £575
% change year-on-year -0.94% -7.83% -4.17%

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 255 271 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.37% 13.71% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 161 200
10th Percentile £363 £400 £394
25th Percentile £451 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £658
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £18.17 - £34.38
25th Percentile £18.75 - £36.44
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £40.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.38%
75th Percentile £20.25 - £45.94
90th Percentile £37.20 - £48.53
London median hourly rate £37.00 £38.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year -4.52% +6.16% -47.86%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -4 37 £525 +2.44% 20
West End of London - 2 - -
City of Westminster - 2 - -
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 (10.26%) CICS
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 24 (61.54%) AWS
2 13 (33.33%) GitHub
3 10 (25.64%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (25.64%) Serverless
4 9 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (23.08%) Azure
5 8 (20.51%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (20.51%) Amazon S3
5 8 (20.51%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (15.38%) GCP
7 5 (12.82%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (10.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
10 2 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (2.56%) AWS Control Tower
11 1 (2.56%) Cloud Run
11 1 (2.56%) Google Gemini
11 1 (2.56%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) DNS
1 1 (2.56%) Firewall
1 1 (2.56%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (2.56%) SSH
1 1 (2.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) DynamoDB
2 4 (10.26%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (10.26%) DB2
3 2 (5.13%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.13%) Power BI
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.56%) Big Data
4 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.56%) OLTP
4 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (35.90%) Jenkins
2 8 (20.51%) Git
3 6 (15.38%) JUnit
3 6 (15.38%) Mockito
4 5 (12.82%) JIRA
4 5 (12.82%) Postman
5 4 (10.26%) Selenium
6 3 (7.69%) Cucumber
7 2 (5.13%) REST Assured
7 2 (5.13%) TeamCity
8 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
8 1 (2.56%) Maven
8 1 (2.56%) Robot Framework
8 1 (2.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 21 (53.85%) Finance
2 16 (41.03%) Banking
3 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 3 (7.69%) Law
5 3 (7.69%) Police
6 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.56%) Local Government
7 1 (2.56%) Military
7 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Senior
2 7 (17.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Java Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Lead
6 2 (5.13%) Automation Tester
6 2 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Python Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Tester
7 1 (2.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) Kafka
1 8 (20.51%) RESTful
1 8 (20.51%) Spring
2 7 (17.95%) SOAP
2 7 (17.95%) Spring Boot
3 6 (15.38%) React
4 5 (12.82%) Gherkin
5 4 (10.26%) JSON
5 4 (10.26%) REST
5 4 (10.26%) Web Services
5 4 (10.26%) WSDL
6 3 (7.69%) .NET
6 3 (7.69%) WireMock
6 3 (7.69%) YAML
7 2 (5.13%) .NET Core
7 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
7 2 (5.13%) Playwright
7 2 (5.13%) PySpark
7 2 (5.13%) Redux
7 2 (5.13%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.82%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.26%) DataPower
3 4 (10.26%) Mainframe
3 4 (10.26%) Online Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.56%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) zOS
2 2 (5.13%) Linux
3 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 20 (51.28%) DevOps
3 12 (30.77%) Agile
4 11 (28.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (28.21%) Test Automation
5 9 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 8 (20.51%) AI
6 8 (20.51%) Observability
7 7 (17.95%) Microservices
7 7 (17.95%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (15.38%) BDD
8 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (12.82%) API Testing
9 5 (12.82%) Batch Processing
9 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (10.26%) Event-Driven
10 4 (10.26%) Full-Stack Development
10 4 (10.26%) Generative AI
10 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (10.26%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) Python
2 9 (23.08%) Java
3 8 (20.51%) SQL
4 6 (15.38%) C#
5 5 (12.82%) Shell Script
6 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
6 4 (10.26%) JCL
7 3 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 2 (5.13%) Bash
8 2 (5.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (5.13%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.56%) C
9 1 (2.56%) Korn
9 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.56%) ProC
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) SC Cleared
1 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.56%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.56%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.56%) PMP
2 1 (2.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.13%) GDPR
2 2 (5.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (43.59%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (43.59%) Terraform
2 16 (41.03%) Kubernetes
3 7 (17.95%) Ansible
4 3 (7.69%) Grafana
4 3 (7.69%) Karpenter
4 3 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.13%) Argo
6 1 (2.56%) Istio
6 1 (2.56%) Kibana
6 1 (2.56%) Puppet
6 1 (2.56%) Salt
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Splunk
2 3 (7.69%) Google
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.13%) Broadcom
3 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.13%) VMware
4 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.56%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) Pure Storage
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow