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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 78 116
Rank change year-on-year -27 +38 +50
Contract jobs citing GitLab 30 47 24
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.45% 2.23% 0.91%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.27% 16.10% 8.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 29 16
10th Percentile £371 £455 £513
25th Percentile £418 £521 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% - -10.28%
75th Percentile £614 £730 £703
90th Percentile £756 £750 £794
London median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -11.54%

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 292 292 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 14.15% 13.87% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 169 199
10th Percentile £363 £396 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -9.17% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £688
90th Percentile £767 £738 £775
London median daily rate £525 £535 £573
% change year-on-year -1.87% -6.55% -4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.20
25th Percentile - - £52.88
Median hourly rate - - £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.22%
75th Percentile - - £67.88
90th Percentile - - £71.40
London median hourly rate £73.25 £48.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year +50.26% +14.71% -26.09%

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 27 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 27 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 -21 28 £523 -12.92% 22
City of Westminster - 2 £501 -
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 2 (6.67%) 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 18 (60.00%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) GCP
3 7 (23.33%) Azure
4 5 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 5 (16.67%) GitHub
5 4 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (13.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (10.00%) Apigee
6 3 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.67%) Serverless
7 2 (6.67%) Stackdriver
7 2 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (3.33%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (3.33%) Route 53
8 1 (3.33%) Tricentis Tosca
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%) SSL
2 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
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%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.33%) KDB
2 1 (3.33%) Kdb+
2 1 (3.33%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.00%) Git
3 4 (13.33%) Gradle
3 4 (13.33%) JIRA
3 4 (13.33%) Postman
3 4 (13.33%) Selenium
3 4 (13.33%) SonarQube
4 3 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (10.00%) Cypress.io
4 3 (10.00%) Maven
5 2 (6.67%) JUnit
5 2 (6.67%) REST Assured
5 2 (6.67%) TeamCity
6 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.33%) Hamcrest
6 1 (3.33%) Mockito
6 1 (3.33%) Robot Framework
6 1 (3.33%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (3.33%) Terragrunt
6 1 (3.33%) Vite
General
1 15 (50.00%) Finance
2 11 (36.67%) Banking
3 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Telecoms
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 9 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) GCP 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 Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) React
2 3 (10.00%) Kafka
2 3 (10.00%) Node.js
2 3 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (10.00%) Spring
3 2 (6.67%) .NET
3 2 (6.67%) CSS
3 2 (6.67%) HTML
3 2 (6.67%) JSON
3 2 (6.67%) Playwright
3 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.67%) WireMock
3 2 (6.67%) XML
4 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.33%) Gherkin
4 1 (3.33%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.33%) Jinja
4 1 (3.33%) PySpark
4 1 (3.33%) REST
4 1 (3.33%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Cloud Native
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%) Data Centre
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
3 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (56.67%) DevOps
3 10 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 9 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 9 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 7 (23.33%) Agile
6 6 (20.00%) Observability
7 4 (13.33%) Generative AI
7 4 (13.33%) Microservices
7 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.00%) API Testing
8 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (10.00%) Design Patterns
8 3 (10.00%) GitOps
8 3 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 2 (6.67%) Customer Experience
9 2 (6.67%) End-to-End Testing
9 2 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
9 2 (6.67%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) Python
2 9 (30.00%) Java
3 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.00%) SQL
3 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (6.67%) C#
4 2 (6.67%) Rust
5 1 (3.33%) Bash
5 1 (3.33%) C
5 1 (3.33%) Korn
5 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.33%) ProC
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
5 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%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.33%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (53.33%) Terraform
2 13 (43.33%) Kubernetes
3 8 (26.67%) Ansible
4 4 (13.33%) Grafana
4 4 (13.33%) Istio
5 3 (10.00%) Argo
5 3 (10.00%) Karpenter
5 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.67%) Puppet
7 1 (3.33%) Kibana
7 1 (3.33%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Google
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle
1 4 (13.33%) Splunk
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) Confluent
4 1 (3.33%) F5
4 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.33%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.33%) Informatica
4 1 (3.33%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) StreamSets
4 1 (3.33%) Veracode