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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 108 101
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 +38
Contract jobs citing GitLab 51 28 31
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.96% 1.36% 1.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.89% 9.62% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 18 24
10th Percentile £324 £393 £436
25th Percentile £444 £477 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £510 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -11.30% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £605 £656
90th Percentile £740 £633 £780
London median daily rate £525 £528 £575
% change year-on-year -0.47% -8.26% -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 270 291 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.39% 14.16% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 190 204
10th Percentile £390 £359 £400
25th Percentile £463 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -2.05% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £719 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 1
10th Percentile - £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% +127.27% -37.14%
75th Percentile £31.13 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £75.45 £86.25 -
London median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £35.29
% change year-on-year -5.56% +27.53% -49.59%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +19 47 £544 +3.62% 15
City of Westminster -3 5 £425 -10.53% 4
West End of London - 4 £425 -
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 5 (9.80%) Confluence
2 4 (7.84%) CICS
3 2 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 33 (64.71%) AWS
2 17 (33.33%) GitHub
3 14 (27.45%) AWS Lambda
3 14 (27.45%) Serverless
4 12 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (21.57%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (21.57%) Amazon S3
5 11 (21.57%) Azure
5 11 (21.57%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (17.65%) GCP
7 7 (13.73%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (9.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (7.84%) OpenShift
11 3 (5.88%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (5.88%) Power Platform
12 2 (3.92%) Snowflake
12 2 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) DNS
2 3 (5.88%) Firewall
3 2 (3.92%) Internet
3 2 (3.92%) VPN
3 2 (3.92%) VSAN
4 1 (1.96%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.96%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) Amazon Athena
1 8 (15.69%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (15.69%) DynamoDB
2 4 (7.84%) Db2
3 2 (3.92%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (3.92%) Big Data
3 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.92%) Power BI
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.96%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (37.25%) Jenkins
2 10 (19.61%) JIRA
2 10 (19.61%) JUnit
2 10 (19.61%) Mockito
3 7 (13.73%) Git
4 5 (9.80%) Cucumber
4 5 (9.80%) Postman
5 4 (7.84%) TeamCity
6 3 (5.88%) Bitbucket
6 3 (5.88%) Selenium
7 1 (1.96%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.96%) Gatling
7 1 (1.96%) Maven
7 1 (1.96%) Robot Framework
General
1 29 (56.86%) Finance
2 18 (35.29%) Banking
3 9 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 8 (15.69%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.84%) Law
5 4 (7.84%) Police
6 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.88%) Back Office
7 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.92%) Military
8 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Senior
2 9 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Developer
4 5 (9.80%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Network Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (3.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Python Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (3.92%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.49%) Kafka
2 11 (21.57%) Spring
3 10 (19.61%) RESTful
3 10 (19.61%) Spring Boot
4 8 (15.69%) SOAP
5 7 (13.73%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (11.76%) Gherkin
7 5 (9.80%) React
7 5 (9.80%) REST
7 5 (9.80%) WireMock
8 4 (7.84%) JSON
8 4 (7.84%) Web Services
8 4 (7.84%) WSDL
8 4 (7.84%) YAML
9 3 (5.88%) .NET
9 3 (5.88%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (5.88%) Spring Cloud
10 2 (3.92%) .NET Core
10 2 (3.92%) Django
10 2 (3.92%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.57%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 5 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.84%) DataPower
4 4 (7.84%) Mainframe
4 4 (7.84%) Online Banking
5 2 (3.92%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.96%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.96%) NHS
6 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Linux
2 4 (7.84%) zOS
3 2 (3.92%) Windows
3 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 27 (52.94%) DevOps
3 15 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (27.45%) Agile
4 14 (27.45%) Test Automation
5 12 (23.53%) Containerisation
5 12 (23.53%) Observability
6 10 (19.61%) Event-Driven
7 9 (17.65%) AI
7 9 (17.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 8 (15.69%) BDD
8 8 (15.69%) Microservices
8 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (13.73%) Data Modelling
9 7 (13.73%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (13.73%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (13.73%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (11.76%) API Testing
10 6 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (11.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 27 (52.94%) Python
2 17 (33.33%) Java
3 12 (23.53%) SQL
4 8 (15.69%) C#
5 5 (9.80%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.84%) Bash
6 4 (7.84%) JCL
6 4 (7.84%) Shell Script
7 3 (5.88%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.88%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (3.92%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.96%) Korn
Qualifications
1 14 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 13 (25.49%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.96%) Degree
4 1 (1.96%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.96%) PMP
4 1 (1.96%) RHCE
4 1 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
3 1 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.96%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (52.94%) Kubernetes
2 23 (45.10%) Terraform
3 13 (25.49%) Ansible
4 4 (7.84%) Grafana
4 4 (7.84%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.88%) Istio
6 1 (1.96%) Argo
6 1 (1.96%) Packer
6 1 (1.96%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.96%) Puppet
6 1 (1.96%) Salt
6 1 (1.96%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Google
2 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.88%) VMware
4 2 (3.92%) Broadcom
4 2 (3.92%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.92%) Splunk
5 1 (1.96%) Alias
5 1 (1.96%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.96%) Databricks
5 1 (1.96%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.96%) Pure Storage