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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 106 97
Rank change year-on-year +12 -9 +37
Contract jobs citing GitLab 50 28 35
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.97% 1.38% 1.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.86% 9.62% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 20 28
10th Percentile £373 £398 £451
25th Percentile £464 £482 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £531 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -11.46% -2.04%
75th Percentile £656 £615 £679
90th Percentile £740 £686 £770
London median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -2.13%

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 280 291 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.05% 14.31% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 194 199
10th Percentile £412 £359 £400
25th Percentile £463 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.23%
75th Percentile £658 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £709 £775
London median daily rate £534 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.71% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £18.56 £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% -
75th Percentile £52.88 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £77.95 £86.25 -
London median hourly rate £49.00 £45.00 £35.29
% change year-on-year +8.89% +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 20 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 20 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 +10 46 £544 +1.21% 6
City of Westminster -5 5 £425 -10.53%
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 (10.00%) Confluence
2 4 (8.00%) CICS
3 2 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 35 (70.00%) AWS
2 18 (36.00%) GitHub
3 14 (28.00%) AWS Lambda
3 14 (28.00%) Serverless
4 12 (24.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (22.00%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (22.00%) Amazon S3
5 11 (22.00%) Azure
6 10 (20.00%) GCP
7 8 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (8.00%) OpenShift
11 3 (6.00%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (6.00%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (6.00%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
12 2 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.00%) DNS
2 3 (6.00%) Firewall
3 2 (4.00%) Internet
3 2 (4.00%) VPN
4 1 (2.00%) BGP
4 1 (2.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (2.00%) NX-OS
4 1 (2.00%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (2.00%) SSH
4 1 (2.00%) TACACS
4 1 (2.00%) VSAN
4 1 (2.00%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) Amazon Athena
1 8 (16.00%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (16.00%) DynamoDB
2 4 (8.00%) Db2
3 2 (4.00%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.00%) Power BI
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.00%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.00%) Big Data
4 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (38.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (20.00%) JIRA
2 10 (20.00%) JUnit
2 10 (20.00%) Mockito
3 6 (12.00%) Git
4 5 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 5 (10.00%) Postman
5 4 (8.00%) TeamCity
6 3 (6.00%) Bitbucket
6 3 (6.00%) Selenium
7 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.00%) Gatling
7 1 (2.00%) Maven
7 1 (2.00%) Newman
General
1 27 (54.00%) Finance
2 19 (38.00%) Banking
3 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Law
4 4 (8.00%) Police
5 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Back Office
6 2 (4.00%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.00%) Military
7 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Senior
2 9 (18.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Network Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Java Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Lead
7 2 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (4.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (42.00%) Terraform
2 14 (28.00%) Kafka
3 11 (22.00%) Spring
4 10 (20.00%) RESTful
4 10 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 8 (16.00%) SOAP
6 7 (14.00%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (12.00%) Gherkin
7 6 (12.00%) REST
8 5 (10.00%) JSON
8 5 (10.00%) React
8 5 (10.00%) WireMock
8 5 (10.00%) YAML
9 4 (8.00%) Web Services
9 4 (8.00%) WSDL
10 3 (6.00%) .NET
10 3 (6.00%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (6.00%) Spring Cloud
11 2 (4.00%) .NET Core
11 2 (4.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.00%) Onboarding
3 5 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (8.00%) DataPower
4 4 (8.00%) Mainframe
4 4 (8.00%) Online Banking
5 2 (4.00%) AI Agents
5 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (2.00%) NHS
6 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.00%) Linux
2 4 (8.00%) zOS
3 2 (4.00%) Windows
3 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 28 (56.00%) DevOps
3 16 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 13 (26.00%) Agile
5 13 (26.00%) Containerisation
5 13 (26.00%) Observability
6 11 (22.00%) Event-Driven
7 10 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 10 (20.00%) Microservices
8 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (16.00%) BDD
10 7 (14.00%) AI
10 7 (14.00%) Data Modelling
10 7 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (14.00%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (14.00%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (12.00%) Migration
12 5 (10.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (56.00%) Python
2 19 (38.00%) Java
3 11 (22.00%) SQL
4 9 (18.00%) C#
5 5 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.00%) Bash
6 4 (8.00%) JCL
6 4 (8.00%) Shell Script
6 4 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (4.00%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.00%) Korn
Qualifications
1 15 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.00%) PMP
4 1 (2.00%) RHCE
4 1 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (38.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (56.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (28.00%) Ansible
3 4 (8.00%) Grafana
3 4 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.00%) Istio
5 1 (2.00%) Argo
5 1 (2.00%) Packer
5 1 (2.00%) PowerCLI
5 1 (2.00%) Puppet
5 1 (2.00%) Salt
5 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) Google
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.00%) Splunk
4 2 (4.00%) VMware
5 1 (2.00%) Alias
5 1 (2.00%) Cisco
5 1 (2.00%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.00%) Databricks
5 1 (2.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.00%) Red Hat