GitLab Contracts in Central London

GitLab
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring GitLab skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitLab over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 104 137
Rank change year-on-year +8 +33 -16
Contract jobs citing GitLab 33 32 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.66% 1.35% 0.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.09% 9.91% 6.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 26 22
10th Percentile £400 £444 £378
25th Percentile £482 £513 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £570 £635
Median % change year-on-year -10.09% -10.24% +6.63%
75th Percentile £594 £679 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £875
London median daily rate £525 £573 £600
% change year-on-year -8.30% -4.58% -4.00%

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 273 323 528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.73% 13.64% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 218 348
10th Percentile £378 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% -8.29% +1.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £725
90th Percentile £725 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £34.38 -
25th Percentile £86.25 £36.44 £51.25
Median hourly rate £87.50 £40.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +114.72% -22.38% -
75th Percentile £88.75 £45.94 £53.75
90th Percentile - £48.53 -
London median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% -50.00% +68.54%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in Central London.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in Central London

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in Central London over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 +9 30 £513 -9.29% 64
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 2 (6.06%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.03%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) AWS
2 9 (27.27%) Azure
3 7 (21.21%) GCP
3 7 (21.21%) GitHub
4 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.06%) Apigee
5 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.06%) Slack
5 2 (6.06%) Stackdriver
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.03%) Datadog
6 1 (3.03%) PaaS
6 1 (3.03%) Serverless
6 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
1 1 (3.03%) IGMP
1 1 (3.03%) Multicast
1 1 (3.03%) SSL
1 1 (3.03%) VXLAN
1 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.06%) MySQL
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (3.03%) Big Data
3 1 (3.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.18%) Git
3 4 (12.12%) Maven
4 3 (9.09%) Gradle
4 3 (9.09%) JUnit
4 3 (9.09%) Postman
4 3 (9.09%) Selenium
4 3 (9.09%) SonarQube
5 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
5 2 (6.06%) JIRA
6 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.03%) Gatling
6 1 (3.03%) git-flow
6 1 (3.03%) Hamcrest
6 1 (3.03%) REST Assured
6 1 (3.03%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (3.03%) SoapUI
6 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
6 1 (3.03%) TestNG
General
1 6 (18.18%) Finance
2 4 (12.12%) Banking
2 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) Developer
3 3 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Database Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Automation Tester
5 1 (3.03%) Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (3.03%) Java Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) Site Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Node.js
2 3 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.06%) GraphQL
3 2 (6.06%) React
3 2 (6.06%) Spring
3 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.06%) WireMock
4 1 (3.03%) CSS
4 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.03%) HTML
4 1 (3.03%) JSON
4 1 (3.03%) LDAP
4 1 (3.03%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.03%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.03%) Playwright
4 1 (3.03%) Quarkus
4 1 (3.03%) RxJS
4 1 (3.03%) Spring MVC
4 1 (3.03%) Swagger
4 1 (3.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 3 (9.09%) Hedge funds
2 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.06%) IVR
3 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.03%) CUDA
3 1 (3.03%) DataPower
3 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.03%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.21%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Rocky
3 1 (3.03%) Android
3 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (75.76%) CI/CD
2 24 (72.73%) DevOps
3 14 (42.42%) Containerisation
4 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (21.21%) Configuration Management
6 6 (18.18%) Agile
6 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (18.18%) Migration
7 5 (15.15%) Software Engineering
8 4 (12.12%) Microservices
8 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
9 3 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (9.09%) Design Patterns
9 3 (9.09%) Front End Development
9 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
9 3 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 2 (6.06%) BDD
10 2 (6.06%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) Python
2 6 (18.18%) Bash
2 6 (18.18%) Java
3 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.06%) C#
4 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.06%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.06%) SQL
5 1 (3.03%) Go
5 1 (3.03%) Ruby
5 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (51.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (60.61%) Terraform
2 17 (51.52%) Kubernetes
3 14 (42.42%) Ansible
4 5 (15.15%) Puppet
5 4 (12.12%) Argo
5 4 (12.12%) Istio
6 3 (9.09%) Consul
6 3 (9.09%) Grafana
6 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
7 2 (6.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (3.03%) Podman
8 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
8 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Google
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle
2 3 (9.09%) Splunk
3 2 (6.06%) Databricks
3 2 (6.06%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.03%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco
4 1 (3.03%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.03%) F5
4 1 (3.03%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.03%) Pega
4 1 (3.03%) TOWER Software
4 1 (3.03%) WSO2