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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 75 114
Rank change year-on-year -25 +39 +40
Contract jobs citing GitLab 30 48 24
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.41% 2.31% 0.93%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.68% 16.11% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 28 16
10th Percentile £329 £451 £513
25th Percentile £371 £506 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £575 £638
Median % change year-on-year -9.78% -9.80% -
75th Percentile £594 £659 £716
90th Percentile £664 £750 £794
London median daily rate £525 £575 £573
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.44% -11.92%

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 281 298 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.16% 14.32% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 171 184
10th Percentile £363 £404 £414
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £628 £688
90th Percentile £746 £738 £775
London median daily rate £520 £535 £568
% change year-on-year -2.80% -5.73% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.20
25th Percentile £18.75 - £52.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.22%
75th Percentile £20.25 - £67.88
90th Percentile - - £71.40
London median hourly rate £66.50 £48.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year +36.41% +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 20 February 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 February 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 -24 28 £519 -9.78% 24
City of Westminster - 2 £501 -
West End of London - 1 £773 - 1
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 17 (56.67%) AWS
2 7 (23.33%) Azure
3 6 (20.00%) GCP
4 5 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 4 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (13.33%) GitHub
6 3 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (6.67%) Apigee
7 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (6.67%) Serverless
7 2 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (3.33%) Cloud Run
8 1 (3.33%) Google Gemini
8 1 (3.33%) Route 53
8 1 (3.33%) Stackdriver
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
2 1 (3.33%) VSAN
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%) Big Data
2 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.33%) DB2
2 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.33%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 7 (23.33%) Git
3 5 (16.67%) Postman
4 4 (13.33%) JIRA
4 4 (13.33%) Selenium
5 3 (10.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (10.00%) Cypress.io
6 2 (6.67%) Gradle
6 2 (6.67%) JUnit
6 2 (6.67%) REST Assured
6 2 (6.67%) Robot Framework
6 2 (6.67%) SonarQube
6 2 (6.67%) TeamCity
7 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.33%) Gatling
7 1 (3.33%) Maven
7 1 (3.33%) Mockito
7 1 (3.33%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (3.33%) Terragrunt
7 1 (3.33%) Vite
General
1 16 (53.33%) Finance
2 11 (36.67%) Banking
3 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Retail Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
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 8 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Senior
3 5 (16.67%) Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
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%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Python Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) React
2 3 (10.00%) CSS
2 3 (10.00%) HTML
2 3 (10.00%) Kafka
2 3 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (10.00%) Playwright
2 3 (10.00%) Spring
3 2 (6.67%) .NET
3 2 (6.67%) JSON
3 2 (6.67%) Node.js
3 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.67%) WireMock
3 2 (6.67%) XML
4 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.33%) Jinja
4 1 (3.33%) Next.js
4 1 (3.33%) PySpark
4 1 (3.33%) pytest
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
2 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Code
3 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) CI/CD
2 15 (50.00%) DevOps
3 11 (36.67%) Test Automation
4 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 8 (26.67%) Agile
6 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (20.00%) Observability
7 4 (13.33%) AI
7 4 (13.33%) API Testing
7 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (13.33%) Generative AI
7 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (10.00%) Microservices
8 3 (10.00%) Scrum
9 2 (6.67%) OOP
9 2 (6.67%) TDD
9 2 (6.67%) Validation
9 2 (6.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) Python
2 8 (26.67%) Java
3 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (13.33%) SQL
4 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.67%) C#
5 2 (6.67%) Rust
6 1 (3.33%) Bash
6 1 (3.33%) C
6 1 (3.33%) Korn
6 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.33%) ProC
6 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.33%) DBS Check
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) GDPR
2 2 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (53.33%) Terraform
2 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 6 (20.00%) Ansible
4 3 (10.00%) Grafana
4 3 (10.00%) Karpenter
5 2 (6.67%) Argo
5 2 (6.67%) Istio
5 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Splunk
3 2 (6.67%) Broadcom
3 2 (6.67%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.67%) Google
3 2 (6.67%) VMware
4 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
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%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) StreamSets
4 1 (3.33%) Veracode