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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 105 141
Rank change year-on-year +8 +36 -42
Contract jobs citing GitLab 32 28 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.60% 1.14% 0.80%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.76% 9.72% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 21 19
10th Percentile £400 £513 £456
25th Percentile £483 £551 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% -17.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £644 £645 £788
90th Percentile £750 £725 £890
London median daily rate £540 £574 £613
% change year-on-year -5.88% -6.33% +0.41%

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 272 288 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.62% 11.77% 15.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 194 387
10th Percentile £407 £400 £413
25th Percentile £431 £451 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £738
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £34.38 £35.00
25th Percentile - £36.44 £39.06
Median hourly rate - £40.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.91% -10.57%
75th Percentile - £45.94 £58.75
90th Percentile - £48.53 -
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -17.81% -36.52% +29.21%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 29 £551 -4.26% 8
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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.13%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 17 (53.13%) AWS
2 8 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) GCP
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (9.38%) GitHub
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.25%) Serverless
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (3.13%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) Datadog
6 1 (3.13%) PaaS
6 1 (3.13%) Slack
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) BGP
1 1 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (3.13%) DHCP
1 1 (3.13%) DNS
1 1 (3.13%) IGMP
1 1 (3.13%) Multicast
1 1 (3.13%) SSL
1 1 (3.13%) VXLAN
1 1 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.25%) MySQL
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (3.13%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.88%) Git
3 2 (6.25%) JIRA
3 2 (6.25%) JUnit
3 2 (6.25%) Maven
3 2 (6.25%) Postman
3 2 (6.25%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.13%) Gatling
4 1 (3.13%) Hamcrest
4 1 (3.13%) Selenium
4 1 (3.13%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.13%) Travis CI
General
1 4 (12.50%) Finance
1 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Banking
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (9.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Database Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Automation Tester
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Configuration Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) Junior
5 1 (3.13%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Network Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) Spring
1 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
1 2 (6.25%) WireMock
2 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Camel
2 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.13%) JSON
2 1 (3.13%) Kafka
2 1 (3.13%) OAuth
2 1 (3.13%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.13%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.13%) Quarkus
2 1 (3.13%) RxJS
2 1 (3.13%) Swagger
2 1 (3.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Hedge funds
1 3 (9.38%) Mainframe
2 2 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.25%) DataPower
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) CUDA
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Rocky
3 1 (3.13%) CentOS
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (84.38%) CI/CD
2 22 (68.75%) DevOps
3 12 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 12 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 7 (21.88%) Migration
6 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
7 5 (15.63%) Agile
8 4 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (12.50%) High Availability
8 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (9.38%) Electronic Trading
9 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Management
9 3 (9.38%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (9.38%) Task Automation
9 3 (9.38%) Test Automation
10 2 (6.25%) Performance Testing
10 2 (6.25%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) Python
2 6 (18.75%) Bash
3 5 (15.63%) Java
4 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.13%) Bicep
6 1 (3.13%) C#
6 1 (3.13%) Go
6 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.13%) Ruby
6 1 (3.13%) SQL
6 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.13%) CCNP
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (46.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (65.63%) Terraform
2 16 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 13 (40.63%) Ansible
4 4 (12.50%) Grafana
4 4 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 3 (9.38%) Consul
6 2 (6.25%) Argo
6 2 (6.25%) Istio
6 2 (6.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Puppet
7 1 (3.13%) Podman
7 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) Databricks
3 2 (6.25%) CheckPoint
3 2 (6.25%) Cisco
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.13%) BT
4 1 (3.13%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.13%) F5
4 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.13%) Pega
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.13%) Splunk
4 1 (3.13%) TOWER Software
4 1 (3.13%) WSO2