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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 106 89
Rank change year-on-year +3 -17 +39
Contract jobs citing GitLab 47 24 44
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.90% 1.23% 1.91%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.79% 8.36% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 19 30
10th Percentile £413 £358 £482
25th Percentile £473 £489 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% -10.42% -4.00%
75th Percentile £683 £615 £684
90th Percentile £745 £698 £765
London median daily rate £513 £530 £600
% change year-on-year -3.30% -11.67% +4.35%

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 280 287 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.33% 14.71% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 196 206
10th Percentile £398 £354 £400
25th Percentile £463 £416 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.04%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £684
90th Percentile £734 £700 £785
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £17.79 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% - -
75th Percentile £52.88 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £76.25 £86.25 -
London median hourly rate £53.00 £45.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year +17.78% -2.70% -31.48%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +13 43 £574 +4.27% 18
City of Westminster -5 5 £425 +20.57% 8
West End of London - 4 £425 - 3
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 (10.64%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) CICS
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 32 (68.09%) AWS
2 16 (34.04%) GitHub
3 13 (27.66%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (25.53%) Azure
5 10 (21.28%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (21.28%) Serverless
6 9 (19.15%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (19.15%) Amazon S3
6 9 (19.15%) GCP
7 8 (17.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (17.02%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (8.51%) Amazon EventBridge
8 4 (8.51%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (8.51%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (8.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (8.51%) OpenShift
9 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
9 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) DNS
2 3 (6.38%) Firewall
3 2 (4.26%) Internet
3 2 (4.26%) VPN
4 1 (2.13%) BGP
4 1 (2.13%) DHCP
4 1 (2.13%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (2.13%) INAP
4 1 (2.13%) Intelligent Network
4 1 (2.13%) NX-OS
4 1 (2.13%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (2.13%) RTP
4 1 (2.13%) SSH
4 1 (2.13%) TACACS
4 1 (2.13%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.13%) VoIP
4 1 (2.13%) VSAN
4 1 (2.13%) VXLAN
4 1 (2.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) Amazon Athena
1 7 (14.89%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (8.51%) DynamoDB
3 3 (6.38%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (4.26%) Db2
4 2 (4.26%) Power BI
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.13%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.13%) Big Data
5 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (34.04%) Jenkins
2 9 (19.15%) JIRA
3 7 (14.89%) JUnit
3 7 (14.89%) Mockito
4 4 (8.51%) Bitbucket
4 4 (8.51%) Git
5 3 (6.38%) Cucumber
5 3 (6.38%) Postman
5 3 (6.38%) TeamCity
6 2 (4.26%) Newman
6 2 (4.26%) Selenium
7 1 (2.13%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.13%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.13%) Gatling
7 1 (2.13%) JMeter
7 1 (2.13%) Locust
7 1 (2.13%) Maven
7 1 (2.13%) Robot Framework
7 1 (2.13%) TestCafe
General
1 24 (51.06%) Finance
2 16 (34.04%) Banking
3 8 (17.02%) Public Sector
4 7 (14.89%) Social Skills
5 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (8.51%) Back Office
6 4 (8.51%) Law
6 4 (8.51%) Police
7 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.26%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.26%) Military
8 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Front Office
8 1 (2.13%) Marketing
8 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (27.66%) Senior
2 9 (19.15%) Developer
2 9 (19.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Network Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (4.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (46.81%) Terraform
2 12 (25.53%) Kafka
3 9 (19.15%) RESTful
3 9 (19.15%) Spring
4 8 (17.02%) RabbitMQ
4 8 (17.02%) Spring Boot
5 6 (12.77%) REST
6 4 (8.51%) .NET
6 4 (8.51%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (8.51%) React
6 4 (8.51%) SOAP
7 3 (6.38%) .NET Core
7 3 (6.38%) Gherkin
7 3 (6.38%) JSON
7 3 (6.38%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (6.38%) WireMock
7 3 (6.38%) YAML
8 2 (4.26%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (4.26%) PySpark
8 2 (4.26%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.66%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.77%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (12.77%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.26%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.26%) DataPower
3 2 (4.26%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.26%) Online Banking
3 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.13%) Media Streaming
4 1 (2.13%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.02%) Linux
2 4 (8.51%) Windows
3 3 (6.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.26%) zOS
5 1 (2.13%) CentOS
5 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (76.60%) CI/CD
2 27 (57.45%) DevOps
3 19 (40.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (29.79%) Containerisation
4 14 (29.79%) Test Automation
5 12 (25.53%) Agile
5 12 (25.53%) Event-Driven
6 11 (23.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 11 (23.40%) Microservices
6 11 (23.40%) Observability
7 10 (21.28%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (19.15%) Data Modelling
9 7 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (14.89%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (12.77%) Continuous Delivery
10 6 (12.77%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (10.64%) BDD
11 5 (10.64%) Data Engineering
11 5 (10.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 26 (55.32%) Python
2 17 (36.17%) Java
3 10 (21.28%) SQL
4 8 (17.02%) C#
5 5 (10.64%) Bash
5 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
7 3 (6.38%) Korn
7 3 (6.38%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (4.26%) JCL
8 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.13%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 14 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 13 (27.66%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.13%) Degree
4 1 (2.13%) MOS
4 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.13%) PMP
4 1 (2.13%) RHCE
4 1 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (31.91%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.26%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (55.32%) Kubernetes
2 14 (29.79%) Ansible
3 3 (6.38%) Grafana
3 3 (6.38%) Istio
3 3 (6.38%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.13%) Argo
4 1 (2.13%) Packer
4 1 (2.13%) PowerCLI
4 1 (2.13%) Puppet
4 1 (2.13%) Salt
4 1 (2.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Google
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.38%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.26%) Databricks
3 2 (4.26%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.26%) VMware
4 1 (2.13%) Alias
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco
4 1 (2.13%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.13%) Dialogic
4 1 (2.13%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.13%) Metaswitch
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.13%) Splunk