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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 107 89
Rank change year-on-year +5 -18 +45
Contract jobs citing GitLab 47 25 42
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.86% 1.25% 1.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.85% 8.59% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 19 30
10th Percentile £420 £395 £482
25th Percentile £478 £489 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -10.42% -2.04%
75th Percentile £656 £615 £684
90th Percentile £740 £698 £765
London median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +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 279 291 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.02% 14.53% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 201 205
10th Percentile £413 £359 £400
25th Percentile £463 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -2.65% +2.68%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £688
90th Percentile £737 £713 £780
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £18.17 £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 £31.13 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £71.25 £86.25 -
London median hourly rate £45.00 £45.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -45.45%

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 29 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 29 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 +3 43 £575 +5.75% 8
City of Westminster -4 5 £425 -10.53% 6
West End of London - 4 £425 - 2
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%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.26%) CICS
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 33 (70.21%) AWS
2 16 (34.04%) GitHub
3 12 (25.53%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (23.40%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (23.40%) Azure
4 11 (23.40%) Serverless
5 10 (21.28%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (21.28%) Amazon S3
5 10 (21.28%) GCP
6 9 (19.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (17.02%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (10.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (8.51%) OpenShift
10 3 (6.38%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (6.38%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (6.38%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
11 2 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) 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%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (2.13%) NX-OS
4 1 (2.13%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (2.13%) SSH
4 1 (2.13%) TACACS
4 1 (2.13%) VSAN
4 1 (2.13%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) Amazon Athena
1 7 (14.89%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (10.64%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.26%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (4.26%) Db2
3 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.26%) Power BI
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.13%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.13%) Big Data
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (40.43%) Jenkins
2 9 (19.15%) JIRA
2 9 (19.15%) JUnit
2 9 (19.15%) Mockito
3 5 (10.64%) Git
4 4 (8.51%) Cucumber
4 4 (8.51%) Postman
5 3 (6.38%) Bitbucket
5 3 (6.38%) TeamCity
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%) Maven
7 1 (2.13%) Newman
General
1 25 (53.19%) Finance
2 17 (36.17%) Banking
3 8 (17.02%) Public Sector
4 7 (14.89%) Social Skills
5 4 (8.51%) Law
5 4 (8.51%) Police
6 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.38%) Back Office
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%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (27.66%) Senior
2 9 (19.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) Developer
4 5 (10.64%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Network Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (4.26%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Java Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Lead
7 2 (4.26%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (46.81%) Terraform
2 14 (29.79%) Kafka
3 11 (23.40%) Spring
4 10 (21.28%) Spring Boot
5 8 (17.02%) RESTful
6 7 (14.89%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (14.89%) REST
7 5 (10.64%) React
7 5 (10.64%) SOAP
8 4 (8.51%) .NET
8 4 (8.51%) Gherkin
8 4 (8.51%) WireMock
8 4 (8.51%) YAML
9 3 (6.38%) .NET Core
9 3 (6.38%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (6.38%) JSON
9 3 (6.38%) Spring Cloud
10 2 (4.26%) Redux
10 2 (4.26%) Web Services
10 2 (4.26%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.40%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.77%) Onboarding
3 5 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.26%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.26%) DataPower
4 2 (4.26%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.26%) Online Banking
4 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.13%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Linux
2 3 (6.38%) Windows
3 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.26%) zOS
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (76.60%) CI/CD
2 28 (59.57%) DevOps
3 18 (38.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (27.66%) Agile
4 13 (27.66%) Containerisation
4 13 (27.66%) Observability
4 13 (27.66%) Test Automation
5 12 (25.53%) Microservices
6 11 (23.40%) Event-Driven
7 10 (21.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (14.89%) Data Modelling
8 7 (14.89%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (12.77%) BDD
9 6 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (12.77%) Migration
9 6 (12.77%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (12.77%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (10.64%) Continuous Delivery
10 5 (10.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 25 (53.19%) Python
2 19 (40.43%) Java
3 10 (21.28%) SQL
4 9 (19.15%) C#
5 5 (10.64%) Bash
5 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
6 4 (8.51%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (4.26%) JCL
7 2 (4.26%) Korn
7 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
8 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%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.13%) PMP
4 1 (2.13%) RHCE
4 1 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (38.30%) 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 28 (59.57%) Kubernetes
2 14 (29.79%) Ansible
3 4 (8.51%) Grafana
3 4 (8.51%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.38%) Istio
5 1 (2.13%) Argo
5 1 (2.13%) Packer
5 1 (2.13%) PowerCLI
5 1 (2.13%) Puppet
5 1 (2.13%) Salt
5 1 (2.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (12.77%) Google
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.38%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.26%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.26%) Splunk
4 2 (4.26%) VMware
5 1 (2.13%) Alias
5 1 (2.13%) Cisco
5 1 (2.13%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.13%) Databricks
5 1 (2.13%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.13%) Red Hat