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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 101 92
Rank change year-on-year -7 -9 +39
Contract jobs citing GitLab 49 27 43
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.04% 1.42% 1.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.17% 9.44% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 23 28
10th Percentile £433 £325 £425
25th Percentile £481 £479 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £705 £615 £730
90th Percentile £758 £663 £779
London median daily rate £520 £525 £594
% change year-on-year -0.95% -11.58% +5.56%

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 303 286 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.62% 15.00% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 207 201
10th Percentile £363 £355 £363
25th Percentile £460 £419 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £725 £788
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £78.75 £86.25 -
London median hourly rate £57.00 £45.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +26.67% +20.00% -34.78%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +8 46 £575 +4.55% 23
City of Westminster -8 4 £425 -10.53% 3
West End of London -7 3 £425 -44.98%
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 (10.20%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.04%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 32 (65.31%) AWS
2 18 (36.73%) GitHub
3 15 (30.61%) Azure
3 15 (30.61%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (22.45%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (20.41%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (20.41%) Amazon S3
5 10 (20.41%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (20.41%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (20.41%) GCP
5 10 (20.41%) Serverless
6 9 (18.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (12.24%) Amazon EventBridge
7 6 (12.24%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (12.24%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (8.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (8.16%) OpenShift
9 3 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (4.08%) Azure AKS
10 2 (4.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.24%) DNS
2 2 (4.08%) Firewall
2 2 (4.08%) Internet
2 2 (4.08%) VPN
3 1 (2.04%) BGP
3 1 (2.04%) DHCP
3 1 (2.04%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.04%) INAP
3 1 (2.04%) Intelligent Network
3 1 (2.04%) NX-OS
3 1 (2.04%) RTP
3 1 (2.04%) SSH
3 1 (2.04%) TACACS
3 1 (2.04%) tcpdump
3 1 (2.04%) VoIP
3 1 (2.04%) VSAN
3 1 (2.04%) VXLAN
3 1 (2.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.37%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (16.33%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (6.12%) Amazon QuickSight
3 3 (6.12%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.08%) Big Data
4 2 (4.08%) Power BI
5 1 (2.04%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.04%) Db2
5 1 (2.04%) KDB
5 1 (2.04%) Kdb+
5 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (34.69%) Jenkins
2 10 (20.41%) JIRA
3 6 (12.24%) Bitbucket
3 6 (12.24%) JUnit
3 6 (12.24%) Mockito
4 4 (8.16%) Git
4 4 (8.16%) Postman
5 3 (6.12%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.08%) Newman
6 2 (4.08%) Selenium
6 2 (4.08%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.04%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.04%) Gatling
7 1 (2.04%) JMeter
7 1 (2.04%) Locust
7 1 (2.04%) Maven
7 1 (2.04%) QUnit
7 1 (2.04%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.04%) Robot Framework
7 1 (2.04%) TestCafe
General
1 26 (53.06%) Finance
2 16 (32.65%) Banking
3 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Back Office
4 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.12%) Front Office
5 3 (6.12%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.08%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.08%) Law
6 2 (4.08%) Marketing
6 2 (4.08%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (4.08%) Police
7 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Military
7 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (28.57%) Senior
2 11 (22.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) Developer
4 8 (16.33%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Data Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) AWS Data Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Java Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Network Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (6.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Data Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (51.02%) Terraform
2 11 (22.45%) Kafka
3 9 (18.37%) RabbitMQ
4 8 (16.33%) Spring
5 7 (14.29%) REST
5 7 (14.29%) RESTful
5 7 (14.29%) Spring Boot
6 6 (12.24%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (8.16%) .NET
7 4 (8.16%) React
8 3 (6.12%) .NET Core
8 3 (6.12%) SOAP
8 3 (6.12%) WireMock
8 3 (6.12%) YAML
9 2 (4.08%) Gherkin
9 2 (4.08%) JSON
9 2 (4.08%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (4.08%) Playwright
9 2 (4.08%) Redux
9 2 (4.08%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.61%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.24%) Onboarding
3 5 (10.20%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.12%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.08%) AI Agents
5 2 (4.08%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.08%) PropTech
6 1 (2.04%) DataPower
6 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.04%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.04%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.04%) Media Streaming
6 1 (2.04%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Online Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.41%) Linux
2 4 (8.16%) Windows
3 3 (6.12%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.08%) Unix
5 1 (2.04%) CentOS
5 1 (2.04%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (81.63%) CI/CD
2 28 (57.14%) DevOps
3 20 (40.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 14 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 13 (26.53%) Agile
5 13 (26.53%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (26.53%) Event-Driven
6 12 (24.49%) Data Modelling
6 12 (24.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 11 (22.45%) Observability
8 10 (20.41%) Microservices
9 9 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (16.33%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (14.29%) Data Engineering
11 7 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (12.24%) Continuous Delivery
12 6 (12.24%) Mentoring
12 6 (12.24%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 26 (53.06%) Python
2 16 (32.65%) Java
3 11 (22.45%) SQL
4 8 (16.33%) C#
5 6 (12.24%) PowerShell
6 5 (10.20%) Bash
6 5 (10.20%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.12%) Korn
7 3 (6.12%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (2.04%) JCL
9 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 12 (24.49%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.12%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.08%) Degree
4 2 (4.08%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.04%) MOS
5 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.04%) PMP
5 1 (2.04%) RHCE
5 1 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) QA
2 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.08%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (53.06%) Kubernetes
2 12 (24.49%) Ansible
3 3 (6.12%) Istio
4 2 (4.08%) Grafana
4 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.04%) Argo
5 1 (2.04%) Packer
5 1 (2.04%) PowerCLI
5 1 (2.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (10.20%) Google
2 3 (6.12%) Databricks
2 3 (6.12%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.08%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.08%) VMware
4 1 (2.04%) Alias
4 1 (2.04%) Cisco
4 1 (2.04%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.04%) Dialogic
4 1 (2.04%) Metaswitch
4 1 (2.04%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.04%) Splunk