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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 105 93
Rank change year-on-year +5 -12 +44
Contract jobs citing GitLab 47 25 37
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.86% 1.26% 1.60%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.15% 8.74% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 19 28
10th Percentile £419 £395 £469
25th Percentile £477 £489 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -10.42% -2.04%
75th Percentile £666 £615 £688
90th Percentile £744 £698 £770
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 274 286 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.86% 14.36% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 195 204
10th Percentile £413 £359 £400
25th Percentile £463 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £557
Median % change year-on-year - -1.21% +1.23%
75th Percentile £657 £638 £678
90th Percentile £738 £716 £781
London median daily rate £532 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 1
10th Percentile £18.37 £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 £63.75 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £79.15 £86.25 -
London median hourly rate £53.00 £45.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +17.78% +20.00% -46.43%

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 26 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 26 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 +9 43 £575 +5.75% 5
City of Westminster -6 5 £425 -10.53%
West End of London - 4 £425 -
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 3 (6.38%) CICS
3 2 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 33 (70.21%) AWS
2 16 (34.04%) GitHub
3 12 (25.53%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (25.53%) GitHub Actions
3 12 (25.53%) Serverless
4 10 (21.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (21.28%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (21.28%) Amazon S3
4 10 (21.28%) Azure
4 10 (21.28%) GCP
5 8 (17.02%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (10.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (8.51%) OpenShift
9 3 (6.38%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (6.38%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (6.38%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
10 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
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 6 (12.77%) DynamoDB
3 3 (6.38%) Db2
4 2 (4.26%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.26%) Power BI
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.13%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.13%) Big Data
5 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (38.30%) 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 26 (55.32%) Finance
2 18 (38.30%) 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 7 (14.89%) 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 Data Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (4.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
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
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (44.68%) Terraform
2 13 (27.66%) Kafka
3 11 (23.40%) Spring
4 10 (21.28%) Spring Boot
5 9 (19.15%) RESTful
6 7 (14.89%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (12.77%) REST
7 6 (12.77%) SOAP
8 5 (10.64%) React
9 4 (8.51%) Gherkin
9 4 (8.51%) JSON
9 4 (8.51%) WireMock
9 4 (8.51%) YAML
10 3 (6.38%) .NET
10 3 (6.38%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (6.38%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (6.38%) Web Services
10 3 (6.38%) WSDL
11 2 (4.26%) .NET Core
11 2 (4.26%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.28%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.77%) Onboarding
3 5 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.38%) DataPower
4 3 (6.38%) Mainframe
4 3 (6.38%) Online Banking
5 2 (4.26%) AI Agents
5 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.77%) Linux
2 3 (6.38%) zOS
3 2 (4.26%) Windows
3 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (74.47%) CI/CD
2 27 (57.45%) DevOps
3 17 (36.17%) 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 11 (23.40%) Event-Driven
5 11 (23.40%) Microservices
6 10 (21.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (14.89%) Data Modelling
8 7 (14.89%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (14.89%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (12.77%) AI
9 6 (12.77%) BDD
9 6 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (12.77%) Migration
9 6 (12.77%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 26 (55.32%) Python
2 19 (40.43%) 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
6 4 (8.51%) TypeScript
7 3 (6.38%) JCL
7 3 (6.38%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (4.26%) Korn
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%) 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 27 (57.45%) 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