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 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 84 128
Rank change year-on-year -16 +44 +44
Contract jobs citing GitLab 30 49 26
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.58% 2.12% 0.87%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.87% 15.96% 7.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 32 17
10th Percentile £338 £429 £355
25th Percentile £475 £517 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £581 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -3.23%
75th Percentile £615 £678 £688
90th Percentile £651 £761 £796
London median daily rate £525 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.19% -13.08%

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 304 307 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.01% 13.27% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 186 231
10th Percentile £348 £355 £388
25th Percentile £421 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% -8.29% -
75th Percentile £638 £684 £688
90th Percentile £728 £792 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.82%
75th Percentile £82.50 - £73.75
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
London median hourly rate £56.50 £35.29 £55.00
% change year-on-year +60.12% -35.85% +24.69%

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 11 November 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 11 November 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 -20 26 £538 -7.53% 37
City of Westminster - 3 £475 -
West End of London - 1 £773 - 1
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 4 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Appian
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) AWS
1 11 (36.67%) GCP
2 8 (26.67%) GitHub
3 7 (23.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 6 (20.00%) Azure
5 4 (13.33%) Slack
5 4 (13.33%) Stackdriver
6 3 (10.00%) Apigee
6 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 2 (6.67%) Azure AKS
7 2 (6.67%) BrowserStack
8 1 (3.33%) Akamai
8 1 (3.33%) Cloudflare
8 1 (3.33%) Kong
8 1 (3.33%) Serverless
8 1 (3.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) DHCP
2 1 (3.33%) DNS
2 1 (3.33%) HTTPS
2 1 (3.33%) Internet
2 1 (3.33%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (3.33%) SSL
2 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.67%) Redis
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.33%) DB2
3 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.33%) KDB
3 1 (3.33%) Kdb+
3 1 (3.33%) MySQL
3 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) Gradle
2 8 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 7 (23.33%) Maven
3 7 (23.33%) Selenium
3 7 (23.33%) SonarQube
4 6 (20.00%) Cypress.io
5 4 (13.33%) Git
5 4 (13.33%) JIRA
5 4 (13.33%) Postman
6 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
6 2 (6.67%) JUnit
6 2 (6.67%) TeamCity
7 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
7 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.33%) Hamcrest
7 1 (3.33%) Mocha
7 1 (3.33%) QUnit
7 1 (3.33%) Robot Framework
7 1 (3.33%) SoapUI
7 1 (3.33%) TestNG
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 7 (23.33%) Telecoms
3 6 (20.00%) Banking
4 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.33%) Front Office
6 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Senior
3 4 (13.33%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Python Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (3.33%) Lead Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Network Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Python Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Network Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) Node.js
2 5 (16.67%) React
3 4 (13.33%) GraphQL
4 2 (6.67%) .NET
4 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.67%) CSS
4 2 (6.67%) HTML
4 2 (6.67%) JSON
4 2 (6.67%) LDAP
4 2 (6.67%) Playwright
4 2 (6.67%) RESTful
5 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
5 1 (3.33%) Flake8
5 1 (3.33%) mypy
5 1 (3.33%) NETCONF
5 1 (3.33%) OpenAPI
5 1 (3.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (3.33%) SwiftUI
5 1 (3.33%) Vitest
5 1 (3.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.00%) IVR
4 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Fixed Income
5 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.33%) Android
3 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (76.67%) CI/CD
2 20 (66.67%) DevOps
3 13 (43.33%) Containerisation
4 9 (30.00%) Agile
5 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (23.33%) Microservices
5 7 (23.33%) Software Engineering
5 7 (23.33%) Test Automation
6 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.67%) Design Patterns
7 5 (16.67%) Migration
7 5 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (13.33%) Application Packaging
8 4 (13.33%) GitOps
8 4 (13.33%) Incident Management
8 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (13.33%) Scrum
8 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
9 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (40.00%) Python
2 10 (33.33%) Java
3 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.00%) SQL
4 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.67%) Rust
6 1 (3.33%) Bash
6 1 (3.33%) C#
6 1 (3.33%) Go
6 1 (3.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (50.00%) Terraform
2 14 (46.67%) Kubernetes
3 10 (33.33%) Ansible
4 6 (20.00%) Argo
4 6 (20.00%) Puppet
5 5 (16.67%) Istio
6 3 (10.00%) Grafana
7 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
7 1 (3.33%) Rundeck
7 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Google
2 5 (16.67%) Splunk
3 4 (13.33%) Oracle
4 3 (10.00%) MuleSoft
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.33%) Cisco
6 1 (3.33%) Confluent
6 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.33%) F5
6 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.33%) IBM
6 1 (3.33%) Infoblox
6 1 (3.33%) Informatica
6 1 (3.33%) OpenAI
6 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.33%) Plaid
6 1 (3.33%) StreamSets
6 1 (3.33%) Veracode