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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 84 135
Rank change year-on-year -18 +51 +31
Contract jobs citing GitLab 28 44 25
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.50% 1.91% 0.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.69% 14.38% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 29 16
10th Percentile £331 £425 £350
25th Percentile £482 £513 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% - +0.84%
75th Percentile £615 £730 £688
90th Percentile £657 £778 £805
London median daily rate £525 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -12.79%

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 289 306 341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 15.45% 13.27% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 189 235
10th Percentile £343 £360 £380
25th Percentile £418 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £641 £688 £688
90th Percentile £721 £800 £795
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
London median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.70% -15.91% +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 28 October 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 28 October 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 -16 24 £544 -9.38% 38
City of Westminster +1 3 £475 -34.48%
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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) GCP
2 9 (32.14%) AWS
3 8 (28.57%) GitHub
4 7 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 6 (21.43%) Azure
6 4 (14.29%) Slack
6 4 (14.29%) Stackdriver
7 3 (10.71%) Apigee
7 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
8 2 (7.14%) Azure AKS
8 2 (7.14%) BrowserStack
9 1 (3.57%) Akamai
9 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (3.57%) Cloudflare
9 1 (3.57%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) DHCP
2 1 (3.57%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) HTTPS
2 1 (3.57%) Internet
2 1 (3.57%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (3.57%) SSL
2 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.14%) Redis
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.57%) DB2
3 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.57%) KDB
3 1 (3.57%) Kdb+
3 1 (3.57%) MySQL
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Gradle
2 8 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 7 (25.00%) Maven
3 7 (25.00%) Selenium
3 7 (25.00%) SonarQube
4 5 (17.86%) Cypress.io
5 4 (14.29%) JIRA
5 4 (14.29%) Postman
6 3 (10.71%) Git
7 2 (7.14%) Cucumber
7 2 (7.14%) JUnit
7 2 (7.14%) TeamCity
8 1 (3.57%) Gatling
8 1 (3.57%) Hamcrest
8 1 (3.57%) Mocha
8 1 (3.57%) QUnit
8 1 (3.57%) REST Assured
8 1 (3.57%) Robot Framework
8 1 (3.57%) SoapUI
8 1 (3.57%) TestNG
General
1 10 (35.71%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 5 (17.86%) Banking
3 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Retail Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.57%) Front Office
5 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Developer
2 5 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Senior
3 4 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (3.57%) Lead Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Network Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Python Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Firewall Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Network Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) Node.js
2 4 (14.29%) GraphQL
3 3 (10.71%) React
4 2 (7.14%) .NET
4 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 2 (7.14%) JSON
4 2 (7.14%) LDAP
4 2 (7.14%) RESTful
5 1 (3.57%) boto
5 1 (3.57%) CSS
5 1 (3.57%) HTML
5 1 (3.57%) HTML5
5 1 (3.57%) Kafka
5 1 (3.57%) OAuth
5 1 (3.57%) OpenID
5 1 (3.57%) REST
5 1 (3.57%) Spring
5 1 (3.57%) Spring MVC
5 1 (3.57%) XML
5 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.71%) IVR
4 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Fixed Income
5 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.57%) Android
3 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 20 (71.43%) DevOps
3 13 (46.43%) Containerisation
4 8 (28.57%) Agile
5 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (21.43%) Microservices
6 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (17.86%) Design Patterns
7 5 (17.86%) Migration
7 5 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
8 4 (14.29%) Application Packaging
8 4 (14.29%) GitOps
8 4 (14.29%) Incident Management
8 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
9 3 (10.71%) E-Commerce
9 3 (10.71%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) Python
2 9 (32.14%) Java
3 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.71%) SQL
5 2 (7.14%) Rust
5 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.57%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) C#
6 1 (3.57%) Go
6 1 (3.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (53.57%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 14 (50.00%) Terraform
2 10 (35.71%) Ansible
3 6 (21.43%) Argo
3 6 (21.43%) Puppet
4 5 (17.86%) Istio
5 2 (7.14%) Grafana
6 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.57%) Rundeck
6 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Google
2 5 (17.86%) Splunk
3 3 (10.71%) MuleSoft
3 3 (10.71%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco
4 1 (3.57%) Confluent
4 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.57%) F5
4 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.57%) IBM
4 1 (3.57%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.57%) Informatica
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.57%) Plaid
4 1 (3.57%) StreamSets
4 1 (3.57%) Veracode