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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 91 100
Rank change year-on-year -17 +9 +50
Contract jobs citing GitLab 35 37 29
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.48% 1.86% 1.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.11% 13.12% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 22
10th Percentile £324 £405 £513
25th Percentile £371 £491 £552
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £551 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% -8.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £616 £687
90th Percentile £636 £750 £724
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%

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 267 282 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.28% 14.21% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 170 181
10th Percentile £369 £400 £406
25th Percentile £454 £432 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £544 £551
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% -1.32% -8.17%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £675
90th Percentile £746 £725 £750
London median daily rate £519 £525 £558
% change year-on-year -1.23% -5.83% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £17.98 - £35.75
25th Percentile £18.75 - £39.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.65%
75th Percentile £20.25 - £62.00
90th Percentile £42.85 - £69.05
London median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -8.33% -32.20% -23.04%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -13 34 £518 -7.22% 17
West End of London - 1 - -
City of Westminster - 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 3 (8.57%) CICS
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.86%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 24 (68.57%) AWS
2 9 (25.71%) Amazon S3
2 9 (25.71%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (25.71%) GitHub
2 9 (25.71%) Serverless
3 8 (22.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (22.86%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (22.86%) Azure
4 7 (20.00%) GCP
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (11.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (8.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (5.71%) Apigee
7 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.86%) Datadog
8 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.86%) Route 53
8 1 (2.86%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) DNS
1 1 (2.86%) Firewall
1 1 (2.86%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (2.86%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) DynamoDB
2 5 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (11.43%) DB2
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.71%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.86%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.86%) Big Data
6 1 (2.86%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.86%) OLTP
6 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (37.14%) Jenkins
2 9 (25.71%) Git
3 5 (14.29%) JUnit
3 5 (14.29%) Mockito
3 5 (14.29%) Postman
4 4 (11.43%) JIRA
5 3 (8.57%) Cucumber
5 3 (8.57%) Selenium
6 2 (5.71%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.86%) Maven
7 1 (2.86%) Robot Framework
7 1 (2.86%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.86%) Terragrunt
7 1 (2.86%) Vite
General
1 19 (54.29%) Finance
2 15 (42.86%) Banking
3 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Law
5 2 (5.71%) Police
6 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Local Government
6 1 (2.86%) Military
6 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (17.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) Developer
3 4 (11.43%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Lead
3 4 (11.43%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (8.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Java Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Python Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Lead Java Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) Kafka
1 7 (20.00%) Spring
2 6 (17.14%) React
2 6 (17.14%) SOAP
2 6 (17.14%) Spring Boot
3 4 (11.43%) Gherkin
3 4 (11.43%) RESTful
4 3 (8.57%) CSS
4 3 (8.57%) HTML
4 3 (8.57%) JSON
4 3 (8.57%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (8.57%) Playwright
4 3 (8.57%) Web Services
4 3 (8.57%) WireMock
4 3 (8.57%) WSDL
4 3 (8.57%) YAML
5 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.71%) Node.js
5 2 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (5.71%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.57%) DataPower
2 3 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.57%) Mainframe
2 3 (8.57%) Online Banking
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.86%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.86%) NHS
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 15 (42.86%) DevOps
3 11 (31.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (28.57%) Agile
4 10 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 7 (20.00%) AI
5 7 (20.00%) Observability
6 6 (17.14%) Containerisation
6 6 (17.14%) Software Engineering
7 5 (14.29%) API Testing
7 5 (14.29%) BDD
7 5 (14.29%) Microservices
7 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (11.43%) Batch Processing
8 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (11.43%) Generative AI
8 4 (11.43%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (8.57%) Integration Patterns
9 3 (8.57%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) Python
2 10 (28.57%) Java
3 9 (25.71%) SQL
4 4 (11.43%) C#
4 4 (11.43%) Shell Script
5 3 (8.57%) JCL
6 2 (5.71%) Bash
6 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.86%) C
7 1 (2.86%) Korn
7 1 (2.86%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.86%) ProC
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.86%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) GDPR
2 2 (5.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (51.43%) Terraform
2 14 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (14.29%) Grafana
4 4 (11.43%) Ansible
4 4 (11.43%) Prometheus
5 3 (8.57%) Karpenter
6 2 (5.71%) Argo
6 2 (5.71%) Istio
7 1 (2.86%) Kibana
7 1 (2.86%) Puppet
7 1 (2.86%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Google
2 3 (8.57%) Oracle
2 3 (8.57%) Splunk
3 2 (5.71%) Broadcom
3 2 (5.71%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.71%) VMware
4 1 (2.86%) Confluent
4 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.86%) IBM
4 1 (2.86%) Informatica
4 1 (2.86%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (2.86%) Pure Storage
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.86%) StreamSets