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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 89 108
Rank change year-on-year -14 +19 +49
Contract jobs citing GitLab 35 36 28
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.54% 1.82% 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.73% 12.81% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 22 20
10th Percentile £326 £403 £513
25th Percentile £371 £483 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.72% -8.29% -14.29%
75th Percentile £584 £605 £693
90th Percentile £633 £740 £726
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -11.54%

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 275 281 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.07% 14.17% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 167 181
10th Percentile £364 £402 £413
25th Percentile £457 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -4.42% -5.83%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £688
90th Percentile £746 £725 £756
London median daily rate £517 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -1.50% -6.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £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 £48.50 - £69.05
London median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -21.67% -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 26 March 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 March 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 £519 -5.77% 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 23 (65.71%) AWS
2 9 (25.71%) GitHub
3 8 (22.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (22.86%) Amazon S3
3 8 (22.86%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (22.86%) Azure
3 8 (22.86%) Serverless
4 7 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (20.00%) GCP
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (8.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (8.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (5.71%) Apigee
7 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.86%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) DNS
1 1 (2.86%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) DynamoDB
2 5 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 4 (11.43%) DB2
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.71%) Apache Cassandra
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 14 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (22.86%) 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
6 2 (5.71%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.86%) Gradle
7 1 (2.86%) Maven
7 1 (2.86%) Robot Framework
7 1 (2.86%) Terragrunt
7 1 (2.86%) Vite
General
1 20 (57.14%) Finance
2 16 (45.71%) Banking
3 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Local Government
5 1 (2.86%) Police
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
5 1 (2.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) 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%) Java Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud 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%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 15 (42.86%) DevOps
3 11 (31.43%) Test Automation
4 10 (28.57%) Agile
4 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (20.00%) AI
5 7 (20.00%) Observability
5 7 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 6 (17.14%) Containerisation
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 11 (31.43%) Java
3 9 (25.71%) SQL
4 4 (11.43%) C#
4 4 (11.43%) Shell Script
5 3 (8.57%) JCL
5 3 (8.57%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.86%) Bash
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
7 1 (2.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
1 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.86%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) 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%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (48.57%) Terraform
2 14 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.43%) Ansible
3 4 (11.43%) Grafana
4 3 (8.57%) Karpenter
4 3 (8.57%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.71%) Argo
5 2 (5.71%) Istio
6 1 (2.86%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) 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%) 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