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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 103 95
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +43
Contract jobs citing GitLab 54 28 34
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.06% 1.37% 1.48%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.95% 9.59% 11.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 19 27
10th Percentile £328 £395 £448
25th Percentile £463 £479 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.62% -8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £615 £663
90th Percentile £733 £627 £773
London median daily rate £525 £528 £575
% change year-on-year -0.47% -8.26% -4.17%

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 285 292 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.89% 14.24% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 190 204
10th Percentile £401 £359 £405
25th Percentile £463 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year - -1.43% +1.45%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £720 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 1
10th Percentile - £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% -37.14%
75th Percentile £31.13 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £75.45 £86.25 -
London median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £35.29
% change year-on-year -5.56% +27.53% -49.59%

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 8 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 8 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 +10 50 £544 +2.40% 8
City of Westminster -5 5 £425 -10.53% 4
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 (9.26%) Confluence
2 4 (7.41%) CICS
3 2 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 35 (64.81%) AWS
2 19 (35.19%) GitHub
3 14 (25.93%) AWS Lambda
3 14 (25.93%) Serverless
4 12 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (22.22%) Azure
4 12 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (20.37%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (20.37%) Amazon S3
6 10 (18.52%) GCP
7 8 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (9.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (7.41%) OpenShift
11 3 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
12 2 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.26%) DNS
2 3 (5.56%) Firewall
3 2 (3.70%) Internet
3 2 (3.70%) VPN
3 2 (3.70%) VSAN
4 1 (1.85%) BGP
4 1 (1.85%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.85%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.85%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.85%) SSH
4 1 (1.85%) TACACS
4 1 (1.85%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) Amazon Athena
1 8 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (14.81%) DynamoDB
2 4 (7.41%) Db2
3 2 (3.70%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (3.70%) Big Data
3 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.70%) Power BI
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.85%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (37.04%) Jenkins
2 10 (18.52%) JIRA
2 10 (18.52%) JUnit
2 10 (18.52%) Mockito
3 7 (12.96%) Git
4 6 (11.11%) Postman
5 5 (9.26%) Cucumber
6 4 (7.41%) Selenium
6 4 (7.41%) TeamCity
7 3 (5.56%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.85%) Gatling
8 1 (1.85%) Maven
8 1 (1.85%) Newman
8 1 (1.85%) Robot Framework
General
1 30 (55.56%) Finance
2 19 (35.19%) Banking
3 9 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 8 (14.81%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.41%) Law
5 4 (7.41%) Police
6 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.56%) Back Office
7 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.70%) Military
8 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) Senior
2 9 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) Developer
4 5 (9.26%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Network Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.70%) Analyst
7 2 (3.70%) Automation Tester
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.70%) Lead
7 2 (3.70%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Python Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.93%) Kafka
2 11 (20.37%) Spring
3 10 (18.52%) RESTful
3 10 (18.52%) Spring Boot
4 8 (14.81%) SOAP
5 7 (12.96%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (11.11%) Gherkin
6 6 (11.11%) REST
7 5 (9.26%) JSON
7 5 (9.26%) React
7 5 (9.26%) WireMock
7 5 (9.26%) YAML
8 4 (7.41%) Web Services
8 4 (7.41%) WSDL
9 3 (5.56%) .NET
9 3 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (5.56%) Playwright
9 3 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
10 2 (3.70%) .NET Core
10 2 (3.70%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.96%) Onboarding
3 5 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.41%) DataPower
4 4 (7.41%) Mainframe
4 4 (7.41%) Online Banking
5 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.70%) AI Agents
6 2 (3.70%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.85%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.85%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.85%) NHS
7 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.11%) Linux
2 4 (7.41%) zOS
3 2 (3.70%) Windows
3 2 (3.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 29 (53.70%) DevOps
3 17 (31.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (31.48%) Test Automation
4 14 (25.93%) Agile
5 13 (24.07%) Containerisation
5 13 (24.07%) Observability
6 11 (20.37%) Event-Driven
7 10 (18.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 10 (18.52%) Microservices
8 9 (16.67%) AI
8 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (14.81%) BDD
10 7 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (12.96%) Data Modelling
10 7 (12.96%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (12.96%) Migration
10 7 (12.96%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (12.96%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (11.11%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (55.56%) Python
2 19 (35.19%) Java
3 12 (22.22%) SQL
4 9 (16.67%) C#
5 6 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.41%) Bash
6 4 (7.41%) JCL
6 4 (7.41%) Shell Script
6 4 (7.41%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (3.70%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.85%) Korn
Qualifications
1 15 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 14 (25.93%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.85%) Degree
4 1 (1.85%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.85%) PMP
4 1 (1.85%) RHCE
4 1 (1.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.81%) QA
2 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (35.19%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.70%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (51.85%) Kubernetes
2 24 (44.44%) Terraform
3 14 (25.93%) Ansible
4 4 (7.41%) Grafana
4 4 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.56%) Istio
6 1 (1.85%) Argo
6 1 (1.85%) Packer
6 1 (1.85%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.85%) Puppet
6 1 (1.85%) Salt
6 1 (1.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) Google
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.41%) VMware
3 3 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.70%) Broadcom
4 2 (3.70%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.70%) Splunk
5 1 (1.85%) Alias
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco
5 1 (1.85%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.85%) Databricks
5 1 (1.85%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.85%) Pure Storage
5 1 (1.85%) Red Hat