GitLab Contracts in Central London

GitLab
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring GitLab skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitLab over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 101 142
Rank change year-on-year +5 +41 -32
Contract jobs citing GitLab 31 34 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.64% 1.42% 0.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.20% 11.37% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 27 18
10th Percentile £393 £448 £456
25th Percentile £438 £513 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% -17.86% +17.55%
75th Percentile £644 £668 £831
90th Percentile £750 £758 £898
London median daily rate £530 £574 £609
% change year-on-year -7.63% -5.79% -1.97%

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 254 299 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.46% 12.47% 14.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 203 357
10th Percentile £386 £387 £413
25th Percentile £425 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £738
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £34.38 £38.25
25th Percentile - £36.44 £43.13
Median hourly rate - £40.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -22.38% -27.59%
75th Percentile - £45.94 £56.25
90th Percentile - £48.53 £57.75
London median hourly rate £37.50 £36.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.74% -47.86% +57.30%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in Central London

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in Central London.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in Central London

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in Central London over the 6 months to 29 May 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 29 May 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 +5 28 £513 -10.09% 15
GitLab
London

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 15 (48.39%) AWS
2 7 (22.58%) Azure
3 5 (16.13%) GCP
4 4 (12.90%) GitHub
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.23%) Apigee
6 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.23%) Datadog
6 1 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (3.23%) Serverless
6 1 (3.23%) Slack
6 1 (3.23%) Stackdriver
6 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) BGP
1 1 (3.23%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (3.23%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (3.23%) DHCP
1 1 (3.23%) DNS
1 1 (3.23%) IGMP
1 1 (3.23%) Multicast
1 1 (3.23%) SSL
1 1 (3.23%) VXLAN
1 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.45%) MySQL
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (3.23%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 10 (32.26%) Jenkins
2 6 (19.35%) Git
3 3 (9.68%) JUnit
3 3 (9.68%) Postman
4 2 (6.45%) Cypress.io
4 2 (6.45%) JIRA
4 2 (6.45%) Maven
4 2 (6.45%) Selenium
4 2 (6.45%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.23%) Gatling
5 1 (3.23%) Gradle
5 1 (3.23%) Hamcrest
5 1 (3.23%) REST Assured
5 1 (3.23%) SoapUI
5 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.23%) TestNG
5 1 (3.23%) Travis CI
General
1 5 (16.13%) Finance
2 4 (12.90%) Banking
2 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Military
4 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Architect
4 2 (6.45%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (6.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Database Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Automation Tester
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (3.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Lead
5 1 (3.23%) PowerShell Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Principal Test Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Senior
5 1 (3.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
1 2 (6.45%) WireMock
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Camel
2 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.23%) HTML
2 1 (3.23%) HTML5
2 1 (3.23%) JSON
2 1 (3.23%) Node.js
2 1 (3.23%) OAuth
2 1 (3.23%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.23%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.23%) Playwright
2 1 (3.23%) Quarkus
2 1 (3.23%) React
2 1 (3.23%) RxJS
2 1 (3.23%) Spring
2 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.23%) Swagger
2 1 (3.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Hedge funds
2 2 (6.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.45%) DataPower
2 2 (6.45%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) CUDA
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) IVR
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Rocky
3 1 (3.23%) CentOS
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (80.65%) CI/CD
2 22 (70.97%) DevOps
3 11 (35.48%) Containerisation
4 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (22.58%) Configuration Management
6 6 (19.35%) Agile
7 5 (16.13%) Migration
7 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.90%) Test Automation
9 3 (9.68%) Electronic Trading
9 3 (9.68%) Front End Development
9 3 (9.68%) High Availability
9 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Management
9 3 (9.68%) Performance Tuning
10 2 (6.45%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (6.45%) Resource Management
10 2 (6.45%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) Python
2 6 (19.35%) Bash
3 5 (16.13%) Java
4 2 (6.45%) C#
4 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.23%) Bicep
5 1 (3.23%) Go
5 1 (3.23%) Ruby
5 1 (3.23%) SQL
5 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
1 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.23%) CCNP
2 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.23%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (45.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (61.29%) Terraform
2 15 (48.39%) Kubernetes
3 13 (41.94%) Ansible
4 3 (9.68%) Consul
4 3 (9.68%) Grafana
4 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
4 3 (9.68%) Puppet
5 2 (6.45%) Istio
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Argo
6 1 (3.23%) Podman
6 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) CheckPoint
2 2 (6.45%) Cisco
2 2 (6.45%) Databricks
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle
2 2 (6.45%) Palo Alto
2 2 (6.45%) Splunk
3 1 (3.23%) Cloudera
3 1 (3.23%) F5
3 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.23%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.23%) Pega
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.23%) TOWER Software
3 1 (3.23%) WSO2