GitLab Contracts in the City of London

GitLab
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 99 147
Rank change year-on-year +9 +48 -41
Contract jobs citing GitLab 29 28 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.65% 1.27% 0.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.20% 10.26% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 19
10th Percentile £400 £513 £456
25th Percentile £475 £551 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -17.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £645 £788
90th Percentile £750 £725 £890
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £700
% change year-on-year -4.30% -17.86% +16.67%

All Development Application Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 259 273 555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 14.75% 12.43% 15.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 185 360
10th Percentile £413 £406 £425
25th Percentile £449 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -9.05% +3.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £750
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £39.06
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.82% -10.57%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £40.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -25.91% -10.57%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the City of London

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the City of London

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the City of London

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 16 (55.17%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Azure
3 4 (13.79%) GCP
4 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (10.34%) GitHub
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.90%) Serverless
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) Datadog
6 1 (3.45%) PaaS
6 1 (3.45%) Slack
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) BGP
1 1 (3.45%) DHCP
1 1 (3.45%) DNS
1 1 (3.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.90%) MySQL
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (3.45%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.24%) Git
3 2 (6.90%) JIRA
3 2 (6.90%) JUnit
3 2 (6.90%) Postman
3 2 (6.90%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.45%) Gatling
4 1 (3.45%) Hamcrest
4 1 (3.45%) Maven
4 1 (3.45%) Selenium
4 1 (3.45%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.45%) Travis CI
General
1 4 (13.79%) Finance
2 3 (10.34%) Banking
2 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Database Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Automation Tester
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Configuration Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Java Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Junior
5 1 (3.45%) Network Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Site Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) WireMock
2 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Camel
2 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.45%) OAuth
2 1 (3.45%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.45%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.45%) Quarkus
2 1 (3.45%) RxJS
2 1 (3.45%) Spring
2 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.45%) Swagger
2 1 (3.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Hedge funds
1 3 (10.34%) Mainframe
2 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.90%) DataPower
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) CUDA
3 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
2 3 (10.34%) Rocky
3 1 (3.45%) CentOS
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (89.66%) CI/CD
2 22 (75.86%) DevOps
3 11 (37.93%) Containerisation
3 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (24.14%) Configuration Management
4 7 (24.14%) Migration
5 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
6 4 (13.79%) Agile
6 4 (13.79%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (13.79%) High Availability
6 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (10.34%) Electronic Trading
7 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.34%) Task Automation
7 3 (10.34%) Test Automation
8 2 (6.90%) Performance Testing
8 2 (6.90%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Python
2 6 (20.69%) Bash
3 4 (13.79%) Java
4 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.45%) Bicep
6 1 (3.45%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) Go
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) Ruby
6 1 (3.45%) SQL
6 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.45%) CCNP
2 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.45%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (48.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (68.97%) Terraform
2 15 (51.72%) Kubernetes
3 12 (41.38%) Ansible
4 3 (10.34%) Consul
4 3 (10.34%) Grafana
4 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Argo
6 1 (3.45%) Istio
6 1 (3.45%) Podman
6 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Databricks
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) BT
4 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco
4 1 (3.45%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.45%) Pega
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.45%) Splunk
4 1 (3.45%) TOWER Software
4 1 (3.45%) WSO2