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 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 93 138
Rank change year-on-year -1 +45 -17
Contract jobs citing GitLab 29 33 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.69% 1.51% 0.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.03% 11.07% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 20
10th Percentile £400 £448 £447
25th Percentile £475 £513 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £565 £673
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -15.99% +12.93%
75th Percentile £650 £668 £744
90th Percentile £750 £748 £883
Central London median daily rate £513 £570 £673
% change year-on-year -10.09% -15.24% +12.51%

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 241 298 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 14.04% 13.68% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 203 321
10th Percentile £389 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £609
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £738
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £36.63
25th Percentile £86.25 £46.75 £39.06
Median hourly rate £87.50 £48.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +80.41% +10.86% -
75th Percentile £88.75 £50.25 £49.06
90th Percentile - - £51.88
Central London median hourly rate £87.50 £40.75 £43.75
% change year-on-year +114.72% -6.86% -

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 15 June 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 15 (51.72%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Azure
3 7 (24.14%) GCP
4 5 (17.24%) GitHub
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.90%) Apigee
5 2 (6.90%) Azure AKS
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (6.90%) Stackdriver
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
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%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.90%) MySQL
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Reports
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
3 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.69%) Git
3 3 (10.34%) Maven
4 2 (6.90%) Gradle
4 2 (6.90%) JIRA
4 2 (6.90%) JUnit
4 2 (6.90%) Postman
4 2 (6.90%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.45%) Gatling
5 1 (3.45%) git-flow
5 1 (3.45%) Hamcrest
5 1 (3.45%) Selenium
5 1 (3.45%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.45%) Travis CI
General
1 4 (13.79%) Finance
1 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Banking
2 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Database Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Automation Tester
5 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (3.45%) Java Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Junior
5 1 (3.45%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Platform 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 3 (10.34%) Node.js
2 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.90%) GraphQL
2 2 (6.90%) WireMock
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Camel
3 1 (3.45%) CSS
3 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.45%) HTML
3 1 (3.45%) HTML5
3 1 (3.45%) LDAP
3 1 (3.45%) OAuth
3 1 (3.45%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.45%) OpenAPI
3 1 (3.45%) Quarkus
3 1 (3.45%) React
3 1 (3.45%) RxJS
3 1 (3.45%) Spring
3 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.45%) Swagger
3 1 (3.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Hedge funds
2 2 (6.90%) IVR
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) CUDA
3 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) DataPower
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
3 1 (3.45%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) 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 24 (82.76%) CI/CD
2 21 (72.41%) DevOps
3 13 (44.83%) Containerisation
4 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (20.69%) Agile
5 6 (20.69%) Configuration Management
6 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (17.24%) Migration
7 4 (13.79%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (13.79%) Software Engineering
8 3 (10.34%) Design Patterns
8 3 (10.34%) Electronic Trading
8 3 (10.34%) Front End Development
8 3 (10.34%) High Availability
8 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (10.34%) Microservices
8 3 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.34%) Scrum
8 3 (10.34%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Python
2 7 (24.14%) Bash
3 4 (13.79%) Java
4 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.90%) 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%) Ruby
6 1 (3.45%) SQL
6 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.24%) 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%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (55.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (68.97%) Terraform
2 17 (58.62%) Kubernetes
3 13 (44.83%) Ansible
4 4 (13.79%) Istio
5 3 (10.34%) Argo
5 3 (10.34%) Consul
5 3 (10.34%) Grafana
5 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
5 3 (10.34%) Puppet
6 2 (6.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (3.45%) Podman
7 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Splunk
3 2 (6.90%) Databricks
3 2 (6.90%) Google
3 2 (6.90%) MuleSoft
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco
4 1 (3.45%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.45%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.45%) Pega
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.45%) TOWER Software
4 1 (3.45%) WSO2