GitLab Contract Job Trends in London

GitLab
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 162 179
Rank change year-on-year +7 +17 +27
Contract jobs citing GitLab 379 225 246
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.88% 1.68% 1.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.93% 10.55% 10.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 149 176
10th Percentile £400 £400 £325
25th Percentile £450 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £609 £619 £688
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
England median daily rate £500 £519 £551
% change year-on-year -3.57% -5.81% +0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £92.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -9.46% +23.75%

All Development Application Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,539 2,133 2,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.58% 15.93% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,641 1,448 1,607
10th Percentile £363 £350 £364
25th Percentile £438 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £653
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £36.63 £24.60
25th Percentile £27.38 £41.69 £25.99
Median hourly rate £49.00 £50.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +35.33% -44.44%
75th Percentile £73.56 £72.81 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.66 £107.88 £71.38
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitLab relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

GitLab job vacancy trend in London

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitLab.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitLab

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in London over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in London

GitLab
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitLab.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitLab

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 6 September 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
Central London +4 46 £574 +6.70% 14
South London -9 4 £535 -7.56%
West London -15 3 £738 - 6
East London - 2 £432 - 6
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 29 (7.65%) Confluence
2 23 (6.07%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.69%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.85%) Apache
4 7 (1.85%) Camunda
5 4 (1.06%) CICS
5 4 (1.06%) Palantir Foundry
5 4 (1.06%) SAS
6 2 (0.53%) CMS
6 2 (0.53%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.26%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Trello
2 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.26%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.26%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 261 (68.87%) AWS
2 160 (42.22%) GitHub
3 147 (38.79%) Azure
4 119 (31.40%) GitHub Actions
5 88 (23.22%) Azure DevOps
6 76 (20.05%) GCP
7 72 (19.00%) Amazon EKS
8 65 (17.15%) Amazon S3
9 61 (16.09%) Serverless
10 58 (15.30%) AWS Lambda
11 54 (14.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 49 (12.93%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (8.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 30 (7.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 25 (6.60%) Amazon ECS
16 24 (6.33%) Snowflake
17 22 (5.80%) OpenShift
17 22 (5.80%) Power Platform
18 19 (5.01%) Amazon SQS
18 19 (5.01%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.43%) Network Security
2 11 (2.90%) DNS
3 10 (2.64%) Firewall
4 6 (1.58%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.32%) BGP
5 5 (1.32%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (1.32%) NX-OS
5 5 (1.32%) VPN
5 5 (1.32%) VXLAN
6 4 (1.06%) TACACS
7 3 (0.79%) HTTP
7 3 (0.79%) Internet
7 3 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.79%) SSL
8 2 (0.53%) DSL
8 2 (0.53%) SSH
9 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.26%) INAP
9 1 (0.26%) MPLS
9 1 (0.26%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (11.35%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (6.60%) Amazon Athena
2 25 (6.60%) Amazon Redshift
3 23 (6.07%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (5.54%) MongoDB
5 20 (5.28%) NoSQL
5 20 (5.28%) Power BI
6 17 (4.49%) Big Data
6 17 (4.49%) Data Lake
7 15 (3.96%) SQL Server
8 14 (3.69%) Relational Database
9 13 (3.43%) MySQL
10 12 (3.17%) DynamoDB
10 12 (3.17%) Redis
11 11 (2.90%) Amazon QuickSight
12 9 (2.37%) Apache Hive
12 9 (2.37%) Oracle Database
13 7 (1.85%) Db2
13 7 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 184 (48.55%) Jenkins
2 98 (25.86%) Git
3 45 (11.87%) JIRA
4 27 (7.12%) JUnit
5 25 (6.60%) SonarQube
6 21 (5.54%) Mockito
6 21 (5.54%) Selenium
7 17 (4.49%) Maven
8 16 (4.22%) Bitbucket
9 14 (3.69%) REST Assured
10 13 (3.43%) Cucumber
11 12 (3.17%) Gradle
12 11 (2.90%) Cypress.io
12 11 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (2.64%) Artifactory
13 10 (2.64%) Postman
13 10 (2.64%) Snyk
14 8 (2.11%) JMeter
15 7 (1.85%) CircleCI
16 6 (1.58%) WebDriver
General
1 80 (21.11%) Finance
1 80 (21.11%) Social Skills
2 61 (16.09%) Public Sector
3 56 (14.78%) Banking
4 25 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (2.90%) Law
6 8 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.85%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.58%) Police
9 5 (1.32%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.06%) Marketing
10 4 (1.06%) Military
11 3 (0.79%) Back Office
11 3 (0.79%) Publishing
12 2 (0.53%) Local Government
12 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.26%) Aviation
13 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (28.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 72 (19.00%) Senior
3 71 (18.73%) Developer
4 60 (15.83%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (9.76%) AWS DevOps
6 36 (9.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 35 (9.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 35 (9.23%) Lead
8 29 (7.65%) Data Engineer
9 25 (6.60%) Full-Stack Developer
10 23 (6.07%) Platform Engineer
11 20 (5.28%) Java Developer
12 17 (4.49%) Architect
13 16 (4.22%) Software Engineer
14 15 (3.96%) Senior DevOps
14 15 (3.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 14 (3.69%) Senior Developer
16 11 (2.90%) Automation Engineer
16 11 (2.90%) Azure Engineer
16 11 (2.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 210 (55.41%) Terraform
2 72 (19.00%) Kafka
3 57 (15.04%) REST
4 44 (11.61%) Spring
5 42 (11.08%) Spring Boot
6 40 (10.55%) React
7 39 (10.29%) RESTful
8 27 (7.12%) PySpark
9 23 (6.07%) CSS
9 23 (6.07%) HTML
10 22 (5.80%) Node.js
11 21 (5.54%) YAML
12 19 (5.01%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (4.22%) .NET
14 14 (3.69%) Keycloak
14 14 (3.69%) pytest
14 14 (3.69%) Redux
15 13 (3.43%) CSS3
15 13 (3.43%) JSON
15 13 (3.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 94 (24.80%) Cloud Native
2 33 (8.71%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.49%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.22%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.17%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.90%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.37%) AI Agents
8 9 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (2.11%) PKI
10 7 (1.85%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.58%) Mainframe
12 5 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
13 4 (1.06%) DataPower
13 4 (1.06%) Fixed Income
13 4 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (1.06%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 69 (18.21%) Linux
2 24 (6.33%) Windows
3 17 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.11%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.58%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.32%) Unix
6 5 (1.32%) VMS
6 5 (1.32%) zOS
7 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Android
8 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.26%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (92.08%) CI/CD
2 262 (69.13%) DevOps
3 183 (48.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 135 (35.62%) Agile
5 128 (33.77%) Containerisation
6 109 (28.76%) Test Automation
7 97 (25.59%) Microservices
8 80 (21.11%) Observability
9 71 (18.73%) Platform Engineering
10 67 (17.68%) AI
11 60 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
12 59 (15.57%) Event-Driven
13 55 (14.51%) Software Engineering
14 53 (13.98%) Scrum
15 50 (13.19%) Full-Stack Development
16 49 (12.93%) Deployment Automation
16 49 (12.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 45 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
18 44 (11.61%) Data Engineering
18 44 (11.61%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 194 (51.19%) Python
2 98 (25.86%) Java
3 83 (21.90%) SQL
4 81 (21.37%) Bash
5 52 (13.72%) JavaScript
6 38 (10.03%) PowerShell
7 35 (9.23%) TypeScript
8 32 (8.44%) C#
9 18 (4.75%) Go
10 10 (2.64%) Bicep
11 8 (2.11%) Kotlin
11 8 (2.11%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.32%) Groovy
12 5 (1.32%) Scala
13 4 (1.06%) C++
13 4 (1.06%) JCL
13 4 (1.06%) R
14 3 (0.79%) Korn
14 3 (0.79%) Ruby
15 2 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 142 (37.47%) Security Cleared
2 124 (32.72%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.18%) AWS Certification
4 26 (6.86%) DV Cleared
5 24 (6.33%) Degree
6 20 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.69%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.32%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.06%) CISSP
12 3 (0.79%) GIAC
12 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.53%) CSSLP
13 2 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.26%) CRISC
14 1 (0.26%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (12.93%) QA
2 27 (7.12%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.11%) NIST
5 5 (1.32%) GDPR
5 5 (1.32%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.06%) WCAG
7 3 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
8 1 (0.26%) NCSC
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
8 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 164 (43.27%) Docker
2 11 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.32%) Squid
4 5 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.06%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.53%) HDFS
7 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 199 (52.51%) Kubernetes
2 80 (21.11%) Ansible
3 61 (16.09%) Grafana
4 58 (15.30%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.28%) Puppet
6 17 (4.49%) Argo
7 10 (2.64%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.11%) Istio
9 5 (1.32%) HP Fortify
10 4 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.06%) Kibana
10 4 (1.06%) Packer
10 4 (1.06%) Salt
10 4 (1.06%) Suricata
11 3 (0.79%) Control-M
11 3 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.53%) Cilium
12 2 (0.53%) Nagios
13 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 38 (10.03%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.86%) Google
3 23 (6.07%) Databricks
4 17 (4.49%) Informatica
5 16 (4.22%) Oracle
5 16 (4.22%) Splunk
6 13 (3.43%) VMware
7 10 (2.64%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.64%) Veracode
8 9 (2.37%) Cloudera
9 8 (2.11%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.85%) IBM
10 7 (1.85%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.58%) Talend
12 5 (1.32%) Checkmarx
12 5 (1.32%) Cisco
12 5 (1.32%) OpenAI
13 4 (1.06%) FIS
13 4 (1.06%) New Relic
13 4 (1.06%) Palantir