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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 126 202
Rank change year-on-year -15 +76 -11
Contract jobs citing GitLab 320 279 190
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 2.20% 1.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.36% 15.45% 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 183 149
10th Percentile £368 £368 £380
25th Percentile £431 £440 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £700
90th Percentile £700 £738 £778
England median daily rate £500 £539 £575
% change year-on-year -7.15% -6.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £56.25 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -32.20% +11.45% +21.53%

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 2,395 1,806 2,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.00% 14.24% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,600 1,228 1,651
10th Percentile £355 £343 £363
25th Percentile £423 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £555
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -5.41% -7.50%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 24
10th Percentile - £22.93 £22.90
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £26.03
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -32.20% -23.04%
75th Percentile £73.56 £67.50 £67.75
90th Percentile £93.18 £84.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -17 34 £518 -5.99% 17
South London -12 9 £521 -36.43%
East London -4 2 £441 -2.00% 1
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 19 (5.94%) Confluence
2 12 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.19%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.88%) nginx
5 4 (1.25%) CICS
6 3 (0.94%) Apache
7 2 (0.63%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.63%) SAS
8 1 (0.31%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.31%) CMS
8 1 (0.31%) FileNet
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Actimize
1 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.31%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 211 (65.94%) AWS
2 108 (33.75%) GitHub
3 96 (30.00%) Azure
4 68 (21.25%) Serverless
5 67 (20.94%) Amazon S3
6 64 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
7 61 (19.06%) AWS Lambda
8 56 (17.50%) Amazon EKS
9 54 (16.88%) GCP
10 52 (16.25%) Amazon EC2
11 48 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 44 (13.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 35 (10.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 32 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
15 30 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (5.31%) Snowflake
17 15 (4.69%) Datadog
18 13 (4.06%) OpenShift
18 13 (4.06%) Power Platform
18 13 (4.06%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.44%) DNS
2 7 (2.19%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.88%) Firewall
4 5 (1.56%) Multicast
5 3 (0.94%) VPN
5 3 (0.94%) VSAN
6 2 (0.63%) BGP
6 2 (0.63%) Calico
6 2 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.63%) HTTP
6 2 (0.63%) IPv6
6 2 (0.63%) NAS
6 2 (0.63%) Network Security
6 2 (0.63%) OSPF
6 2 (0.63%) SAN
6 2 (0.63%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (7.81%) NoSQL
3 22 (6.88%) MongoDB
4 19 (5.94%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (4.69%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (4.69%) DynamoDB
6 12 (3.75%) Big Data
6 12 (3.75%) Relational Database
7 11 (3.44%) Data Lake
7 11 (3.44%) Power BI
8 10 (3.13%) Spark SQL
9 9 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (2.81%) MySQL
10 8 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (2.19%) BigQuery
11 7 (2.19%) DB2
12 6 (1.88%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 154 (48.13%) Jenkins
2 66 (20.63%) Git
3 36 (11.25%) JIRA
4 20 (6.25%) Selenium
5 17 (5.31%) JUnit
6 16 (5.00%) Bitbucket
6 16 (5.00%) Postman
7 15 (4.69%) Cucumber
8 13 (4.06%) Mockito
9 10 (3.13%) JMeter
10 9 (2.81%) CircleCI
11 8 (2.50%) SonarQube
12 7 (2.19%) Appium
12 7 (2.19%) REST Assured
13 6 (1.88%) Artifactory
13 6 (1.88%) Maven
13 6 (1.88%) Robot Framework
14 5 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (1.56%) TeamCity
14 5 (1.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 85 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 63 (19.69%) Finance
3 51 (15.94%) Banking
4 49 (15.31%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.19%) Retail
8 6 (1.88%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.94%) Marketing
11 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.31%) Law
12 1 (0.31%) Local Government
12 1 (0.31%) Police
12 1 (0.31%) Publishing
12 1 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (22.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 59 (18.44%) Developer
3 47 (14.69%) Senior
4 39 (12.19%) AWS Engineer
5 34 (10.63%) AWS DevOps
6 32 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 27 (8.44%) Lead
8 22 (6.88%) Data Engineer
9 20 (6.25%) Architect
10 16 (5.00%) Java Developer
10 16 (5.00%) Test Engineer
11 15 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (3.13%) Python Engineer
13 10 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
13 10 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.13%) Test Automation Engineer
14 8 (2.50%) AWS Architect
14 8 (2.50%) Cloud Architect
14 8 (2.50%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (15.31%) Kafka
2 43 (13.44%) Spring
3 41 (12.81%) Spring Boot
4 38 (11.88%) React
5 26 (8.13%) Node.js
5 26 (8.13%) RESTful
6 25 (7.81%) REST
7 20 (6.25%) AngularJS
8 19 (5.94%) HTML
9 18 (5.63%) CSS
9 18 (5.63%) OpenTelemetry
9 18 (5.63%) Playwright
9 18 (5.63%) PySpark
10 13 (4.06%) OAuth
10 13 (4.06%) YAML
11 12 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (3.13%) OAuth2
12 10 (3.13%) Spring Cloud
13 9 (2.81%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 54 (16.88%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.94%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.75%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.13%) Mainframe
6 9 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.50%) DataPower
7 8 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.56%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.25%) NHS
9 4 (1.25%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.25%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.94%) Online Banking
11 2 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 52 (16.25%) Linux
2 10 (3.13%) Windows
3 8 (2.50%) Unix
4 6 (1.88%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.88%) zOS
5 5 (1.56%) Android
5 5 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.94%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.63%) VMS
8 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (78.75%) CI/CD
2 188 (58.75%) DevOps
3 120 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (29.69%) Agile
5 91 (28.44%) Containerisation
6 75 (23.44%) Test Automation
7 71 (22.19%) Observability
8 69 (21.56%) Microservices
9 50 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (10.94%) Performance Tuning
11 35 (10.94%) Scrum
12 33 (10.31%) Platform Engineering
13 32 (10.00%) AI
14 31 (9.69%) Analytics
15 27 (8.44%) Data Engineering
15 27 (8.44%) ETL
16 26 (8.13%) Data Pipeline
16 26 (8.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 26 (8.13%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 160 (50.00%) Python
2 90 (28.13%) Java
3 78 (24.38%) SQL
4 56 (17.50%) Bash
5 39 (12.19%) JavaScript
6 28 (8.75%) TypeScript
7 22 (6.88%) PowerShell
8 15 (4.69%) Go
9 13 (4.06%) Shell Script
10 10 (3.13%) Bicep
10 10 (3.13%) C#
11 7 (2.19%) Ruby
12 6 (1.88%) Korn
13 5 (1.56%) C
14 3 (0.94%) JCL
14 3 (0.94%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.63%) Perl
15 2 (0.63%) Rust
15 2 (0.63%) Swift
15 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (30.31%) Security Cleared
2 84 (26.25%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.69%) AWS Certification
4 9 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.88%) Degree
7 5 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.25%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.94%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.63%) CISSP
11 1 (0.31%) CISM
11 1 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.31%) CSSLP
11 1 (0.31%) GIAC
11 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.31%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (14.38%) QA
2 17 (5.31%) Accessibility
3 15 (4.69%) Data Quality
4 13 (4.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (3.75%) GDPR
6 6 (1.88%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.56%) NIST
8 3 (0.94%) SLA
9 2 (0.63%) HL7
9 2 (0.63%) WCAG
10 1 (0.31%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.31%) MiFID
10 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 161 (50.31%) Docker
2 5 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.25%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.63%) vSphere
6 1 (0.31%) HDFS
6 1 (0.31%) Squid
Systems Management
1 159 (49.69%) Terraform
2 156 (48.75%) Kubernetes
3 54 (16.88%) Ansible
4 46 (14.38%) Prometheus
5 43 (13.44%) Grafana
6 19 (5.94%) Argo
7 12 (3.75%) Istio
8 10 (3.13%) Puppet
9 8 (2.50%) Progress Chef
10 7 (2.19%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.25%) Kibana
11 4 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.94%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.63%) Fluentd
13 2 (0.63%) Nagios
13 2 (0.63%) Packer
13 2 (0.63%) Rancher
13 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.31%) vRealize
Vendors
1 32 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.25%) Splunk
3 16 (5.00%) Google
4 11 (3.44%) Databricks
4 11 (3.44%) Oracle
5 10 (3.13%) IBM
6 8 (2.50%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.50%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.50%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.88%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.56%) VMware
9 4 (1.25%) Arista
9 4 (1.25%) Sybase
9 4 (1.25%) Veracode
10 3 (0.94%) Adobe
10 3 (0.94%) Braze
10 3 (0.94%) Cisco
10 3 (0.94%) New Relic
10 3 (0.94%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.94%) SAP