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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 141 222
Rank change year-on-year -10 +81 -47
Contract jobs citing GitLab 244 298 221
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 1.90% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.14% 13.42% 7.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 209 168
10th Percentile £400 £367 £409
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -12.79%
75th Percentile £634 £688 £650
90th Percentile £700 £726 £738
England median daily rate £520 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -3.70% -1.82% -7.56%

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 2,190 2,221 2,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.01% 14.16% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,498 1,481 2,109
10th Percentile £350 £360 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £666 £688
90th Percentile £735 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 31
10th Percentile £36.63 £27.88 £30.00
25th Percentile £41.69 £32.62 £41.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -15.91% +24.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.89 £74.38
90th Percentile £107.88 £71.44 £86.56
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 31 October 2025.

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 31 October 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
Central London -11 29 £525 -12.50% 25
South London +1 5 £538 +31.10% 3
East London +1 1 £450 - 2
West London -11 1 - - 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 26 (10.66%) Confluence
2 4 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.64%) nginx
3 3 (1.23%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.23%) Appian
3 3 (1.23%) Ethereum
3 3 (1.23%) Hyperledger
4 2 (0.82%) SAS
4 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) CICS
5 1 (0.41%) Luigi
5 1 (0.41%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.41%) Mule
5 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.41%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.41%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.41%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 127 (52.05%) AWS
2 110 (45.08%) Azure
3 80 (32.79%) GitHub
4 61 (25.00%) GCP
5 42 (17.21%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (13.93%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (12.70%) Amazon S3
8 26 (10.66%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (10.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (8.61%) Serverless
11 19 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (7.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (6.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (5.74%) Azure AKS
14 14 (5.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 11 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (4.10%) Stackdriver
17 9 (3.69%) Datadog
17 9 (3.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.20%) Firewall
2 16 (6.56%) VPN
3 13 (5.33%) TCP/IP
4 12 (4.92%) DNS
4 12 (4.92%) Network Security
5 8 (3.28%) SSL
6 7 (2.87%) WAN
7 5 (2.05%) BGP
7 5 (2.05%) OpenLDAP
7 5 (2.05%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.64%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (1.64%) VXLAN
9 3 (1.23%) HTTP
9 3 (1.23%) Multicast
9 3 (1.23%) OSPF
10 2 (0.82%) IPsec
10 2 (0.82%) LAN
10 2 (0.82%) MPLS
10 2 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.82%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.61%) MongoDB
2 20 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (7.38%) NoSQL
4 13 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (4.92%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (3.28%) Big Data
7 5 (2.05%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.05%) HPCC
7 5 (2.05%) Power BI
8 3 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.23%) MySQL
8 3 (1.23%) Redis
9 2 (0.82%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.82%) DB2
9 2 (0.82%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.82%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.82%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 95 (38.93%) Jenkins
2 48 (19.67%) Git
3 43 (17.62%) JIRA
4 24 (9.84%) Maven
5 18 (7.38%) SonarQube
6 17 (6.97%) Gradle
6 17 (6.97%) Selenium
7 13 (5.33%) Cypress.io
8 11 (4.51%) TeamCity
9 10 (4.10%) Bitbucket
9 10 (4.10%) Cucumber
9 10 (4.10%) Postman
9 10 (4.10%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (3.28%) JMeter
10 8 (3.28%) JUnit
11 7 (2.87%) Gatling
11 7 (2.87%) REST Assured
12 4 (1.64%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.64%) CircleCI
13 3 (1.23%) Robot Framework
General
1 52 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.34%) Finance
3 26 (10.66%) Banking
4 22 (9.02%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.51%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.69%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.87%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.64%) Marketing
9 3 (1.23%) Front Office
9 3 (1.23%) Military
9 3 (1.23%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.82%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.82%) Games
10 2 (0.82%) Retail
11 1 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.41%) iGaming
11 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (24.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 47 (19.26%) Developer
3 46 (18.85%) Senior
4 22 (9.02%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (7.38%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (6.97%) AWS DevOps
6 17 (6.97%) Senior DevOps
6 17 (6.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 16 (6.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 13 (5.33%) Java Developer
8 13 (5.33%) Lead
9 12 (4.92%) Senior Developer
10 11 (4.51%) Consultant
10 11 (4.51%) Test Engineer
11 10 (4.10%) Architect
11 10 (4.10%) Software Engineer
12 9 (3.69%) GCP Engineer
13 8 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (3.28%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.52%) Kafka
2 23 (9.43%) Node.js
2 23 (9.43%) REST
3 18 (7.38%) React
4 17 (6.97%) Spring
5 15 (6.15%) HTML
6 14 (5.74%) Playwright
6 14 (5.74%) Spring Boot
7 11 (4.51%) JSON
7 11 (4.51%) RESTful
8 10 (4.10%) XML
9 9 (3.69%) CSS
10 8 (3.28%) .NET
10 8 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (2.87%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.87%) Middleware
11 7 (2.87%) OAuth
11 7 (2.87%) Web Services
12 6 (2.46%) JMS
12 6 (2.46%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.34%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.92%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.92%) Public Cloud
3 8 (3.28%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.87%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (2.87%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.46%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.64%) Derivative
7 4 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.64%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.23%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.23%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.23%) IVR
8 3 (1.23%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.82%) Equities
9 2 (0.82%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.82%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.70%) Linux
2 19 (7.79%) Unix
3 9 (3.69%) Windows
4 6 (2.46%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.05%) Solaris
6 4 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.23%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.82%) Android
9 1 (0.41%) CentOS
9 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (76.64%) CI/CD
2 149 (61.07%) DevOps
3 100 (40.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (33.20%) Agile
4 81 (33.20%) Containerisation
5 55 (22.54%) Test Automation
6 43 (17.62%) Microservices
7 41 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (15.16%) Infrastructure Automation
9 32 (13.11%) DevSecOps
10 30 (12.30%) Migration
11 29 (11.89%) Software Engineering
12 24 (9.84%) Observability
13 21 (8.61%) SDLC
14 19 (7.79%) TDD
15 18 (7.38%) Scrum
16 16 (6.56%) High Availability
16 16 (6.56%) Mentoring
17 15 (6.15%) Stakeholder Management
17 15 (6.15%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 110 (45.08%) Python
2 52 (21.31%) Java
3 51 (20.90%) SQL
4 44 (18.03%) Bash
5 32 (13.11%) JavaScript
6 19 (7.79%) PowerShell
7 15 (6.15%) Go
8 14 (5.74%) C#
8 14 (5.74%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.87%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.05%) C
10 5 (2.05%) Korn
11 3 (1.23%) C++
12 2 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.82%) Rust
12 2 (0.82%) Swift
13 1 (0.41%) Groovy
13 1 (0.41%) Perl
13 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.41%) XPath
Qualifications
1 66 (27.05%) Security Cleared
2 57 (23.36%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.10%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.69%) Degree
5 8 (3.28%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.64%) CISSP
8 3 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.23%) CISM
8 3 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.82%) CCNP
9 2 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.82%) GPEN
9 2 (0.82%) GWAPT
9 2 (0.82%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.82%) OCA
9 2 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.82%) OSCP
10 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (15.16%) QA
2 9 (3.69%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.87%) GDPR
4 4 (1.64%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.23%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.23%) NCSC
6 2 (0.82%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.82%) NIST
6 2 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.82%) WCAG
7 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.41%) SLA
7 1 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 106 (43.44%) Docker
2 8 (3.28%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.23%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.82%) Firmware
4 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 118 (48.36%) Terraform
2 116 (47.54%) Kubernetes
3 58 (23.77%) Ansible
4 21 (8.61%) Grafana
5 18 (7.38%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.10%) Argo
6 10 (4.10%) Puppet
7 8 (3.28%) Istio
8 3 (1.23%) Fluentd
8 3 (1.23%) HP Fortify
8 3 (1.23%) Nessus
8 3 (1.23%) Packer
8 3 (1.23%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.82%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.82%) linkerd
9 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.41%) Rancher
10 1 (0.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (7.79%) Google
2 18 (7.38%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.56%) Splunk
4 12 (4.92%) Oracle
4 12 (4.92%) Palo Alto
5 11 (4.51%) Cisco
6 10 (4.10%) Databricks
6 10 (4.10%) F5
7 8 (3.28%) Atlassian
7 8 (3.28%) CheckPoint
8 6 (2.46%) IBM
8 6 (2.46%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.46%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.05%) Aruba
10 4 (1.64%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.64%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.23%) Juniper
11 3 (1.23%) Qualys
11 3 (1.23%) SAP
11 3 (1.23%) VMware