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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 130 223
Rank change year-on-year -25 +93 -46
Contract jobs citing GitLab 266 302 210
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.88% 1.92% 1.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.65% 13.92% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 208 163
10th Percentile £377 £363 £413
25th Percentile £445 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -12.11%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -9.46% -7.50% +45.45%

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 2,284 2,170 2,743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.13% 13.81% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,566 1,429 2,019
10th Percentile £350 £356 £400
25th Percentile £425 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 29
10th Percentile £39.95 £26.54 £29.15
25th Percentile £42.50 £33.87 £41.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £49.47 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -10.06% +4.76%
75th Percentile £88.75 £68.80 £73.65
90th Percentile £110.00 £83.13 £79.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

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 21 November 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 21 November 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 -15 28 £538 -10.42% 35
South London -3 4 £655 - 2
East London +2 1 £450 - 3
West London -15 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 31 (11.65%) Confluence
2 7 (2.63%) nginx
3 6 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.50%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.13%) Appian
5 3 (1.13%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.13%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.75%) SAS
6 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.38%) Apache
7 1 (0.38%) CICS
7 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.38%) Luigi
7 1 (0.38%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.38%) Mule
7 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.38%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.38%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.38%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 153 (57.52%) AWS
2 109 (40.98%) Azure
3 89 (33.46%) GitHub
4 63 (23.68%) GCP
5 45 (16.92%) GitHub Actions
6 38 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 35 (13.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 34 (12.78%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (12.41%) Amazon EC2
10 31 (11.65%) Serverless
11 29 (10.90%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 21 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 15 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (5.64%) Azure AKS
14 14 (5.26%) Datadog
14 14 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 10 (3.76%) Snowflake
16 9 (3.38%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.89%) Firewall
2 17 (6.39%) VPN
3 13 (4.89%) TCP/IP
4 12 (4.51%) DNS
5 11 (4.14%) Network Security
6 8 (3.01%) SSL
7 7 (2.63%) WAN
8 5 (1.88%) BGP
8 5 (1.88%) OpenLDAP
8 5 (1.88%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.50%) Ethernet VPN
9 4 (1.50%) VXLAN
10 3 (1.13%) Multicast
10 3 (1.13%) OSPF
11 2 (0.75%) IPsec
11 2 (0.75%) LAN
11 2 (0.75%) MPLS
11 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.75%) VLAN
12 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.02%) MongoDB
1 24 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (8.27%) NoSQL
3 17 (6.39%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (4.14%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.38%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (3.38%) Big Data
6 7 (2.63%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.26%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.88%) HPCC
8 5 (1.88%) Power BI
9 4 (1.50%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.13%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.13%) MySQL
10 3 (1.13%) Redis
11 2 (0.75%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.75%) DB2
11 2 (0.75%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.75%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 109 (40.98%) Jenkins
2 55 (20.68%) Git
3 49 (18.42%) JIRA
4 23 (8.65%) Maven
5 19 (7.14%) SonarQube
6 17 (6.39%) Selenium
7 16 (6.02%) Gradle
8 14 (5.26%) Bitbucket
9 13 (4.89%) Cypress.io
10 12 (4.51%) Cucumber
11 11 (4.14%) Postman
11 11 (4.14%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (3.76%) TeamCity
13 9 (3.38%) JMeter
13 9 (3.38%) JUnit
14 7 (2.63%) Gatling
14 7 (2.63%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.88%) Artifactory
16 4 (1.50%) Appium
16 4 (1.50%) CircleCI
General
1 63 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 40 (15.04%) Finance
3 30 (11.28%) Banking
4 23 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.89%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.14%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.01%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.50%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.13%) Front Office
10 3 (1.13%) Military
11 2 (0.75%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.75%) Games
11 2 (0.75%) Marketing
12 1 (0.38%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.38%) iGaming
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 65 (24.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (19.55%) Developer
3 45 (16.92%) Senior
4 26 (9.77%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (8.65%) AWS DevOps
6 21 (7.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 17 (6.39%) Azure Engineer
7 17 (6.39%) Lead
7 17 (6.39%) Senior DevOps
7 17 (6.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 14 (5.26%) Java Developer
9 12 (4.51%) Consultant
9 12 (4.51%) Senior Developer
9 12 (4.51%) Test Engineer
10 11 (4.14%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.76%) Architect
11 10 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (3.76%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.38%) Test Automation Engineer
13 8 (3.01%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (14.29%) Kafka
2 24 (9.02%) Node.js
3 23 (8.65%) REST
4 20 (7.52%) React
5 19 (7.14%) Spring
6 17 (6.39%) Playwright
7 16 (6.02%) Spring Boot
8 14 (5.26%) HTML
9 12 (4.51%) JSON
9 12 (4.51%) RESTful
10 11 (4.14%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (3.76%) XML
12 8 (3.01%) .NET
12 8 (3.01%) CSS
12 8 (3.01%) OAuth
13 7 (2.63%) Middleware
13 7 (2.63%) OAuth2
13 7 (2.63%) YAML
14 6 (2.26%) JMS
14 6 (2.26%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.14%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.14%) Public Cloud
3 10 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.01%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.63%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.26%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.88%) DataPower
9 4 (1.50%) Derivative
9 4 (1.50%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.50%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.50%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.50%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.13%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.13%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 40 (15.04%) Linux
2 18 (6.77%) Unix
3 9 (3.38%) Windows
4 6 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.88%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.88%) Solaris
6 4 (1.50%) Android
6 4 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.38%) CentOS
7 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.38%) VMS
7 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (77.82%) CI/CD
2 168 (63.16%) DevOps
3 107 (40.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 88 (33.08%) Agile
5 86 (32.33%) Containerisation
6 61 (22.93%) Test Automation
7 51 (19.17%) Microservices
7 51 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (13.91%) Infrastructure Automation
9 33 (12.41%) DevSecOps
10 31 (11.65%) Software Engineering
11 29 (10.90%) Migration
11 29 (10.90%) Observability
12 26 (9.77%) Scrum
13 22 (8.27%) SDLC
13 22 (8.27%) TDD
14 21 (7.89%) High Availability
15 20 (7.52%) Continuous Improvement
16 19 (7.14%) Mentoring
17 18 (6.77%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 127 (47.74%) Python
2 66 (24.81%) Java
3 52 (19.55%) SQL
4 50 (18.80%) Bash
5 35 (13.16%) JavaScript
6 22 (8.27%) TypeScript
7 20 (7.52%) PowerShell
8 16 (6.02%) C#
8 16 (6.02%) Go
9 10 (3.76%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.26%) Korn
11 5 (1.88%) C
12 3 (1.13%) C++
13 2 (0.75%) Bicep
13 2 (0.75%) Perl
13 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.75%) Ruby
13 2 (0.75%) Rust
13 2 (0.75%) Swift
14 1 (0.38%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 73 (27.44%) Security Cleared
2 62 (23.31%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.14%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.76%) Degree
6 8 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.50%) CISSP
10 3 (1.13%) CISM
10 3 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.75%) CCNP
11 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.75%) GPEN
11 2 (0.75%) GWAPT
11 2 (0.75%) JNCIA
11 2 (0.75%) OCA
11 2 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.75%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (16.54%) QA
2 10 (3.76%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.26%) GDPR
4 3 (1.13%) NCSC
4 3 (1.13%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.75%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.75%) NIST
5 2 (0.75%) WCAG
6 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.38%) HL7
6 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.38%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 118 (44.36%) Docker
2 9 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.13%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.75%) Firmware
4 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 130 (48.87%) Terraform
2 126 (47.37%) Kubernetes
3 59 (22.18%) Ansible
4 25 (9.40%) Grafana
5 21 (7.89%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.26%) Argo
7 9 (3.38%) Puppet
8 8 (3.01%) Istio
9 3 (1.13%) Fluentd
9 3 (1.13%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.13%) Packer
9 3 (1.13%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.75%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.75%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.75%) linkerd
10 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.75%) Nessus
10 2 (0.75%) Rancher
Vendors
1 20 (7.52%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.14%) Google
3 17 (6.39%) Splunk
4 14 (5.26%) Oracle
5 12 (4.51%) Palo Alto
6 11 (4.14%) Atlassian
6 11 (4.14%) Cisco
7 10 (3.76%) F5
8 9 (3.38%) IBM
9 8 (3.01%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.26%) Databricks
10 6 (2.26%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.88%) Aruba
11 5 (1.88%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.50%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.50%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.50%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.50%) Veracode
13 3 (1.13%) Qualys
13 3 (1.13%) VMware