GitLab Contracts in London

GitLab
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 195 229
Rank change year-on-year +51 +34 -64
Contract jobs citing GitLab 250 225 292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.88% 1.28% 1.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.26% 9.10% 7.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 167 195
10th Percentile £406 £350 £435
25th Percentile £445 £459 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £573 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% -4.58% -4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £681
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
England median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% -3.44%

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 2,039 2,472 4,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.35% 14.03% 15.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,371 1,753 2,939
10th Percentile £350 £363 £406
25th Percentile £420 £450 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £669 £713
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 25 37
10th Percentile £25.52 £23.30 £49.25
25th Percentile £32.13 £25.99 £54.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -50.00% +68.54%
75th Percentile £59.69 £71.25 £82.50
90th Percentile £69.63 £71.63 £90.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +18.60%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in London

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in London.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in London

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in London

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in London.

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in London

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 5 July 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 33 £513 -10.87% 67
South London +4 8 £579 +41.16% 8
East London +13 2 £250 -44.44% 3
West London +9 1 - - 10
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 9 (3.60%) Confluence
2 5 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.00%) nginx
3 4 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.20%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.80%) Apache
5 2 (0.80%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.40%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.40%) CICS
6 1 (0.40%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 119 (47.60%) AWS
2 103 (41.20%) Azure
3 51 (20.40%) GitHub
4 45 (18.00%) GCP
5 39 (15.60%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (9.60%) Amazon S3
7 20 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (7.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (7.60%) Serverless
9 15 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (5.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (4.80%) PaaS
12 11 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (4.40%) Power Platform
12 11 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (4.00%) Azure AKS
14 8 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (3.20%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (2.80%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.60%) Firewall
2 6 (2.40%) Network Security
2 6 (2.40%) WAN
3 5 (2.00%) LAN
3 5 (2.00%) VPN
4 4 (1.60%) BGP
4 4 (1.60%) HTTP
4 4 (1.60%) Multicast
5 3 (1.20%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (1.20%) DNS
5 3 (1.20%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (1.20%) OSPF
5 3 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (1.20%) SNMP
5 3 (1.20%) SSH
5 3 (1.20%) Telnet
5 3 (1.20%) VXLAN
5 3 (1.20%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.80%) MPLS
6 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.80%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.60%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (5.20%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 10 (4.00%) MySQL
5 9 (3.60%) Big Data
5 9 (3.60%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.60%) Power BI
5 9 (3.60%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.60%) Apache Hive
7 4 (1.60%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.60%) HPCC
7 4 (1.60%) Tableau
8 3 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.20%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 103 (41.20%) Jenkins
2 40 (16.00%) Git
3 17 (6.80%) JIRA
4 13 (5.20%) Gradle
5 12 (4.80%) Selenium
6 11 (4.40%) Bitbucket
7 10 (4.00%) CircleCI
7 10 (4.00%) JUnit
7 10 (4.00%) Liquibase
7 10 (4.00%) SonarQube
7 10 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (4.00%) TeamCity
8 9 (3.60%) Maven
9 8 (3.20%) Postman
10 6 (2.40%) Appium
10 6 (2.40%) Mockito
10 6 (2.40%) SpecFlow
11 5 (2.00%) Cypress.io
11 5 (2.00%) JMeter
11 5 (2.00%) SoapUI
General
1 53 (21.20%) Social Skills
2 40 (16.00%) Finance
3 29 (11.60%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.20%) Banking
5 13 (5.20%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.60%) Marketing
8 6 (2.40%) Electronics
8 6 (2.40%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.20%) Retail
10 2 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) iGaming
11 1 (0.40%) Law
11 1 (0.40%) Military
11 1 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 70 (28.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (17.20%) Developer
3 37 (14.80%) Senior
4 32 (12.80%) AWS Engineer
5 24 (9.60%) AWS DevOps
6 22 (8.80%) Architect
6 22 (8.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 20 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (5.60%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (5.60%) Java Engineer
9 13 (5.20%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.80%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.40%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (4.40%) Network Engineer
11 11 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (4.40%) Test Engineer
12 10 (4.00%) Consultant
12 10 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (3.60%) Senior DevOps
14 8 (3.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.80%) Spring
2 17 (6.80%) React
3 16 (6.40%) JSON
4 15 (6.00%) Spring Boot
5 14 (5.60%) Kafka
6 13 (5.20%) REST
7 12 (4.80%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (4.80%) HTML
7 12 (4.80%) Node.js
7 12 (4.80%) RESTful
8 10 (4.00%) XML
9 8 (3.20%) CSS
9 8 (3.20%) Playwright
10 7 (2.80%) OpenAPI
10 7 (2.80%) Swagger
11 6 (2.40%) SOAP
11 6 (2.40%) Web Services
12 5 (2.00%) .NET
13 4 (1.60%) Django
13 4 (1.60%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 12 (4.80%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.40%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.60%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.00%) Hedge funds
7 5 (2.00%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.00%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.20%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.20%) Replication
9 2 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.80%) IVR
9 2 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.80%) PKI
9 2 (0.80%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.80%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.00%) Linux
2 13 (5.20%) Unix
2 13 (5.20%) Windows
3 7 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.00%) Android
5 4 (1.60%) CentOS
5 4 (1.60%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.20%) Rocky
6 3 (1.20%) Solaris
7 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.80%) SUSE
8 1 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (68.00%) CI/CD
2 146 (58.40%) DevOps
3 86 (34.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 79 (31.60%) Containerisation
5 57 (22.80%) Agile
6 44 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (16.00%) Microservices
8 36 (14.40%) Infrastructure Automation
9 34 (13.60%) Software Engineering
9 34 (13.60%) Test Automation
10 33 (13.20%) Configuration Management
11 32 (12.80%) Migration
12 22 (8.80%) Mentoring
13 20 (8.00%) DevSecOps
13 20 (8.00%) Observability
14 19 (7.60%) TDD
15 18 (7.20%) Cloud Security
15 18 (7.20%) Event-Driven
15 18 (7.20%) SDLC
16 17 (6.80%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 106 (42.40%) Python
2 62 (24.80%) Java
3 37 (14.80%) Bash
3 37 (14.80%) SQL
4 31 (12.40%) JavaScript
5 23 (9.20%) PowerShell
6 21 (8.40%) C#
7 20 (8.00%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.60%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.20%) Go
10 7 (2.80%) C++
10 7 (2.80%) Ruby
11 5 (2.00%) C
11 5 (2.00%) PHP
12 4 (1.60%) Scala
13 2 (0.80%) Groovy
13 2 (0.80%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.80%) Perl
13 2 (0.80%) VB
13 2 (0.80%) VB6
Qualifications
1 76 (30.40%) Security Cleared
2 64 (25.60%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.60%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.80%) Degree
5 9 (3.60%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.60%) SANS
9 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.80%) CISM
10 2 (0.80%) CISSP
10 2 (0.80%) JNCIA
10 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.80%) OCP
10 2 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.40%) CCIE
11 1 (0.40%) CCNP
11 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.40%) RHCE
11 1 (0.40%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.20%) QA
2 4 (1.60%) GDPR
3 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.20%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.20%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.20%) SLA
4 2 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.80%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.80%) NCSC
4 2 (0.80%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.40%) NIST
5 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 86 (34.40%) Docker
2 3 (1.20%) FreeRADIUS
2 3 (1.20%) iptables
2 3 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.80%) Firmware
3 2 (0.80%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 118 (47.20%) Terraform
2 98 (39.20%) Kubernetes
3 66 (26.40%) Ansible
4 28 (11.20%) Prometheus
5 26 (10.40%) Grafana
6 21 (8.40%) Puppet
7 12 (4.80%) Argo
8 7 (2.80%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.00%) Nagios
9 5 (2.00%) Podman
10 4 (1.60%) Istio
10 4 (1.60%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.20%) Cacti
11 3 (1.20%) Consul
11 3 (1.20%) HP Fortify
11 3 (1.20%) logstash
11 3 (1.20%) Nessus
11 3 (1.20%) Netcool
11 3 (1.20%) Proxmox
11 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (7.60%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.00%) Splunk
3 14 (5.60%) SAP
4 13 (5.20%) Google
5 12 (4.80%) Databricks
6 11 (4.40%) Cisco
7 8 (3.20%) Oracle
8 7 (2.80%) VMware
9 6 (2.40%) F5
9 6 (2.40%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.40%) Virgin Media
10 5 (2.00%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.60%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.60%) Cloudera
11 4 (1.60%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.60%) Informatica
11 4 (1.60%) Juniper
11 4 (1.60%) Talend
12 3 (1.20%) Nokia
12 3 (1.20%) Veracode