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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 128 207
Rank change year-on-year +2 +79 -26
Contract jobs citing GitLab 310 287 197
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.16% 2.05% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.92% 14.72% 8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 194 157
10th Percentile £375 £368 £425
25th Percentile £447 £461 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £573
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.80% -11.92%
75th Percentile £636 £688 £675
90th Percentile £700 £738 £800
England median daily rate £513 £570 £558
% change year-on-year -10.09% +2.24% -6.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £74.44 £60.00
% change year-on-year -26.11% +24.07% -22.58%

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 2,227 1,950 2,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.53% 13.92% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,523 1,268 1,715
10th Percentile £356 £344 £400
25th Percentile £425 £417 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -6.26% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 20
10th Percentile £42.55 £22.25 £25.71
25th Percentile £43.00 £25.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 £48.75 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.90% - -15.22%
75th Percentile £110.00 £77.19 £70.00
90th Percentile - £87.88 £73.66
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 18 January 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 18 January 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 -11 31 £538 -10.42% 18
South London -1 5 £530 -35.37% 4
East London -3 1 £450 -9.09% 2
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 (9.35%) Confluence
2 8 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.61%) nginx
5 3 (0.97%) Appian
5 3 (0.97%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.97%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.65%) Apache
6 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.65%) SAS
7 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.32%) FileNet
7 1 (0.32%) Luigi
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.32%) Actimize
2 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.32%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.32%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.32%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 187 (60.32%) AWS
2 103 (33.23%) Azure
3 93 (30.00%) GitHub
4 66 (21.29%) GCP
5 59 (19.03%) Amazon S3
6 57 (18.39%) GitHub Actions
7 53 (17.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 51 (16.45%) Serverless
9 47 (15.16%) Amazon EC2
9 47 (15.16%) AWS Lambda
10 41 (13.23%) Amazon EKS
11 34 (10.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 33 (10.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 30 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
14 25 (8.06%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (6.13%) Datadog
16 16 (5.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 16 (5.16%) Snowflake
17 15 (4.84%) Azure AKS
18 13 (4.19%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.81%) DNS
1 18 (5.81%) Firewall
2 15 (4.84%) VPN
3 14 (4.52%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.90%) Network Security
4 9 (2.90%) SSL
5 5 (1.61%) OpenLDAP
5 5 (1.61%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.61%) WAN
6 4 (1.29%) BGP
6 4 (1.29%) Multicast
6 4 (1.29%) VXLAN
7 3 (0.97%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.97%) OSPF
7 3 (0.97%) VSAN
8 2 (0.65%) Calico
8 2 (0.65%) HTTP
8 2 (0.65%) IPv6
9 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (8.71%) NoSQL
3 24 (7.74%) MongoDB
4 18 (5.81%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (4.19%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (4.19%) Data Lake
6 10 (3.23%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.23%) Power BI
7 9 (2.90%) MySQL
8 8 (2.58%) Big Data
8 8 (2.58%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.58%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (2.26%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.26%) Spark SQL
10 6 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.94%) Redis
11 4 (1.29%) DocumentDB
11 4 (1.29%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.97%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 133 (42.90%) Jenkins
2 61 (19.68%) Git
3 51 (16.45%) JIRA
4 21 (6.77%) Selenium
5 19 (6.13%) Maven
6 15 (4.84%) Cucumber
7 14 (4.52%) JUnit
7 14 (4.52%) SonarQube
8 13 (4.19%) Postman
9 12 (3.87%) JMeter
10 11 (3.55%) Bitbucket
11 10 (3.23%) Cypress.io
11 10 (3.23%) Gradle
11 10 (3.23%) TeamCity
12 9 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (2.26%) Gatling
13 7 (2.26%) Mockito
13 7 (2.26%) Robot Framework
14 6 (1.94%) Appium
14 6 (1.94%) Terragrunt
General
1 75 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 56 (18.06%) Finance
3 38 (12.26%) Banking
4 31 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.23%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.26%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.94%) Retail
9 4 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.29%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.97%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.97%) Military
11 2 (0.65%) Front Office
11 2 (0.65%) Games
11 2 (0.65%) Marketing
12 1 (0.32%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Local Government
12 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (24.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 65 (20.97%) Developer
3 56 (18.06%) Senior
4 32 (10.32%) AWS Engineer
5 30 (9.68%) AWS DevOps
6 29 (9.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 18 (5.81%) Architect
7 18 (5.81%) Lead
8 17 (5.48%) Senior DevOps
8 17 (5.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 16 (5.16%) Java Developer
10 15 (4.84%) Data Engineer
11 14 (4.52%) Test Engineer
12 12 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (3.87%) Test Automation Engineer
13 11 (3.55%) GCP Engineer
13 11 (3.55%) Python Engineer
13 11 (3.55%) Senior Developer
14 10 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
15 9 (2.90%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (17.42%) Kafka
2 39 (12.58%) Spring
3 36 (11.61%) Spring Boot
4 30 (9.68%) React
5 28 (9.03%) Node.js
6 26 (8.39%) REST
7 22 (7.10%) RESTful
8 19 (6.13%) Playwright
9 18 (5.81%) HTML
10 17 (5.48%) AngularJS
11 15 (4.84%) CSS
12 14 (4.52%) OpenTelemetry
12 14 (4.52%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (3.55%) OAuth
13 11 (3.55%) PySpark
14 10 (3.23%) OAuth2
14 10 (3.23%) OpenID
15 9 (2.90%) gRPC
16 8 (2.58%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 58 (18.71%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.19%) Public Cloud
5 9 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.26%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.94%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.61%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.61%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.29%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.29%) DataPower
9 4 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.29%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.29%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.97%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.97%) Blockchain
10 3 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 47 (15.16%) Linux
2 10 (3.23%) Unix
3 9 (2.90%) Windows
4 6 (1.94%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.61%) Android
6 4 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.97%) Solaris
8 2 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.65%) VMS
8 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (79.03%) CI/CD
2 194 (62.58%) DevOps
3 124 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (30.97%) Agile
5 83 (26.77%) Containerisation
6 72 (23.23%) Test Automation
7 67 (21.61%) Microservices
8 59 (19.03%) Observability
9 52 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (10.97%) Software Engineering
11 33 (10.65%) Infrastructure Automation
12 30 (9.68%) Analytics
12 30 (9.68%) Migration
12 30 (9.68%) Scrum
13 29 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (9.35%) DevSecOps
14 27 (8.71%) Performance Tuning
15 25 (8.06%) Event-Driven
16 23 (7.42%) Data Engineering
16 23 (7.42%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 148 (47.74%) Python
2 86 (27.74%) Java
3 69 (22.26%) SQL
4 61 (19.68%) Bash
5 43 (13.87%) JavaScript
6 27 (8.71%) TypeScript
7 23 (7.42%) PowerShell
8 21 (6.77%) Go
9 12 (3.87%) C#
10 8 (2.58%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.26%) Korn
12 4 (1.29%) Bicep
12 4 (1.29%) C
12 4 (1.29%) Ruby
12 4 (1.29%) Rust
13 3 (0.97%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.65%) Perl
14 2 (0.65%) Swift
15 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 79 (25.48%) Security Cleared
2 69 (22.26%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.55%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.94%) Degree
6 5 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.61%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.97%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.65%) CISSP
9 2 (0.65%) GPEN
9 2 (0.65%) GWAPT
9 2 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.65%) OCA
9 2 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.65%) OSCP
10 1 (0.32%) CCNP
10 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (17.10%) QA
2 15 (4.84%) Accessibility
3 14 (4.52%) GDPR
4 13 (4.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.94%) NIST
5 6 (1.94%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.97%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.65%) HL7
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.32%) MiFID
8 1 (0.32%) NCSC
8 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 148 (47.74%) Docker
2 8 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.97%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.65%) vSphere
5 1 (0.32%) HDFS
5 1 (0.32%) Squid
Systems Management
1 156 (50.32%) Kubernetes
2 151 (48.71%) Terraform
3 65 (20.97%) Ansible
4 36 (11.61%) Grafana
5 35 (11.29%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.84%) Argo
7 13 (4.19%) Istio
8 7 (2.26%) Karpenter
8 7 (2.26%) Puppet
9 4 (1.29%) Kibana
10 3 (0.97%) Fluentd
10 3 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.97%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.97%) Rancher
11 2 (0.65%) linkerd
11 2 (0.65%) Nagios
11 2 (0.65%) Packer
11 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.32%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 31 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.10%) Splunk
3 21 (6.77%) Google
4 15 (4.84%) Oracle
5 11 (3.55%) Atlassian
5 11 (3.55%) Cisco
6 10 (3.23%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.90%) Databricks
7 9 (2.90%) F5
8 8 (2.58%) CheckPoint
8 8 (2.58%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.94%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.94%) IBM
9 6 (1.94%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.61%) Arista
10 5 (1.61%) Aruba
11 4 (1.29%) Cloudera
11 4 (1.29%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.29%) Veracode
12 3 (0.97%) MuleSoft