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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 125 215
Rank change year-on-year -14 +90 -31
Contract jobs citing GitLab 332 282 193
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.97% 2.23% 1.07%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.76% 15.74% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 182 151
10th Percentile £371 £368 £400
25th Percentile £447 £440 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £725
90th Percentile £698 £738 £800
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 £55.00 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -33.70% +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 2,413 1,792 2,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.32% 14.19% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,623 1,225 1,636
10th Percentile £355 £345 £363
25th Percentile £421 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 22
10th Percentile - £22.93 £22.30
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £25.60
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -23.81% -31.52%
75th Percentile £74.63 £67.50 £63.44
90th Percentile £95.00 £84.00 £71.13
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -12 35 £519 -5.72% 17
South London -10 10 £513 -37.50%
East London -5 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 23 (6.93%) Confluence
2 12 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.11%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.81%) nginx
5 4 (1.20%) CICS
6 3 (0.90%) Apache
6 3 (0.90%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.90%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.60%) SAS
8 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.30%) CMS
8 1 (0.30%) FileNet
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Actimize
1 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 217 (65.36%) AWS
2 114 (34.34%) GitHub
3 103 (31.02%) Azure
4 70 (21.08%) Amazon S3
5 69 (20.78%) Serverless
6 65 (19.58%) GCP
6 65 (19.58%) GitHub Actions
7 61 (18.37%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (16.57%) Amazon EKS
9 54 (16.27%) Amazon EC2
10 49 (14.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 43 (12.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 38 (11.45%) Azure DevOps
13 37 (11.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 30 (9.04%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (5.12%) Snowflake
16 16 (4.82%) Datadog
17 15 (4.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 13 (3.92%) Power Platform
18 13 (3.92%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.22%) DNS
2 13 (3.92%) Firewall
3 10 (3.01%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.71%) VPN
5 5 (1.51%) Multicast
5 5 (1.51%) Network Security
5 5 (1.51%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.51%) WAN
6 4 (1.20%) VSAN
7 3 (0.90%) BGP
7 3 (0.90%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.90%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.60%) Calico
8 2 (0.60%) HTTP
8 2 (0.60%) IPv6
8 2 (0.60%) NAS
8 2 (0.60%) OSPF
8 2 (0.60%) SAN
8 2 (0.60%) SSL
9 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (7.53%) NoSQL
3 22 (6.63%) MongoDB
4 20 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (4.52%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (4.52%) DynamoDB
6 12 (3.61%) Big Data
6 12 (3.61%) Relational Database
7 11 (3.31%) Data Lake
7 11 (3.31%) Power BI
8 10 (3.01%) Spark SQL
9 9 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.41%) Apache Cassandra
10 8 (2.41%) MySQL
11 7 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (2.11%) BigQuery
11 7 (2.11%) DB2
11 7 (2.11%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.81%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 163 (49.10%) Jenkins
2 64 (19.28%) Git
3 42 (12.65%) JIRA
4 20 (6.02%) Selenium
5 17 (5.12%) JUnit
6 16 (4.82%) Bitbucket
6 16 (4.82%) Cucumber
6 16 (4.82%) Postman
7 13 (3.92%) JMeter
7 13 (3.92%) Mockito
8 7 (2.11%) Appium
8 7 (2.11%) CircleCI
8 7 (2.11%) Gatling
8 7 (2.11%) Maven
8 7 (2.11%) REST Assured
8 7 (2.11%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.81%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.81%) Robot Framework
9 6 (1.81%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 87 (26.20%) Social Skills
2 68 (20.48%) Finance
3 53 (15.96%) Banking
4 48 (14.46%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.01%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.11%) Retail
8 6 (1.81%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.90%) Marketing
11 2 (0.60%) Military
11 2 (0.60%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.30%) Games
12 1 (0.30%) Law
12 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 74 (22.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 60 (18.07%) Developer
3 52 (15.66%) Senior
4 38 (11.45%) AWS Engineer
5 32 (9.64%) AWS DevOps
6 30 (9.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 27 (8.13%) Lead
8 22 (6.63%) Architect
8 22 (6.63%) Data Engineer
9 19 (5.72%) Test Engineer
10 17 (5.12%) Java Developer
11 14 (4.22%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (3.92%) Test Automation Engineer
13 12 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.61%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (3.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.31%) GCP Engineer
15 10 (3.01%) Python Engineer
16 9 (2.71%) Automation Engineer
17 8 (2.41%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (15.66%) Kafka
2 43 (12.95%) Spring
3 41 (12.35%) Spring Boot
4 37 (11.14%) React
5 28 (8.43%) REST
6 26 (7.83%) Node.js
6 26 (7.83%) RESTful
7 20 (6.02%) AngularJS
7 20 (6.02%) Playwright
8 19 (5.72%) HTML
9 18 (5.42%) CSS
9 18 (5.42%) PySpark
10 17 (5.12%) OpenTelemetry
11 16 (4.82%) RabbitMQ
12 14 (4.22%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (3.92%) YAML
14 12 (3.61%) OAuth
15 10 (3.01%) gRPC
15 10 (3.01%) Spring Cloud
16 9 (2.71%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 57 (17.17%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.72%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (5.72%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.12%) Public Cloud
4 12 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (3.01%) Mainframe
6 9 (2.71%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.41%) DataPower
7 8 (2.41%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.51%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.51%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.51%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.20%) NHS
10 3 (0.90%) Blockchain
10 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.90%) Online Banking
10 3 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (15.66%) Linux
2 11 (3.31%) Windows
3 8 (2.41%) Unix
4 6 (1.81%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.81%) zOS
5 5 (1.51%) Android
6 4 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.90%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.60%) VMS
9 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (79.52%) CI/CD
2 198 (59.64%) DevOps
3 129 (38.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (30.12%) Agile
5 95 (28.61%) Containerisation
6 84 (25.30%) Test Automation
7 73 (21.99%) Observability
8 69 (20.78%) Microservices
9 53 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (10.54%) Performance Tuning
11 35 (10.54%) Scrum
12 32 (9.64%) Platform Engineering
13 31 (9.34%) Analytics
14 30 (9.04%) AI
15 27 (8.13%) Data Engineering
15 27 (8.13%) ETL
15 27 (8.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 27 (8.13%) Software Engineering
16 26 (7.83%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 172 (51.81%) Python
2 94 (28.31%) Java
3 79 (23.80%) SQL
4 60 (18.07%) Bash
5 38 (11.45%) JavaScript
6 29 (8.73%) TypeScript
7 22 (6.63%) PowerShell
8 15 (4.52%) Go
9 13 (3.92%) Shell Script
10 12 (3.61%) C#
11 10 (3.01%) Bicep
12 7 (2.11%) Ruby
13 6 (1.81%) Korn
14 5 (1.51%) C
15 3 (0.90%) JCL
15 3 (0.90%) Rust
16 2 (0.60%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.60%) Perl
16 2 (0.60%) Swift
16 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (29.52%) Security Cleared
2 84 (25.30%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.52%) AWS Certification
4 9 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.41%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.81%) Degree
7 5 (1.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.51%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.90%) CISSP
8 3 (0.90%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.30%) CCNP
9 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.30%) CISM
9 1 (0.30%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.30%) GIAC
9 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (15.06%) QA
2 17 (5.12%) Accessibility
3 15 (4.52%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (3.61%) GDPR
6 6 (1.81%) NIST
6 6 (1.81%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.90%) SLA
9 2 (0.60%) HL7
9 2 (0.60%) WCAG
10 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.30%) MiFID
10 1 (0.30%) NCSC
10 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 167 (50.30%) Docker
2 5 (1.51%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.90%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.60%) vSphere
6 1 (0.30%) HDFS
6 1 (0.30%) Squid
Systems Management
1 168 (50.60%) Terraform
2 161 (48.49%) Kubernetes
3 63 (18.98%) Ansible
4 50 (15.06%) Prometheus
5 47 (14.16%) Grafana
6 19 (5.72%) Argo
7 12 (3.61%) Istio
8 9 (2.71%) Puppet
9 8 (2.41%) Progress Chef
10 7 (2.11%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.20%) Kibana
12 3 (0.90%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.60%) Fluentd
13 2 (0.60%) Nagios
13 2 (0.60%) Packer
13 2 (0.60%) Rancher
13 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.30%) CA Endevor
14 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 32 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.33%) Splunk
3 19 (5.72%) Google
4 11 (3.31%) Databricks
4 11 (3.31%) Oracle
5 10 (3.01%) IBM
6 8 (2.41%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.41%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.11%) Cisco
7 7 (2.11%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.81%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.81%) VMware
9 5 (1.51%) Aruba
10 4 (1.20%) Arista
10 4 (1.20%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.20%) Sybase
10 4 (1.20%) Veracode
11 3 (0.90%) Adobe
11 3 (0.90%) Optimizely
11 3 (0.90%) SAP