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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 122 208
Rank change year-on-year -10 +86 -25
Contract jobs citing GitLab 321 298 190
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.12% 2.19% 1.04%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.01% 15.42% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 202 153
10th Percentile £375 £370 £415
25th Percentile £438 £460 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £587 £573
Median % change year-on-year -10.52% +2.49% -11.92%
75th Percentile £619 £688 £700
90th Percentile £711 £738 £800
England median daily rate £511 £565 £563
% change year-on-year -9.51% +0.44% -4.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £79.72 £67.50
% change year-on-year -31.01% +18.10% +10.20%

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 2,291 1,933 2,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.10% 14.22% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,557 1,254 1,709
10th Percentile £356 £345 £375
25th Percentile £421 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £535 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.24% -5.31% -5.83%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £728 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £510 £535
% change year-on-year -1.96% -4.67% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 20
10th Percentile £55.60 £22.25 £25.71
25th Percentile £74.50 £25.63 £31.60
Median hourly rate £90.00 £48.75 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% +18.18% -28.26%
75th Percentile £98.75 £77.19 £57.81
90th Percentile £105.50 £87.88 £72.17
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -27 26 £519 -10.75% 20
South London -9 5 £530 -35.37% 1
East London +1 1 £450 -9.09% 3
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 (8.10%) Confluence
2 8 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.56%) nginx
5 3 (0.93%) Appian
5 3 (0.93%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.93%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.62%) Apache
6 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.62%) SAS
7 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.31%) CICS
7 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.31%) FileNet
7 1 (0.31%) Luigi
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.31%) Actimize
2 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.31%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.31%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.31%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 196 (61.06%) AWS
2 103 (32.09%) Azure
3 90 (28.04%) GitHub
4 63 (19.63%) GCP
5 57 (17.76%) Amazon S3
6 53 (16.51%) GitHub Actions
6 53 (16.51%) Serverless
7 48 (14.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 48 (14.95%) AWS Lambda
8 44 (13.71%) Amazon EKS
9 43 (13.40%) Amazon EC2
10 35 (10.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 33 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (9.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 28 (8.72%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (4.98%) Snowflake
15 15 (4.67%) Datadog
16 14 (4.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 13 (4.05%) Route 53
18 12 (3.74%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.61%) DNS
2 17 (5.30%) Firewall
3 15 (4.67%) TCP/IP
4 13 (4.05%) VPN
5 7 (2.18%) Network Security
5 7 (2.18%) SSL
6 5 (1.56%) Multicast
6 5 (1.56%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.56%) WAN
7 3 (0.93%) BGP
7 3 (0.93%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.93%) VSAN
7 3 (0.93%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.62%) Calico
8 2 (0.62%) IPv6
8 2 (0.62%) NAS
8 2 (0.62%) OSPF
8 2 (0.62%) SAN
9 1 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (7.17%) MongoDB
2 23 (7.17%) NoSQL
3 19 (5.92%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (4.67%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (3.74%) Data Lake
6 11 (3.43%) DynamoDB
6 11 (3.43%) Power BI
7 9 (2.80%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.80%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.49%) Big Data
8 8 (2.49%) BigQuery
8 8 (2.49%) MySQL
8 8 (2.49%) Spark SQL
9 7 (2.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (2.18%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.56%) Redis
11 4 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 146 (45.48%) Jenkins
2 59 (18.38%) Git
3 50 (15.58%) JIRA
4 22 (6.85%) Selenium
5 19 (5.92%) Cucumber
6 16 (4.98%) Postman
7 15 (4.67%) JUnit
8 13 (4.05%) JMeter
9 12 (3.74%) Maven
10 11 (3.43%) Bitbucket
10 11 (3.43%) SonarQube
10 11 (3.43%) TeamCity
11 9 (2.80%) Gatling
12 8 (2.49%) Mockito
13 7 (2.18%) REST Assured
13 7 (2.18%) Robot Framework
14 6 (1.87%) Appium
14 6 (1.87%) Gradle
14 6 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (1.87%) Terragrunt
General
1 82 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 59 (18.38%) Finance
3 45 (14.02%) Banking
4 39 (12.15%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (2.80%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.49%) Retail
7 8 (2.49%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.25%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.25%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.62%) Games
10 2 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.62%) Marketing
10 2 (0.62%) Military
11 1 (0.31%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.31%) Front Office
11 1 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (26.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 65 (20.25%) Developer
3 56 (17.45%) Senior
4 36 (11.21%) AWS Engineer
5 34 (10.59%) AWS DevOps
6 32 (9.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 23 (7.17%) Lead
8 21 (6.54%) Architect
9 19 (5.92%) Senior DevOps
9 19 (5.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 16 (4.98%) Java Developer
10 16 (4.98%) Test Engineer
11 15 (4.67%) Data Engineer
12 14 (4.36%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (3.74%) Test Automation Engineer
14 11 (3.43%) Azure Engineer
14 11 (3.43%) GCP Engineer
15 10 (3.12%) Full-Stack Developer
15 10 (3.12%) Senior Developer
16 9 (2.80%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (17.45%) Kafka
2 44 (13.71%) Spring
3 41 (12.77%) Spring Boot
4 36 (11.21%) React
5 25 (7.79%) Node.js
6 24 (7.48%) REST
6 24 (7.48%) RESTful
7 22 (6.85%) Playwright
8 20 (6.23%) AngularJS
9 18 (5.61%) HTML
10 17 (5.30%) OpenTelemetry
11 16 (4.98%) CSS
12 14 (4.36%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (3.74%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (3.74%) OAuth
13 12 (3.74%) PySpark
14 9 (2.80%) gRPC
14 9 (2.80%) OAuth2
14 9 (2.80%) Spring Cloud
15 8 (2.49%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 58 (18.07%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.92%) Public Cloud
4 18 (5.61%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.18%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.18%) Mainframe
6 7 (2.18%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.18%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.56%) DataPower
7 5 (1.56%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.56%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.56%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.25%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.93%) Blockchain
9 3 (0.93%) Derivative
9 3 (0.93%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 50 (15.58%) Linux
2 11 (3.43%) Windows
3 9 (2.80%) Unix
4 6 (1.87%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.56%) Android
5 5 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.93%) Solaris
6 3 (0.93%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.93%) zOS
7 2 (0.62%) VMS
7 2 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (79.13%) CI/CD
2 201 (62.62%) DevOps
3 128 (39.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (30.84%) Agile
5 83 (25.86%) Test Automation
6 81 (25.23%) Containerisation
7 66 (20.56%) Microservices
8 65 (20.25%) Observability
9 53 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (11.21%) Software Engineering
11 33 (10.28%) Scrum
12 32 (9.97%) Analytics
13 31 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (9.35%) DevSecOps
14 30 (9.35%) Performance Tuning
15 25 (7.79%) Event-Driven
15 25 (7.79%) Full-Stack Development
16 24 (7.48%) Data Engineering
16 24 (7.48%) Migration
17 23 (7.17%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 149 (46.42%) Python
2 93 (28.97%) Java
3 68 (21.18%) SQL
4 60 (18.69%) Bash
5 46 (14.33%) JavaScript
6 30 (9.35%) TypeScript
7 26 (8.10%) PowerShell
8 16 (4.98%) Go
9 13 (4.05%) C#
10 8 (2.49%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.18%) Korn
12 5 (1.56%) Bicep
12 5 (1.56%) C
13 4 (1.25%) Ruby
13 4 (1.25%) Rust
14 3 (0.93%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.62%) Perl
15 2 (0.62%) Swift
16 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 89 (27.73%) Security Cleared
2 75 (23.36%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.43%) AWS Certification
4 6 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (1.87%) Degree
5 5 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (0.93%) ISTQB
7 3 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.62%) CISSP
8 2 (0.62%) GPEN
8 2 (0.62%) GWAPT
8 2 (0.62%) OCA
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.62%) OSCP
9 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.31%) CISM
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (15.26%) QA
2 17 (5.30%) Accessibility
3 13 (4.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 12 (3.74%) GDPR
5 6 (1.87%) NIST
6 5 (1.56%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.56%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.62%) HL7
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.31%) MiFID
8 1 (0.31%) NCSC
8 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 153 (47.66%) Docker
2 6 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.25%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.93%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.62%) vSphere
6 1 (0.31%) HDFS
6 1 (0.31%) Squid
Systems Management
1 158 (49.22%) Terraform
2 155 (48.29%) Kubernetes
3 62 (19.31%) Ansible
4 39 (12.15%) Grafana
4 39 (12.15%) Prometheus
5 18 (5.61%) Argo
6 10 (3.12%) Istio
7 7 (2.18%) Karpenter
8 4 (1.25%) Kibana
9 3 (0.93%) Fluentd
9 3 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.93%) Puppet
9 3 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.62%) Nagios
10 2 (0.62%) Packer
10 2 (0.62%) Rancher
10 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.31%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 33 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.92%) Splunk
3 17 (5.30%) Google
4 13 (4.05%) Oracle
5 10 (3.12%) Cisco
5 10 (3.12%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.49%) Databricks
6 8 (2.49%) F5
6 8 (2.49%) IBM
7 7 (2.18%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.87%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.87%) CheckPoint
8 6 (1.87%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.87%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.87%) Veracode
9 5 (1.56%) Aruba
10 4 (1.25%) Adobe
10 4 (1.25%) Arista
10 4 (1.25%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.25%) Salesforce