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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 121 209
Rank change year-on-year -12 +88 -23
Contract jobs citing GitLab 311 288 197
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.13% 2.06% 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.75% 14.85% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 196 157
10th Percentile £375 £368 £425
25th Percentile £447 £462 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £573
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.80% -11.92%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £675
90th Percentile £700 £738 £800
England median daily rate £513 £568 £558
% change year-on-year -9.77% +1.88% -7.08%
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 2,261 1,940 2,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.48% 13.88% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,549 1,262 1,719
10th Percentile £356 £341 £400
25th Percentile £420 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -6.96% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £732 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £510 £540
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.56% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 19
10th Percentile £42.70 £22.25 £25.68
25th Percentile £47.38 £25.63 £33.75
Median hourly rate £90.00 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £102.50 £77.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £87.88 £73.67
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 22 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 22 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 -10 32 £523 -12.92% 19
South London -5 5 £530 -35.37% 3
East London -3 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 24 (7.72%) Confluence
2 8 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.25%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.61%) nginx
5 3 (0.96%) Appian
5 3 (0.96%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.96%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.64%) Apache
6 2 (0.64%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.64%) 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 (0.64%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.64%) 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
1 188 (60.45%) AWS
2 103 (33.12%) Azure
3 90 (28.94%) GitHub
4 66 (21.22%) GCP
5 56 (18.01%) Amazon S3
6 52 (16.72%) GitHub Actions
7 49 (15.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 49 (15.76%) Serverless
8 45 (14.47%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (14.15%) Amazon EC2
10 41 (13.18%) Amazon EKS
11 34 (10.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 33 (10.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 31 (9.97%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (8.36%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (6.11%) Datadog
16 16 (5.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 16 (5.14%) Snowflake
17 15 (4.82%) Azure AKS
18 13 (4.18%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.79%) DNS
1 18 (5.79%) Firewall
2 15 (4.82%) VPN
3 14 (4.50%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.89%) Network Security
4 9 (2.89%) SSL
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 (0.96%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.96%) OSPF
7 3 (0.96%) VSAN
8 2 (0.64%) Calico
8 2 (0.64%) HTTP
8 2 (0.64%) IPv6
9 1 (0.32%) DHCP
9 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (8.68%) NoSQL
3 24 (7.72%) MongoDB
4 19 (6.11%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (4.82%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (3.86%) Data Lake
7 11 (3.54%) DynamoDB
8 10 (3.22%) Power BI
9 9 (2.89%) MySQL
10 8 (2.57%) Relational Database
10 8 (2.57%) SQL Server
11 7 (2.25%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (2.25%) Big Data
11 7 (2.25%) BigQuery
11 7 (2.25%) Spark SQL
12 6 (1.93%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.93%) Redis
13 4 (1.29%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.29%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.96%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 136 (43.73%) Jenkins
2 57 (18.33%) Git
3 48 (15.43%) JIRA
4 22 (7.07%) Selenium
5 18 (5.79%) Maven
6 17 (5.47%) Cucumber
7 15 (4.82%) JUnit
7 15 (4.82%) Postman
8 14 (4.50%) SonarQube
9 12 (3.86%) JMeter
10 11 (3.54%) Bitbucket
11 10 (3.22%) Cypress.io
11 10 (3.22%) TeamCity
12 9 (2.89%) Gradle
12 9 (2.89%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (2.57%) Mockito
14 7 (2.25%) Gatling
14 7 (2.25%) Robot Framework
15 6 (1.93%) REST Assured
15 6 (1.93%) Terragrunt
General
1 78 (25.08%) Social Skills
2 60 (19.29%) Finance
3 40 (12.86%) Banking
4 32 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.22%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.57%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.93%) Retail
10 4 (1.29%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.29%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.96%) Military
12 2 (0.64%) Front Office
12 2 (0.64%) Games
12 2 (0.64%) Marketing
13 1 (0.32%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Local Government
13 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (24.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 65 (20.90%) Developer
3 56 (18.01%) Senior
4 34 (10.93%) AWS Engineer
5 31 (9.97%) AWS DevOps
6 30 (9.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 19 (6.11%) Lead
8 18 (5.79%) Architect
9 17 (5.47%) Senior DevOps
9 17 (5.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 16 (5.14%) Data Engineer
10 16 (5.14%) Java Developer
11 14 (4.50%) Test Engineer
12 12 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (3.86%) Test Automation Engineer
13 11 (3.54%) GCP Engineer
13 11 (3.54%) Senior Developer
14 9 (2.89%) Automation Engineer
14 9 (2.89%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (2.89%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (17.68%) Kafka
2 40 (12.86%) Spring
3 38 (12.22%) Spring Boot
4 31 (9.97%) React
5 28 (9.00%) Node.js
6 23 (7.40%) REST
7 22 (7.07%) RESTful
8 19 (6.11%) Playwright
9 18 (5.79%) AngularJS
10 17 (5.47%) HTML
11 15 (4.82%) CSS
12 14 (4.50%) OpenTelemetry
12 14 (4.50%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (3.86%) OAuth
14 11 (3.54%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (3.54%) PySpark
15 10 (3.22%) OAuth2
15 10 (3.22%) OpenID
16 9 (2.89%) gRPC
17 8 (2.57%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 59 (18.97%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.75%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.82%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.89%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (2.25%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.93%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.93%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.61%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.61%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.61%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.29%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.29%) DataPower
10 4 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.29%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.96%) Blockchain
11 3 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 47 (15.11%) Linux
2 9 (2.89%) Unix
3 8 (2.57%) Windows
4 6 (1.93%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.61%) Android
6 4 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.96%) Solaris
8 2 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.64%) VMS
8 2 (0.64%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (79.42%) CI/CD
2 194 (62.38%) DevOps
3 125 (40.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (30.87%) Agile
5 87 (27.97%) Containerisation
6 76 (24.44%) Test Automation
7 63 (20.26%) Microservices
8 60 (19.29%) Observability
9 53 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (10.93%) Software Engineering
11 31 (9.97%) Analytics
11 31 (9.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (9.65%) Scrum
13 29 (9.32%) DevSecOps
13 29 (9.32%) Migration
14 28 (9.00%) Infrastructure Automation
15 27 (8.68%) Performance Tuning
16 25 (8.04%) Event-Driven
17 24 (7.72%) Data Engineering
17 24 (7.72%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 145 (46.62%) Python
2 87 (27.97%) Java
3 69 (22.19%) SQL
4 61 (19.61%) Bash
5 45 (14.47%) JavaScript
6 28 (9.00%) TypeScript
7 23 (7.40%) PowerShell
8 16 (5.14%) Go
9 13 (4.18%) C#
10 8 (2.57%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.25%) Korn
12 4 (1.29%) Bicep
12 4 (1.29%) Ruby
12 4 (1.29%) Rust
13 3 (0.96%) C
13 3 (0.96%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.64%) Perl
14 2 (0.64%) Swift
15 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 79 (25.40%) Security Cleared
2 69 (22.19%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.54%) AWS Certification
4 6 (1.93%) Degree
5 5 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (1.61%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.96%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.64%) CISSP
8 2 (0.64%) GPEN
8 2 (0.64%) GWAPT
8 2 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.64%) OCA
8 2 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.64%) OSCP
9 1 (0.32%) CCNP
9 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (15.76%) QA
2 15 (4.82%) Accessibility
3 14 (4.50%) GDPR
4 13 (4.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.93%) NIST
5 6 (1.93%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.96%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.64%) 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
1 152 (48.87%) Docker
2 3 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.96%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.64%) vSphere
4 1 (0.32%) HDFS
4 1 (0.32%) Squid
Systems Management
1 156 (50.16%) Kubernetes
2 153 (49.20%) Terraform
3 65 (20.90%) Ansible
4 36 (11.58%) Grafana
5 35 (11.25%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.82%) Argo
7 13 (4.18%) Istio
8 7 (2.25%) Karpenter
8 7 (2.25%) Puppet
9 4 (1.29%) Kibana
10 3 (0.96%) Fluentd
10 3 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.96%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.96%) Rancher
10 3 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.64%) linkerd
11 2 (0.64%) Nagios
11 2 (0.64%) Packer
12 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.32%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 30 (9.65%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.07%) Splunk
3 21 (6.75%) Google
4 15 (4.82%) Oracle
5 11 (3.54%) Cisco
6 10 (3.22%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.89%) Databricks
7 9 (2.89%) F5
7 9 (2.89%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.57%) CheckPoint
9 6 (1.93%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.93%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.93%) IBM
9 6 (1.93%) 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 (0.96%) Optimizely