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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 120 218
Rank change year-on-year -20 +98 -25
Contract jobs citing GitLab 336 288 193
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.05% 2.23% 1.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.12% 15.79% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 195 152
10th Percentile £371 £368 £403
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 £613 £666 £700
90th Percentile £700 £738 £773
England median daily rate £500 £541 £568
% change year-on-year -7.62% -4.63% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £83.98 £74.44
% change year-on-year -34.51% +12.82% +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 2,380 1,824 2,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.55% 14.09% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,607 1,244 1,665
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £419 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -5.78% -6.25%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £675
90th Percentile £736 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 19
10th Percentile - £22.93 £24.40
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £28.98
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -25.00% -30.43%
75th Percentile £76.75 £71.25 £58.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £85.50 £70.75
England median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +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 14 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 14 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 -7 38 £520 -6.77% 22
South London -8 10 £513 -37.50% 2
East London -3 1 £450 - 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 25 (7.44%) Confluence
2 13 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.08%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.79%) nginx
5 3 (0.89%) Apache
5 3 (0.89%) CICS
5 3 (0.89%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.89%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.60%) SAS
7 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.30%) Appian
7 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.30%) CMS
7 1 (0.30%) FileNet
7 1 (0.30%) Luigi
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.30%) Actimize
2 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.30%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.30%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.30%) SAP FS
2 1 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 217 (64.58%) AWS
2 107 (31.85%) GitHub
3 100 (29.76%) Azure
4 69 (20.54%) Amazon S3
5 68 (20.24%) Serverless
6 63 (18.75%) GCP
7 61 (18.15%) AWS Lambda
8 59 (17.56%) GitHub Actions
9 56 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
10 54 (16.07%) Amazon EC2
11 51 (15.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 41 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
13 38 (11.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 33 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
15 30 (8.93%) Amazon ECS
16 20 (5.95%) Snowflake
17 17 (5.06%) Datadog
18 14 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 14 (4.17%) Power Platform
19 13 (3.87%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.46%) DNS
2 14 (4.17%) Firewall
3 11 (3.27%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.68%) VPN
5 5 (1.49%) Multicast
5 5 (1.49%) Network Security
5 5 (1.49%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.49%) WAN
6 4 (1.19%) VSAN
7 3 (0.89%) BGP
7 3 (0.89%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.89%) SSL
7 3 (0.89%) 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
9 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (7.44%) NoSQL
3 24 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 21 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (4.17%) DynamoDB
7 12 (3.57%) Power BI
8 11 (3.27%) Data Lake
9 10 (2.98%) Big Data
9 10 (2.98%) Relational Database
9 10 (2.98%) Spark SQL
10 9 (2.68%) Apache Cassandra
11 8 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (2.38%) BigQuery
11 8 (2.38%) MySQL
11 8 (2.38%) SQL Server
12 7 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.79%) DB2
13 6 (1.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 158 (47.02%) Jenkins
2 64 (19.05%) Git
3 45 (13.39%) JIRA
4 22 (6.55%) Selenium
5 19 (5.65%) Cucumber
5 19 (5.65%) JUnit
6 18 (5.36%) Postman
7 15 (4.46%) Bitbucket
8 13 (3.87%) JMeter
8 13 (3.87%) Mockito
9 9 (2.68%) Gatling
9 9 (2.68%) SonarQube
10 8 (2.38%) Maven
10 8 (2.38%) TeamCity
11 7 (2.08%) Appium
11 7 (2.08%) REST Assured
12 6 (1.79%) Artifactory
12 6 (1.79%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.79%) Robot Framework
12 6 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 87 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 70 (20.83%) Finance
3 52 (15.48%) Banking
4 47 (13.99%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.98%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.08%) Retail
9 6 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.19%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.89%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.60%) Games
13 2 (0.60%) Military
14 1 (0.30%) Front Office
14 1 (0.30%) Marketing
14 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 64 (19.05%) Developer
3 58 (17.26%) Senior
4 37 (11.01%) AWS Engineer
5 32 (9.52%) AWS DevOps
6 30 (8.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 25 (7.44%) Architect
7 25 (7.44%) Lead
8 20 (5.95%) Data Engineer
9 18 (5.36%) Test Engineer
10 17 (5.06%) Java Developer
11 13 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (3.87%) Senior DevOps
11 13 (3.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 13 (3.87%) Test Automation Engineer
12 10 (2.98%) GCP Engineer
12 10 (2.98%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (2.98%) Python Engineer
13 9 (2.68%) Automation Engineer
14 8 (2.38%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (16.37%) Kafka
2 44 (13.10%) Spring
3 42 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 40 (11.90%) React
5 30 (8.93%) REST
6 28 (8.33%) Node.js
7 25 (7.44%) RESTful
8 22 (6.55%) Playwright
9 21 (6.25%) AngularJS
10 19 (5.65%) HTML
11 18 (5.36%) CSS
12 17 (5.06%) OpenTelemetry
12 17 (5.06%) PySpark
13 15 (4.46%) RabbitMQ
14 13 (3.87%) Elastic Stack
15 12 (3.57%) OAuth
16 11 (3.27%) WireMock
17 10 (2.98%) gRPC
18 9 (2.68%) Spring Cloud
18 9 (2.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (17.56%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.95%) Product Ownership
3 19 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.06%) Public Cloud
5 12 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (2.98%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.68%) Mainframe
8 8 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.08%) DataPower
10 6 (1.79%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.49%) Hedge funds
11 5 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.49%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.19%) NHS
13 3 (0.89%) Derivative
13 3 (0.89%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (16.07%) Linux
2 12 (3.57%) Windows
3 9 (2.68%) Unix
4 8 (2.38%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.79%) Android
6 5 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.49%) zOS
7 3 (0.89%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.60%) VMS
8 2 (0.60%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.30%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 196 (58.33%) DevOps
3 127 (37.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 101 (30.06%) Agile
5 90 (26.79%) Containerisation
5 90 (26.79%) Test Automation
6 73 (21.73%) Observability
7 67 (19.94%) Microservices
8 53 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (10.12%) Performance Tuning
10 34 (10.12%) Software Engineering
11 33 (9.82%) Analytics
12 32 (9.52%) Scrum
13 28 (8.33%) AI
14 27 (8.04%) Data Engineering
15 26 (7.74%) ETL
16 25 (7.44%) Event-Driven
16 25 (7.44%) Platform Engineering
16 25 (7.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 166 (49.40%) Python
2 96 (28.57%) Java
3 79 (23.51%) SQL
4 53 (15.77%) Bash
5 43 (12.80%) JavaScript
6 34 (10.12%) TypeScript
7 19 (5.65%) PowerShell
8 14 (4.17%) Go
9 12 (3.57%) C#
9 12 (3.57%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.08%) Korn
11 6 (1.79%) Bicep
12 5 (1.49%) C
12 5 (1.49%) Ruby
13 4 (1.19%) Rust
13 4 (1.19%) Swift
14 3 (0.89%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.60%) JCL
15 2 (0.60%) Perl
15 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (27.68%) Security Cleared
2 79 (23.51%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 9 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.08%) Degree
6 6 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.89%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.60%) CISSP
11 1 (0.30%) CCNP
11 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.30%) CISM
11 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (14.88%) QA
2 19 (5.65%) Accessibility
3 14 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 12 (3.57%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.57%) GDPR
5 6 (1.79%) NIST
5 6 (1.79%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.89%) SLA
8 2 (0.60%) HL7
8 2 (0.60%) WCAG
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.30%) MiFID
9 1 (0.30%) NCSC
9 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 163 (48.51%) Docker
2 5 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.89%) 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
1 167 (49.70%) Terraform
2 159 (47.32%) Kubernetes
3 60 (17.86%) Ansible
4 46 (13.69%) Prometheus
5 45 (13.39%) Grafana
6 19 (5.65%) Argo
7 12 (3.57%) Istio
8 7 (2.08%) Karpenter
9 4 (1.19%) Kibana
9 4 (1.19%) Puppet
10 3 (0.89%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.89%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.60%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.60%) Nagios
11 2 (0.60%) Packer
11 2 (0.60%) Rancher
11 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.30%) Salt
Vendors
1 32 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.85%) Splunk
3 19 (5.65%) Google
4 12 (3.57%) Oracle
5 10 (2.98%) IBM
6 8 (2.38%) Cisco
6 8 (2.38%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.38%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.08%) Databricks
8 6 (1.79%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.79%) VMware
9 5 (1.49%) Aruba
9 5 (1.49%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.49%) SAP
9 5 (1.49%) Veracode
10 4 (1.19%) Adobe
10 4 (1.19%) Arista
10 4 (1.19%) F5
10 4 (1.19%) Sybase