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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 139 220
Rank change year-on-year 0 +81 -42
Contract jobs citing GitLab 278 301 213
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.96% 1.90% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.26% 13.81% 7.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 208 165
10th Percentile £368 £363 £389
25th Percentile £431 £462 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £558
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +7.62% -12.89%
75th Percentile £630 £688 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -9.46% -7.50% +45.45%

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 2,267 2,180 2,727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.99% 13.76% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,555 1,425 2,008
10th Percentile £350 £357 £400
25th Percentile £419 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £798
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 25
10th Percentile £39.95 £26.54 £27.45
25th Percentile £42.50 £33.87 £36.88
Median hourly rate £56.50 £49.47 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -10.06% +4.76%
75th Percentile £88.75 £68.80 £72.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £83.13 £76.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 -9 29 £544 -9.38% 5
South London -1 4 £655 - 5
East London 0 1 £450 - 4
West London -19 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 30 (10.79%) Confluence
2 7 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.52%) nginx
3 5 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.08%) Appian
4 3 (1.08%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.08%) Hyperledger
5 2 (0.72%) Apache
5 2 (0.72%) SAS
5 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.36%) CICS
6 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.36%) FileNet
6 1 (0.36%) Luigi
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.36%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.36%) Mule
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.36%) Actimize
2 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.36%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.36%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 161 (57.91%) AWS
2 111 (39.93%) Azure
3 87 (31.29%) GitHub
4 64 (23.02%) GCP
5 44 (15.83%) GitHub Actions
6 40 (14.39%) Amazon S3
7 39 (14.03%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (12.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 35 (12.59%) Amazon EC2
9 34 (12.23%) Serverless
10 30 (10.79%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (7.91%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (7.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (7.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 16 (5.76%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (5.40%) Azure AKS
14 14 (5.04%) Datadog
14 14 (5.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 10 (3.60%) Snowflake
16 9 (3.24%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.55%) Firewall
2 17 (6.12%) VPN
3 15 (5.40%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.96%) DNS
5 10 (3.60%) Network Security
6 8 (2.88%) SSL
7 7 (2.52%) BGP
7 7 (2.52%) WAN
8 6 (2.16%) Ethernet VPN
8 6 (2.16%) VXLAN
9 5 (1.80%) Multicast
9 5 (1.80%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (1.80%) OSPF
9 5 (1.80%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.72%) IPsec
10 2 (0.72%) IPv6
10 2 (0.72%) LAN
10 2 (0.72%) MPLS
10 2 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.72%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (8.99%) MongoDB
3 23 (8.27%) NoSQL
4 17 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (3.60%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.24%) Big Data
6 9 (3.24%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.16%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.80%) HPCC
8 5 (1.80%) Power BI
9 4 (1.44%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.44%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.08%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.08%) MySQL
10 3 (1.08%) Redis
10 3 (1.08%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.72%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 115 (41.37%) Jenkins
2 57 (20.50%) Git
3 50 (17.99%) JIRA
4 22 (7.91%) Maven
5 19 (6.83%) Selenium
6 18 (6.47%) SonarQube
7 15 (5.40%) Gradle
8 13 (4.68%) Bitbucket
8 13 (4.68%) Cucumber
8 13 (4.68%) Cypress.io
9 11 (3.96%) JMeter
9 11 (3.96%) JUnit
9 11 (3.96%) Postman
10 10 (3.60%) Sonatype Nexus
10 10 (3.60%) TeamCity
11 7 (2.52%) Gatling
11 7 (2.52%) REST Assured
12 6 (2.16%) Appium
13 5 (1.80%) Artifactory
14 4 (1.44%) CircleCI
General
1 64 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 44 (15.83%) Finance
3 32 (11.51%) Banking
4 25 (8.99%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.32%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.88%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.44%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.08%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.08%) Front Office
10 3 (1.08%) Military
11 2 (0.72%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.72%) Games
11 2 (0.72%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Police
12 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 65 (23.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (20.86%) Developer
3 48 (17.27%) Senior
4 25 (8.99%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (8.27%) AWS DevOps
6 21 (7.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 20 (7.19%) Lead
8 17 (6.12%) Java Developer
8 17 (6.12%) Senior DevOps
8 17 (6.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 15 (5.40%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (5.40%) Test Engineer
10 12 (4.32%) Consultant
10 12 (4.32%) Senior Developer
11 11 (3.96%) Software Engineer
11 11 (3.96%) Test Automation Engineer
12 10 (3.60%) Python Engineer
13 9 (3.24%) Architect
13 9 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (2.88%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.83%) Kafka
2 25 (8.99%) Node.js
3 24 (8.63%) Spring
4 23 (8.27%) REST
5 21 (7.55%) React
5 21 (7.55%) Spring Boot
6 17 (6.12%) Playwright
7 15 (5.40%) HTML
7 15 (5.40%) RESTful
8 14 (5.04%) RabbitMQ
9 13 (4.68%) JSON
10 10 (3.60%) XML
11 8 (2.88%) CSS
11 8 (2.88%) OAuth
12 7 (2.52%) AngularJS
12 7 (2.52%) Middleware
12 7 (2.52%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.52%) YAML
13 6 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (2.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.67%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.04%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.68%) Public Cloud
4 12 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.88%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (2.52%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.16%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.80%) DataPower
9 5 (1.80%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.44%) Derivative
10 4 (1.44%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.44%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.44%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.44%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.08%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.39%) Linux
2 18 (6.47%) Unix
3 9 (3.24%) Windows
4 7 (2.52%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.16%) Android
6 5 (1.80%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.44%) Solaris
8 1 (0.36%) CentOS
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.36%) VMS
8 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (77.70%) CI/CD
2 173 (62.23%) DevOps
3 108 (38.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (33.45%) Agile
5 85 (30.58%) Containerisation
6 64 (23.02%) Test Automation
7 56 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (19.42%) Microservices
9 36 (12.95%) Infrastructure Automation
10 32 (11.51%) Software Engineering
11 31 (11.15%) DevSecOps
11 31 (11.15%) Migration
12 29 (10.43%) Observability
12 29 (10.43%) Scrum
13 24 (8.63%) TDD
14 21 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (7.55%) Event-Driven
14 21 (7.55%) High Availability
15 20 (7.19%) Mentoring
15 20 (7.19%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 131 (47.12%) Python
2 73 (26.26%) Java
3 55 (19.78%) SQL
4 50 (17.99%) Bash
5 36 (12.95%) JavaScript
6 25 (8.99%) TypeScript
7 19 (6.83%) PowerShell
8 17 (6.12%) Go
9 14 (5.04%) C#
10 10 (3.60%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.16%) C
11 6 (2.16%) Korn
12 3 (1.08%) Bicep
12 3 (1.08%) C++
12 3 (1.08%) Rust
13 2 (0.72%) Perl
13 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.72%) Ruby
13 2 (0.72%) Swift
14 1 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 74 (26.62%) Security Cleared
2 65 (23.38%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.04%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.96%) Degree
5 10 (3.60%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.08%) CISSP
9 3 (1.08%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.72%) CCNP
10 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.72%) CISM
10 2 (0.72%) GPEN
10 2 (0.72%) GWAPT
10 2 (0.72%) JNCIA
10 2 (0.72%) OCA
10 2 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.72%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (16.91%) QA
2 11 (3.96%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.52%) GDPR
4 5 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.72%) HL7
6 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.72%) NCSC
6 2 (0.72%) NIST
6 2 (0.72%) WCAG
7 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.36%) MiFID
7 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 124 (44.60%) Docker
2 8 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.08%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.72%) Firmware
4 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.36%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 133 (47.84%) Terraform
2 130 (46.76%) Kubernetes
3 65 (23.38%) Ansible
4 26 (9.35%) Grafana
5 22 (7.91%) Prometheus
6 13 (4.68%) Argo
7 9 (3.24%) Puppet
8 8 (2.88%) Istio
9 3 (1.08%) Fluentd
9 3 (1.08%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.08%) Packer
9 3 (1.08%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.72%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.72%) linkerd
10 2 (0.72%) Rancher
10 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.36%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.36%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.36%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (8.63%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.83%) Google
2 19 (6.83%) Splunk
3 15 (5.40%) Oracle
4 12 (4.32%) Cisco
4 12 (4.32%) Palo Alto
5 11 (3.96%) Atlassian
6 10 (3.60%) F5
7 9 (3.24%) IBM
8 8 (2.88%) CheckPoint
9 7 (2.52%) Databricks
10 6 (2.16%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.80%) Aruba
11 5 (1.80%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.80%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.44%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.44%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.44%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.44%) Veracode
13 3 (1.08%) VMware