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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 127 221
Rank change year-on-year -10 +94 -48
Contract jobs citing GitLab 289 302 181
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.00% 2.07% 0.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.86% 14.99% 7.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 209 144
10th Percentile £375 £368 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £569
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +5.49% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
England median daily rate £520 £565 £551
% change year-on-year -7.96% +2.54% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £63.00 £74.44 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.37% +24.07% -9.43%

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 2,247 2,015 2,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.58% 13.79% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,529 1,313 1,720
10th Percentile £350 £342 £400
25th Percentile £425 £420 £463
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 £785 £788
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 22
10th Percentile £37.65 £22.25 £25.42
25th Percentile £42.63 £25.63 £30.31
Median hourly rate £56.50 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.90% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £86.88 £77.19 £69.25
90th Percentile £110.00 £87.88 £73.49
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 1 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 1 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 -20 29 £550 -8.33% 17
South London -3 5 £530 -35.37% 1
East London -3 1 £450 - 2
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 31 (10.73%) Confluence
2 8 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.77%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.73%) nginx
4 3 (1.04%) Appian
4 3 (1.04%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.04%) Hyperledger
5 2 (0.69%) Apache
5 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.69%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.35%) CICS
6 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) FileNet
6 1 (0.35%) Luigi
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.35%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.35%) Actimize
2 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.35%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.35%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.35%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 170 (58.82%) AWS
2 102 (35.29%) Azure
3 88 (30.45%) GitHub
4 68 (23.53%) GCP
5 54 (18.69%) Amazon S3
5 54 (18.69%) GitHub Actions
6 47 (16.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 47 (16.26%) Serverless
7 44 (15.22%) Amazon EC2
8 43 (14.88%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (12.11%) Amazon EKS
10 33 (11.42%) Azure DevOps
11 31 (10.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 27 (9.34%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
13 17 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 16 (5.54%) Datadog
15 15 (5.19%) Azure AKS
16 13 (4.50%) Snowflake
16 13 (4.50%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.23%) Firewall
2 17 (5.88%) DNS
3 15 (5.19%) VPN
4 13 (4.50%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.11%) Network Security
5 9 (3.11%) SSL
6 5 (1.73%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (1.73%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.73%) WAN
7 4 (1.38%) BGP
7 4 (1.38%) VXLAN
8 3 (1.04%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (1.04%) Multicast
8 3 (1.04%) OSPF
8 3 (1.04%) VSAN
9 2 (0.69%) Calico
9 2 (0.69%) IPv6
10 1 (0.35%) DHCP
10 1 (0.35%) HTTP
10 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.73%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (8.65%) NoSQL
3 22 (7.61%) MongoDB
4 18 (6.23%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (4.50%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (4.15%) Data Lake
7 10 (3.46%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.11%) DynamoDB
8 9 (3.11%) Power BI
9 7 (2.42%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (2.42%) Big Data
9 7 (2.42%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.42%) MySQL
9 7 (2.42%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.08%) Spark SQL
11 5 (1.73%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.73%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.73%) Redis
12 3 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.04%) DB2
Development Applications
1 123 (42.56%) Jenkins
2 54 (18.69%) Git
3 51 (17.65%) JIRA
4 21 (7.27%) Selenium
5 18 (6.23%) Maven
6 16 (5.54%) SonarQube
7 15 (5.19%) Cucumber
8 13 (4.50%) Cypress.io
8 13 (4.50%) JUnit
8 13 (4.50%) Postman
9 12 (4.15%) JMeter
10 11 (3.81%) Gradle
11 10 (3.46%) Bitbucket
11 10 (3.46%) TeamCity
12 9 (3.11%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (2.42%) Gatling
13 7 (2.42%) REST Assured
14 6 (2.08%) Appium
14 6 (2.08%) Terragrunt
15 5 (1.73%) Robot Framework
General
1 72 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.69%) Finance
3 34 (11.76%) Banking
4 27 (9.34%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.81%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.77%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.08%) Retail
9 4 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.38%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.04%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.04%) Front Office
10 3 (1.04%) Military
11 2 (0.69%) Games
11 2 (0.69%) Marketing
12 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Local Government
12 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (22.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 59 (20.42%) Developer
3 54 (18.69%) Senior
4 25 (8.65%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (7.96%) AWS DevOps
6 22 (7.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 20 (6.92%) Lead
8 17 (5.88%) Architect
8 17 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
8 17 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 15 (5.19%) Java Developer
9 15 (5.19%) Test Engineer
10 12 (4.15%) GCP Engineer
10 12 (4.15%) Test Automation Engineer
11 11 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (3.81%) Data Engineer
11 11 (3.81%) Python Engineer
11 11 (3.81%) Senior Developer
12 10 (3.46%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (2.77%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (17.30%) Kafka
2 30 (10.38%) Spring
3 29 (10.03%) Spring Boot
4 27 (9.34%) REST
5 26 (9.00%) React
6 25 (8.65%) Node.js
7 18 (6.23%) Playwright
7 18 (6.23%) RESTful
8 13 (4.50%) AngularJS
8 13 (4.50%) OpenTelemetry
8 13 (4.50%) RabbitMQ
9 12 (4.15%) HTML
10 11 (3.81%) OAuth
11 10 (3.46%) PySpark
12 9 (3.11%) CSS
12 9 (3.11%) OAuth2
12 9 (3.11%) OpenID
13 8 (2.77%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (2.77%) JSON
13 8 (2.77%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 53 (18.34%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.15%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (3.11%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (2.42%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (2.42%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.08%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.73%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.73%) DataPower
7 5 (1.73%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.73%) Mainframe
7 5 (1.73%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.73%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.38%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.38%) Derivative
8 4 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.19%) Linux
2 11 (3.81%) Unix
3 6 (2.08%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.08%) Windows
4 5 (1.73%) Android
5 4 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.04%) Solaris
6 3 (1.04%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.69%) VMS
7 2 (0.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (80.28%) CI/CD
2 184 (63.67%) DevOps
3 116 (40.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (32.18%) Agile
5 78 (26.99%) Containerisation
6 69 (23.88%) Test Automation
7 60 (20.76%) Microservices
8 54 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
9 52 (17.99%) Observability
10 35 (12.11%) Software Engineering
11 31 (10.73%) Infrastructure Automation
12 30 (10.38%) DevSecOps
12 30 (10.38%) Migration
13 27 (9.34%) Scrum
14 25 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (7.96%) Event-Driven
15 23 (7.96%) Performance Tuning
16 22 (7.61%) Analytics
16 22 (7.61%) Data Pipeline
16 22 (7.61%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 141 (48.79%) Python
2 76 (26.30%) Java
3 65 (22.49%) SQL
4 56 (19.38%) Bash
5 38 (13.15%) JavaScript
6 27 (9.34%) TypeScript
7 22 (7.61%) PowerShell
8 19 (6.57%) Go
9 12 (4.15%) C#
10 9 (3.11%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.42%) Korn
12 4 (1.38%) Bicep
12 4 (1.38%) C
12 4 (1.38%) Rust
13 3 (1.04%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.04%) Ruby
14 2 (0.69%) Perl
14 2 (0.69%) Swift
15 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 65 (22.49%) Security Cleared
2 57 (19.72%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.11%) AWS Certification
3 9 (3.11%) Degree
4 7 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (1.38%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.69%) CISSP
7 2 (0.69%) GPEN
7 2 (0.69%) GWAPT
7 2 (0.69%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.69%) OCA
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.69%) OSCP
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (17.65%) QA
2 13 (4.50%) Accessibility
3 12 (4.15%) GDPR
4 11 (3.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.73%) NIST
5 5 (1.73%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.69%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.69%) HL7
6 2 (0.69%) WCAG
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.35%) MiFID
7 1 (0.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.35%) SLA
7 1 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 130 (44.98%) Docker
2 8 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.04%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.69%) vSphere
5 1 (0.35%) HDFS
5 1 (0.35%) Squid
Systems Management
1 142 (49.13%) Terraform
2 139 (48.10%) Kubernetes
3 62 (21.45%) Ansible
4 35 (12.11%) Grafana
5 29 (10.03%) Prometheus
6 16 (5.54%) Argo
7 13 (4.50%) Istio
8 6 (2.08%) Karpenter
9 5 (1.73%) Puppet
10 4 (1.38%) Kibana
11 3 (1.04%) Fluentd
11 3 (1.04%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.04%) Rancher
12 2 (0.69%) linkerd
12 2 (0.69%) Nagios
12 2 (0.69%) Packer
12 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.35%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.35%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 29 (10.03%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.96%) Google
3 21 (7.27%) Splunk
4 15 (5.19%) Oracle
5 11 (3.81%) Atlassian
5 11 (3.81%) Cisco
6 10 (3.46%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.77%) CheckPoint
7 8 (2.77%) Databricks
7 8 (2.77%) F5
7 8 (2.77%) IBM
8 7 (2.42%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.08%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.08%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.73%) Arista
10 5 (1.73%) Aruba
11 4 (1.38%) Cloudera
11 4 (1.38%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.38%) Veracode
12 3 (1.04%) Optimizely