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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 125 215
Rank change year-on-year -9 +90 -32
Contract jobs citing GitLab 286 285 191
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.04% 2.05% 1.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.19% 14.80% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 196 152
10th Percentile £372 £368 £425
25th Percentile £438 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £573
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.80% -11.92%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £675
90th Percentile £700 £738 £759
England median daily rate £520 £568 £558
% change year-on-year -8.45% +1.88% -6.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £56.25 £74.44 £60.00
% change year-on-year -24.44% +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 2,168 1,926 2,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.44% 13.84% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,474 1,256 1,694
10th Percentile £356 £345 £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 £725 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 20
10th Percentile £42.55 £22.25 £25.71
25th Percentile £43.00 £25.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 £48.75 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.90% - -15.22%
75th Percentile £110.00 £77.19 £70.00
90th Percentile - £87.88 £73.66
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 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 12 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 -16 30 £534 -11.04% 19
South London -5 5 £530 -35.37% 3
East London -4 1 £450 -9.09% 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 (10.84%) Confluence
2 8 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.75%) nginx
5 3 (1.05%) Appian
5 3 (1.05%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.05%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.70%) Apache
6 2 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.70%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.35%) CICS
7 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) FileNet
7 1 (0.35%) Luigi
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.35%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) 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
1 168 (58.74%) AWS
2 97 (33.92%) Azure
3 87 (30.42%) GitHub
4 65 (22.73%) GCP
5 55 (19.23%) Amazon S3
6 53 (18.53%) GitHub Actions
7 50 (17.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 49 (17.13%) Serverless
9 45 (15.73%) Amazon EC2
9 45 (15.73%) AWS Lambda
10 37 (12.94%) Amazon EKS
11 32 (11.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 29 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
13 28 (9.79%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (6.64%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (5.59%) Datadog
15 16 (5.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 15 (5.24%) Azure AKS
17 13 (4.55%) Snowflake
17 13 (4.55%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.29%) DNS
1 18 (6.29%) Firewall
2 15 (5.24%) VPN
3 13 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.15%) Network Security
4 9 (3.15%) SSL
5 5 (1.75%) OpenLDAP
5 5 (1.75%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.75%) WAN
6 4 (1.40%) BGP
6 4 (1.40%) VXLAN
7 3 (1.05%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (1.05%) Multicast
7 3 (1.05%) OSPF
7 3 (1.05%) VSAN
8 2 (0.70%) Calico
8 2 (0.70%) IPv6
9 1 (0.35%) DHCP
9 1 (0.35%) HTTP
9 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (8.74%) NoSQL
3 21 (7.34%) MongoDB
4 18 (6.29%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (4.55%) Data Lake
6 12 (4.20%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (3.50%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.50%) Power BI
8 9 (3.15%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.80%) MySQL
9 8 (2.80%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.45%) Apache Cassandra
10 7 (2.45%) BigQuery
10 7 (2.45%) Spark SQL
11 6 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.10%) Big Data
11 6 (2.10%) Redis
12 4 (1.40%) DocumentDB
12 4 (1.40%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.05%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 120 (41.96%) Jenkins
2 55 (19.23%) Git
3 51 (17.83%) JIRA
4 19 (6.64%) Selenium
5 17 (5.94%) Maven
6 15 (5.24%) Cucumber
7 14 (4.90%) SonarQube
8 12 (4.20%) JMeter
8 12 (4.20%) JUnit
8 12 (4.20%) Postman
9 11 (3.85%) Cypress.io
10 10 (3.50%) Bitbucket
10 10 (3.50%) Gradle
10 10 (3.50%) TeamCity
11 9 (3.15%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (2.45%) Gatling
13 6 (2.10%) Terragrunt
14 5 (1.75%) Artifactory
14 5 (1.75%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.75%) Robot Framework
General
1 70 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.53%) Finance
3 34 (11.89%) Banking
4 27 (9.44%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.85%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.80%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.10%) Retail
10 4 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.40%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.05%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.05%) Front Office
11 3 (1.05%) Military
12 2 (0.70%) Games
12 2 (0.70%) Marketing
13 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.35%) Local Government
13 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (24.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (20.28%) Developer
3 54 (18.88%) Senior
4 27 (9.44%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
6 25 (8.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 18 (6.29%) Architect
7 18 (6.29%) Lead
8 17 (5.94%) Senior DevOps
8 17 (5.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 15 (5.24%) Test Engineer
10 14 (4.90%) Java Developer
11 13 (4.55%) Test Automation Engineer
12 11 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.85%) Data Engineer
12 11 (3.85%) GCP Engineer
12 11 (3.85%) Senior Developer
13 10 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (3.50%) Python Engineer
14 8 (2.80%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (18.18%) Kafka
2 31 (10.84%) Spring
3 30 (10.49%) Spring Boot
4 26 (9.09%) REST
5 25 (8.74%) React
6 24 (8.39%) Node.js
7 18 (6.29%) RESTful
8 17 (5.94%) Playwright
9 14 (4.90%) OpenTelemetry
10 13 (4.55%) AngularJS
10 13 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
11 12 (4.20%) HTML
11 12 (4.20%) OAuth
12 11 (3.85%) PySpark
13 10 (3.50%) OAuth2
13 10 (3.50%) OpenID
14 9 (3.15%) CSS
14 9 (3.15%) gRPC
15 8 (2.80%) JSON
15 8 (2.80%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.88%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.29%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.94%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.20%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.15%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.45%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.45%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.10%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.75%) DataPower
8 5 (1.75%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.75%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.75%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.75%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.40%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.40%) Derivative
9 4 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.40%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.05%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.05%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.34%) Linux
2 10 (3.50%) Unix
3 6 (2.10%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.10%) Windows
4 5 (1.75%) Android
5 4 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.05%) Solaris
6 3 (1.05%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.70%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.70%) VMS
7 2 (0.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (80.07%) CI/CD
2 183 (63.99%) DevOps
3 117 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (32.52%) Agile
5 73 (25.52%) Containerisation
6 68 (23.78%) Test Automation
7 59 (20.63%) Microservices
8 54 (18.88%) Observability
9 50 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (11.89%) Software Engineering
11 29 (10.14%) DevSecOps
11 29 (10.14%) Infrastructure Automation
11 29 (10.14%) Migration
12 25 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (8.74%) Performance Tuning
12 25 (8.74%) Scrum
13 24 (8.39%) Event-Driven
14 23 (8.04%) Analytics
15 21 (7.34%) Data Pipeline
15 21 (7.34%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 139 (48.60%) Python
2 74 (25.87%) Java
3 65 (22.73%) SQL
4 57 (19.93%) Bash
5 38 (13.29%) JavaScript
6 27 (9.44%) TypeScript
7 23 (8.04%) PowerShell
8 19 (6.64%) Go
9 11 (3.85%) C#
10 8 (2.80%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.45%) Korn
12 4 (1.40%) Bicep
12 4 (1.40%) C
12 4 (1.40%) Ruby
12 4 (1.40%) Rust
13 3 (1.05%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.70%) Perl
14 2 (0.70%) Swift
15 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 67 (23.43%) Security Cleared
2 58 (20.28%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.80%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.45%) Degree
5 5 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (1.40%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.70%) CISSP
7 2 (0.70%) GPEN
7 2 (0.70%) GWAPT
7 2 (0.70%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.70%) OCA
7 2 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.70%) OSCP
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (17.83%) QA
2 13 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.55%) GDPR
3 12 (4.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.10%) NIST
4 6 (2.10%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.70%) HL7
5 2 (0.70%) WCAG
6 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.35%) MiFID
6 1 (0.35%) NCSC
6 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.35%) SLA
6 1 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 131 (45.80%) Docker
2 8 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.05%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.70%) vSphere
5 1 (0.35%) HDFS
5 1 (0.35%) Squid
Systems Management
1 143 (50.00%) Terraform
2 140 (48.95%) Kubernetes
3 59 (20.63%) Ansible
4 36 (12.59%) Grafana
5 29 (10.14%) Prometheus
6 15 (5.24%) Argo
7 13 (4.55%) Istio
8 6 (2.10%) Karpenter
9 4 (1.40%) Kibana
9 4 (1.40%) Puppet
10 3 (1.05%) Fluentd
10 3 (1.05%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.05%) Rancher
11 2 (0.70%) linkerd
11 2 (0.70%) Nagios
11 2 (0.70%) Packer
11 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.35%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.35%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 30 (10.49%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.69%) Splunk
3 21 (7.34%) Google
4 15 (5.24%) Oracle
5 11 (3.85%) Atlassian
5 11 (3.85%) Cisco
6 10 (3.50%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.80%) CheckPoint
7 8 (2.80%) Databricks
7 8 (2.80%) F5
8 7 (2.45%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.45%) IBM
8 7 (2.45%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.10%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.75%) Arista
10 5 (1.75%) Aruba
11 4 (1.40%) Cloudera
11 4 (1.40%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.40%) Veracode
12 3 (1.05%) VMware