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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 130 208
Rank change year-on-year -14 +78 -13
Contract jobs citing GitLab 322 275 193
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 2.17% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.53% 15.07% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 178 151
10th Percentile £367 £370 £363
25th Percentile £431 £447 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £546 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -5.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £700
90th Percentile £700 £738 £763
England median daily rate £500 £530 £575
% change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £58.50 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -29.48% +11.45% +65.42%

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 1,825 2,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.77% 14.41% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,589 1,229 1,626
10th Percentile £350 £341 £363
25th Percentile £415 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -5.83% -7.08%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £737 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 24
10th Percentile - £22.93 £22.90
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £25.83
Median hourly rate £29.50 £30.00 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -23.81% -31.52%
75th Percentile £72.88 £67.50 £70.31
90th Percentile £89.53 £84.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -14 36 £514 -6.63% 14
South London -9 9 £521 -36.43%
East London -6 1 £432 +15.97% 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 19 (5.90%) Confluence
2 11 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.86%) nginx
5 4 (1.24%) CICS
6 2 (0.62%) Apache
6 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.62%) SAS
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.31%) Camunda
7 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.31%) CMS
7 1 (0.31%) FileNet
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Actimize
1 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.31%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 215 (66.77%) AWS
2 107 (33.23%) GitHub
3 93 (28.88%) Azure
4 72 (22.36%) Amazon S3
5 71 (22.05%) Serverless
6 64 (19.88%) AWS Lambda
7 63 (19.57%) GitHub Actions
8 56 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
9 54 (16.77%) Amazon EC2
10 52 (16.15%) GCP
11 48 (14.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 46 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
13 38 (11.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 33 (10.25%) Azure DevOps
15 29 (9.01%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (5.28%) Snowflake
17 15 (4.66%) Datadog
18 14 (4.35%) OpenShift
19 13 (4.04%) Route 53
20 12 (3.73%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.42%) DNS
2 8 (2.48%) Firewall
3 6 (1.86%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.24%) Multicast
5 3 (0.93%) Network Security
5 3 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.93%) VPN
5 3 (0.93%) VSAN
6 2 (0.62%) BGP
6 2 (0.62%) Calico
6 2 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.62%) HTTP
6 2 (0.62%) IPv6
6 2 (0.62%) NAS
6 2 (0.62%) OSPF
6 2 (0.62%) SAN
6 2 (0.62%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (7.76%) NoSQL
3 23 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 19 (5.90%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (5.59%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (4.66%) DynamoDB
7 12 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (3.73%) Big Data
7 12 (3.73%) Relational Database
8 11 (3.42%) Data Lake
8 11 (3.42%) Power BI
9 10 (3.11%) Spark SQL
10 9 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (2.80%) MySQL
11 8 (2.48%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (2.48%) Amazon QuickSight
11 8 (2.48%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (2.17%) BigQuery
12 7 (2.17%) DB2
13 6 (1.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 156 (48.45%) Jenkins
2 65 (20.19%) Git
3 37 (11.49%) JIRA
4 21 (6.52%) Selenium
5 17 (5.28%) JUnit
6 16 (4.97%) Postman
7 15 (4.66%) Bitbucket
8 14 (4.35%) Cucumber
9 13 (4.04%) Mockito
10 10 (3.11%) CircleCI
11 8 (2.48%) JMeter
11 8 (2.48%) SonarQube
12 7 (2.17%) Appium
12 7 (2.17%) Artifactory
12 7 (2.17%) REST Assured
13 6 (1.86%) Robot Framework
13 6 (1.86%) TeamCity
14 5 (1.55%) Terragrunt
15 4 (1.24%) Snyk
15 4 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 86 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 63 (19.57%) Finance
3 52 (16.15%) Public Sector
4 51 (15.84%) Banking
5 14 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.48%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.17%) Retail
8 6 (1.86%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.93%) Law
10 3 (0.93%) Marketing
10 3 (0.93%) Military
10 3 (0.93%) Police
11 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.31%) Games
12 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 73 (22.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 57 (17.70%) Developer
3 47 (14.60%) Senior
4 41 (12.73%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (10.87%) AWS DevOps
6 33 (10.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 28 (8.70%) Lead
8 22 (6.83%) Data Engineer
9 21 (6.52%) Architect
10 17 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (4.97%) Java Developer
12 14 (4.35%) Test Engineer
13 13 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (3.73%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (3.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.11%) Python Engineer
16 9 (2.80%) AWS Architect
17 8 (2.48%) Automation Tester
17 8 (2.48%) Cloud Architect
17 8 (2.48%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (15.22%) Kafka
2 43 (13.35%) Spring
3 41 (12.73%) Spring Boot
4 36 (11.18%) React
5 27 (8.39%) RESTful
6 24 (7.45%) Node.js
7 23 (7.14%) REST
8 20 (6.21%) AngularJS
9 19 (5.90%) OpenTelemetry
10 18 (5.59%) HTML
10 18 (5.59%) PySpark
11 17 (5.28%) CSS
12 15 (4.66%) Playwright
13 13 (4.04%) OAuth
13 13 (4.04%) YAML
14 12 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (3.11%) OAuth2
15 10 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
15 10 (3.11%) Spring Cloud
16 9 (2.80%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 53 (16.46%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.90%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.73%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.11%) Mainframe
6 9 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.80%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.48%) DataPower
7 8 (2.48%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.55%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.55%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.24%) NHS
10 4 (1.24%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.24%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.93%) Online Banking
12 2 (0.62%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 53 (16.46%) Linux
2 11 (3.42%) Windows
3 8 (2.48%) Unix
4 6 (1.86%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.86%) zOS
5 5 (1.55%) Android
5 5 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.93%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.62%) VMS
8 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (79.19%) CI/CD
2 191 (59.32%) DevOps
3 126 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (29.19%) Agile
5 93 (28.88%) Containerisation
6 75 (23.29%) Test Automation
7 69 (21.43%) Microservices
7 69 (21.43%) Observability
8 49 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (11.18%) Platform Engineering
11 35 (10.87%) Performance Tuning
11 35 (10.87%) Scrum
12 32 (9.94%) AI
13 31 (9.63%) Analytics
14 27 (8.39%) Data Engineering
14 27 (8.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 26 (8.07%) ETL
16 25 (7.76%) Data Pipeline
16 25 (7.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 161 (50.00%) Python
2 89 (27.64%) Java
3 78 (24.22%) SQL
4 59 (18.32%) Bash
5 38 (11.80%) JavaScript
6 26 (8.07%) TypeScript
7 23 (7.14%) PowerShell
8 14 (4.35%) Go
9 13 (4.04%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.42%) Bicep
11 10 (3.11%) C#
12 7 (2.17%) Ruby
13 6 (1.86%) Korn
14 5 (1.55%) C
15 4 (1.24%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.93%) JCL
17 2 (0.62%) Perl
17 2 (0.62%) Rust
17 2 (0.62%) Scala
17 2 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (31.06%) Security Cleared
2 87 (27.02%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.66%) AWS Certification
4 9 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.86%) Degree
7 5 (1.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.24%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.93%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.62%) CISSP
11 1 (0.31%) CISM
11 1 (0.31%) CSSLP
11 1 (0.31%) GIAC
11 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.31%) OSCP
11 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (13.98%) QA
2 16 (4.97%) Accessibility
3 14 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 13 (4.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (3.73%) GDPR
6 6 (1.86%) NIST
6 6 (1.86%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.24%) SLA
9 2 (0.62%) HL7
9 2 (0.62%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.62%) WCAG
10 1 (0.31%) GRC
10 1 (0.31%) MiFID
10 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 160 (49.69%) Docker
2 6 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.62%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.62%) vSphere
6 1 (0.31%) HDFS
6 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.31%) Squid
Systems Management
1 166 (51.55%) Terraform
2 158 (49.07%) Kubernetes
3 58 (18.01%) Ansible
4 49 (15.22%) Prometheus
5 45 (13.98%) Grafana
6 20 (6.21%) Argo
7 13 (4.04%) Istio
8 12 (3.73%) Puppet
9 8 (2.48%) Progress Chef
10 7 (2.17%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.24%) Kibana
11 4 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.93%) Salt
13 2 (0.62%) Fluentd
13 2 (0.62%) Nagios
13 2 (0.62%) Packer
13 2 (0.62%) Rancher
13 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 33 (10.25%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.21%) Splunk
3 16 (4.97%) Google
4 12 (3.73%) Oracle
5 10 (3.11%) Databricks
5 10 (3.11%) IBM
6 8 (2.48%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.48%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.48%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.86%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.86%) VMware
8 4 (1.24%) Arista
8 4 (1.24%) Sybase
8 4 (1.24%) Veracode
9 3 (0.93%) Adobe
9 3 (0.93%) Braze
9 3 (0.93%) Cisco
9 3 (0.93%) Confluent
9 3 (0.93%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.93%) SAP